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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1961
Page
1
A massive winter storm crippled New York and New England causing shutdowns at Boston Logan Airport and parking bans in major cities. The system fueled a record 17 day cold wave with at least 48 deaths from exposure, heart attacks, and weather related accidents across multiple states as a new storm formed in the Southern Plains.
DETROIT reports show Ford Meter Co cutting 8,500 jobs in Cleveland area after earlier 13,500, while American Motors plans 29,000 furloughs in Wisconsin and General Motors 46,500 across the nation for the week of Feb. 13. The move aims to trim dealer inventories amid weak sales as snowstorms paralyze several eastern cities and trigger travel slowdowns and fires across multiple states.
Interior Minister Rene Lefebvre arrived at the scene as a 300 foot high slag heap collapsed after heavy rains. The 2,460 foot long mass buried homes and streets, with at least 14 killed and many missing. Army bulldozers aided rescuers but clearance would take days.
Tass reported the satellite circled the earth every 49.8 minutes with altitudes from 203 miles to 139 miles, saying the orbit closely matched the plan and the onboard systems functioned nominally during launch and ongoing movement. German scientists and Italian radio operators noted strange signals and sounds, fueling speculation about messages from space.
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Dr Robert Kent 75 a pioneer in modern ballistics died Friday in Havre de Grace Md He served 24 years as a scientist at the Army Aberdeen Proving Ground before retirement in 1956.
Amid astonishment in a tropical port, about 30 rebels remained aboard the 610 foot Santa Maria as authorities planned to transfer passengers to recover luggage. Galvao proclaimed asylum for the rebels in Brazil while the ship was handed to Portugal to settle jurisdiction.
Miami Beach reports a fisherman, Philip Davis, hauled a 4 year old boy from Biscayne Bay about 25 feet from shore. The boy, Alan Calarino, was unconscious and later listed in satisfactory condition at a hospital after being revived at the beach police station.
An elderly Dallas woman asked a District Judge to grant a divorce declaring her husband deserted her in 1920. When asked why she waited to report, she replied she needed to be sure he wasn’t coming back. The judge deemed the divorce proper.
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