Nation's Traffic Fatalities Soar During Christmas Weekend
Nationwide tolls rise with 370 highway deaths from Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight plus 51 fire fatalities 2 air crashes and 44 other accidents. California shows 42 traffic deaths and 15 in Northern California 17 in Southern California. Two San Francisco men Wilford Streety 30 and Mer Hin Hall 28 die in speeding crash on Highway 30 near Castro Valley. witnesses say 90 to 100 mph. Mrs Mary Irene Stierheim 39 killed when South Pacific train strikes car at Subay Vale crossing. May Schafer 65 dies in hit and run near Mission Dolores. Page 2 continues.
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Fairmont Hospital
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Mary Irene Stierheim
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May Schafer
Ranchers and Hunters in Fatal East Texas Gun Battle
In Jasper Texas a Christmas Day gun battle between six hunters and two ranchers left one hunter dead Roy Muench aged 51 of Port Arthur. Four hunters were arrested for assault with intent to kill while officers confiscated nine guns.
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Jasper
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Texas
Big
Browndell
Dalphene
Sterling Gartington
Wayne Pullen
Pullen
Piney Woods
Garlington Brothers
Avalanche Danger Hangs Over Alps
Vienna reports tourists warned of severe avalanche danger across Alpine resorts in Austria and neighboring nations. Snow conditions make Christmas one of the whitest on record in central Europe with acute avalanche risk affecting visitors and crews.
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Vienna
Austria
Europe
U S Mulls Formosa Bases Under New Pact With Nationalists
Washington reports on Adroit Radford’s Southeast Asia tour as the Joint Chiefs chair surveys possible American bases on Formosa under a new mutual defense treaty with the Chinese Nationalists. The policy aims to deter any seizure of Formosa with authorized land bases and training missions, though no combat troops are stationed there. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will review the treaty in the new Congress.
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Southeast Asia
Ad Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Formosa
U.S
Centai
Admiral Radford
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fighter Planes Collide Over San Jose Fatal Crash
Two jet fighter pilots are feared dead after a head-on collision about five miles southeast of San Jose near Moffett Field. Debris and body parts were found across Santa Clara County as a massive fireball and mushroom cloud lit the sky from San Francisco to the Santa Cruz area. Witnesses at Sunnyvale, Los Altos, and Palo Alto reported flames, shrapnel, and parachutes. one wing tip bearing MC-37293 suggested Marine Corps origin.
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Santa Clara County
Howard Hornbuckle
Modesto-Qakdale
Palo Alto
Lee Wenger
Los Altos
Depris
Preston L. Prescott
Beni Lomond
Jack L. Sinnott
Minister Faces Charge for Murder
Watsonville report states Henry Herman Webb a 43 year old ordained minister will be arraigned in Santa Cruz on murder charges. Webb allegedly shot Steven Bradley Kirkendoll five times after arriving from a Texas cotton ranch to talk with his former wife Erma. Police indicate the motive involved a dispute over their infant daughter and a blood test showing 98 percent coyote.
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Church For God
Santa Cruz
Yepurt
Henry Herman Webb
Steven Bradley Eek Endoll
Webb
Seascraves
Tex
Erma
Kirkendoll
Webo
Educators plan may block local college in California
A state college for the Hey ward area may be delayed a decade if the education commission’s recommendation is adopted. It urges expanding California’s 10 existing institutions to meet rising enrollment and delaying new buildings until at least 1965. The report goes to UC regents and State Board of Equalization members before parliamentary action and toward the legislature, with a junior college expansion also urged.
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Heyward
California
University of California
Alameda County
State College
Fire destroys six factories in Fullerton blaze
High winds fanned a dawn fire in Fullerton sweeping six factories and warehouses across two blocks. Estimated damages reach 2.3 million dollars. Four firefighters injured. private homes razed. Eight neighboring departments aided as glow lit the sky for miles.
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Fullerton
American Fruit Growers
Soft Water
Eadington Citrus Co
Minute Maid
Dave Smith
C. E. Heard
Santa Ana
Charles Day
James Farrell
State Division of Forestry
Assualt Suit Is Continued In Berkeley Case
Wesley G. Andrews of Hayward sues Charles Hensel and wife Havel for 13158 damages alleging violent beating with fists and a high-heeled shoe on August 19, 1953, after escorting the couple home from a company party on Euclid Avenue near Grizzly Peak Boulevards Berkeley. The case was continued to February 15 in Alameda County Superior Court.
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Hayward
Alameda County
Wesley G._ Andrews
Whittier Lane
Charles Hensel
Havel
Andrews
Euclid Avenue
Grizzly Peak
Berkeley
Hensels
Chou En-lai Warns Britain Over U S Aggression
Peiping radio aired Chou En-lai's Dec 21 foreign policy address to the Chinese People's Political Consultative conference. He accused the United States of forging a ring around China and the Soviet Union, seeking to cover its aggression while denouncing Britain for its stance. He said the 13 imprisoned Americans were justly convicted and criticized US and its allies for escalating world antagonism. The Foreign policy speech condemned Paris Europe accords and the Man and Geneva pacts as steps to widen divisions and provoke war.
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Chou En-lai
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Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
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Paris
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East
U. S
Foremosa
Hammarskjold Seeks Moral Ground in Peiping Mission
Dag Hammarskjold prepared for a Peiping mission amid Chou En-lai's warning of U S fliers’ confessions. U.N. sources note Soviet Malik’s cautious stance, while Hammarskjold enjoys backing from Lodge Eden Nehru as he seeks to impress moral authority on Red China and press for relief of the imprisoned airmen.
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Marionelist
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Ibo Malik
London
Malik
Kremlin
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Anthony Eden
Nehru
New Delhi
Hamenatskiold
Romania ends all food rationing and price cuts announced
The Romanian government declared that rationing of food and other consumer goods ends immediately. The broadcast said wages and salaries would rise and prices of several goods would be reduced.
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Romania
Vienna
Bucharest
Government experts say Christmas shopping may have smashed records
Government experts report that Christmas shopping may have set new records. Preliminary figures from the Federal Reserve Board indicate a substantial year over year rise across department stores in the first three weeks of December, with Kansas City district leading sales and Chicago district showing declines. The season benefits included an extra shopping day boosting totals, while forecasts suggested a possible top of the 1952 spree.
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Federal Reserve Board
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Reserve Board
Kansas City Federal Reserve
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Nebraska
Oklahoma
Colorado
Wyoming
Premier pleads for ratification of Paris pact in France
Paris reports Premier Mendes France urges National Assembly to ratify the Paris agreements rearming West Germany to secure NATO ties and European security. Debate centers on German NATO entry and the fate of Mendes France’s government as votes loom.
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French National Assembly
West Germany
Mendes- France
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Paul Reynaud
Antoine Fimay
Louis Vailon
France
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Atantic Treaty Organization
Assembly
Andre Letroquer
NATO
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France Soir
Americar
Foreign Ministry
Washington
London
Britain
Europe
Vallon
Pierre Garet
Republican Independents
Garet
Geret
Yvon Lesbos
Eisenhower Sets Budget Message For January 17
President Eisenhower will send his new national economy budget to Congress on January 17 and deliver the State of the Union on January 6. A tariff and reciprocal trade message will be sent on January 10 as he supervises final drafts with aides in Augusta. The timing depends on the French chamber vote and possible discussions with Churchill.
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Eisenhower
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House
Senate
Imade
Chamber of Deputies
John Foster Dule
Gabriel Hauge
Arthur JE Burns
Council of Economic Advisers
Mauge
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Dulles
Washington
Columbine Til
Winston Churchill
West Germany
Little White House
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