East Coast Storm Hits With 66 Dead In Air Force Crash
Two C-119 Flying Boxcars collided during a training mission near Stuttgart Germany causing total fatalities of 66. The crash occurred 15 minutes after takeoff from Rhein-Main Airbase with 41 passengers and 5 crew on one plane and 14 passengers and 4 crew on the other. Rescue teams found charred wrecks in the Black Forest as German eyewitnesses described the mid air collision and fall.
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Frankfurt
7Th Army
Plan for Second Salk Shots After School Opening
Iowa health officials plan to delay the second Salk polio shots until after schools reopen while counties that have begun the second round report near first round participation. Dr Ralph Heeren says the National Foundation has dropped plans for a third round and emphasizes individual family decisions with doctors.
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Iowa
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Ralph Heeren
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Heeren
Calhoun
Jasper
Wapello
Woodbury
Webster County
Connie Drenches Carolina Coast With 75 MPH Winds
Hurricane Connie batters the Carolina coast with winds near 75 mph and towering waves that wreck fishing piers from Cape Romain to the Virginia Capes. The eye packs about 100 mph winds, with gales extending hundreds of miles, while lines of communications fail in many areas. A second tropical system, Diane, is noted offshore with 50-60 mph winds expected to strengthen.
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Cape Romain
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Virginia
Boston Weather Bureau
Newingl
Connie
Carolina Beach
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Eee
Wrightsville Beach
Hazel
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San Juan
Miami Weather Bureau
Diane
Indicted ex Air Force captain housed in Congress probe
Ren S. Van Fosson, former Air Force captain and later a House Un American Activities Committee investigator, was indicted and arrested for misusing a classified Air Force document. He resigned November 23 and joined the committee the next day earning 8200 yearly. He left the committee in January. A source says his Air Force separation involved delivering a secret document to the committee. He was arrested by U S marshals.
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Justice Department
Air Force
Ren S. van Fosson
House Un-American Activities Committee
Capitol
van Fosson
Air Force of Special Investigations
Burlington New Industry To Open Plant December First
The International Resistance Co of Philadelphia plans to open an electrical and electronic resistor plant in Burlington on December 1. President Charles Weyl says 75 people, mostly women, will be employed at the start with first year hiring expected to grow.
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International Resistance Co
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Charles Weyl
Truce Official Refuses Removal as Korean Tensions Rise
A Swedish member of the Neutral commission says he will remain in place unless told otherwise by the United Nations. South Korean spokesman Dr. Hong Kee Karl accuses U S forces of violence and calls for withdrawal from NNSC guard duties. He notes Korea has not used force and criticizes U S military actions against peaceful demonstrators. The Swedish official says no unilateral action will dissolve the commission as tensions persist over armistice policing.
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NNSC
Karl
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Rhee
Supervisory Commission
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Adlai Stevenson Signals Bid for Democratic Nomination
Adlai E Stevenson declared his intention to seek the Democratic presidential nomination next year. At an informal news conference after a cocktail party he stated he would announce his candidacy soon, condemning Eisenhowers foreign policy while urging action on education health and highways.
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Eisenhower
Explosion and Fire Kill Twenty One in Rural Restaurant Blast
A blast and ensuing fire at the Gateway Restaurant in a frame building near Route 6 left 21 dead and more than a score injured. Bodies were recovered from a makeshift morgue in a garage as crews worked in drizzle until 5 a.m. Two missing were feared. Eyewitness accounts describe walls blown out and debris showering Main Street. A Pittsburgh family of four is confirmed among the dead. twin waitresses Arlene and Darlene Cuttlip of Andover are identified. Sheriff Fasula suspects sewer gas with clogged drains as a possible ignition while investigators continue.
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Pittsburgh
George Schroeder
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Thomas Kennell
Ashtabula
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Darlene Cuttlip
Andover
Tom Fasula
Main Street
Cleveland
Elmer Bumblis
Father 22 Charged in Death of Baby Son
Osceola sheriff filed a manslaughter preliminary information against a 22 year old father after a coroner's jury linked the 6 month old's death to asphyxiation from discipline for crying. Doctors cited jaw and larynx injuries and a blood clot in the baby. The parents reported finding the child unresponsive and took him to a hospital. They have another child, Danny, 1.
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Kenneth W. Likes
State Bureau of Investigation
G. L. Armitage
Fleming
Joan
Danny
Six killed in Car-Truck Crash at Clines Corners New Mexico
State police report a collision Wednesday between a huge Louisiana truck carrying 19,000 pounds of frozen yolks and a Kansas City car, killing six and spreading wreckage along the highway. Names and exact causes remain undetermined as authorities worked to identify the dead.
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Clines Corners
N.M
Louisiana
Ralph J. Riley
Kansas City
All Time Record Seen for U S Farm Production
A report notes a potential all time record for U S farm production this year despite cutbacks in crops including cotton rice peanuts and tobacco. The article highlights a broad rise across crops and mentions economic implications for farmers and markets.
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U. S
Floodwaters Displace 150 Colorado Farm Families
In Brush Colorado floodwaters from the heaviest rainfall in two decades forced at least 150 farm families from their homes. One woman reportedly drowned as waters swept a three mile path south and east of arenant.
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Brush
Colo
Colorado
Quarles Named to Replace Talbott as Air Force Chief
The White House announced Charles E. Quarles will become secretary of the Air Force, replacing Harold Talbott who resigns this Saturday after Senate probes raised ethics questions. Quarles, a Yale graduate, veteran engineer and former Bell Labs VP, has overseen missile programs and heads the earth satellite effort under the Atomic Energy Commission. The appointment requires Senate confirmation when the session resumes in January.
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Quarles
Harold Talbott
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Talbott
Senate
White House
James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower E. Wilson
Western Electric Co
American Institute of Electrical
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Sandia Itabcoutery
New Mexico
Atomic Energy Commison
Two Iowans Die in Keokuk Auto Crash and County Collision
John Richard Warner 22 of Keokuk died when his car overturned on Highway 61. Willard Wehrman 19 of Eldora and Lizzie Dacken 72 of near Burt died in separate crashes on highways 65 and a Burt road, Martin Owings 35 of Eldora injured in critical condition. The crashes occurred near Iowa Falls and two cars were pulled apart with cutting torches. It was the sixth traffic fatality of the year in Kossuth County.
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John Richard Warner
Owings
Gordon
Burt
Gifford
Kossuth
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