Airliner blast near Las Vegas stuns pilots and passengers
Investigation centers on a bullet hole theory as the Western Airlines Canavie 210 loses a side at 10 000 feet over California. several passengers, including a missing wife of jewelry owner A. Binstock, are unaccounted. The pilot and crew survive at George AFB. The incident recalls a 1955 crash near Longmont with four dead. Nearby, Page Aircraft to take over Fort Sill maintenance on Aug 1 amid labor tensions with Spartan Aircraft staff.
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Los Angeles
California
Moje Desert
Nein
George Air Force Base
Ar Shurt
James PL Boone
Ada
Okla
Sim Fernando Water
Western
Eva Binstock
San Fernando Valley
New York
Las Vegas
Longmont
Colo
John Gilbert Grahwin
Denver
Carrovado Cas
United Air Lines
Spartan Aircraft Maintenance Company
Fort Sill
Page Aircraft, Inc
D. Sweeney
Page Employment Menager
Lawson
Central Labor Union
Bill Sexton
Sweeney
Constitution
Spe
Fort Silt Untit Ang
Constitution & Morning Press
James W. Witcher
Grand Lodge
International Association of Machinist Afl-Cio
Page
Lmployes
Ayith- Spartan
School Bill Up For House Vote Caps Threats Siege
The House debated a 14 billion dollar school construction bill amid claims of its cost and federal control. Amid threats to Mayor Eugene Willis, a gunman fired at his car in Huntington, Ohio, wounding none and triggering a citywide police search and renewed security concerns.
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Wasimn Elon
Washington
House
McConnell JR Pat
Powell
Lanham
D-Ga
Scrivner
R-Ikan
Huntington
Eugene Willis
Tis Life
Willis
Pte
Verlon Morris
Tra Young
Snowball the Eskimo Chow Found Dead After Disappearance
Four year old Mike Norris and his mother Mrs Harold Norris of Fort St faced tragedy when Snowball the Eskimo Chow disappeared for three weeks and was found dead near their home. Wires tied to its legs suggested possible captivity. A call demanding thirty dollars surfaced but police were not contacted again.
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Snowball
Mike Norris
Fort St
Mike
Harold Norris
Post Road
Norris
Heavy Rains Hit Southwest Oklahoma Farmland
Heavy rain drenched southwest Oklahoma with Tipton recording five inches and Walters 4.3 inches bringing relief to dry crops and pastures. Water levels rose modestly at Lake Lawtonka while local creeks carried runoff. Observers noted rainfall varied by location with Meers and Lawtonka dam area receiving measurable totals.
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Oklahoma
Tipton
Walters
Lake Lawtonka
Roy Higdon
Jake Patrolman
Wayne Rowe
Meers
George Cox
Saddle Ma
Bus Collision Near Cambridge Injures Ten
A bus with 38 passengers and a car collided head on along U S 40 two miles east of Cambridge. Ten people were hurt none seriously. The New York to St Louis bus tried to pass a slow truck when it struck a car driven by a Dayton man.
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Cambridge
Ohio
Open Grove
Nounc
Headon
U. S. 40
State Highway Patrol
New York-o-St. Louis
Dayton, Ohio
Murder leads prove false in Hobbs killings case
Hobbs authorities cleared two suspects in Tuesday slayings as false leads. Jack Smith, 48, questioned in Carlsbad, and Donald Rail Jr., 29, of Pittsburgh, were eliminated. Victims include trucker J. C. Cantrell and Hobbs women Dorothy Gibson and Bhara Lemmons. Ballistics linked to a different gun than used in El Segundo police killings.
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Hobbs
N. M
New Mexico
Jewel McAdoo
Jack Smith
California
Clayton
WN. M
Donald Rail Jr
Pittsburgh
Smith
Carlsbad Wormeseday
J. C. Cantrell
Dorothy Gibson
Bhara Lemmons
el Segundo
Calif
Sheriff's Crime Laboratory
George Lacy
Milton G. Curtis
Richard A. Phillips
Senate fights over rights bill shift to jury trial amendment
The Senate voted 52 to 38 to strip enforcement of most civil rights from the voting rights bill and allow only federal injunctions for voting violations. A jury trial amendment proposed by Sen. O Mahoney after Lyndon Johnson opened a new contest.
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Chadwick
Washington M
Senate
House
Supreme Court
Ise
Oother
Anderson
D-Nm
Aiken Urvu
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Sen. O'Mahoney
Ste Aukv Tritas
Pace
Suspected Slayer Claims Psychopath Braggart Case
Oakland officers interrogated William T. Allen 25, a Illinois mental hospital fugitive, about allegedly shooting two El Segundos police. Detectives noted possible links to a St. Louis officer killing and Chicago tavern robberies. Chicago planned extradition to pursue charges as Allen claimed to have robbed about 50 taverns.
