Eastern Flood Toll Rising Across States
A severe storm system caused record flooding and wind damage across multiple states. Deputies in Genessee County reported critical injuries after a chase incident near Snowhound Road. Duncannon Pennsylvania declared a state of emergency as ice jams forced evacuations in Amity Hall and Duncannon. A 63 mile per hour wind toppled a 33 ton crane into a gantry, killing a worker in Norfolk West Virginia. High winds buckled a 65 foot radio tower in Frostburg Maryland. Nine inches of snow and heavy traffic snarls disrupted western Wisconsin and northern Illinois with over 220 crashes in one hour in Chicago area. Officials estimated flood damage in the region around ten million dollars. Flood crests were receding in southwestern Pennsylvania as the storm moved east.
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WFEB
Frostburg
Wisconsin
Tlinois
Chigo
Toring
Nasty Bandit Robs Two Clerks of Big Store
A sharply dressed bandit robbed McCoy’s Market in Long Beach, taking cash from registers while two clerks complied with paper sacks. Police referenced a dapper blue suit, white shirt, black tie, fedora, and sunglasses. Local authorities did not reveal the amount taken amid the streetside commotion and nervous witnesses. Separately, the Weather Bureau warned of a major flood sweeping the Wabash and White River valleys in Indiana, prompting evacuations, school closures, and rising water near Columbus.
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Long Beach Bird
Robert Lo Jenkins
Lloyd Kelly
Enehea Penrheart
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Serenton
Indianapolis - ‘Weather Bureau
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White River
Indiana
Columbes
Ishy
Kent Fising
Columbus
Sacramento explores using revenue bonds for state power plan
The Assembly Water Committee posed a full explanation on a proposed 325 million revenue bond issue to fund the State Water Project. Gov Brown backs the plan, but Republicans seek legislative review. Assemblyman Monagan introduced a bill to rescind the authority, while the Water Resources Department prepared details for a March 20 hearing amid swift approval by the California Water Commission.
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Assembly Water Committee
Oroville
Amit
Pacific North
Waterwest
Department of Water Re
Edwinus Lvery
Gov. Brown
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CVP
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Monagan
William T. Bagley
San Rafael
California Senate vetoes Buy American bill on turbines
Sacramento lawmakers killed a Buy American bill that would force Feather River project pumps from US makers. The measure, backed by Sen Ronald Cameron, faced opposition over potential $16 million savings from foreign suppliers and drew remarks from Gov Brown amid a protest by women for peace.
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Sacramento
Senate
California
Japan
Europe
Feather River
United States
Tiga
Arthur W. Collins
Itl
Ronald Cameron
Auburn
Fragmented OCR shows garbled local election notes
A corrupted newspaper fragment mentions terms like commissioners and a state reference. Names, places, dates, and facts are unreadable, yielding only hints of a local political or court proceeding without clear outcomes or participants.
Man's Hands Blown Off in UCLA Lab Explosion
UCLA graduate chemistry student Michael Esparza, 25, lost both hands in an ether experiment blast at UCLA Lab, with about 50 50 odds of survival after emergency surgery failed to save his right hand and left hand severed. Three other students and a professor escaped unharmed. Witnesses say he was mixing chromium salt with ether when the explosion occurred.
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West Los Angeles
UPI
UCLA
Medical Center
Michael Esparza
Esparza
Driving age 18 urged by California lawmaker
Sacramento legislator Assemblyman Alan Pattee argues raising the driving age from 16 to 18. He cites teenagers’ accident rates and car use for risky activities, claiming maturity and experience are insufficient in 16-year-olds to drive unsupervised. He links licensure to broader educational impact.
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Sacramento
Alan G. Pattee
R-Salinas
Pattee Sid
Raper Convicted In Kidnapping Case
Harold Claud, a 20 year old former Peace Corps volunteer and father of six, was found guilty in superior court of kidnapping a 23 year old nurse. The verdict came after a UPI report from New Haven Connecticut. Claud awaits sentencing as the case proceeds in court.
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NEW Haven, Conn
UPI
Harold Claud
Peace Corps
DuPont to Distribute GM Stock for California Shareholders
Corporate owners of de Pont would not gain new breaks as the measure aims to treat the GM stock distribution to California holders as capital gain. An attorney said the court-ordered stock distribution, not company choice, justifies a tax break while the State Finance Department argued it clashes with sound tax policy and federal income tax aims.
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de Pont
Ar R-India
General Motors
duPont
California
Supreme Court
Charles Welch
Congress
W. R. Currie
State
Finance Department
Ex ‘Pont
Calliforhia
Doctors Back Kennedy on Mental Hospitals Plan
Washington AMA officials supported President Kennedy's medicare proposals and backed establishing a mental hospital system within large state hospitals. Leo H. Bartemeier stated that isolating the mentally ill is outdated and modern psychiatry supports treatment in the patient's home environment when feasible.
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UPI
American Medical Associaton
Kennedy
Leo H. Bartemeier
AMA
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Bartemeier
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