Fog Shrouds Eastern Half Nation with Snow in West
A vast fog blankets much of the eastern half while a western snowstorm fails to fully develop. Up to six inches were forecast then revised downward in the Midlands. six inches reported in parts of Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Gas fumes complaints rise in Chicago as fog hides the city. a burglar slips from a roof and is arrested. It also ties up U S 30 with crashes. two killed near Chicago. injuries in Asheville and Indianapolis.
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Birth Rate Points to Big Families Trend
Los Angeles based sociologist Dr Ruth Riemer concludes that if current birth rates persist American women may bear larger families. She notes over four million women had babies last year with second births matching first in number and many reaching a fifth child. She links growth to prosperity and rising parental optimism.
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Car Plunges Into Crowd Injuring Four at Catholic School
In Los Angeles a car crashed into about 50 parents and students at St. Brendan's School injuring four. Driver Marie Albertsson claimed she hit the accelerator by mistake. Woman and two children were seriously hurt, with others sustaining minor injuries.
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Peck
Navy develops portable CD A warning gadget
The Navy announced a laboratory produced meter the size of a small candy box to detect and measure radioactive fallout. Fielded by Civil Defense workers, it flashes a neon light to warn and guide evacuation, aiming to prevent panic in small or isolated areas.
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Blues Composer Davenport Dies at 63 in Cleveland
Charles Edward Davenport known as Cow-Cow Davenport, a blues composer and early boogie woogie pioneer who wrote over 100 tunes including Cow-Cow Boogie and I ll Be Glad When You re Dead You Rascal You, died Friday in Cleveland.
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Cow-Cow) Davenport
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Allies Charge Russ Try to Foment Hatred
Washington leaders denounce Khrushchev and Bulganin for anti western remarks during their Asiatic tour. Dulles and Cunha say such statements do not aid peace and dismiss them as ludicrous. Cunha heads to Norfolk then California after three day Washington visit.
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New Attempt to End News Strike Made
Detroit mediators and union representatives plan a fresh bid to settle a three day old strike by stereo typers that collapsed Detroit metropolitan papers. The News Free Press Times were idle, while Detroit Reporter debuted, printing 200,000 copies, with 1.3 million circulation for Evening News and Times and Free Press.
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Murder Defendant Admits Threat to Mrs. McCauley
Crooker, a Maine law student, admitted writing a June letter to Mrs. McCauley threatening to reveal their affair and obtain her loyalty. He also acknowledged receiving $300, and stated the plan included informing her mother and brother. The trial resumes Monday as prosecutors outline the motive and timeline.
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Dog, Too Lists Ex Wife and Dead Child as Dependents
CAMDEN NJ George D Born 37 is in the Internal Revenue Department's doghouse. Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Nugent told a Federal Court judge that Born filed false and fraudulent income tax returns for 1951 and 1952 listing as dependents his divorced wife a child dead 20 years and his dog. Barr's trial was postponed until the court could appoint a lawyer for the unemployed man.
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Broadcast Industry Tops $1 Billion Mark
The FCC reported that the U.S. broadcast industry earned 1,042,500,000 dollars in 1954 from advertisers and sales. Television accounted for 593,000,000 dollars, exceeding radio's 449,000,000 dollars as TV revenue rose 37 percent while radio fell 5 percent.
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Train Crash and Fire Kill 13 in English Spill
A passenger electric train collided with a freight train near Barnes station in London’s west, igniting a fire that killed thirteen people and injured thirty five. Victims included two children. twelve hours later eleven bodies remained unidentified as rescue crews battled flames and crews freed trapped passengers.
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Peace Prize Winner Aids Greek Refugees On Tiny Island
UN refugee chief G J van Heu ger Goedhart plans to spend about 35000 dollars from the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize funds to close the UN refugee center on the isle of Timas in the Cyclades. Roughly 125 destitute refugees live in a single dilapidated building and get one meal daily.
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Urge State Enact Budget Biennially
California lawmakers urge budgeting every two years to streamline law making. Sens. Donald Grunsky and Bev Hulse, speaking to the Joint Committee on Legislative Procedure, say annual budgets waste time and money.
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Watsonville
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Riel
Joint Committee On Legislative Procedure
Noted pianist's wife dies in German bus crash
In Stuttgart Germany Mrs Walter Giesching 66 wife of the celebrated concert pianist was killed when a bus crash Friday night also injuring 11 Americans including seven soldiers and four civilians. An American civilian couple Irving Wie Shore 31 and Lilian 28 Brooklyn and Leroy Kellogg 40 and wife Phyllis Fairfield Conn were named among the injured. Army officials withheld identifications of soldiers, with Pvt Leland Youngblood and others injured. The Gieschings were bound for Rome where the pianist would perform with the St Cecilia Orchestra. the musician suffered serious but non life threatening injuries.
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Traffic Judge Hints Son May Grow Into Bureaucrat
Oklahoma City report notes Traffic Judge James Demopoulos fears his young son Jimmy might follow a bureaucratic path. The judge recounts receiving a letter from Jimmy during a New Orleans trip for an American Bar Association meeting asking to check yes or no in a space provided.
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