Dean of Student Administration named at Morris Harvey College
President Leonard Riggleman announced a new post as dean of student administration at Morris Harvey College Dr E W Ockerman will fill the position this change aims to modernize student personnel services The Charleston circuit judge refused to order a Charleston mother to Arizona without aid for travel and witness fees in her child's case Glen R Peterson arrived as Clarksburg’s new city manager after appointment by council
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Arizona
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Richmond
Peterson
Actress Lamarr Says Jewels Found in Sewing Room
Actress Hedy Lamarr reported jewelry worth 51000 missing from her Houston home on May 25. Oilman husband W Howard Lee told police gems were found yesterday on a sewing room shelf in a satin bag all still present.
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Father and Daughter Die When Car Rolls Into Water
Uniontown report says Ames Anderson, 31, and his 8-year-old daughter Sherry drowned after the car rolled into a pool at a strip coal mine. Witnesses state Anderson was washing the car on the pool bank when it began to roll. he jumped in to stop it but could not save them.
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Ames Anderson
Sherry
Anderson
Seven Years of Hiccups Break His Spirit
In Los Angeles Jack O Leary aged 29 has suffered seven years of uncontrollable hiccups that left him 78 pounds after an appendix rupture on June 13 1948. Despite treatment from over 200 doctors and advice from many well wishers his condition worsened with diabetes three heart attacks and inability to hold food. His mother Margaret says he has lost hope and fears for his life as they struggle financially for care.
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Los Angeles
Jack O'Leary
O'Leary
Margaret O'Leary
Russian Women Seek Austrian Husbands in Vienna
Vienna paper Weltpresse reports Russian women with Soviet occupation troops offer up to 2000 Austrian shillings to Austrians willing to marry them. They want to stay in Austria after Soviet troop withdrawal under the state treaty.
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Austria
Weltpresse
Long Scout Hike Tests Kenedy Troop in Texas
About two dozen Kenedy Boy Scouts undertook what they call the longest scout hike in Texas, a 160 mile trek to Indian Creek Camp near Kerrville. They traversed to Fashing, 20 miles southwest of Kenedy, on the first day with all gear and food on their backs, along with a scoutmaster walking beside them.
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TV and Radio’s $64,000 Question echoes Champagne for Caesar
Wayne Oliver reports CBS TV's $64,000 Question mirrors the 1950 film Champagne for Caesar with NYPD officer Redmond O'Hanlon, a 39 year old Shakespeare scholar who has won 16000 and must choose by Wednesday whether to quit or risk to 32000. O'Hanlon, married with five children, becomes a national figure for his erudite answers while facing a sponsor influenced decision.
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Cbs-Tv
Caesar
Redmond O'Hanlon
Fordham University
United Artists
Howard Colman
Beauregard Bottomley
Happy Hogan
Art Linkletter
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Hogan
Celeste Holm
Policeman O'Hanlon
Free University grants Keller honorary MD in Berlin
In West Berlin the Free University awarded Hellen Keller an honorary Doctor of Medicine. Reports from Quito describe a nationalist mob stoning El Merco, an independent paper critical of President Velasco Ibarra, with police dispersing the demonstrated crowd after windows were broken. World Health Organization notes a 30 to 80 percent rise in lung cancer deaths since 1949 in advanced nations. Argentina receives from the United States a library on peaceful atomic energy. two nations sign a deal to exchange related information. Panama cancels plans for Miss Universe participation after a Catholic archbishop warns contestants face special sin.
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World Health Organization
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Argentina
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Panama
Francisco Beckman
East Germany Grants Asylum to U S Soldier Spanier
East Germany reports political asylum for Horst Spanier a U S soldier from the 12th Infantry Battalion 2nd Armored Division. Papers say he left the Army to avoid fighting American imperialism and hopes to start a new life in East Germany. U S Army officials say Spanier has been missing from Worms West Germany since May 8.
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John Sutton Divorced After Nine Year Marriage
Santa Monica California actor John Sutton aged 46 is divorced from Roberta Sutton 33 after nine years of marriage. She testified to cruelty including excessive drinking and a hit during marriage. Roberta was awarded a Beverly Hills home and 20 percent of Suttons income until 30000 debt is repaid, with other financial terms noted.
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Sutton
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Beverly Hills
Bross
Moon Eclipses Sun Across South Asia Observers Record
A total solar eclipse crossed India, China, Indochina and the Philippines from sunrise, with a 180 mile wide path and peak totality lasting over seven minutes in the South China Sea. Harvard observers photographed infrared and corona, while American and British-Ceylonese teams tracked the event.
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Nothing Vent Holes Yield Better Plastic Bandages
A Blakeslee AP article describes splitting two ventilation holes into 20 small holes to keep bandages from whitening the skin after moisture exposure. John son & Johnson researchers tested ventilating patterns with workers wearing varying designs to find the most effective arrangement. Also noted is a Richmond Virginia study using radioactive atoms to trace tobacco flavor compounds from leaf to smoke and into the body.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Science Reporter
New York
Richmond
Churchill's Pet Lion To the Window Exhibit
Sir Winston Churchill's African lion Rota was killed to end his suffering from old age and illness at 17. The lion, gifted in 1943 as a symbol of wartime resolve, sired about 60 cubs. George Thomson said Rota would be stuffed and displayed in a Piccadilly taxi dermist window.
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London
Sir Winston Churchill
Rota
Winston
George Thomson
Piccadilly
Father's Day Round Up Tragedy Across Regions
A Preston County farmer, Stanley Rodehaver, 35, was found shot dead in his Hazelton home. His wife Odett, 28, is in custody. In Quanah, Texas, Ira Keeney’s flood cellar rescue failed and three children Doris 5 Thomas 4 Alma 3 drowned. Hardeman County reports a 54 inch rainfall flooding a storm cellar. In Seattle, Charles Reimers, 30, killed his wife and two sons, then died. authorities label it a self-inflicted double homicide. In Dayton, Ohio, reporter Tony Svet covered a Father’s Day rush after a hospital call. In Waukesha, Wisconsin, Richard Poppie became the county’s first Father’s Day papa, his son weighing 8 pounds 6 ounces.
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Alma
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Seattle
Charles Reimers
South End
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Reimers
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Ohio
Tony Svet
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Svet
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Waukesha County
Richard Poppie
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