Oklahoma high school blast injures 45 students
An explosion in a one story school wing in Allen Oklahoma injured 45 students and two staff members. Superintendent J N McKeel admitted causing the blast while attempting to check a gas leak with a match. Twenty students remained in hospital, three in very serious condition. Desks struck the ceiling. windows shattered. walls partially collapsed.
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ALLEN
Okla
J. N. McKeel
hewsmen
Freeman Pickle
McKeel
Charlies Rhoades
Ada News
Dale Plunk
National Guard
Ada
Alien
Oklahoma
Bill Robert
Donaldson
Robert
Patty Whitehead
Weather Summary Bridgeport and New York City
Official weather data shows fair cooler conditions for Bridgeport and vicinity with highs 50 to 55 and a cold night. New York City mirrors Bridgeport with similar forecast. recent values include yesterday’s high and low, 51 and 33 respectively, plus precipitation at 0.00 for yesterday and 4.3 for the month. Tide times list high and low windows, Almanac notes mark November 8 as the 313th day of the year with sunrise 6:34 am and sunset 4:40 pm.
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U. & Weather Bove
BRIDGEPORT
NEW YORK CITY
Four Sergeants Promoted to Lieutenants in Milford
The Milford Police Board promoted four sergeants to the rank of lieutenant and planned to appoint 12 additional patrolmen from an eligibility list. The move raises department strength to 360, the largest in city history, to fill vacancies and patrol the new thruway. New lieutenants were Ka led a Blowers Kelly and McCone. the oath was given by James Tait.
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Board of Police Commissioners
John A. Lyddy
James Tait
Civil Service commission
police board
City court room
George Kaleda
Roslyn Blowers
George Y. Kelly
Robert McCone
Lyddy
Tait
Met Opens 70th Season With Glamour and Innovations
New York, Nov 8 AP The Metropolitan Opera opened its 70th season with excerpts from four operas and a starry first night crowd in fur wraps and gowns. A Scottish clad man, a masked woman with feathered headdress, and a turbaned bearded man portrayed an Indian prince. The night featured a large cast and a new TV closed circuit car innovation.
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NEW YORK
Metropolitan Opera
Met
tleman
Shooting Victim Identified as Mrs Margaret George of Waterbury
NEW CANAAN November 8 The body of a murdered woman found in woods was identified as Mrs Margaret Ford George 26 of Waterbury Police said they want her first husband for questioning A pick up order was issued for Stanley Zdonick 38 of Naugatuck who had dated Mrs George while employed at U S Rubber Company in Naugatuck Estranged from her second husband James Thomas George of Windsor Police found the body three miles north of the Merritt Parkway wrapped in a flannel blanket and covered with leaves The identity was confirmed by Mrs George s brother in law Michael Rosa of Waterbury The Rosa said she had not seen Mrs George since about 7 30 p m Monday when she went out with a man The police noted Zdonick met Mrs George at his Waterbury market earlier دفع
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Telegram
Taub
Michael Rosa
Waterbury
Norwalk
Fred Sullivan
Margaret Ford George
New Canaan
no.lice
Henry E. Keller
Stanley Zdonick
Naugatuck
Keller
U.S. Rubber company
Zdonick
James PO
Nelson
James Thomas George
Windsor
Route 123
Merritt parkway
Eisenhower names John Marshall Harlan to Supreme Court
President Eisenhower selected John Marshall Harlan of New York City to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Robert H. Jackson. Harlan, 55, a Republican, has served on the Circuit Court of Appeals for Vermont, Connecticut, and New York since March 4. He studied at Princeton and Oxford and earned a law degree from New York Law School.
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Eisenhower
John Marshall Harlan
New York City
U. S
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Harlan
Earl Warren
Harold Burton
Chicago
Princeton University
Oxford University
England
New York Law School
Circuit Court of Appeals
Vermont
Connecticut
New York
Jackson
Bitter wrangle marks start of McCarthy case
The Senate opened the McCarthy session in an angry uproar as he denounced a proposed censure report. Chairman Watkins and Sen Case clashed over last minute edits, amid a tense start to extra sessions to decide on censure for contempt and abusive conduct toward an Army general who testified before him.
