Flood Scene Horror Told by Newsman
Northern California floods extend to Santa Cruz with 9 dead and 12 injured overall. Santa Cruz reports 3 dead, 12 missing, 300 to 400 exposed, as rains lash the coast into Oregon. Widespread damage includes five villages collapsed, with blankets and aid urgently needed for victims.
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California
Santa Cruz
Marysville
Monterey Bay
Oregon
San Francisco
Eureka (Ap
Manyland
Acca
Klamath
Weott
Downtown Reno Hit by Fast Flood
A fast flood inundated downtown Reno with water pouring through the area and disrupting telephone lines to Santa Cruz. Reports described widespread damage, evacuations, and water reaching high levels around landmarks while emergency crews and National Guard units built sandbag levees to defend Marysville and Riverside areas as other towns reported lumber losses and bus disappearances.
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Reno
Santa Cruz
Huntsman
Ers P
Marys
Ville Proper
Bandits Rob Fisk Bank Take $35,000 During Holidays
In Fisk Missouri two men robbed the Bank of Fisk of about 835,000 on Thursday then shouted Merry Christmas as they locked three employees in a vault. The dime-store dressed bandits fled in a bank employee’s car and later switched to another car eight miles southeast of Fisk.
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Scotia
Eureka
Fisk
Bank of Fisk
Miami Mayor Bars Agree to Shut for Christmas Eve
Miami mayor Christmas extends goodwill greeting to citizens and visitors. He wishes a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year as city offices close for the holiday.
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Miami
Fla
Christmas
Randall &. Christmas
Where to Find It Beach Combing and More
A concise directory lists sections and page numbers across the newspaper. It shows topics from obituaries to theaters and vital statistics, guiding readers to the correct pages for each feature.
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Boyle
Wilson
Army Expands A Ar m s to Europe with Corporal missiles
The Army plans six more battalions of Corporal missiles to Europe in the first four months of next year. Units now in Europe include the 280 mm cannon and Honest John rockets, while the Air Force fields Matador missiles and tactical nuclear-capable aircraft. Corporal missiles are surface to surface, supersonic with a 50 to 70 mile range, guided early by radar.
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Washington
Europe
Air Force
Army
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Oregon Rain Bases Flood Level Falls
Oregon floodwaters began to fall as rains slackened and cold weather ended mountain snow melt. Reedsport passed a critical point as the Umpqua River crested near record high tide and started to drop. Highway 99 opened to traffic at Grants Pass and seven Greyhound buses carrying 280 passengers moved south. Rail service between Seattle and Portland was restored after a slide was cleared, but the Southern Pacific line to Portland remained cut in the Cascade Mountains near Cruzette.
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Portland
Oregon
Reedsport
Umpqua
Grants Pass
Greyhound
Seattle
Cascade Mountains
Cruzette
Eugene
Southern Pacific
Ashland
San Francisco
Weather Update Rain Through Saturday With Wind
Rain continues through Saturday with strong winds from 35 to 25 mph. Forecast calls for unsettled conditions and gradual drying later weekend. Highs and lows not specified in the report.
Eisenhower Frees 42 Cleared by Clemency Pardon
President Eisenhower granted 42 clemencies including one death sentence commutation. John Vigneault of New Hampshire had his death sentence reduced to 55 years. Vigneault, 22, from Manchester, was convicted for participating in the shooting of an elderly couple on a German road in 1952. The pardons followed inurl sentences as part of a year end clemency pattern. Hagerty announced the president and Mrs. Eisenhower will attend a National Presbyterian Church service Sunday.
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Easton
Wash
John M. Horan
Maynard
Mass
Cascade Mountains
Teruko
Seattle
Japan
Ft. Lawton
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Justice Department
Brownell
Asaa
John Vigneault
New Hampshire
Vigneault
Marchester, N. H
Germany
Army
Ft. Leavenworth
Fatsberger
S. Weber
Bursa
Chula Vista
Calif
Angeles
James C. Hagerty
Hisenhower
National Presbyerian Church
Hagerty
Elegant Kicks Two Children at Party
A Santa Barbara party incident reports an excited elephant kicking two children Renee Lister aged 6 and Phillis aged 13. Both suffered severe bruises but escaped more serious harm. The text also mentions weather forecasts and a rainfall table with scattered garbled city names and figures.
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Elegant
Santa Barbara
Renee Lister
Phillis
May Rain Here on Christmas
A storm fringe brought light rain to the Long Beach area today and may cause showers on Christmas Day with unsettled weather continuing through the holiday period.
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Long Beach
Gas Co funds backed oil grab campaign disclosed
A 135 page report by California attorney general staff details Southern California Gas Co secret payments totaling 47500 dollars to John Fleming and his California Tidelands Protective Association as it waged a state wide campaign for the Allen Bill to divert tideland oil revenues from Long Beach to the state. Senator Cunningham plans hearings in Sacramento next month on lobbying law issues.
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San Bernardino
Southern California Gas Co
Criminal Division
Attyc Ger
Edmund G. Brown
California
James E. Cunningham
State Senate
Atty. Gen. Brown
Brown
Sen. Cunningham
Sacramento
Kenneth Horton
John A. Fleming
Los Angeles
California Tidelands Protective Assa
Tideland
Long Beach
Fleming
Gummy “Protective” Association
Nehru Seeks New Atomic Ban Talks
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru moves to sound out Western powers on starting a new East West conference on disarmament and a ban on nuclear test blasts. Sources say he has a fresh Soviet go ahead and hopes talks occur in spring during Bulganin Khrushchev Britain visit.
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London
Presimier
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Britain
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita, S. Khrushchev
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