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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1957
Page
12
Roy Rogers says he is shopping for an adult Western series and has closed his Goldwyn Studios office as a retrenchment. He notes his old movies on TV are as adult as any, while NBC contract remains a year away and sponsor General Foods dropped the show last month.
Terre Haute Indiana nine year old Regina Whitaker died from gunshot wounds in a shooting that also killed her mother Alma Martin and brother Jack Whitaker. Father Thomas Whitaker already faces two first degree murder indictments in the deaths of his ex wife and son. Prosecutor John R. Jett plans to seek Regina's death as a third first degree murder charge.
Three trains crashed at Grand Central Terminal injuring many and blocking 18 tracks during the rush hour. New York Central and New Haven schedules were disrupted for up to an hour while a braking failure was blamed for the collision.
A 10 year veteran of the Virginia Electric and Power Co. Oscar L. Boyce Jr. of Williamsburg was electrocuted last night while working on a power line near the city. His body was found in a strapped position on a utility pole awaiting removal.
The Popocatapetl volcano sits about 40 miles south of Mexico City and remains only moderately active with no damaging eruptions recorded since 1540.
George L. Taylor judge of Wise County Court died in a Richmond hospital after a heart attack during a visit to relatives in Tappahannock. He was 70 and resident of Big Stone Gap. Survived by widow Margaret Barron Taylor, son James Polk Taylor of Galax, daughter Mrs. William A. Wright of Tappahannock, four sisters, a brother and two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements not announced. He was past president of the Association of County and Municipal Judges in Virginia.
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