Rescued from cave-in in Cambridge City Indiana
Wilbur Harold, 42, was lifted alive after an eight hour rescue from a well beneath his basement in East Germantown near Cambridge City. Trapped 20 feet down, he and two helpers were freeing a broken water pipe when shale and gravel buried him. Police diverted traffic as rescuers supplied oxygen and, using kitchen spoons, cleared debris into a milk can hoisted to the surface.
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Cambridge City
Ind
Wilbur
Pete) Harold
Harold
East Germantown
Edward Wicks
U. S. 40
Civil Defense
Pete
Russia claims megaton range test in Soviet territory
Washington reports Russia set off a nuclear explosion in the megaton range within Soviet territory. The Atomic Energy Commission said the atmospheric disturbance lasted about 30 seconds. Japan quickly deduced a powerful weapon was detonated and noted the Soviet shot size was not specified. Observatories in Okayama detected a violent atmospheric disturbance as the test site location remained imprecise.
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Washington
Russia
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Japan
General Meteorological Observatory
Tokyo
Okayama
Honshu
China
Fumes Kill 4 Boys in Parked Car Near Wilkes-Barre
Four young men from Scranton were killed by carbon monoxide in a parked disabled car along High Way 135 west of the Red Rock Air Force Base. Coroner and state police reported the victims James Supeck Joseph Supeck Patrick Barry 18 Edmond Dombroski 17 were found as the car’s engine ran. Corporal Charles Givler saw the scene shortly before 10 am.
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Wilkes-Barre
Here
James
Joseph Supeck
Patrick Barry
Edmond Dombroski
Scranton
Charles Givler
Slong
Red Rock Air Force Base
Givler
Army plans Jupiter multi stage launcher for 500 pound satellite
Maj. Gen. John D. Medaris announced that the Jupiter intermediate range missile will be used before long to launch a 500 pound satellite into orbit. He said several heavier satellites would precede the 500 pound test and that a second Explorer satellite may be placed into orbit using Jupiter as the first stage of a multistage carrier.
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Winter Park
Fla
John D. Medaris
Army Missile Development
Medaris
Ballistic Missile Agency
Huntsville
Ala
Army Fis
Cape Canaveral
TWO DEPUTY SHERIFFS WED IN JAIL
In Tipton Indiana deputies John Axling and Sandra Anne Grimme wed inside the Tipton County Jail during a Sunday ceremony. Sheriff Paul Grimme officiated in front of the cellblock door as his daughter, also a deputy, married Axline, who serves with Marion County sheriff's highway patrol in Indianapolis.
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Tipton
Ind
Tipton County
John Axling
Sandra Anne Grimme
Paul Grimme
Harold Davis
Tipton Presbyterian
Axline
Marion County
Sheriff's Highway Patrol
Indianapolis
Oceanfront Hospitality in a Beachfront Hotel
A battered ad describes a seaside hotel with boulevard to ocean access and private entry rooms. It touts a large dining room facing the sea, room rates around 24.50 per week, and meals including steaks and turkey. Breakfast is also offered.
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Ocean
Odd Chicken Tracks Found on Ocean Floor
New York UPi reports tracks discovered 7,000 feet deep in the central polar ocean by Columbia University scientists. The photographer team, drifting on Arctic ice, photographed mysterious markings dubbed chicken tracks. Researchers led by Dr Kenneth Hunkins seek explanations for the formations amid marine life in the area.
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New York
Upi
North Pole
Columbia University
Botttom
Polar
Kenneth Hunkins
Lamont Geological Observatory
Palisades
Hunkins
Columbia
Arctic
Airplane Crash in Mexico Kills Three From Lompoc
Three Californians from Lompoc died in a Mexico plane crash near San Felipe Baja California. Carl Kapper 45 city attorney Lloyd Moore 50 lumber company owner and pilot and Leon Clayton 59 field foreman Murphy of Murphy Equitable Life Assur. The aircraft crashed and exploded near the Gulf of California coast while en route to an offshore fishing port on Feb 28.
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EL Centro UW
Mexico
Carl Kapper
Lompoc
Lloyd Moore
Leon- New York Ati
Ray D.jard Clayton
Murphy
Union Oil Co
Life Insurance
Santa Barbara
Dustry
Arthur Wil- Murphy
Board of Equitable Life Assur-Moore
Society of the United
San Felipe
Gulf of California
Baja California
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