Trains Collision Kills Three in Oklahoma Crossing
An Amtrak southbound passenger train collided with a gasoline tanker truck near Marland Oklahoma killing the train engineer Earl Hulse and fireman Junior Young and the truck driver. The tanker exploded and the locomotive and cars burned for hours as the train continued a mile and a half before fire. No passenger injuries reported.
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Marland
Okla
Amtrak
Oklahoma
Earl Hulse
Junior Young
Houston
Wisconsin names first fulltime woman game warden
Eileen Wolf of Milwaukee will become Wisconsin’s first fulltime woman game warden joining 146 male wardens. She is a 24 year old University of Wisconsin Milwaukee graduate and will start February 15.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Anthony Earl
Department of Natural Resources
Eileen Wolf
Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Family Christmas tree farm offers outing at Hagen farm
WAUKON Iowa Families visit the Walter and Jean Hagen farm to view select cut and haul Christmas trees. The garden includes a five acre plantation a 12 foot deep spring fed pond opened 1954 for fishing canoeing and skating and a shelter house built of native stone. Trees are cared for and replanted yearly with some sold to businesses while others become greens posts or pulpwood. School trips and outings are common as families enjoy fireside picnics and photos of the process.
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Waukon
Iowa
Walter and
Jean Hagen
Waterville
Hagen
Soviets Reneg on Plan To Buy American Corn
United Commodities of Greece says Moscow canceled a six million dollar deal for 50 000 metric tons of U S corn with Pillsbury due to an improved Soviet harvest The firm secured a temporary restraining order in Manhattan Supreme Court blocking two banks from honoring letters of credit and set a Dec 16 hearing Justice Margaret Mangano presiding The agreement tied to reselling the corn to the Soviet Union and a license issue halted the purchase
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New York
Soviet Union
Pillsbury Co
United Commodities of
Greece
Moscow
Russia
Manhattan
Supreme Court
Fidelity International
Republic National
United Commodities
Pillsbury
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Testatic
Scowmy
Ti Kodak
Hagens
Walter Hagen
Margaret Mary Mangan
U.S. Gulf
Black Sea
Santa
la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse’s
LA Crosse
Chia
Edwards China Shop
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