Lightning Bolt Destroys Pure Oil Warehouse in Oshkosh
A Friday afternoon lightning strike on a Pure Oil storage warehouse on Oshkosh's southwest side caused the cement block building to disintegrate. No injuries occurred though two men were nearby as the blast sent debris and flames across the area. Rain helped extinguish most fires while investigators prepare to determine the cause and future safety measures.
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Pure Oil Company
Oshkosh
Lutz! Company
South Park’ Ave
South Park Avenue
Otto Stoegbauer Jr
John McHale Madison
Department of the Prevention
State Industrial Commission
Stoegbauer
Walter F. van Ornum
Wisconsin Ave
Pure OU
van Ornum
Carl Noonan
Madison
The
Petroleum Transport Company of
Noonan
Rex Grunewald
Xuyen River Pirates Attack Vietnam Posts Near Saigon
Rebels from the Binh Xuyen gang swarm marshland hideouts and strike army outposts around Saigon. Artillery blasts echo through the capital as government forces counter the dawn assault led by Le Van Bien. The fight disrupts the region after recent clashes that toppled the Binh Xuyen from Saigon earlier in the year.
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Xuyen
Vietnam
Saigon
Indochina
Binh
National Army
Binh Xuyen
Saison
Ngo
Dinh Diem
Binh Xuren
Gungsat
Sai+gon
Kinh Lo
Nhabe River
Binh ‘Rayen
le van Bien
Talbott Says He Has No Resignation Plan Now
Secretary Harold E. Talbott declares he has no intention of resigning, saying he is sitting tight in his post. He denies reports by Republican senators of an imminent quit and notes he severed a private business link amid a Senate probe into a $60,000-a-year partnership.
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Washington
UP1
Harold E. Talbott
Talbott
Senate
Red Chinese All Smiles At Geneva Parley
At Geneva the Chinese Communist team greeted the opening of the Big Four talks with cordiality and smiles. Wang Ping-Xan, Peiping's ambassador to Poland, arrived and urged that ambassadorial talks move toward ministerial discussions and mutual problem regulation.
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Geneva
Bus Crash Kills 12 Near Toungo Burma
A Burma F A bus carrying rice workers crashed through a bridge and fell onto a railway track near Toungo, killing 12 people, including 10 women and 2 men.
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Rangoon
Burma
Toungo
Turncoats Ready For Any Punishment In Prison
Three former GIs who spent years in Communist prison camps sat in a U S military jail in San Francisco declaring they will accept any punishment for cooperating with their captors. Otho Bell William Cowart and Lewis Griggs returned to the United States five years after repatriation and faced possible court martial for desertion aiding a general officer. They expressed calm acceptance of duty and justice even if death could result.
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San Francisco
U.S
Otho G. Bell
Hillsboro
Miss
William S. Cowart
Dalton
Lewis Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
U.S. Army
Sixth Army
Washington
Archelaus J L. Hambier
Korea
Cowart
Saruel C. Green
Griggs
Elsie Griggs
Jimmy
Beil
Jewell
Paula
America
China
Cawart
Red Chima
Bell
All 18 rescued from ditched U.S. plane off North Africa
A U.S. Air Force rescue plane recovered all 18 aboard after a Douglas C47 ditched near the Mediterranean coast about 50 miles off North Africa. Officials cite engine trouble as the likely cause of the crash.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Air Force
Mediterranean
North African
Congress Edges Toward Adjournment Amid Endgame
Washington AP A weary Congress grinds toward adjournment with a housing bill out and hundreds of minor measures left. House action began at 8 20 pm CST as debate on extending the defense production act looms. Dollar a year adviser curbs and a selective polio vaccine bill headline the remaining fights.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Fun shop owner seeks exclusive rights for space satellite
Huntington Park Calif March 1 1958 fun shop owner David Steward wrote to President Eisenhower hoping for exclusive rights to open a shop on the government planned satellite He suggested visitors from Mars and Venus would want gifts to take home to their wives and sweethearts as a souvenir of the new satellite project.
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Huntington Park
Calif
David Steward
Eisenhower
Weekend Heatwave Grips Much of the U S
The Weather Bureau warns of a hot humid weekend across most of the United States east of the Rockies with temperatures above 100 in the Midwest for over a week. Cool air may arrive Monday from the Pacific and north from Canada, but casualties from heat rise to at least 15 in the Midwest. Showers and thunderstorms occur from the southern Rockies to northern Wisconsin with heavy rain needed for the corn belt.
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Rockies
Mid-Continent
Weather ‘Bureau
Nouthern Canada
Midwest
Chicago
Ilinois
Missouri
St. Louis
Nebraska
Plains
New England
Atlantic Coast
Corn
Central Plains
Wisconsin
Shawano Burglars Take Torch and Cash
Shawano burglars entered three Shawano business places Friday night and burned open safes to steal a welding torch from one shop and $258 in cash from another. The Ford route agency garage suffered the biggest loss, followed by a welding shop and a retail lumber dealer's office.
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Shawano O
Shawano
Ford Route Agency
Ambassador Off to Geneva To Meet Red China Envoy
Ambassador A. Alexis Johnson flies to Europe to press Red China to release 40 American civilians and 11 U.S. airmen. He will meet Wang Ping Nan in Geneva Monday to discuss the prisoner issue amid hopes for progress toward a ceasefire in the Formosa area. Johnson, the U.S. envoy to Czechoslovakia, hinted talks may continue at the foreign ministers level if Geneva improves relations. He plans to warn Peiping against anti American propaganda and potential consequences if American flights are attacked, while promising to push for the prisoners’ freedom including Harold Rigney, a 54-year-old Chinese prisoner.
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Washington
A. Alexis Johnson
Europe
Red China
U.S
Dlatee Ta
Johnson
State Department
New York
Ater
Paris
Geneva
Switzerland
China
Poland
Wang Ping Nan
Czecho-slovakia
Chou En
Formosa
Walter F. George
D-Ga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Formosa Straits
Wang
Taiwan
United States
United Nations
Peiping
Dulles
Gemeva
Addie Rigney
Chicago
Harold Rigney
Ohio Street Civic Association To Hold Annual Children's Event
Oshkosh residents will attend the Ohio Street Civic Association 22nd annual children's picnic and parade on Sunday. About 500 youngsters and up to 10,000 spectators are expected as a street parade forms at 12:30 pm, with color guards and local bands leading to South Park. Prizes over 100 dollars and numerous rides, food, and performances promise a full day of activities supporting the swimming pool fund and civic projects.
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Oshkosh
Winnebago County
Ohio Street Civic Association
Emil Loos
Cai
Fifth and
Knapp Streets
Fifth Street
Ohio Street
1Th
South Park
VFW
Amercan Legion
Catholic Youth
Oshkosh High School
Becker School of Music
Osh_kosh Swimming Pool Fund, Inc
I the
Academy of Music
Knapp
Joseph Siebold
Jfun
Dar
Loos
YMCA
Stillman
Becker Music Center
Collock
Chou Sees Easy Repatriation of Prisoners at Geneva Talks
Chou En lai predicted the repatriation of American prisoners in Red China would be easily settled as Geneva talks open. He said negotiations could settle all pending international issues step by step and urged sincere negotiation. He noted about 40 Americans and 11 airmen are held on spy charges and claimed thousands of Chinese students remain in the United States. He reiterated China’s aim to liberate Formosa and warned of possible sudden attack.
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Tokyo
Chow En - Lai
China
Geneva
Chou
Radio Peiping
Poland
Czechoslovakia
U.S
Chen
Red China
United States
Formosa
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