Calif woman dies as truck rear-ends cars in Grapevine crash
A multi-vehicle crash near Grapevine Station on a Thursday night left Abbie Norah Wendell and her daughter Mary Nell Werell dead after a truck failed to brake and struck three cars. Injured were Edith May McElyen and others with minor to serious injuries. Names, ages, and hometowns of several passengers and drivers listed.
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Field
Calif
Tobert Lake
Robert’ L. Young
Bown
Young
Bobbie Hathaway
Los Angeles
Abbie Norah Wendell
Lamont
Mary Nell Werell
Njured Fierjsol
Florence Williamson
Bakersfield
Edith May McElyen
Thee Wits
Stirley
Jane
Bakerstick
Arthur Kirrk
Fresno
Pendleton Calif
James
Alten J FileGerata
Freso
Land
Robert “Lichallea
iPlineyilie
Ore
Polio Vaccines Debate At International Conference
At an international World Health Organization meeting attended by scientists from 20 nations including Eastern Europe and Russia, debate centered on live virus polio vaccines versus the killed-virus Salk vaccine. The conference discussed whether live vaccines are safer and sufficiently tested for general use and licensing remains contested.
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Washington
UPI
Salk
America
World Health “Organization
Russia
Europe
Ee Health
Language teaching tape recorders to aid fall program
In Sacramento, plans for a California language teaching program rely on tape recorders. The approach aims to have students listen to the language, then read it, and finally write it as part of a broader education act funded by a $24 million federal appropriation.
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Sacramento
Mead
California
Solons Vote to Keep Same Cigarette Tax
The Senate voted early today to keep cigarette and other tax rates unchanged as it adjourned a mid marathon session at 1 04 a.m. EDT. Lawmakers will return Monday to work. The tax stance aims to curb revenue losses while debates on gas tax hikes and federal payments for welfare continued.
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Senate
Congressional
Nike
Great Plains
Dakotas
Montana
Kart
Senate Armedl Services Committee
United States
Plu
Defense Department
Indya
Death Probe Set in San Francisco Dentist Killing
In San Francisco Dr Fred W Hansen a 53 year old dentist was shot in the basement of his home. Police will investigate whether the death was accidental or self inflicted. The body was found by part time maid Helen Buenda who had been hired for a party Hansen planned for friends Thursday night. His wife Geneva was upstairs when a bullet from a 25 35 caliber rifle lodged in his brain. Officers said Hansen may have accidentally knocked the rifle off its rack.
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San Francisco
UPS
Drg
Fred W. Hansen
Wees
Reve
Hansen
Helén Buenda
Geneva
Uy Stairs
Ville
Desert Winds Ravage Southland In Record Heat
In Southern California a heat wave and fierce desert winds left drivers stranded as sand reduced visibility to near zero. Eleven vehicles overturned and one man, James Franklin of Los Angeles, was found dead in his car near the desert community. Coastal areas issued small craft warnings as winds reached 20 to 40 mph.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
James Franklin
Loomis Wins Western Writers Award in Oklahoma City
Famed western author Loomis from Descanso California received the Western Writers of America award for Best Western Novel of the Year for Short Cut To Red River. The event also honored Bill Gulick for Best Short Story and several other genre titles with winners from Walla Walla Fort Benton and more, as Frank C. Robertson was named president and Hal G. Edwards vice president.
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Loomis
Descanso
Coliz
Western Writers of America
Red River
Wweetiern
Bill Gulick
Walla Walla, Wash
Aella “Bean
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Mrs. Marian
T. Place
Giendive
Sleeping Killer To Take Test
Mrs Barnett, a 32 year old mother of a 4 year old daughter, shot her husband while sleepwalking and will be examined by psychiatrists today before charges. Police report she awoke to a blast, saw a man in her hands and found William Barnett, 29, fatally shot in the chest.
Russian Duchess Ill With Pneumonia at Hampton Court
The SM-year old sister of Me last zany, a Russian Grand Duchess, is gravely ill with pneumonia and being cared for at Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, England as reported Thursday.
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Richmond
England
Grand Duches
Hampton Court Palace
Almanac Today Highlights 1959 Dates and Space Fact
Almanac notes Friday June 26 as the 177th day of 1959 with 188 days left. It recalls 1234 Pied Piper tale, 1819 patent for a bicycle, 1900 Walter Reed campaign, 1945 UN Charter drafting, 1948 Berlin airlift. Ends with a motto advocating tolerance and peace.
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Mars
Jupiter
Hamelin
William Clarkson
Walter Reed
France
America
Sdeten
U.N
San Francisn
TLN
Rogues Gallery Meets Hoffa in Clean-Up Challenge
WALLINGTON oped as the Air Rackets Committee confronts James R Hoffa with a rogues gallery of Teamsters to press his union clean-up claims. The panel laid the groundwork Thursday for Hofas appearance as it staged the parade of three-year history and cited at least 35 Teamsters involved in cases tied to Hoffas regime. The controversy centers on Hoffas commitment to weed out strongdoers while testimony from Teamsters including John O Rourke John McNamara Floyd Webb and William Prosser is set, with possible questions for Glenn Smith if located.
