Rescue of Six U S Servicemen After Plane Ditching Off Amalfi Coast
Six American servicemen were rescued in good condition after their twin engine C117 Dakota ditched in a thunderstorm off the Amalfi coast. They were found in a life raft by the Italian vessel Partenope and transferred to the U S destroyer Barton for return to Naples.
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Summers Bright Reading With Children's Heritage Records
Austin Daily Herald offers new volumes IV, V, VI of the Children’s Heritage Records for children’s summer reading. Each 40 minute narration by Margie Bell comes with a storybook for read along, aiding reading skills. Endorsed by educators and used in schools and camps, volumes include classic tales and sing alongs like Hansel and Gretel and Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
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Hansel and
Gretel
Peter and the Wolf
MacDonald
Grethel
Peter Potter
Bride and groom wed in all black attire
Helen Barclay, 22, a schoolteacher, and engineer Stephen Fitzpatrick married at St. Robert's Anglican church in Harrogate. The couple wore only black to emphasize equality, with no bridesmaids and no one giving the bride away. They left for France and Italy, calling the trip a holiday rather than a honeymoon.
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Stephen Fitzpatrick
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France
Italy
Bridges Planned to Speed Duluth Gilber t County Road Work
Marshall pledges rapid highway construction in St Louis County with two Duluth bridges and a Gilbert span. He aims to hire 40 appraisers to aid land acquisitions, though civil service delays may push hiring by about a month.
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N D Man Dies Following Dive
Leo Meyer, 45, longtime city water plant employee and weather observer in Wahpeton North Dakota, died Friday night from injuries in a diving accident at Otter Tail Lake. He was hospitalized with a broken neck and partially paralyzed. Meyer, on vacation, struck his head diving into shallow water near Otter Walk Inn Resort on the lake’s north shore. He left six children aged from 18 months to 15 years.
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Gear Shift Removed From Neck After Kapuskasing Crash
Ronald Bisson of Kapuskasing arrived at Sensenbrenner Hospital with a nine inch gear shift shaft piercing his neck. An emergency operation removed the shaft, he recovered off the critical list and rested. Doctors said the shaft narrowly missed neck arteries. Bisson, 29, was in a car crash Tuesday night. His wife, a hospital nurse, noted his voice is hoarse.
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Paul Hahn dies former tobacco executive at 68
Paul M. Hahn 68 former president and chief executive officer of the American Tobacco Co died in a New York hospital Friday night He became president and chief executive officer in 1950 and retired March 31.
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Taft Helps Open 1910 Baseball Season
President William Howard Taft became the first U S president to throw the ceremonial first pitch to start the Washington club’s season in 1910 marking a historic moment in national sports and politics.
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Washington Club
Youth questioned in slaying of Rev. Francis J. McShane
An 18-year-old from Middletown was picked up in Yonkers as a person of interest after driving the priest's red and white 1958 station wagon from Manhattan to Yonkers. Police say the priest was stabbed twice in the chest and once in the back and that a set of steak knives linked to the murder was found in the car. The youth, not yet charged, confessed nothing and provided information on the vehicle's location and origins.
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Air Force Jet Crashes Near Farm Killing Pilot
An Air Force F86 Sabre jet piloted by Captain James M. Keel Jr. crashed near a farm 75 miles northeast of Ottawa. Keel, 31, of Fairborn Ohio, stationed in Canada under a mutual exchange, died. His parents reside in Birmingham Alabama.
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Ala
Borghese Prince Rodolfo Dies in Rome at 83
Prince Rodolfo Borghese, 83, a member of the famed Roman noble family linked to Pope Paul V, died Friday after a long illness. The Borghese line traces to Siena, and its members include Pope Paul VI Camillo Borghese who led from 1605 to 1621 and contributed to St. Peter's Basilica facade.
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Rodolfo Borghese
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Siena
Paul VI
Camillo Borghese
St. Peter's Basilica
Massachusetts Leads Nation With 1852 Compulsory Education Law
Massachusetts becomes first state to enact compulsory education in 1852, setting a national standard. The law established mandatory schooling for children, shaping public education policy and stoking debates over schooling access.
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