The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-07

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J, ASSETS ATTACHED-Two at
toneys seeking to collect alleged
unpaid fees of $24,557 have attach
ed actress Hedy Lamarr's Holly
wood assets.
SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS -
Fifteen-year-old Lawrence Madsen
of Chicago was given a 20-year
prison sentence last week for the
strangling of three-year-old Lise
Jorgensen with a necktie MAY Is.
RITA MARRIES AGAIN-Actress
Rita Hayworth, 80, and movie BRO
Queer James Hill, Al, were mar
ried at Beverly Hill, Calf, Sun
day; it was the fifth marriage for
the actress and the first for Hill.
HELICOPTER CRASHES = The
pilot and three other men persisted
Saturday when a helicopter crash
ed into the Gulf of Mexico off
Grand Isle shortly after taking off
from an offshore oil rig.
OPPOSE PAY-TV-In the face of
overwhelming Tar Heel mail
against it, the entire North Caro-
lima House of Representatives del
egation in Washington has ex-
pressed opposition to pay tele-
vision.
TRAINS COLLIDE-Two Midland
freight trains collided and the en-
gines burst into flames at Bokoshe,
Okla, Saturday, killing three crew
men and for a time threatening
the entire community with a dan
gerons gasoline explosion.
COLLEGE GRANTS = Meredith
College, one of 81 colleges thus
favored, received two national IL
brary grants recently, $4OO from
the Remington Rand Division of
the Sherry-Rand Corporation, and
5000 from the United States Steel
Foundation.
NEW DEFENSE BASES - The
Senate last Thursday rushed
through bill authorizing $780,
$4,000 for space age defense
bases; one congressman called it
"only the beginning of a very
large defense authorization pro
gram"
PLANES COLLIDE-The bodies
of five persons Were found in the
wreckage of two private planes
that collided in mid-air Sunday
near 'Yorba Linda, Calf; this was
the second such mishap in South
ern California skies in less than
IL hours.
BOY FOUND DEAD - Dennis
Wurschmidt, 12-year-old Willows,
Calf, Boy Scout missing seven
days after disappearing in his first
outdoor camping experience, was
found dead Sunday in snow-cover-
ed, desolate Grindstone Canyon in
Mendocino National Forest.
CLOSING DELAYED-The Air
Force has decided to delay the
closing of the Laurinburg- Maxton
Air Base, originally scheduled for
June 80, until at least December
81 and has promised Reps. A.
Paul Kitchen and Alton Lennon
to "take another look" before
reaching final decision on the
closing.
48 KILLED IN CRASH - Only
two Navy airmen survived mid
air collision of two big military
planes last Saturday night over
Norwalk, Calf; forty-eight per-
sons were killed. Al aboard four
engine CHS Military Air Trans
port Service plane, six aboard a
twin-engine Navy Neptune patrol
bomber, and a housewife cut down
by flying wreckage.
HEART STOPPED 40 MINUTES
--Six-year-od Anthony Romeo of
Long Island, N. Y, who was .suf-
fering from an opening between
the hearts ventricles, underwent
a seven-hour operation in Phila-
delphia during which his heart
stopped beating for 40 minutes;
the boy continued to live by chem
zeal means while doctors sewed up
the opening in his heart, and a
heart-lung machine was pressed
into service for an hour.
, "MAD AT PEOPLE" - Charles
Starkweather, accused of IL STAY
ings in two states last week, along
with his girl friend, CARL Furgate
Q IA, waved extradition and agreed