Mayor Shot At Home in Huntington Amid Threats
Huntington mayor Eugene Willis, 42, who began carrying a pistol after a string of threatening calls, was shot at and narrowly missed as a car sprayed a bullet through his open car window. Police hunted the unknown assailant while Willis, a funeral director and seven months in office, cited fear of dramatizing himself.
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Huntington
W. Va
Eugene Willis
Willis
Ohio
Common Pleas Court
God's
Green Earth
Poland Park
East Huntington
Common Pleas
John W. Daniel
Russell L. Daugherty
David Bruner
Ruby H. Miller
Bomb Test Is Success
A pre-dawn nuclear shot at Yucca Flat Nevada produced a mushroom cloud, with a 500 foot balloon launch and a 20,000 ton TNT yield. It was the 10th test in the AEC series, observed from Angel's Peak 55 miles away, as dust and a bright flash marked the detonation.
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Nev
Nevada
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Big Yucca Flat
Angel's Peak
Bragging fugitive linked to multiple killings and raids
Los Angeles County officers interrogated William T. Allen a 25 year old Illinois mental hospital fugitive about claims he killed two El Segundo officers. Authorities noted possible links to a St Louis officer shooting and Chicago tavern robberies while Chicago police seek extradition for robbery and flight charges. Allen escaped Feb 9 en route to trial.
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Oakland
Calif
Los Angeles
William T. Allen
Illinois Mental Hospital
el Segundo
Richard
Vern Woods
Allen
Anthony Bolger
St. Louis
Chicago
Bolger
Illinois
Chester County Mental Hospital
Magner Thomson
Joseph Moose
Moose
Burma Seeks Trade With Reds For Guns
Burma holds rice for guns talks with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia representatives in Rangoon. The negotiations focus on arms trade with two Communist nations as Burma seeks military supplies amid regional tension.
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Burma
Rangoon
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Get Out Of Here Joe Smith Excluded From GOP Convention Record
Washington report shows the 1956 Republican National Committee record omits the Joe Smith incident and the Terry Carpenter episode. The exchange with Chairman Joe Martin is noted but the imagined candidate Joe Smith was not listed, with Nixon later nominated instead.
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Washington
Joe Smith
GOP
National Committee
Joe Martin
San Francisco
Terry Carpenter
Scottsbluff
Nebraska
Carpenter
Joe
Martin
Democratic Party
Nixon
License Test Nearly Flunked By State Official
Louisville Kentucky State Safety Commissioner Don Sturgill faced a tense moment on a TV call in program when he was asked to show his driver's license. He shuffled through a large wallet stack before finally producing the license at the bottom.
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Louisville
Don Sturgill
Sturgill
Gas Fire Injures Spectators At Truck Crash
In New Haven a gasoline explosion from a burning trailer-truck wounded about 50 spectators who fled the scene. Driver Wilfred Godfrey of Hartford was rescued in critical condition with burns while the driver Underwood Woodford, also of Hartford, escaped with minor injuries. Rescue efforts freed the trapped helper, but a blast left victims with burns and casualty numbers rose as bystanders were treated.
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New Haven
Conn
Sol
Wilfred Godfrey
Hartford
Godfrey
Underwood Woodford
Summer Trip Tease Turns To Baseball Banter
A witty back-and-forth plays on romance as a sweet young thing heads to Europe for the summer and a flirtatious remark shifts to whether the White Sox can beat the Yankees this year. The light quip blends travel drift with the season’s baseball rivalry.
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Europe
White Sox
Rebel Fort In Desert Raked By British Jets
Rebel held fort at Izki in Oman was hit by 12 RAF sorties as Britain presses to quell the uprising aiding Sultan Said bin Taimur. Flyovers burned the fort with signs of heavy damage while ground troops were not planned. Rebels led by Imam Ghaleb ben Ali claimed gains across parts of the sultanate.
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Manama
Bahrain
Nizwa
Oman
Royal Air Force
Britain
Muscat
Ft. Izki
Wadi Halfin
London
Sultan Said bin Taimur
Cameronian Rifles
Kenya
RAF
Spoesman
Cairo
Arabian Peninsula
Imam Ghaleb Ben Ali
Sharja
Foreign Office
Selwyn Lloyd
Plane hole rips open airliner over Mojave Desert
A Convair 240 flying at 10 000 feet over the Mojave Desert suffered a 4 by 7 foot hole after a bullet ripped the fuselage. Passenger F Binstock 62 of North Hollywood was missing and presumed dead. Investigators say a self-inflicted gunshot caused the fatal breach. the aircraft landed safely with 12 others unharmed. FBI questioned passengers, crew.
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Los Angeles
California
Mojave Desert
San Fernando Valley
Las Vegas
Western Airlines
F. Binstock
North Hollywood
George Afb
Victorville
Western
Binstock
FBI
Airbus
Senate splits on civil rights bill amid jury trial clash
Washington AP reports the Senate stripped enforcement authority from the house passed civil rights bill, carving out voting rights protections. A proposed jury trial amendment sparked new dispute as Johnson pushed the measure while Knowland warned against a vote before next week.
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Washington
Senate
House
Deep
Supreme Court
Lee
D-Nm
Aiken
Lyndon 8. Johnson
Texas
Sen.o'mahoney
D-Wye
Knowland
California
Anderson Aiken
Javits
R-Ny
Plane Missing Over Blue Ridge Sparking Mountain Search
A private single engine Navion reported missing Wednesday night on a Charleston to Asheville flight prompted a large search in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Burnsville. Joseph T. Wloszek of Cleveland, head of Customs Machinery Co., was piloting with wife and daughter aboard. plane five hours overdue.
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Asheville
N. C
Blue Ridge Mountains
Charleston
W. Va
Asheville-Hendersonville
Burnsville
Here
Joseph T. Wlosizek
Cleveland
Ohio
Wloszek
Customs Machinery Co.,, Inc
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Wieszek
Tri-City
Bristol
Pleasant but cool Miami Valley forecast ahead
A high pressure system to the north brings cool air over the Miami Valley. The forecast calls for sunny mild weather with a high of 8 degrees today, then fair cool tonight with a low of 60. Friday should be sunny and warmer with a high of 88. Middletown’s high yesterday reached 78 at 4 30 PM and the overnight low was 55 at 6 AM today.
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Miami
Middletown
Madman killer hunted as statewide dragnet expands
A statewide search for a “madman killer” continues after the brutal slayings of truck driver J. D. Cantrell and two Hobbs women. California suspect Jack Smith is in custody in Carlsbad for questions, with officials unsure he is the killer and preparing fingerprint checks for possible charges.
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J. D. Cantrell
Carlsbad Tr
Barbara
Dorothy Gibson
Hobbs
Cantrell
Jewell McAdoo
Lea I
U.S. 180
Here
Mary Trevino
Carlsbad
Smith
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Detroit
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Tempesti
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South
John Chadwick
Aascisa
Theater Valley News
Peete
Jim
McAdoo
Department of Public Safety
Austin
Tex
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