A Gall for Doctor Barton Chapter Continues Disaster on Green Lake Beach
The Easter pageant at Green Lake ends in tragedy as a platform collapse injures dozens. Grady Barton aids the wounded with improvised tourniquets while Dr. Barton's clinic handles fractures and shock as June Cowan lies injured. Judge Cowan and Mo Chronister clash amid the chaos.
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Grady Barton
June Cowan
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Ard
Mortor
Mo Chronister
Soldier’s Take: a Christmas Night Run-In and a Ring Plan
A Marine narrator recalls Christmas holidays with Kat, boasting good behavior except for a confrontation with local youths on the walk home from a movie. After a tense scuffle, Kat helps, and he kisses her on the doorstep. The next day the youths accuse Marines of wrongdoing, and he focuses on buying an engagement ring for Kal, with a note that the story continues.
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Kal
Augusta
Federal payroll shows March increase across agencies
The federal payroll rose by 2,470 to 2,392,987 in March, per the Senate House Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Expenditures. Chair Byrd cites gains in Treasury, Post Office, Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, and HEW, with Agriculture Interior and Treasury increases said to be largely seasonal. February payroll fell to 847,617,000 from January's record.
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Senate
House Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Treasury
Post Office
Agriculture, Interior, Commerce
Health, Education and Welfare
Agriculture, Interior and Treasury Departments
Wrongly Imprisoned Man Awarded $48 000
SPRINGFIELD Ill. The State pays Roy B. Eaton 48000 for 11 years wrongly spent in prison after being convicted of a 1938 Rock Island robbery. Governor Stratton signed the act. Eaton, released about a year ago, had worked as a watchman and laborer in Lordsburg New Mexico before his arrest.
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Ilinois
William G. Stratton
Roy B. Eaton
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Rock Island
Lordsburg, N.M
Career Diplomat Picked As Ghana Ambassador
President Eisenhower nominated Wilson C. Flake of Palxton North Carolina as the first U S ambassador to the new African republic of Ghana. Flake, 51, is counselor at the U S Embassy in Rome and former counselor at Pretoria and executive director of the State Department bureau of Far Eastern affairs. He has served in the diplomatic service since 1929.
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Eisenhower
Wilson C. Flake
Palxton
N.C
New African Republic
Ghana
Flake
U.S
Rome
Pretoria
South Africa
State Department
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Skelton Hospitalized With Uncomplicated Virus
Santa Monica Calif comedian Red Skelton was admitted to St. John’s Hospital with an uncomplicated virus infection superimposed on fatigue. His doctor said he should be ready to return to work before next week’s show.
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Calif
Red Skelton
St. John’s Hospital
Benson Seeks Better Farm Laws In Congress Appeal
Secretary of Agriculture Benson said major provisions of present farm laws are failures and urged Congress to craft better programs. He criticized late 1930s crop controls and the flexible price support plan enacted in 194? at Eisenhower and his urging, while praising provisions allowing broad leeway in setting price supplies.
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Benson
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Stock Market Closing Prices and a Name Change Notice
A garbled stock list shows prices for many firms led by Coca Cola and Ford among others. A legal notice states Howard Cammack Miles seeks name change to Howard Cammack Myles in Raleigh County West Virginia with attorney confirmation and hearing set May 14, 1957.
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Circuit Court of
Ra-leigh County
West Virginia
Howard Cammack Myles
Howard Cammack
Miles Ashworth & Turner
Thomas W. Turner
Albert M. McMullin obituary and funeral plans
Albert M. McMullin age 81 of MacArthur died Wednesday May 1 in a local hospital. Funeral services at First Christian Church May 7 with burial at Caffee Cemetery Mt Tabor. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed. services by Caffee Funeral Home.
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Summer TV Doldrums Split View on Networks Plans
Radio and TV critics note two of the three major networks are reconsidering summer schedules. Dozens of popular reruns will fill the season while top quiz shows like Sullivan Allen, Meet the Press, and What’s My Line linger. Ed Sullivan’s long-running program sustains high ratings as Steve Allen’s brain trust weighs audience allegiance.
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Sir Launcelot
Sgt. Preston
Studio One
NBC
CBS
Ed Sullivan
Steve Allen
State Health Conference Planned for Huntington
The 33rd annual State Health Conference sponsored by the West Virginia Public Health Assn will be in Huntington on June 7. A pre conference Health Education Workshop is set for June 3 with Phillip E. Ryan, executive director of the National Health Council, as keynote speaker.
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West Virginia Public Health Assn
Huntington
N. H. Dyer
Phillip E. Ryan
National Health Council
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