Rescue Trains Churn San Quentin Pair Toward Streamliner 5
Snowbound conditions stranded hundreds as avalanches and outages cut communities. Rescue efforts centered on the City of San Francisco route with a relief train and rotary plow aimed to reach within three miles of the stalled streamliner near Donner Summit. Two guards were attacked during an escape attempt at San Quentin, and Warden Teets denounced the uprising as under control.
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San Quentin
Carl Olson
Hwy
Red Cross
Highway 395
Reno
Stead Air Force Base
Greyhound
Lake Audrain
Echo Summit
U. S. Highway 50
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
California Division of Highways
Sierra
Sixth Army
Presidio
Colfax
Streamliner
Donner Summit
Donner Party
California
Republican National Committee
Washington
Rogers
Wiget
Burwell
Sims
Ralph E. Dascombe
Virgil F. Stewart
Wigets
Presidio of
Booth
Mackin
Benny Gallegos
Los Angeles
Gallegos
John §. Baird
Francis B. Gaspar
Harley C. Teets
Clinton T. Duffy
Bribery by Food Chief Alleged Bribery Scandal
WAUKEGAN Jan 15 State's Attorney Nelson said ex state food inspection chief Charles W. Wray admitted taking 3000 to 3500 in bribes tied to illegal horsemeat sales. Wray summoned for questioning. Siciliano of Johnsburg Packing Co. charged. Office of Price Stabilization reports multi million Illinois horse meat trade under price ceilings. Evidence prepared for federal grand jury in Springfield Jan 22.
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Waukegan
Food Inspection Service
Robert C. Nelson
Nelson
Charles W. Wray
Wray
Joseph Siciliano
Johnsburg Packing Company
McHenry County
Siciliano
Office of Price Stabilization
Chicago
Springfield
Captain Charged in Killing of Cook
Captain Franklin B. Weaver of Englewood New Jersey was arrested on a murder charge aboard the GPA freighter Flying Trader for the October killing of a 24 year old utility cook William Harvey of Dayton Ohio. Bail set at 25000 dollars as the story of the gunman crew member emerged.
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New York
GPA
Franklin B. Weaver
Englewood
N. J
Robert M. Reagan
U. S
William Harvey
Dayton
Ohio
Taft's Name Placed in Illinois Primary
Springfield reports Sen Taft formally entered in the Illinois Republican presidential preference primary on January 15 1960. Illinois voting does not bind convention delegates. Harold Stassen supporters expect to enter their own slate of delegate candidates.
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Springfield
Robert Taft
Illinois
Harold 5. Stassen
Harbor Dept Increases Insurance for Tank Farm and Pier 2
The Harbor Department renewed $2,898,000 fire insurance and added $1,000,000 coverage for a new oil tank farm and the completed Pier 2 transit shed. Bodily injury coverage for its motor vehicle fleet rose from $100,000 to $300,000, with Long Beach Underwriters Association handling the account.
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Pier 2
Long Beach Underwriters Association
Bar Owner Killed After Police Mistake Burglar
In Oakland at 4 a.m. Patrolman Lawrence Christensen, a 11-year veteran, fired a single bullet through a locked door, killing Harold Stanford Belham 41, co owner of the Cactus Bar who lived upstairs. Belham said nothing and was hit in the left eye.
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Oakland
Harold Stanford Belham
Belham
Cactus
Lawrence Christensen
Oakland Force
Christensen
Pilot 89 Hopes to Fly Jet Plane for Thrill
James Montee, 89, of Los Angeles, seeks to pilot a jet aircraft after taking a helicopter ride yesterday. He began flying at 60 and has logged about 4000 hours. He once drove a stagecoach out of Dodge City, Kansas.
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OS Angeles
James Montee
Montee
Oldster
Doge City
Kan
Nixon Demands GOP Chief Ouster
Senator Nixon harshly urged the Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson be fired if he won t quit. He announced the demand in a New York Economic Club speech praising or criticizing the subcommittee investigations into Gabrielson and Boyle Jr. regulators and their role in government loan negotiations.
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Washington
Nixon
R.calif
Guy G. Gabrielson
Economic Club
New York
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Gabrielson
William M. Boyle Jr
Boyle
Real Civil Service Wedding in Gotham
In Bellevue Hospital synagogue, Rabbi Henry A. Schorr presided over a civil service wedding. The bride, a court clerk, wed a post office employee as the city owns the hospital and provided the synagogue. The ceremony occurred while the bride’s fireman father recuperated there.
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New York
Bellevue Hospital
Henry A. Schorr
Post Office
No More Christmas Cards Needed for Local Nurseries
Long Beach citizens delivered an overwhelming response to supply old Christmas cards for Day Nurseries. Petri's Cleaners collected about 50,000 cards destined for the United Cerebral Palsy Association in New York. Moony Thanks was offered, and calls already placed will be picked up this week.
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Long Beach
Petri's
United Cerebral Palsy Association
New York
Petri
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United Air Lines
Olive
Sts. Holywood
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Colorado
Sycamore
Los Angeles International
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Jong Besch
Willer
GOP
Annes Mune Re CO
Civil Service
Gotham
Press-Telegram
Calif
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Doe
Eaton's Chicken House
Atlantic
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