Navy jet circles Edwards Air Force Base with stuck landing gear
A Navy A3D jet bomber with three crew circled Edwards AFB for hours while attempting to free a stuck landing gear. Navy officials said crew from Patuxent River were ferrying the plane and considered a belly landing at Muroc Dry Lake as an option.
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Edwards
Calif
Edwards Air Force Base
Muroc Dry Lake
NAVAL
Patuxent River
Naval Air Training Station
Idyllwild Airport
New York
Douglas Aircraft
Missing MIT Youth and Romance Amid Polio Trials
Massachusetts Institute technology freshman Thomas Lies, now 30, and his fiancée Phyllis, plans a long delayed wedding despite Lies polio paralysis. Authorities continue follow ups while community events honor the couple with a Valentine queen luncheon and gifts totaling about 1000 dollars.
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Lies
Phyllis
Edward J F. Voorde
Valentine Queen
Knight Improving Returns Indefinitely to California
New York Governor J Kruger of California reports Knight improving with a good night. He remains on the mend from an influenza attack. Return to California is indefinite as per aide statements today.
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New York
Goodwin J. Kruger
California
Quake Shakes Wide Region in Southland
A 10:34 a.m. quake rattled a broad area of Southern California, felt in Orange County and Long Beach. It lasted about 90 seconds, set off fire alarms in San Diego, with Pasadena seismographs showing intensity around 7 on the scale. Caltech seismologist Dr. Charles F. Richter linked it to aftershocks from last week’s shaker affecting San Diego and El Centro.
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Orange County
Long Beach
Pasadena
California Institute of ‘Technology
Baja California
San Dies
Charles F. Richter
Caltech
San’ Diego
el Centro
Fred Robinson
San Diego
Fatal Fire Destroys Furniture Factory in Winston-Salem
A spectacular blaze engulfed the B F Huntley Furniture Co plant in Winston-Salem today, flames rising about 150 feet and spreading over almost a city block. At least one person was reported dead and the fire officials expected a total loss with no immediate loss estimate.
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Winston-Salem
N. Co
B. F. Huntley Furniture Co
Mine in Mackerel Net Sparks Navy Practice False Alarm
Fishermen aboard the purse seiner Santa Lucia hauled in a net of mackerel and found a mine. They abandoned ship after a rapid radio call to the Coast Guard. A 95 foot patrol boat arrived and advised the crew they could return. the mine was a Navy practice device with no explosives. The incident occurred two miles south of the Long Beach breakwater.
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Santa Lucia
Radao
Coast Guard
STE
Coast
Navy
Long Beach
MIT student in mysterious Lincoln incident described
Bowditch spoke with the missing student’s father Alfred F Clark a Bell Telephone Co executive. The youth was found near Lincoln and told to return to school by a.m. He was last seen Friday around 1 30 p m by Mrs Jeannie Sheehan who said a youth matching Clark’s description knocked and asked for a ride to collect his luggage, identifying himself as an MIT student but offering no further details.
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Bowditch
Alfred F.clark
Bell Telephone Co
Clark
Lincoln
Jeanne Sheehan
Waltham
Weather outlook shows cloudy periods through Wednesday
Considerable cloudiness is expected at times through Wednesday with only minor temperature changes. The forecast notes little overall shift in temperatures as the sky stays mostly overcast.
Press-CTelearam Yong Beach 12 California
Classified text appears with a date and issue details but is incomplete. The fragment mentions February 14, 1956 as a Tuesday, volume LXIX number 14, 30 pages and pricing ten cents. It reads like a newspaper header and contact numbers for classifieds.
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Yong Beach
Calif
Wrong Way U S Balloon Over Siberia
A 40 foot U S weather balloon launched from Japan reversed course due to strong winds and crossed toward the Soviet Union, crash landing over Kamchatka. The Navy said the craft carried weather data not intended for espionage and that the United States would avoid offending nations while Soviets note their own balloons.
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Soviet Siberia
Aleutians
Navy
Pacific
Russia
Japan
Tron Curtain
United States
Dulles
Hokkaido
Killer Irvin Okays Return to Indiana
In San Francisco the 31 year old killer Irvin known as Mad Dog waived extradition and agreed to return to Gibson County Indiana where he faces the electric chair. He escaped from Gibson County Jail and was arrested in a pawn shop here. Irvin has one murder conviction and is accused of five others. Sheriff Earl Hollen said he would likely depart Wednesday. They will fly to Chicago then drive to Princeton Indiana. He appeared before Municipal Judge James J Welsh with Assistant Public Defender Molly Minudri.
