Aleutians Earthquake Triggers Tidal Waves Warned
A major Aleutians quake sent tidal waves toward Hawaii and the California coast. Adak Island reports six to seven foot waves with no damage. warnings spread to Hawaii, California, and Pacific stations. Seismologists estimate the quake in the outer Aleutians.
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Pacific Coast
Fairbanks
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
North Pacific
Coast and Gendetic Survey
Adak Island
Hawaii
Coast and Geodesic Survey
Adak
Aleutian Chaic
University of Clalifornia
San Francisco i
State Disaster Office
California
Coast Guard
Pacific Seaboard
Colorado Fugitive Adams Freed After 28 Anxious Years
Colorado Springs recounts the case of John Henry Adams once Norvela R. Clayton a Mississippi inmate who escaped in 1923 and lived undercover in Ramah Colorado. Governor Coleman declined extradition citing ill health and Adams now aged 64 faces no further pursuit while his wife Virginia and police chief Dad Bruce aided his life since January.
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Mississippi
John Henry Adams
Real Freedom
J. FP. Coleman
Adams
Hraith
Adame
el Paso
Ramah
Booneville
Miss
Norvela R. Clayton
Colorado
Ratah
Virginia
Carson
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Dad
Bruce
Montreal Bank Bomber Shot by Police After Standoff
A masked 21 year old, Andre Deblois, in Montreal attempted to rob a Taranto Dorminton Bank branch with 39 sticks of dynamite strapped to his body. He was shot through the neck and wounded after police intervened as he forced workers toward a vault. Police later found a live explosive at Windsor Station and searched other sites for further danger.
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Montreal
Kingdom Come
Conical
New York
Windsor
Andre Deblois
Taranto-Dorminton Bank
Sal
Leo Plousse
California Company expands New Windsor oil field operations
California Company reports a fourth location in the New Windsor oil field in Weld County with Brownell No 1 preparing the site. Victor Henry No 1 in the same field is being tested from Hygiene sand. Initial production estimates are not yet available. In the Pierce field California Company drilled Care Priddy No 3 with cores showing shale and hydrite. Kennedy well in SESW 20068 extends Pierce field and was reported drilling Friday with perforated zones and depth readings.
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California
New Windsor
Weld County
Henry No
Freeze Hits Texas Dallas Texa s
Temperatures rose Saturday in Texas as farmers assessed crop damage from a hard freeze Friday. North Texas logged 49 degrees, central Texas around 63, and Brownsville also reported 63. Texarkana recorded 23, with sub freezing readings near the Oklahoma border.
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Dallas. Tex
Texas
Brownsville
Texarkana
Oklahoma
Austin
Lufkin
FBI Refuses Lie Detector Test for Portland Mayor Schrunk
Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk asked the FBI to administer a polygraph over claims he took a $500 bribe to call off a gambling raid. Senate Rackets Committee counsel Robert F Kennedy announced the FBI declined and said a Secret Service test might be arranged, not before Monday.
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Washington
Terry D. Schrunk
Portland
Ore
Robert F. Kennery
Senate
Secret Service
Kennedy
FBI
Schrunk
Riot Breaks Up in Johannesburg After Beer Queue Riot
Four hundred policemen dispersed a riot outside a Johannesburg hall Friday night as Africans stoned and damaged 30 to 40 automobiles. The unrest started when 390 Africans grew impatient after being told to queue for a refund due to beer quantity concerns.
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Johannesburg
Binder Hearing Recesses Friday in County Court
The Godler Charles Binder will hearing recessed by Judge John J. Dooley after the fourth day of testimony in the county court case over his will dated October 4, 1954. Howard Binder testified among 18 witnesses. prosecutors allege undue influence by Florence Oster and Floyd Binder. Witnesses described Binder as mentally alert before his death December 18, 1955 and named several associates from Denver, Milliken, Johnstown, and surrounding areas.
