Folsom Dam Bursts and Flood Averted
The Folsom Dam project suffered a breach in a 110 foot high coffer dam on a Friday night releasing 18,000 acre feet of water at 5 000 cubic feet per second. The flood crest reached 11.6 feet at Folsom and 16 feet at Fair Oaks with Sacramento forecast at 35 feet three feet below danger. Nearly 300 workers escaped unharmed as the upstream dam held and authorities noted no danger to Sacramento. John Dearrieta and J R Morton provided the engineering details and the California Highway Patrol reported the flood threat had passed.
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Amerean River
John Dearrieta
J. R. Morton
Army Engineers
California, Highway Patrol
Sacramento
Folsom
Fair Oaks
Dearrieta
Bus Crashes Into Ocean Blvd Theatre Injuring Fifteen
A Greyhound bus plowed across Ocean Blvd near a downtown theatre, injuring fifteen people and trapping one woman for 75 minutes. The bus collided with a car, scattering pedestrians as it smashed into the United Artists theater, with most victims rushed to hospitals. Police pursued details of the crash as wind and fog cooled a busy scene.
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Gertrude Waldron
Corona del Mar
Greyhound
United Artists Theater
Long Beach
Ocean Blvd
United Artists
Oilmen Demand OPS Decide Adjustments
LOS ANGELES A committee of Independent Oil Producers demands that the Office of Price Stabilization decide on ceiling price adjustments for California petroleum because the state is unable to supply its sell demand.
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Los Angeles
Office of Price Stabilization
California
France’s fragmented politics numb up to six years
France has changed governments 18 times in six years. No party holds a majority. Communists lead, De Gaulle faction second, radical Socialists conservative. The scene shows deep party fragmentation and turmoil shaping economic and social outcomes.
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France
de Gaulle
Four Suspects Held in Santa Monica Market Robbery
Four suspects including a pretty redhaired woman were held by Santa Monica police Friday over a $9000 market robbery last October. Arrested late Thursday were Daniel As-l... and his wife in connection with the crime.
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Geles
Santa, Monica
Daniel As-Lel Hte
Hill Citizens Press Officials to Reinstate Police Chief
Signal Hill residents packed City Hall to demand the reinstatement of suspended Police Chief Ted Murphy or face a recall election. The meeting, called by the Civic Improvement Assn and presided by Comdr. Robert Lynn, drew about 120 people for a three hour discussion of police leadership, political figures, and recall options.
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Spencer Crump
Signal Hill
Ted’ Murphy
Hill City
Murphy
Torin
Bonnie Price
Soldier Prisoners Flee In Army Car Incident
Fragmentary report notes soldiers and prisoners involved in a car incident with items stolen from a cartridge. Names, places, and exact sequence are unclear due to OCR damage. Further details needed to identify location, units, and outcomes.
Widow of Army colonel found guilty of murder
Dorothy Krueger Smith, daughter of a World War II general, was convicted by a U S Army court martial in Tokyo of premeditated murder for stabbing Col Aubrey Smith in their Washington Heights home on Oct 3. She received a life sentence. The nine member panel deliberated about 65 minutes, then 30 minutes more to decide the sentence awaiting review by commands in Tokyo and Washington.
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Tokyo
U. S. Army
Dorothy Krueger
Smith
Col
Aubrey Smith
Booneville
Okinawa
Washington Heights
Washington
Joseph Sullivan
Sullivan
Vernon Blast Injures Four at Bethlehem Steel Plant
Four workmen were injured at the Bethlehem steel plant in Vernon when a blast furnace undergoing conversion exploded. The accident occurred as workers were installing an electrostatic precipitator and an electrode was lowered to a position that triggered the blast.
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Vernon
Bethlehem Steel
Fat Boy Diet Fads From a Frantic Page Tale
A chaotic OCR fragment promotes a crash diet teaching fat reduction through boiling baking and broiling. It cites chefs and locations like Maywood Los Angeles and Dallas while promising that eating fried foods can be traded for larger meals of boiled or broiled items. The piece hints at sensational weight loss schemes and urges readers to ignore restrictions.
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Jack
Harris
Maywood
Tony
Bell
Sutan Ae
Maywood Hospital
Gideon Page
Los Angeles
Stanley
Matusczak
Dallas
Spaghett
Hospital Adds 17 Emergency Beds
Seaside Hospital converted classrooms and hallways into bed areas to ease a critical shortage. Officials say 17 more beds will serve 52 patients and that volunteer nurses from public schools and the Veterans Administration Hospitals will assist until the emergency ends.
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Seaside Hospital
Veterans Administrations
Bombing Raid Near Sinanju Targets Rail Yard and Bridges
Tokyo reports United States Air Force B 29 Superfortresses bombed four targets near Sinanju in West Korea early today. Seventeen bombers from Japan and Okinawa dropped 500 pound bombs on a rail yard two bridges and an anti aircraft battery amid heavy flak and brilliant searchlights. Witnesses noted explosions and fires suggesting ammo piles were hit. pilots described the operation as the heaviest flak concentration of the tour. No loss of aircraft announced.
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Tokyo
Sinanju
North Korea
Japarr
Okinawa
Taenyong River
West Korea
Shalling Yard
Korea
Air Force
Vessel Lost In Sight of Korea Coast
AP reports the Chang Yung Ho sank near Pusan with 249 believed drowned. Only seven of 256 aboard survived including the captain Ha Yang Mo. Rescue efforts by South Korean navy and police boats were hampered by heavy winds and high waves. survivors were treated in Pusan.
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Pusan
Korea
Chang Yung Ho
Ministry of
Sark
Ha Yang Mo
Korea Strait
Naktong River
Yasu
Pacific
Robbery at Burgerville Cafe on Atlantic Avenue
A man with a steel revolver robbed Burgerville Restaurant at 1473 Atlantic Ave shortly before night. He forced frightened customers to the floor and escaped with cash while Sally Mo. Watson and detectives investigated the chaotic café scene.
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Burgerville
Atlantic
Sally Mo
Watson
Cas Tegister
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Clarence A. Norman
San Diego
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J.T. Foster
Dysart
Arthur Baken
Sonoma
Ellen V. Landau
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L.a.c
Loree
Dorothy. Smith
Fat Boy
Elmer Wheeler
Atlen
Mageeri
Pital
Red Bastion
Barlier
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U.S
Sasebo Harbor
U.S. Naval Base
Creighton Victory
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Seattle
Military Sea Transport Service
Alchong
Midway
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