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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1957
Page
3
Firefighters suspect a faulty oil stove ignited an eight room frame house in Sherbrooke. Eight children died while the sleeping father Lionel Denault, 38, fought to save them, suffering serious burns. mother Maria Ange Denault, 32, had left for Mass with their 13-year-old son Robert.
Public service notice offers a free 36 page illustrated booklet explaining causes effects and dangers of arthritis and rheumatism. It describes a drugless treatment method used in thousands of cases and urges readers to request the free book without cost or obligation from The Ball Clinic Dept 2346 Excelsior Springs MO.
Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley farmers assess Sunday freeze damage with grainy frost on tender crops. Tomato losses estimated at about 3,000 acres and green peppers damaged. squash eggplant and string beans also hit while citrus largely escaped. Mild weather and cold fronts spread into Florida and the Plains, prompting frost warnings.
A group of animal lovers announces a memorial in Rapallo to Laika the Soviet space dog. Plans include a small statue of the Sputnik dog’s head and a plaque recounting Laika’s death to advance space exploration, to be placed in the town’s dog cemetery on the Riviera.
UNITED PRESS EAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS report clear to partly cloudy tonight with increasing cloudiness Tuesday and rising temperatures. NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS notes partly cloudy through Tuesday turning cooler Tuesday. WEST TEXAS notes partly cloudy through Tuesday cooler Tuesday. OKLAHOMA: fair and mild tonight, partly cloudy Tuesday, cooler west with low temperatures 25 to northwest and 35 southeast.
UN Secretary General Hammarskjold held talks in Amman with King Hussein and Jordanian leaders but no compromise emerged. Jordan refused to allow convoys to Mt Scopus, raising the risk of Israeli force to move supplies to the Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew University. Clashes along the Israel Jordan border continued with reported shootings and grenade incidents as Hammarskjold planned to press Damascus after Israel.
In St Louis Charles P Gelb, 64, pulled the wrong bill from his wallet and accepted the wrong change. He ran back to the store cashier and offered to return a $1,000 instead of a $1 bill.
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