Tornado Devastates Sunnyside Struck Town in Castro County
Rescue workers comb debris as 18 homes destroyed and the town church and store damaged after a twister cut a mile wide path Tuesday evening. Three killed, 23 hospitalized across Dimmitt Plainview Lubbock and nearby towns. rebuilding plans uncertain.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-journal
Unnyside
J.B. Kidd
Plainview
Baptist Brotherhood of the Staked Plains Assn
Sunnyside
Nona Beth Phelan
Earl Phelan
Thomas Riley Hogan
Dimmitt
Lubbock
Littlefield
Sylvia Phelan
Castro County
Everett Groseclose
Mystery Air Lingers Over Tri Slaying In Acapulco
U S embassy opens investigation into the deaths of Harold Lloyd Lantrip and Thomas Francis Howell found with bullets in their skulls near a beach ten miles from Acapulco. A third unidentified tourist card, a .22 pistol, a 1953 Texas tagged Chrysler, bloodstains, and a night bonfire complicate the case as Acapulco police declare the case closed.
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Jaime Plenn
Capulco
Mexico
UPD
Harold Lloyd Lantrip
Will Lantrip
Garrison, Tex
Thomas Francis Howell
Guilford
Texas
Brownsville
Tex
Matamoros
Santrip
Acapulco City
Peugeot pleads for kidnapped son in $100,000 ransom
Automobile magnate Roland Peugeot appeals to his son Eric's kidnapers on radio and TV to spare him and pay the $100,000 ransom. He asks mercy, promises to shield criminals from police, as a massive search continues and a 48 hour deadline looms.
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Charles Rwley Paris
UPI
Roland Peugeot
Eric
Peugot
Harvard
Colette
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States
Peugeot
Saint Cloud County
High Rebel Is Captured in Cuba Sierra Maestra Clash
Fidel Castro's forces claim capture of a top rebel lieutenant and two others in the Sierra Maestra in Oriente Province. Maj. Rene Vallejo Ortiz says the detainees, unnamed, will be taken to Bayamo military HQ. Unconfirmed whether Castro himself is in the field.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
Cuba
Rene Vallejo Ortiz
Institute of Agrarian Reform
Oriente
Manuel Beaton
Beaton
Sierra Maestra
Fulgencio Batista
Vallejo
Bayamo
Santiago
Jeader
Juan Almeida
Britain Scrap 1.8 Billion Dollar Rocket Project
Britain abandons the Blue Streak rocket and a network of launch sites in a costly shift to mobile bases. Defense Minister Watkinson cites vulnerability of fixed sites and prohibitive costs. Britain expects U S Skybolt missiles to extend its bomber force with U S approval pending.
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Arthur Gavshon Ondon
Britain
U.S
Defense
Harold Watkingon
Watkinson
House of Commons
Strategic Bomber Command
Washington
S Department
United States
Houston Boiler Explosion Kills Two at Pasadena Plant
A boiler exploded Wednesday at Crown Central Petroleum Co refinery near the Washburn tunnel in Pasadena. Two workers were killed and at least ten others were injured. About ten more were taken to hospitals in Houston and Pasadena.
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Houston
API
Crown Central Petroleum Co
Washburn Tunnel
Pasadena
More Showers Seen For Friday
Weather Bureau reports a line of thunderstorms moved through North Texas with no damage and fading by night. South Plains forecasts show partly cloudy skies and mild weather while Friday may bring thunderstorms with locally high winds. Heaviest rain fell at Amarillo and Wichita Falls.
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North Texas
Weather Bureau
South Plains
Amarillo
Wichita Alls
Lubbock
P . SL
Abilene
Albuquerque
Hoiouston
Okla
Dallas
Roan
Denver
Tess Walle
Three Boys Playing On Rail Trestle Killed In Minnesota
Easter vacation frolic in Fridley ends tragically as Dennis Ellis 7 and Kenneth Ellis 11 are struck and killed by a Great Northern Red River passenger train traveling 72 mph near Rice Creek. William Messer 9 barely survives after hanging on beside the ties.
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Inneapolis
Minn
Great Northern
Red River
Dennis Ellis
Kenneth
Rice Creek
Fridley
William Allen Messer
Tax deadline extended to Monday for 1959 filing
The IRS extended the filing deadline from Friday to Monday April 18 due to Good Friday. The three day grace period applies to taxpayers in 16 areas and potentially all taxpayers, to avoid penalties if payments are included. About 60 million Americans are expected to file.
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United Press International
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
U.S
Tax
Treasury Department
Dana Latham
Latham
Newspaper Sections Prompting Diverse Coverage
The prompt lists multiple newspaper sections including Church Services Editorials Columns Sports Scores and Women’s News across pages. It indicates content areas and page ranges, implying a diversity of local coverage and feature items for archival indexing.
Subway Blaze Strikes Times Square Escalator Fire
A subway escalator motor blaze in Times Square sent smoke through the station. Four firefighters were injured and three maintenance workers were trapped, later rescued through intense heat and smoke as crowds watched traffic halt.
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New York
Navy Fear To Aid Ship Navigation
The United States launched a 265 pound Navy satellite named Transit 1B as the first of a six sphere system to provide navigation data for ships and potentially aid air traffic control. The satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral, was tracking in an elliptical orbit after initial signals appeared from the launch sites in the U S, Newfoundland and England.
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Avalanche-Journal
Ashington
United States
Navy
Andrea Doria J
Air Force
iCape Canaveral
Fla
Newfoundland
England
New Mexico
Texas
NEW Navy
Four Texans Die In Plane Crash Near Mineral Wells
A Beechcraft disintegrated 20 miles northwest of Mineral Wells killing four Texans. Victims include Dr. James William Rainer 43 Odessa pilot en route from a Fort Worth medical meeting, and Dallas residents Mr. and Mrs. Burford Freeman 69 and 66. also Ben Dean Sheats 3 Fort Worth, a friend of the doctor and former Baylor quarterback.
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Mineral Wells
Here
James William Rainer
Odessa
Beechcraft
Fort Worth
Burford Freeman
Dallas
Ben Dean Sheats
Baylor University
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