Eight Die In Bus Truck Crash Near Cooper Texas
A Mt Vernon junior high bus carrying students and teachers to a football game collided with a diesel tank truck near Cooper Texas. Eight people were killed including principal Jack Henry and several students. 22 others injured. The truck driver, J M Warrington, was hurt.
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Cooper
Texas
Mt. Vernon
Tex
East Texas
J. M. Warrington
Grand Saline
Warrington
Paris
Pryor
Jack Henry
Mt Vernon Junior High School
Billy Max
Melba Meeks
Kenneth Hightower
Rex Weatherford
Zach Taylor
Audrey Sue Turner
Waukita Rainey
Bus Swerve Leads to Near Collision on Street
Report describes a bus signaling a left turn then swerving unexpectedly. The speaker states they could not miss striking the vehicle.
Weather forecast calls for cooler stretch in Miami Valley
Dry air flows into the Miami Valley as Hurricane Gracie blocks its southward march. Officials expect cloudy cool conditions through Thursday with a high near 74 today and a low around 30 tonight. Thursday stays partly cloudy and cool with a 70 degree high. Middletown yesterday topped 81 at 1 p.m. and the morning low was 63 at 6:30 a.m.
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Miami Valley
Gracie
Middletown
Chuckle Nonchalance Mischief Quip
A witty remark about how one can appear wise like an owl after behaving badly. The line playfully contrasts appearance and action, suggesting a self aware, humorous take on accountability.
Football game canceled after city bus crash
Ambulances rushed the injured to hospitals in the area including Paris and Sulphur Springs. Anxious parents filled hospital corridors while 400 volunteers answered an emergency blood request in Paris. A Mt. Vernon Junior High School football squad arrived on a second bus minutes after the accident.
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Sulphur Springs
Mt. Vernon
Ex-GI hoards tale of buried gold at Fort Huachuca
An ex-GI from Dallas aided by the U S Army digs for gold at Fort Huachuca Arizona claiming 200 bars lie in a canyon shaft found in 1941 He says he can buy Ft Worth and Dallas with the treasure Army crews provide a shovel drill and five men but doubt remains about the hoard as water floods the shaft and the hole reaches about 25 feet with pump limits.
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Ariz
Dallas
Tex
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Arizona
Robert Jones
Ft. Worth
Jones
25Th
South Pacific
Ft. Huachuca
Beats in beatnik battle end with fine for suspect
In San Francisco North Beach a judge ruled against beatniks and fined Norman Rose 50 dollars for resisting an officer serving two traffic warrants. Beatnik defense attorney Allan Brotsky argued cops mistreat nonconformists while Judge Albert Axelrod noted beats disrupt peace. Wilder Bentley received a continuance on a related charge.
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Beatnikland
North Beach
Allan Brotsky
Albert Axelrod
Brotsky
Norman Rose
Wilder N. Bentley
Rose
Japan’s Typhoon Vera Declared Worst Storm Toll Yet
Tokyo reports Typhoon Vera as the worst storm disaster in Japan’s history. The official death toll stands at 3,174 with 1,776 missing, and authorities warn numbers may rise as communications are restored with affected areas.
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Japan
Japanese Typhoon Leaves Widespread Damage and Injury
The storm caused 9,419 injuries including three Americans. Vera struck central Japan Saturday night with 160 mile per hour winds. Damage estimates top 261 million dollars as crops are ruined, sea walls breached, rivers flood, ships beached, houses smashed, and communications damaged.
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U.S
Japan
Nagoya Faces Wreckage and Medical Shortages After Flood
Nagoya Japan lies in ruins with fears of outbreaks of dysentery and typhoid amid a severe food shortage. Troops conduct rescue operations but thousands remain marooned on rooftops and refugees lack food and shelter as Lt. Gen. Robert Burns orders all U.S. servicemen to assist in relief.
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Japan
U.S
Robert ‘'V .Burns
Eisenhower Pushes Renewed Talks to End Steel Strike
President Eisenhower urged a voluntary settlement after private meetings with industry leaders and the Steelworkers Union, aiming to restart negotiations this afternoon. Roger Blough and David J. McDonald indicated willingness to resume, while the president cautioned about the strike’s economic impact. No quick resolution was promised, and emergency provisions were not yet discussed.
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Washington
Eisenhower
David J. McDonald
Roger M. Blough
U. S. Steel
McDonald
Blough
Gracie Downgraded to Tropical Storm Crossing Carolinas
Tropical storm Gracie, once a hurricane, moved across western North Carolina with 50 mph gusts and heavy rains risking widespread flooding. The center near Hickory, N Carolina, tracked north then northeast toward Virginia, with potential impacts reaching Georgia and South Carolina as the system weakens.
Gracie Brings Heavy Rain and Flood Dangers to Several States
Gracie’s heavy rain threatened flash floods across western North Carolina central and western Virginia eastern West Virginia western Maryland and central and eastern Pennsylvania. Winds reached about 40 mph with gusts near 50 mph in squalls. The storm made landfall Tuesday morning with 140 mph peak winds and brought rain high tides and powerful surf from Savannah to Myrtle Beach. Three traffic deaths occurred in South Carolina attributed to the storm. At Miami Beach a 15 foot high surf was noted.