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John J. Dooley
Honard Linder
Godfrey Charles Binder
Ndt Howard
Binder
Mre
Florence ,Oster
Floyd Binder
Howard Binder
Edward C
Moore
Greeley
Harry Kunz
Tenver
Armour's
Emmadelle Moody
Denver
Armour
Ed Miller
Jonestown
Johnstown Bank
Bir
Joseph H. Hamilton
Milliken
A. G. Trost Jr
Great Western Sugar Company
Johnstown
J. Henry Ziseh
George J. Morgan
GWSC
Aenolf Burger
Thhnston Texaen
Five Year Old Girl Struck by Auto on Seventh Avenue
Ulrich, six, of 1412 Seventh Avenue, suffered bruises and a cut when struck by a car riding north on Seventh Avenue at Eighteenth Street Friday around 3:12 p.m. She was treated and released at Weld County General Hospital. Mrs Eloise Kidder, 410 Twelfth Street, drove the auto. police Officers Joe Miller and William Riger investigated.
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Seventh Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Weld County General Hospital
Dorna
Aur
Eloise Kidder
Twelfth Street
Joe Miller
William Riger
Jessie Wykert
Ault
Colorado State College of Education
William R. Ross
Wykert
CSCE
Greeley Cerebral Palsy Center
Greeley School
Skeets Colvir
Colorado budget in making set at sixty million dollars
A Colorado Legislature subcommittee nears completion of a sixty million dollar state spending plan. Key items include higher education boosts, a possible tuition rise, and reallocation of the Sedan for the Deaf and Blind funds to support state construction and a new health building. Tuition may rise about ten dollars per semester for residents and fifty dollars for out of state students.
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Denver
Colorado
Mouke Senate
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Colorado Springs
Mili
State General Fund
School For
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Blind
Ofice
Senate
Sen
Roth Wdenyee
Mowbray
D-Delta
Tribune Women’s Dept Tops Colorado Press Women Winners
Denver winners announced at the Denver Press Club awards ceremony led by contest chairman Vera Graham. Judges included Mrs. John L. Fris ore Adolph Mayer and William M. Long. Winners span News story Feature and Special article categories with multiple named reporters from Durango Grand Junction Greeley Denver and Sterling among others.
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Colorado Press
Denver Press Club
Wiss Vera Graham
Denver
John L. Fris+ore
Pen Woman
Adolph
Rud) Mayer
Denver University
Wiliam M. Long
Colorado Press Assn
Josephine Miller
Greeley Tribune
Martin
Reva Cullen
Rocky Mountain News
Denver Post
Ballgaline
Helen Bradshaw
Hugo
Colorado Plainsman
Ballaline
Elliott
Cudworth
Beverly Annn Barrell
Greeley
Tribune
Bradshaw
Euligit
Cullen
Margaret Martin
Sterling Journal Advocate
Len Rucker
Marine DI Gets 3 Month Term
A five member court-martial at Parris Island sentenced Marine drill instructor Cpl. William Tt. Welsh of Lyndhurst, N J, to three months hard labor for illegally hazing recruits. The court also fined $80 a month for three months and ordered the sentence served in private. Defense attorney Shields of Mount Vernon vowed to appeal.
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Parris Island
William Tt. Welsh
Lyndhurst
Glen W. Hadney
Japlit Mo
Walsh
É Shields
Mount Vernon
President Signs Middle East Resolution
President Eisenhower signed the Middle East resolution to show readiness to counter Communist aggression in the region. He recommended the proposal two months ago, calling it a forward step toward friendlier relations between the United States and the Middle East.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Middle East
Congress
United States
Story fines cited for William Brown by San Francisco judge
Municipal Judge William O'Brien fined William Brown $16 on Friday with $6 for the offense and $10 for the story. Brown claimed he could not have been speeding at 50 miles per hour on Third Alert as he was changing shoes at the time.
