Fiery Nebraska crash kills ten teens and adults
Ten people died in a two car collision west of Waterbury Nebraska including six teenagers returning from a church party. A Springfield Illinois car caught fire and was pulled away from the Nebraska vehicle by trucker Henry Waltman. the crash near the Highway 20 and Highway 9 junction left five Nebraska youths identified as Terry Book Gary Stark Robert Rakow Roland Noble Rodney Manks and Richard Rahn among the dead.
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Nebraska
Terry Book
Gary Stark
Robert Rakow
Roland Noble
Rodney Manks
Richard Rahn
Lutheran Church League
Morrill
Martinsburg
Rakow
Noble
Hanks
Ponca High School
Roland Stark
Six Die As Train Strikes Auto Near Forreston
Six persons were killed when a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad passenger train struck an auto two miles north of Forreston Illinois. Dead are Alvin Wagner 20 his wife June 20 Wayne Zettle 25 his wife Joan 21 Becky 4 and Marilyn Zettle 13. Train was moving fast though signals were functioning and visibility was good.
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Ilinois
Alvin Wagner
Wayne Zettle
Joan
Becky
Marilyn Zettle
Gordon Savage
Forgeston
Savage
W. B. Lewis
FBI Seeks 2000 Draft Dodgers in New York City
New York Selective Service officials say FBI will search the city for more than 2000 young men aged 18 to 26 who never registered or ignored orders. Many have been sought for over a year as New York’s volunteer pool falls to about 400. Beginning in January older men will be drafted.
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Inside Today Amusements Gazette Style Section
Readable parts show sections for amusements astrology comics crossword puzzle editorials columns obituary and funeral notices. Sports pages radio shows television listings and general features appear as brief items in the daily paper.
Senate Panel Urged to Kill M Carran Act
Washington Nov. 20 INS A Senate subcommittee opening hearings on the McCarran Walter Act Monday was urged to scrap the immigration law. Sen John F Kennedy urged a comprehensive revision and charged the law with the most blatant discrimination in history. Kilgore said the panel would examine policies and the act's operation with witnesses from labor religious groups and reform advocates testifying Monday and Tuesday.
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State Department
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CIO
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Walter Mason
AFL
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National Catholic Welfare Conference
Carson Blake
National Council of the Churches of Christ
Henry J. Whiting
National Lutheran Council
George Grabbe
Russia
Herbert H. Lehman
CLN
Abraham J. Feldman
The
Synagogue Council of America
Louis Bean
Bulganin Sees Hope for Cold War Breakthrough at Nehru Banquet
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin told a New Delhi banquet that the Big Four will solve Cold War problems despite Geneva's limited outcomes. He said the world longs for peaceful, collaborative relations and endorsed neutrality for India, aligning with Nehru's peace camp stance and urging broad cooperation to ease tensions.
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Russia
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Bulgaria
Nikita Khrushchev
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India
Soviet Union
Nehru
High Court May Rule On Federal Employee Security Firings
The Supreme Court may act on Monday a case challenging the government's power to fire federal workers for security reasons even in non sensitive jobs. The session also considers cases on Communist Party subversion and the Nelson sedition case, with a two week recess to hear appeals. The Cole case involves a former FDA inspector fired for alleged Reds ties.
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Fed
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New York
Food and Drug Administration
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Nature, Friends of America
McLaughlin, Agriculture Chief, Dies
James Blaine McLaughlin 71 of Big Chimney Kanawha County died yesterday in Martinsburg hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage. He served 23 years as West Virginia State Commissioner of Agriculture, the longest in the post, and was stricken in his Martinsburg hotel room while on business. Survived by widow Alma Ballengee McLaughlin daughter Margaret Eleanor a son Col James Kemp McLaughlin commander of West Virginia Air National Guard two brothers and a sister. His body to be brought to Barlow Bonsall mortuary and services set for 2 p m tomorrow at St Mark s Methodist Church burial in Spring Hill Cemetery. Flowers omitted per family request.
