Air Force and Navy Probe Norwalk Crash Kill 48
At Long Beach command post, AF and Navy specialists begin scientific probe into the Norwalk crash that killed 48, part of a string of Southern California air disasters over the weekend. Friday and Sunday crashes add to the death toll, including a Yorba Linda collision that claimed five and a Barstow B26 crash with two.
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Long Beach Air Force Base
Air Force
Navy
Norwalk
California
Yorba Linda
Orange County
Barstow
Norwalk midair disaster probe and rescue chaos
Brig. Gen. George Cassady heads a 14 member MATS team at Norwalk to investigate a fatal midair collision that killed 48 people and halted traffic as rescuers failed to reach two dying survivors for hours. Witnesses described jammed streets and blocked access before doctors could help. A survivor, Raymond Willard McCallerty, was identified among the victims. Separate incidents included a San Francisco jugular vein case and hospital treatments, while authorities planned wreckage reconstruction at Los Alamitos and studied Southern California air traffic issues. County officials called for traffic controls around disaster zones and higher level investigations.
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Cassady
Atlantic
Military Air Transport Service
MATS
Norwall
Norwalk
Santa Fe Springs
Tom Barbe
Raymond Willard McCallerty
S. Danby Ave
Whittier
Wavy Neptune
Norwalk Blvd
Barbe
Orea
Neptune
Amphibious Force Commander Names Change
Rear Admiral Henry S. Persons will replace Rear Adm Harold Q. Larson as commander of the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Group at ceremonies in San Diego. Fenton, 23, of Culver City, was reported alive after a wreckage incident and later brought to Carobil Hospital while the fire department records noted a crash timing around 7:15 p.m. Carlson in Norwalk.
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San Diego
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Weather Outlook With Rains Through Tuesday
Moderate to heavy rains persist through Tuesday with brief clearing periods. Coastal small craft warnings remain in effect as southwest winds reach up to 35 mph.
Winds Halt Vanguard Test Shot at Cape Canaveral
Heavy winds for the third day prevented any launch attempts of Navy Vanguard or Jupiter-C satellites. The 72-foot Vanguard rocket stood at the tower while wind speeds 15 to 20 mph continued offshore for over two days, delaying plans and fueling talk of moon missions and space research. Vice President Nixon praised the US space achievement as potentially boosting world opinion and East West peace efforts.
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Plane escorted to Los Angeles after engine failure
A Pan American World Airways airliner carrying 50 people en route from Honolulu to Los Angeles had one of its four engines fail over the Pacific. The Coast Guard escorted the plane to Los Angeles International Airport and it landed without incident.
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Coast Guard
Victim Had Premonition of Disaster
Huntington Beach locals recall Sonny Starr Jr 23 as a crash victim who feared death before the two military planes collision near Norwalk. His mother Faye Starr drove him to San Bernardino then Long Beach, where he awaited a flight that changed his fate. He recently completed Air Force training in New Hampshire and faced engine trouble saying he would make his mother proud.
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New Hampshire
Ben Guerir
Morocco
Moscow peace talks proposed by Bulganin in nine point plan
The Soviet Union signaled readiness for a summit with the United States and Western powers, outlining a nine point agenda including outer space control and disarmament while opposing a prior foreign ministers conference. Bulganin urged diplomacy through normal channels and rejected a pre-summit ministers meeting.
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Eisenhower
Outer Space
Nikolai A. Bulganit
Washington
Soviet Union
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Bulganis
Leonid F. Ilyichev
Foreign’ Ministry
Disaster Caps Fears for Amber the Dachshund
Gordon R Calihan and family feared Amber, their dachshund, would be cold while they were away for a weekend visit in St Joseph Missouri. They had rigged an electric light bulb in the dog box for warmth. The bulb likely sparked a fire in the garage home early Sunday causing about $10000 in damage. Amber suffocated in the blaze.
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Amber
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Callihan
Amiber
Fire kills eight in Arkansas frame house near Guy
A Sunday fire ripped through a small cardboard-lined frame house near Guy Arkansas, killing eight people including three children. Three adults escaped. Sheriff Joe Castleberry identified the victims as Fred Wiedower 51 and his son Fred Mack 10 Dan Henderson and his wife Cora 64 their son in law and daughter C B Marsh 21 and the two Marsh daughters Deborah Dianne 4 and Martha Jane 2.
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Ark. UP
Guy Sunday
Persing
Joe Castleberry
Fred Wiedower
Fred Mack
Dan Henderson
Cora
C. B. Marsh
Marsh
Deborah Dianne
Martha Jane
Slide Closes Road Topanga Canyon Blvd
A rock and earth slide closed Topanga Canyon Blvd in Topanga Canyon, prompting the California Highway Patrol to announce the highway will stay shut until noon Tuesday. The slide occurred near Fernwood Avenue, where debris also blocked the route last week for 92 cars.
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Norwalk Aircraft Collision Toll Listed in Classifieds
A list citing 48 persons killed and 2 injured in a military aircraft crash over Norwalk is printed across multiple pages. Readers are directed to Page A-3 for details, with related items in Beach Combing on Page BL and other sections including Death Notices on Page B-2 and Editorial on Page A-6.
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