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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1959
Page
1
The piece reflects on modern connectivity and global travel, the exchange of students and cultures, and the responsibilities facing Thomasville High School graduates. It notes career paths, military service, and the need for planning amid world tensions, urging graduates to contribute to a better future.
Three miners Jake Lewis Earl Bennett and Don McClernon were rescued after 41 hours trapped 90 feet underground at Ken Coal Co mine Ohio County Kentucky A roof cave trapped them 500 feet from the shaft entrance They kept calm waited for rescue had water milk air a telephone link and a sprinkler tube for water. Bennett had survived a 1027 explosion in West Frankfort Illinois.
In Houston, researchers at Baylor University College of Medicine unveiled a nylon tendon system driven by an electro pneumatic microswitch. The device uses a light plastic cast and four nylon threads to flex finger joints, enabling polio victims and others with immobile hands to feed, sew, write, or shave. The mechanism is activated by a faint finger movement or other body action, powering the nylon muscle to curl the fingers around objects.
Taxes and integration dominated the 1959 Florida Legislature as it neared the session's end. A $702 million general appropriations act was adopted, and two tax bills expected to raise about $38 million in two years could pass early this week. Proposals to extend sales tax to alcohol and to tax materials for public projects, plus school funding shifts, shape the week. Senate and House consider race integration measures and school closing options, while a proposed parent option tuition amendment stalls in committees.
The device developed by the National Foundation's Rancho Los Amigos Hospital near Los Angeles and refined by Baylor's Dr. L A Geddes and Thorkild Engen has not yet been used on patients. Researchers say its full potential remains to be explored.
Los Angeles report states George Hinton Jr. aged 24 previously shot his knee eight weeks ago while practicing fast draws with a .22 caliber target pistol. On Sunday he again shot himself in the foot during practice.
A prominent Oklahoma mental health worker Florence Brillhart, 45, and her husband Elmer Brillhart, 46, were bludgeoned to death with a crowbar at their 600 acre dairy farm home near Hobart. Their son Clark Brillhart, 19, absent on convalescent leave from a state mental hospital, is sought after confessing to the killings.
In Macon Georgia AP Otto the Kin Man challenged the Georgia Structural Pest Control Act and Orkin Exterminating Co faced a triple legal move. A June 4 hearing was canceled a temporary restraining order was made permanent and Orkin’s constitutional challenge was moved to Houston Superior Court. Judge Oscar L Long signed the order with Orkin represented by Macon and Atlanta lawyers and state officials opposing.
Oklahoma State University study in business administration referenced in connection with an entry to Western State Hospital. The fragment notes a link between the university program and the hospital admission.
In Fort Smith Arkansas a 17 year old groom was found dead from a chest wound in his home hours after eloping with Peggy Stroud a 16 year old high school sophomore. Police report a 12 gauge shotgun nearby and say the couple married Saturday and informed the parents before returning home.
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