Gunman Locks Grocer In Walk-In Freezer, Steals $5000
A robber, five feet four inches, wearing butcher coat and gloves, bound George Laird and taped his mouth before locking him in a Castro Valley grocery store walk-in freezer and taking about $5000. Laird freed himself. the getaway marked by a chilly confrontation and a cautionary morning alarm. Two other weekend accidents in Southern Alameda County left nine injured, none seriously, as a train collision and a separate vehicle crash occurred.
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Hayward
Alameda County
George Laird
Almond Rd
Castro Valley
Sycamore Food Centler
Castro St
Laird
Prees
Roy L. Laird
Seven
Tye
Castro
Sycamore
Hak Jones
Baraaaar
Roz
Castro and
Syramore Sts
Just Did It Boy Slayer Says
A 14 year old Fairfield youth was charged with murder after stabbing 8 year old Rose Arm White 115 times with a pocket knife in a motive free attack. The body was found near a rail yard east of Fairfield. Police and deputies described extensive stab wounds and multiple skull fractures discovered at autopsy.
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Fairfield
Roger Brown
Rose Arm White
Suisun
Rofer
Fair
Zelda
Halden
Brookside Hospital
Richmond
Swank Cotton Club Robbed in Miami Beach Heist
Four masked armed men robbed the Cotton club in Miami Beach shortly after closing hours this morning, taking about 40 thousand dollars, police said. The bandits escaped before officers arrived, leaving no injuries reported and investigators reviewing security footage.
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Miami
Beach
Nurses Meet On Pay Offers In Alameda County
General duty nurses in Alameda County meet in Oakland by shifts to hear renewed contract offers from East Bay Hospitals Association. California State Nurses Association members join talks today and will resume negotiations tomorrow with East Bay officials. Eden Hospital in Castro Valley not a member but usually follows East Bay conditions.
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Alameda County
Oakland
East Bay Hospitals Assn
California
Eden Hospital
Cas Lro Velley
East Bay Hospital Assn
Fire Damages Hayward Hickry Pit Restaurant Roof
Patrons at the Hickory Pit on Castro Street Hayward faced a sudden flash fire when cook Salvadore Miranda opened the steel barbecue pit. Flames from inside ignited the vent pipe exterior, forcing responders to battle a blaze that damaged the roof and plumbing rough estimates.
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Castro St
Hayward
Salvadore Miranda
Matthew. Jimenez
Rainfall on Way But Grain Crop Already Stricken
A winter storm approaching northern central California may arrive too late to save about 33 000 acres of hay and grain in Alameda County. County Agricultural Commissioner B K Irobradge warns rain would help but crops already damaged. pastures suffer as grasses fail to emerge due to lack of rainfall. Weathermen forecast light to moderate rain late Sunday into tomorrow with heavier totals by tomorrow, plus Sierra snow. Odds of rain in the Bay Area were six in ten today and eight in ten tomorrow.
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California
Alamada County
B. K. Irobradge
Trowbie
Strobridge
Alameda County
Bay Area
Sierra Nevada
Tax Firm Chief Faces Charges
SAN FRANCISCO Meritt Hy Foster, 43, who runs 30 income tax services in California, was charged with two counts of failing to file a personal income tax return. The report cites additional political quotes about Eisenhower’s Middle East doctrine and White House appointments, while noting Foster’s business names Carl Odell Co. and Bittner Tax Service and their tax-return volume and revenue figures.
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San Francisco
Meritt Hy
Nays Foster
Carl Odell 1 Co
Richmond
Bittner Tax Service
Vallejo
Roncoros
Van's Pax Service
California
Lockley
Fosstern
Knight Proposes Tough Action on Traffic and Welfare
Governor Goodwin J. Knight urged California lawmakers to curb highway deaths with mandatory jail terms for drunk driving and a 65 mph speed limit. He backed harsher penalties for speeding and reckless driving, a larger highway patrol, and expanded labor welfare and water resource programs in a 269 page message.
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Sacramento
Goodwin J. Knight
Legis
Knight
California
Southern Alameda County Hails Governor Knight Message on Water Project
In Southern Alameda county reaction to Gov. Knight's introductory legislative message was strong and favorable. Government agencies in the area backed the Feather River project, creating an aura of optimism. South county residents hoped for comment on the state college program, but trust their Assembly representative Carlos Bee to deliver early session action.
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Alameda County
Knight
Are
Feather River
South County
Assembly
Carlos Bee
Knight outlines Far Flung Feather River water plan
Knight proposes completing preliminary work for the Feather River Project to supply water to drought areas from Santa Clara Valley to San Diego. He calls for using about 160 million dollars in tidelands oil revenues to finance multiple water projects and to secure state loans for local agencies. He foresees near federal-state agreement on financing and sees San Luis project as integral to FRP with state operation. He notes legislature divisions on the San Luis project and pledges to labor for higher unemployment and workmen's compensation benefits.
