Power Failure Darkens Gotham
New York AP report describing a major Manhattan blackout affecting 500 block area, leaving elevators, lights, and cooling systems out. Hospitals, subways, and streets halted. emergency crews and 3,000 extra police restored order as power gradually returned after about 13 hours.
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Mount Sinai Hospital
New York
Manhattan
Mary Pinaha
Upper Manhattan
Consolidated Edison Co
Central Park
Old Faithful Shaken by Major Northwest Quakes
An erratic series of earthquakes centered near Yellowstone rocked the Northwest for over four hours. The tremors reached from British Columbia to Oregon and as far as Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, damaging structures and prompting evacuations near Hebgen Lake. The Berkeley seismologist put the quake at 7.8, while the main effects hit Yellowstone and West Yellowstone with injuries reported and travel halted by rockslides and broken plate glass.
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Helena
Mont
Rockies
Yellowstone National Park
British Columbia
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
Westellowstone
Berkeley
Calif
University of California
San Francisco
Northwest
Yelllowstone National Park
Dean Stone
Maryville
Tenn
Boise
Skaha Lake
Yellowstone
Pint Sized Model T Goes Slow But Sure
In St. Louis Theodore Rau wins a toy-scale 1910 Model T in a supermarket raffle. He sits in the tiny car, starts the three horsepower motor, and drives two miles home at about five mph through rush hour traffic with motorists smiling behind him. He and his mother-in-law then carry the car into the living room.
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ST. Louis
Theodore Rau
Rau
Glendale
Ray
Cuban Goodwill Trip Hits Snag
In Santiago Chile a Cuban goodwill mission accompanying Raul Castro was expelled as an unauthorized military air party. The Inter-American ministers backed temporary powers for the Peace Committee to curb invasions while pursuing a hemispheric human rights accord in Quito next year.
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Santiago
Chile
Raul Castro
Raul
Fidel Castro
Inter-American Peace Committee
Dominican Republic
Rafael
Not A Bad Night for Manhattan Bartenders in Blackout
In a city blackout on Monday, Manhattan bars adapted quickly as bartenders lit candles and improvised lighting. Patrons switched to bottled drinks while ice, candles, and even sacramental wax boosted service, with many venues reporting busier crowds and a festive mood despite the outage.
Earthquake toppled mountain into Madison River near Hebgen Dam
A quake rattled the northwest from British Columbia to Wyoming as a mountain slid into the Madison River near Hebgen Dam in Montana, killing at least six and leaving about 100 marooned between the dam and the slide. Civil Defense and police reports list eight killed in Reynolds Pass area on the Montana Idaho border. In Pennsylvania, a Greyhound bus and a tractor trailer collided on the Turnpike, killing two and injuring five.
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Helena
Mont
Madison River
Montana
Big Hebgen
British Columbia
Wyoming
Montana Civil Defense Headquarters
Idaho
Reynolds Pass
Montana-Idaho
Donegal
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Today's Chuckle An Old-Timer Is a Householder
An old-timer is defined as a fellow who has made the last payment on his house indicating a long tenure and financial milestone.
Wisconsin wife plotted double murder with lover
District Attorney William F. Riley said Margie Pfeiffer 29 admitted she and her boyfriend Edward Dunn 43 conspired to kill her husband Clyde 32 and discussed killing his wife. Pfeiffer held on 10000 bail for conspiracy. Dunn jailed on 10000 bail for attempted murder after a staged ice cream trip and a struggle where a wire noose failed.
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Maisie Pfeiffer
Oconomowoc
Wis
Edward Dunn
Milwaukee
Clyde
Ocono
Dist
William F. I Riley
Margie Pfeiffer
Waukesha County
Riley
Pfeiffer
Dunn
Lightning Smashes Tree Knocked Out Toledo Power
A bolt struck a tree in west Toledo causing it to fall into utility lines and cut electricity for about five hours. The impact damaged three autos and two garages.
