Tree stump crushes young woman on Mt Rainier bus
A 23 year old chaperon, Marilyn Friedman of Brooklyn, was killed when a root laden tree stump toppled onto a parked bus in Mt Rainier National Park. The Rolling Stones group of 41 vacationers were traveling back to Seattle when the stump fell amid bridge construction. Three teenagers were slightly injured.
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Longmire. Wash
New York
Mt. Rainier National Park
Seattle
Marilyn Friedman
Brooklyn
N.Y
Big Operation Foils Auto Theft Ring in Indiana
Loganport officials and Ohio sheriff S combine to crack an interstate auto theft racket centered in Logansport. John E Conrad and Donald R York are under arrest after secret manufacturer numbers proved three men ground off engine IDs, with vehicles moving to Alabama for new titles before export to Ohio.
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Logansport
Ind
Ohio
Bruce Barber
Mercer County
Celina
John E. Conrad
Donald R. York
Alabama
Barber
Wapakoneta
York
Ber
Tipton
Watseka
Monticello
Conrad
Athens
Ala
Tragedy Driven by Paranoia and Persecution Claims
Kyrlo Czupirczuk, a 51 year old Ukrainian former mental patient, killed two men and wounded five others at a uptown Philadelphia home for the aged. He shouted that Communists and Bolsheviks were plotting to kill him and claimed Russians planned to kill him by radiation. He fired from a second floor apartment overlooking the building, wounded by police when he resisted surrender, and remained in critical condition.
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Barney Kline
Uptown
Negihbor Kyrlo Czupirczuk
Czupirczuk
Philadelphia
Kyrlo Czupirczuk
Bersek
Kyrle
Chicago
Ruth Gerhart
Crupirczuk
Czunirczuk
Ukrainian Revolutionary Brigade
Ros
Eisenhower
Washington
Weekend cool front to bring relief to Miami Valley
The forecast says cooler air is moving toward the Miami Valley for the weekend. Today will be partly cloudy and warm with a high near 90 and evening shower chances. Tonight the leading edge of a cool front lowers temperatures to about 64. Saturday and Sunday look fair and less humid with a high around 86.
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Miami Valley
Explorer VI paddlewheel satellite launched from Cape Canaveral
A Thor Able rocket lifted off at 9 23 a m from Cape Canaveral carrying a 142 pound paddlewheel satellite. If orbit confirmed the craft would study Earth radiation belts and power systems from a 160 to 23000 mile elliptical path. The mission includes a five pound kicker for potential altitude adjustment and may herald larger future deep space probes.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Satellite orbit rate compared to long space voyage
The satellite was expected to make only one orbit every 12 hours due to the lengthy journey into space, a pace set by the mission’s extended travel time and propulsion constraints.
Dynamite Explodes in Roseburg Downtown Destruction
A dynamite truck parked beside a burning building exploded in Roseburg Oregon early today. Eight or more dead and dozens injured as the blast leveled six blocks of warehouses and businesses. Hospitals saw 52 injured with three critical. debris covered a wide radius and a 50 by 20 foot crater marked the truck’s former site near Pacific Powder Co Tenino Washington.
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Roseburg
Ore
Busines
Irom Pacific Powder Co., Tenino, Wash
Explosion at Gerretsen Building Supply Co. injures driver
George Rutherford of Chehalis Washington parked his truck beside the Gerretsen Building Supply Co. building to fetch coffee when it exploded after a fire siren. He was hospitalized with noncritical injuries. The six story Umpqua Hotel nearby evacuated its 65 guests and staff as windows blew out at a distance.
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Gerretsen Building Supply Co
George Rutherford
Chehalis
Wash
Umpqua
Dick Smith
Youth Started Out in Wrong Business in Evansville
A 16 year old boy faced Juvenile Court after attempting a marijuana seed business. He planned to plant seeds along Figeon Creek and ship the crop to a California friend for sale. He received a warning and was paroled with seed confiscated. Names not disclosed.
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Evansville
Ind
Poloy
French Clements
California
Merchant Marine
Figeon Creek
Clements
Elizabeth to Expect Third Child of Queen Elizabeth II
London AP says Queen Elizabeth II is pregnant and due early next year. Buckingham Palace confirms the pregnancy after medical review. she and Prince Philip are at Balmoral with children Charles and Anne. The birth would be the first royal birth to a reigning monarch in over a century.
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London
Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace
Prince Charles
Anne
Prince Philip
Balmoral Castle
Scotland
U.S
Ghana
Canada
Cmdr
Richard Colville
Eisenhower Pushes Reform Law Against Labor Racketeering
President Eisenhower urged a strong reform law to curb racketeering in labor management and blasted the Senate bill as ineffective. He backed a House substitute by Landrum and Griffin, while AFL CIO chief Meany called the plan a blunder that harms unions. The debate split along party and union lines as lawmakers prepared for a key week of action. The VFW awarded George Meany its Americanism Gold Medal for his service to American ideals at a Los Angeles ceremony slated for August 31.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
House
Senate
House Labor Committee
Phil M. Landrum
D-Ga
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Afl-Cio
John F. Shelley
Calif
Meany
Senate House
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Sam J. Ervin Jr
L-Nc
Kansas City
Veterans of Foreign Wars
George Meany
John W. Mahan
VFW
Los Angeles
Mahan
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Reuther
National Assn. of
Kennedy
House Committee
Griffin
Labor Laws in Nation Debate on Union Abuse and Reform
President Eisenhower warned that without public voice crooks and racketeers could prevail as he attacked oppressive practices blackmail and racketeering linked to labor disputes and third party boycotts. Walter Reuther criticized him while Kennedy defended his own reform bills as needed to curb racketeering without harming unions.
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Tt Te
Digging frenzy as cache of beer found near Oklahoma City
A beer cache unearthed in a dumping ground east of Oklahoma City drew crowds of families with picks and shovels while a police report said the beer was buried by a distributor because it was unfit for consumption. Some believed it was buried due to flatness or alcohol content. A heavy rain sped digging as drinkers sipped from the found supply.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Hurricane Dot Rips Kauai With 75 MPH Winds
A massive hurricane battered Kauai with 75 mph winds and torrential rain. Homes were demolished or lost roofs, communications and power failed, and roads flooded and blocked by debris. Officials expected millions in damage while evacuations helped prevent casualties. Civil defense credited advance warnings and prep for the island's 28 000 residents.
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Kauai
Hawaii
Civil Defense
Manuel Medeiros
Integrated High School Openings Spark Fears In Little Rock
Police prepared for possible disturbances as public high schools resume with integration next week. Chief Gene Smith said the force was unsure what to expect but would stay ready.
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Little Rock, Ark
Gene Smith
Shriners Stop Traffic With Street Breakfast Antics
In Los Angeles at seventh and Broadway six Shriners from Al Mal ikah Temple held a mid day breakfast on a table and chairs lifted from a parked truck. They served ham and eggs while 600 pedestrians watched as scooters circled and traffic backed up four blocks. Officers warned they would leave after breakfast.
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Los Angeles
Shriners
al Malaikah Temple Patrol
7Th and Broadway
West
Hawaii
Mexico City
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Erte Rere
B. L. Livingstone
Senate Labor‘Management Committee
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Dot
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Davlfin
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Kauai Head
South Pacific
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Assa
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High Altitude Observatory
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