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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1954
Page
2
Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors rules James J. Hughes, who fell while walking from a company parking lot to his job, entitled to workers compensation. Court says walking across company property to and from work can be considered an employment related incident.
Chicago authorities intensified the investigation into the death of 20 year old Montgomery Ward Thorne heir to a million. Coroner McCarron noted four needle marks but no evidence of narcotics use and dispatched organ analyses. Thorne had recently revised his will naming fiancee Maureen Ragen as chief beneficiary and executor.
At Quantico on Saturday June 21 President Eisenhower summoned his Defense Department high command to the golf course. He opened the session with a booming 250 yard drive from the first tee.
A plane owned by an air line disappeared from storage in Richmond Virginia and reappeared a few days later on the ticket counter. The Wing spread of the plane was 24 inches.
In Dallas a family pleads for blood donors to supply a monthly pint for two children Vick Lou 7% and Vaughn Charles 5 suffer from Mediterranean anemia. The Erler family cannot afford blood and need donors to keep the children alive as they have long term needs and two can die without regular transfusions.
The two dollar cost of replacing five of the city’s first newspaper printers is cited as the price to house civic groups and an art caller. The building was erected in 1763.
Moscow dispatch notes the new French government under Premier Pierre Mendes France seeks peace in Indo China as its primary task. Pravda reports the leadership’s stance reflects a wait and see attitude toward France’s government and its policies.
The article outlines growing concern over Communist influence in Guatemala as arms shipments and a leftist government alarm Washington. It notes Arbenz Guzman's anti American stance, Castillo Armas's exile-led revolt from Honduras, and U S demand for freedom-of-navigation checks amid a Pan American conference plan.
Police traced the suspect by drag marks on the pavement from a dragging front spring and axle of his 1946 car after he left the scene. He pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and paid a $50 fine plus costs.
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