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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1955
Page
4
A 45 year old man Asa Beck, hindered by severe rheumatism, crawled 250 feet up a television tower. He said his family is starving as he faced a mental hearing today.
Television and film listings include The View From Pompey Head with Richard Egan, A Life At Stake with Keith Ander, Apache Woman with Lloyd Bridges, Summertime with Katharine Hepburn, Gentlemen Prefer Brünette with Jane Russell, One Desire with Rock Hudson, Wings of the Hawk with Van Heflin, Meet the Mommy with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and Three Hours to Rescue. A Guthrie man climbed a KWTV tower claiming his family faced starvation. he was talked down after over an hour and confined for welfare and mental health review.
About 180 men of the Greek expeditionary forces returned home Sunday, leaving a 10 man contingent to represent Greece in the United Nations command in Seoul.
Beck says he was framed on the child abandonment charge and told to leave the state. He returned from California weeks ago to find his wife Ruth and six children near starvation. his oldest is 18. Beck, crippled, has supported himself by making artificial flowers in Oklahoma City, and he is currently unemployed.
Production record for Farmingdale New York cow Nyssa Storm Cherie shows 10 890 pounds of milk and 515 pounds of butter fat over a 305 day period.
Omaha police held a former taxicab driver for questioning after he contradicted himself about the night Carolyn Marie Nevins, 20, a University of Omaha junior, was slain. Investigators say she was shot four times between 10:55 p.m. Friday and 4:10 a.m. Saturday, her body found near a campus driveway.
Pauline Amburgey administratrix of the estate of L S Amburgey seeks discharge after filing final account 985 in Ector County Probate. Citations issued to interested persons to appear December 26 1955 in Odessa Court to contest or object before 10 AM.
Hollywood talks say The Life of Riley on NBC could air 52 telefilms a year reducing summer repeats. Bill Bendix says he supports a bigger format while continuing film roles, with MGM Parade ranking lower than Disneyland and Warner Bros. Presents. Audie Murphy eyes a skin diving movie. Barry Sullivan shifts to a new telefilm and praises Joan Crawford. Odessa Junior College issues bids for gym additions with strict bid rules and deadline.
Geologic history shows the isthmus of Panama was repeatedly below sea level, briefly uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans before elevations reshaped drainage and circumscribed the waterway.
Broadway reaches midseason with 25 shows including 4 limited engagements and 7 still running from last year, while 24 titles last December yielded 10 flops. The strong lineup features Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker with Ruth Gordon and a US debut by Her Britannic Majesty's Scots Guards band adding live spectacle amid packed houses.
Baton Rouge police report two sisters aged 14 and 15 and a 14 year old girl ran away and stole two cars. The youths, who did not know how to drive, managed to maneuver one car onto a Louisiana business highway without incident.
Lubbock schedule features Sammy Stanford Econ at 6 45 Eddie Fisher 8 People s Choice 8 30 December Bride 9 00 Texas Rasslin 10 00 News 10 10 Weather 10 20 Sports Desk 10 30 Curtain Call 11 00 Late Show. Channel 11 Matinee includes Today Ding Dong School Kovacs Home Tennessee Ernie Ford Feather Your Nest Norma Paine News Markets Serenaders Cook Book News World of Mr Sweeney Modern Romances Pinky Lee Howdy Doody Winchell Mahoney Comedy Encores Bunny Theater Hospitality Time News Weather Sports Tony Martin Show Here s Howell Dateline Europe Great Gildersleeve Badge 714 Robert Montgomery Serenaders Dee Weaver Show Ellery Queen.
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