Heroic Teachers Save Pupils as School Burns Down
In Montairy North Carolina a fiery blaze trapped 33 teachers and students at Flat Rock elementary. Principal A P Phillips and teachers Cora Beasley and Boula Osborn helped evacuate children, with Larry Adams, a nonwalking pupil crippled from birth, perishing in the flames. Firefighters fought the blaze as the roof collapsed.
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Flat Rock
Mt Airy
N. C
Mountairy
N.C
Larry Adams
Wey London
Tex
Aves
Adams
Cora Beastey
Larry
Sno
A. P. Phillips
Phillips
Phillies
Beasley
Boula Osborn
Osborn
John Ray Simmons
Johnny Haynes
Navy Mercy Mission Heroism Revealed
Navy reveals details of a nighttime helicopter mercy mission to a Chesapeake lighthouse after rockets struck the nearby Naval Air Station. Lt Cmdr William Casey piloted the craft with Lt J.P. McCullough and Hoist Operator A Colon, lowering Dr Charles Cook to aid a lighthouse keeper amid shelling fallout.
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Patuxent, Md
Chesapeake Bay
Naval Air Station
Atlantic City
Naval Air Test Center
Patuxent
Newry
Northern Ireland
Holland
Island Bar
Ruthiiland
Coast Guard
Navy
William ¢. Casey
Staten Island
Casey
Sir Charles &, Cook
Sioux Falls
S. D
Cook
Ashing
Cas
Island Lighthouse
J. P. Mee Cullough
Dexter
Seaman A. Colon
First Head of Air Force School Dies at 64
Lt Gen Hubert R Harmon first Superintendent of the Air Force Academy died at Lackland AFB hospital after an illness. Funeral 4 pm Monday at Randolph chapel. Cremation. ashes to Colorado Springs. memorial service in Denver Tuesday at the Academy site. Burial at Rocky Mountain site to follow upon cemetery completion. Harmon helped select Colorado Springs site and led academy efforts through World Wars and early development. Born April 3 1892 in Chester Pennsylvania to a military family. West Point 1915 class alongside Eisenhower.
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San Antonio
Tex
UPI
Hubert Reilly Harmon
West Point
Elsenhower
U.S. Air Force Academy
Lackland Air Force Base
Randolph Air Force Base
Colorado Springs
Thomas J. Hanley
Air Academy
Denver
Air Forte Academy
Academy
Rocky Mountains
Ancnt
Sas
Hermon
Chester
Jhb
Hisenhower
France
Germany
Gulf Coast Air Training Center
Randolph Field
Pacific
Air Force Academy
Lost Colonel Marches With Cleveland Grays Parade
The Cleveland Grays of the National Guard paraded down town on Washington Day without their commander Robert Campbell who was scheduled to lead them. After returning to the armory the regiment found Campbell accidentally locked in the men’s dressing room.
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Cleveland
National Guard
Cleveland Grays
Robert NM. Campbell
Campbell
Students expelled in Moscow for political activity
Diplomatic reports from Paris claim 100 Moscow University students were expelled for revolutionary political activity. An unknown number at Lenin Pedagogical Institute were arrested for forming an underground group. A Leningrad University meeting reportedly became a demonstration with an effigy of Gomulka.
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Paris
uPi
Ioscow University
Lenin Pedagogical Institute
Moscow University
Teachers’ College
Race Track Bandit Wins Cash at Bowie Racecourse
A lone bandit robbed the Bowie race track cash room of 4350 dollars from advance ticket sales for the eighth race. He wore a gray top coat and hat, threatened the clerk Scott Coll, and vanished into a holiday crowd as 25,000 fans watched. The heist occurred between the sixth and seventh races with only one other witness corroborating the description as security and fans waited outside. The day’s betting handle totaled 1,650,751 dollars.
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Bowee
Bowie Race Course
Bandit
Scott Coll
Baltimore
Coll
Nonce
Wesley C. Gurel
Maryland
W German Chief Delays Visit to U S
Bonn West German President Theodor Heuss, aged 73, has postponed his planned Washington visit due to bronchitis. Four doctors advised against travel, and Heuss asked President Eisenhower to reschedule. Heuss plans private travel in the United States after Washington, with weeks needed for recovery.
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Bonn
Theodor Heuss
United States
Washington
Heuss
Eisenhower
Kostal Faces Court Again on March 15
Albert Kostal, 37, top suspect in the Isley murder case, awaits a March 15 preliminary hearing after a dramatic Folsom escape. FBI agents and deputies captured him in South Whittle, surrendering under a ring of heavy weaponry. Ballistics tie the weapon to officer Ray Isley’s December death near Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Kostal previously escaped from the Hall of Justice on February 11.
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Albert Kostal
FBI
U. S. Commissioner's Office
Los Angeles
Whittier
Albert Hostal
Hall of Justice
Folsom Prison
South Whittle
T Restal
Ray Isley
Wheat Ridge
Colo
Munth
Folsom
Sacramento
Cali
Kansas City
Thad Brown
Ell Isley
Kostal
Budget Boosts Mental Health Funding in California
In Sacramento the assembly ways and means subcommittee raised Gov Knight’s 1957 58 mental health budget by 1 805 850 dollars. Half funds doctor pay in state hospitals and half finances aftercare facilities. This adds to a 12 9 million program aiming to lift state hospital standards per Department of Mental Hygiene recommendations.
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Sacramento
Department of Mental Hygiene
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