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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1957
Page
3
A fragment suggests someone accuses another party of giving tranquilizers to prevent people from jumping, indicating a tense police or safety situation under discussion. The quote implies alleged manipulation or coercion linked to a crisis scenario.
BLUEFIELD Virginia construction began on the Norfolk and Westerns longest tunnel at Dups Creek near the Russell Dickinson line. The four million dollar mile and a half tunnel should finish in 1958 and will open a new Clinchfield Coal area. N W will also widen four Clinch Valley tunnels to serve a new Appalachian Power plant in Russell County under construction.
Police Chief C H Anderson shut down a classroom in the Beverly Hills reservation office of the Royal Nevada Hotel. The California law banning gambling equipment was cited though no money changed hands and no arrests were made.
ABILENE Texas A former Air Force major who flew reconnaissance for atomic bomb raids was ordered committed to a veterans hospital for mental treatment. Two psychiatrists testified he is insane. He faced burglary charges in Avoca and View Texas from April 1956 and was released to his brother with VA hospital reporting orders.
Baltimore chief judge Emory H. Niles struck down a 1715 Maryland statute that made it a crime for a white woman to bear a child fathered by a black man. He ruled the law unconstitutional as discriminatory and likely in violation of the 14th Amendment.
In Philadelphia defendant William B. Dingdang fainted behind the jury box during a drunken driving case. He was taken to a hospital in good condition. The Criminal Court jury returned a verdict of Innocent.
Philadelphia Zoo welcomes three new toads from Colombia eight inches long. Staff have been adding body building compounds to tank water to aid their settling. Keeper Ed Endy was distributing the pills when a visitor commented to a companion.
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