Medal of Honor Winner Rescues Buttoned Gas-Trench Hero
48 year old Medal of Honor recipient Jackson C. Pharris gained new laurels after he and fellow workers freed Marshall E. Wiegand from a Long Beach gas line trench ignition. Wiegand, treated for minor burns, credited Pharris with saving lives during the explosion. W. O. Lockridge also aided in the rescue. Pharris earned the Medal for Navy Pearl Harbor actions aboard USS California.
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Long Beach
CNS
Jackson C. Pharris
Rolling Meadows Rd
Rolling Hills
Marshall E. Wiegand
Raton Circle
W. O. Lockridge
Tulane Ave
Wiegand
Pharris
Navy
Pearl Harbor
California
Cave-in Law Declared Adequate by LA County Aide
County Manager Linden S Hollinger said California law already protects workers from trench cave-ins if state inspectors are enough to enforce it. He noted eight state staff engineers serve the Los Angeles area and cited 11 local deaths and 63 injuries from cave-ins between 1954 and 1959, with 277 construction fatalities from other causes.
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LOS Angeles
CNS
Lindon S. Hollinger
Hollinger
Amish Woman Killed as Car Hits Buggy in New Castle
Mrs. Levina E. Mast a 70 year old Amish woman died when an automobile driven by John Muth 25 swerved across Route 208 and struck her horse drawn buggy as she returned home after taking her leukemia stricken sister to a hospital in New Wilmington RD 1. The crash occurred late last night in New Castle Pennsylvania authorities said.
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New. Castle
UPI
Levina E. Mast
Mast
New Wilmington
RD 1
Saloma Mast
John Muth
Dan
Bank Burglar’s Coffee Fund Heist Shocks Oakland
Burglars broke through a skylight at a Bank of America in Oakland and lowered 30 feet to the floor but could not open the vault. They seized $2.43 from the employees’ coffee fund, then climbed back through the skylight and escaped.
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Oakland
UPI
Bank of America
Buggy Driver Byler Escapes Serious Injury
Mrs Mast was dead on arrival at Jamieson Memorial Hospital after a crash. she had arrived with her sister minutes earlier.
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Byler
Crash Injures Rosetta Duncan
Rosetta Duncan, 58, of the Duncan Sisters vaudeville duo, was seriously injured in a car crash in suburban Chicago. She suffered internal injuries and multiple fractures. she was en route to Chicago with sister Vivian after performing at Magnum's Chateau. The sisters began in San Francisco in 1916 and rose to fame in 1923 with the act Topsy and Eva.
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Chicago
UPI
Rosetta Duncan
Duncan Sisters
Tragedy Ends 71-Year Marriage in Bayville Fire
In Bayville New Jersey an elderly couple John and Henrietta Duym aged 67 and 66 moved into Holly Park 25 years ago. Henrietta died in a house fire while helping John salvage his pipe and lighting. John survived with burned hands and grief as Christmas Eve would have marked their wedding anniversary.
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Bayville, N.J
UPI
John Duym
Henrietta
Holly Park
Bayville
John
Betty Brower
Paul Kimball Hospital
Mediation Round Opens as Talks Resume in Steel Rows
Federal mediators summoned steel management and union negotiators to a new round of talks but early prospects for agreement remained dim. Wilson & Company hires permanent placements for all strikers at its Los Angeles meat plants. The National Mediation Board will meet with rail unions to discuss a railway contract dispute affecting about 600 workers at Wilson’s Los Angeles plant.
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Washington
UPI
Los Angeles
CNS
Wi‘son & Company
United Packinghouse
Chicago
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Workers of America
Wilson
Los Ange
Les
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Worker
Marshall E. Weigand
Lockridge
Division of
San Diego
Santa Fe
Alhambra
Beverly Hill
Hollywood
Econ Park
Inglew
Santa Monica
Whittier
Bere HE
Duym
Bay Boulevard
Ruth Strunck
Newark
William
Manasquan
Donald
Arthur
Florida
Crown Theatre
O'Keefe & Merritt Gas
Southern
AYU Gas
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