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WASHINGTON
Joe McCarthy
Senate
Joseph R. McCarthy
Watkins
Utah
special committee
white
McCarthy
Sen. Case
R-SD
Watkins committee
Knowland
California
League approves transfer of A's to Kansas City
Philadelphia Athletics move to Kansas City after the American League approves Arnold Johnson and Chicago industrialists purchase for about 3.5 million dollars. Johnson must sell Yankees Stadium stake within 90 days. vote was 62 to approve with some owners opposing. Connie Mack family long home of the A's transfers follows century ownership.
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NEW YORK
Philadelphia Athletics
Kansas City
American League
Arnold Johnson
Chicago
Johnson
Yankee Stadium
New York Yankees
Clark Griffith
Fox
Washington Senators
Hank Greenberg
Cleveland
A's
Connie Mack
Increase Sought in City School Budget of 887700
C F Mulvihill elected president of the Board of Education at the organizational meeting. He succeeds Gustav Samuelson who was defeated for reelection. John J McGuinness Jr named vice president and Francis J King elected secretary. Anita Vogel becomes first woman on the board since 1930. Democrats hold four seats, Republicans two, Socialist one.
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Cornelius F. Mulvihill
Board of Education
Mulvihill
Gustav G. Samuelson
John J. McGuinness, Jr
Francis J. King
McGuinness
King
Anita Vogel
Underwood Idle as Union Pickets March to Strike
The first day of a full work stoppage at three Underwood plants saw 1600 workers affected after talks broke off at 12 30 am Monday. Local 267 IUE CIO conducted mass picketing from 6 45 to 8 45 am at the Broad Street plant and Bunnell and Gilbert streets branches. Two crossing the line. Police detail of 20 on duty. Company says final offer includes a pay raise of four to eight cents an hour, while union cites six broader demands. Negotiations may resume only at union request.
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Underwood corporation
IUE-CIO
Broad street
Bunnell
Gilbert streets
Charles R. Weidman
Underwood
Weidman
Friend Describes Dr Sheppard as Decent Fellow in Trial
Cleveland AP Nov 8 a state witness Donald J Ahern testifies that Dr Samuel H Sheppard was a very straightforward decent man and longtime friend. Ahern recounts the night Marilyn Sheppard 31 was beaten to death as the osteopath faces murder charges and new witnesses outline intimate affairs and alibis.
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CLEVELAND
Samuel H. Sheppard
Donald J. Ahern
Marilyn Sheppard
Mrs. Sheppard
Dr. Sheppard
Ahern
Sheppard
William J. Corrigan
Sam Sheppard
Sam
Corrigan
Nancy
Susan Hayes
Bay Village
Airman killed while hunting near Dry Hill Air Force base
Airman Dennis J. Laraque of Paterson New Jersey died after being fatally wounded while hunting at Dry Hill two miles south of Watertown New York. Bridgeport, Connecticut airman William J. Collins, age 17, was arrested for criminal negligence and held for grand jury action after an inquest was ordered by Peace Justice Herbert Winters.
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WATERTOWN
N. Y
Dennis J. Laraque
Paterson
N. J
Dry Hill
William J. Collins
Johnson street
Bridgeport
Conn
Peace Justice
Her
bert Winters
Brayton Peck
Collins
Larque
Dry Hill Air Force station
Laraque
Angue G. Saundeza
School Budget Seeks $6 Million for 1955 56 Fiscal Year
School Superintendent Joseph E. Jeffery submits a preliminary budget of 6,088,104 for 1955 56 starting April 1, up 887,700 from last year 5 2 million appropriation. Cornelius F Mulvihill new board president says finance committee will hold public hearings after Thanksgiving to gather citizen proposals.
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Board of Education
Joseph E. Jeffery
Cornelius F. Mulvihitl
Mulvihill
Jane Powell Weds Patrick Nernes in Ojai California
Actress Jane Powell married Beverly Hills automotive executive Patrick W. Nernes today at the Ojai Community Presbyterian church. A reception for 38 friends and relatives followed at the Ojai Valley Inn with Powell's father Paul Burce and the groom's parents Mr and Mrs Hamlin Nerne present.
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OJAI
Calif
Jane Powell
Patrick W. Nernes
Beverly Hills
W. W. Gearehart
Ojai Community Presbyterian church
Ojai Valley Inn
Miss Powell
Paul Burce
Hamlin Nerney
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