Lightning Kills Two at Girl Scout Camp in Ohio
A lightning strike hit a group of Girl Scout campers near Akron early today killing Sally Parker 14 and June Gamble 13 and injuring Marilyn Featherston 13 and Lynn Wiesenberger 12. Camp counselors reached the tents to find two girls dead and others hurt from burns and shock.
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Akron
Ohio
Sally Parker
Cleveland Heights
June Gamble
Media
Cleveland
Marilyn Featherston
Lynn Wiesenberger
Medina Community Hospital
Briefcase Bandit Promoter Jekyll and Hyde Se Sudden Death
Los Angeles police say Daniel M. Snyder an ex Marine and art lover led a two life by day a prominent promoter and by night a robber using a briefcase stamped LAPD and a detective badge to rob markets. He died after a drugstore holdup attempt. Two markets robbed $38000.
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Los Angeles
Daniel M. Snyder
Snyder
LAPD
Cain L. Wood
Camp Julia
High Crowther
Cleveland
Shopping center deal sparks land purchase plan
A note indicates a shopping center project tied to a recent down payment and acquisition of several acres. The brief mentions ongoing negotiations and the scale of land involved as part of the development effort.
Neighborly Woman Accused of Ripping Fence
Greensboro North Carolina UPI reports Mr and Mrs Walter K Shaw filed suit claiming their neighbor Margaret B Olander damaged the fence by cutting wire pulling hooks digging up cement blocks uprooting a flower garden and spraying water on Mrs Shaw during garden work in a neighbor dispute.
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Greensboro
N. C
UPI
Walter K. Shaw
Margaret B. Olander
Shaws
MTA Union Votes on Strike Authorization
In Los Angeles 2800 members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen operating buses and streetcars for the Metropolitan Transit Authority vote today on a strike authorization. Ballots will be counted late today. If authorized, the strike would bring in the U.S. Mediation and Conciliation Service to restart negotiations that have stalled since this morning.
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Los Angeles
Brotherhood of Railroad
Metropolitan Transit Authority
U.S
Missing Marines From Port Clinton Trip Reported
Two corporals assigned to Camp Perry in the national rifle matches are missing after failing to report for roll call at Port Clinton Ohio. Cpl Darrel Hill 19 of High Point North Carolina and Cpl Jackie Richardson 24 of Blackwell Oklahoma and Midway Park North Carolina rented a 14 foot motor boat Sunday for a possible Lake Erie islands trip. Neither the men nor the boat have been found. They are members of the 2nd Battalion 2nd Marine Regiment Camp Lejeune NC.
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Port Clinton
Ohio
Camp
Perry
Darrel D. Hill
High Point
N.C
Jackie D. Richardson
Blackwell
Okio
Midway Park
Lake Erie
2Nd Batallion
2Nd Marine Regiment
Camp Lejune
Industrialist Samuel A. Bingham Dies at 77
Samuel A. Bingham, a Chicago industrialist, died Sunday after a long illness in Tryon North Carolina. He was 77 and had retired from business.
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Tryon
N. C
Samuel A. Bingham
Chicago
Asphalt Pocket in L A Civic Center Oil Strike
In Los Angeles at the Civic Center a jackhammer found a small pocket of asphaltic oil four feet below the surface during excavation for a new Hall of Records. The heavy oil, in a shale layer, was deemed non viable for production and was sealed with the concrete footing of a steel column.
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Ata
Carl Selby
Priz
Jamaica
Jamaicas
Cabana
Thames
Bellflower
Los Altos St
BLYD
Briefcase Bandit
Promoter
MTA
Pacific Coast Highway
Bellflower Boulevard
Os Altes Shopping Center
L. A. Civic Center
Civic Center
Nancy Ann
Muffie
Newey Ann
Lis
Jakey
Fs OY
Bellflower Blvd
Les Altos Center
Atlantic Ave
Bixby Knolls Center
Long Beach
United States National Bank
Cajon Boulevard
John
Fide
San Diego
Lemon Grove
Pacific Beach
Boena Park
Monsovia
Pasedene
Pulleroa
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