Winds Dwindle in LA Area Fire Still Rages
Southern California battles a forest fire in Angeles National Forest with winds easing to about 20 mph. More than 14,000 firefighters worked to contain the 25,000 acre blaze with calm weather expected. Eight airline passengers injured, Joseph Zucker in critical condition after a windstorm incident with Western Airlines.
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Los Angeles
California
U.S. Weather Bureau
Highlands
Angeles National Forest
Joseph Zucker
Cleveland
Loki
Western Airlines
Inglewood
Cali
Zucker
International Airport
Sailor pleads guilty to drunk in Emeryville
Alvin D. Hutchins, a 38 year old sailor with Oakland Naval Air Station, pleaded guilty in Emeryville Municipal Court to being drunk in and around an automobile and paid a $100 fine. Court testimony showed a blood alcohol of .51 percent at arrest on November 18, a level CHP records say is lethal, though Hutchins survived.
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Emeryville
Alvin D. Hutchins
Oakland Naval’ Air Station
Hutchins
Bank Holdup Suspect Jailed in Oakland Richmond Arrest
Norman Edward Helmes was arrested in Richmond early today on a federal warrant for two Oakland bank holdups. He was seized in a taxicab at 2:10 am and jailed in Oakland city prison for robbery investigation. The FBI charged him with the Nov. 14 theft at American Trust Co. on 18th Street and a Nov. 14 note threat holdup at First Western Bank on East 14th Street and Fruitvale Avenue.
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Oakland
Norman Edward Helmes
Richmond
Halnes
Caktland City
Cameron Wolfe
FBI
Holmes
First Western Bank
14Th Street
Fruitvale
Avenue
American ‘Trust Company
18Th St
Baby Photographer Kills Young Mother in Chicago
William Stacey, 24, a baby photographer, confessed to beating and strangling 16 year old pregnant mother Darlene Todd. He admitted stabbing her eight times with a bread knife then resumed work, photographing 13 babies. Todd was found in her apartment Friday with fatal wounds.
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Chicago
William Stacey
Darlene Todd
Stacey
Todd
Goth Studio
Herbert Barnes J
County Water Unit Proposes State Water Plan Funding
Alameda County Water Resources Committee sent three resolutions to state legislators after a San Leandro meeting. They urge adoption of the California Water Plan, creation of a state water development fund, and funding for Feather River Project including about 30 million for a South Bay aqueduct start. The resolutions follow a Sacramento warning that Southern Alameda County’s underground fresh water reservoir could be irreversibly damaged within three years if new supplies are not found.
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Alaméda ‘County
Whelton
San’ Lavenzo
California Water Plan
Tidelands
Cit
Teveride
Nate
Senay
Feather River
South Bay
Aleda County
Sacramento
U S Meteors Just a Start
Bedford Massachusetts dispatch reports U S Air Force fired pellet sized meteors into space described as only the beginning by scientists. Dr Fritz Zwicky foresees larger slugs to target the Moon Mars and planets while funds for the Feather River and North Bay projects hinge on water dispute progress.
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Mass
Gns
Outer Space
U.S Air Force
Fritz Zwicky
Sun
Moon
Mars
Jupiter
Venus
Banks
Eway
Iucuie Dept
Feather River
North Bay Aqueduct
Air Force
Niles Cone
Alameda Creek
Niles
Bay
Hayward
Objectington
$100 Bill Sparks Arrests in Castro Valley Youth Burglary
A 13-year-old boy attempted to change a $100 bill at First Western Bank in Castro Valley. He and five other youths, aged 13 to 15, admitted to two Thursday burglaries including Castro Valley High School and Mrs. Lillian Fisher’s home, with about $3,00 recovered and $208 missing in cash found hidden at their homes. The boy had tried to cash the large bill after being turned away by several stores.
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Castro’ Valley
First
Western Bank
Shore
Lillian Fisher
Jamison Way
Dept
Hel
Colorado Hunters Do Well on Signs
Denver reports that state highway crews repainted 3000 to 4000 road signs at a cost of 20000 as motorists noted carelessly left signs used for target practice by hunters during the fall season.
