Polio victim earns college degree in iron lung
Charles Hopkins Parry, 26, earned a B A at Centenary College in Shreveport while living in an iron lung, the first known case of a polio victim earning a college degree in such a device. He attended classes via telephone, tape recordings, and special equipment, graduating with better than a B average.
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Shreveport
La.p
Charles Hopkins Parry
Parry
Centenary
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Louisiana State University
Waco
Tex
Charity Hospital
New Orleans
Argument Ends With One Dead and Two in Hospital
In Louisa Virginia police linked a Sunday shooting spree to an automobile dispute. Willie Curtis Grubbs 27 was arrested at a Ferncliff area farm home after fatally wounding Thomas Jefferson Reynolds 39 with a .22 rifle and seriously injuring his brothers Joe D. Reynolds 42 and James W. Reynolds 42 who were hospitalized in Charlottesville. Thomas died Sunday night after emergency surgery. Grubbs and the Reynolds brothers had argued over transportation and who would use Grubbs car before the attack.
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Louisa
Willie Curtis Grubbs
Fluvanna County
Ferncliff
Louisa County
Grubbs
Thomas Jefferson Reynolds
Reynolds
Joe D
James W. Reynolds
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Thomas
W. N. Fuller
Reynolds Brothers
Fuller
Wilmington
Laugh Clown Laugh at Thrill Show Tragedy
Pi Lamnce Anderson a Chicago clown wowed 1500 spectators in Shreveport at the Jimmy Lynch Thrill Show before a fatal miscue. A giant firecracker exploded in his left hand blowing it off, yet he kept smiling as attendants rushed him to a hospital. Doctors said the condition was not serious.
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Shreveport
Pi — Lamwrence Anderson
Jimmy Lynch
Anderson
Chicago
Poultry Market Outlook in Harrisonburg and West Virginia Areas
Live poultry markets show unsettled to steady conditions across Harrisonburg Virginia and South Branch Valley West Virginia. Receipts are heavy with strong farm prices for broilers or fryers 18 to 19 cents per pound and heavy hens 22 to 23 cents, turkey fryers 28 to 29, breeder hens 24 to 25, while South Branch reports steady markets and a large auction sale averaging 18.55 cents per pound with 166 700 head sold from 179 100 offered.
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Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley
Charleston
West Virginia Department of Agriculture
South Branch Valley
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Caloric
Pat H. Wheeler
Plumbing & Heating
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