Nationwide and local year end travel and statehood notes
National patrols prepare for New Year weekend enforcement with all officers on duty. Holiday traffic fatalities tally hits 52 in saltic incidents. Miss Cotton picks maid. alternates named. A six soldier deaths in Hopkinsville single vehicle crash. Alaska set to become 49th state with proclamation and unveiling at the White House on Saturday.
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Sacramento
Highway Patrol
B. RR. Caldwell
Patrs
Memphis
Moliia Diggs Berry
Stubwater
Okla
Hopkinsvile
Fort Campbell
Here
Washington
Alaska
Firemen Save City Landmark In Downtown Long Beach
Firefighters from Fire Station No. 1 battled a blaze in an upstairs apartment at 32844 Pacific Ave. damaging a historic frame residence once on the city outskirts. The fire started in a large chair, briefly threatening a landmark now hidden by new office buildings and a parking lot.
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Long Beach
Pacific Ave
Ken Knight
Strees
Bia
Herbert Powell
City Council Approves Hospital Insurance Program
The city council approved a comprehensive hospital and medical insurance plan for city employees with an estimated annual cost of 275000 dollars. The notice appears on page A 3 and a related photograph on page A 2 is highlighted.
Three Missing After Tugboat Sinking Off Oregon Coast
Coast Guard and air searchers comb 20 miles off Brookings for three men who abandoned a sinking tugboat in calm seas after striking a submerged object. One believed Southern California bound, owner Harold L. Groves listed as local contact. weather and fog hinder recovery.
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Pacific
Oregon Coast
Ceeses
Coos Bay
Ore
Msi 'T
Ceebee
Harold L. Groves
Coast Guards
Josephine St
Lynnead
Groves
Fy Ae
Storm Hits Midwest Roads Across Several States
A winter storm sweeping from New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle spread snow sleet and freezing rain into Kansas Oklahoma Missouri and North Texas. Roads were snarled as drifting snow began freezing at night with 10 inches reported at Liberal and five inches at Garden City. Wichita logged 3 to 4 inches as motorists freed from drifts began moving.
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Kansas City
New Mexico-Texas Panhandle
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas
New Mexico
Texas Panhandle
West Texas
Colorado
Liberal
Garden City
Wichita
Leilani Proves Troubled Cruise Ship Kept From Hawaii
The 18,500-ton Leilani was drydocked and removed from passenger service to the Hawaiian Islands effective immediately. Textron Inc owns the vessel and refunds are arranged for those with future bookings. The ship had sailed since 1957 between Long Beach, San Francisco, and Hawaii, amid reports of financial losses and a potential sale to American President Lines.
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Leilani
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiiah ‘Textron Inc
San Francisco
Islands
West Coast
Long Beach
American President Lines
Textron
APL
Kederei Maritime Board
Washington, D.C
Hawaii
Getty
Havana
Fulgencio
Hatisla
Soutterels
Batista
Santa Clara
New York
Southern
California
Pacific Tar East Line
Cuba Frees Two Kentucky Teachers Amid Cuba Crisis
Cuban police freed two Kentucky schoolteachers, Larry Brantley and James Reid, after detention for shouting pro rebel remarks at Havana Airport during a layover. Officials said the pair were traveling home from a Caribbean vacation to Louisville. The embassy in Havana is investigating and plans to meet with police headquaters.
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Amanacabls
LesuUay Cebel Radio
Santa Clara
Cuba
Castro Radio
Havana
Jic
Batista
Manuel
iRoberto Francisca
Manusl Perez Benston
New York
Idlewild
New Yor
Munjay
Air
Fidel] Castro
Larry F. Brantley
J James W. Reid
QUBAN
Brantley
Reid
Mide
AUS
Delta
Airlines
Creatioga
Daic
Jj Embassy
Buggy Mare Takes WM To Outer Space
The Wil, dreaming of his nighttime quest, speaks with an assistant about landing on Mars. A fairy creature answers, guiding to a leader who shows a bizarre creature with a syringe on its head described as our reader the Furry with the syringe on top.
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Outer Space
Mars
Fairy Teetle
Inc
Crea
Ture
Measles cases near wartime high in United States
Public Health Service reported Tuesday that more than 750000 measles cases have occurred this year, the highest total since 1941 when 890134 were recorded.
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Waslington
United States
Public Health Service
Record of a Hasty Superior Court Divorce Slump
A two day span saw 58 interlocutory decrees granted in Superior Court as judges strained to clear the default divorce calendar. Judges Sutherland and Francis presided while Judge Beach Vasey used a holiday to accelerate cases, cutting weeks from waits. No new jury trials since Dec. 18 and no divorces heard Friday.
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Kenneth Sutherland
Gorge Francis
Ore
Beach Vasey
Menin Superior Court
Me Einia
Inn
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New State
Pat
Peg
David Falconer
Portland
Firemen
Gasst Guard
Coast Guard
Midwest
Roberto
Carlos Batista
Gotham
Favaia
Castro
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