Fires Take 17 Lives In Five Separate US Cities
Fires swept five cities killing 17 people, including 14 children and two mothers, as blazes struck Chicago Hartford City Baltimore Poteet and New York City. In Chicago a mother and four children perished in a basement apartment during subzero cold. In Baltimore two children died in a 16 degree night blaze. In Poteet four children perished when a kerosene lamp explosion spread flames. In New York City a young woman died in a lower East Side apartment. Police investigated the causes across the incidents.
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Chicago
Hartford City
Ind
Baltimore
Poteet
Tex
New York City
Lower East Side
Albert Coleman
Coleman
Esca
Myrtle Brown
Kenneth Brown
Texas
San Antonio
Antonio Garcia
Garcia
George A. Poe
Poe
Terresa
Clayton
Jean Davis
Garage Tow Truck Hauls B M Train in Icy Rescue
In Laconia New Hampshire a garage tow truck pulled a passenger train stuck on a side track. The diesel single car train was frozen to the rails and railroad men could not move it until a chain attached to the train allowed the tow truck to free it for its scheduled trip to Boston.
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Laconia
N. H
Boston and Maine
Boston
Airman Dies After Portsmouth Crash And Fire
A 22 year old Trenton New Jersey airman died of burns suffered when his car crashed into a bridge abutment near Portsmouth. Daniel A Yaklevich died at Portsmouth Naval Hospital after a gasoline tank exploded. Airman Clifford Borgman 19 of Nicolaus California survived with head injuries. Both belonged to the 100th Field Maintenance Sq at Pease Air Force Base.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Trenton
N. J
Daniel A. Yaklevich
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Clifford Borgman
Nicolaus
Calif
Borgman
Arctic Cold Grips Large swathes from Florida to Midwest
An Arctic blast delivering subzero temperatures blanketed much of the nation. Readings fell to 24 below in Joliet Illinois and 23 below in International Falls Minnesota. Other lows included Tallahassee 26 and Atlanta 21. Chicago logged minus 11 at O Hare with subzero in surrounding suburbs. The deep freeze extended from the Carolinas to western Florida and northern Texas and Louisiana, with snow flurries in the Ohio Valley and Tennessee.
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Joliet
International Falls
Minn
Florida
Gulf Coast
Texas
Louisiana
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Georgia
Carolinas
Mississippi
Alabama
Tallahassee
Fla
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Tampa
Mobile
Ala
Miami
Midwest
Dakotas
Upper Great Lakes
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Chicago
O'Hare International
Grantsburg
Wis
Bradford
Mason City
Albany
N. Y
Harrisburg
Lansing
Mich
Detroit
Car Crash Hero Carried Wife Through Flames
A husband named Fromm carried his wife to safety through a blaze after a crash. The couple was in a car that burned, but the husband is expected to survive while the wife remains in critical condition.
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Fromm
Russia Moves Toward Automation in Soviet Industry
A Baltimore AP report says a 350 page panel study by mathematicians, organized by the Martin Co Research Institute, finds the Soviet Union may rapidly accelerate technological progress through an all out program in automatic control. It notes Soviet math strengths and predicts faster application of theories.
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Baltimore
Soviet Union
Tony
U.S.S.R
Research Institute For Advance Studies
The
Martin Co
Joseph LaSalle
United States
Saud Plan to Challenge Nasser for Arab World Leader
Saudi Arabia aims to counter Nasser by broadcasting from Mecca and funding a new Islamic university in Medina. Foreign Minister Ibrahim al Suwail said the king will promote Saudi influence to counter Cairo radio and Al Azhar University as sources of leadership in the Arab world.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Sheik Ibrahim al Suwail
Saud
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Suwail
Iraq Times
Mecca
Medina
Nassar
Cairo Radio Song
al Azhar University
U.A.R
Holiday Post Office Hours Announced in Biddeford Saco
Post offices in Biddeford and Saco publish Christmas weekend hours and services. Both offices close tomorrow at 5 pm, with regular Sunday schedule for Christmas day and Sunday morning delivery of late parcels. Monday dispatch by 5:50 pm. lobby hours 6:30 am to 6 pm in Biddeford and 6:30 am to 6:30 pm in Saco. no window service. only special Christmas delivery and perishables to be delivered in both cities.
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Biddeford
Saco
Reactivation of Asian Truce Team Proposed
The Soviet Union urged Britain to convene the Geneva control commission on Indochina to address Laos. Moscow broadcast the note after Foreign Ministry delivery to the British ambassador. Lord Home said Sir Frank Roberts would press the Soviet Union on Nehru's idea to reconvene the international body.
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London
Soviet Union
Britain
Geneva Control Commission
Indochina
Laos
Moscow
Foreign Ministry
Foreign Office
Frank Roberts
Viet Nam
House of Lords
Lord Home
Sir Frank
Nehru
India
International Commission
Geneva
Doris Day Named Woman of the Year in Hollywood
Doris Day, formerly Dodo Kappelhoff of Cincinnati, Ohio, is hailed as Hollywood’s Woman of the Year. After twelve years in film she tops box office lists and earned an Academy Award nomination for Pillow Talk in 1959.
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Hollywood
Doris Day
Dodo Kappelhoff
Cincinnati
Ohio
Beverly Hills
Marty Melcher
Terry
Christmas TV Highlights Spread Across Networks
Holiday themed television dominates the Christmas to New Year period with NBC airings of Twas the Night Before featuring Maureen O Hara Rise Stevens and John Raitt. CBS presents Twilight Zone with Art Carney as a sad Santa and other specials including Christmas USA and Christmas Startime. NBC Dinah Shore expands the Christmas Morning theme. CBS Reports covers The Great Holiday Massacre. NBC Terror thriller The Cheaters follows After Hours with Plummer and Howes. CBS Steel Hour features Operation Northstar with Sullivan and Freeman. Victory at Sea condensed on CBS and Murrow Years of Crisis roundtable compete for air time.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
NBC
Telephone Hour
Maureen O’hara
Rise Stevens
John Raitt
CBS
Art Carney
U S. A
Leonard Bernstein
Marian Anderson
Dinah Shore
Christopher Plummer
Sally Ann Howes
Operation Northstar
CBS Steel Hour
Bar ‘Ry Sullivan
Mona Freeman
Richard Rodglers
Edward R. Murrow
Gromyko urges UN reform and disarmament summit
Gromyko presses for a spring United Nations General Assembly session on disarmament and attacks Western powers as opponents of disarmament and its control. He says neutrals back speedy complete disarmament, repeats claims that Hammarskjold and Congo actions aid colonialists, and calls for reorganizing UN bodies into a Communist-Western-neutralist triumvirate.
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U.N. General Assembly
Gromyko
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Congo
United Nations
Hammarskjold
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