Local service men listed for safety courses and duty assignments
Pvt Michael Edward Doran completed a Red Cross water safety course in Bad Toelz Germany and is with the 38th Infantry at Schewenborn. Army Sgt Edgar I Smoke Jr took part in Armed Forces Day rites in Fulda with the 299th Engineer Battalion. Seamen Charles R Jenkins and Douglas W Boyd serve with an amphibious unit at Little Creek Virginia.
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Michael Edward Doran
Webb C. Jenkins
1719 Valley Ave
Doran
3D Division
38Th Infantry
Army
Fort Benning
Handley High School
Schewinfurt
Germany
Edgar I. Smoke
Anna C. Smoke
299Th Engineer
Fulda
Smoke
Verene
Little Creek
Charles R. Jenkins
Seaman
USN
W. Southwerk St
Douglas W. Boyd
Maynard Boyd
W. Pall Mall St
Norfolk
Naval Base
Tax Receipts Fall Short of Virginia Budget Estimate
Richmond AP reports Virginia must post more than 26 million dollars in state income tax revenue this month to meet a 63 million dollar fiscal year target. Comptroller Sidney Day says May 1 to June 30 deposits totaled 36.8 million, 26.2 million below the budget estimate though he expects remedial payments to arrive.
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Richmond
Virginia Treasury
Sidney C. Day Jr
Day
Comptroller
Pardons Board Refuses Mercy for Utah Killer Kirkham
Barton Kay Kirkham, 21, asked the Utah State Pardons Board for life imprisonment with mental treatment. The board rejected the plea and he faces hanging, the first condemned man in 46 years to choose death by noose over firing squad. He claimed no remorse and sought confinement outside prison for psychiatric care, but the board denied the request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point
Mountain
Utah
Barton Kay Kirkham
State Pardons Board
Birkhems
Kirkham
Jets Fly Across Airliner Path in Lynchburg
The Civil Aeronautics Authority investigates two military jets that crossed the path of a Piedmont Airlines plane shortly after takeoff from Preston Glenn Airport. Nine passengers aboard the Roanoke-bound airliner reported the jets roared directly in front and below the aircraft. Navy F9F jets were tentatively identified but not confirmed as radio contact with the airport was lacking. Residents said the jets flew low over the city and authorities said they could not identify them in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynchburg
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Piedmont Airlines
Roanoke
Bill Finien
Preston Glenn
Navy
Norfolk
Bill Mawyer
CAA
Two Escape Injury In Crash Landing Of Private Plane
Two Ohio men, W. W. Davis and Wayne Harper of Akron, escaped injury when their small private plane crash landed on Verdunsville Elementary School playground near Logan West Virginia. They aimed for Helden Airport but could not reach it, and the craft rolled toward a mountainside with no serious damage.
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Logan
W. Va
Grundy
W. W. Davis
Wayne Harper
Akron
Helden
Verdunsville
Stores Give Beef Feature Treatment In Advertisements
A weekend feature in ads from supermarkets and neighborhood grocers highlights beef with chuck roast and rib roasts leading, followed by round steak and liver. Prices aren’t dramatic, as stores emphasize variety after a long ad push. Lamb and pork rise slightly. lettuce, asparagus, spinach, onions, and squash are strong buys with fruit like bananas and pineapples remaining solid choices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texas
800 Mile Hiker Delivers Letter From Chicago Mayor
Max L. Cowan, 45, Utica stockbroker and former amateur boxer, hiked 800 miles from Chicago since last May 17 averaging 42 miles daily to deliver a letter from Richard J. Daley to Mayor Robert F. Wagner. The note invited Wagner to the Pan American Games in August 1959. Cowan, 5 feet 5½ inches and 155 pounds, reportedly lost about 12 pounds en route and often completes weekend 40 mile hikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Max L. Cowan
Cowan
Chicago
Utica
Richard J. Daley
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
Mohawk Valley Investing Co
Airman Admits Strangling a Japanese Bar Girl
Airman James W. Newmaster of Auburn California confessed to strangling 23 year old Yasuko Wakatsuchi in Yokosuka Japan claiming she invited him to. He said the bar girl was despondent after her lover left for the United States and that he throttled her with a nylon stocking. The nude body was found March 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokosuka
Japan
US Navy Today
James W. Newmaster
Auburn
Calif
Yasuko Wakatsuchi
United States
Newmaster
Actor Herbert Heyes Dies at 68 in Hollywood
Hollywood reports Herbert Heyes a stage star and silent film leading man died Saturday at age 68. He debuted onscreen with Theda Bara in Under Two Flags in 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Herbert Heyes
Theda Bara
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Lux Liquid Detergent
Loe
BOT
Star-Kist
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Ige
Bae Een
Ali
Vom
Triangle
Front Royal
Loudoun
Winchester
of the
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Swift
Ajax Cleanser
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