The coastland times., 1956-11-30
NEWS
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policy, and now advocates birth
control. One method suggested in
China, is for woman to swallow
IA live tadpoles one day and ten
the next, she will be safe from
conception Tor the next five years.
| MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT
Heads of the National Democratic
party are making plans for a cam
paign to wipe out the million dol
lar deficit incurred during the re-
cent campaign. AS before, Adlai
Stevenson is expected to assist in
raising this money.
L GAS AT $160 A GALLON-As
result of gas rationing in Paris,
gas is being sold as high as $160
a gallon. Eighty per cent of
Frances oil supply was cut off
when France and England made
war on Egypt, causing the Suez
canal to be blocked.
KIDNAP THREAT - Because
threats had been made to kidnap
Governor Stratton's wife in Illi-
nois, police guard has been
placed around the mansion. Iden-
tity of the writer of the threaten
ing note is said to be known.
POKER ROBBERY - Four men
have admitted participating in the
robbery of "a poker game at Lex
ington where $1,000 was stolen.
They are Earl Meismer, J. D.
Powell, William Pethel and Fred
dy Hampton, ranging in age from
% to AZ.
SLAYER-Alberto Cortez, "a,
shot and killed Raymond Romin-
guez, 80, his cousin, then killed
himself, after wounding a teen age
girl and pistol-whipping her sister
because they resisted his advances
in San Antonio, Texas. Cortez had
a record for murder and assault.
AIR LINER CRASHES = An
Italian transatlantic liner crash
ed into a home in France, and
killed 33 of 81 persons aboard and
a young boy in the house. The
plane was en- route to America via
Shannon, Ireland.
HUNTING MISHAPS-Ronald
Cogan, 18-year-old son of Raymond
Cogan of Norfolk, was killed while
cleaning his gun for a shooting
trip. Cogan's parent once assisted
in operation of furniture store
in Manteo In Back Bay, Ed
ward Baird, At, Norfolk attorney,
was seriously injured by an air.
plane, piloted by his nephew, Ed
ward Segar %, who said he was
trying to drop a note to his uncle.
KILLED HIS SON - James
Beaver, % of West Virginia, ad-
mitted he smothered his two-year-
old son to death and burned the
body in an open fireplace in his
crude log-cabin home 18 miles
from Huntington. The little boy
cried and wouldn't eat his beans.
The grandmother held a gun on
Beavers wife and forced her to
help dispose of the body which
was first cut up.
INJUNCTION - Striking long
shoremen on the east coast have
gone back to work as the result
of a court injunction invoked un-
der the Taft-Hartley law at the
instigation of the President. Only
a third of the 5000 strikers in the
Hampton Roads area went back
to work on the first day of the
strike.
FOUND IN WELL-G. H. Ran
horn, in his late COS was found in
an abandoned well in which he had
fallen and was almost frozen after
several hours in waist-deep water.
He was taken to a hospital for
treatment at Roanoke Rapids. The
we'll was at an abandoned saw
mill site.
EVERYONE KNOWS 1T =
Chairman Paul Butler of the Ma
tional Democratic party was quite
frank in his remarks before a Con-
gressional committee that "major
political parties are not financing
campaigns in the spirit of the
law" There are many ways in
which this can be avoided. He sug-
gests that instead of the present
three million dollar ceiling, the
limit should be raised to eight to
IL million.
20 YEARS-John Skinner, %,
pint-sized Negro who held up and
robbed a Norfolk bank of $4,000
in October, got a 20-year sentence.
His wife Ethel 81, and his Aunt,