Exonerated After 16 Years in Prison Roy Eaton Recounts Release
Roy Eaton, freed April 4 after a Rock Island Court found him not involved in a $50 robbery, says life outside prison feels like heaven. He reports better yards and cars, an airliner trip to Los Angeles for a TV appearance, and rapid attention from media. He has yet to find steady work while earning income from TV spots, magazine interviews, and a book deal. meanwhile weekend motor vehicle deaths and injuries topped the prior year.
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Glad Cominform Is Dissolved
Belgrade Yugoslavia said today it is glad the Soviet Union has dissolved the Cominform though it did not approve of the method. Yugoslavia long urged an end to the Red information bureau, founded after World War II to promote world communism, and expelled Tito from the group after breaking with Stalin. The Borba newspaper noted the dissolution and praised earlier criticisms.
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Russians Honor British War Dead
Soviet Premier Bulganin and Khrushchev visited London for a 10 day tour and laid a wreath at the Cenotaph Memorial in Whitehall. Helmeted police escorted the black car through crowds while a sharp clash with a bystander occurred outside Claridges Hotel. A lilies and roses arrangement from the Soviet Union memorialized British warriors in war memory.
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Silent Cenotaph Ceremony Marks War Remembrance
The ceremony honored fallen soldiers from World War I and II in a solemn procession for peace and national security. Fifteen minutes earlier an unidentified group laid an elaborate wreath at the Cenotaph with a card claiming it came from the Soviet underground.
Senate approves bridge removal at Fort Leavenworth
Senate approves legislation to transfer the Missouri River bridge linking Fort Leavenworth and Platte County for removal at an estimated cost of 320000 dollars. Utility lines crossing the river would need relocation. the 1872 bridge was closed last year after a toll highway bridge opened downstream. Kansas has 166 airports with 70 fully attended fields.
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Shaw Works Valued At 430000 Pounds For Tax
London reports that the late George Bernard Shaw's worldwide copyrights are valued at 430000 pounds, boosting his taxable estate to about 600000 pounds. The death duty is expected to reach 420000 pounds, with most proceeds tied to a plan for a 40 letter alphabet later contested as impractical by Shaw's trustees. Shaw died in 1950. Weekend traffic injuries exceed 766000, with pedestrian incidents marking a fifth straight year of improvement in 1955.
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