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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1956
Page
5
Members of the Newport News Kiwanis Club were about to adjourn their meeting when the lights failed. W. W. Waldrop, general manager for Virginia Electric and Power Co. in the area, appeared flustered by the outage.
Two American Roman Catholic priests, Rev. John Williams Clifford and Rev. Thomas Leonard Phillips, freed after three years in Chinese prisons, are not yet across the border to Hong Kong. A consular official said their departure could take several days to a week, with border crossing awaiting arrangements.
Reports from Shillong say fifty persons were killed when Communist Chinese troops attacked to break a flooded log jam on the Lohit River in Tibet. An artillery barrage and earth slides were cited as the cause of the deaths.
Provisional government returns rebel Gen Raul Tanco and six others to Haitian embassy after they were abducted by machine gun attack. President Peron era tensions cited as the rebels face charges of political crimes and asylum follows. Brierre confirms the seven are back inside the embassy, with authorities vowing to capture those who invaded.
Air Force noncommittal on whether a B52 dropped an H bomb over Bikini missed the intended point of burst last month. Officials note secrecy limits on distance data while speculation puts the miss at around 3 500 yards. The weapon’s accuracy is questioned amid a midair test and varied crew origins.
A live five pound bomb exploded yesterday afternoon during a game of catch by about two dozen South Denver youths. Three teens, Gree Loney aged 16 Gene Columbus aged 16 and Danny McKenna aged 15, were burned when the device blew up as older youths had removed the detonator and poured out most of the powder. Police say the boys were dismantling it with rocks an icepick and a fork.
In Purcellville Virginia a fisherman found the nude body of Shelby Jean Venable 18 identified by tooth and marks. The prior week a second nude girl, Marv Elizabeth Fellers 18 of Beltsville, Maryland, was found near a Potomac bridge. Police suspect a fiendish slaving ring but have few clues.
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