Prison riot at 102 year old facility causes extensive damage
Inmates set fires in a storage room dining hall and cell block, held staff hostage, and forced tear gas use to disperse them into a snow covered courtyard. About 135 of 249 cells usable, kitchens damaged, and hot meals to be arranged from a state hospital. Prisoners returned to cells after five hours amid cold conditions.
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Statehouse
Meldrim Thomson
Warren B. Rudman
Raymond Helgemoe
Martin Gross
Prison Board of Trustees
Gross
Hunt Reports CIA Considered Assassination for Double Agent
Hunt described a plan to neutralize an Albanian agent working for a hostile service. He said colleagues discussed assassination and that Col. Pash would handle such matters, but Hunt did not pursue the issue. The Senate panel also probes a CIA operative’s murder in Latin America tied to blackmail and a New Orleans hit-and-run disguise.
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Hunt
Col. Pash
Pash
Boris
Senate Committee
New Orleans
Four killed in Christmas Eve furniture store holdup
In Winter Garden Florida police probe an apparent holdup at a furniture store after hours on Christmas Eve leaving four dead and the owner wounded. Victims include Eu nice Zeigler and her parents Perry and Virginia Edwards plus customer Charles May. The survivor store owner W T Zeigler is questioned as authorities consider robbery or other angles.
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Winter Garden
Fla
Don Ficke
W.T. Zeigler
Zeigler
Nice
Perry
Virginia Edwards
Moultrie
Weather and fires cloud holiday in Los Angeles area
Dense fog forced a hour near LAX and limited landings at Long Beach. Christmas fires caused about 225000 in damage. West LA homes burned and a fireman was injured in West Covina. Police described a shooting at a store with multiple fatalities and weapons recovered. officials denied racial violence ties.
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Los Angeles
Monte Mar Terrace
South Swan Drive
West Covina
Frank Williams
Christmas Eve marked by St Peter's bronze door closure
News from multiple places reports Christmas events across Europe and Asia. In Vatican City the bronze door of St Peter's Basilica was bricked up until the next Holy Year in 2000. Cyprus sees leaders and refugees amid Turkish invasion fallout. A London hospital welcomes quadruplets born by cesarean to Anton and Marietta van Dorp. In Tokyo a bakery theft yields an unusual gift for the thief’s children. Budapest hosts a youth party under a Christmas tree with Father Winter impersonator.
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St. Peter's Basilica
Cyprus
Makarios
London
Hungary
Budapest
Father Winter
Santa Claus
Four Tossed Into Sea When Boat Runs Aground
In heavy fog near El Segundo a 25 foot inboard power boat partially capsized off the beach. Four people were thrown into shallow water. two were revived by county lifeguards and hospitalized briefly. Boat owner Robert E. Kady 48 and passenger Dan Baker 38 were uninjured. Charlotte Baker 40 and Ernest Arajo 48 were admitted for treatment.
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el Segundo
South Bay Community Hospital
42Nd Street
el Porto Street
County
Robert E. Kady
Los Angeles
Kady
Dan Baker
Marina del Rey
Baker
Charlotte
Ernest Arajo
Goldwyn Studios Rebirth After Fire Plans
Foreman announces rebuilding of Goldwyn Studios calling it a rebirth not death. Howard Alston of Quinn Martin Productions says interior sets for Cannon will be replaced in about a month with minimal impact on filming. The fortress-like lot, formerly Pickford Fairbanks, hosted Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in the 1920s and later The Best Years of Our Lives and Porgy and Bess. Now owned by the Goldwyn family, it serves mainly as a rental lot for independents.
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Howard Alston
Quinn Martin Productions
Pickford- Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Goldwyn
Pea soup fog cloaks Bay Area airports Christmas Day
Thick fog halted Oakland and San Francisco international airports for over two hours on Christmas Day, diverting more than 20 jets to Las Vegas Reno Palm Springs Los Angeles Monterey and Portland. Conditions eased by evening but Bay Area and Sacramento airports remained closed later due to pea soup fog.
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Oakland
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Federal Aviation Agency
Bay Area
Sacramento
Las Vegas
Reno
Palm Springs
Los Angeles
Monterey
Portland
Ore
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William Conrad
Samuel Goldwyn Studios
Richard Skaggs
New Hampshire
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