Train Used to Call Aid for Wounded Franklin Boy
In Franklin Indiana on June 20 a diesel locomotive was used to summon aid for a gunshot wound victim Bruce Cook Miller 15. Miller was camping with three friends when a shotgun discharged wounding him in the chest. The youths flagged a passing freight train at a nearby track and rode it to obtain help prompting a 49 minute delay before medical attention.
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Franklin
Ind
Bruce Cook Miller
Methodist Hospital
Indianapolis
Miller
Jeffrey Valwinski
Valwinski
James Darby
Dan Shank
Gineer J. M. Faith
Louisville
O. S. Sandy
Chicago
Local man questioned after mutt theft and chase
A man ran off with dogs but was chased and later recovered shortly afterward. Walwinski was held for questioning by authorities as part of the incident.
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Walwinski
Cook County Official Closes Books To Public
Cook County records are opened only on specific case requests as Adamowski cites illegal use of a rubber stamp marked for feiture vacated. The state's attorney says this halts further actions on tax lien properties while investigations probe a real estate dealer who claimed he paid bribes for tax reductions. Treasurer Paschen calls the policy smart to curb tampering as shortages surface and past pilfering by ex state auditor Hodge looms.
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Adamowski
Barrett
Anton K. Schmid
Herbert C. Paschen
Paschen
Orville E. Hodge
Hodge
House Group Votes Most of Postal Funds
The House Appropriations Committee approved a supplemental 133 million dollar bill boosting postal funds to 3.325 billion for the year starting July 1. It also called for economies, including a Saturday service cutback, and warned Postmaster General Summerfield to secure funds or face further reductions.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Post Office Department
House
Arthur E. Summerfield
Committee urges saving cuts in city delivery services
A committee report argues against zoned savings of five million dollars and recommends abolition of money order sales to save 26 million. It urges preserving Star Route service at least daily and reexamining Saturday delivery to align with a five day work week and general business trends in suburbs.
Envelope found 600 miles away from local plant
Fourteen months after a worker lost his pay envelope at the National Blank Book Co. plant in Holyoke Massachusetts the missing pay envelope turned up in Norfolk Virginia in a shipment of notebooks from the same firm.
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Holyoke
Mass
National Blank Book Co
Norfolk
Delay Sentence In Two Burglary Pleas In Terre Haute
Circuit Court Judge Herbert Criss postponed sentencing for Maurice Turner of Chicago and Gerald Kirkland to July 11 and July 2 respectively. Turner pleaded guilty to a 1953 break in at Three B Company at 3229 Wabash Ave and stealing blank checks later used to cash 216 dollars. Kirkland faces sentencing for a May 31 theft of 55 dollars from the National Literary Association offices at 2225 Wabash Ave.
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Herbert R. Criss
Maurice Turner
Chicago
Three B Company, Inc
Wabash Avenue
John A. Kesler
Turner
Warren
Everett
Criss
Terre Haute
Gerald Kirkland
Kirkland
National Literary Association
Arkansas Fiscal 1955 56 Revenue Use Insight
Arkansas allocated 48 percent of its total revenues to cost of government and miscellaneous general agencies during fiscal 1955 56, reflecting government expenditure priorities and budgeting structure across departments and programs.
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Arkansas
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DEPT
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Root’s
Root
Cook County
House Group
American Loan and Finance CO
Ohio St
Cupioni
Navy
Wey
Redwood
Root’s Garden Shop
S. 6Th St
Barry
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