Aid Charges City Gifts to Vets Illegal
Kaukauna city attorney Emmett Rohan alleges the City Council illegally gave 25,000 to the American Legion and VFW posts over 27 years. He cites rent free city hall use since 1922, maintenance costs of 11,230 to 1938, sale to the Legion for 1, and plans to buy back for 5,301. He notes recent 1,100 grants for promotion activities and claims yearly 400 for junior baseball, a 1959 deed of property worth 6,000 rejected by the Legion, and alleged improper farming of 244 acres of city park land by the Legion.
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Plane Found Hubby Turns Up OK Safe on Lake
A private Seabee plane with three aboard was found safe on Lake Superior bay after an engine shortage forced a water landing near Rabbitt Bay east of Houghton Michigan. Pilot W W Moffet of Toronto identified. two passengers unnamed. In Salt Lake City, a survival kit test story follows about a man who parachuted into Burnt Lake in Wyoming and was rescued after 25 days, his wife describing uncertainty before news of his return. The piece notes the inventor of the kit, Stan Decker, reporting the man’s last 26 year old wife and plans to market the kit if the test succeeds.
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Woman Dies at 99 in Miami After Wish to Reach 100
A 99 year old Miami woman, Louise Ossman, died Wednesday eight months before turning 100. Born in Germany and formerly of Cleveland, she had lived in Miami for 20 years and worked with the blind until age 90.
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Columnist Tells How She's Kept Tickling 100 Years
Ennisville Kentucky columnist Mrs. J. R. Dipisclaw celebrated her 100th birthday at Shepherdsville area. She attributes longevity to swallowing a watch key as a child saying it kept her wound up and ticking through the years.
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Ennisville
J. R. Dipisclaw
Pioneer News
Shepherdsville
CHP States Tests Vows No Race Bias for Patrol Applicants
Sacramento reports the California Highway Patrol will hold a statewide examination for officers on Sept. 24 and will not discriminate against qualified men under the Fair Employment Practices Act. The force, authorized at 2,592, has three Negro patrolmen hired in 1942 and 1958. Applications contain no race reference, but race is only revealed after the civil service exam during oral testing by a three-man panel. Patrol Commissioner Bradford Critten-den reiterated commitment to merit and nondiscrimination.
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Bradford M. Crittenden
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Sect Remains in Bomb Shelters as Arizona Police Wait
In Benson Arizona members of the Full Gospel Assembly hid underground in shelters after warnings of a US-Soviet nuclear attack. Police opened two shelters with search warrants finding Glenn Scott 36 and others in a 19 foot deep concrete room. Scott said the plan followed divine prophecy and, if not out by Saturday, authorities could inspect homes. About 15 shelter companions and families remained inside.
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Contes th oe Ey asdie eight wriegt at Hew-OnLy Location
A damaged OCR fragment reports details about eight events or items at an unnamed location. Names and specifics are unclear, but the text indicates a setting involving a listed place and multiple entries.
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