Holiday Crashes Claim 621 Lives
A four day holiday weekend set a national record with 621 traffic fatalities and 72 deaths in fires or other incidents. Illinois led with 46 deaths, while Michigan and Texas reported 44 each. The toll rose across states as a Bay Area collision and other accidents punctuated the grim total. Police and safety officials urged New Year’s resolutions to improve driving.
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National Safety Council
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Michigan
Texas
California
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
South Dakota
Montana
District of Columbia
Rebellion Of Quints Revealed In Ontario Family
Callander reports claim the surviving Dionne quintuplets have left their parents home and cut ties. Dionne says the girls avoided Christmas contact, with Yvonne and Cavile training as nurses in Montreal, Annette studying art in Nicolet, and Marie withdrawing from a Quebec convent. Marie and Annette reportedly in good health and dismissed to fly home for Christmas as Yvonne and Cecile plan to rejoin for New Year’s weekend.
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Que
Marie
Quebec
Chy
Cecile
Ninth grade pupil showered teacher with baby food cans
In Grand Rapids Michigan a ninth grade pupil at Seymour Christian School drenched teacher Hubert VanTal with 36 cans of baby food. His action followed the birth of his wife Rive's third son.
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Seymour Christian School
Hubert VanTal
Weather Outlook Mostly Fair With Light Showers
Mostly fair through Wednesday with a chance of light showers. Center today and tonight. Variable winds up to 15 mph becoming northwest, 13 to 25 mph this evening. Record of yesterday's high and today’s low appear unclear with missing rainfall data and normal rainfall figures for this time last year.
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Black Christmas toll roils nation of motorists
Dearborn condemned the holiday as a Black Christmas with a record number of highway deaths and disaster. A Webster City incident saw an 8 year old girl killed and looted wallets afterward. Floods harmed tens of thousands across Northern California Oregon and Nevada. Fires struck rapidly across the country causing millions in damage and historic losses in Lowell Chicago and Gaylord Michigan. The traffic carnage highlighted by Dearborn underscored a preventable tragedy.
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Relief drives surge as flood victims receive aid in South County
Clothing and relief items poured into Southern Alameda county collection points for northern flood sufferers. AC46 Air National Guard was loaded for a mercy flight to Yuba City with Capt. Raymond Fitz and Lt. George Mahi leading. Local fire stations, sheriff’s offices, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Girl Scouts, and private donors organized extensive drives with multiple transport donations and volunteer pickup efforts across Hayward Castro Valley and surrounding areas.
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Floods Sweep Delta and Yuba City After Record Rise
United Press reports the Feather River flooded vast areas causing at least 56 deaths across California and Oregon, with Yuba City hit hardest. Levees failed again, 200 Air Force troops sent to bolster a fragile delta levee system as residents endured billowing waters and contaminated supplies.
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Creek Levee Repair Crews At Work In San Lorenzo
U S Army Engineers authorized emergency repairs on San Lorenzo creek. Contractors from Stake Inc were shoring levees between Hesperian Boulevard and Washington Avenue as flood control crews battled erosion and debris jams. Flood Control Engineer Herb Crowle warned of potential $1 million in property damage countywide if levees fail.
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Water Use Warning For Hayward Residents
The Hayward water district urged residents to curb water use as the Hetch Hetchy supply will be shut for days due to floods and muddy water. Manager Bill Sievers said four wells will partly cover demand and asked citizens to avoid unnecessary washing to prevent a shortage.
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Hetch- Betchy
Bill Sievers
New York Yearly Capsule of Oddball Tales
A compact year-end roundup from New York catalogs the biggest little stories across months and cities. It catalogs quirky incidents from Nature in January to December reflections, detailing peculiar exploits, oddities, and brief public spectacles with minimal context and vivid local color.
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Qnt
W. C. Crawford
Bellac
Defense Moves in Abbott Kidnap Trial Delayed
Superior Judge Charles Wade Snook weighs a defense bid to strike many questions and Abbott’s cross examination answers as trial jurors, excused after a 9 45 am start, return to hear arguments. Defense and prosecution spar over police statements and admissibility while Trinity county worker Thomas Daly testifies about a post disappearance meeting with Abbott at Wildwood Inn.
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Charles Wade Snook
Burton W. Abbott
Abbott
Stephanie Bryan
Stanley Whitney
Coakley
Thomas W. Daly
Trinity County
Daly
Engel to Introduce River Dam Fund Bill
Representative Clare Engel of California said he will introduce a bill in the next Congress to authorize a federal contribution of 100 million dollars for a Feather River dam near Oroville. The state plans a 400 million dollar project with flood control benefits projected at least 100 million dollars, and Engel frames flood control as a federal responsibility.
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Clare Engel
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Feather River
California
Oroville
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