Knight Starts Tour to Push Senate Drive
Sacramento reports Governor Goodwin Knight launches a month long campaign tour to secure the U S Senate nomination in June. He plans to spend much of May in Southern California with key events in Oakland Berkeley and Berkeley Women’s Club and a California campus address. A chartered plane replaces Air National Guard transport for the trip.
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Knight
Senate
Sacramento
Goodwin J. Knight
U.S
California
Air National Guard
Moe
Leamington
Oakland
Wat Berkeley
University of California
Berkeley Women's Club
Oakland Garden Show Opens With Floral Mediterranean Theme
Oakland hosts the 26th annual Spring Garden and Home Show opening today with a Mediterranean floral interpretation. The exhibition runs daily 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. through May 11, after a champagne preview held last night.
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Oakland
California
Garden Sect
Fingerprint Clue in Beverly Hills Jewel Robbery
Police hunted two masked men who robbed jewels worth 150000 dollars in Beverly Hills on Thursday night. A dropped .22 caliber snub-nosed revolver yielded one usable fingerprint for investigators today as they pursued the suspects.
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Beverly Hills
New Superintendent Gives School Views
Frank Greenwood 33 of Fresno is La Vista School District's new superintendent, hired at $14,000 annually to replace Clarice Hardie. He stresses that good teaching defines schools, while objectives must be agreed on to stabilize communities and iron out difficulties. Greenwood, taking over July 1, moves from Scandinavian Elementary District and emphasizes developing loyal American citizens who can determine their roles within lawful bounds, with literacy and numeracy as means to that end.
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Lelani
Frank Greeriwood
Fresno
la Vista School
Chiildren
Greenwood
Soith Hayward
Clarerice Hardie
Hardie
Scandinavian Elementary Dist
Sf Greenwood
United States
Two San Jose Boys Hurt In Morning Car Overturn
The accident on Vallecitos Road four miles south of Livermore injured three of a San Jose family. Stanley Thompson, 11, was listed in critical condition after the car struck a power pole, throwing him and his brother Lawrence, 9, from the vehicle. Their father, Clifford Thompson, 46, suffered minor injuries. The crash occurred as the car tried to pass a flatbed truck driven by Maynard Alves, leading to a collision with an approaching vehicle. Both boys were treated at St. Pauls Hospital and later transferred to San Jose Hospital.
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San Jose
Vallecitos
Here
Stanley Thompson
Lawrence
Clifford
California Highway
Robert Walker
Thompson
Maynard Alves
St. Paul's Hospital
St. Paul's
San Jose Hospital
Bandit Escapes With 1942 At San Francisco Safeway
A nervous gunman robbed a Safeway in San Francisco late Friday night, terrorizing 14 people for 20 minutes. Described as a 40 year old Negro, he forced staff and customers into a freezer then took 100 from a clerk at gunpoint and stole 42 from customers’ wallets, 811 from employees, 100 from the till, and 1590 from the safe before fleeing on foot.
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SAN Franiwro
Safeway
Hev
Couple nabbed with 120000 in bogus cash
A California couple, Conrad Schiebelhut and his wife Bernadette, were arrested in Memphis after the wife tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at a drug store. Police recovered about $119,990 in counterfeit cash plus $20 bills from a brie case under a car seat. The pair, from Almonte, had traveled from St Louis and admitted passing bogus money in Memphis a day.
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Memphis, Tenn
California
Secret Service
John J. Killan
Conrad, Schiebelhut
Bernadette
Memphis
Legal bid to speed Colorado River case opens in San Francisco
Special Master Rifkind opened sessions to truncate the lengthy water suit by excluding evidence of alleged illegal California use in Imperial Irrigation District. Government aimed to finish the case in two to three days, with witnesses noting refuges at Cibola Havasu Salton Sea and Imperial Dam could require up to 100000 acre feet of water.
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San Francisco
ULP
Simon H. Rifkind
California
Imperial Irrigation District
William Taylor
the Fish and Wild Lifes ‘Service
Cibola
Havasu
Salton ‘Sea
Imperial Dam
Hayward Man Awarded 156250 in Train Accident Settlement
Cassidy Casidy a Hayward resident lost both legs in a Newark train accident on September 8 and received an out-of-court settlement of 156250 in San Francisco ending a 500000 federal suit filed by William Rae. Cassidy, 36, of 1791 Lafayette Ave, Arizona, claimed Southern Pacific Co. exposed landowners to water fate from federally financed projects. He slipped while moving between cars and was struck by a tank car. Married with four children, he had worked for the railroad six years.
