Flash Fire Kills 14 in Rest Home in Iowa
A flash fire swept through a three story Rest Home in Council Bluffs Iowa killing 14 residents. Officers reported 43 people were in the building at the time with 17 patients 10 employees and 3 children evacuated. Fire officials will comb debris for the cause while noting the home was licensed and inspected last August.
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E. J. Herron
Waldo Merrill
Debrig
Calsc
Kenneth Patin
Council
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No Deafness From Jets Report Claims No Deafness From Jets
Washington reports the Air Force Surgeon General says no single case of total deafness is traceable solely to jet plane noise. VA officials dispute this, noting increases in hearing impairment among service personnel and veterans, while the Air Force says discharges for hearing disability are infinitesimal. The Aircraft Industry Association argues most disability payments involve veterans from all services long before jet noise era.
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AIR. Surgeon General’s Office
Aircraft Industry Group
Negro AF General Relieved on Formosa
Brig. Gen. Fred M. Dean will relieve Brig. Gen. Benjamin Davis Jr. as commander of the U S air task force on Formosa. Dean, a West Point graduate, is deputy commander of the flying training air force at Waco Texas and will arrive at Taipei before the end of March. Davis, the first Negro general in the U S Air Force, assumed Formosa command June 2, 1955 and said he did not know his new assignment.
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Judge to Rule Today on Cole in Water Rights Suit
River Point judge Simon H Rifkind may decide today on appropriative rights in a Colorado River water case involving California Arizona and other states. California seeks 3 662 000 acre feet annually while Arizona argues for 4 4 million under the 1929 Compact with ratification in 1944.
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Wife of Aga Khan Nurses Head Wound
The wife of Aga Khan, Moslem sect leader, arrived in NICE France nursing a head wound after a fall on stairs. She came from Paris on a plane from New York and told reporters she had visited Ingrid Bergman in Tea and Sympathy before the accident and received first aid at the theater.
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Dallas postal dog bite scare prompts blunt letter
Postal supervisor Roy Frederick recalls a North Dallas incident after a woman wrote to Postmaster William Hudson asking forgiveness for “my 10 who attacked our carrier and bit him.” Frederick inspects dog bite cases and said he found little humor in the letter and never let go of the issue.
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William .B. Hudson
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Wife Death Suspect Slashes Wrists in Jail
In a jail cell a suspect named Rene Skaggs slashed his wrists after a confrontation with deputies. He had earlier killed his estranged wife Dorothy Skaggs, 28, at a Monte drive-in table. Skaggs was disarmed and arrested. he and his wife had separated last week and he took three of their five children. The incident occurred as investigators report on the domestic dispute unfold.
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Realty Firm Seeks Village for Sale in Nevada
The Robert S. Miller Real Estate Co of Pasadena offers up to 100000 dollars for a two village inhabited site in Carson City Nevada. They requested information from the State Department of Economic Development.
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Robert S. Miller Real Estate Co
Pasadena
State Dept. of Economic Development
Radford backs a Middle East oil policy shift
Adm. Radford testified before Senate and House committees supporting a policy that the United States cannot seize oil but should urge voluntary cooperation to hold down prices. He said Russians may pull back if the U S signals seriousness and noted the emergency program aimed to move oil to Europe quickly while avoiding a full seizure of the oil industry. Seaton and Wormser testified on antitrust and production issues tied to the Middle East alliance and wartime energy measures.
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Briton Denies Hands Hong Kong Back to Red China
Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd rejected a report that Britain plans to hand Hong Kong to Red China as entirely unfounded. He stated this in a written reply to Conservative MP Denzil Freeth.
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Alan Lennox-Goyd
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Hong Kong
Denzil Freeth
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