Word: collison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the posse waited and the city barricaded doors, word was flashed that Starkweather had struck again, 500 miles away. A dozen miles outside Douglas, Wyo. (pop. 2,500), he was ready to change cars again, sighted a new Buick parked beside Highway 87. Shoe Salesman Merle Collison, 37, had pulled off the road to sleep. Caril got into the back seat of Collison's car; Starkweather yanked open the driver's door and shot Collison nine times. Before he could drive off, another car pulled up. Geologist Joe Sprinkle, 40, thought there was an accident, stopped...
...largest endowment gift was $62,000 from the estate of Dora L. Collison for research in cerebral thrombosis anemia, and epilepsy $150,000 represented the annual Carnegie gift for the maintenance of the Russian Research Center...