Yosemite Fire in 25 000 Acre Blaze Kills Two
A forest fire raging near Yosemite National Park has killed at least two people and burned about 25 000 acres. It destroyed Nipinnawassee, Ahwahnee, with 12 to 50 homes erased and two towns evacuated as motorists fled on Highway 41. A missing man and two grandsons were feared lost.
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Madera
Calif
Yosemite National Park
Nipinnawassee
Ahwahnee
George Kipp
Etta
Robert Voss
State Division of Forestry
U.S
Oakhurst
Voss
Forestry Division
Fresno
Couple With Seventh Twin Set Faces Eviction
Jacksonville, AP A 37 year old man and wife confront eviction as they welcome their seventh set of twins numbering the 17th and 18th children. Doctors say seven sets born to one mother is a national record. The family hopes to move to a larger home.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Marion Pearson
Pearson
American Medical Association Research Department
Chicago
Terry and
Jerry
71 Die In Morocco Airliner Crash Near Casablanca
A Soviet Ilyushin-18 passenger plane en route Prague to Accra struck a power line while on approach to Casablanca and exploded. Of 72 aboard, 71 were killed. a sole survivor was hospitalized in critical condition. The crash occurred near Nouasseur air base after diversions due to bad weather.
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Casablanca
Morocco
West Africa
Kea
Zurich
Prague
U.S
Nouasseur
Camp Care Strip
Accra
Ghana
Nuernberg
Germany
Esther Chambers Admitted In Critical Condition
Mrs. Esther Chambers, 60, widow of Whittaker Chambers, was admitted unconscious to Annie M. Warner Hospital in Gettysburg. Dr. Raymond F. Sheely said her condition is critical after she collapsed following her husband's death. She was brought from Westminster Maryland where Dr. E Reese Wilkins had acted as Chambers' physician.
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Gettysburg
Annie M. Warner Hospital
Esther Chambers
Whittaker Chambers
Raymond F. Sheely
Chambers
Sheely
Westminster
Nixon Opposed To Making Race For Governor
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon said he does not plan to run for governor next year though it remained a possible option. He will decide after a 60 day period and spoke after inviting about twenty California GOP leaders to his Brentwood home for a strategy session. He said he would run only if the party deems him the only man who can save the state and provide a necessary new broom.
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Los Angeles
Richard M. Nixon
California
Brentwood
Nixon
State and parish officials vow to oppose voting rights suit
The Justice Department filed suit in U S District Court in Shreveport challenging the removal of nearly 4 800 Black Ouachita Parish residents from the voting rolls Atty General Kennedy said guarantees to vote freely were not received Dist Atty Lassiter denied an illegal purge and noted whites were also challenged in 1956 according to state Atty Gen Gremillion.
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Ouachita Parish
Justice Department
U. S. District Court
Shreveport
Atty
Robert Kennedy
Washington
Monroe
Albin Lassiter
Baton Rouge
Jack Gremillion
Twin City Chit Chat Zetball Winners Crowned
Winners for the Zetball champions on city sponsored playgrounds were crowned recently. White playground winners were Pam Accardo Anthony Danna Pam Kokinos Eugene Benoit Carolyn Accardo and Joe Malta. On the Negro playgrounds champions were Willie Jones Milton Roberts and Lucian Turner. A film on Communist infiltration will be shown at Ouachita Parish Farm Bureau meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m in the West Monroe Agricultural Building. Farm Bureau policy resolutions for the state confab in Shreveport July 22 25 and the naming of two delegates were also discussed.
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Pam Accardo
Anthony Danna
Pam Kokinos
Eugene Benoit
Carolyn Accardo
Joe Malta
Willie Jones
Milton Roberts
Lucian Turner
United States
Ouachita Parish
Farm Bureau
West Monroe
Shreveport
Agena
MacArthur bids sad farewell to Philippines on trip home
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and his wife left Manila after a 10 day sentimental visit. Officials at Yokota base said they would remain overnight then depart for home. Crowds in Manila wept as he saluted during a 17 gun salute, ending a storied six year postwar era.
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John Roderick Yokota
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
U.S
Tokyo
Manila
MacArthur
U.S. Air Force
Lingayen
Leyte
Cebu
Iloilo
GOP Senate Proposes Foreign Policy Manifesto
Senate Republicans study a broad foreign policy manifesto aimed at Berlin Cuba and other hot spots. Dirksen plans a party conference in two to three weeks to draft the document updating the 1960 platform. Javits noted no House move to issue a similar statement.
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Washington
Senate
Berlin
Cuba
Senate Gop
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Formosa Straits
Lebanon
GOP House
Jacob K. Javits
German Baron and companion held on princess captivity charges
Police in Genoa detained Baron Waldermar von Hoyningen-Huene and Luigia Zanetti on charges they kept Princess Carolina Casarotte Borghese in near confinement for about ten years and swindled her out of over 80 000 dollars. The baron faces theft and embezzlement counts while Zanetti is charged with complicity.
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Genoa
Italy
Waldemar von Hoyningen-Huene
Luigia Zanetti
Carolina Casaretto Borghese
Luigia
Three Teens Admit Holdup Slaying in Reno Grocery
Reno police say three teen boys confessed to a holdup murder that killed Jack Griffis, 54, at a Reno grocery on March 3. Belva Griffis, 50, indicted for murder and freed last week. co-defendant Chester Blum, 17, and Richard Worrell, 16, both Reno youths. Jeffrey Kelsey Connell of Mill Valley, Calif., implicated.
