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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 24, 1962

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To the stars and stripes tuesday april 34, 11 guck in business after East Cost floods Shoemaker. 64, not too old for new comeback by b. Drummon0 toes or. Six weeks to when the angry Waters of the Atlantic Ocean forged Over thl iow4ylng Island Tony font no like More the an2,000 other residents As forced to  his wife Bernice he went to a daughter s Home on the near by Mainland a week later when the Grey Brown flood had drained away he came Home. But not much remained of the life he had left Only Days before. His Cobbler s shop with its hard earned reputation for Quality work was a tangle of soggy shoes paper glue and rusted machinery. Obj Home once a comfortable Retreat from the tiresome work Bench was covered with a Salty film of. Mud and dampness. His car eight years old but Well cared for stood useless its motor and other working Parta ruined bythe brine that had swirled about for three terrifying Dayi an nights. To Anthony Contino a 64-year old native of Sicily disaster had become a very real thing no longer something to read about in the newspapers or to hear Aboyon a radio or to see on television. Contino had known bad Luck before in 1942 when fire had wrecked his shop at Salisbury my but that had been in a younger Day and he had fought Back. Now after 40 lost years Jennie will go Home Oklahoma City up an Oklahoma condemned to life imprisonment in 1922 and who has not had a visitor in 39 years i about to be released but she won t be going Home to her daughter she still thinks is Only six years old. She a Jennie Spear now 75, who is a lob prisoner in More ways than one. Jennie Spear entered the state Penitentiary at Mcalester Okusu on dec. % 1322, for the murder of another woman Manege Parker to son to Hospital was separated from her daughter then la years old. Andt4bee-&ett, Jennie Spear still re Mem div Feer daughter As a six yet quid. Girl it was not Learned we the daughter is today. Jennie Spear s Pardon and Par Leboard record shows her entry top other than that the record in the lost prisoner in almost  a no evidence anyone cared where Jennie &p4ar was or How site was getting along. She became Only a name to Pardon and parole to d employee and Only a patient to Hospital workers. Board director a j. Texans Bis assistant Buck were checking the file sch they discovered Jennie Spear. Were just checking the flies to bring them up to Date Wil Liams explained when we came to Jennie s  after investigation Bynum recommended to the Board that Jen Nie Spear be Given an indefinite medical Lee when the Pardon and parole Board Meta april 2990.the investigation showed she has never had visitors and the last correspondence with relative was in november is24 she talks in terms of going Home to see her Little daughter who was six years old at the time of her admission to this Hospital the report said. She still thinks of her daughter As a Little girl and ii unable to conceive of her being a Crown woman who would be inner forties at this  the report added that Jennie entered the Hospital suffering from paranoid delusions and both Audi tory and visual hallucination re lating to god and the Dell the report said she was considered to be psychotic at that time and was diagnosed As schizophrenic reaction paranoid Type. Since then her mental condition has Varte but has never been aggressive. Only a patient a name a num Ber Jennie Spear is going Home but her Little daughter won t Bethere. She May never know that her daughter was adopted by family who wanted her to know nothing about her Mother. And it s scr of Coya pie Midi Minn up Terry Knutson 22-year-old Ion of former Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson. Is going into politics.7ou$g Knutson said he would be candidate for the Minnesota from the new 66th legislative District. A Eumma is a student at Bemidji state College and will finish his Aop Omore year fat june. Atone Post is Mother held the same legislative Post w her first political Job in 1950. She was reelected in 152 before she rim for Congress mrs Knutson lost her congressional eat after her husband pleaded Ina Public letter that Ahe give up pol life and come bade Home. . A Democrat divorced her husband earlier this year. " " it Fri. Knot son said she is backing her son for the Post Knutson said How eve a it u doubtful she can help him Campaign because of her Posi Tion with the defense department defense Leopn Elnator at the acc Tont trop if a ok4 not that big depth of of oct of wide Angl Elens it Flatt this japanese Dat Sun Sedan look a lot mugger Chan it is John Mcdowell left and Christopher Finney to peer with curiosity Ond the Petite Model at an automobile show in the new York Coupe gift. Up