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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1951
Page
10
Oregon State Prison officials announced plans to starve 1600 inmates into ending a sit down strike demanding the removal of Guard Captain Morris Race. Warden George Alexander said meals would be omitted until labor resumed as guards and state police remained on alert for any trouble.
Katherine Bunson and her family head to Tokyo for another AP assignment after a Phoenix stop. Robert Bunson, AP Tokyo bureau chief and former Phoenix writer, will join them with Bunson's mother. Daughters Eve and Dale Ellen, aged 15 and 9, anticipate arts study and Paris memories, while Mrs Bunson notes European tolerance and city revivals. The trip follows the death of Bunson's brother Neal Rabogliatti in Globe.
Dr. Perry E. Hewitt Jr., a $40 000-a-year brain specialist in Muskogee Oklahoma, faced first degree manslaughter charges after he allegedly administered intracaine to Mrs Allene Shuler 38 of Borger Texas for headache relief and she died 17 hours later in City Hospital Hewitt pleaded innocent at arraignment and was ordered to return for a preliminary hearing
Winston Churchill arrived in Annecy in the French Alps for a vacation. A crowd gathered at the station to greet him as he and his party checked into the Imperial Palace Hotel with 14 rooms for the stay.
Long Beach California August 17 ambulance crew freed Guy Cherry 27 known as Texas Tiny from a car that jumped a curb and hit a store. He survived minor injuries yet required the hospital’s largest bed due to his 640 pound weight, described as the biggest victim they had seen.
In Greensboro North Carolina a 60 year old woman revived 29 minutes after heart stopped. Doctors began massaging the heart within a minute and a half and continued for 27 minutes with direct injections of stimulants. Patient and doctors unnamed physicians reported she was in fairly good condition with normal circulation last night. The incident occurred while preparing for a hernia operation and the woman had suffered a prior heart attack.
In Santa Ana California a fresh panel of 25 potential jurors was summoned to form a jury for the second trial of Henry Ford McCracken on charges of murdering Patricia Jean Hull aged 10. A prior larger panel of 50 had been nearly exhausted after a week of legal wrangling. The tentative panel included 10 men and two women. McCracken has so far been found guilty only of child stealing. He allegedly lured the girl from a theater on May 19, took her to a motel cabin killed her and buried the body in a canyon.
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