Akron blast at Firestone center kills chemist
An explosion and fire at the Firestone Rubber Co research center in Akron killed Dr. Christian E. Best, 46, and injured several others. Widespread damage and a $1 million estimate followed as crews cleared debris from a plastics laboratory on the building’s second floor.
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Akron, Ohio
Akron
Mit
Fisone Dire & Rubber Co
Christian E. Best
Manchester
Gerald F. Vernotzy
Gerald T. Morneweck
Akron City Hospital
Everett Packett
Kelly Farhat
Akron General Hospital
W. R Conrad
Alfred N. Cain
R. B. DeJon
Firestone
South Main Street
East Wilbeth Road
Bible Tall Turns Into Gun Play in Landrum
In Landrum South Carolina Mr and Mrs George Arledge argued over biblical roles. He reached for the family Bible as she grabbed a .22 rifle. Two shots were fired injuring Arledge with a heart and cheek wound. Mrs Arledge was placed under technical arrest and allowed to stay home with five children ill with mumps.
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George Arledge
Arledge
LIERE Puzzle Reveals Daily Fortune Message
A 1962 U S patent notice describes LIERE a pleasant numerical game that produces a daily fortune message. Players count letters in their first name adjust by four or three to obtain a key number then check grid positions left to right to read the message.
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William J. Miller
King Featured Syndicate, Inc
Jewish and Arab pickets clash at Texas theater showing Exodus
In Kingsville Texas Arab students from Texas Arts and Industrial College picketed a theater screening Exodus. Bill Diamond of Lake Jackson joined the protest saying the film unfairly portrays Arabs and Jews while Diamond, a Texas AI student, adds I’m Jewish. The piece also notes absolute zero as 459.72 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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Kingsville
Tex
Texas Theater
Exodus
Bill Diamond
Lake Jackson
Texas Arts and Industrial College
Israel
Diamond
Texas AI
Profit Squeeze On Steel Tighter, Magazine Says
Steel Magazine previews its April edition reporting a tighter profit squeeze on the US steel industry. 1961 net income projected at 715.2 million dollars, sales at 13.7 billion, down from 14.5 billion in 1960, with net profit per dollar of sales at 5.2 cents the lowest since 1952.
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Cleveland
API
Steel Magazine
Steel
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