Believed Dead in Air Mishap Near Jacksonville Beach
A Navy photo reconnaissance plane collided with a Navy jet off a Jacksonville beach. Three dead, a fourth missing. Jet pilot Lt. David Culley parachuted clear and was treated at NAS Jacksonville. Witnesses recalled a sudden explosion and confusion as the crash occurred near a beach where hundreds of students were due for a picnic.
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Navy
Atlantic Ocean
David Culley
Garden City
Naval Air Station Hospital
Queen Sharpison
Johnnie Feater
Sharpison
McCulley
Miss England 1958 winner crowned amid strict rules
A strict Miss England contest in London culminated with Dorothy Hazeldine of Rochdale named Miss England 1958 after intense scrutiny. Promoter Eric Morley insisted on age checks and body-shape verification, while 17 contestants faced a demanding screen test, with Hazeldine prevailing in a televised suspense. A tornado in central Poland killed five and wounded over 100, prompting emergency salvage and rescue efforts by Army teams and brigades.
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London
Britannia
Eric Morley
Dorothy Hazeldine
Lancashire
Rochdale
United States
Poland
Warsaw
Vici
Army
Drunk Woman Survives After Sleeping On Freight Tracks
In Shelby North Carolina a freight train engineer applied the emergency brake seeing a figure between the rails. The train stopped after the engine passed over the body. Police retrieved Gynell Sisk alive but intoxicated. She had apparently fallen asleep on the tracks.
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Shelby
N.C
UPI
Gynell Sisk
Sisk
Boeing 707 Sets New Coast Chicago Mark
The Boeing 307 jet transport prototype flew from Seattle to O Hare in three hours and six minutes, a new transport plane record. Regular airliner time between Seattle and Chicago is five hours and 40 minutes, while the piston driven record stands at four hours and 14 minutes.
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Seattle
Wash
O'Hare International
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