Italian Drivers Win Cash Across Mexico Pan American Road Race
In Juarez Mexico two Italian stock car drivers led the windup of the second Pan American Road Race as Piero Taruffi from Rome won with a smooth finish. Tony Bettenhausen of Tinley Park Illinois set a world record on the final leg covering 1933 miles with an average speed cited.
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Juarez
Mexico
Tony Bettenhausen
Tinley Park
Piero Taruffi
Rome
Italy
Chihuahua City
Taruffi
Close Finish Highlights 1951 Juarez Stock Car Race
Taruffi and Ascari led Ferraris with Sterling in a Chrysler as Bettenhausen set a world stock car speed mark. Top 10 finishers earned 68,380 dollars total. Sterling placed third with 11,590 dollars. Race drew 50,000 fans at Lamia Airport amid high speed averages above 100 mph.
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Milan
Bill Sterling
el Paso
Taruffi
Ascari
Sterling
Scars
Juarez
Lamia
Bettenhausen
Chihuahua
Wilinois
Mexico
Raymundo Corona
Mexico City
Why You Should Learn to Forget
W E Sangster argues the value of forgetting painful memories in December Reader's Digest. The feature suggests using nature to ease mental burden and offers guidance on freeing the mind from unhelpful recollections.
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W. E. Sangster
Reader’s Digest
Nature
Boy's Tale Triggers Wet Hicksville Rescue Gone Wrong
In Hicksville New York a boy claimed a friend vanished after climbing a 50 foot ladder to a railroad tank. Police and fire units swarmed the site draining a 55 000 gallon tank and discovering three dead pigeons but no child. The boy who sparked the alarm could not be located.
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Long Island
Hicksville
Polio Scare Strikes Snowbound Hanksville Utah Town
A 14 year old Erval Ek ker Hank sville resident died en route to Salt Lake City amid polio fears after several children fell ill. With no local physicians and roads blocked by snow, the state health department and Civil Air Patrol sent doctors, nurses, and polio equipment by air. The diagnosis showed one suspected case of tonsillitis and several stomach aches.
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Hanksville
Utah
Erval Robinson
Lawrence Ekker
Salt Lake City
Springville
Eikers
State Health Department
Civil Air Patrol
Utah Air National Guard
Driver Finds 3 In Family Dead
In Toledo Ohio a 20 year old ambulance driver Robert Twining found his father Med Twining 45 his sister Barbara 18 and his grandfather Vern McLaughlin dead in a two car crash near Maumee Ohio Also killed were Howard Schumacher 43 of Dearborn Michigan and his son Paul 10 The family had been aiding a move to Petersburg Michigan at a rural intersection where two Michigan state troopers had just left after monitoring stop signs.
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Toledo
Ohio
Robert Twining
Michigan
Med Twining
Maumee
Barbara
Vern McLaughlin
Howard Schumacher
Dearborn
Mich
Paul
Twining
Petersburg
Michigan State
Worshippers Saved From Asphyxiation In Walnut Ridge
In Walnut Ridge Arkansas on Sunday morning carbon monoxide fumes from a new heater filled a church. Pastor Rev R E Jones fainted and urged doors to open. About 30 people suffered mild sickness with 13 year old Catherine Downing hospitalized but expected to recover.
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Walnut Ridge
Ark
R. E. Jones
Old Baptist Chiuren
Ralph Joseph
Catherine Downing
Joseph
West Point to unveil Lee portrait at ceremony
West Point, N Y November 26 A portrait of Gen Robert E Lee will be unveiled January 19 at the United States Military Academy as a companion to a painting of Gen Ulysses S Grant The unveiling coincides with Lee birthday and the 100th anniversary of his becoming West Point superintendent J Sidney E Dickinson painted the three quarter length portrait marking the sesquicentennial celebration.
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West Point
N. Y
Robert E. Lee
United States Military Academy
Scouts Pass Blizzard Test
Three Salt Lake City Boy Scouts Ray Sorensen Roger Wilson and Sheldon Giles aged 15 were rescued after spending a night in a shelter during a blizzard on Big Mountain along the old Mormon trail. Scoutmaster Laurie Pierson led the rescue party after the group became stranded near halfway across the 20 mile hike. Giles said he would undertake another mountain hike around the Fourth of July.
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Salt Lake City
Ray Sorensen
Roger Wilson
Sheldon Giles
Big Mountain
Laurie Pierson
Pierson
Giles
Western Germany Inland Fleet Tonnage Drops From Prewar Levels
Despite a10 per cent rise last year the 5000 craft of Western Germanys inland water transport fleet total two thirds of the prewar tonnage.
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Western
Germany
Boy, 10, Fails In Holdup Try
In Portland Oregon a 10 year old attempted a store hold up using a loaded 88 caliber revolver. He wore a red handkerchief over his face. Employee John E. Meyers wrestled the gun away as the boy and an 11 year old companion planned the crime. The youth said radios made it seem easy. He was held for trial in juvenile court.
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Portland
Ore
John E. Meyers
Marine General Harry Liversedge Dies at 75
Brig. Gen. Harry B. Liversedge, 75, commander of the 28th Marine Regiment famed for the Iwo Jima flag raising, died today at the Navy Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland.
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Washington
Harry B. Liversedge
28Th
Marine Regiment
Iwo Jima
Navy
C D Cottle Opens Drive-Inn Pharmacy in Amarillo
C D Cottle introduces Drive-Inn Pharmacy at 700 South Georgia, promising prompt courteous service and ample parking. Plan is to operate 24 hours a day for emergencies. Cottle, OU School of Pharmacy graduate, joins previous Amarillo downtown drug store association.
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