Winter Storm Rips Pacific Coast As Winter Arrives
The season opens amid a stormy, cold day with trainstorms along the Pacific coast. Zero readings plunge across New England and New York, while the West stays milder. Heavy rain and wind from central California to Washington flood roads, force school closures, evacuations, and home displacements in low lying areas.
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New England
New York State
Massena
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Kansas
Montana
Rockies
Plains
Colorado
Wyoming
California
Oregon
Washington
Yale Veteran Sprinter Competes In Third Year
Sandy Gideonse of Highland Park New Jersey the 1954 AAU 100 meter outdoor swimming champion competes for the third year with the Yale varsity team continuing a noted sprinting career with the team this season.
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Sandy Gideonse
Highland Park
N. J
Yale
Prison Official Identifies Impostor Among Texan Prison Staff
HUNTSVILLE Texas prison chief C B Ellis named a system employee an impostor after magazine articles linked him to Ferninand Waldo DeMara Jr a Canadian doctor who served as surgeon in the Korean conflict. The man aged 36 admitted nothing and fled in his car around midnight after Ellis confronted him with the credentials he claimed.
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Huntsville
Tex
C. B. Ellis
Texas
Elis
Ellis
Ferninand Waldo DeMara, Jr
Joseph C. Cyr
Peabody
Canadian impostor surgeon linked to prison staff
The prison manager said another employee found a three year old magazine article detailing the Canadian impostor who had a long record in education and other fields before receiving a Canadian commission as a surgeon. Ellis noted the pictures were exact likenesses of the employee and that she appeared alert and did a good job while employed.
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University of Nashville
Tenn
University of Texas and
Georgia Teachers College
Ellis
Escape from B47 bomber crash via bomb bay raises concerns
An Air Force inquiry into the McPherson Kansas crash of a B47 bomber on October 4 found three crew members escaped through the bomb bay, a rare method on fast jets. The plane was 240 to 290 mph at about 5000 feet when the first two parachuted out and the third exited as the craft rolled. Ejection seat failures were noted in several positions, with only the pilot’s seat functioning in the observed case. Officials cited ongoing studies to improve escape equipment and procedures.
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Washington
Air Force
McPherson
Kas
Air
Poison Pie Targeting Northern Ireland Police Chief
Cyanide laced mince pies mailed to Sir Richard Pim, 54, a leading figure in Northern Ireland's conflict with the Irish Republican Army. Christmas wrapped gifts bore a Santa label and did not specify mailing time or place. The I R A seeks unification of six counties with the Republic.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Sir Ricahr
Pim
Irish Republican Army
Find Another Ransom Bill in Ohio Case
FBI confirms a first ten dollar bill from the missing half of the 600000 Greenlease ransom money surfaced in East Palestine Ohio. J Earl Milnes notes Mrs Mildred Rhodes found the bill as authorities recount 83 of the notes recovered nationwide. The Greenlease kidnapping case tied to Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady triggered a long missing funds mystery since 1953.
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ST. Louis
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Heady
Bobby, Greenlease
Kansas City
Wichita man linked to new Army submachinegun
In Salt Lake City authorities probed how 21 year old Thomas Alvin Cox obtained a new type U S Army submachinegun found in his car. FBI identified Cox and he was charged under the Dyer Act after arrest for driving a stolen Amarillo, Texas vehicle. Officials said the weapon, a Reiser, is a new model not in general use.
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Salt Lake City
FBI
Thomas Alvin Cox
Amarillo
Tex
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