Crash Ends Alabama Boys Runaway Trip
In Del Rio Texas two Montgomery Alabama teenagers Don Baxley 24 and Fred Fox 14 were held by Val Verde County Sheriff Calvin A Waln after a car crash 17 miles north of Del Rio on Highway 277. The boys who admitted they ran away to seek adventure had only 23 cents and were told by their parents this was their last trip. An unidentified car occupant was hospitalized. Texas highway patrolmen handed them over to the sheriff.
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Alabama
Sunday
Val Verde County
Calvin A. Wal
Don Baxley
Fred Fox
Montgomery
Ala
Walren
Kitch
Here
Texas
del Rio
Women visit McMurdo Sound for first Antarctic base voyage
Two Pan American Airways stewardesses were due to arrive at 10 p.m. Tuesday, the first women to visit the U.S. Antarctic base. Operation Deepfreezers personnel, since Oct. 1, prepared a warm welcome and the start of a new round of explorations in the region.
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Rennie Taylor
Frene Science
Weller Mcmurdo Sound
Antarctica
Deepfreezers
Pan American Airways
U.s.antarctic
Antarctic
Ford Funds Grants and Polar Beard Contest
The Ford Foundation announced grants totaling 49 187 371 dollars for its 1957 fiscal year end. U S men at Little America await a first supply airdrop delayed by 65 below zero temps and later noted a rise to 50 below. Russian Mirny base sends greetings as Soviet Ob oceanographic ship plans visit. The ice shelf near the pole is vast with unfrozen water beneath and depths up to 900 feet.
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Ford Foundation
Wardesses
U.S
Rass Ice Shelf
Little America
South Pole
Pole
Mirny
George J. Dufek
Deenfreeza
France
Stricken seaman aided by plane to Honolulu
A stricken seaman aboard the Maryer Glacier 1100 miles south of Christmas Island received aid from a British bomber. The casualty, Larry Christmas Island, was evacuated toward Honolulu in serious condition after encephalitis. I L Darling’s status was reported improved as Antarctic forces delivered medicine by helicopter.
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Yate
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