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San Francisco
William O'Brien
William Brown
Brown
Russians Test Atom Weapon and Strike Ends in New York Harbor
A 36 day New York harbor strike ended after workers ratified a new contract and returned to 400 idle tug boats. In Washington, the government confirmed a Soviet atomic weapon test, with AEC chief Strauss noting the blast fell in the range of their recent explosions. The series began last August, the latest detonation reported March 8, 1997, marking the 18th U.S. notice of Soviet tests and the fifth since August. President Eisenhower sent a message about the Russian proving ground somewhere in southwest Siberia.
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International Longshoremen's Assn
National
Itacuima Union
Tenan
Washington
Russia
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Strauss
Soviet Union
ABC
AEC
United States
Pace
Hisenhower
Siberia
Marine Officer Reed Identified in Mead Crash Near Buckley Field
First Lt. James M. Reed 24 a Marine Corps Reserve pilot from Denver died when a propeller trainer crashed on the Anderson Bros farm 42 miles west of U.S. 87 and a mile north of Colorado 254 near Foster Lake. Witnesses estimated the plane at 500 to 1,000 feet, caught fire on impact, and was extinguished by Buckley Naval base fighters and a Longmont crash crew. Local responders included Capt. Sherman W. Nelson and Deputy Sheriff Harry Ads among others.
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Naval Air Station
Denver
Mead
James M. Reed
Marine Corps Reserve
Reed
Selmar A. Reed
Lawson
Oklo
Anderson Bros
U.S. 87
Colorado
Ross Adamson
Foster Lake
Adamson
David E. Manlaya
Gilcver
Lea Steensma
Bill Would End Postal Savings System in 1950s
The House Post Office Committee approved a bill to close the 47 year old postal savings system begun in 1910 to aid rural areas and protect savers. It would shut down when losing money or deposits fall below a set threshold. deposits stood about 1.765 billion dollars with a 1956 profit of 6 million.
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Washington
House Post Office Committee
Walch
Lie Hoover Commission
Colorado House approves divorce bill sent to governor
The Colorado House accepted Senate amendments to the divorce bill and sent it to Gov. McNichols. The measure sets a 60 day waiting period between filing and hearing, ends six intermediaries, and makes divorces final when granted. The session also approved a 102 page banking code bill creating a state banking board and preliminarily approved a bill allowing charges for mesmerism and related practices amid religious freedom concerns.
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Hmer
Colorado
House of Representatives
Senate
McNichols
Halse
Spensors
Fredom
Six Rubber Firms Fined Total 145000 in Price Conspiracy
In a Denver federal case six rubber companies pleaded no contest and were fined a total 145000 for conspiring to raise prices on industrial rubber belts. Gates Rubber Co Denver 30000 Dayton Rubber 30000 Goodyear Tire and Rubber 40000 B F Gandwich Rubber 25000 Rubber Co 21000 Raron Woven Hose and Rubber Co 10000, with judge noting meetings from 1947 to 1954 and each firm’s role.
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U.S. District Court
Jean 5. Breitenstein
Gates Trubber Co
Denver
Dayton Rubber Co
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
B. F. Gandwich Rubber Co
Rubber Co
Raron Woven Hase & Rodeiber Co
Breitenstein
Colorado Weather Local 24 Hour Derive Saturday Summary
Partly cloudy regions with a shift to mostly cloudy by Saturday night and Sunday. Temperatures range from highs near 60 in Boulder and Longmont to mid 50s across southwestern Colorado with lows in the 20s to 30s. Scattered showers may turn to snow I-70 foothills and eastern areas, with wind gusts and a warming trend into Sunday, then cooling late Sunday.
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Suneday
Boulder
Longmont
Jae
Regional Weather Outlook for Wyoming and New Mexico
Regional forecasts show Wyoming cloudy from Saturday through Sunday with scattered snow in the mountains and spreading to lower elevations west of Divide. Saturday night troughs and winds shift, warmer east of Divide on Sunday. Wyoming highs near 50s west to 60s east, lows 15 to 25 in mountains. New Mexico expected fair and warm Saturday with winds in the afternoon, increasing cloudiness and windy Sunday with scattered showers in the northwest.
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Divide
State Suny
New Mexico
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