Actress Suzan Ball Fighting for Life
After Brave Amputation Recovery
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City - Air Base
Friction Follows
Gang Fighting
WICHITA FALLS, Texas, 1®—
Acting Sheppard Air Force Base
Commander Col. George Henry
Wednesday told chamber of com
merce officials the Air Force will
not lift its 9 p.m. curfew until it is
certain the danger of gang fights
between airmen and civilian teen
agers is passed.
At a meeting of city leaders and
Air Force authorities, the military
claimed the police department is
undermanned and “not capable of
coping with” civilian-airman ten
sion, and said .airmen had been
falsely arrested and abused.
Police Chief C. C. (Bud) Dan
iels, after the meeting, pledged
full cooperation and said Wichita
Falls has a far smaller problem
than many other cities with near
by air bases.
Chamber of Commerce Presi
dent Jerry Vinson commented:
“we are not wasting an hour on
this problem.” He said he hopes
“concrete developments” will be
ready by tomorrow or Monday
'which will cause the lifting of the 1
curfew.
The curfew was imposed Mon
day after a weekend in which
there were several gang fights.
After police and military broke
up two major engagements, scat
tered battles occurred in the city
until the early morning hours
Monday.
60 ESCAPE INJURY IN
AIRLINER ACCIDENT
WASHINGTON, W—Sixty per
sons escaped injury yesterday
when an Eastern Airlines Constel
lation skidded several hundred
feet after its right wheel collapsed
on landing at National Airport.
An airline spokesman said that
many of the 55 passengers were
shaken, but that none apparently
was hurt. One of the passengers
was Rep. Keating CR-NY). The
plane carried a crew of five.
It’s easier to laugh at mis
fortune when it misses you.
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> HOLLYWOOD, Oft—Suzan Ball,
a resolute young actress who
came back to a film career and
marriage after losing her right
leg to cancer, is waging a fresh
battle against the disease today.
The City of Hope Medical Cen
ter at nearby Duarte disclosed the
pretty brunette, 21, has been a
patient there since July 5. Her
condition is serious.
Little more than two years ago
Suzan fell on a dance floor. She
had just been signed to a movie
contract. Nobody thought the in
jury would keep her from work
for long. But she had trouble with
her leg, and doctors now think she
aggravated a dormant condition.
The following November she
fell again, in the kitchen of her
home. This time the injury to the
leg did not respond to treatment.
A bone graft was tried, but with
out positive result.
Suzan learned soon afterward
she would probably lose the leg.
But she never lost her courage.
In 1953 she and actor Richard
Long became engaged. Suzan’s
ailment, however, interrupted her
marriage plans as well as her
career. On Jan. 13, 1954, her right
leg was removed.
She bounced back to seeming
health—in a few weeks she was
planning her marriage again, and
the resumption of her film work.
In a few more weeks she was
learning to walk with an artificial
leg.
The postponed wedding took
place in Santa Barbara April 12,
1954. And Suzan walked up the
aisle, just as she had said she
would.
“I’m going to show the world I
can walk,” she announced during
rehearsals for a TV play in which
her husband also appeared. Dur
ing much of the action she was
shown in a wheelchair. But at the
play’s end she walked.
33 Sought Following
Sinking of Boat in Storm
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, (£)—Fish
ing vessels searched the storm
whipped waters of the Gulf of
Campeche yesterday for 33 per
sons missing following the sinking
of a crowded small passengerboat.
The 145-ton La Flecha* sank
Tuesday night 40 minutes after
sailing from Vera Cruz, but the
disaster did not become known
until Wednesday morning when
fishing boats picked up 31 survi
vors. They also recovered the
bodies of two children.
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Airman Sues
Lt. Colonel for
Slandering Him
OKLAHOMA CITY, un—A Tink
er Air Force Base airman, who
said a lieutenant colonel slandered
him, has filed a $30,000 suit in
federal district court here.
A/WC John F. Crogman claimed
in his suit that Lt. Col. Walter
Callahan damaged his reputation
by calling him lazy before another
airman, Miles Miller.
Tinker officials yesterday said
they are investigating the allega
tions but declined further com
ment on the case.
“They are up in the air over
this,” said one Air Force spokes
man. “It caught them by surprise.
They’re going through their law
books now.”
U.S. District Atty. Paul Cress
termed the airman’s slander suit
as a “novel approach,” but also
declined comment on whether the
case can be decided in federal
court.
Marion Davies Owner
Of $2 Million Hotel
HOLLYWOOD, tfV—Marion Da
vies is now a hotel owner.
The former actress announced
Wednesday she has bought the
Desert Inn in Palm Springs for
$2 million. The sellers were Earl
Coffman and George Roberson,
sons of the late Nellie Coffman,
who was known as “Mrs. Palm
Springs.”
Miss Davies, who said she will
be the sole owner, added: “It’ll
cost a lot more by the time we get
through with it. I plan to develop
it into a miniature Rockefeller
Center.”
There’s no better “system” than
a good nervous system.
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