photo Jurion damaged i is 4er to nov Java a of cabbie s mix up causes bostonian to 6loserson Boston a Only a few Yards  a father and his Young son but for an hour it seemed to each that the other had disappeared Edgar Freud Ger 33, of Norton had an errand to run at the passport office. Because it was Al most closing time and traffic was heavy Freudiger jumped from Theca to Cut across an Alley shout ing to the cab Driver to drive around front with his son. The cabbie misunderstood an stayed where he was parked. The father waited outside the passport office for an hour for the Cable then be reported his so missing to police. Police found the cab and the youngster just around the Corner where the father had waited. Columnist gets award. Washington up dark Altu Laird King features  received the 1963 National president s award from  society of the children of Tab american revolution. Splitting income turns tax trick maybe for pair Little Rock. Ark. A two College students who held one Job under one name seek tax refund Sas individuals the internal Revenue service reports. The students whose identities were withheld wrote the irs Little Rock office they had Hel the Job jointly because neither could work every night because of school. They did not say Why Only one name was used. Together they made More than the $600 allowed one person tax free but less than $600 each. They contend they should receive a full refund of income taxes withheld from their salary. Gop chair Ian faces opposition in . Primary Niagara Falls . Up a former City democratic commit Teeman has announced he would oppose gop National chairman William e. Miller in the Republican primary for the nomination for Congress from new York s 40th District. James l. Rosin of a Laboratory worker at Hooker chemical corp. Was Defeated last year As a Democrat against state sen. Earl w. Bruges a leading Republican in the state legislature. Miller has held the Western new York congressional Post since first elected in 1950. 20 years later he Felt to fight Back yet too Young to treat. He summoned the Resi Lstill left from the wrecked shop an building that housed it he aged what item he could took them across the Street to abandoned Beauty parlor which rented from his original the move provided badly new quarters but it did not badly needed new  equipment Money Waed and Contino had almost barely enough for ing. In an Effort to acquire funds pc accepted full time work with 4 Salisbury shoe shop for which previously had done part Tea work. It was an adequate Job Bat h paid just enough to live on age enough to buy the machinery Tak. His own shop. Besides the 40 Aalt nto the Maryland City had to be tt4 Goti ated in a car borrowed fro a local Auto dealer. In the meantime the need Ift Home repair Besan to Pinch of % pocketbook already almost Emir to Contino sought new sources of funds but he had no  the Small business Traylon office for instance needs were acknowledged but was advised he was too old to considered a Good Joan risk. The Story was the Swinie elsewhere. Finally an Appeal to the Amert can red Cross brought $1.000 is repairs to his Home car and jul and today a Ign on the bad ass door of his wrecked shoe Glus reads come get your shoes across tet Street at the Beauty  Trail drive s horse sense Pawhuska. Okja. Huska clothing store said it the largest Trail rive in this a Many years Elerrena and Carman an Oil Field  horses near Bartl Esvell plan to sell them Here As roof Fostock. A pickup truck with the slowing traffic led the Way. Motorists  not use trucks driving them is cheaper ten said. And besides it s a different to 9e i v pc or a i j North Carolinan Dies from smoke pois fair Law . Lormer North Carolina Man from smoke poisoning in which broke out in the living of his apartment in nearby Burn Clyde Smith. 25, Fobe Aufort n.c., was found across his bed by firemen Roommate. Peter found in a second bed of Barnert Hospital in fair condition. I rescued from freight car still rides Somerset. By. A Donald Franklin a freight hoppin1 Soldier. Is visiting his girl Friend in Somer set after a near tragic Cross coun try journey but neither will say whether they plea to be married. Frank 11 n arrived by freight train the same Mode of travel that almost became the undoing of the it Hood Tex Soldier. He was rescued earlier from locked freight car in Muskogee okla., where he was imprisoned accidentally for 24 hours after he crawled into the car to spend the night Frank Lent 18, said then to Wason his Way to Somerset to Many. His Home is in Tucson Attix but girl Friend Anna Bolln 17 t has t said publicly theron t marry Young Franklin. A rather impulsive boy Anna met Donald at army Center i Louisville was stationed at it know franc ten payt he a freight train. Lat rahy to i to the army Camp  
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