Blizzard Pounds East Leaving Thousands Snowbound
A brutal 60 mph blizzard slammed the East with 23 to 28 inches of snow in parts, stranding 1,000 Boy Scouts across five counties and closing roads. State police rescued motorists while airports and transit faced delays. dozens of snowbound camps and shelters were set up, with Girl Scouts and adults among those accounted for in Pennsylvania and New York.
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N.Y
Great
Boy Scouts
Long Island
Pennsylvania
Hemburg
Particul Housedale
Upstate
York
New York
Goose Pond
Florida
New Canaan
Oie
Ederal
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Lucketts
Five Klansmen confess school bombing plot in Charlotte
Five Klansmen in Mecklenburg County confess to planning to dynamite Woodland School after being arrested with dynamite and detonators. Four face charges for burning a cross at the school on February 5, with additional arrests expected as police tie the plot to a synagogue bombing attempt in Charlotte.
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Polite
Mecklenburg County
George Stevens
Woodland
State Secret Society
John Moody Dies and Moody's Service Founder
John Moody, 189, founder of Moody's Investors Service, died Sunday at Scripps Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. A former newspaperman who turned to banking in 1890, Moody gained worldwide fame as a financial analyst. The service he founded now supplies vast information to banks, investment houses, and business executives. Moody moved to La Jolla from New York last October and entered the hospital two weeks ago.
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LA Jolla
John Moody
Moody's Investors Service
Scripps Memories Hospital
Moody
Mooney
New York
Amateur gunman shoots knee during practice on trail to Saddleback
Silverado Canyon sheriff's deputies report Arthur J. Childress, 20, of Norwalk, was wounded in the left leg when a handgun fired during a fast draw drill in a remote area near Old Saddleback Mountain. His companion James E. Bowman, 21, Downey, was with him as they practiced. He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Orange for treatment.
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Silverado Canyon
Back Mountain
Arthur J. Childress
Maza St
Norwalk
St. Joseph's Hospital
Orange
Sheriff's Deputies
James E. Bowman
Pellett St
Downey
Teney
Tong Beach Harbor
Los Angeles Harbor
Fred Stevenson
Fog Disrupts Area Traffic
Dense coastal fog snarled Sunday traffic from Orange County to Long Beach and Los Angeles, grounding ships outside harbor and forcing a patrol shift to all vehicles. Several vessels collided without injuries as pilots reported poor visibility and pedestrians wandered amid the blanketing mist.
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L. Arques
Aquires
Long Beach Harbor
Los Angeles
California Highway Patrol
Compton
Orange County
Garien Grove
Air liner pirated in Korea lands near Pyongyang
ROK intelligence traced a passenger who abducted the plane after it landed at Sunan, 20 miles north of Pyongyang. Four or five suspects could have motive to seize the Boeing, with several passengers using fictitious names on the Puisan manifest. The U N Command is tracking the aircraft’s disappearance amid weather making navigational error unlikely. The jet departed from Pusan early Sunday for Seoul and was last heard at 11:53 am over Taegu’s mountains.
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Lakewood
Artesia
Lynwood
Newport Beach
Destina
Pinvoan Fant
Wman
Fed- Pilots
Sunan
Pyongyang
ROK
Puisan
Jeff Pusan
Seoul
Taegu
Army Tank Clears Snow For Expectant Mother Rescue
In Washington New Jersey a National Guard tank was dispatched from Phillipsburg to rush Mrs Oscar Dancy to hospital as heavy snow blocked roads. Doctors said she was in labor after the storm. Separately in Virginia 18 Girl Scouts were rescued from Camp Potomac Woods when a blizzard trapped the camp road.
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National Guard
Oscar Dancy
Montana Mountain
Here
Phillipsburg
Dancy
Potomac River
Virginia
Arlington
Potomac Woods
Leesburg
Army
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