Flooding Forces 100 From Homes in San Antonio
Torrential rains drenched northern and western San Antonio on Monday forcing more than 100 residents from their homes. Police and fire crews rescued stranded people and motorists trapped in flooded autos as 4.35 inches fell in a day, raising the 24 hour total to 6.98 inches. It ranked as the second heaviest rainfall in the city, behind the 7.08 inch record of Oct 12, 1913.
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Dallas
San Antonio
San Antonio Weather Bureau & Records
68 000-Lb Truck Hits Car Kills One Fontana Highway Fatal
A 68 000 pound sand laden truck crashed into an auto on Etiwanda Ave Fontana, killing Roy S. Davidson 64 who failed to stop from a side street. Truck driver Joseph P. Wood 51 Riverside and another motorist Robert V Christman 45 Brea were injured. The collision also involved a second car driven by Christman.
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Fontana
Roy S. Davidson
Cypress St
Etiwanda Ave
Joseph P. Wood
Victoria Ave
Riverside
Davidson
Robert V- Christ- Man
S. Maple
Wood
Christ
Policeman Shot Dead by Girl in Lewiston Maine
Lewiston patrolman Paul J. Simard, 32, was killed by a single shot as he tried to persuade 14 year old Sandra Knowlton to return home. The girl, who had run away after an argument, was taken into custody. a .22 caliber waffle was used in the incident.
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Lewiston
Maine
Paul J. Simard
Sandra Knowlton
Woolds
Leo Rancourt
Ralph Fraser
Simard
Rancourt
Grenade Held Too Long Injures Algerian Rebel
In Elida Algeria a nationalist rebel held a grenade too long and threw it into a packed gate. The explosion tore off part of his right arm and injured three bystanders nearby.
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Elida
Algeria
UPI
Russian students begin month long US exchange program
Nineteen Russian teenagers arrived in New York by air on Monday to start a month long tour of the United States under the first large scale Russo American student exchange program.
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New York
UPI
United States
Crackup Injures Aviator Lands Copter on Glendale Playground
Max H. Schumacher 82, former Lakewood helicopter pilot, crashed his disabled craft into a tree near Benjamin Franklin School playground in Glendale to avoid hitting children. He suffered a fractured vertebra and will wear a back cast for six to eight weeks. His partner Donn Reed escaped with minor injuries. The two hosted the Opera tion Airwatch traffic reports on KABC since January. Schumacher, ex El Toro Marine, had recently moved to Glendale.
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Lakewood
Max H. Schumacher
Montair Ave
KABC
Donn Reed
Benjamin Franklin School
Glendale
Schumacher
el Toro
Reed
Glendale Memorial Hospital
el Toro Marine
Three Suffer Injuries in Traffic Here
Three people including a police officer and a five year old girl were injured in three separate traffic accidents Monday. Mollie E. Wilson, 60, suffered fractured ribs when two cars collided on 10th Street at California Avenue. Officer David Vernon Radford, 28, was injured in a collision on Ocean Boulevard near Chestnut Avenue. TerryAnn Powell, 5, suffered a broken jaw after being hit on 61st Street near her home. the driver Elizabeth Marie Chapman said the child darted into the road from behind parked cars.
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Mollie E. Wilson
E. St
Robert G. Elmore
Orizaba Ave
Geneva Mae Austin
Oregon Ave
10Th St
California Ave
Austin
David Vernon Radford
Long Beach
Fred Carroll der Hartog
Pescadero St
South Gate
Ocean Blvd
Chestnut Ave
TerryAnn Powell
Nine U S airmen freed by Russians at Iranian border
Nine American airmen were handed over at Astara Iran by Russian authorities after 11 days in Soviet custody over an alleged air space violation. They flew to Tehran for rest and then to Wiesbaden to report to U S European headquarters. The group had been seized when their plane was forced down in Soviet Armenia.
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Tehran
Iran
Wiesbaden
Germany
U.S. Air Force European
Soviet
Armenia
Caspian
Astara
Azerbaijan
Rasht
U. S
Astara Frontier Post
U.S. Army
West Germany
Air Force
U. S. Strategic Air Command
United States
Cyprus
Turkey
Yerevan
Moscow Radio
Washington
Castro’s Rebels Free 3 U S Civilians at Guantanamo
Fidel Castro’s rebels released three more North American civilians at Guantanamo Monday, bringing total freed to 16 since last Wednesday while 30 U S servicemen and three other civilians plus a Canadian remain held. The three men were Sherman Avery White, J Andrew Poll, and James F Stephens Jr.
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Guantanamo
Cuba
LFI
Fidel Castro
U. S
U. S. Navy
Sherman Avery White
New York
Nicaro Nickel
J. Andrew Poll
Grand Rapids
Mich
James F. Stephens Jr
Halmond
Ohio
United Fruit Co
White
Polls
Stephens
Freedom
Castro
Oriente
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Lves
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Fla
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Shupe
Allen
Maj. Allen
Yarlete Migtten
Gina
Gina Lollobrigida
West Berlin
NTR
Det
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Ocean Ave
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