Bay Area Launches New Year Drunk-Driving Crackdown
Traffic agencies will intensify efforts to remove drunk drivers during the New Year holidays. Bay Area police plan roadblocks tonight with Hayward and two roving teams, CHP quick blockade patrols, and three roadblock teams in San Francisco and Oakland. San Leandro and Livermore will run maximum enforcement and patrol units.
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Livermore
Airman Grabs Child From Wife at San Mateo Home
Police said Air Force airman John McRae forced entry into his San Mateo residence, fought with his estranged wife Betty and an older child, then abducted his 3 year old daughter Debra. He hadCalled from Beale Air Force Base near Marysville threatening to kill the child before the early morning escape toward Bayshore City.
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Beale Air Force Base
Marysville
Bayshore City
Blaze Destroys Farmers Market at Foothill Boulevard
Firefighters estimated $10,000 in damage after a late night blaze destroyed about 7 percent of the 40 by 60 foot wooden farmers market building at 6600 Foothill Blvd. Fire Battalion Chief Al Jan Rose ordered an arson investigation due to rapid spread and suspicious factors.
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Qam
Bandits Rob Gas Station in Fremont Nighttime Heist
Three youthful bandits robbed the Vail Barber Shell Service on Highway 9 in Fremont last night, about $85 taken from the till while attendant Wilson H. Bower, 66, of Centerville, was forced to lie behind the counter. The owner Barber was slugged during the Thanksgiving Eve robbery.
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Feverish Farmer Saga Tops Tall Tale Contest
Inglewood and Burlington reports collide as two dramatic scenes unfold. Gunmen hold six hostages in a cafe until tear gas forces surrender with no injuries reported. A Vermont style tale wins a national tall tale prize, describing a farmer who single handedly conquers a vast field and returns home.
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Inglewood
INS
Dulven Chana
Israeli Cabinet Quits in Dispute Over West German Arms
In Jerusalem, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and his two year coalition government resigned amid a dispute over plans to buy arms from West Germany. He plans to attempt forming a new government.
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David Ber- Gurion
West Germany
Eisenhower backs four year billion plan to boost science study
President Eisenhower approved an emergency four year one billion dollar program to raise science education starting at high school. Marion Folsom outlined the plan after a Gettysburg meeting. funds include about 8 hundred million federal share and 8 hundred million state match. The initiative aims to spur state local and private action against Russia's missile and satellite advances with 10,000 federal scholarships yearly and 50-50 grants to boost testing of student abilities beginning in grades seven to nine and continuing through high school.
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Eisenhower
Marion B. Folsom
White “House
James C
Folsom
Russia
Weatherman Sees Uncertain Bay Area New Year Outlook
The weatherman warned of an uncertain outlook for New Year's Eve and Day in the Bay Area. A Gulf of Iran storm system may bring rain on New Year's Day, with a chance of precipitation Tuesday night and Wednesday. One storm about 900 miles west of San Francisco is described as strong but stationary.
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Bay Area
Gulf of Iran
San Francisco
Jury Calls For Full-Scale Probe Of School Dept
The County Grand Jury called for a full scale audit and investigation of Supt. Seidel's County Schools Department. The report urged reforms in welfare, zoning, and county services including potential closure of Arroyo del Valle stadium and transfer of patients to Fairmont Hospital. It also proposed education program continuities and a shift to non college focused high school courses and urged lower East Shore Freeway speed limit to 40 mph.
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Army to Build Five New Nike Missile Sites
Colorado Springs reports the U S Army Air Defense Command will construct five Nike sites and modify existing ones to fire the Nike Hercules missiles. Construction to start soon in St Louis Kansas City Cincinnati Minneapolis St Paul and Dallas Fort Worth areas, with completion expected early 1959. The plan also includes upgrades to support the nuclear warhead Hercules missile.
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Nike
Alameda County Loses Ground To San Diego County
Alameda County faces a challenge to its second largest county status as San Diego County gains in population. Estimates from the California Taxpayers Association show San Diego rising to 877,900 with a 4.6 percent 1957 increase while Alameda grows 2.1 percent to about 888,900. The report notes Orange County’s leap to 586,900 and Santa Clara’s 75.8 percent rise in seven years.
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San Diego
California Taxpayers Assn
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Plumas County
Santa Clara County
Bay Area
Rakitno
Yugoslavia
Mirko
Miticevic
S.J. Armold
Sukarno to Visit Cairo for Four Day State Visit
Cairo reports Indonesian President Sukarno will arrive January 12 for a four day state visit, after a brief health related vacation in Indonesia beginning January 5, with departure planned for Cairo.
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House Fire Kills Youth and Women in Lake County
A two story frame house in Lake County burned fatally claiming a youth and two women. Roger Scannell survived by escaping to a roof as flames cut off descent from the second floor. Coroner Robert Babcox cited a plugged electric iron as a possible cause and noted the bodies were found in first floor bedrooms. Neighbors reported hearing the boy call for help through a bedroom window but could not reach him.
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Rama
Mary Scannell
Roger Scannell
Scannell
James Carnafian
Lake County
Robert Babcox
Babrox
Thieves Plunder A St. Drug Store
Thieves smashed the front door of Drivedn Drugs at 13% A St Hayward early Sunday and stole about $500 in cash plus pennies and nickels. A second drawer with $100 in small change remained, noticed by Bert Ex Lathrop of Oakland around 10 a.m. and reported to police.
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Bert Ex Lathrop
Oakland
Plane Missing Since December Baffles California Searchers
Sacramento searchers fail to verify a miner sighting of a Reno San Francisco charter plane wreckage near Sierra City. The missing aircraft, carrying seven aboard, was owned by Edward Rost of Castro Valley and piloted by Arthur Gelsler of Hayward. A Chil Air Patrol unit checked the lead but could not relocate the site.
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Hayward
San Bruno bricklayer dies in jail convulsions
Iven Bosin, 50, a bricklayer from San Bruno, died in County Jail No. 2 after convulsions caused him to strike his head on cell bars and a toilet edge. He collapsed Sunday night and died shortly before an ambulance arrived while serving a five day sentence.
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Iven Bosin
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