Repossession Notices Posted in Cemeteries
Huntington officials posted repossession notices on hundreds of cemetery lots for nonpayment of care assessments in Spring Hill and Highland cemeteries. Memorial Day was chosen to reach survivors, with many lot owners unknown. Perpetual care offered since 1939 at $19 per grave.
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Huntington (P
Huntington Board of Park Commissioners
Huntington
Spring Hill Cemetery
Highland Cemetery
Okey J. Morgan
Grandma Doss Given Life Term in Prison
Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nannie Doss, 49, was sentenced to life imprisonment for poisoning her fifth husband Samuel Doss. District Judge Elmer Adams offered the choice of death in the electric chair or life. Doss admitted giving lethal rat poison to four of her five husbands and recently pleaded guilty to killing her Tulsa neighbor, 58-year-old Samuel Doss.
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Tulsa
Okla
Nannie Doss
Samuel Doss
Elmer Adams
Doss
Bettendorf School Reels In Missing Library Books
Bettendorf Iowa officials sought the return of about 250 overdue books from the junior high library. A girl student returned 70 volumes and a board member turned in two that he had overlooked.
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Bettendorf
Iowa
Board of Education
Early Release Of 11 Airmen Seen in Formula
U S officials cite a Peiping formula from Geneva talks on prisoner releases as the path to freed airmen. The plan hinges on China’s earlier offer to consider early releases for prisoners with good records and reports of leniency for some recently released fliers. The focus is on 11 airmen captured in Korea and held beyond the war prisoner exchange deadline.
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Geneva
Red China
Peiping
U.S
V. K. Krishna Menon
New Delhi
United States
State Department
Department
Henry Suydam
Franklin Gowen
Suydam
China
Gowen
Navy
Coast Guard
United Nations
Korea
Dogs Fill Pound as Owners Ignore Tags
Westerly Rhode Island dog officer Joseph Zanella says the town’s pound is always full of dogs despite some owners whose license tags appear on the canines. He laments paying for feeding them out of his own pocket due to a city ordinance.
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Westerly, R. I
Joseph Zanella
Third In a Series Why Johnny Can't Read
A critic argues that without phonics instruction children rely on guessing from context or pictures, never truly learning to read. The piece contends that the current method teaches guessing rather than reading and questions whether true reading ever starts in school. Tomorrow explores phonics basics.
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Sing
Pin Problems Aired in Press
London letters spark debate over left handed pin handling in shirt making. C Gower Robinson complains pins frustrate buyers and pinheads go unseen. Edward Herbert of a shirt factory cites a new pinless folding method to reduce pricks and cut production costs. shirts without pins coming soon.
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London
C. Gower Robinson
London Times
Robinson
Edward Herbert
Juvenile Delinquency Conference Scheduled
Twenty agencies will attend a juvenile delinquency conference at Marshall College on June 13 and 14. Program director Paul Lasakow said the event aims to help solve local delinquency problems. Groups include Kanawha County Domestic Relations Court, Ashland Correctional Institution, WV Board of Control, WV Penitentiary, WV Industrial School for Colored Boys, and the U S District Court, Huntington.
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Huntington
Marshall College
Paul Lasakow
Kanawha County Domestic Relations Court
Ashland
Correctional Institution
West Virginia
Car skids on ice. woman sustains broken leg
In Wilton New Hampshire, Mrs Charles S Gleim 66 lost control of her car on ice, struck an embankment and overturned. She suffered minor cuts to her left arm then, while attempting to walk home, slipped again and broke her leg.
Andrus Faces Night of Murder and Hidden Truth
Andrus returns to the shack and recalls a past night with Midnight Mike as a bottle and a dead man loom. He ventures down a cliff, survives a fall, finds Midnight Mike dead, and stumbles toward Regina Pelham's house then to a Yonkers hotel as dawn nears.
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Andrus
Roger Pelham
Mike
Regina
Shack
Michael Brodsky
Brodsky
Yonkers
Dale
Regina Pelhem
Wolf Hill
Broadway
Record earnings surge in steel industry profits rise
Profits in the steel industry run about 70 percent higher than a year ago with net earnings after taxes growing faster than sales and output. Bethlehem Steel and U.S. Steel report record first quarter earnings, while smaller firms show strong gains. Increased efficiency, higher capacity use, and a building boom drive demand and inventories as deliveries lengthen.
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New York
Bethlehem Steel
U.S. Steel
Benjamin F. Fairless
B&O recalls 2400 car repairmen this year
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad said on Thursday it had recalled 2,400 car repairmen since the year began, with 225 in the latest batch. Recalled immediately are 50 workers at shops in Keyser West Virginia Lorain Ohio Painesville Ohio East Salamanca New York and Glenwood Pennsylvania.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Keyser
W. Va
Lorain
Painesville
Ohio
Religious affiliations of U S presidents by faith
Nine U S presidents were Episcopalian, six Presbyterian, five Unitarian, four Methodist, two Dutch Reformed, two Baptist, one Disciples of Christ, one Congregationalist, one Quaker, and two none.
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U. S
Disciples of Christ
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Oslo
Grandma Doss
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Bakers
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International Soundphoto
Johnny
Chapter
Business Mirror
B&o
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Cohen
Neville St
Beckley
Amoco
Texas City
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