Drake in Love with Concrete Duck Angers Heartless Blonde
Wild Drake Punch, a mallard at Kenneth and Judy Miller’s home, fell for Judy the white duck who ignores his advances. For months he courted in a yard where gifts and love dances elicit only a glassy stare. Neighbors joke that Judy is simply an ornamental lawn duck.
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Torrance — Punch
Judy
Kenneth Miller
W. South St
Southwart
Miller
Mia. Miller
Punch
Ula
Dudy
Darling
Nenneth Mller
Torrance
Holiday toll on Memorial Day weekend rises to 756
The national highway death toll for the Memorial Day period fell below late estimates as the holiday ended. By midnight the 6 hour measuring period from 8 p.m. Wednesday showed 75 traffic deaths 23 drownings and 28 miscellaneous holiday connected fatalities. The National Safety Council predicted 120 highway deaths for the period.
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National Safety Council
Jets Collide in Minneapolis Killing Pilot in Nightmarish Crash
Memorial Day crowds watched two Navy jets collide during an air salute over northeast Minneapolis. One plane crashed into a residential block, killing Cmdr. Newell Olson and injuring others. The other plane exploded after ejecting its pilot, who parachuted away. Five residents were hospitalized with burns and injuries, with homes and cars destroyed, as a crater formed on impact.
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Minneapolis
Memorial Day Cemetery
Navy
Seite
Cmdr
Newell Olson
Heer
Wold Chamberlain Nays
Air Station
Lt. Forsmark
Cmdr. Olson
Olson
Boty
Mone
Box tragedy claims toddler after truck crash in street
A truck driver swerved to avoid a cardboard box containing a child in an alley, but the left rear wheel ran over the box. The boy, identified only as a local resident, died from injuries. Police said the driver did not know the child was in the box until inspecting the scene.
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Sher E. Welch
Pine Ave
Welch
Subside Costs Weigh On Naval Installations Visit
Members of the House Armed Services Committee tour Wilmington oil region impacts noting subsidence from oil production. They consider cost and usability of naval installations funded by federal treasury, with oil output statistics cited. The Wilmington field has yielded over a billion barrels, a large share attributed to Long Beach and nearby plate areas.
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House of Representatives
House Armed Services Committee
Federal Treasury
Wilmington
Long Beach
Plate
Bomb Found and Cleared at Bronx Theater Watchers
A live bomb was removed from a Bronx theater in front of about 1,000 patrons. Horace Reddick, a theater porter, found the device in a paper towel receptacle in the men's room and moved it to a vacant lot before police arrived. The bomb consisted of a three inch pipe filled with powder and a lit rope.
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New York
Bronx
Horace Reddick
RKO Cheater
Britain Abolishes Red China Trade embargo
London announced the end of Britain's strict embargo on trade with Red China, a move described as undermining the free world's security interests by Selwyn Lloyd. The decision aligns with Soviet and Eastern European embargo policies and tensions with the United States over Suez. The United States, informed in advance, said it was disappointed as Western nations could ease curbs and potentially industrialize the Chinese mainland.
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London
Britain
China
United States
Free World
Selwyn Lloyd
Soviet Union
Washington
Suez
State Department
Blonde shoots ex lover in apartment over threatened breakup
Russian born Zurab Abduaheli, 44, was shot in the Woodner Apartments as he leaned from a window of Edith Louise Hough’s flat in Washington. Hough, 42, a freelance writer and former fiancée, admitted firing six bullets claiming self defense against his “psychologically aggressive” acts. Police report he later died. Hough was charged with murder and held for a preliminary hearing as investigations continued.
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Washington
ICDA
Llywed Volen
America
Zurab Abduaheli
Edith Louise Hough
Abushell
Miss Hough
William Tite Hough
Deland
Fla
Abbushell
Woodner
North
Europe
Rock Creek Park
Allied
Soviet Union
Voice of America
Zurab Abduschell
El Wheeler Builds New Rules After War Fame
Elmer Wheeler, World War II Marine nicknamed the Fat Boy, pivots from selling The Fat Boy's Hook to writing The Hard Boy. He promotes a new regimen and a bare pate concept, launching a latent work in The Independent beginning June 1.
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Elmer Wheeler
Wheeler
Elmer
Jin the Independent
Pigs to Move Its the Law in Torrance
Torrance:Farms plan relocation of hog ranches as June 15 deadline nears ordered by City Council. Planning Director George Pow says remaining pits will be cleared, with 450 hogs across two sites and 1800 at the third likely moved. If not, a criminal complaint may be filed under the hog ranch ordinance.
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Torrance
E Planning
George Pow. Tell
Mie
Pawl ‘Jell
Riot at Illinois campus erupts in water fight chaos
More than 3,000 University of Illinois students rioted for hours in Champaign. The disturbance began as a water fight between Phi Gamma Delta and Alpha Delta Phi, drawing city, county, university and state police. Tear gas, water from buckets and fire hydrants were deployed. at least two coeds were injured and several students were arrested as officers struggled to restore order.
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Champaign
Ill
University of Illinois
University
Phi Gamma Deltas
Alpha Delta Phi
Plvc
Daily Mint
Shell
Henry
Wife survives 19 days after Wyoming plane crash
Mrs Dalton Lemasurier of Duluth Minnesota endured a 19 day mountain ordeal on Ferris Mountain after a plane crash May 21 near Sinclair Wyoming. She and her husband were aboard the craft. he died the day after rescue. Rescuers traced the wreckage and found her coherent and able to walk, as thunderstorms hampered search efforts.
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Mawlins, Wyo
Sal
Wyoming Remnantics Commission
Putnam
Mia
Jeemasurler
North Texas
Dallas
Tex
Wichita Falls
Sherman
Lemisuder
Mra
Lemasurier
Linkage Menace Drives Long Beach Subsidence Probe
Congressman Clyde Doyle leads a two day congressional subcommittee to study land subsidence affecting the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. The delegation, including Rep Walter Noreblad and Rep Bob Witeson, arrived by Navy aircraft at San Ameitos Naval Air Station with Navy officers and local leaders in attendance. Doyle emphasized state and local responsibility as he discussed the grave issue with press and civic figures.
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Clyde Doyle
South Gate
Long Beach
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Doyle
Congressifin
Navy
Sas Ame Mitos Naval Air Station
Walter Noreblad
Oref
Bob Witeson
San Diego
Weatherman Introduces Pool Races at Indianapolis Office Pool
A weatherman launches pool betting at the Indianapolis office, promising pools on races. He explains his plan after taunting a promoter long involved in the office pools, signaling a shift in local betting practices.
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Indianapelis
Weather Note Prompts Pool Entry On Cloudy Morning
A WM remark notes weather for the day with a cloudy morning and sunny afternoon while mentioning a pool entry. The casual comment references a Sickel reading and contrasts mood with forecast.
Bride Kidnaper Escapes Again From Napa Hospital
Dr Theo K Miller says Michael Wiegner aged 17, who fled Napa State Hospital in December after abducting his teenage bride Cla Ann, escaped again by ducking into shrubbery on hospital grounds while talking with Cla Ann and his parents Mr and Mrs Melvin Wiegner of San Francisco. Authorities call the situation dangerous.
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Napa
Michael Wiegner
Napa State Aspital
Cla Ann
Denver
Wiegner
Cla
Melvin Wlegner
San Francisco
Theo K. Miller
Baby photo sent from U S to South Pole for father
California budget row heats up as Governor Knight warns of vetoes on special appropriations. Deficit spending fears loom amid political maneuvering. Story on page A6.
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California
Knight
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