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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
5
A gasoline pipeline exploded near Pusan in Korea, killing four Korean civilians and injuring others as seven houses burned. Fire fighters battled the blaze after the blast roared through the area today.
Four adults were killed and four children injured in a truck car crash. The Arizona truck driver Gaylord Deral Wells, 24, of Nogales, was jailed for felony hit and run after speeding from the scene. Wells was stopped fifty miles north near Delhi.
Miss Margaret Perry, Washington state educator named teacher of the year for 1955, chatted with President Eisenhower in Monmouth Oregon. She spoke with fourth graders Sue Mull and Dicky Peterson about haircuts and paratroopers as the President teased the new top knot and quipped that mothers oppose it while fathers approve.
Dora Blowers of Livingstone New Jersey files a claim alleging a secret wife of magnate William J Vanderbilt left a multimillion dollar estate. She says she married Vanderbilt in 1925 Stamford Connecticut and learned his true identity two years later. She asserts Vanderbilt was divorced from his first wife Rosamond Lancaster and Virginia Graham, with proceedings started before his death in 1944. The case targets the Guaranty Trust Co as executor of the Vanderbilt estate based in New York City.
Playboy Thomas Warner Jr. died last week in a fall from a 12 knot embankment and left $25,000 to the unemployed telephone operator he dined with the night of his death. The will filed for probate Wednesday shows an estate of about $100,000, far below the anticipated two million.
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