Subsoil Fires Disrupt Austin Landmarks Amid Storms
In Austin, electrical storms caused transformer fires under the Driskill Hotel and Scarborough Department Stores. Firefighters evacuated six blocks as flames and smoke filled conduit tunnels. The Scarborough blaze lingered at 3:30 a.m. with smoke and water damage. no losses estimated, no injuries reported locally. Four National Guardsmen were injured at Fort Hood during a separate storm. Elsewhere in Texas, oil tanks burned after a Kilgore area fire sparked by lightning.
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Texas
Driskill Hotel
Scarborough
H. W. Gilliland
Mexico Girl Fills Out Miss Universe Roster
Contingent includes Misses Costa Rica Honduras Nicaragua Venezuela Chile and Guatemala. Guatemala’s Maria de la Molina notes coffee consumption at home while reflecting on the milk here. Canada Alaska also represented. Contestants describe activities as mainly measureful, with shopping tours arranged by host agency after registration. Elena Fancera of Italy arrived in Long Beach en route to an operational conference and moved into quarters at the Lafayette Hotel.
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Honduras
Nicaragua
Venezuela
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Guatemala
Maria de la Molina
Canada
Alaska
Imost
Agence
Italy
Elena Fancera
Rome
Long Beach
Ente i
France
America
Meinhardt
Lafayette Hotel
Train Hit-Run Baffles San Francisco Police
San Francisco police hunt a hit and run locomotive after William Harmon of Yuba City reported a truck bump along Southern Pacific tracks on Thursday. Harmon, 38, said the steam locomotive backed up and left the scene, with damage to his truck estimated at 100 dollars.
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San Francisco
Pha-Police
Wiliam Harmon
Yuba City
Calif
Southern Pacific
W O Taylor Boston Globe Editor Dies
William O Taylor aged 84 longtime editor and publisher of the Boston Globe died at home in Marion Massachusetts after serving in the role for 54 years He became editor and publisher in 1921 following the death of his father General Charles T Taylor who built the Globe He remained active in the paper until a few months before his death in Marion Mass
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William \O. Taylor
The
Boston Globe
Globe
Charles T. Taylor
San Antonio Plans School Desegregation
San Antonio plans to desegregate public schools this fall with gradual mixing of Negro and white students in 90 schools. Superintendent Thomas B. Portwood said the move follows the school board directive for good faith compliance with the Supreme Court ruling. Mission and Eagle Mountain will end segregation in their smaller districts this fall.
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San Antonio
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Texas
Thomas B. Portwood
Mission
Eagle Mounain
U S Bishop Conducts Rite in Argentina
In Buenos Aires the Most Rev Merlin J Guilfoyle led a mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral as 500 Catholics filled the church. Demonstrations were absent this day after prior unrest tied to the International Eucharistic Congress journey. security remained in place.
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Eucenos Aires
Argentina
GFI
Metropolitan
Merlin J. Guilfoyle
San Francisco
Calif
Joseph F. Rummel
New Orleans
United States Pilgrims
Rio de Janeiro
Rummel
Montevideo
Uruguay
Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
Rio
Rimmel
Allies Map Strategy for Geneva Talks and Indochina
Allies plan joint talks with Eden MacMillan Faure and Pinay at 3 p.m. and again at 4 p.m. in Paris to discuss Geneva conference rules and western plans. Pinay and MacMillan met at the British Embassy luncheon, while Faure hosts all three ministers later. Rhee warns South Koreans that strikers are deemed Communist interests and pledges government protection for lawful workers.
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Eden
MacMillan
Faure
Pinay
Finay
West Germany
Heinrich von Brentana
Indochina
Geneva
Rhee
Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Five die in traffic crash involving fire crew in Missouri
A northeast Missouri wreck killed four members of an Illinois fire family and a woman motorist. Fire chief’s car and a pumper collided at night on wet pavement. Sixth person, James Atchison, 82, was critically injured. Victims include Harry Colbert and Vivian Atchison.
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Palmyra
UPI
Indianapolis
Illinois
Missouri
James F. Miller
District Chiefs
Louis Bortlein
Missouri Highway Patrol
Harry Colbert
Moline
Mary
Charles
James
Vivian E. Atchison
Dallas
Tex
James Atchison
Vivian
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