Twister Kills At Least Nine In Harpersville Alabama
A freak tornado roared through Harpersville Alabama Friday night killing at least nine people. Eight victims were in two crushed homes including a family of four with mother and two sons plus a niece. Four others were hospitalized and many more injured. The storm knocked out power and caused a 40 minute flood after the 20 second twister. Rescue efforts were hampered by darkness and debris. Names include Ed Kelsey 32 Virginia Essie Mae Cheryl Betty NecCall Mitch Mike Cathy Brewer Stella Thomas and Sylacauga vicinity linked.
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Betty NecCall
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Mike
Cathy Brewer
Sylacauga
Stella Thomas
Lightning strikes Best Bakery fuse box in Menasha fire
Fire units were summoned to Best Bakery at 112 Appleton Street Friday at 3 09 when lightning hit the main fuse box. The event damaged the fuse box and the control panel, prompting emergency response by Menasha firefighters.
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Negro Will Enter State GOP Primary
Atty. Paul Zuber announced plans to enter the Wisconsin GOP presidential primary on April 7 and to contest primaries in New Hampshire West Virginia Illinois New Jersey Pennsylvania Indiana Massachusetts and California. He urged Black voters to organize and criticized civil rights leaders for inaction while noting his work on school integration cases in New York New Rochelle Englewood and in Chicago.
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Englewood
Storms Hit Wisconsin Struck by Severe Thunderstorm
A cold front and strong winds brought storms across Wisconsin causing property damage and hazardous driving. A Madison area severe thunderstorm struck Monona Grove High School after dismissal, with lightning entering a basement transformer and a minor fire. Winds up to 45 mph felled power lines in several cities, while Duluth and Milwaukee area reported rain and shattered store windows.
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Madison
Monona Grove
Donald Helstadt
Superior
Duluth
Minn
Milwaukee
Police end radar trap after flood of speeders in Oxford
Chief Constable J E Bailey said police shut down a radar speed trap in Oxford after catching 600 speeding motorists every three months. He noted the high pace overwhelmed clerical staff and forced the closure.
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J. E. Bailey
Taxpayers Asked to Pay for Aerojet Disneyland Outing
A California defense contractor Aerojet General Corp. asks taxpayers to cover the cost of a Disneyland night for 12,000 employees and their families. Navy says no decision yet. Aerojet notes its contracts with the Defense Department and NASA allow employee relations costs as a business expense.
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British quell new uprising in Tanganyika
British commandos quelled a Tanganyika mutiny with the deaths of three African soldiers and 20 wounded. Some 400 British troops landed at Dar es Salaam with helicopter support to restore order at Colito Barracks and Caburu. In Kenya, authorities moved to avert riots in Mombasa and Nakuru after mutinies and threats tied to Arab and Asian shopkeepers.
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Rockefeller Crowds Exceed Those of Barry in New Hampshire
Governor Nelson Rockefeller campaigned in New Hampshire to attack Senator Barry Goldwater while addressing a Women's Republican Club lunch at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. He praised turnout in Laconia and Concord, condemned Goldwater on severing ties with Russia, and dismissed his UN charter reform as unrealistic given Security Council veto power.
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Castro Denies Involvement In Canal Violence Curbs
Havana Fidel Castro denied Cuba involved in the Panama Canal violence while offering to endure sacrifices to aid Panama. He claimed Cuba kept U.S. from provocation and that Cuban interests align with Panamanians. Washington UPI reported a presidential advisory panel urged sweeping federal narcotics law overhaul.
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Trio's Thefts Mount to 40
Three Neenah Menasha suspects held in Winnebago County jail faced extended questioning for a spree of burglaries and thefts that total 40 admissions. Sheriff Lowell said interrogation halted for the weekend and would resume Monday. A taillight cue linked the suspects to break-ins dating back to 1961 at Reickman Saddle Shop near Dale. Police and sheriff’s departments coordinated the probe as the inquiry broadened.
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Winnebago County
Richard T. Lowell
Lowell
John Bille
Menasha
Roman Koerber
Carl Campbell
Neenah
Bille
Reickman Saddle Shop
Dale
William Watson ordered to breath test after pub break-in attempt
In Glasgow Scotland William Watson aged 37 faced a skeptical judge and was ordered Friday to report to police for a breath test every Friday and Saturday night for three years after promising to give up drinking following an attempted pub break-in.
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Scotland
UPI
William Watson
Joint US Soviet space venture launches Echo 2 satellite
Echo 2, the United States and Soviet Union joint space venture, launched from Vandenberg AFB at 5:59 a.m. PST aboard an Atlas Agena two stage rocket. The mission aims to inflate a balloon payload and enable long range communication, science experiments, and peaceful use of space, with ground reception in Pretoria.
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Traffic Toll Rises to 59 in Wisconsin 1964
The state’s traffic toll climbed to 59 with the deaths of a Eau Claire County woman and a Shawano County truck driver. Mrs Ethel Harper of Route 1 Eau Claire died in a Friday collision on Highway 12 east of Augusta. James K Quilling 46 of Wilson in St Croix County was killed when his cattle truck skidded and overturned on Highway 25 three miles west of Shawano.
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Shawano County
Wisconsin
Ethel Harper
Highway 12
Augusta
James K. Quilling
Wilson
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Shawano
Governor Shock at Regents Move on Coordinating Committee
MADISON AP Governor John W Reynolds said he was literally shocked by the state college regents action that removed Robert De Zonia as co director of the Coordinating Committee for Higher Education. He accused the regents of shifting staff without consulting the committee or his office and criticized the selection of Jim Dan Hill as replacement. Reynolds pledged to withhold federal construction funding authority and cited 30 days of advance knowledge by regents.
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France Plans Atomic Subs
France plans to build five atomic submarines equipped with missile launching devices. Work has progressed on a prototype, and the first French atomic submarine could be in service before 1949.
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Adolphe Lepoter
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Naval Oficer
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