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King's Daughters Hospital
Panhandle
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West Virginia
Air National Guard
Almira Ballengee Mc‘Laughlin
Mar‘garet Eleanor McLaughlin
Lydia A. McMorrow
Harry
Gassaway
Grover
Burnsville
Barlow-Bonsall Mortuary
Virginia St
Alfred Bennett
Leonard Riggleman
St. Mark’s Methodist Church
Dickinson J and
Washington Sts
Spring Hill Cemetery
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Feature Opens
The Gazette launches its annual Christmas feature Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. The comic pages begin today, bringing a festive installment to readers with the well known character.
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Rudolph, the Rea Nosed Reindeer
Adlai's Talk Brushed Off At White House Briefing
President Eisenhower gave no comment on Adlai Stevenson's criticisms of domestic and foreign policy. Stevenson, speaking at a Chicago fund dinner, condemned U S foreign policy as perilous since Geneva. Eisenhower planned two days of NSC and Cabinet meetings at Camp David to discuss world conditions and farm income.
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NSC
Geneva
Christmas Definition: The holiday trimming the tree
A brief note defines Christmas as the holiday when a family trims the Christmas tree with their father present. The idea centers on family togetherness during the festive season.
Top Democrat Hopefuls Free Trial Balloons
Chicago dispatch reports several 1955 Democratic contenders balancing public neutrality with potential bids. Averell Harriman refuses active candidacy yet keeps draft openness. Harry S Truman backs a liberal progressive bid while praising Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson stresses moderation and progress in key policy areas. Lyndon B. Johnson hints at a moderate platform as Estes Kefauver contemplates a run. Paul M. Butler, DNC chair, pledges no personal attacks on Eisenhower but vows to expose administration weaknesses. He says Democrats will avoid mudslinging while highlighting government failures.
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Tennessee
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Lone Survior Rescued After Iwo Jima Globemaster Crash
A U S Air Force C124 Globemaster crashed on takeoff from Iwo Jima amid typhoon damage. Ten of eleven aboard were killed. one survivor airlifted to a Tokyo-area hospital. Names of the nine crewmen and two passengers withheld pending next of kin notification. A board of officers dispatched to Japan to investigate. Iwo Jima sits about 700 miles southeast of Tokyo. base damaged by a prior typhoon. The crash occurred at 4 p m local time. the worst Far East crash since 1953 occurred near Tokyo, killing 129 aboard a similar aircraft.
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Faction backs Burdett for governor at Clarksburg meeting
In Clarksburg on November 20 a 55 to 11 endorsement moved former State official Joe F. Burdett of Pt. Pleasant and Charleston toward the Democratic independent challenge to the Statehouse. About 75 people from 20 counties attended the three hour Stonewall Jackson Hotel session seeking a single candidate to oppose the machine.
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the Gazette
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Pt. Pleasant
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Burdett
Morocco faces rising violence as inde pendence nears
Turbulence and party clashes in French Morocco flare after Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef’s exile return. Reports tally 114 dead, including officials near the palace, amid protests and threats as mosques call for peace. In Duluth, a deadly house explosion kills three children and injures a mother, traced to a gas leak amid a fire that destroyed the home.
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Minn
Suitan
Wallace Ellefson
St. Mary's Hospital
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Douglas
Patricia
Arlette
Is that Santa's helper getting a head start on Christmas
A young boy on Washington Street points to a young man carrying a laundry bundle and asks his mother about Santa’s helper. Nearby, a group of teenage girls press noses to a barber shop window to look at pictures of candidates for a Miss America pageant.
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Misa America
Sultan's government eyed to take police powers in Morocco
Political parties urge control by the Sultan as independence talks with France loom. They instruct volunteers to be courteous to impress the French and foreigners. French officials warn a tough period balancing groups inside a new government. Without discipline, rank and file may surge into violence with knives and guns.
Adolf made like a lion in Mussolini rescue plot story
The Gazette reports Adolf Hitler’s rage when Mussolini was arrested, and suggests doubts entered his mind. It details the Fuehrer’s valet recollection of Il Duce a prisoner on an Italian mountaintop and Capt. Skorzeny’s daring rescue plotting.
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