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Island of
Manhattan
Hudson River
East River
Central Park
59Th
110Th Sts
74Th
110Th
American Broadcasting Co
ABC
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo
Rainy, Humid Miami Valley Forecast With Showers Ahead
The rainy wet pattern continues with hot humid air in the Miami Valley. Official forecast calls for warm humid weather today and tonight, high around 88 and low near 70. Wednesday expected cloudy and warm with showers, high about 87. Middletown reports high 81, low 70, rainfall 0.21 inches last night.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Ulcer Attack Helps Police Catch Thug
Newark police nabbed a robbery suspect after an ulcer attack followed an $8 holdup on a taxi ride. Robert Kennedy, 20, admitted the crime and implicated neighbor Robert Allman as an accomplice. Both were charged with assault and robbery.
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Newark
N.J
Robert Laird
Martland Medical Center
Philip Kennedy
Kennedy
Robert Allman
Alceer
Quake Kills at Least Six in Montana Cliff Lake Deluge
Virginia City Montana AP reports six people dead after a tremor struck Monday night. Sheriff Lloyd W Brook says two of the fatalities occurred at Cliff Lake when a massive cliff collapsed over the area. Rescue teams comb the region for survivors and assess further damage.
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Virginia City
Mont
Montana
Madison County
Hebgen Dam Flood Report Sparks Alarmed Calls
State CD Director Potter cites an early report of two feet of water spilling over Hebgen Dam as residents evacuated and authorities scrambled to assess damage after the flood surge.
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State CD
Potter
Hebgen Dam
Rockslides Block Road Below Dam Near Hebgen
A Montana civil defense report says 100 to 250 people in about six cars are trapped in a canyon between Hebgen Dam and a rock slide seven miles below dam. The slide dammed the river and water level rises slowly while the damaged highway cracks prevent vehicle passage. some may escape on foot. Radio executive Richard Smiley tried to enter from Ennis but found the road blocked by boulders as large as cars.
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U.S. 287
Potter
Richard D. Smiley
KXXL
Bozeman
Mont
Ennis
Edith Strengthens as Tropical Storm Near Martinique
A tropical storm named Edith gathered strength as it moved toward the Lesser Antilles, about 100 miles east of Martinique with the system more than 1,700 miles southeast of Miami. The storm was the season’s fifth named cyclone and posed a potential threat to Caribbean islands.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Lesser Antilles
Miami
Fla
Edith
Martinique
French West Indies
Public to Get Facts On Strike
President Eisenhower and James P. Mitchell announced they will publish basic facts behind the steel strike. Mitchell, Eisenhower’s fact finder, said the report will cover wages prices productivity profits and related matters and will not include policy recommendations. The aim is to inform papers Thursday and encourage tougher bargaining for a settlement.
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Washington
Eisenhower
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
Flash Flood Hits Needles Calif
A desert cloudburst swamped Needles California stranding about 200 motorists and washing out parts of U S Highways 66 and 95. Three railroad workers were missing as sheriff deputies said the flood sealed off the town from three sides and stopped traffic by debris plugged roads and destroyed bridges.
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Needles
Calif
Colorado
U.S
U.S. 66
Judge Warns Stark County Judge Over Bias Claims
Chief Justice Weygandt sharply warned Common Pleas Judge Paul G. Weber after a hearing arising from a three year feud with attorney Virgi F. Mills. Mills alleged bias with 29 affidavits. Weber denied the charges and mostly recused. Weygandt asked about a plan to balance case withdrawals with other judges and whether Weber will attend the next Stark County judges conference.
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Canton
Ohio
Carl V. Weygandt
Ohio Supreme Court
Stark County
Common Pleas
Paul G. Weber
Virgi F. Mills
Weber
Mills
Weygandt
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Mark T. Sheehan
Madison ‘River
Hugh K. Potter
State Civil Defense
Branch Rickey
Stanford Bradsha
Ravi
Cuba
Lima
Peru
Caribbean
Crane
Eee
Valley News
Secre
Gerald Miller
Broadway
Amsterdam Avenue
Bulletins
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Idlewild
Los Angeles
Zsa Zsa
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