Four Hurt In Bayonne Propane Tank Blast
Four men were injured as a storage tank containing liquid propane exploded at Sun Gas Products Corp in Bayonne New Jersey. Hundreds fled their homes as flames rose toward New York Bay and emergency crews contained the blaze within five blocks. A truck driver, Stanley Buchalski, 40, of Chester New York, suffered third degree burns and was hospitalized in critical condition.
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Bayonne
N. J
Sun Gas Products Corp
Constable Hook
New York Bay
Stanley Buchalski
Chester
N. Y
Bayonne Hospital
Billy Rowan
Earl Lewis
Port Jervis
Harold McCarter
YY &F
Dorothy Smerka
Elks Club
UPI
Rebels Enter Katanga Contact Baluba in North Katanga
AP reports a Stanleyville column of rebels reached northern Katanga and contacted Baluba fighters opposing President Moise Tshombe. UN says the force entered via Kivu, nearing Kongolo, amid a guerrilla war between Katanga Balubas and Tshombe’s police.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Stanleyville
Katanga
Baluba
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Kivu
Kongolo
Tshombe
Antoine Gizenga
Congo
Gizenga
Jean Mirohu
Bakuvu
U.N
Will
No Tribune Editions On New Year s Day
The La Crosse Tribune will not publish on New Year s Day with editions on Saturday December 31 and Monday January 2. The Saturday paper will deliver in the afternoon while Monday becomes a Monday morning edition published Sunday night. Subscribers should call before 5 p.m. if not receiving Saturday paper.
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la Crosse Tribune
The
Tribune
State Desk
Coulee
Bulging Earth Slimming Her Middle
New York AP reports satellite studies show Earth's midriff bulge shrinking very slowly over 100 million years as rotation slows. Dr Gordon J F Mac Donald of NASA notes shape changes and potential crustal adjustments while Antarctica is joked as a UN member due to lack of people.
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New York
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Gordon J. F. MacDonald
National Aeronaut Juices and Space Administration
Earth
Vanguard
Dr. MacDonald
MacDonald
Trane Posts Record 1960 Sales Near 100 Million
The Trane Company announces a projected 1960 sales near 100 million dollars up about 20 percent from 1959. D C Minard cites annual gains since 1944 and plans plant expansions in La Crosse Clarksville and a new Utah facility to boost capacity.
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Trane Co
D. C. Minard
Trane Company
la Crosse
Wis
Minard
Trane
Compa
Clarksville
Tenn
Salt Lake City
Utah
United States
Two Miners Die In Coal Mine Blast At Sanford Phillips
In Kingwood West Virginia two Newburg residents Truman Burke and James Tarleton both about 24 were killed in a gas explosion at the Sanford Phillips coal mine. Rescuers found their bodies near the deep tunnel as inspectors prepared to enter for investigations. The mine had been idle for holidays and had just reopened when the blast trapped the men.
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Kingwood
W. Va
Newburg
Truman Burke
James Tarleton
Sanford Phillips
Freedom
Morgantown
Phillips
Abduction Search For Ex Wife Of Minnesota Man
Authorities tracked a Minnesota man, Marcus Sherbourne, 41, sought in northern Iowa for abducting his former wife Caroline Voight, 21, at a cafe with a gun. Sherbourne had escaped from a Watertown jail on December 17 while jailed for bad checks.
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Blairsburg
Iowa
Minnesota
E. R. Lear
Marcus Sherbourne
Albert Lea
Minn
Watertown
S.D
Sherbourne
Caroline Voight
Here
Miss Voight
Cafe
South Dakota
Lear
Mother and Eleven Children Die in Quebec House Fire
In Noyan Quebec a 43 year old mother Marjorie Vosburgh and eleven of her thirteen children died when a stove sparked a blaze that destroyed their wooden house near Montreal. Abel Vosburgh survived burns and the two older daughters were elsewhere.
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Noyan
Marjorie Vosburgh
Quebec
Montreal
Abel
Phyllis
Katherin
Audrey
Beverley
Robert
Caroline
Leo
Dwayne
Gladys
Gertrude
Irvin
Allan
Kennedy fills Treasury post with Roosa under secretary
President elect Kennedy named Robert V. Roosa to be under secretary for monetary affairs as he meets with Fulbright to map foreign and domestic policy. Archibald Cox was chosen solicitor general as Salinger notes a broad policy review and possible golf round follows.
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Kennedy
Archibal Cox
Harvard
United States
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pierre Salinger
Roosa
Treasury Department
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Green Bay Mayor Pushes Unmarried Women Hiring Rule
Green Bay mayor Roman Denissen proposes an ordinance barring married women from municipal hiring. He says married women whose husbands earn good salaries push for higher pay. The 25 married women already employed would remain unaffected.
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Green Bay
Roman Denissen
Denissen
King Baudouin rushes home from honeymoon amid Brussels riots
King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola flew back from Seville after a 15,000-strong Brussels march sparked damage across the city. Demonstrators protested austerity plans tied to Belgium’s budget balance following Congo independence. Police kept order as troops joined riot squads at key government sites.
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Brussels
Belgium
Baudouin
Fabiola
Seville
Brussels International
Leopold III
Congo
General Workers Federation
Spain
Pierre Harmel
Lavon Affair Deepens as Ben-Gurion Hints Resignation
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion signals a possible resignation to force a new probe into the Lavon affair, the 1955 ouster of former Defense Minister Pinchas Lavon. A government report cleared Lavon but blamed an undisclosed military officer for forging documents.
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Jerusalem
David Ben-Gurion
Pinchas Lavon
Lavon
Moshe Sharett
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Soviet Union
Ben-Gurion
Social Democratic
Mapat
Golda Meir
Levi Eshkol
Supreme Court
Daredevil Driver Trains Car Five Miles on Tracks Near Atlanta
Theron Luther George Jr., 18, drove his car along Seaboard Air Line tracks for five miles over trestles and a bridge in DeKalb County, as a freight train horn sounded behind. He was jailed six months for drunkenness on private property after the late night stunt. The engineer recounted narrowly missing the car and jailed driver offered no excuse.
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Decatur, Ga
Swan
J. B. Broom
Theron Luther
George Jr
Daredevil
Broom
George
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Lewis
Michael Goldsmith
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Laos
Arthur J. Dommen
U.S
Vientiane
Treasury
By Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Salinger
Palm Beach
Dean Rusk
Rockefeller Foundation
Washington
Congress
By Eddy Gilmore
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West Germany
Harmel
Antwerp
Leo Collard
Socialist Party
Ben-Gurion May
Mapai
Histandrut
Israeli Federation of Labor
DeKalb County
Oscar Mitchell
Caneeueany
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