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Oakland
Calif
Los Angeles
William T. Allen
Linois
Anthony Bolger
Allen
Alen
St. Louis
Chicago
Bolger
Linvis
Chester County Mental Hospital
Magner Thompson
Navy Will Retain McAlester Depot
The Navy reversed a plan to trim the McAlester Oklahoma Naval Ammunition Depot to a minimal operation. It will continue near present staffing for two more years, with about 758 civilians employed, officials said in a joint statement after a letter from Rear Adm. Withington.
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Washington
Navy
McAlester
Okla
Oklahoma
Congress
Calbert
Robert 5. Serr
Mike Monroney
Albert
Adm
F. S. Withington
Bureau of Ovanance
Withington
Monroney
Anadarko Named Headqu arters for Washita Basin Dams
Anadarko was designated as the temporary headquarters for the Washita Basin reclamation project, a $40.6 million two dam program to be built over four years. About 2,000 workers will be needed, with roughly half on each dam, and local housing will be expanded as towns in the area prepare for the influx. A mass meeting was set in Anadarko to plan housing.
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Anadarko
George Gravley
Oklahoma
Interior Department
Mammoth Washita Basin
Caddo
Albert Conner
Washila Basin
Cobb Creek
Anadarka
Fort Cobb
Clinton
Tess
Washington
Conneel
Connel
Conner
British Jets Blast Rebels in Muscat Oman Strike
Royal Air Force jets from Bahrain and Aden attacked the defected Nizwa fortress and rebel concentrations in the Muscat and Oman rebellion. Ground fire was minimal as they conducted two days of air strikes using dozens of rockets and thousands of cannon rounds.
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Trucial Oman
Royal Air Force
Niz Wa
Persian Gulf
Bahrein
Aden
Hiner Land
Muscat
Oman
Niawa
Airman Freed Over Haircut Case After Conviction Tossed
Air Force Colonel overturned the 20 year old Donald Wheeler’s conviction for disobeying an order over a haircut in Tokyo. Wheeler faced four months of hard labor a $200 fine and rank reduction to private. The judge found procedural errors and said no further trial would occur. Wheeler served at Carter Colorado and was part of the Far East Command Honor Guard which has been disbanded.
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Tokyo
U. S
Donald Wheeler
Carter, Colo
Air Force
Far ‘East Command
Wheeler
Charles W. Johnstone
Reno
Nev
Miurder
Mi6
Atyman Wheeler
Johnstone
Boy Mourned By Homicide Squad In Unidentified Child Case
In Philadelphia a white gladiolus marked from the homicide squad lay on a small coffin for an unidentified boy aged about four to six. His murdered body was found Feb 26 in an impoverished area, naked and wrapped in a blanket, and hidden in a cardboard box. Detectives paid final respects, each laying a single red rose on the grave.
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Philadelphia
Elty
Refuge Case Ruling Faces Appeal Test
County Attorney Warren Crane awaits a written court order before appealing a Wednesday ruling by Judge John P. Fullerton that the state may not prosecute offenses in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Demurrers challenged county authority and the state’s jurisdiction in the refuge. Conditional dismissal was ordered for two youths while the others remain on hold pending appeal.
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Warren Crane
John P. Fullerton
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Fullerton
Lawton
Fullertos
State Criminal Court of Appeals
Crane
High Court
Oklahoma City
Sre
Tree 2 Co
Sill Replacements Headed for Europe from Fort Sill
About 270 trained by the 597th Armored Field Artillery Battalion will depart Fort Sill at 5 p.m. Monday for Fliegerhorst Kaserne, Germany, first wave to gyroscope to Europe. Under Lt. Col. Roy A. Tucker they will sail from New York on Aug. 1, land Bremerhaven Aug. 10, to fill vacancies in the 267th Battalion after recent discharges.
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597Th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Fort Sil
Fliegerhorst Kasserne
Germany
Europe
Fort Sill
597Th
Fliegerhorst
Roy A. Tucker
New York City
Bremerhaven
Queen For A Day Wed At Grandfield
Mary Leona Gage now Mrs Gene N Innis revealed her long ago marriage to Eddie Thacker took place Nov 11 1953 in Grandfield Oklahoma. The ceremony officiated by Justice of the Peace Mel Lealand Smith followed by annulment later that year.
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Crawlord
Weiler Crandfield
Tinian County
Oklahoma
Mary Leona Gage
Gene N. Innis
Eddie "Ay Thacker
Sheppard Air Force Base
Wichita Falls
Txas
Weldon Ferris
Tillman County District Court
Ms. Ennis
Baltimore
Thacker
Justice of the Peace 4
E. Baugh
Mel. Leland Smith
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