Four Alarm Fire Damages AMC Complex In Toledo
A four alarm blaze at the American Motors Corp complex in Toledo caused at least 1 million dollars in damage to two warehouses. Fire officials reported about six hours to control the fire with 150 firefighters and 30 pieces of equipment. Five firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion. The affected buildings were adjacent to the Jeep assembly line and housed tires, paper products, and AMC operations.
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Toledo, Ohio
American Motors Corp
William O'Connor
American Motors
Mead Container Division
Mead Corp
AMC
Jeep
Burglary Foiled At Bel-Air Mansion
Conrad Hilton and family slept upstairs as a gunman entered through a first floor window early Monday. Three servants alerted by a silent alarm faced the intruder who fled when a security guard fired. Police describe the suspect as a man in his 30s wearing dark pants and a knit cap, leaving a blood trail in the yard. Hilton called it the first such incident in his years at the estate.
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Los Angeles
Conrad Hilton
Bel-Air
Hilton
Weissmuller Says He Feels Fine Amid Stroke Recovery
Johnny Weissmuller, 73, famed Olympic swimmer and Tarzan actor, is off a respirator at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys and feeling fine after a stroke. His agent, John Fisher, said Weissmuller was awake this morning and improving. He won five Olympic golds in 1924 and 1928 and held 67 world records before film career begun in 1931.
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Los Angeles
Johnny Weismuller
Weissmuller
Tarzan
Valley Presbyterian Hospital
van Nuys
John Fisher
Caesars Palace
la Vegas
City School Board and AEA Reach One-Year Pact
Athens Education Association and the City School Board settled on a one-year contract retroactive to Thursday as classes resume. The deal includes a new salary agreement and fringe changes and affects 208 Athens teachers amid funding changes under the Equal Yield formula.
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Athens Education Association
Eugene Brundige
AEA
Brundige
Athens
Prather Won't Be Rehired in Albany Patrolman Position
Ralph Prather will not be rehired as Albany patrolman after a Village Council meeting. Mayor Troy Hyatt said he will not reinstate him despite county officials asking for reconsideration. Prather, under the CETA program, was suspended and transferred to maintenance after missing compulsory work. He plans to appeal to the Manpower Administration while resigning from the County Home farm job.
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Ralph Prather
Albany
Troy Hyatt
Prather
Hyatt
Manpower Administration
Car Rolls injuring two drivers in Athens incidents
Two women were hospitalized after separate city crashes Monday. Betty Arnold, 43, of Athens Route 5, rolled her car on Longview Heights Road and was out of the vehicle when firefighters arrived. Susan Lawrence, 20, of Beechwood Estates, broke her arm when her motorcycle struck the curb on Carriage Hill Drive.
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O’bleness Memorial Hospital
Betty Arnold
Athens
Susan Lawrence
Beechwood Estates
Carriage Hill Drive
Hamden Area Woman Hurt In Crash
A Hamden area woman suffered cuts when the car she rode in was struck on Route 93 at the Route 683 intersection in Vinton County Saturday. Theresa Hickman, 21, was treated at Ross County Medical Center in Chillicothe. she was in a car driven by Mark Hickman, 20, who had stopped in traffic at 2 20 p m. The Hickman car was hit from behind by a car driven by Vernon Vanover, 71, of McArthur.
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Hamden
Vinton County
Theresa Hickman
Ross County Medical Center
Chillicothe
State Highway Patrol
Mark Hickman
Hickman
Vernon Vanover
West Virginia Wildcat Coal Strike Ends After Long Tie Up
The summer wildcat coal strike affecting up to 85,000 miners in five states ended with most workers returning to duty. West Virginia, a major producer, was about 20 million tons behind normal output. Talks over health benefit costs remained unresolved.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia Coal Association
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
The
Coal Association
Cecil Roberts
District 17
UMW Health and Retirement
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