Oil-Well Fire Causes 450,000 Damage East of Long Beach
A frac well near Pacific Coast Highway and Seal Beach blew in at 1 a.m. triggering a fire that sent flames 200 feet high. Firemen from four Los Angeles County companies aided by Long Beach crews contained the blaze by late morning. Damage totaled about 450,000 to nearby equipment and drilling gear. Traffic chaos on the coast followed as hundreds of cars stalled temporarily.
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Long Beach
Ticnwater Associated O'l Co
Emily
Pacific Coastal
Seal Beach
Los Angeles
Wilmas G. Klassen
Hoover Way
Buena Park
Utitling Lm
Graham & Wlassen
Spal Beach
Tidewater Associated Oil Co
Coast Hwy
Thames
20,000 at Rites as Prince Henri Marries Duchess
In Dreux France Prince Henri heir to a nonexistent throne wed Duchess Meine Theuse of Würtemberg in a grand postwar ceremony. About 20,000 spectators crowded the nearby town for civil and religious rites while over 350 European royals attended the wedding, the largest gathering in 12 years.
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Henri
Dreux
France
Meine-Theuse of Wurtember
Bille
Mavis
Lees and Shakes at Biggest Atom Blast
A Friday test by the Atomic Energy Commission lit the eastern sky at 4:40 am. Spectators in California and Nevada reported a brilliant glow and a mushroom cloud rising miles east, with warnings issued to protect eyes from flash blindness.
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Long Beack
California
Zou
Atomic Energy Commission
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Southland
Lancaster
Sheriff's Depu
Dawao
AEC
Nevada
Red Carpet Preview of Long Beach Pageant and More
Long Beach prepares for a beauty pageant with a Sunday Independent Press Telegram preview. The issue also features Southland Magazine on Darr Zanuels life and Hearst San Simeon now state owned. Abigail Var Byten critiques a Victorian dating dynamic. Angelo Patri asks parents to teach that freedom means lawfulness.
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Long’ Beach
Independent Press-Telegram
Southland Magazine
Castle
San Simeon
William Randolph Hearst
State of
California
Abigail Var Byten
Angelo Patri
305th Death Toll in Hurricane Audrey Reported
Lake Charles La reports the 183rd identified fatality from Hurricane Audrey as searchers in Cameron Parish map blocks and patrols. Veronica Theriot 60 and John Theriot 62 added to the list, with areas showing cars buried in marsh, and authorities warn total deaths may reach 500 to 700 amid huge property losses.
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Lake Charles
Frieay
Audrey
Cameron’ Parish
Louisiana
Gay
Earl Long
Calcasteu
Parish
Harry Snath
Cameron-Lake Charles
Thousand Dead Reported After Tran Earthquake Tragedy
Official figures listed 1 000 deaths and 5 000 injured after last Tuesday s cavastubing earthquake in Tran province. A parliament briefing showed 30 000 homeless and emphasized the scale of the disaster in Iran.
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Tran
Tehran
Iran
Majlis
Knight Okays Two State Colleges and Sites
Gov. Knight signed legislation approving two new state colleges and funding site purchases for two additional campuses. Reported casualty figures from the Caspian area vary, with one count alleging 1,000 dead though not confirmed by officials. The measure, pushed by Assemblyman Car L Eye witnesses, funds site and lead construction for four year institutions in southern Meda and Orange counties.
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Sacramento
Knight
Babul
Bee
D-Hayward
Lea
Meda
Orange
Alaska College Student to Represent State in Miss Universe
Blue-eyed blonde Martha Lehmann, 18, a University of Alaska student, will represent Alaska at the Miss Universe pageant from July 31 to August 2. She stands 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 122 pounds, and measures 34 24 36.
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Martha Lehmann
University of Alaska
Alaska
Long Beach Police to add 15 officers by August
Long Beach officials announced 15 new officers will join the police force by August 12, 12 as additions and the rest as replacements. The class, already in training at Belmont Shore, faces budget approval by the City Council. Names include Creighton Wiggins Jr and Lawrence Ondrick, son of senior patrolman BE Ondrick.
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Long Beach
Sam 3. Vickers
Belmont Shore
Se E
Creighton Wiggins Jr
Lawrence Ondrick
BE. A. Ondrick
Ondvick
Department
Harold
Boy 15 Held After Killing Man in Rage
Midland Tex reports a 15 year old, an inmate of a state boys' school in Galesville, confessed to trying to rob a man, finding four cents, and killing him in a fit of rage. The body of Joe Hampton was found beneath a warehouse in Midland. Police and officers pursued the case. no disposition decided yet.
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Midland
Tex
Dlidland
Robert Ear. Mayfield
State School For Boys
Galesville
Reformatory
Cope Roush
Midland Reporter-Telegram
Bill Keel
Young Mayfield
Joe Haymond Hampton
Midlane
Keel
Sheen
Bus Collision Over Busy Loading Zone Sparks Hospital Visit
Los Angeles man Robert Lee Smith 27 was treated at Seaside Hospital after a bus from Terminal Island Transit Co allegedly bumped his car in a Navy Shipyard loading zone. Police report quotes both Smith and bus driver Paul H. Travis about who moved first and whether the car should be relocated.
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Robert Lee Smith
Los Angeles
Seaside Hospital
Terminal Island Transit Co
T.S, Navy Shipyard
Smith
Paul H. Travis
Magnolia Ave
Travis
Smithy
Smitys
Johnny Smith
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