Engineer Blamed In Fatal Wreck Of Two Trains
In Swampscott Massachusetts the Boston and Maine Railroad blamed human failure for a rear end collision of two commuter trains during a heavy snowstorm killing 13 and injuring 100. The Budd powered train struck a halted Portsmouth bound train. engineer Ernest Tourtellotte 55 of Winchester died. A later crash in Revere injured 20.
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Boston & Maine Railroad Today
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Army Orders Shift Arty Officers and Promotions Listed
The Army releases personnel moves across posts including Fort Bliss Fort Carson Fort Sill and Fort Hood with transfers to Artillery units and vacancies. Promotions shown include Clinton W. Austin from 2d Lt to 1st Lt Maj Fred R. Brownyard Richard Irvin Jr William A. McSpadden and Charles E. Williams get promoted to higher ranks.
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Senator Smith defends Dulles in Senate clash over Russia
Sen H Alexander Smith of New Jersey dismissed Democratic charges that Secretary of State Dulles misled the public about the Soviet threat as completely indefensible. He urged bipartisan backing for the administration’s flexible foreign aid policy and defended Dulles as a great American statesman of high integrity.
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Glass pioneer Joan Wright dies after long illness
Joan H. Wright, 73, long time innovator in glass making, spent 43 years with Owens-Illinois Glass and Libbey Glass divisions in Toledo Ohio. He died Tuesday night after a prolonged illness.
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City council tightens dog control ordinance with teeth
Councilmen revised the dog control law strengthening enforcement by police and the animal warden, requiring dog vaccination proof for tags and reducing pound time to three days. They cited a local poisoner threat as residents fear for pets and a child potential risk.
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Leap Year Babies Celebrate Birthday Rites Across U.S.
Leap Year Day observed by about 10 000 new American members. In Walton New York twins Jessie Tuttle and Josie Launt celebrate their 19th leap year birthday with family while both widows are 80. In Sparta Michigan four leap year children share their first birthdays. In Denver Milton Ellis and daughter Susan celebrate his 10th leap year birthday and her first.
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Josie Launt
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Free bricks aid Powell County Hospital project
Stanton Kentucky The Powell County Hospital will receive 25 000 bricks at no cost from the Sipple Brick Co and its workers Owner H B Sipple initially offered to donate half the bricks but increased the gift after employees asked to contribute a day of labor to the eight bed hospital project.
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Power Rate Hike Branded As Plot
Washington a administration plan to raise Southwestern Power Administration wholesale hydro power rates drew charges of a plot by private utilities. J L Johns of Up shur Rural Electric Coop Gilmer Texas testified at a congressional hearing that the increase would let commercial firms raise their rates as SPA funds big dam projects. Other rural coops from Oklahoma and Texas noted private utilities’ similar increases and rate moves, suggesting coordination with SPA rate actions.
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Symphony Concerts Success in Lawton Society Benefit
Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra concert sponsored by Lawton Symphony Society in McMahon Memorial Auditorium on February 16 raised 2345.75 in receipts. Adult tickets produced 1120 while 2250 student tickets at 0.50 each brought 1225.75 for 2450 school children. Expenses totaled 2029.78 with 1772.87 to the orchestra and small amounts for rent stage hands printing advertising ushers tax and other costs. Net profit 315.97 will be put into the society reserve fund for future concerts.
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Lawton Symphony Society
McMahon Memorial Auditorium
Symphony Society
Four Sudanese Leaders Jailed Over Prison Riots
In Khartoum, four Sudanese leaders including a member of parliament were sentenced to six months in prison for instigating riots tied to the Kosti prison disaster in which 194 tenant farmers died. The government blames the protests on their refusal to market cotton with a large farm combine, triggering unrest in Kosti and Khartoum.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Kosti
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