Gold Strike Turns Deadly Mercury Tale into Home Menace
Robert D Thayer found gold flecks on his Anaheim ranch style home and tested ore with nitric acid and mercury. Evaporating mercury spread vapor through the house via forced air heating, hospitalizing Thayer his wife and two children. Cleanup costs reach thousands and insurance won t cover the damage. Thayer remains too ill to work as decontamination and repainting loom.
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Robert D. Thayer
Thayer
Thayers
Mercury poisoning turns home into decontamination case
Betty Thayer recalls how her family of four fell ill after a mercury exposure in March. Doctors treated them and their children, Bobbie and Sterling, with antidotes, but mercury remains in their bodies causing insomnia and memory loss. Neighbors housed the family as specialists planned vaporproof decontamination. measles added to their woes and Thayer ruefully notes finding fool's gold.
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Robert D. Thayer
Anaheim
Bobbie
Thayer
Sterling
Betty Thayer
Bob
Eight West African Republics to Gain U.S. Missions
Washington announced that the United States will send its first trade mission this month to eight French speaking republics in West Africa. The states listed are Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Togo, Niger, Upper Volta, Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania.
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Washington
Luther H. Hodges
United States
West Africa
Dahomey
Wory Coast
Togo
Niger
Upper Volta
Mali
Senegal
Mauritania
Bank Robbery Strikes U S National Bank in Fullerton
A dapper bandit robbed the U S National Bank in Fullerton late Friday, forcing an officer to gather $6,800 from four tellers in a bold daytime heist. No injuries reported. police search underway for suspect description.
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U.S. National Bank
Fullerton
Deputy bondsman charged with imprisoning handcuffed jumper
Clyde W. Childers a 44 year old Indianab a bondsman was arraigned on a felony charge of latching a handcuffed 250 pound bond jumper in the trunk of his car to return him to the midwest. He was released on 5250 bail pending a April 24 preliminary hearing. Charges include false imprisonment and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury. A highway patrolman stopped them at Barstow where Beasley was found in the trunk. Childers said Beasley was wanted in Warsaw Indiana for jumping bail on a misdemeanor check charge. Beasley had been held overnight but was handed over after Indiana authorities confirmed the warrant.
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UPI
Clyde W. Childers
Midwest
Childers
Compton
California
Barstow
Here
Kenneth Beasley
Beasley
Warsaw
Indiana
Tiny hair like wire enables hearing aid users to use phone
Levee SAS Long Beach April 9 announces a midget behind the ear hearing aid with a micro booster coil that lets wearers use the telephone normally. The device amplifies voice over the line while cutting outside noise, and invites readers to request a brochure from Consultant Hearing Aid Service at 339 Fine Ave Long Beach.
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Long Beach
Washington
United States
Adolf
Consultant Hearing Aid Service
Fine Ave
Thieves Scared Off at Liquor Company
A burglary at Young Market Company liquor distributors at 809 W Cowles St left a 360 case whisky taken but witnesses scared three burglars who dropped a case of Vodka. Classified Dial HE 2595 advised for rental notices.
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Young Market Company Liquor Distibutors
Cowles St
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