Flood breaks Yuba City levees and floods northern California
The Yuba City levee breach sent floodwaters across the region as Marysville evacuees sought higher ground. Volunteers, helicopters, boats, and amphibious ducks aided rescue while Red Cross and federal agencies mobilized a large disaster relief effort across California and neighboring states.
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Old-Time Yule for Ike Mamie at the White House
The Eisenhowers host 16 relatives across four generations for Christmas Day. Grandchildren Dawid and Barbara Anne and Susan will hang stockings in the presidential living quarters. Christmas trees fill the East Room Blue Room state dining room and north portico with lights. gifts await on the third floor guest rooms and second floor Eisenhower section, with the President handing them out.
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Snowfall Ends Flood Threated Reno River
Snowfall in Reno ended the flood threat by slowing the Truckee River through a city channel. Hotels Riverside and Manes suffered little damage. bridges opened as sandbags were cleared for two way traffic. Rail and highway routes faced closures and diversions as trains and shipments rerouted amid continued flood aftermath.
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Pius XI Urges Ban on Atomic Arms in Christmas Message
The Pope warned against explosive research and warned that many tests could raise radioactive dangers. He pictured a world where atomic war destroys cities, harms survivors, and sows perpetual grief, urging peace beyond mutual suspicions and condemning communism while stressing human security over industrial excess.
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Governor Knight flies over flood areas in Northern California
Gov Knight and party in Grizzly National Guard plane survey flood ravaged regions including Yuba City Marysville. 30 reporters aboard as Knight plans to visit Oroville Eureka Santa Cruz and coastal areas before returning to Sacramento.
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Floods in California and nearby states described as once-in-a-century disaster
Water receded in Oregon and Nevada while California faced epic flooding. Regions hit included Santa Cruz near San Francisco, Tulare County in the San Joaquin Valley, Sonoma County, and Humboldt Del Norte, with immense damage reported. The Army Engineers called the event a once in a hundred years occurrence.
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Visalia Flood Swells Inundate Downtown After Kaweah River Breach
In Tulare County water from the Kaweah River and St. John's Creek flooded downtown Visalia with up to two feet inside many stores and three feet in southern homes. The crest was believed passed early today as sheriff deputies rescued about 100 people in the lowlands near Woodlake. Nearby towns Woodlake Lemon Cove Three Rivers and Farmersville were evacuated Friday.
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Brother Plea Fails As Ice Destroys Pair
In Rockville Centre New York on a frigid Friday 12 year old Robert Plamondon cried save my little brother as the two Plamondons Edward 11 and Robert broke through thin ice a passerby and police saved Robert but Edward drowned before rescue was possible.
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Godfrey Gives $100000 to Air Force Aid Society
CEI TV star Arthur Godfrey sent a 100000 Christmas check to the Air Force Aid Society to aid Air Force families in need. Officials said the gift comes from proceeds of two Saturday Evening Post articles about his life. The society is a semi official Air Force group offering financial help to airmen, their families and widows.
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Lawyer Raises Bail for Youth Suspect in Abduction Case
El Monte a municipal judge doubled the bail from five thousand sixty dollars to ten thousand dollars at the request of the youth's own lawyer who said the defendant is criminally insane. Robert Louis Kracker, 20, is charged with abducting and molesting a Baldwin Park girl last December. Abe F. Levy urged the higher bail to prevent temptation by friends or family, and Kracker will be held for trial after his parents Wilbur P. and Mrs. Kracker of Rosemead concurred.
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