Governor Long Seeks Fourth Term Amid Court Hearing
Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long, 63, remains determined to run for a fourth term despite a court sanity hearing planned for Tuesday. Long plans to attend in person, seek a jury hearing, and fight the wife’s involuntary hospital admission. Reporters note he appears more cooperative and less resentful during his stay at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston.
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Galveston
Tex
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Long
Hugh Gibson
Auto Looted of Valuables in Hammond Break-In
Bernard Dant reports items worth 663 dollars stolen from his locked car after a window was broken at 451 North Eighth Street. Missing are clothes luggage 25 hi fi records and a typewriter. Rex Dyer reports theft of a right front wheel from his car at 719 South Seventeenth Street. Ruth Jett reports a wallet with 23 dollars stolen from a filing cabinet top at Trent and Son.
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Bernard Dant
Hammond
North Eighth Street
Rex Dyer
South Seventeenth Street
Ruth Jett
Trent and Son
Sixth
Locust Streets
Youthful Pair Hold Woman at Bay with Gun
Two 15 year old boys, Spud Janney and John Johnson, held an elderly woman at gunpoint and fired at her husband at a summer cottage near Wabash Indiana. The trio escaped White's Institute, and a statewide search continued with one other youth turning himself in to authorities. The cottage was ransacked, a rifle and shells were taken, and the victims escaped unharmed.
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Wabash
Ind
Wabash County
Spud Janney
Allen County
John Johnson
White County
White's Institute
Here
Howard Lutz
Rt. 5
Lutz
Paul Benson
Man Charged in Drunk Driving Case in City Court
Jesse A. Henry, 33, of 1300 South First street, faces a June 25 trial on a charge of driving with a suspended license after pleading not guilty. In the same session Judge Pro Tem Robert Wallace heard pleas and fines for several others including Margaret Patterson, 49, and Robert Clark, 71, for public intoxication and traffic offenses.
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Jesse A. Henry
South First Street
Henry
Robert Wallace
Margaret Patterson
North Twenty-ninth Street
Charles K. McCrory
Robert Clark
North Third Street
John D. Lucas
North Twenty-fourth Street
Infant boundless appetite for nonfood items puzzles parents
A dietary phenomenon in infants aged nine to twenty four months shows a strong craving for coffee grounds egg shells soap soil and odd items like crib railings and dog ears. The piece notes how a parent may try to intervene though it ends with a wry warning about fingers in mouths and power tools.
Motion to Quash in Mrs Fagg Homicide Trial
Vigo Circuit Court hears defense motion to quash state amended affidavit in the Dorothy Berryman Fagg case. Judge Criss will rule June 17 after the third amended affidavit. Fagg pleads not guilty. The case stems from a Dec 24 auto crash at Thirteenth Street and Third Avenue that killed nine year old Gloria Rankin and injured her mother. Additional charges include public intoxication and drunken driving in City and Superior Courts.
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N. George Nasser
Vigo
Dorothy Berryman Fagg
Fifth Avenue
Herbert R. Criss
Fagg
Thirteenth Street
Third Avenue
Gloria Jean Rankin
Blaine Avenue
Chester Rankin
Civil actions filed by husband and father
The husband and father seek a $50,000 judgment for the loss of their daughter and $100,000 for permanent injuries sustained by Mrs Rankin. She lost her right leg above the knee in the accident per the complaint.
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Rankin
Armed services enlist four men in local recruiting drive
Four enlistments reported Friday at the Federal Building stations. Leonard B. Waleski 17 will train in the Navy at Great Lakes. Jerry L. Montgomery 17 heads to Fort Leonard Wood for Army basic. A West Terre Haute youth 17 enlists as light vehicle driver. Two more West Terre Haute men 18 join the Air Force at Lackland AFB Texas. Ronald R. Judy and Francis D. Mershon, both 18, are the new airmen.
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Federal
Leonard B. Waleski
Bonnie F. Monroe
Blaine Avenue
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
West Terre Haute
Jerry L. Montgomery
Fort Leonard Wood
Army
Lloyd L. Montgomery
RR 1
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
Tex
Ronald R. Judy
Eileen Smith
Francis D. Mershon
J. F. Mershon
Federal Survey On Dunes Scrape Opens Saturday
A two day Senate Interior Subcommittee survey starts Saturday in Chesterton Indiana to study a 5000 acre duneland site along Lake Michigan. Senators Gruening Moss and possibly Martin lead tours by helicopter jeep and car to assess the proposed national monument amid local industrial opposition.
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Washington
Senate Interior
Indiana
Ernest Gruening
Dalaska
Frank E. Moss
Dutah
Chesterton
Ind
Subcommittee
Thomas E. Martin
Browa
Paul Douglas
D-Ill
Lake Michigan
Ben Stong
Monument
Dunes State Park
Chicago
Michigan City
Coronado Lodge
Douglas
Harold W. Handley
Kenneth Marlin
State Conservation Department
Kenneth Cougill
Marlin
Handley
Stolen Ring Set Report From South Lake Home
Fred Cleghorn, resident of a house trailer at South Lake near West Terre Haute, reported to Chief Deputy Sheriff Jim Elliott on Friday that a valuable matched wedding ring set was stolen from his home. The engagement ring is white gold with a half carat diamond and diamond chips, with the wedding ring also encrusted with diamonds.
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Fred Cleghorn
South Lake
Terre Haute
Jim Elliott
Cleghorn
Miss United States to wed Columbia football star
Betty Lane Cherry known as Miss United States 1957 announced in Columbia that she will marry former University of South Carolina football star Johnny Gramling in September.
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Columbia
S. C
UPI
Betty Lane Cherry
United States
University of South Carolina
Johnny Gramling
Bankruptcy petition filed against Wesley G. McCullough
A voluntary bankruptcy petition was filed in United States District Court for Wesley G. McCullough, 2127 North Twenty-fourth Street, with attorney John K. Fesler. The debtor lists assets of 555 dollars and debts totaling 1,524.38 dollars with deputy clerk Virginia Wassell.
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United States District Court
Wesley G. McCullough
North Twenty-fourth Street
John K. Fesler
McCullough
Virginia Wassell
Mrs McCoy case dismissed in city court
Mrs Margaret Annabelle McCoy of 3120 Plum street saw a public intoxication charge dismissed in City Court on Friday. Deputy prosecutor McCrory cited a Circuit Court sentence of one to ten years after her son and a companion allegedly stole goods from a Woolworth store last February.
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Margaret Annabelle McCoy
Plum Street
Charles K. McCrory
Woolworth
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Dr. Spock
Simon and Schuster
Curtis Publishing Co., Inc
B. M. Atkinson, Jr
Whitney Darrow, Jr
King Features Syndicate
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Federal Survey
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America
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