22 Jun 1955
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Newspaper
Sarasota News
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1955
Page
1
Toledo police Captain followed a tip about a masked man inside a tavern and interrupted a scene where patrons watched a man teach a 2 year old niece how to stage a robbery using a Davy Crockett gun. a curious distraction amid the tavern raid.
Molotov pressed for a formal all-out peace resolution by the 60 UN members as the Soviet Union seeks a strong peace stance ahead of the Geneva summit. Western negotiators doubt the need for a binding vote, debating formal versus informal approaches while the session nears its end.
Sarasota chances dim as Florida’s 17 day special session resumes with both House and Senate holding reapportionment bills. House favors a Sarasota Bay Monore cluster plan opposed by Senate leaders and Gov. Collins. Next moves depend on legislative sentiment after the recess.
Teddy Levy, billed as the youngest battery defendant in Superior Court, is named in a $150,000 claim by his grandmother Ann Rubin after she says he toppled onto her, fracturing two vertebrae while babysitting. The Levy parents are named as codefendants.
Otis Morley watched as his power mower rolled away across Crain highway in Glen Burnie. A motorist narrowly avoided hitting the mower and Morley reacted by honking his horn in an exasperated display.
Premier Mario Scelba turned in the resignation of his coalition government after 15 months of battle with Italian communists and alignment with the West. The cabinet unanimously agreed to present resignations to President Giovanni Gronchi as crisis deepened.
Washington reports Senate and House conferees reached agreement on a bill boosting federal pay. The measure covers about 1,073,262 workers with a 74 percent retroactive raise to March 1, totaling roughly 328 million dollars annually for classified civil service staff and related workers. Senator Olin D. Johnston had urged an 8 percent hike for rank and file employees.
A Communist magazine China Youth condemns excessive love among Chinese youth as harmful to national interests. It urges placing love second to political and labor duties, though notes a few tales of romance balancing duty, now framed as patriotism and socialist construction.
Eisuke Fukuda 75 longtime president of Tokyo Shimbun dies of pneumonia in Tokyo. Fukuda was a renowned newspaper figure in Japan with a vivid public persona and a long career in journalism.
Washington. Robert T. Stevens resigned today as secretary of the Army and President Eisenhower nominated Wilber M. Brucker to succeed him. Stevens cited compelling personal considerations and left a letter of resignation accepted with deep regret as Eisenhower prepared to tour New England. Brucker, 61, former Michigan governor, has served as Pentagon general counsel since 1954 and will move from Detroit to the post.
Argentina releases political prisoners including Crisologo Larralde as rebels mostly navy fliers and marine personnel face trial by the Supreme Council of the armed forces. Government says moves restore tranquility while security forces end uprisings and patrols ease in Rosario where 21 Communists were arrested for subversive leaflets.
A missing judge and his wife near West Palm Beach prompted a large reward, now totaling 118000 dollars. The Broward County Bar Association added 5000, the state Cabinet 50000, and supporters contributed the rest from the West Palm Beach area. Authorities continue exhaustive searches and no leads have emerged.
Rep Powell accuses House leaders of pushing a dishonest compromise reserve bill that would bypass his antisegregation amendments. He withdraws support after a prediction by Rep Martin and says he will fight the measure. Eisenhower disapproves antisegregation riders. Vinson compromise debated.
Deputies patrolled a strike site at Coronet Co in Plant City after a phosphate plant conflict turned violent. Clyde Cook was shot in the leg by Deputy Noel Weary who was beaten. Weary’s head required six stitches as he and Cook exchanged gunfire and grappling, while ICWU leaders offered disputed versions of events.
A judge questions a defendant while a clerk identifies the man as the local pawnbroker. The exchange shows a tense moment as familiarity is implied and the case proceeds.
Ruth Singer of Los Angeles was elected president of the American Gold Star Mothers at their 18th annual convention. In Miami, a Pittsburgh man was fatally hit by a car minutes after arriving for a family reunion. Molotov renewed a UN horse trade proposal offering Austria Italy Finland in exchange for Bulgaria Hungary Romania. Miami police officers were fired over a bookie bribe scandal. A jet fighter crashed near Key West killing the pilot from Boca Chica NAS during a night drill.
Minnie declares desire to leave Key West and return to Sarasota despite forecast showers. The Barasota area and Florida forecast show partly cloudy skies, scattered showers, and warm temperatures with coastal seas in the east Gulf remaining gentle to moderate.
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