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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1955
Page
9
A massive fire at the Husky Oil Ltd refinery in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan was extinguished at 2:30 a.m. after a four hour blaze. Four tanks reportedly exploded but no injuries were reported. Police kept residents a half mile away as flames and black smoke filled the sky. The cause remained unknown.
Arthur Godfrey’s McGuire sisters must perform without Phyllis after a family incident left her with a broken jaw. Dorothy McGuire, living with Phyllis and Neal Vani Ells, said the break occurred during a roughhouse with their French poodle Tinker. Phyllis had surgery at New York Hospital with her jaw wired to heal.
Five year old Martin L. Allen Jr. of Wichita died Saturday after falling from the left rear door of a moving car into the path of another vehicle. He and his family were riding when the accident occurred and the boy did not survive.
Police said they arrested Hideo Nakamura, 45, a high school teacher living apart from his wife and three children, after picking him up in a Tokyo bookstore while he tried to steal a book titled Auto biography of a Wife-Fearer.
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