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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1956
Page
2
Detective Jim Andrus nabbed a burglar after the crook cut a window screen and stole police blue serge trousers a billfold with $2.72 and the detective's duty gear. The thief dropped the items in separate spots around the neighborhood as onlookers laughed.
An anonymous donor sent a Christmas dinner for the dogs at the Richmond city pound mirroring the past four years. The package included 48 cans of dog food and four boxes of biscuits with a card signed in memory of Chubty and Beauty.
Cardinal Mindszenty told Look magazine interviewer Leslie Balogh Bain that Red secret police abused him for 29 days and nights leading up to treason charges in 1940. He described beating, cold damp cells, obscene scenes, and sleep deprivation, with no drugs used to coerce a confession. He vowed to continue fighting the Communist regime and said memoirs would aid Hungary’s destitute church.
Leland Lowell Davis once sought by the Odessa Draft Board now resides in Farmington New Mexico. Officials had urged him to contact the draft board to avoid immediate duty but reports confirm he is a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve. Mrs Hasel Petty draft board clerk said state Selective Service HQ ordered updating his address.
W J Harrison state historian and Biblical collector has acquired one of the few surviving copies of the Cherokee constitutional laws drafted in 1838 and printed in 1840 in Pryor Oklahoma.
Ensign Bickford Co asserts 1 950 cases of Prima cord fuses shipped to West Coast distributor met all regulations. City officials cite a 15 million dollar fire damage and 10 dead 24 injured while probe continues. Fire officials call the material hazardous. company says it explodes only when triggered by an outside force.
Prof. Ralph F. Cleland reports from a National Science Foundation meeting that Japanese researchers have cross bred animals and silkworms to create giants radishes up to 45 pounds, alarm clock roosters, a bison headed goldfish, and silk industry advantages by biasing egg sex.
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