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Hayward
Newark
Acciden
San Francisco
William Rae
Casidy
Lafayette ‘Ave
Arizona
Isdacreds Hayward
Southernisne
Inper- Pacific Co
Jaw Valley
Cassidy
Railroad
Holdup at San Jose Bank Totals This Year Soars
UnitedPress report from San Jose notes a bank holdup at First National Bank pushing the yearly tally beyond a previous mark. Details are scarce, but the incident adds to a rising trend of armored-vehicle and bank raids in the region this year.
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San Jose Bank
San Jose
First National Bank
Paratroopers Clash With Venice Mob After Bank Theft
In Venice a mid day clash broke out as 100 police freed six U S paratroopers trapped in a hotel after locals besieged them for tearing down a Communist election poster. A gunman fled into the crowd after grabbing money from a teller. The bank had earlier lost 6500 to a bandit in February.
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Ig Wien
Venice
Italy
Rine
Teller Christine Powell
Canal City
Ahery
Blaze ends Atherton tree house dispute
A fire destroyed a controversial tree house built by Kenneth Templeton age 9 and his brother John in Atherton. Officials indicated it may have been incendiary, noting kerosene odor as Assistant Fire Chief Charles Compe described the blaze as likely arson. The structure had drawn town zoning complaints earlier in the week.
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Atherton
Kenneth Templeton
John
San Francisco
Peninsula
Charles Compe
Eisenhower Proposes Antarctic Peace Treaty Open Scope
President Eisenhower proposed a 12 nation Antarctic treaty to designate the region a peaceful scientific testing ground. He invited Russia and 10 others Argentina Australia Belgium Chile France Japan New Zealand Norway South Africa Britain to conference. The plan seeks open access, joint administration, and post year 1957 cooperation through the international geophysical year.
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Ins
Eisenhower
U.S
Othr
South Pole
Russia
Argentina
Australia
Begium
Chile
France
Japan
New Zealand
Norway
South Africa
Britain
United States
Antarctica
Dulles on Way to NATO Meet On Summit Bid
Secretary of State Dulles heads to Denmark for NATO talks to break deadlock on a European summit. Western powers insist on pre-summit interviews while Russia vetoes Arctic inspection and demands include Poland and Czechoslovakia.
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Copenhagen
John Fossia
Dulles
Denmark
NATO
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Europe Inc
New Hampshire
Red
N. H
Ace Ey
Cis
Arctic
Liciews
Soviet Union
U.N
Genisummit
Min
Ister
Andrei Gremyko
Warsaw
Veto
Mats
Ont Nations
Paul Henri“Spaak
Belgium
U S Rejects Poland Plan For Nuclear Free Europe
The United States rejected Poland's Rapacki plan to create a nuclear free zone in Central Europe. A note delivered from Washington to Warsaw explained that banning nuclear weapons in Poland, West and East Germany, and Czechoslovakia would undermine NATO and require a Russia guarded international ban with foolproof inspection.
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INS
U. S
Poland
Rapacki
Europe
Warsaw
Jacob Beam
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Adam Repacki
NATO
U.S
West Germany
Russia
State Department
Polang
Bomb Found In 2nd Plane
Police found an unexploded bomb in the gasoline tank of a Seaplane owned by Fresno rancher after authorities found a similar device in the tank of another plane from the same owner. Mechanics discovered the first bomb overhauled in Fresno Friday. The second bomb was found Friday at Long Beach Municipal Airport in a Crockett owned plane offering for sale. The device had been in the lab for months and had been triggered but failed to explode.
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Long Beach
Fresno
W. A. Crockett
Crockett
Long Beach Municipal
Prayer for Today Blesses Family Unity and Grace
A prayer asks the Almighty Father to unite many families into one world family and to teach living together with mutual affection and understanding. It seeks forgiveness for impatience and requests kindness and graciousness in all times.
Aircraft Firms Refuse Terms in Possible Strike
Los Angeles AP reports industry wide air craft missile strike threat grows as unions reject two year offers from Douglas and North American with 2.11 cent hourly raises first year and 3 percent second year. Lockheed negotiators labored through the night and may reconvene Monday as 125000 workers across 16 plants face a looming showdown.
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Los Angeles
Douglas
North American
Lockheed
Harry
Malcom
International Association’. of Machinists
United Auto
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