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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1956
Page
2
Ford Williams, 30, of Spartanburg South Carolina, survived a gas explosion that burned his home. He told police he smelled gas on returning home and struck a match to inspect, causing the blast.
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The Ottoman Turks emerge in the early 13th century and build an empire spanning from the Persian Gulf to the Polish frontier and from the Caspian Sea to Oran in Algeria.
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HAL BOYLE reports on Emergen cies Dont Wait Week urging Americans to trim preventable deaths in peacetime. He cites 1 788 expected accidental deaths and 173 671 injuries in the coming week with causes ranging from firearms to falls and gas leaks. Hawthorne offers safety tips and notes October as peak risk month.
Moscow radio broadcasts in Arabic accuse Western powers of arming Israel and training Israeli officers in NATO states. The Kremlin outlet labels Israeli raids on Jordan as provocative while omitting Arab attacks on Israelis, fueling hysteria among Arabs.
Three year old Paul Numsen watched a fire swallow a farm barn in Waukegan Illinois. The barn collapsed as firefighters arrived and was destroyed with damage estimated at five thousand dollars.
About 75 freshmen at Claremont Men's College abducted Ted Detterman the 19 year old sophomore president last night and sent him on a one way free ride to New York aboard a charter airliner. Freshman spokesman Frank Frye 18 of San Diego said the class of 1960 aimed for “something bigger and better than ever” in hazing.
In Venice California a speeding car pursued by police crashed into a porch just after midnight. 104 year old Susan Rowe described the event as shocking. Gerald A. Mapes, 25, was booked on suspicion of drunk driving after recent release from a forgery sentence.
Portland police pursued an automobile thief who fled into brush on Saturday. Two German shepherds tracked separate trails and then engaged in a dog on dog fight. Offcers separated them and both dogs were treated. the thief escaped.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, 56, prolific novelist of 16 works including Our Miss Bob and The Great Answer, died at her Beverly Hills home after a brief illness. A teacher and lecturer, she published The Year of Love last month and a movie version is planned.
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