Panama Mail Ship Colombia Battered by Sea Off California Reef
Panama mail liner Colombia lay on Santa Margarita Island reef 670 miles off the California coast after striking the reef. All 130 passengers and 100 crew were transferred to the La Perla. rescue crews included the San Mateo. Passengers praised officers for calm, orderly evacuation as Colombia’s history includes prior groundings with no loss of life.
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San Pedro
Cal
Panama Mail
Colom+bia
Santa Marguerita Island
Here
California
United Fruit Company
la Perla
Los Angeles Harbor
Bertin E H. Moisant
el Salvador
Colombia
Paengers
San Mateo
United Fruit
Staten Island
New York
Costa Rica
Texas Senate Agriculture Committee Bets Favor on Cotton Bills
Austin reports the Texas Senate agriculture committee gave a favorable report on several cotton acreage control bills. One bill mirrors Louisiana governor Huey P. Long's no cotton in 1982 law, another calls for limited acreage reduction. The committee also allowed full Senate consideration.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Senate Committee On Agriculture
Huey P. Long
Hardware store manager dies by self-inflicted gunshot
Washington reports coroner’s jury finds Jeff Bowers a 26 year old hardware store manager who shot himself in the chest and placed his pistol in a drawer before dying. Police initially puzzled by the missing gun and absence of a fleeing person, but ballistics expert Lt. John Fowler helped establish the self-inflicted death with blood noted in the drawer.
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Washington
Jeff Bowers
Bowers
John Fowler
Police
New Oil Drilling Tests Start Across Kansas and Oklahoma
Oklahoma reports 26 new oil tests in the last fiscal week, Kansas accounts for eight with McPherson county leading at four tests. Marriage licenses issued in Kansas include O'Mara with Forney in Lawrence and Brooksher with Davis in Leavenworth. Glover couple in Columbus, Ohio, and Arnold with Lewis in Tulsa. Pennsylvania crude oil price hikes include $1.95 for national transit lines and lower rates for regional lines. Nebraska fair track record set with 2:07 12 trotter in final program. Williams Patterson, 28, dies in glider incident.
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Tulsa
Okla
Oklahoma
Kansas
McPherson County
Chautauqua
Cowley
Greenwood
Rice
George H. O’mara
Esther Forney
Lawrence
C. W. Thomas
Floyd. Brooksher
Katherine Davis
Leavenworth
Topeka
John Glover
Carolyn Glover
Columbus
Ohio
L. H. Menger
John. G. Arnold
Maxine E. Lewis
Kansas City
John F. Watts
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
National Transit
Eureka
Buckeye Lines
Glider club member dies in St Louis County crash
A St Louis Glider club member was fatally injured late Sunday when his glider, during takeoff at the club field in St Louis County, crashed from about 30 feet. The accident occurred as the craft lifted off the field, with authorities investigating the cause.
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St. Louis
William D. Patterson
St. . Louis County
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John Cain
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William Roe
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Martin Holcom
Dave Wray
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Dan Flory
Otto Gray
Mary and
Louise
McMullin
Bridgie Malone
Jerald Craig
Mar
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Fred Rockhold
Alva Rockhold
Frank Kelley
Myrtle Hale
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Pleasant Grove
Arthur Flory
Clarence
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Maytag Company
Newton
Iowa
Lawrence Maytag Company
Onganoxie, Tonganoxie Plbg. Co
Swenson Maytag Co
Por Homes
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Racine
H. Gerdes
H. W. Brown
L. J. Stretz
Co. W. Benson
Archer
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R.V. Handley
Dev
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America
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Beuys
Bert
G. L. Chapman
G. N. Coleman
Blucher
Winter King
K. Flinker
T. E. Maley
Montgomery Ward & Co
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