Police foil death leap of lovesick Navy man on Veran Blvd
Crowds watched as Donald W. Horton of the Long Beach Naval Station stood on a roof ledge at the Blackstone Hotel. Navy Lt. James Haris, aided by Officer Kelly and Sgt. Workman, grabbed Horton after 15 minutes, pulling him to safety. Horton was jailed for investigation. the woman in the photograph remained silent.
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Veran Blvd
Donald W. Horton
Long Beach Naval Station
James Mr. Kelly
Kelly
Horton
Navy
Harris
Charles Workman
Glorion
Jack G. Harris
Dan Webster
Bryan Hodaver
James M. Kelly
Blackstone Hotel
W. Ocean Blvd
DJ Collapses After 226-Hour Wakeathon in Bakersfield
Disc jockey Big Jim Stokes 29 collapses from exhaustion after a 226 hour 34 minute wakeathon. He ends the event at 7 55 p m Wednesday folding in his wife Gail's arms during a live broadcast from a store window. Stokes who is father of four claims a new marathon record.
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Bakersfield
UPI
Big Jim Stokes
Stokes
Gail
Driver Nabbed Then Turns Tables in Clinton Tennessee
Trooper Fred Brown stopped motorist Oliver H. Anderson for speeding and jailed him on the charge. Anderson then charged Brown with exceeding the speed limit on the way to the jail. The Brown case was dropped while Anderson’s charge remained unsettled.
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Clinton
Fred Brown
Oliver H. Anderson
Andérson
Anderson
Brown
Prohibition figure Abner Zwillman found hanged in West Orange
Abner Zwillman, a noted prohibition figure, was found dead by his employee in his West Orange home. A grand jury had indicted several people related to alleged juror bribery tied to the income tax evasion case that previously deadlocked a panel in 1956.
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West Orange
III
Abner
Longle) Zwillman
Zwillman
Donald Palardi
Prand
Khrushchev Warned Not to Block West in Berlin
In Kiev Khrushchev warned Britain and the West against interfering with West Berlin rights, saying it would create a dangerous situation. Macmillan, arriving after talks in the Kremlin, conveyed Western stance while Khrushchev showed no movement. A final meeting was scheduled for Monday to draft a communique outlining mutual desires.
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Khrushchev
Kiev
U.S.S.R
Macmillan
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin
Kremlin
West Berlin
Germany
West
London
Telephone highway crash claims driver in Illinois
A fatal road incident in Illinois involved a collision reported by the Home Edition desk. Authorities identified the driver and ongoing investigations are expected to determine exact causes and charges.
Blast Kills 2 A-Plant Aids in England
An explosion at Britain's Aldermaston A-plant killed two workers and injured one as a conventional explosive was unloaded from a vehicle. Fire damaged a nearby building. no radiation hazard was reported. Residents and staff were briefly evacuated or warned, with airliners directed away until radiation concerns were dropped.
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Aldermaston
England
Britain
Woodley Thomas
British Atomic Energy Commission
Los Alamos
N. M
Atomic Labsuratory
Fion
London
Thomas
Urges U S Buildup to Meet Berlin War Peril
Sen Thomas J. Dodd urged a 90 day program to ready the American people economy and defenses for a possible Soviet triggered war over Berlin. He pressed quick Senate passage of a resolution backing Eisenhower Dulles policy and warned miscalculation could trigger general war. In San Francisco Gen Maxwell D Taylor warned of Sino Soviet threat and noted no single strategy fits all military challenges.
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Washington
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Berlin
Senate
Berli
Dodd
San Francisco
Maxwell D. Taylor
Red Style Nuptials in East Germany Replace Traditional Vows
Svangelische Welt reports the communist regime in Bielfield Germany proposes new wedding vows. The text urges newlyweds to pledge to uphold socialist achievements and the power of workers and peasants, to respect, support, and jointly decide, and to remain indissolubly true to each other.
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Bielfield
Germany
East Germany
Svangelische Welt
Red
Weather Forecast: Clear Tonight and Friday Sun
Clear tonight and sun by Friday with little temperature change. Maximum temperature by noon today reaches 77 degrees, then slight cooling later. Coastal regions remain dry with light winds from the northeast.
Trieste native earns national English honor at Banning High
Tania Coryell, a Banning High senior born in Trieste who learned English after moving to the United States, was named one of the country’s most talented English students. She competed in a test by the National Council of Teachers of English for possible scholarships, with only seven Los Angeles students honored.
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Wilmington
Tania Coryell
Tania
Banning High School
Young St
Trieste
Nationa Council of Teachers of English
Los Angeles
Killer Tells for Duncan Wife Death
In Ventura a laborer testifies he was hired to kill Olga Duncan, pregnant wife of Eliza beth Duncan's son. Olga disappeared November 17 from a Santa Barbara apartment and was found in a roadside grave near Ojai. Moya says Mrs Duncan offered $6,000 to eliminate her daughter in law and discussed methods including acid rope and sleeping pills.
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Ventura
Olga
Santa Barbara
Ojai
Moya
Dist
Atty
Roy Gustafson
Negroes Plan Parade Over Restaurant Ban
A Kansas City group plans a Saturday morning parade in downtown to protest five department stores denying service to Negroes. Rev. L Sylvester Joron, chair of the Community Committee for Social Action, said the plea to postpone the demonstration was rejected on Wednesday night.
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Kansas City WI
Kansas City
L. Sylvester Jorom
Community Committee For Social Action
Bandit Slain in Los Angeles Liquor Store Shootout
Eberhardt Herz a clerk killed one holdup man and seriously wounded another in a downtown Los Angeles liquor store. The dead bandit was Tommie Hibler, 26, and the wounded is Winfred Washington, 65. A third man fled. The incident marks multiple past holdups at Ebert's Liquor Store over ten years. Herz described the action as a brief, sudden shootout to defend his father in law’s business.
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Los Angeles
Eberhardt Herz
Tommie Hibler
Winfred Washington
Becausa
Ebert
Broadway
Albert Ebert
Herz
Jin-law
Air Force cancels Discoverer launch indefinitely
Vand enberg Air Force Base Calif The Air Force again postponed indefinitely the Discoverer satellite polar orbit test. The two stage rocket came within 30 seconds of firing on two occasions Wednesday but countdowns were halted for undisclosed reasons. Launch postponed for technical reasons. preparations to resume when ready. Original launch date was January 2.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Thea Air Force
Discoverer
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Air Force
State senator proposes 100 million bond for housing
A brief item notes a state senator proposes a 100 million dollar bond issue to fund low-cost housing. The notice appears in the newspaper’s late edition with mentions of where to find related stories on various pages and sections.
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Jess
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the Southland
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U.S
Duncan
L. A
Hal Boyle
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