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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1959
Page
10
University of Pittsburgh professor Dr. John W. McCarthy aged 47 fell from the 13th floor after freeing himself from his wife and a colleague who were holding his feet. Police said he hung outside the window before releasing and plunging to his death. He left a wife and two sons and studied at Harvard Columbia Temple and Union universities.
A 15-man group armed with clubs and pipes stormed the Nahant police station to free Donald Stinson, 27, a drunkenness detainee. Patrolman Badger fired a warning shot and struck two assailants, while others fled and later faced riot and assault charges. Several were later captured at a roadblock and at Lynn Hospital amid bruises from the altercation.
The nation endures a split pattern with cool air in the Northwest and Dakotas while the eastern half remains hot and humid. Readings vary from the 50s to 60s in the cool belt, and parts from New England to West Virginia see pleasant 60s at night. Scattered thundershowers are possible elsewhere as fair conditions hold in the southeast and northern Atlantic coast.
An unusual tape recording of the Wasp explosion and fire is studied by a Navy board. The recording captured the blast and crew reaction when a helicopter engine exploded during testing in a hangar aboard the carrier Wasp, 250 miles off Virginia. One officer died, another airman perished later, and 28 were injured but not seriously. Damage to the ship may exceed five million dollars.
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