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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1956
Page
2
In Norfolk Virginia a driver involved in a high speed chase fled through a dead end street blocking access with a car. The incident led to a hit and run charge and consideration of license and registration penalties by state authorities.
Hans Christian Andersen materials devised by Danish born actor Hersholt to the U S Library of Congress and English translations to the Odense museum in his will filed for probate. He died at 69 on June 2. remaining estate valued over $250 000 goes to his widow Petra.
In Norfolk Virginia Detective Sergeant Charles D Grant traced a call from a man who said he cut his hand breaking into a store. The suspect was found in a phone booth and charged with breaking and entering.
The Woody Woodard Twirling School will run August 6 through 10 on the Odessa College campus. Open to junior and senior high students, the program covers show, football, and contest twirling with expert instruction from Woodard, a three time national champion. Housing needs prompted early registration and a $15 fee for students not needing room and board.
ST. LOUIS. Capt Reuben Pomerantz of the Chicago Quartermaster Institute outlined a radiation preservation program at an Institute of Food Technologists meeting. The method would supplement canning and refrigeration and may reach general use in about five years, potentially lowering prices. A pilot plant to produce 30 tons daily is planned. some foods fit the process, though green leafy vegetables and dairy pose challenges.
In Soviet Russia income tax favors wealthy individuals by comparing U.S. and Soviet systems. Moscow notes only a few millionaires, with top rates capped at 13 percent above 1000 rubles monthly. Workers pay taxes through payroll deductions, with dependents lowering rates and special rules for authors and artists.
British naval officers reported a bomb dropped in 1942, buried in a Nazi factory and later sabotaged to prevent explosion. A Malta worker struck it with a drill, and the fuse was tampered with, sparing the naval dockyard from destruction.
Miss Barney Flaniken, 74, of Dallas was killed when her stalled auto was struck by a Lackawanna freight train in Painted Post. Her sister was critically injured and Mrs. Harry Refo, 61, wife of the Tusculum College registrar in Greenville Tennessee, was hurt.
Clarifies three benefits of Doan's Pills: soothing bladder irritations, fast pain relief for backache headaches and muscular aches, and a mild diuretic action to aid kidney output. Claims over 60 years of happy relief and promotes a new large economy bottle for savings.
Lincoln Park Zoo keeper Lear Grimmer reports a king cobra in Chicago prefers Texas coachwhips for breakfast and dinner. The group, including Grimmer, his wife, Dick Reichert and Art Goetz, are on their third annual Texas snake collecting trip, starting at Rockport.
Clarendon County Sheriff T. S. Jackson says an escaped prisoner left a note reading I will be back and warned he has a key to reopen the door. A 12 gauge shotgun stolen from the sheriff's car is also missing. The escapee, 24 year old Johnny Edward Ard, was jailed for auto theft grand larceny housebreaking and theft for auto parts.
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