weekly news cont.
WASHINGTON, MAX' 25-r*A government scientist said today that the first Amerioan to
•ide a rocket in orbit around the earth will have a better Chance of returning
jafely than an aviator had before 1910*
Dr. High Dryden, Deputy Chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration (NASA), said ’’We know the development of (spaoe) flight involves lost li
*es* But so does the construction of bridges and buildings *nV;1 _. > ^
jOS ANGELES—George Albert Soott, 38, convicted of the shotgun killing of movie
executive Kenneth Savoy, 35, during a bar holdup, slashed, his throat with 'a‘£a*or
last week in a suicide attempt* ,
Soott*s suicide attempt ooourred as a superior oourt jury was about to. hear
ais insanity pleac
Court bailiff Dave Ruben said Scott slashed'.' his throat three, times with tha
Made before it was taken from him. He was ‘ removed' t o the j ail hps pitaj. where 16
stitches wore taken to close the wounds. W " •
The sanity hearing was delayed until next Monday* Spott faces death in the San
Quentin gas chamber for the slaying last Dec. 30 of the Samuel Goldwyn ^Studios
3xecutive when Savoy refused to hand over his wallet during the holdup*
A companion of Scott*s, Curtis Liohtenwalter, 41, was acquitted on the murder
ohargey but was convicted of robbery* ,
AMES, IOWA?—A oumpus reporter for the Iowa State College newspaper said he was
“practically ostracized" beoause he wrote an "expose" of a per-test tutoring for
athletes#
Pick Danzinger, a junior from Des Moines, said he posed as a basketball player
to investigate aoademio endeavor among the athletes*
Jt£n.a five-column story, Danzinger wrote that an athletic department tutor
"fdked" a third of ^he test questions to the athletes*
S^KN'FRANCISCO»—Police demanded to know ?foy .Mrs* Hope Franklin
traffic oitations* “ . •
"Most of them were because I forgot to put a penny in the fiieter
teens right to get tiokets just for that," she said.
Folise held her in city prison in lieu of $1,102 bail*
had ignored 59
, and it didn’t
OWENSBORO, KY..,—Debra lynee Payne, a 10-week old baby, was suffocated by a plas
this sheet last week at tti'e home 'of her grandparents, ^ _
Mrs. Ive Payne said shb'looked ih on the baby and saw a plastic sheet cling
ing to her granddaughters' faoe. The child was dead on arrival at an Cvrpnebpro
hospital*
ST* LOUIS-Little Mark Douglas Draper-wQS billed last Saturday wh.ou. li® was atieob*
ed liy a pack of killer sirays aricTdrag^ed about *?6*yds. behind his home*; The man
gled body of the son pf'fir.'arid'firs. Douglas’&• draper was found by a-neighbor in
the;St. Louis suburb of‘Hazelwood...
County supervisor James H. J» MoN.ary ordered an inquiry into the.adequacy of
t*he oounty*s dog catching service* He said he also would seek a health department
Report on personnel and equipment in the rabies control division.' 1
Mlf more turcks and men are needed they will be obtained,Memory Said.
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