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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1959
Page
3
In Houston Texas UP report Wal Williams a Confederate veteran aged 136 remains the last surviving Civil War soldier. His condition is critical and his health has been unstable with recent nights described as restless.
In New York a 15 year old boy confessed to firing a volley of bullets that killed Theresa Gee a 15 year old girl and wounded two others during a Sunday night gang clash in Manhattan lower East Side The two gangs the Sportsmen and the Forsyth Street Boys were both composed of Negro and Puerto Rican youths and the violence followed a territorial invasion by the Sportsmen leaders said to be Frank Boyd.
A massive gasoline storage tank exploded in Kansas City injuring nearly 100 people and leaving five dead. Fire officials said the blaze followed a tank rupture at the facility, with responders battling flames into the night.
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