Bus Flips. Girl Killed In Turnpike Crash
A school bus returning from a Pittsburgh outing overturned on a Pennsylvania Turnpike exit ramp fatally injuring 13 year old Virginia Werr of Donegal and injuring 23 others, two seriously. The bus carried 38 people, mostly Donegal Elementary pupils. Police say brakes failed near the Donegal Interchange.
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Greensburg
Pittsburgh
Virginia Werr
Donegal
Frick Memorial Hospital
Mount Pleasant
Patricia White
Jones Mills
Catherine Kinney
Somerset Community Hospital
Solon Protest Premature Demise Notice
Washington AP reports Senator Karl Mundt of South Dakota protested a book mislabeling him as dead in a volume on budget politics. Mundt called the wording a premature demise announcement. Earlier this year Senator Carl Hayden faced a similar misprint.
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Washington
Karl FE. Mundt
B-S.d
Senator Mundt
Mundt
Carl Hayden
D-Ariz
Plane crashes injure Dr Samuel Fleming in gusty Kansas City airport
Dr Samuel Fleming 47 of Spartanburg DC was injured when his light Cessna 182 crashed during a landing at State Line Airport in gusty winds. He suffered arm fractures and head lacerations but walked from the wreckage and was listed in satisfactory condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The aircraft wing dipped and struck the ground, leaving twisted metal along a path to a shed at the north end of the field.
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Kansas City
Samuel Fleming
Spartanburg
D.C
State Line Airport
Fleming
University of Kansas Medical Center
Take Sabin Vaccine in K C Area
Public health officials reported polio protection expanded as 153 734 people in five Kansas City area counties received Sabin oral vaccine. It was the final dose for most after a March 28 first round with 176 426 participants. About 10 000 volunteers staffed 41 distribution stations in schools.
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K.C
Kansas City
Red Cross
Civil Defense
Police
Wedding Plans Proceed Despite Troop Deployment
In Prospect, Connecticut, Jacqueline Zabbarro learned her fiancé Private Frank Briglia Jr. would return for their May 29 wedding after Army officials arranged his homecoming. Lt. Col. James F. McNab and Representative John Monagan helped facilitate the surprise reunion for the couple, who were thrilled at the news.
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Frank Briglia Jr
Rome
Jacqueline Zabbarro
Jackie
Frank
2Nd Airborne Division
Dominican Republic
James F. McNab
Office of
Army Chief of Staff
McNab
Army
John
Monagan
D-Conn
Briglia
NORAD Underground Command Center Nears Completion
In Cheyenne Mountain Colorado Springs contractors install secret equipment for NORAD’s 89 million dollar underground post. The complex sits 1000 feet inside granite and will house 80 staff in emergencies with dormitories hospital and theater. Continuous data flow from radar satellites subs and aircraft feeds the NORAD commander in under 11 seconds.
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Colorado Springs
Norad Post
Cheyenne Mountain
Colo
Granite Mountain
U.S
Aarne
North American Air & Defense Command
NORAD
Chict
Spe
Alr Forte
North American Air Defense Command
Washington
Strategic Air Command
Ottawa
Canada
Coatral
Combat Operations Center
North America
E Complex
May 25 marks moments in Union history across ages
On this day in 1787 the Constitutional Convention began in Philadelphia to frame the Constitution. Emerson was born in 1803, Stonewall Jackson defeated Union forces at Winchester in 1862, and Stilwell arrived in New Delhi in 1942. Ten years ago Udall tornadoes, five years ago Eisenhower on the U2, one year ago the high court on school integration in Prince Edward County. A placid Walden Pond scene completes the entry.
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Philadelphia
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boston
Stonewall Jackson
Winchester
Winston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Udall
Kan
Blackwell
Okla
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Prince Edward County
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Trudy
Reas
Si. Me
Johnson
Tire & Supply
Nema
Copesay
Army Engineers
Union
Shenandoah Valley
THE
Associated Press
Shenandosh Valey
Yale College
Joseph
Vinegar Joe) Stilwell
New Delhi
India
Burma
Walden
Pilus
Brunswick
All Road Beache
Lex
Env
Owl
Mou
Otasco
Dan Cone
Wordsa City
Kansas
Abe
Rere Ingoly
Great Plains
M. Mein
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