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Feather River
Santa Clara Valley
San Diego
Tidelands
San Luis
FRP
ATE
San Tatis
Organized Labor
Knight
Boy 15 Killed Showing Rifle in Placerville
PLACERVILLE Calif. Frank Mendonca 15 was killed instantly as he and 13 year old Willard Bolin were examining rifles in Bolin’s El Dorado stand home near here. Bolin, alone with Mendonca, pulled a 32 caliber rifle from its case to show him and the weapon discharged, fatally striking Mendonca in the head.
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Placerville
Frank Mendonca
Ihhe
EL Dorado
Calif
Willard Bolin
Bolin
Mendonca
Pederson Family Welcomes Triplet Daughters in 1957
The Russell and Pederson family of Castro Valley, Alameda County, welcomed triplet girls born at Peralta Hospital Oakland on Saturday at 8:12, 8:14 and 8:17. The babies weigh 4 lb 8 oz, 3 lb 3.5 oz, and 3 lb 10 oz and will stay in hospital until each reaches 5 lb. The parents, Kirk five, and Wendell Humphrey M.D. attending physician, describe it as a rare first in their family and plan for home arrival when large enough.
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Russell B. Pedersons
Castro Valley
Alameda County
Pederson
Peralta Hospital
Oakland
Kenmore Ct
Wendell Humphrey
Mod
Jas Pederson
Sileaman
Probe Looms On Actress Abduction Case
Los Angeles authorities consider convening the county grand jury to review the 24 hour disappearance of actress Mari Donald. District Attorney William B McKesson said the 3957 grand jury will investigate whether she was kidnapped or if the incident was a hoax. Police plan to release a composite sketch of two youths described as Mexican descent zoot-suiters who allegedly threatened to kill her baby. The case involves a rash of conferring police officials and a possible public reveal of facts in coming days.
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Mari ‘Donald
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
William B .Mckesson
Tully
McKesson
Adolph Alexander
Marie
Los Angeles
Ernest ‘T. Johnston
Valley! Division
Chou En Lai Arrives in Moscow for High Level Talks
Moscow hosts Chou En Lai for a three day parley on Hungary the Middle East and the Eisenhower doctrine. He arrived by plane from Peiping at 4 pm and was greeted by Soviet leaders including Khrushchev Kalinin Bulganin and Molotov.
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Moscow
Chau En-lai
Hungary
Middle East
Chou
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Kalai-Bulganin
Vyacheslav Nt. Molotov
Chiropractor Charged in Woman's Death in Oakland
A two count complaint charging Dr. W. V. N. Stuart of San Lorenzo with murder and abortion was expected to be filed in Oakland Superior Court today. The arrest followed the death of Mrs. Merion Santos wife of Deputy Sheriff Larry Santos of Eden Township after an abortion procedure at Stuart’s offices. Autopsies found death due to cardiac failure from massive pulmonary embolism during an attempted abortion.
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Oakland
W. V.N. Stuart
Thames Ave
San Lorenzo
Superior Court
Attogney
Ed O’niel
The
Daily Review
Oakline
Paul Potts
Stuart
Merion ‘Santos
Eden Township
Larry Santos
Oakland Chiron Nracter
Santos
Hershey Way
Wayward
Bulldozer rolls downhill kills toddler in Santa Rosa
In Santa Rosa, a driverless bulldozer rolled down a hill and crushed three year old Edward Cuppies to death. Kenneth Cuppies, five, shouted warnings but could not save his younger brother near the family home in Mark West Springs. The machine traveled about 109 feet before the tragedy.
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Santa Rosa
Edward ‘Cuppies
Hal
Kenneth
Richard Cuppies
Mark West
Springs
Here
Edward
Troen
Teal
East German Spark Seen Warns of Wider Turmoil
San Francisco based Prescott correspondent Russell Jones, the last American newsman to leave Hungary, warned that a similar upheaval in East Germany could push the world toward war. He said East Germany is the keystone in the smoldering East European crisis and that Soviet losses there would be unacceptable to Moscow.
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San -Francisco
United ‘Presa
Russell Jones
Hungary
East Germany
Jones
West Germany
Germany
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Daniel C. Warner, Jr
Walnut Creek
Southern Pacific Railroad
Pleasanton
Warner
Glenn Keith Shaw
Southgate Ave
Southern Pacific
Hall Ranch Road
Shaw
Boy Slayer
Mystrom Furniture CO
Meekland
Dulles
U. S
Congress
Soviet Union
Jnerind
White “House
James P. Richards
D-S.c
Richards
Iie House’ Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S
South Carolina
Eisenhower
Hesperian ‘Blvd
Mt. Eden
Hall Ranch Rd
Dorothy Dix
Radio-Tv
Johnston
Wfiss McDonald
San Fernando Valley
Kaiser Foundation
Spark
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