Bus and Truck Crash in Novato Kills Driver and Injures Eleven
A Pacific Greyhound bus rear ended a lumber truck near Novato on Sunday. Fred Edgar Mortis, 35, of Santa Rosa, died after being freed from wreckage. Eleven passengers were injured, six with serious injuries. the drive Otis Hardy, 42, of Vallejo, was unhurt. Police and hospital reports list multiple patients, with several treated for minor injuries. The bus was en route from San Francisco to Santa Rosa when it crossed the median and toppled into a meadow.
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Jelke Witness Tells of Hotel Party at Sixteen
Grace Appel testifies about a February 1951 hotel party involving Pat Ward and another woman at the Waldorf Astoria. She says Ward invited her to the room, both left the bathroom area by 11:45 pm, with Adams present earlier, and the group went to the room of Joey Adams before leaving together.
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Alfred McCart
Marines Win Orange Show Parade Prize
Camp Pendleton's Marine Band captured the sweepstakes prize as the 40th Orange Show closed in SAN BERNARDINO, drawing 265000 visitors over its 11 days. More than 10000 watched the parade with 73 military units. Attendance topped 1949 but missed the 290699 all-time high. Other winners included Ozzie's band, Culver City corps, Jerry Trimble group, Boy Scout Troop 379, and Harding Military Academy.
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Camp Pendleton
Marine Band
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Culver City
Drum and Bugle Corps
Jerry Trimble
Boy Scout Troop
Los Angeles
Harding Military Academy of
Glendora
Johnny Ray Mobbed In Australia By Police
Singer Johnny Ray arrived in Sydney amid fan chaos with about 500 teenagers and eight husky policemen keeping the crowd back. Ray, quoted in Truth, said he plans to retire soon and settle down, possibly back in Australia, to marry and start a family.
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Family of Four Slain in Tennessee
ROCK ISLAND Tenn A family of four was found slain on their farm Sunday. Billy Gibbs 23 already jailed for selling the family livestock is charged with murder after the baby was found in a water-filled trough and the mother and older girl in a sinkhole. Bratcher and his wife were beaten to death. Gibbs admitted thefts but denied the slayings. He is the father of Gibbs’s newborn.
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Waterfront Dock Row Ties Up Liverpool
A dictional dispute between rival dock unions tied up 43 ships today along seven miles of Liverpool waterfront. Hundreds of workers quit loading and unloading ships as the strike grew, sparked by a requirement for registration of dock workers.
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Jet Fighter Crash Kills Fresno Pilot
Air Force investigators searched the charred wreckage of an F36D jet fighter after it crashed near Mc Clellan Air Force Base. The pilot Lt. Col. Walter I Olson of Fresno died when the plane failed to reach the runway during a flight from Salt Lake City.
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McClellan Air Force Base
Salt Lake City
Four Aboard Rescued Off Shrimp Trawler Sinks
SINTON Texas four crew members were rescued after the shrimp trawler Lucky Lady sank off the lower Texas gulf coast Saturday following a collision with a submerged object. The rescue was performed by the trawler Virtune which pulled the men aboard with a line as high winds and seas hindered a closer approach.
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Tax experts erred on income tax problem in Detroit study
The Detroit Better Business Bureau tested six professionals including an Internal Revenue Service agent and five tax consultants. They calculated the fictitious person’s income tax but all six responses were incorrect.
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Detroit Better Business Bureau
Internal Revenue Service
Saar Pact to Be Given Court Test
West Germany's constitutional court will hear a Socialist challenge to the French German Saar pact. Socialists seek to declare the pact unconstitutional, arguing Adenauer's government violated Bonn's constitution by Europeanizing the Saar. The court set April 7 for government responses and April 18 for Socialist replies, then a hearing date. The Socialists announced they have 163 Bundestag signatures, meeting the one third requirement.
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Germany
West Germany
Djeopard
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Constitutional Court
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Free Democratic Party
Hawaii Seeks Federal Aid After Volcano Eruption
President Eisenhower ordered a survey to assess damage in Hawaii after a volcano eruption. Governor Samuel Wilder King designated Puna County as a major disaster area and urged federal funds. Val Peterson of the Federal Civil Defense Administration will oversee the survey with Congresswoman Elizabeth Farrington and Sherman Adams to confer with aides.
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White House
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James C. Hagerty
Puna
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Val Peterson
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Peterson
Elizabeth Farrington
Congress
Sherman Adams
Nehru to visit Moscow on Soviet invitation
Indian Prime Minister Nehru will visit Moscow early in ten days after the Soviet government invited him. The foreign ministry announced today.
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India
Nehru Wall
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