Survivor recounts struggle during Hurricane Audrey
Mrs. R. A. Cooke, wife of a Louisville electrical contractor, tells how she survived Hurricane Audrey in Creole Louisiana. She arrived with her mother and sister-in-law and found relatives missing and feared dead. The narrative places her at a refugee center in Lake Charles as the storm's impact unfolds.
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R. A. Cooke
Hirbcane
Audrey
Cooke
Louisville, Iy
Creole
Mat Wetnesday
Louisville
O. L. Richards
W. K. Evans Jr
Lake Charles
Storm Death Toll Seen Between Four Hundred and Five Hundred
Louisiana Governor Earl Long tours Cameron Parish after Hurricane Audrey damage. Officials report 140 bodies found, 127 received at a Lake Charles receiving center, with 25,000 to 30,000 homeless and 200 or more missing. Long estimates dead and missing may exceed 400 in Cameron Parish. Creole area hit hard. Grand Chenier less affected. Civil defense figures vary, as identification proceeds and victims are sent to mortuaries.
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Lake
Charles
la Ti
Earl Long
Toursiana
Audrey
Eisenhower
Raymond Huth
Civil Defense
Shed No. 4
Lake Charles Flocks
Louisiana
Dick Roberts
Missing rector returns from death in Grace Cathedral
The Rev. Andrew Daughters 21 rector of Pasco Washington returned Sunday at Grace Cathedral San Francisco after being believed drowned April 26 in Lake Coeur dAlene Idaho. He described crawling from a long tunnel and recalled his name, then spoke with his supposed widow Carlene before flying to Portland and home where his congregation held memorials and funded an education trust for his four sons.
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San Francisco
Idaho
Grace
Andrew Daughters
Episcopal Church
Pasco
Wash
Associated Press
Carlene
Portland
Ore
Grace Cathedral
Richard Byfield
Byfield
J. Warold Fleharty
Spokane
Father Quizzed in Death of Girl
A frail 12 year old girl described as brilliant and heiress to 153000 died from injuries after an argument with her father. Police questioned Nancy Elaine Blakely's parents as they offered conflicting accounts of the incident. The mother said the father slammed the child against a wall. the father said he only gave her a shovel and she fell.
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San Francisco
Nancy Elaine Blakely
Irma Blakely
Hame
Ralph Me
Robert O. Blakely
City Employees Weigh Wage Hike and Health Plan
City workers seek a pay raise and health insurance. City Manager backs 5.5 percent payroll increase, about $20 monthly, saying that is the budget limit for this year. A health plan would cost roughly 1.5 percent of payroll, leaving a 4 percent raise. Continued on Page A-10.
Seven Die as Missouri Flood Drowns Family Members
Tornadic winds and heavy rain struck Iron County Missouri on Sunday killing seven people six from a farm family. The Kitchens family perished in a flooded ditch off Missouri Highway 21. Albert Batteral 65 of Old Mines drowned while inspecting storm damage. Nine inches of rain were reported at Hermann on the Missouri River. Arthur Wilson of Arcadia found the stranded family as they rode toward Staniteville. The Kitchens couple Evelyn 35 and Robert Jr 8 survived with their 1-year-old Dennis Ray.
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Ironton
Missouri Hwy. 21
Here
Iron County
Albert Batteral
Old Mines
Weather Bureau
Hermann
Missouri River
Gasconade County
Highway Patrol
Kitchens
Robert Jr
Arthur Newton
Evelyn Elaine
Thomas
Dennnis Ray
L Survives 2000-Foot Fall On Swiss Peak
A rescue team reached Piz Palu foot and found one Italian climber alive after ten members fell from the 14000-foot summit. Five bodies recovered. four others still missing, presumed buried under snow and rock. Sergio Basani survived with nonlife threatening injuries.
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Pontresbina
Switzerland
Piz Palu
Tmountain
Sergio Basani
Ex-Diaper Girls See One Wed Ex-Diaper Girls See One
Charleen West married Richard Wilford at Lakewood Village Community Church. Three of her four friends attended. Jacqueline Foster was absent missing church and reception. The five girls and their mothers formed a lifelong bond from East Los Angeles Hospital in 18 years ago.
