The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-03

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TO VISIT SONS-Three Ameri-
can mothers have decided to make
a trip halfway around the world
to visit their three sons, all inn
prisoned for years in Red China.
ANNOYED BY SINGING - A
San Quentin convict Sunday knitted
to death a fellow inmate who he
said had annoyed him at night by
singing in an adjoining cell.
800 YARDS APART-Two head
on collisions, just 300 yards and
less than IL hours apart on U. s.
20 near Madison, Va, Sunday kill
ed five persons and left 10 others
injured, many of them hospitalized.
BURNED TO DEATH - Three
children were burned to death Sat-
urday in fire that destroyed their
home about five miles south of
Augusta, Ca. while their mother
was visiting next door.
SET OFF BOMB-Two 14-year-
old boys set off homemade bomb
in a downtown Amarillo, Texas
theatre last Friday; police said
four youths suffered minor cuts
and burns in the blast.
SEVEN HURT-Seven persons
were injured in a three-car acct
dent at Rocky Mount when an au-
tomobile carrying a boy wounded
by an arrow collided with another
at an intersection.
ELEVEN HURT - At least IL
persons were hurt last week when
a crowded Miami-bound passenger
train broke in half at Cocoa, Fla,
derailing 10 cars which buckled
across the tracks.
FAST PACE OF eWORLD-Pine
trees are living at an accelerated
pace at the California Institute of
Technology and have produced
cones in only two years instead of
the IL to Is years required in a
forest.
FORTUNATE filters - Two
jet fighter pilots from the Beau
fort Marine Auxiliary Air Station
at Beaufort, S. c., parachuted to
safety last week when their planes
collided over Lake Moultrie at an
altitude of $4,000 feet.
YOUTH GIVEN LIFE TERM
John Larry Miller, 15-year-old
reform school escapee, last week in
Long Beach, California, was
judged guilty of first degree muir
der and sentenced to life imprison-
ment for killing a 2-year-old girl.
$50 DROWNED - Floods in
Ceylon have drowned $50 persons
and left $4,000 homeless, accord
ing to reports from Colombo;
President Eisenhower ordered four
U. S., Navy ships to rush aid to
the stricken people.
$1,450 HOLDUP - The first
major holdup in the history of
Pageland, s. c., occurred last week
when two bandits, one apparently
disguised as a woman, staged an
.early-morning grocery store stick
up and made off with $1,450 in
cash.
STAYS MOTHER - Seventeen
year-old John Jessup was arraign-
ed in New York Saturday for the
rifle Staying of his attractive di-
vorcee mother; he said he slew
his mother in fit of blind anger
when she complained about his
phone call TO a girl friend.
TWO YOUTHS KILLED - Two
teenage boys, James Theodore
Bedside and Gene Bedside of God
win were killed instantly last
Thursday afternoon when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
left the road and hit tree on a
county road in Sampson County.
GUNMAN KILLED - Henry
Clay Overton, Al, of Martinsville,
Va, wanted for two killings and
a manning, took a third person to
death with him in a jarring head
on collision near Wrens, Ca, Sum
day as he was being chased by
police.
TINE TO THAW - A theft
trial in Bristol, Tenn, was con-
tinued to give the evidence time
to thaw out; an official Of a rob-
bed frozen foods company said he