Ava Gardner Returns Home With Italy Fame
Ava Gardner arrived in Smithfield North Carolina with Italian comedian Walter Chiari to visit family and wish her brother Jack Gardner well on his marriage. Gardner, an oil dealer here, is set to wed Rose Darby of Vidalia Georgia next month with a party planned at Selma Country Club.
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Smithfield
N. C
Ava Gardner
Frank Sinatra
Ava
Carolina
Walter Chiari
Chiari
Miss Gardner
Jack Gardner
Gardner
Miss Rose Darby
Vidalia
Selma Country Club
Terry Moore Files Suit for Divorce
Actress Terry Moore seeks divorce from Panama broker Eugene McGrath in Santa Monica California with June 18 filing. The case names McGrath as respondent and requests dissolution of marriage with possible ancillary relief.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Terry Moore
Eugene McGrath
Boy, robin comfort each other during convalescence
In Binghamton New York seven year old Guy Lillie bedridden with a broken leg after an automobile accident befriends a young robin. The bird, rescued during a tree removal, sits on his head shoulders or leg cast while he recovers, sharing in his boredom.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Guy Lillie
Robin
Guy
Dorothy Kolb
Actress files divorce suit over husband’s alleged flirtations
Miss Moore sues for divorce in Superior Court saying husband was too friendly with other women and gambled heavily. The 28-year-old star seeks no alimony claiming she can support herself. She and Mc Grath, 34, eloped in Las Vegas on Jan 1, 1956 and separated June 5 this year. she was formerly married to football star Glenn Davis.
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Miss Moore
Herttorney
Jerry Giesler
McGrath
Las Vegas
Glenn Davis
Aged Man Pleads Guilty to Public Indecency
West Terre Haute resident Henry W. Morris aged 101 pleaded guilty to public indecency before City Court Judge Pro Tem Ralph Berry. He was fined 14 and sentenced to 10 days in jail. Another defendant Faye Wenzel age 46 of 835 Royce Avenue was fined 1.75 for allowing an unlicensed operator to drive her car.
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West Terre Haute
Henry W. Morris
Ralph Berry
Faye Wenzel
Royce Avenue
San Diego County Area Compared To Connecticut
San Diego county in California covers about the same land area as the state of Connecticut. The comparison highlights the large size of the county relative to a small neighboring state.
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San Diego County
California
Connecticut
Progress of General Phone Is Reviewed
Terre Haute leaders heard from Marvin Diefendorf General Telephone Company's public relations director. He outlined the system's growth from 1918 to a sprawling 30 state operation with about 3 million subscribers and 30 000 employees. In Indiana the company controls over 70 million dollars in capital, 300 000 telephones and 2 600 workers, with plans to double investment and service to about 500 000 telephones and 6 000 employees within five years.
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Terre Haute
General Telephone Company of Indiana
Marvin Diefendorf
General of Indiana
Diefendorf
General
Automatic Electric Company
Indiana
George Becker Appointed City Controller In Vacancy
The city council last night appointed George W. Becker to fill a vacancy as controller. Becker also serves as city clerk deputy director of accounts and finances and special tax officer with a combined annual income of 6090 dollars.
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George
George W. Becker
Rotary Club Welcomes Newest Member Major Elmer C Shaw
General's southwestern division manager introduced the newest member of Rotary Club Major Elmer C Shaw, officer in charge of the Air Force Storage Site.
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Rotary Club
Elmer C. Shaw
Air Force
Two Burglaries Investigated by Police
Police Captain Frank Street said two burglaries were reported Monday night. At White's Service Station James Gibbs said thieves forced a west window and stole from a cigarette machine a pay phone money box a cash register and two soft drink venders. Bertha Fears reported thieves took $2 in pennies from Bertha's Dinette after forcing a kitchen window.
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Frank Street
James Gibbs
White’s
Hulman Street
Bertha Fears
Bertha
Dinette
North Ninth Street
CAP meeting to cover pilot license and twin engine rating
David Manson, assistant operations officer of the local Civil Air Patrol squadron, will address the group Thursday night at 8 o clock at Paul Cox Field. He will discuss requirements for obtaining a commercial pilot license and a twin engine rating.
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David Manson
Civil Air Patrol
Paul Cox Field
Unemployment Crisis Behind Curtain Growing
Vienna reports souring outlook as Western diplomats note Khrushchev predicting socialist state unemployment. Observers say Red empire faltering with Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Romania, Albania begging credits. Moscow funds East European satellites while denying global aid promises.
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Vienna
Khrushchev
America
Washington
Tito
Yugoslavia
Russia
Poland
Hungary
China
East
Germany
Romania
Albania
Moscow
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Asia
North Africa
Europe
Early explorers introduce mahogany wood in South America
The earliest explorers in South America first used mahogany wood, marking the wood as an early material in regional trade and exploration.
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South America
Louisville Church Vacation School Accepts Integration
Grace Lutheran Church in Louisville integrated its vacation Bible school after 11 Negro children appeared. The all white church, its director, and the governing body voted to admit them, making it a rare prompt for integration in the region with 39 white students and 17 to 20 Black children enrolled.
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Louisville Church Vacation School
Louisville
Grace Lutheran Church
Pap Cope
FC Cmmeive
Ul Gd
Vitany Lmimatu Neghborhood
P. E. Davis
Lutheran Church
Mason-Dixon
Kleckley
Macon
Pontiac versus smaller cars promise on road superiority
Pontiac claims up to 8.9 percent more car per dollar with rugged X-member frame and Precision-Touch Controls. Dealers offer on-record proofs and point by point comparisons to show bigger car advantages in stop and go and highway driving, plus high trade-in value. Take a test drive to prove it yourself.
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Pontiac
America
Disturbance at School. Procedure Untouched
Brief note reports a disturbance occurred but confirms that the school's procedure remains unchanged. No further details provided about people, location, or consequences.
Welch to wed Mrs Brown in Harwichport
Boston attorney Joseph N. Welch 66 announced plans for a summer or fall wedding to Agnes Rodgers Brown of Chestnut Hill. Welch, chief counsel for the Army in the McCarthy hearings, was a pallbearer at Brown’s husband funeral in 1956, the year Welch's wife died.
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Harwichport
Mass
Joseph N. Welch
Boston
Army
Welch
Agnes
Rodgers Brown
Chestnut Hill
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