Lost baby found as parents pursue drain search
James Delgado and Geraldine Delgado left their car on the Long Beach Freeway after a flat tire. Their infant Anthony slept in the back seat until the parents entered a storm drain to look for him. Firefighters later rescued them after 12 hours in the maze like tunnels. Anthony was found safe with relatives later.
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UPI
James Delgado
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Long Beach
Anthony
Fire Ravages North Baltimore Furniture Store
A large furniture store burned early today in downtown North Baltimore Ohio triggering a water shortage. Firefighters from multiple towns battled the two story blaze as wells supplied dwindling water, prompting a conservation call and school closures while tanker shuttle efforts were planned to obtain water from a reservoir and a frozen creek.
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Baltimore, Ohio
UPI
Bob Blake
Charles Bowers
L. L. Troug
Cygnet
Bloomdale
Whiteville
Portage
Gerry City
Bowers
Blake
Ohio Power Co
Columbia Gas Co
Ohio
Findlay
Bowling Green
Welfare Family Removed From Waldorf Rooms
A welfare mother and her four children were moved from Waldorf Astoria rooms at $70 a night and three city employees were suspended. Mayor Lindsay called the action bad judgment and possibly malicious. The Hainsworths, homeless for three months, had stayed in the Waldorf after welfare officials could not find other housing. The family later left for a friend’s home. the Brooklyn hotel had requested they leave. A separate report notes Elaine Hensler and her daughter Mary Elizabeth were killed when struck by a train near Hamilton, Ohio.
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New York
UPI
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
John V. Lindsay
Cleole Hainsworth
Park Avenue Hotel
Hainsworths
Human Resources Administration
Brooklyn
HRA
the Waldorf
Hainsworth
Hamilton, Ohio
Elaine K. Hensler
Hamilton
Mary Elizabeth
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Electric Chair Is Removed From Rockview Prison
Rockview State Correctional Institution disconnected the state’s sole electric chair on orders of outgoing Attorney General Fred Speaker. He called the device an obscenity and cited constitutional questions about capital punishment. The chair was stored in the basement as the execution room becomes office space for prison psychologists.
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Rockview
UPI
Rockview State Correctional Institution
Fred Speaker
Speaker
Pennsylvania
Joseph Mazurkiewicz
Mazurkiewicz
Milton Shapp
Supreme Court
Otterbein appoints new president Kerr takes helm
Thomas J. Kerr, 37, history professor at Otterbein College since 1963, was named the college’s 18th president. He has been acting academic dean for seven months and will assume duties July 1 as Lynn Turner retires. Kerr earned degrees from Cornell University, the University at Buffalo, and Syracuse University.
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Westerville, Ohio
UPI
Thomas J. Kerr
Otterbein College
Kerr
Otterbein
Columbus
Cornell
University of Buffalo
Syracuse
Harold Boda
Lynn W. Turner
Taft announces vote for Hugh Scott in Senate race
UPI reports Senator Robert Taft Jr of Ohio says he will vote for Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania to retain his post. Scott faces conservative challenger Howard Baker Jr of Tennessee as Ohio's Saxbe previously backs Scott. Taft cites Scott's good advice to the President and long friendship with both leaders.
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Washington
UPI
U. S
Robert Taft, Jr
Ohio
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Taft
Scott
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
William B. Saxbe
Republican Congressional
Sen
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