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Reno
Nev
Belva Griffis
Washoe County
Grand Jury
Jack
Chester Blum
Richard Worrell
William Broadhead
Jeffrey Kelsey Connell
Mill Valley
Calif
Todays Chuckle Alarm Clock Meaning
A light humor item notes that an alarm clock is a merhenion used to scare the daylights into you. The line plays on the device’s jolting role in waking people up each morning.
Midas III Missile Launch After Repeated Delays
Midas III, first missile alarm satellite bound for over the Soviet Union, finally lifted off at Point Arguello California amid fog and delays. Officials expected orbit confirmation after about two hours as the second stage carried a record fuel load aiming for an altitude near 500 miles.
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Point Arguello
Calif
Soviet Union
U.S
Rusk to Hear Bold Brazil Northeast Solution Plan
Brazilian economist Celso Hurtado meets with Secretary of State Rusk to present a five year plan for the drought stricken Northeast. The proposal seeks resettlement of nearly one million people into Amazon lands and broad aid for the region amid a US Brazil aid package of about 1 billion.
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Rusk
Brazil
Claude E. Erbsen Washington
Dean Rusk
Latin America
Texas
Amazon
Celso Hurtado
Northeast Development Agency
Amana
United States
Polish Trade Official Defects To United States
A Polish trade union official Zygmunt Warminski aged 36 defected to the United States after four years here and sought political asylum for himself and his wife Anita 37 and their two children. He had served as transportation adviser at the Polish trade mission and said he feared return to Poland. The family contacted U.S. Immigration authorities.
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New York
United States
Zygmunt Warminski
Poland
Warminski
Anita
Geneces Thushing
U.S
Denver Plane Crash Kills Seventeen on Flight 859
Federal investigators probe cause after United Air Lines DC8 cracks apart on landing in Denver. Of 122 aboard 17 died, 18 escaped unhurt, 50 hospitalized. Victims include Henry Blom, a city civil engineer, and Dr. Earl Guyer family members.
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Denver
United Air Lines
Los Angeles
Phil
Adelphia
Earl Guyer
U.S. Veterans Hospital
Fort Lyons
Colo
Guyer
Henry Blom
Blom
Mild Weather Outlook for Monroe Area
The Monroe area will see mild weather with fall conditions dominant. Scattered thundershowers are forecast through Thursday mainly in the afternoon. Temperatures should reach 85 to 89 today and Thursday, with overnight lows around 70 to 74. Yesterday’s high was 79 and the low 71.
Escapee From East Carroll Apprehended
East Carroll Parish sheriff reports Henry Johnson age 39 an escapee from the parish prison farm was arrested by the FBI in Lawton Oklahoma using the alias Earl H Platt He faces unlawful flight charges while serving a five year term for theft tied to grocery goods taken from Hollybrook Store near Lake Providence He escaped June 10 1959 and was found with groceries and belongings en route to arraignment before federal commissioners prior to transfer back to East Carroll authorities
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Lake Providence
Fast Carroll Parish
West Texas
Lawton
Ft. Sill
Johnson
Hollybrook
U. S. Highway 65
East Carroll Parish
East Carroll
Survivor Tells Of Denver DC8 Crash
Dr. Raymond Pogge recounts the United Air Lines DC8 disaster near Denver. The 44 year old Lincoln physician was aboard with 120 others when engines exploded and the plane crashed, killing at least 17 and injuring 44. He describes the emergency evacuation and his decision to proceed with a Denver luncheon.
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Denver
Raymond Pogge
Lincoln
Neb
United Air Lines
Dr Pogge
Denver Post
Colo
Omaha
Los Angeles
Pogge
Hurricane-hunting satellite Tiros III launched from Cape Canaveral
A 92-foot Thor Delta rocket carried the 285-pound Tiros III weather satellite into a 400 mile high orbit to study hurricane origins and development. NASA reports good signals from tracking stations and plans 32 pictures per 98 minute orbit. Meteorologists hope the images aid forecasting.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Woomera
Australia
San Nicholas
Calif
Wallops Island
Tiros
Earth
Atlantic
Caribbean
William G. Stroud
NASA
State Deficit Seen By Tugwell In Baton Rouge
State Treasurer A P Tugwell foresees a deficit of more than 20 million in the general fund after final year end books. Revenue Collector Ronald Cocreham reports a record 422,166,457 in taxes, 11 million higher than last year. Tugwell notes revenue figures exclude all revenues and a study is ongoing for year ended June 30.
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Tugwell
Baton Rouge
A. P. Tugwell
Ronald Cocreham
State Department of Revenue
State General Fund
James
Reily
Dependability Good Looks 39 Rambler Station Wagon Ad
Classified ad offering a 39 Rambler Station wagon with 5000 miles radio heater and 5 tires at $200 cash. Also lists a 34 Dodge with radio heater 5 tires clean body and price to be negotiated. Appears in a local want ad section with contact details and promotion.
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Rambler
N, Ltd
DODGE
Montgomery
W.M
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U. S
Yosemite
Twin City
GOP
Stapleton Airfield
Midas
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