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OPD
Sen- Air
James R. Hoffa
Mafta
San Diego
Calif
Berger Courier
Richard J. Oglborn
Veterans’ Administration’ Hospital
Omaha
Nebborne
General Dynamic
John Hopkins Laboratory
Chase
Robert Osborn
Kennedy
Ion
Kennelly
Hoffa
Halfa
Chirt
Dhe
Team 1
Sters John O'Rourke
John McNamara
New York
Floyd Webb
Juplin
William Prosser
Cleveland
Ohio
Glenn Smith
Chattanooga
Tenn
Smith
Ex NY Show Girl Patricia Stevens Found Dead In Chicago
CHICAGO UPI Police and coroner officials investigated the death of Patricia Stevens a former New York show girl and head of an oddding agency. A handwritten will and two power of attorney notes were found dated the day before she died. Detectives probe if an overdose of bark situcate caused her death. The Cook County coroner's office planned a postmortem and inquiry. Stevens' husband Earl Muntz a former television manufacturer discovered her dead in their north side apartment. He said she had been ill and undergone a kidney operation three weeks earlier. police cited heart attack as the cause.
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Chicago
UPI
Patricia Stevens
New York
Edward Connerty
Cook County
Miss . Stevens
Earl
Madman) Muntz
Elevision
North Side
Muntz
Army Chief in Argentine Change Reported
Buenos Aires UPI reports Brig. Gen. Angel A Villarcel of the cavalry may become commander in chief of the Argentine Army, a move not yet confirmed. The appointment would appease military leaders who pressed for top commanders. War Secretary Hector Solanas Pacheco, acting commander, resigned amid crisis. Maj. Gen. Aristides Reibs requests retirement to clear path for younger officers. Ruibal’s name also linked to the crisis.
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Buenos Aires
UPI
Angel A. Villarcel
Villarcel
Argentina
Fons
Hector Solanas Pacheco
Aristides Reibs
Itosario
Ruibal
Missile explodes at Convair test center near San Diego
A missile in Convair's Sycamore Canyon facility 27 miles north of San Diego exploded during a lake firing test. No one was injured.
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San Diego
Calif
Lake
Convair
Sycamore Canon
Ang Diego
Noona
Governor Signs Gun Sale Ban and Cable Project
A new law in Sacramento makes certain gun sales illegal by misdemeanor. Meanwhile a British vessel lays a submarine telephone cable across 2243 miles linking France, Germany, and the United States, financed by three companies and spearheaded by private firms in a multi nation project.
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Sacramento
UPS
London
Shin Atin To & Robot Linder
Turaday
Edmund G
Tolnk
France
Brown
Germany
United States
Assemblyman
Ron H
Frew
D-Dinubad
Discoverer IV failure analyzed by Air Force scientists
Air Force and California scientists disclosed why the Discoverer IV mission failed to recover the satellite. Radar and tracking data suggested a misfire or uncontrolled reentry as the capsule burned up over the Atlantic near Antigua Island after launch from Cape Canaveral. The program aimed to recover a satellite from space for the first time, but authorities reported no live recoveries and described it as a hardware test with mice aboard.
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Vandenbelts
Anil Bash
Calif
CPI
Ray
Antigua Island
West Indies
Cape Canavers
Air Force
Treason Jury Let Go in San Francisco
A special holdover grand jury in San Francisco was dismissed by U S District Judge Louis F Goodman after it had not met since April. Defendants John Powell Sylvia Powell and Julian Schinian were accused of treason in relation to the China Monthly Review published in Shanghai during the Korean War. Evidence gathering stalled and officials cited policy against two active juries.
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San Francisco
UPIS
Powell-Sehan Weason
U.S
Louis F.goodman
Godman
John Wv. Powell
Sylvia
Julian Schinian
New York
China Monthly’ Review
Shanghai
Lynne Gillard
Thorstay
Hovenment
Emergency Water Bills Signed Into Law
Sacramento reports Gov. Edmund G. DeYoung signed two emergency bills to speed San Joaquin Valley water storage. The measures let districts acquire permanent rights at Isabella Reservoir on the Kern River and authorize bond issuance to pay the federal government for reservoir rights. Senator James Af Covey of Merced introduced both bills.
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Sacramento
UPD
San Joaquin Valley
Edmond G. Deown
Isabella Reservoir
Kern River
James
Covey
Merced
Tot Dies After Rodent Attack in New York Kitchen
A three month old boy died after rat bites invaded his mother’s kitchen carriage. The city Health Department called it the first recorded death from rat bites, with 262 bite cases reported so far this year. The infant Richard Fox died of shock less than an hour after his mother screamed.
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New York
City” Health Department
Dean
Richard Fox
Students Learn To Earn Penny Savings Plan Pays Off
In Hyde School Massachusetts a weekly savings program started two years ago by students has grown to a total of 3870.30 dollars. The effort shows it pays to save and builds financial habit among pupils.
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Lee
Mass
UPI
Hyde’ School
Senate Agrees To Throw Open Payroll Rosters
The Senate voted to make public the payroll rosters, salaries, and names of all employees after a marathon session. The move, proposed by Senator Thomas C. Hennings, aims to end secrecy and follow the House example, amid criticism of nepotism in government pay and payroll practices.
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Senate
Waliington
Cuatiman Thomas C
Hennings Dr
Senate Rules Committee
House
Scripps-Howard
Vance Trimble Taie
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