Girl Confesses Role In Two Belleville Slayings
In Belleville Illinois 14 year old Don na Marie Stone pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for aiding her lover John Edw in Myers in the double murder of George Ball and his 10 year old daughter. She faces staged tests and possible release at age 21 after state custody. The case links to Myers death sentence in Texas and a spree that netted $17.
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Belleville, Ill
Donna Marie Stone
Belleville
Richard Carter
Illinois Youth Commission
John Edwip
Myers
George Ball
Texas
Gordon Dodds
Edwardsville
Hll
Eugene Lamport
First Christian Church
Carter
Illinois State Penitentiary
Joliet
Illinois State
Geneva
Illinois Pardon Board
W. H. Stone
Chicago
Theodore Lischmann
Big Spring
Ballard
H. P. Graham
Margaret Wernicker
Graham
Thayer
Miss Wernicker
Stone Girl
Pact Reported To Sell Estes Assets
Monte Irion said a creditors committee drafted a contract to sell West Texas promoter Billie Sol Estes assets to Morris Jaffe of Fed Mart Stores for about 4.5 million dollars. The seven member panel will vote after studying the final draft and may hold a meeting in El Paso or Dallas.
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Dallas
Monte Irion
Billie Sol Estes
West Texas
San Antonio
Morris Jaffe
Jaffe
Fed Mart Stores
Estes
Estes Estate
Harry Moore
el Paso
Irion
Chicago
Bob Greenberg
Walter E. Heller Co
Moore
Alan Poage
Paso
Commercial Solvents Corp
Hoover Enters New York Hospital For Annual Checkup
Former President Herbert Hoover, 88, checked into Harkness Pavilion at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center today for his annual physical. He is expected to stay two or three days.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Harkness Pavilion
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Weather snapshot lists scattered storms and heat across Texas
Snyder and regions report extreme heat and mild nights. Temperatures reach near 100 in West and North zones while East and Southeast see partly cloudy skies with isolated thundershowers. Readings show highs around mid to upper 90s, lows in 60s to 70s across North Central, Northeast, Northwest, Coast, Southeast, and Southwest Texas today through Tuesday.
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Snyder
Texas
Purge in Hungary Expels Rakosi Allies from Communist Party
In Budapest the Hungarian Communist Party ousted Matyas Rakosi and 24 Stalinist followers amid a Central Committee purge. Karoly Kiss and Ernce Geroe were also removed or demoted as the revolt's legacy lingers. Rakosi's fate mirrors the postwar power struggles tied to 1956 events.
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Budapest
Hungary
Matyas Rakosi
Communist Party
Karoly Kiss
Janos Kadar
Rakosi
Ernce Geroe
Geroe
Soviet Union
Interior Ministry
Snyder High Black and Gold Band Plans First Rehearsal
Snyder High School announces the first full rehearsal of the Black and Gold Band at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the band hall. Melvin Montgomery says the band will prep for its first performance at the Snyder Andrews football game on September 14. Rehearsal schedules through school start will be announced at the Tuesday session. The band is expected to exceed 100 members.
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Snyder High School
Melvin Montgomery
Snyder-Andrews
Montgomery
Kidinoff Seeks Release From Insane Hospital Status
Dr. Harold Kidinoff who killed lawyer Ted Andress at El Paso airport in 1959 seeks release from the hospital for the criminally insane claiming sanity. A December sanity hearing ended with a hung jury prompting renewed bid amid ongoing feud details and related libel and divorce actions.
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Lubbock
Fidinoff
Andress
Eidinoff
Texas
Atom Powered Ship Signals A New Era
The 22,000 ton Savannah, world's first atomic powered merchant ship, departs for a maiden voyage from Yorktown to Savannah signaling a new era in commercial sea transport. Gov. Vandiver and other officials aboard join demonstration trips as U S officials note planned non profit operation and high prototype costs. The vessel could cruise 30 years on one fueling, powered by 17,000 pounds of uranium oxide. It aims for general service in 1.5 years with spring to Seattle World Fair via Panama Canal.
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Sa.vannah
Yorktown
Savannah
Soviet Union
Atomic Energy Commission
Georgia
Ernest Vandiver
G. Elliot Hagan
Malcom MacLean
Atlantic
Earth
Moon
Kennedy swims as crowd swamps Santa Monica beach
President Kennedy on a 33 hour Southern California visit swims at Lawford's Santa Monica home while about 1000 bystanders flood the beach. Secret Service struggles to manage the mob as bathers join him in the Pacific and a life guard boat arrives.
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Los Angeles
Kennedy
Pacific
Coney Island
Secret Service
Santa Monica
Peter Lawford
California
Washington, D.C
Edmund G. Brown
San Luis Dam
Cen
Lawford
Europe
Law
Lawfords
Doris Day
Janet Leigh
Sue Lyon
Life Guard
Heat Wave Rages Across Texas With No Rain In Sight
Summer drought grinds on Texas as more cities report extended rainless periods and temperatures over 100. San Antonio logs 49 days without measurable moisture, Laredo saw a 26 inch shower ending a 47 day drought run, and Galveston records 44 days with only a trace. Two heat deaths reported in Houston and Dallas as events shift later in the day.
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Preas
Austin
San Antonio
Weather Bureau
Laredo
Galveston
Houston
Dallas
Wichita Falls
Bronchitis Epidemic Follows Florencia Flood Disaster
An epidemic of bronchitis followed a flood that swamped Florencia Colombia killing 41 people and leaving 136 missing. A burst dam on the River Ha ch a sent trees and boulders into the town. about 3000 of 20000 residents are homeless. No injuries reported among an American military mission there.
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Bogota
Colombia
Florencia
Hacha
Foreign Worker Roll Pegged At 98 299
The Labor Department reports 98 299 foreign workers in seasonal agricultural roles in the late spring and early summer, compared with 1 036 258 U S workers. Of the foreign workers 86 681 are from Mexico, 9 946 from the British West Indies, 342 from Canada and other countries. Western states hold 62 478 with 61 478 Mexican nationals. California leads with 44 050 and Texas with 17 717, nearly all from Mexico.
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Washington
Labor Department
U.S
Mexico
British West Indies
Canada
California
Texas
Fisherman Killed By Shark Attack Near Port Isabel
A 40 year old McAllen man Hans Fix died after a shark attacked him while surf fishing off Padre Island near Port Isabel in waist deep Gulf water. He fought the shark with his fishing rod, received multiple leg bites, and died from blood loss despite aid from his wife and rescuers.
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Brownsville
Gulf of Mexico
Hans Fix
McAllen
Port Isabel
Fix
Padre Island
Texas
Hockaday
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Donald L. Fulton Jr
John H. Donoval
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EF. J. Gray
Eddie
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Irvin Kaplan
Hoover
Brandt
Kiss
Carl Hartman
East Berlin
Wall
Albert Watson
Watson
West Berlin
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Charlie
Bernauerstrasse
Kidinoff
Maritimes Administration
Department of Commerce
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Russia
Japan
AEC
United States
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Norfolk
Panama Canal
JFK
Delia Bradley
Church of the Good Shepherd
Larry McHugh
Beverly Hills
McHugh
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