Notorious TV repairman led police to desert killings
A confessed LA area strangler identified three bodies near Escondido and Indio, stating he killed them after rapes. He described the method using rope and a pistol, and a fourth would-be victim escaped when officers arrived during a struggle on the Santa Ana Freeway.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Los Angeles
Escondido
San Diego
Shirley Ann Loy Bridgeford
Sun Valley
Ruth Rita Mercado
Indio
Riverside County
Judy Ann Dull
West Hollywood
Glatman
Lorraine Vigil
New York
Colorado
Joel Hays
Orange County
India
Here
George Williams
Pasadena
Lonely Hearts Club
Miss Vigil
Gastonia Plans Huge Shop Center
John Akers of Akers Motor Lines announced a major expansion of the Akers Shopping Center in Gastonia North Carolina. The 13 store center will grow to 40 buildings at about two million dollars with a parking lot expansion to 2000 spaces and five acres to 26 acres. Construction is set to begin in early 1959.
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Gastonia
N.C
John Akers
Akers Motor Lines
Akers
Classified ad for free kittens travels in Shelby
A Shelby classified ad offers free kittens with contact by phone Huxley 2 1783. The brief note reads Have cat. Did travel.
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Shelby
Shelby Daily
Huxley
Centennial reflections urge spiritual growth over mere aging
Centennial celebrations spread nationwide as communities seek maturity. Authors urge looking beyond material progress to assess spiritual growth and lessons learned over a hundred years, warning that beards alone do not confer prophetic power and that divine presence guides love, peace, and eternal life.
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God
Shutdown Planned as TWA Flight Crews Threaten Strike
Trans World Airlines faces a possible shutdown tonight if 6700 IAM machinists halt work, risking furloughs for 19000 employees. The wage dispute centers on contract coverage and classifications, with a 15 percent retroactive raise proposed but rejected.
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Kansas City
Trans World Airlines
TWA
International Assn. of Machinists
Capital Airlines
District 142
IAM
Union Paladin
Socumas Andations
Woman Hits Information Booth at Garden State Parkway
Esther Van Moppes asked for directions at an information booth run by Cyrus England in Irvington New Jersey. She then drove into the booth and was issued a summons for careless driving.
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Irvington
N.J
Cyrus England
Esther van Moppes
Garden State Parkway
Miss van Moppes
England
Wheatley Witnesses Testify At Army Court Martial
At Fort Jackson South Carolina defense witnesses testifying for 1st Lt. Gerald L. Wheatley 23 of Bridgeton New Jersey describe him as a capable officer while senior deputy commander Brig Gen William R Woodward misses a scheduled appearance due to a breakfast conference and a post fire. A 15 inch gold plated trophy for training excellence is shown as a defense exhibit.
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FT. Jackson
S.C
Gerald L. Wheatley
Bridgeton
N.J
William R. Woodward
Wheatley
Base Public Information Office
Hallie B. Henry
Sullivan's Island
Nationalists Mark Chiang Birthday
Nationalists on Formosa celebrate Chiang Kai shek's 72nd birthday with fireworks music and parades. In Quemoy occasional Communist shells and a brisk artillery exchange occur. Chiang spends the day in seclusion, still hoping for a mainland return via revolt with Formosa support.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kaishek
Quemoy
Chiang
Chikow
Chekiang
Reds Demand Forever Ban as Talks Open in Geneva
In Geneva, Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarapkin pressed for an immediate permanent suspension of nuclear testing under international control. The United States and Britain announced a conditional one year halt effective last midnight, contingent on Moscow stopping tests too.
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Geneva
Russia
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
United States
Britain
Tsarapkin
Soviet Union
Reporter Flies Into Atomic Cloud Eyeing Nevada Tests
AP reports Lt Bill Krull 27 from George Iowa tests the atmosphere aboard a B57 jet at Yucca Flat. He gathers air samples and measures peak and average radioactivity while flying through a slag experiment cloud. Samples go to Livermore Lab for analysis.
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Atomic Test Site
Nev
Bill Krull
Bill
George
Iowa
Kirkland Field
Albuquerque
Yucca Flat
Counter
Livermore Radiation Laboratory
California
Scrap Iron Cocktail Alarms Medical Men
The new bootleg drink known as the scrap iron cocktail alarms medical professionals. Made from yeast corn meal sugar rubbing alcohol and moth balls with a dash of Clorox for faster fermentation it causes tremors hallucinations and delirium tremens-like symptoms. A study of 50 cases by Dr. Richard H. Gadsden and Drs. R Ramsey Mellette and William C. Miller Jr. of Charleston notes severe mental and physical effects that end when drinking stops.
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Sym
Richard H. Gadsden
R Ramsey Mellette
William C. Miller Jr
Charleston
D.C
Fire destroys Oakhurst school in Charlotte area
A dramatic early morning blaze gutted Oakhurst elementary and junior high near Charlotte leaving a loss estimated over a half million dollars. About 400 firefighters from Mecklenburg County and six departments fought the fire, which started near wiring by the principal’s office, with arson not suspected and no injuries reported.
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Charlotte
N.C
Oakhurst
Mecklenburg County
S. C. Tadlock
End of Nuclear Tests Sparks Nevada Fallout Furor
The United States ends nuclear weapon testing at midnight amid renewed concern over radioactive fallout. Eisenhower suspends tests for a year, with U S Britain and the Soviet Union to decide on extensions. A last shot failed to trigger due to high winds, while Los Angeles reports elevated radioactivity not deemed hazardous by officials.
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Atomic Test Site
Nev
Los Angeles
Norris Poulson
AEC
Washington
W. F. Libby
Nevada
Libby
Pasternak Told to Leave Russia Following Nobel Rejection
Moscow radio broadcast in ten languages urged Boris Pasternak to exit the Soviet Union saying no Soviet citizen wants to breathe the air he does. Pasternak declined the 1958 Nobel Prize amid Soviet pressure and later rejected the prize money. Royalty disputes and publisher Feltrinelli's statements followed amid ongoing controversy.
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London
Moscow
Boris Pasternak
Soviet Union
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak
Stockholm
Alsu
Doctor Zhi
Gian Giacomo Feltrinellie
Milan
Feltrinelli
Italy
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Shirley Ann Bridgeford
R. L. Dieffenbacher
NEA
Ooll
Cliff Miller
Put Miller
Mark Chiang
Mainland
Reds
Associated Press
James J. Wadsworth
David Ormsby‘Gore
Dulles
Andrei Gromyko
Selwyn Lloyd
Kremlin
Lloyd
Arctic Proving Grounds
U.S
Pacific
Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Assn
South Carolina
Charlotte School
President Eisenhower
Atomic Energy Commission
George M. Uhl
Health Dept
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