Two Miners Emerge From Two-Week Shaft Ordeal
In a dramatic rescue at Sheppton Pennsylvania two miners Throne and Fellin were lifted to the surface after a 14 day entrapment. They rode a parachute type harness through a 18 mile shaft and reached hospital amid cheers. a third miner Louis Bova remained trapped 18 feet below with hopes still alive.
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UPI
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Hertetan State General Hospital
Louis Bova
Boy Donald Griffin Found Dead After Five Day Search
Fresno County coroner said four year old Donald Roger Griffin of Buena Park likely died from exposure after wandering from his trailer near Oe lake. A five day search involving Boy Scouts sheriffs officers forest rangers and volunteers found the body near Potter Pass five miles northeast of Huntington Lake.
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Donald Roger Griffin
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Wie Child
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Huntington Lake
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Clearwater Lake
A. L. Collins
Sheviff
Forest Rangers
Marchers Face Uncertain Fate Ahead of Job March
Washington confronts a threatened railroad strike shadowing a major march for jobs and freedom. Officials estimate up to 20 trains and 20,000 passengers could flood Union Station, while sponsors expect 100,000 marchers. Rail decisions loom as strike timing remains unresolved.
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Howard
Covell
Luvy
Union Station
Merch
Truman Split Over Test Ban Treaty Draws Mixed Support
Former President Eisenhower offered qualified backing to the limited nuclear test ban treaty while Harry S Truman voiced strong, outspoken support. The Stark disagreement highlights a sharp debate within postwar U.S. leadership on strategic arms limits.
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Dwight D. Eisen
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Harry S. ‘Truman
Lodge Diem crisis talks mark cordial first meeting
In Saigon US Ambassador Lodge met President Diem with the Vietnamese army in control. A 12 minute ceremony saw Diem accept credentials while questions on crisis talks and a note from Kennedy circulated. Separate reports note Mau’s resignation and pending Senate ratification debates on a nuclear pact.
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White House
Kennedy
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Magazine denies Robin Hood hero status in harsh critique
London report states the British magazine Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review calls Robin Hood a hoodlum if alive today would be jailed. Maid Marian is cast as unprovenly virtuous while Friar Tuck faces a churchman’s rebuke. It links a Nottingham Robin Hood festival to promoting anti social ideals and warns against outlaw hero worship influencing youth.
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Robin Hood
Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review
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Maid Marian
Nottingham
Greenword
Marian
Friar Tuck
Wives watch quiet rescue of trapped miners at Hazleton
In Hazleton Pennsylvania the wives of three trapped miners kept vigil from a edge of the deep hole as drills progressed inch by inch to enlarge the escape shaft. Mrs David Fellin Mrs Henry Throne and Mrs Louis Bova wore shawls amid freezing temps while Mrs Fellin clutched a Lourdes blessed statue. The women remained largely silent until their husbands were brought to the surface and sobbed.
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David Fells
Henry Throne
Fellin
Bova
Rova
Boy Scout Dies After Cliff Fall At Sierra Buttes
Fourteen year old Boy Scout from Yuba City, Avid Stead, plunged from a sheer cliff during a Sierra County trek with Joseph Jackson and Douglas Jones. He fell 75 feet, cartwheeled 30 more, and was found at dawn after a rock slide halted the ascent. Police pursued suspects linked to a separate case, with four women and two men held as material witnesses in bail hearings.
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Sierra County
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Weisner
Avid Stead
Yuba City
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Joseph ¥. Jackson
Douglas Jones
Iyuba City
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Sanday
Sierra Buttes
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Stead
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Rabbit Tarantino
Frank Falco
Falco
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Anthony Cassarino
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Paterson
Pat Miles Falco
Sally Vander Fleet
Rutherford
Tatricid MacPhail
Allendale
Cassarina
Volo
Tedesca
Nurn
Inglewood Father Kills Son Then Takes Life
Francis Stelmack, 46, an aircraft worker, killed his 1-year-old son Michael and himself in their apartment late Sunday night. A note stated he would not have his sweet boy in a cruel world. Police, alerted by a threatened murder death, broke in as shots ended the life of both.
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Francis Stelmack
Michael
Steimack
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Stelmach
John Welsh
Stelmack
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