Welcome Home Freed Flyers Arrive After Captivity
In Missoula Montana Captain Elmer F Llewellyn returns with ten fellow airmen freed from Red China after five years. Crowds gather at Missoula airport as families embrace, while others reach home in Nevada City and across the nation. A motorcade carries Llewellyn to his apartment and his wife, mother, and young son Clark await.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Knox Arnold
U.S
Red China
Travis Air Force Base
Robert Arnold
Sunnyvale
Robert
Missoula
Mont
Elmer F. Llewellyn
United States Air Force
Redto
China
Llewellyn
Travis
Air Force
Missoul
Red
Clark
Tlewellyn
Lmissoula
Missoula County
Nevada City
Caliz
Daniel C. Lehm
Schmidt
Una
Lew
John Arnold
Wallace Brown
Montgomery
Bataga
Douglas MacArthur
John Buck
Nashville
Tenn
Steve Kiba
Akron
John Thompson
Washington, D.C
Harry F. Benjamin
Sioux Falls
Howard W
Brown
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Eugene Vaudi
Clayton
N.Y
Bint Tee
California
Polio Victim's Parents Sue Cutter Lab
In Los Angeles a suit for 300000 was filed in Superior Court by Francie and Marie May of Pacific Palisades against Cutter Laboratories Berkeley over polio crippling of five year old Brian May. They allege carelessness in Salk vaccine preparation and say the boy was permanently crippled after vaccination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Ins
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Brian May
Francie
Marie May
Pacific Palisades
Niles Funds Bid Okayed for Vallejo Mills School
The State Board of Allocations approved a $192,218 grant to add nine classrooms at Vallejo Mills school this winter. To ease the shortage, the home economics room will serve as a classroom this fall, with new rooms ready by September 1956. The school opened last spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NILES
Vallejo Mills
State Board of Allocations
Formosa Aid Revealed and 1956 Campaign Spins
United States to provide 102000000 in mutual security aid to Formosa during 1955 56. Martin Wong secretary general outlines aid distribution including 37000000 for support of Adlai Stevenson and US government commodities and technical aid. Stevenson stirs White House candidacy questions as Democratic unity shapes the race.
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Taipel
United States
Formosa
Chicago
Martin Wong
Uis
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Oo Party
White House
Four Americans Die in Austria Train Crash
In two similar accidents in Austria, four Americans were killed and four injured. Mrs Frances Steinhoff, 43, and her two sons Paul 16 and James 12 died when their car was struck by a train at an unguarded crossing near Lienz in East Tyrol. John Steinhoff of Ocean View Avenue Berkeley California was hospitalized in serious condition.
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Vienna
INS
Austria
Frances. Steinholi
Nwo
Paul
Jatoes
Lieng
East Tyrol
Agence France Presse
Steinhoff
John
Ocean View Avenue
Berkeley
Calif
Lienz
Atomic radiation may threaten future generations, scientists warn
Geneva reports from the atoms-for-peace conference quote Dr. Austin M. Brues and Mrs. Liane Russell describing experiments on mice that show radiation can cause birth defects and affect embryonic development. They warn the danger may extend to humans, especially during early pregnancy, and stress uncertainty about long term hereditary effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C.' Sexton
Geneva
Noy
Austin “M Brues
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Liane
Russell
Oak Ridge
William Lawson Russell
United States
Supervisors Split Over Tax Funds For Cities Division
Alameda County supervisors remain divided over how to allocate state tax funds to cities. Boggs proposes a five year street and highway program funded from county and state subventions, but a joint city county committee would be needed to rate projects, delaying action before the 1955-56 budget. Some supervisors back the cities’ formula, while others criticize past funding practices as influenced by politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Alameda County
Wallace Visors
Nashway
Alameda
California
Oggs
Mayors’ Conference
San Leandro
Hayward
Boge
Iounty
Posey
Park and High Street
Mayers Formue
Boggs
Leand Sweeney
Emmanuel P. Razeto
Kent Bursel
Razeto
Purse
Francis Dunn
Group Forms to Launch Incorporation Survey in Eden Township
More than 30 residents form Citizens Government Study to explore effects of incorporation across Eden Township communities. They will file with the Secretary of State under a Fact Finding Body title and hire Public Administration Service to conduct research. Estimated total cost runs to 3600 or more, funded by pledges around 1000. The move aims to provide factual analysis free of school district influence and covers six local communities and Bay Area towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lower
Eden Township
Citizens Government
Secretary of State
Public Administration Service
Pont
Villa Lorenzo
George Phillips, Jr. Castro
Vatley
Harl E. Jackson
Mt. Eden
Jack Rees
Baywood
Ralph Digby
Hayward Highlands
Jack Marlin
San Lorenzo
Fred Cox
Herbert Way
Hayward
Ashland
Washington
Manor
Cherryland
Chicago
PAS
Hayward Union High School
Eden
Larry Ramml
Marlin Haley
Guy Warren
Cor Iporation
Clues Grow in Abbott Kidnapping Case
Berkeley police inspectors found two stained cloth squares in a creek bed near Burton W. Abbott's cabin as they pursue leads in the kidnapping murder of 14 year old Stephanie Bryan. Abbott, UC student, gains a two week court postponement pending grand jury transcript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Nore
Stephanie Bryan
Charles O'Meara
Willian Robinson
Burton W. Abbott
University of California
Paul Kirk
Abbott
Alameda County
Weather forecast with poetic flairs and fog near ocean
A humorous weather note cites a dismayed forecaster who laments smog and clouds. It predicts today and tonight with patches of fog near the ocean, slightly warmer daytime, westerly winds 10 to 18, and afternoon showers or haze as the day advances.