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Los Angeles
Charleen West
Richard Wilford
Lakewood Village
Charleen
Fromm
Mon
Lovely
June Findley
Linda Fowler
Shirley Ringland
Jacqueline Foster
Rand
East Los Angeles Hospital
Montebello
Jacqueline
M . Roy Foster
Sun Explosion Triggers Global IGY Start
A solar eruption struck Earth Sunday sending magnetic storms and radio blackouts feared for 24 hours. The flare launched the 18 month International Geophysical Year beginning at 5 p m Sunday with 61 nations coordinating vast earth and space studies led by A H L Shapley of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Washington
International Geophysical Year
IGY
Earth
A. H L. Shapley
National Acadedy of Sciences
Moscow
Shapley
Weatherman Shifts to Musical Comedy Career
The weather forecast hints sun today but uncertainty remains as a veteran forecaster abandons the field for theater. He plans a musical called Yokohama, an Oriental take on Oklahoma, with a Japanese cast and songs like The Singer on Top.
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Sun Toda
Yokohama
J. WM
Alren
Long Beach man dies in Santa Ana Canyon crash
A 44 year old Long Beach man, Howard Lloyd Corbit, a merchant marine firefighter, was killed early Sunday when his car veered off Santa Ana Canyon Road east of Mohler Drive near Santa Ana and struck an embankment. He was thrown from the vehicle. no witnesses reported the crash which occurred shortly before 1 a.m.
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Long Beach
Santa Ana Canyon
Mohler Dr
Santa Ana
California Day Patrol
Howard Lloyd Corbit
Merchant Marine
Delta Ave
Highway Patrol
Corbit
Freighter Natelie Fire Brought Under Control in Yokohama
A stubborn fire aboard the U S freighter Natelie was brought under control after a 15 hour battle in Yokohama Japan. The blaze started shortly after the 6111 ton vessel arrived from San Francisco on Saturday.
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Yokohama
Japan
UPI
U.S
Natelie
San Francisco
Deceptive Sun Causes Beach Rescue Spree in Long Beach
Long Beach lifeguards rescued 34 people from swimming and boating mishaps as Sunday drew over 260000 sun seekers. Fourteen swimmers were rejected at three beaches and twenty others were aided after small boats overturned. Injuries included a 1 inch laceration to William Kowoloff and a toe wound from a boat propeller. Robert Simpson and Join McClelland were treated or admitted for more serious injuries.
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Long Beach
Alamitos Bay
Comrade Lagoon
William A. Kowoloff
Avalon Blvd
Wilmington
Colorado Lagoon
Community Hospital
Robert B. Simpson
Bennett Ave
Marine Stadium
Joseph McClelland
Los Angeles
Rainbow Pier
Seaside Hospital
Independent court martial vows to carry on missiles fight
Col John Nickerson pledges to pursue his missiles fight regardless of Army transfers. Rep Joseph Martin of Massachusetts argues that Red China would collapse within two years if Western trade were cut off.
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John Nickerson
Joseph Martin
Rmass
Red China
Mrs Kefauver Involved In Washington Car Crash
Police investigated an auto mishap injuring Asst. Secretary of State Walter Robertson when his car was struck by one driven by Mrs. Estes Kefauver wife of Sen. Kefauver. Robertson treated for a dislocated vertebra. both cars damaged. details and charges to be decided by the DC corporation counsel.
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Washington
Walter S. Robertson
Estes Kefauver
Corporation Counsel
District of Columbia
Kefauver
Tennessee Ll
U. S. Fort Eastern
Robertson
Bethesda
Naval
Massachusetts Ave
Nne
22Nd Street
North
West Washington
Celerator
Richard J. Wallace
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United Press
Dorothy
Cameron Parish
Long
Cameron
Grand Chenier
Leng
Larry W. Stevenson
Calcasieu Parish
Stevenson
Cover D'Alene
Charles May
Kennewick
Maya
Lac
Missouri
Arthur Wilson
Arcadia, Mo
Staniteville
Wilson
Evelyn
Sheriff's
Mt. Fall
Ken Knight
Charlton- West
Paul Findley
Roy Foster
Carl Fowler
John Ringland
Weatherman
New Field
L.B. Man
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