Spain Hears Fate Of Basque 16 In Burgos Trial
Verdicts awaited in a six day Basque separatist trial at Burgos military court with six seeking death sentences and sum of over 700 years in prison. Madrid watchers expect possible clemency from Franco amid ETA actions and Basque unrest.
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Madrid
Spain
Francisco Franco
Burgos
ETA
Eugen Beihl
San Sebastian
Beihl
Paul VI
Guipuzcoa
Water Man Stops Gas By Mistake
Nearly 200 families shivered through the Christmas without heat after a water department worker accidentally shut a natural gas valve. He repaired a water line, turned gas off, then relit it, causing unburned gas to flood homes. Gas crews restored service after canvassing the area.
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Kansas City
Water Department
Gas Service Co
Lupe Salvedo
Salvedo
Connally's Business Ties Attract Liberal Scrutiny In Senate
Washington AP reports former Texas Governor John B Connally faces scrutiny from liberal Democrats fearing conflicts of interest as they consider his Treasury secretary nomination. While no cause for rejection has emerged officials review Connallys background in banking oil broadcasting real estate and mining.
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Washington
Texas
John B. Connally
Senate
Treasury
Congress
University of Texas Law School
Connally
Sid Richardson
Connaly
South Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
House
Real Es
Old Hermit of Horseshoe Bend Gets Wood Not Mail
The 88 year old Italian immigrant Pietro Arata living above Lake McClure in Hornitos California receives aid as his four inch thick mail pile accumulates. State warden Harry Harris notes he is nearly blind and deaf yet happy and needs wood for cooking on improvised stoves. Fire Chief Charles Parker and six men delivered wood and glasses on Christmas and plan more visits. Welfare director May Leiman says Arata earned a pension from his long mining career.
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Hornitos
Calif
Horseshoe Bend
Harry Harris
State Fish and Game Department
Pietro Arata
Harris
Arata
Lake McClure
Modesto County
Charles Parker
Parker
May Leiman
Mariposa County
California
Italy
Taxi Santa Loses Money During Christmas
Atlanta cab driver Paul Dotterer decked his taxi as Santa during Christmas week. He greeted riders with ho ho ho and stopped to wish pedestrians a merry Christmas, but the festive acts cut cab fares. he said it was worth it despite losses.
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Atlanta, Ga
Paul Dotterer
Dotterer
Neighbors Help Family After Christmas Morning Fire
In Grants Pass Oregon neighbors and others rushed to aid the Taylor family of 12 after a dawn fire damaged their home. The blaze left the family homeless but they escaped unharmed as W O Taylor who is disabled and unable to work lost back braces in the fire. Donations of cash food clothing and household items flooded in and by evening two offers had been made to replace the braces.
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Grants Pass, Ore
W. O. Taylor
Taylor
Wallace to marry Cornelia Snively in Christmas announcement
Alabama governor elect George Wallace announced on Christmas Day that he will marry Cornelia Ellis Snively, the niece of former Gov. James Folsom. No date set, but friends say wedding could occur before his Jan. 18 inauguration. Wallace has four children and has faced long speculation about his marriage plans.
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Montgomery
Ala
George Wallace
Alabama
Cornelia Ellis Snively
James
Folsom
Wallace
Snively
Lurleen
Jammele Moore
Hunter Drowns In Milford Lake
Sgt. 1C Melvin Coon, 38, of Junction City, drowned while duck hunting in Milford Reservoir. His companion Sgt. 1C James Hillmer, also of Junction City, described a overturned flat boat in rough water near School Creek. Coon clung to the boat, drifted from shore, and sank about 80 yards out as ice cold water exhausted him.
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Junction City
Melvin Coon
School Creek
Milford Reservoir
Coon
Co. B. 701S
Ft. Riley
James W. Hillmer
James Gross
Hillmer
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