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Colorado Hunters
Denver
Ins
Bree
Anos
Tolorado
Carless Sportsmen
Target Br
Radio operators intercept Morse code on Sputnik fall
In Cambridge Massachusetts two amateur radio operators reportedly intercepted a Morse code message claiming the Soviet satellite Sputnik I was falling to earth in Quebec Canada.
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Bulletin
Cambridge, Mass
INS
Quebec
Canada
New Crisis in Mideast Feared Friction Mounts
Tension deepens across the Middle East with Lebanon and Syria at odds over a Syrian parliamentary delegation, a tense Israel Jordan border amid alleged kidnappings and killings, and reports of Syrian troop deployments near the armistice line, fueling fears of a broader crisis.
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Beirut
Middle East
Lebanon
Syria
Israel
Jordan
Girl's Hollywood Dream Shattered in San Francisco Park
In Golden Gate Park a patrol officer reported seeing Nellie Hobbs 35 posing in undress in a parked car with two men Robert Stakie 27 and Michael Bradley 1. All three were booked on charges related to a decoy jewelry scheme as Hobbs claimed scouts offered movie opportunities.
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San Francisco
Golden’ Gate Park
Frank Fahey
Pollicemman
Nellie “Hobbs
City
Robert G. Stakie
Michael R- Bradley
Miss. Hobbs
Hagerty in Paris for NATO Parley
White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty arrived in Paris by plane to survey coverage arrangements for the upcoming North Atlantic Pact Summit Conference. He is examining newspaper radio and television arrangements for the event and coordinating media access.
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Paris
White House
James C. Hagerty
Future Dream World Pictured by Scientists
A New York based INS report notes scientists foresee a century ahead where humans may tailor bodies and offspring, talk mentally, obtain food from sun or synthetic nutrition, and colonize space hotels. It predicts seven billion people with no hunger, emotion control by pills, and eradication of mental illness unless Earth is destroyed first.
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New York
INS
Denver Dragnet Seeks Murder Suspect Kostal After Escape
Denver police warn residents to lock homes and cars as Albert Kostal 37 escapes a Golden jail using a carved pistol. He may have fled in a stolen car and abducted a resident. accomplice Arthur Watson 20 surrendered after a chase. Officers plan intensified citywide search.
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Denver
INS
Albert Kostal
Golden
Job
Taanbu
Koslals
Arthur Watson
Kostal
School Speakers Set to Compete in Fremont District Contest
Ten Alameda County high schools enter the Voice of Democracy contest at Glenmoor School Fremont Monday night with 8 pm start. Winners advance to state and then national finals in Washington DC. List includes Lee Calder Castro Valley Kurt Wiegelmann Washington Union Joan Arlington Hayward Judy Meyers Livermore Bob Pimental Amador Sharon Moody Alameda Pet Green Berkeley Walter Brown David Hardacre Piedmont.
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Fremont
Voice of ‘Democracy
San Leandro
Lee Calder
Castro Valley High
Kurt Wiegelmann
Washington Union
Joan Arlington
Hayward High
Judy Meyers
Livermore Union
Bob Pimental
Amador
Pleasanton
Sharon’.Moody
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Pet Green
Berkeley High
Walter A. Brown Jr
Oakland
David Hardacre
Piedmont High
Mass death by own action by Whales Pondered
Fishermen at the Port of Welshpool 130 miles east of Melbourne speculate that up to 300 twenty foot whales swam ashore and into creeks, considering the event a collective act of self destruction due to tribal trouble as the whales made no effort to save themselves.
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Melbourne
INS
Welshpool
Los Angeles Scraps $12 Annual Tax on Public Bathtubs
Los Angeles city council voted to drop its $12 annual tax on public bathtubs saying the levy is outmoded by progress. City Clerk Walter C. Peterson noted only four barber shops still offer such facilities.
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Los Angeles
INS
Walter C. Peterson
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