Nat King Cole Dies of Cancer at 45 in California
Singer Nat King Cole died in Santa Monica at age 45 after surgery for a cancerous lung tumor. He had been hospitalized since December for a respiratory ailment and had canceled a Las Vegas engagement and LA Music Center appearance. Survivors include widow Maria and children Carol Natalie Casey Timolin and Nat Kelly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nat King Cole
Santa Monica
Calif
Nat (King) Cole
Cole
St. John’s Hospital
Sands Hotel
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
New Music Center
Frank Sinatra
Maria
Carol
Natalie
Casey
Timolin
Nat Kelly
Family Doctor for Congress Sees Lawmakers Need Health Advice
Dr George W Calver longtime family doctor for Congress, 77, suggests lawmakers should eat less, exercise more, and take life easier at his Washington home. The article recalls Nat King Cole’s rise from Long Beach through Swingsters to Capitol Records success and his marriage to Maria Ellington in Harlem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Calver
Congress
Washington
Calver
Cole
Long Beach
Calif
California
Ivories
King Cole
Nat (King) Cole
Capitol Records
Liberty Records
Capitol
Pretty Maria Ellington
Duke Ellington
Harlem
Nature Boy
Inhalers Restricted to Prescription Use by FDA
The FDA restricted methamphetamine inhalers to prescription only due to widespread abuse where users extract the active ingredient for amphetamine-like effects. The policy, effective Feb. 10, follows a 1959 statement that placed similar inhalers on the prescription list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Federal Register
Train derails in Mapleton North Dakota with peroxide blast
Forty four freight cars derailed near Mapleton and a car carrying peroxide exploded. Windows shattered in the depot and local stores, several school children reportedly burned but not seriously hurt. The double track mainline is out indefinitely. trains rerouted via Lisbon and Lamoure. Engineer cites burned journal as cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mapleton
N.D
Northern Pacific
Fargo
North Dakota
St. Paul
Jamestown
Ports Tied Up by Local Dock Strikes Resume Talks
Galveston and Miami host resumed negotiations after a presidential panel failed to settle the dock strike at South Atlantic and western Gulf ports. ILA officials, shippers, and Labor Department aides discuss galveston and miami issues including gang size and contract preambles as about 80 percent of East and Gulf Coast dock workers return to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston, Tex
Galveston
Miami
South Atlantic
Western Gulf
New York
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Galveston-Houston
Hampton Roads
International Longshoremen Association
Ralph A. Massey
ILA
Gulf Coast District
James J. Reynolds
Washington
Judge Henderson
David Stowe
Labor Department
David A. Watts
Jacksonville
Watts
North Carolina
Florida
Hampton Roads Maritime Association
Maritime Association
Massey
Thomas W. Gleason
Gleason
East Coast
Indonesia Takes Over U S Cultural Center In Jakarta
Indonesian government temporarily seized the American cultural center after anti American protests linked to U S air strikes on North Vietnam. Paul Neilson said the center would be returned in a few days as police kept a heavy guard outside the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jakarta
Indonesia
American Cultural Center
U.S. Information Agency
Paul Neilson
USIA
U.S
Viet Nam
Congo
Surabaya
King and Clark to Lead Marches from Sickbeds
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Sheriff James G. Clark plan to leave sick beds to lead opposing sides in Selma Alabama as Negro leaders with a parade permit call for at least 1,000 to march on the Dallas County courthouse. King will join the march from Atlanta to Selma with Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth at the head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark
King
Selma, Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
James G. Clark
Dallas
Atlanta
Selma
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Shuttlesworth
Postmaster Gronowksi Nominated to Keep Job
Washington reports President Johnson nominated John A. Gronowski to continue as Postmaster General. In Stanford California Lucille A. Allen resigned as Dean of Women after requesting terminal leave, effective immediately amid a controversy linked to a campus report on classroom morality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John A. Gronouski
Johnson
White House
Stanford
Calif
Stanford University
Lucille A. Allen
Stanford Daily Paper
Anti American protests hit U S legation in Sofia
Several hundred students smashed windows of the U S legation in Sofia Bulgaria amid anti American demonstrations linked to air strikes on North Vietnam. A legation spokesman said police arrived late after officials warned the Foreign Ministry 40 minutes earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Austria
U. S
Legation
Sofia
Bulgaria
Europe
Viet Nam
Foreign Ministry
West Germany Risks Cut in Egypt Aid Over Ulbricht Cairo Visit
Bonn moves to suspend arms supplies as East German president Ulbricht set to visit Cairo amid UAR pressure. Israel rejects Bonn's compensatory aid offer while Prime Minister Eshkol accuses Berlin of yielding to Arab blackmail. Nasser invites Ulbricht and Cairo triggers a strained triadic dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Egypt
Cairo
Walter Ulbricht
Israel
U.A.R
Levi Eshkol
Jerusalem
Ludwig Erhard
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Ulbricht
East Germany
Traffic Deaths State Today Record
A brief note reports Iowa traffic deaths today at 78, compared with 84 a year ago, highlighting a drop in fatalities but offering no further context or details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Reporter saves boy on ice flow
Richard McElveen 11 of North Kingstown drifted toward shore on an ice floe when Holden a former Navy frogman swam 75 yards through frigid Mill Cove waters to reach and rescue the boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard McElveen
North Kingstown
Holden
Navy
Mill Cove
Edwin Holden
The
Providence, R. I. Journal - Bulletin
Union President Vote May Lead to Court Fight
USW members voted for a union president as recounts raise disputes over vote integrity. Judge Beamer ordered 8000 Gary Local 1014 votes impounded amid allegations of irregularities while I W Abel leads McDonald by about 7000 in unofficial AP tallies. Official results rest with international tellers and potential appeals under the Landrum-Griffin Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
Hammond
Ind
U.S. Dist
George N. Beamer
U.S
USW
Gary
Beamer
Max Cohen
David J. McDonald
McDonald
I. W. Abel
Associated Press
Abel
Unon
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Landrum-Griffin
Secretary of Labor
SAC Closes British Air Bases After 14 Years
The Strategic Air Command will end operations in Britain on April 1, moving remaining B47 bombers to West Germany or the U S For bases Brize Norton will transfer to the Royal Air Force and Upper Heyford will remain a U S transit base The move is part of a McNamara economy program with 15 overseas bases slated for closure It also affects bases in Portsmouth and the Brooklyn Navy Yard and other U S SAC sites
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
USS
Strategic Air Command
Britain
Air Force
SAC
West Germany
United States
Brize Norton
Royal Air Force
Transport Command
Upper Heyford
U.S. Air Force
Robert §. McNamara
Portsmouth
Brooklyn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carla Gravina
Gian Maria Volonte
Rome
Volonte
Alabama
Nathaniel Adams Coles
Chicago
First Baptist Church
Nat
Nat ‘King’ Cole
Oscar Moore
Wesley Prince
Swanee Inn
Fargo and Southwestern
Lisbon
Lamoure
R.S. Fogel
Dilworth
Minn
Jack Zelinski
Mark Derng
U.S. Center
Gronouski
Castro
Havana
Fidel Castro
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
Cuba
Agrarian Reform Institute
Birmingham
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sheriff Clark
Dallas County Board of Registrars
Becky Kruger
Marvin Kruger
1St Ave. SE
Austin
AHS
Tequilla
Area News
Eshkol
Great Britain
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!