Radio Tapes Show United Jet Off Course Before Crash
FAA tapes reveal United Flight 826 veered off path over Staten Island just before colliding with TWA Flight 266. LaGuardia and Idlewild controllers failed to reestablish contact as the Constellation descended toward LaGuardia. The Preston holding pattern and nearby airspace are described as the area of concern.
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FBI Says Reds Plot Chicago Youth Movement Conference
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover said Communists plan a Chicago conference beginning December 31 to form a new national youth organization. He claimed Moscow trained leaders strengthen ties with the Soviet Union and Cuba and noted a new publication New Horizons for Youth. An FBI spokesman declined further details on attendance or other elements of the meeting.
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George Earp Last of Fighting Earps Dies at 96
George Washington Earp, 96, cousin of Wyatt Earp, died Wednesday of a stroke in Joplin Missouri. He served briefly as a deputy marshal at Dodge City and had worked as a land dealer lawyer US marshal internal revenue man and merchant.
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Ozark Farm Girl Seeks Santa From New York
Coleta Burns an 11 year old from Viola Arkansas asks Santa in a letter to the New York Police Department. She lists family needs and hopes Santa is alive to deliver gifts. Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm replies there is a real Santa but he is busy and may have overlooked her family.
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Cold Christmas Weekend Ahead in Eastern New York
The Weather Bureau warns of an unusually cold Christmas weekend in eastern New York with slightly milder conditions in the west. Up to 18 inches fell in the Wednesday storm. Eastern regions may see temperatures about 10 degrees below normal with the coldest readings in Massena and the Oswego area.
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Textile plant in Middletown to close ending 63 year run
Lustberg Nast and Co will shut its Middletown textile plant within a month or six weeks. Edward A. Brown says 30 of 125 workers remain and will be released when the plant closes. The move cuts a $300,000 annual payroll and shifts production to the Lebanon, Pennsylvania plant.
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13 Rescued Aboard Stern Section Of Tanker Pine Ridge
Navy helicopters from the carrier Valley Forge rescued 13 of 28 survivors from the Pine Ridge after the ship broke in two 100 miles off Cape Hatteras. Seven of 35 aboard were feared lost. search continued for five more in 30 foot seas.
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Gun Fight on City Bus Wounds Six in Panic
A Christmas shoppers bus on Chicago’s west side erupted in a wild gunfight leaving six wounded. Thurston Burgess 22 was listed in serious condition Luther Perkins 18 critical Otis Porch 29 and Ernestine Russell 16 were seriously wounded. The conflict followed a quarrel near the exit as a passenger allegedly threatened others and fired multiple shots.
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Icy Air Grips U S As Cold Slow Sits In
A vast mass of icy air enveloped much of the nation from the Rockies to the Atlantic. The first day of winter brought heavy snow and the coldest spell of the year with at least 55 deaths blamed on the storm and cold, including 25 in Ohio. Temperatures plunged below zero in many areas as gale winds split the tanker Pine Ridge near Cape Hatteras. Miles City Montana recorded 13 below zero as the cold persisted across the central U S and Midwest.
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World News at a Glance From AP Descriptions
The AP reports multiple global incidents with fatalities and strikes. In Munich a Convair jet crash into a streetcar killed 31 including 19 year old Ingeborg Kraus. 13 Germans burn injuries, all 20 Americans died. In Umtat clashes kill 18 and wound many. In Santander a freighter wreck leaves one survivor and 19 dead. In Brussels a Belgian strike paralyzes ports and cities over austerity, police injuries occur as leaders arrested.
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Fire inquiry details lack of manpower and funds on carrier Constellation
Testimony to a Navy Board of Inquiry cites manpower shortages and limited funds as main hindrances to enforcing safety measures aboard the carrier during the Monday fire that caused about 75 million dollars in damage. Witnesses describe 42 prior fires this year, with crew extinguishing many before fire crews arrived, and suggest a chain of events from a damaged fuel tank valve to the blaze.
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New York Air Crash Toll Rises to 134
The death toll from a United Air Lines jet colliding with a second plane and crashing into Brooklyn and Staten Island rose to 134. Dr. Jacob K Krooks, 64, a dentist and Boy Scouts leader, died from burns after being sprayed with flaming fuel while walking his dog nearby. The crash left 84 passengers aboard the United jet dead and 34 from the TWA Constellation on Staten Island.
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Probation For Sodomy Case Ties GOP Leader
Mrs Mary Neil 29 was given two years probation on sodomy charges involving a former Republican county chairman George L Traister 59 who also received two years probation earlier Traister resigned as Onondaga County party chairman and county treasurer after investigators found him and Mrs Newman in a city outskirts car on Sept 28.
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Woman Dies in Route 6 Crash at Clifton Springs
Mrs Clara Lanpheau, 72, of Webster was killed and others injured when an automobile and a truck collided on Route 6 near Clifton Springs Ontario County.
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Protests Rise Over Statewide Sales Tax Idea
The Albany scene swarmed with protests after a legislative commission floated a sales tax to raise large revenues. Governor Rockefeller denied plans and favored a 10 percent tax refund while GOP leaders warned taxpayers would rebel, recalling the 1959 tax rise controversy.
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