Diaries Point To Suspects In Laurel Slayings
Washington police and Maryland authorities hunted dozens of race track workers and Fort Meade soldiers named in diaries kept by two teen girls who disappeared June 1. The bodies of Shelby Jean and Mary Elizabeth were found in streams near Brunswick and Catoctin Creek, and a scarred man driving a light blue car remains a key suspect as detectives follow diary clues.
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Washington
Eee
Edes
Fcra
Baistie Tomac
Annearta County
Laurel
Ft. Meade
Mad
Shelby Jean
Laurel Park
Mary Elizabeth Fellers
Beltsville
Mary
Eae River
Brunswick
Catoctin Creek
Maryland Weso
Bode
Widow, 33, Gets Degree and Marry in Me morial Stadium
Betty Grimes, 33, widowed mother of four, graduated with a bachelor’s in education from the University of Illinois at commencement in Memorial Stadium. In the afternoon she wed Gene S. Hart of Peoria whom she had reconnected with in 1934 while buying football tickets.
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Champaign
Ill
Betty Grimes
University of Illinoise
Clerks Ordered to Surge in Indiana County Tax Office
Clerks in an Indiana county tax office were ordered to increase efforts to process filings and handle inquiries. The directive aims to reduce delays and improve taxpayer service across the county office.
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Indiana
Eye Doctors Blast Windshield Design as Hazard
At the AMA meeting eye specialists led by Dr. Dupont Guerry denounced wrap around windshields as a visual hazard of the first magnitude. They cited prismatic distortion increased glare and ghost images and urged uniform driver eye tests and design alignment with human perception.
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Chicago
Dupont Guerry
Medical College of Virginia
Richmond
Guerry
American Medical Assn
Seward Miller
U.S. Public Health Service
Washington, D.C
Ross McFarland
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston
Boy Killed as Lightning Strikes Scout Camp
Lightning struck a 100 foot tree during a weekend Boy Scout retreat in MEDIA Pennsylvania injuring nine others and killing 11 year old Joseph Simpson Jr of Stonehurst Upper Darby. He died at Chester Hospital two hours after being hurled from a tent he shared with two other boys.
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Media
Delaware County
Joseph Simpson Jr
Stonehurst
Upper Darby
Chester Hospital
Chamber Drops Summer Meetings Amid Heat and Vacations
LAS VEGAS chamber of commerce plans to discontinue its regular monthly meetings through the summer. President James L. Young says the move follows a board vote, aimed at saving resources after annual travel and intense heat reduce member participation.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
James L. Young
Beverly Hills woman granted divorce over allergy to husband
Mrs. Virginia H. Miller of Beverly Hills was granted a divorce from Daniel G. Miller on Thursday on the ground that she became allergic to him and developed a skin rash whenever he was near.
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Santa Monica, Calif
Ulp
Virginia H. Miller
Beverly Hills
Daniel G. Miller
Mitchell Assails Crypto-Bosses in Eisenhower Re-Election Push
Denver June 16 Former Democratic Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell accused Republican leaders of pressing Eisenhower to run at any cost. At a fund dinner with Gov. Averell Harriman and others, he said the aim is to keep power for four more years. Mitchell backed Adlai Stevenson for president and pledged to campaign for him.
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Denver
Stephen A. Mitchell
Satur
Eiserhower
Mitchell
Averell Harriman
New York
Republican High Command
Washington
Eisenhower
Jefferson
Adams
Arapahoe
Harriman
Raymond Gary
Oklahoma
Adlai E. Stevenson
Wife Charged After Husband Cut With Knife
Ola May Rockmore is charged with assault with a knife after allegedly stabbing her husband James Rockmore in a Southeast Odessa bar fracas. James was treated for a lacerated left hand and released from Medical Center Hospital. He said she pulled a long bladed pocket knife and slashed him as he fled through the door.
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Justice of the Peace
A. P
Odessan man near death after oil tank mishap
A 19 year old Odessa man, George A. Page, a pumper for Fred W Shields Oil Co, was overcome by fumes while atop an oil tank on Crane Highway and fell 16 feet to the ground. He is listed very critical at Medical Center Hospital with possible internal injuries.
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Odessa
George A. Page
North Adams
Fred W. Shields Oil Co
Midland
Medical Center Hospital
Page
Truck collision injures worker on street project
Ramon Sereno, 26, of 800 Magnolia, was admitted to Medical Center Hospital with a broken left leg after a water truck backed up on Tenth Street near Kelly. The Brown-Root Construction Co. truck, driven by Otis R. Jacoby, said Sereno stood in a blind spot behind the vehicle and was struck as he faced away.
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Ramon Sereno
Magnolia
Medical Center Hospital
Sereno
Tenth Street
Kelly
Brown-Root Construction Co
Otis R. Jacoby
North Adams
County Democratic Executive Committee Meeting Preview
Demo Executive Panel To Meet outlines step by step procedures for the July 28 Democratic Primary at 7 30 p m in the County Courtroom. Ballot positions for county state and district offices will be drawn per Thomas J Pitts Ec tor County Democratic Chairman. Absentee voting starts July 8 on paper ballots later counted on machines.
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Democratic Executive Committee
Thomas J. Pitts
Ector County
Democratic
Pitts
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