State Starts Trinity Reclamation Project Plan
UIS-Regional officials of the Bureau of Reclamation move to plan construction of the Trinity river reclamation project, a $225 million Central Valley effort authorized by a bill signed by President Eisenhower. Clyde Spencer says the project will boost irrigation water by 15 percent. survey work may start Monday and completion is expected in five to seven years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Spencer
Mob Attacks US Bases as Koreans Clash Over Inspectors
In Seoul and Inchon area, crowds of 200 to 300 Koreans surged toward a US Air Force compound at Bunsan and attacked Wolmi Island and Inchon gates. Tear gas, water hoses, and force kept them back with several injuries. Demonstrators chanted against Communist spies and neutral inspectors as tension rose ahead of Independence Day celebrations.
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Seoul
U. S
Yeaders
U.S. Ai
Bunsan
Korea
2Th Army
Wolmi Island
Inchon Harbor
Inchon
Wolmi
U.S
U.P
Hank ‘ i
Japan
Lorenzo Village Group to Buy Land at 62000
San Lorenzo residents witness a pivotal vote as the Lorenzo Village Association approves purchasing a 4.7 acre parcel for 82000 with a 10 year option. Directors aim to acquire land quickly to expand recreation facilities including boating pitches golf tennis and baseball amid rising land values. Board notes residents protest but supports a larger site to meet community needs and speed up development plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Lorenzo
Tallont
Earl Bowers
Vilage
Lee Pollard
Oakland
Ir J. A. Long
Grant Avenue
David A. Allen
Connie Is Now Storm But Strong
Connie weakened from a hurricane to a storm and moved northward off Philadelphia with 30 to 45 mph winds and heavy rain. The system, following a path similar to Hurricane Hazel, caused flooding, outages, and at least 23 deaths across the region, with New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and nearby areas hit by high winds and record rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
SNS
Weather Bureau
Pennsylvania
New York
Canada
Baltimore
New England
Commie
Virginia
Jersey
Pennsylveniain
New York City
Atlantic Coast
Connie
Washington
U S Skeptical of Red Promise to Cut Troops
Washington officials reacted skeptically to the Soviet claim of cutting 620000 men in Red forces. State Department noted no official word from Moscow and warned the reduction may be only an initial gesture amid Geneva talks. Senate figures urged cautious optimism as U S diplomats weighed the potential impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Washington
State Department
Lincoln White
Tno
Moscow
United Nations
Walter George
Gar
Senate Foreign Relations
Vienna
George
Geneva
Russia
Tass
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Wyo
Senate
Military 4
Ary
Navy
Air
Free World
Hollywood Strike Ends As Guild Reaches Agreement
The Screen Actors Guild announced last night it reached a nationwide settlement with producer representatives over a formula to end the strike against television entertainment films.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood Am
Screen jActors Guild
Last Night Lit
His Driving Woes Pile Up
Fernando M Avila 20 of 929 Fourth Street Decoto received a speeding ticket for 60 mph on East 1st Street near 10th Avenue. He then allegedly made an illegal turn without lights and drove about 70 mph near a large truck, nearly causing a collision. Deputies booked him for reckless driving and jailed him at Santa Rita. Deputies Al Medaglia and Don Emmal made the arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
Fernando M. Avila
Fourth Street
Decoto
Avila
Santa Rita County
al Medaglia
Don Emmal
Theater Offers $100 Reward in Fund Theft
Castro Valley Cha riot theater offers $100 reward for arrest and conviction of a petty thief. James W. Toler, 40, theater manager, reported a missing collection for the Blind Children's Fund after a basket passed through the audience and was not returned. A search found it on the floor in the second to last row, empty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castro Valley
Chariot Theater
James W. Toler
Sprague Court
Blind Children’s Fund
East Bay Bar Group to Hear MacPhee on Narcotics Issues
East Bay Bar Association members will hear Chester R. MacPhee collector of customs for the Port of Oakland San Francisco speak on problems facing Bay area residents due to narcotics possession and use. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Bay
MacPhee
Federal Bar Association
Bay Area
Chester R. MacPhee
Port of Oakland-San Francisco
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Cutter Lab
Niles Fund
Atom
Trinity
Imob
Lorenzo Village Group
Actors Accord
Hayward Tire Exchange
Bill Wickon
Heyward
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