Sacramento bomb scare targets state building and IRS office
A dynamite style bomb threat hit the state rehabilitation building in Sacramento with a blast nearly injuring workers. The bomb squad investigated similar blasts in San Mateo and the Pacific Telephone Company and San Francisco Chronicle received warnings from a caller claiming to be a Weatherman.
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Pacific Telephone Co
Sacramento
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Robert McHale
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Raymont K Procuner
State Director of Corrections
US Treasury Department
San Mateo
Bom
Sant, Mateo
Internal Revenue Service
Light Damage In Four Odessa Fires
Four small fires drew Odessa firefighters on a Saturday with minimal damage. An air conditioner motor shorted at Texas Bay Company 316 North Texas causing minor smoke. A similar unit fire harmed the home of Waddell Cox. Virginia Brown reported an electric switch short. A trash fire near Eighth and Avenue 1 was quickly suppressed.
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Texas Bay Company
North Texas
Waddell Cox
Patterson
Virginia Brown
North Bernice
Eighth
Ave. 1
City Officers Probe Breakins
City police investigated three burglaries on Saturday. A drink machine at Night and Day Laundry on West University Blvd was opened and 80 drinks were missing. A south door window at B and H Refrigeration on North Tom Green was broken but nothing else taken. Bowlers entered George Lake Appliances on East Eighth through a back door and $200 in change was stolen.
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West University
OEP Ready for Disaster Amid Wage-Price Freeze
Washington AP The Office of Emergency Preparedness says its disaster unit remains intact as Tropical Storm Doria nears the Atlantic coast. Director George A. Linoln notes the unit, normally 81 people, is trimmed slightly but can be redeployed from economic stabilization to respond to a disaster.
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Atlantic
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OEP
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Deaths Bennett Cerf Humorist Dies
Noted humorist Bennett Cerf dies at an unspecified age. The report references his career and contributions to literature and publishing, marking a loss to the cultural and literary community.
Bennett Cerf publisher of Random House dies at 73
Bennett Cerf famed publisher and humorist died at his Mount Kisco estate after a long illness. He founded Random House and developed the Modern Library. Cerf, 73, created a landmark in American publishing and was widely known as a television panelist on What's My Line. His wife Phyllis Fraser was by his side.
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Cerf
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Random House
America
Jis
William Faulkner
Arlene Francis
Basipas
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Angel Socrates Makris
Houston
Thiem
National Assembly
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Ngo
Yeader
Universe Dlam
Spirit of Diem
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Diem
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Air Force
Saigon
Tran
van Tuyen
Kou
Muntang
Janga Crete
Denise Ithe
Hollywood
New York
Columbia University Ournalism
Bent & Liveright
Horace Liveright
Voltaire
Rockwell
iKent
Girl Home After Arm Reattachment in Hospital Incident
Ann Shelly aged 16 who had her left arm reattached after a propeller accident while assisting a friend taxi a light airplane has been discharged to return home. The reattachment occurred in a six hour operation and doctors said it is too early to determine future use of the limb.
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Los Angeles
Ann Shelly
Odessan Dies and Services Set for Odessa Worker
Services for Gonzales 56 of Odessa will be at 10 am Monday at St Joseph Catholic Church with burial in Odessa Cemetery. He worked at Odessa Drum Co and married Beatrice Chacon in 1940. Surviving are six daughters and his wife. Other notices include Mrs Leila Jackson of Lamesa and Bill Mauldin death in New Mexico. obituaries from Lamesa and Andrews list additional survivors and funeral details.
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Odessa
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Olivia Rivera
el Paso
Oralia Castillo
East 16Th
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Lamesa
Leila Jackson
Vamesa
Branon Funeral Home
Semiale Camatori
Joseph Willey Andrews
Joseph Wiley
Andrews
Singleton Funeral Home
Chimes
Willey
Former Odessa Resident Dies Across Texas Obits
Funeral services for Cowden Clark Ward Sr 48 a former Odessa resident will be held in Burnet at 2 pm Monday. Ward died Saturday morning in a Burnet hospital. survivors include his mother daughters Gloria Youngblood and Karen Louise Ward a son Cowden Clark Ward Jr a brother Jess Ward a sister Morzelle Kirk and three grandchildren. He was a Texas Tech graduate and a member of the Odessa Masonic Lodge and Ector County Sheriff's Posse. Burnet and Midland obituaries follow for Gary Paul Berry Roy R Rankin Matthew B Fomby Lee M Mitchell and others with multiple survivors and burial plans.
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Cowden Clark Ward
Odessa
Clements Funeral Home
Ward
Bessye Cowden Ward
Step
Thenville
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Ector County Sheriff's Posse
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Karen ‘Louise Ward
Houston
Cowden Clark Ward Jr
Jess Ward
Uvalde
Morzelle Kirk
Ruidoso
N. M
Midland
Gary Paul Berry
Gary H. Berry
Resthaven Memorial Park
Newne W Ellis
Hope
Christina
al Taylor
H. L. Berry
J. C. Sims
Downey
Calif
Roy R. Rankin
Ja+mee Jackson
Levelland
Patsy Muller
Shallowater
Sharon Davidson
Guthrie
Bobby
Dale
Gerald
Matthew B. Fomby
Sweetwater
Matthew B. Fomby, Jr
Cate-Spencer
Mt. Anderson Hospital
Cooksville
Lola Mae
Monte Ann Wallace
Margaret Jo
Civic Center Bond Election May Be Called
Midland County Commissioners will meet in a special session at 10 a.m. Monday to consider calling a 985 million bond issue to finance a civic center. Decker Dawson, chair of the Midland Civic Center Steering Committee, is expected to request the election for Sept. 28. Dawson’s group filed petitions with 5,122 signatures seeking the election to fund a civic center in a six block area of Downtown Midland. The project has been a top priority for the chamber of commerce for five years.
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Decker Dawson
Midland Civic Center
Dawson
Midland
Chamber of Commerce
Egypt Planes Buzz Israelis Over Suez Canal Sectors
Egyptian warplanes skimmed Israeli positions along the eastern bank of the Suez Canal on Saturday. Israeli antiaircraft batteries fired at the intruding Sukhoi 7 fighter bombers but reported no hits. Israel filed a UN complaint to the Beirut truce supervision HQ in Jerusalem about Soviet built planes overflying lines in northern and central canal sectors. It was the first overflight in three weeks.
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