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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1955
Page
3
A brief recalls a February 8 Ottawa Herald report noting Corcoran’s alleged involvement in soliciting funds from state employees for the Republican party and the related hearing. The account mentions scrip sales and a controversial sequence where individuals were killed instantly during the event.
Lawrence Dillon, Kansas City March of Dimes chairman, reports Richmond raised 217 dollars for the annual polio fund drive. Several community groups met, with Mrs. A R Peugh presiding, and social visits noted. Army personnel and local club gatherings are listed along with family milestones and a note urging U S Savings Bonds.
MIAMI BEACH Fla top C10 leaders invaded winter meeting grounds of AFL chiefs in a make or break effort to merge their labor union groups. If no merger agreement is hammered out now after two years of effort they might as well forget the plan. AFL President George Meany called the talks crucial with CIO President Walter Reuther and said he was not pessimistic over the outcome.
News from Moscow notes little public reaction to a change in premiers. While some fear consolidation, others dismiss the event as inconsequential. CIO fears loss of union integrity amid potential raids. observers cite broader stats about U.S. land and population.
BOSTON Lorenzo E. Morin 29 was sentenced to two months in the House of Correction yesterday for robbing church poor boxes with a cane tipped with bubble gum. Police said Morin’s technique was to light a candle at the altar and while kneeling as though in prayer sneaked the cane into the poor box to lift coins.
A 29-year-old man, Mitchell J. Berkeley, shot and killed his estranged wife Yvonne Berkeley and two children Lindsey Ann, 8, and Tommy, 11 months, at their Wheat Ridge home last night before fatally shooting himself when police confronted him. Berkeley, a Navy veteran under psychiatric care, had phoned his wife to see the children and reportedly entered the bedroom where the family lay. Sheriff Carl Enlow confirmed the grim sequence and the suspect’s suicide.
TOPEKA Patrick J Corcoran Kansas City was removed as Wyandotte County election commissioner by Gov Fred Hall following a hearing yesterday on charges of official misconduct Hall who conducted the public hearing which Corcoran did not attend appointed William Bradish 53 Kansas City as the new commissioner effective at once Several witnesses testified at the hearing
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