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Hickory
N.C
Charlotte
Virginia
Gracie
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West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Savannah
Myrtle Beach
South Carolina
Miami Beach
Fla
Hurricane Hannah Nears Landfall After Gracie
Miami reports indicate Hannah, packing 100 mile per hour winds, slowed its march westward and may strike the mainland after Gracie. Forecasters place the Atlantic season’s eighth tropical storm about 970 miles east of Palm Beach as Hannah’s inland path remains uncertain.
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Fla
Hannah
Gracie
Palm Beach
Hurricane Gracie Claims Several Lives in Coastal Storm
Edward Neehan of Warren Ohio was killed when winds from Hurricane Gracie upended his car in Beaufort North Carolina. A married couple swept into the water by waves. Elizabeth Rutherford’s body was found, while Jack Rutherford was presumed dead after rough seas halted further search. One Georgia storm death reported. Alex Sheffield, 26, died after stepping on a blown live wire.
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Charleston
N. C
Edward Neehan
Warren
Ohio
Gracie
Beaufort
Elizabeth Rutherford
Jack
Rutherford
Georgia
Alex Sheffield
Geographic Path of Gracie Shifts Through Carolinas
The report traces Gracie moving from Charleston along a course toward Walterboro then turning north past Orangeburg and Columbia toward North Carolina. It notes the hurricane’s progressive track through these locations with no additional warnings or impacts listed.
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Charleston
Walterboro
Orangeburg
Columbia
North Carolina
Khrushchev seeks debt deal to ease trade barriers
Khrushchev told Washington the Soviet lend-lease debt pause could ease US barriers. In Tokyo he lectured Mao on ending the cold war then met in a cordial closed session. Denver reports warming temps easing the Rocky Mountain snowstorm that crippled a 250 mile swath from Cheyenne to Pueblo.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
United States
Tokyo
Mao Tze-tung
Denver
Colo
Rocky Mountain
Cheyenne
Wyo
Pueblo
Eisenhower Sets Oct 8 Deadline for Steel Strike Settlement
President Eisenhower issued an apparent deadline of October 8 for progress toward a settlement in the steel strike. Antagonists quickly arranged to resume talks this afternoon to try to avert a broader dispute.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Gracie Damage Hits Coastal South Carolina Homes
Homes farms and crops suffered damage as Gracie moved inland through South Carolina. In Charleston officials estimated damages in the millions with a spokesman saying about four of five houses were damaged at roughly two hundred dollars each.
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Charleston
Airliner Explodes and Crashes on Texas Farm
An airliner traveling from Houston to New York exploded in the air and crashed on a central Texas farm Tuesday night, killing 34. The Braniff Airways 75 passenger Electra carried 27 passengers and seven crew with stops planned in Dallas and Washington. The plane departed 29 minutes late at 10 44 p m amid reports of an explosion. Braniff officials acknowledged the delay and said a mess had occurred but offered few details.
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Houston
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Carlton
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Braniff Airways Plane Blows Up in Texas
A Braniff Airways Electra turboprop exploded in Texas late Tuesday night killing all 34 aboard. It follows two earlier in-flight crashes this year, including a Viscount near Baltimore with 31 deaths, and the year’s deadliest crash a TWA Constallation with 68 aboard near Milan in a thunderstorm.
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Texas
Baltimore
TWA
Airliner Crashes Near Buffalo After 11:05 P M Report
An airliner flying on an instrument plan at 15 000 feet reported routine speed and altitude about 11:05 p m east of Waco. It crashed on the R E White farm five miles southeast of Buffalo, near Buffalo, Texas. Mrs. Billy Webb described a bright sky and a loud explosion witnesses recalled a jet breaking the sound barrier.
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Waco
Chambers
Weather Bureau
R. E. White
Buffalo
Billy Webb
Buffalo feed store owner among first at crash scene
E. H. Pickens, 45, described a wrecked square mile strewn with mail, paper, packages, clothes and plane debris, noting a fuselage section 15 to 20 feet long. The Civil Aeronautics Board announced an immediate investigation as guards with pistols barred access.
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Buffalo
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pop Bottle Bomb Blast Ends Spat in Columbus
A homemade pop bottle bomb exploded Tuesday in Columbus, injuring a 17 year old soldier and his 16 year old girlfriend. Investigators called it a possible homicide by own action, while the youth claimed accident. Hospitalized are James Henson with severe injuries and Joyce Streets with serious arm, facial, and body injuries.
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Columbus, Ohio
James Henson
Joyce Streets
Columbus
Henson
Lover's spat blamed for fatal blast outside car
Sheriff officers report a blast after a lover's spat with Henson and Miss Streets. Henson had picked the girl up at her school and driven to his home where they talked. she refused his advances. The girl said she left the house, got school books from the car, and Henson followed with a bomb that exploded as she reached inside.
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Henson
Clyde Mann
Earl Allison
Franklin County
Miss Streets
Youth Linked to Bomb Trap Found in Vehicle
Deputies searched the car of a Ft. Knox soldier on leave and found string and fuse parts attached to rear doors. The device used a soda bottle, rifle cartridge powder, and an Army fuse lighter. Officials say it would have required strength to pull the cotter pin.
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