High Court Takes On School Religion Case
Washington reports the Supreme Court hears the McCollum case challenging religious education in a Champaign Illinois public school. Atheist mother Vashti McCollum argues such classes violate the church state separation. Champaign Council on Religious Education defends nonsectarian, multi faith instruction. Case centers on public schools hosting religious instruction during school hours with regular teachers not involved. The court will deliberate after two hours of argument.
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Finland Municipal Elections Trim Popular Democrats Rise
In incomplete returns from 312 of 548 municipalities the Communist dominated Popular Democratic party trails in rural councils and city seats. Conservatives gain rural seats, Social Democrats seize urban posts, Helsinki shows the Popular Democrats in third place with large losses overall.
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Helsinki
Church Thieves Take Easy Way
Baltimore thieves used a wall breach to reach the church vault at St Matthew’s Evangelical Church. They entered through a hole cut through the pastor’s study wall and stole about $300, according to the sexton who discovered the break on Sunday.
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Probe Death Of Official's Infant Son
Authorities investigate the unusual death of 16 day old infant son of Lawrence H Hackenberg vice chairman of the state pardon and parole commission and former secretary to Gov Thomas J Herbert. The child was injured early Sunday morning in a Columbus apartment as the parents slept nearby. The mother said the older brother Lawrence Jr 3 carried the baby by the heels crying I got baby brother. They rushed the infant to University Hospital where he died after oxygen was given. Coroner Mitchell A Spyker performed an autopsy but withheld a verdict.
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Panama Accepts U S Lease Demand for Rio Hato Air Base
The Foreign Ministry said Panama delivered a note to U S charge d affaires Carlos Hall on Saturday accepting a U S proposal for leasing Rio Hato Air Base. The lease was the final disputed point in negotiations on U S bases in Panama for canal defense.
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