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Irvin
Indiana
Gibson (Ind
Earl Hollen
Gibson’ County
TWA
Chicago
Princeton
Ind
James J. Welsh
Asst
Molly Minudri
Thet Court
Trains Collide in Chile Killing 30 Tourists
A summer train jam near Cartagena, Chile collided with another train today. Initial reports say 30 people were killed and 80 injured. authorities investigate cause as survivors recount the crash near the coast.
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Santiago
Chile
Cartagena
Nixon Tosses Barbs at 3 Demo Hopefuls
Vice President Nixon told the National Republican Club in a Lincoln Day speech that the Republican record proves prosperity with full employment and security without wartime controls. He touted three years of progress and framed the coming eight years under Eisenhower.
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Nixon
New York
National Republican Club
Contractor and Family of Six Perish by Asphyxiation
Oklahoma City area residents report a contractor George Smithhisler aged about 55 his wife Barbara and their six children Virginia 9 Michael 8 Pat 5 Tommy 3 and Carol 1 were found dead in their home eight miles northeast of Oklahoma City early in the day. George Bryan a neighbor found them around 7:30 am. Sheriff's deputies said the family members were located in various rooms as the investigators described.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
George Smithhisler
Barbara
Virginia
Michael
Pat
Tommy
Carol
George Bryan
Smithhisler
George Longland
George Catron
Nixon Defends Record at Lincoln Day Dinner and Attackers Named
At the club’s seventh Lincoln Day dinner Nixon praised Eisenhower era advances in ending racial discrimination and rejected claims of calling Truman a traitor. He denied calling the Democratic party treasonous and criticized Stevenson Kefauver and Harriman as rivals. The report notes the speech amid a separate local tragedy with Long describing a house fire and possible zinc poisoning fumes tying to deaths.
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Nixon
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sen
Estes’ Kefauver
Tennessee
Averell Harriman
New York
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Democratic Party
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United States
The
Communist Party
Where To Find For The Newspaper Reader
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Vital Statistics
Wilson
Eisenhower Boosts California Flood Relief Funds
President Eisenhower allocates an additional 2 million dollars to the Civil Defense Administration for flood relief in California amid ongoing disaster response. The action underscores the federal response to severe weather impacts and supports state recovery efforts.
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Ike
Calif
Washington
Eisenhower
Civil Defense Administration
California
Khrushchev Uproots War Threats at 20th Congress
In Moscow Khrushchev declared coexistence over war unlikely and outlined five foreign policy principles, stressing better ties with the United States and allied nations, while asserting the Soviet bloc's growing strength and defense prowess. He urged improved relations with India Burma Afghanistan and nonaggressive states. Meanwhile a gunman robbed a Norwalk supermarket, escaping after forcing the manager to open a safe and then fleeing as deputies arrived. The bandit, about 33 and visibly intoxicated, left no injuries or arrests.
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Asa
Eisenhower Cleared For Active Life For 5 To 10 Years
President Eisenhower’s doctors said there is no medical reason he cannot continue an active life in the White House for another term. Dr. Paul Dudley White noted the President should be able to carry on actively for five to ten years, with the choice his. The staff reported a good recovery from the September 24 coronary thrombosis and said there are no signs of heart failure.
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Washington
Hisertower
White House
Paul Dudley White
Boston
Eisenhower
White
Howard McC. Snyger
Snyder
Stars Furrier Teitelbaum Jailed in Theft Probe
Beverly Hills furrier Al Teitelbaum, longtime supplier to film stars, was arrested on conspiracy charges tied to a reported $280,000 salon robbery on December 27. Police say Teitelbaum, 40, faces conspiracy to defraud an insurance company and conspiracy to commit grand theft, with another $173,000 robbery reported on December 7, 1953.
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Beverly Hills
Fursitr al Teltelagum
C. H. Anderson
Teitelbaum
Rejected Suitor, 18, Wounds Self in Car Shot
An 18 year old suitor from Inglewood fired a .22 pistol at his abdomen after a teenage girl friend rejected his marriage proposal. Forrest Martinson was in fair condition at Harbor General Hospital. Deputies said the incident occurred in a parked car in Lennox with a 17 year old girl present. The identity of the girl was not released.
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Los Angeles
Long waited Pvt Joe Garcia seeks missing Air Force orders
San Antonio Texas UP The Air Force probes missing orders for Pvt Joe V Garcia 30 who waited 10 years for duty word. Garcia last reported at Lackland AFB after two months convalescing at Brooke Army Hospital in 1946. His unit and records were reportedly transferred and he was told to go home. He has since worked as a truck driver and remains in non duty status, with no back pay expected.
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Mass
Massachussetts Institute
Lues
Technology
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Harvey
Danville
Conn
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theLerans Hospital
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John Grainger
Anje
Francis Bowditch
MIT
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Tex
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Washington
Lackland Air Force Base
Garcia
Lackland
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