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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1958
Page
16
Ralph B. Wells presides at a YMCA service with Chaplain Charles Fiston giving the prayer and David E. Sibley reading scripture. Thomas M. Pes leads singing and Wallace Hurd Jr. is a baritone soloist while Prof. Herbert A. Strout plays the organ.
A switch engine pulling nine cars ran wild seven miles through two port cities and sank in Lake Michigan near Two Rivers. FBI joined the probe to determine theft or mechanical failure while divers searched the wreckage and salvage plans estimated the engine at 200000 dollars. Police and railroad officials weighed whether the crew abandoned the controls prior to the plunge. U.S. soybean exports in fiscal 1957 reached 77 million bushels valued at 196 million dollars, making up 17 percent of the U.S. crop and 80 percent of world trade.
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