Vienna streetcar conductress wins San Francisco run
A smiling Viennese woman, Frau Karla Stahl, crowned Vienna’s Das Kleine Blatt favorite, visits San Francisco to ride the cable cars. She learns grip operation with Austrian Consul General Karl C. Weber watching, as crowds cheer in a lively display of transit lore. Retired Adm. Howard F. Kingman dies in Los Angeles after a long illness, age 78. Services set for All Saints Episcopal Church Beverly Hills and burial in Arlington.
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Vienna
San Francisco
Frau Karla Stahl
Das Kleine Blatt
Frau Stahl
Gener
Karl C. Weber
Howard F. Kingman
William F. “Bull” Hulsey
3Rd Fleet
Los Angeles
Eniwetok
Saipen
Tinian S and
Guant
Tie
Navy
Edward Bartlett Cormack
Haywright
Los Angels Harbor
All Saints Episcopal "Church
Beverly Hills
Arlington National Cemetery
Two Fatal Traffic Crashes Reported In Huntington Beach and Cerritos
Two separate fatal crashes claimed a 4 year old boy and a motorcyclist in Huntington Beach while a two car collision on the San Gabriel River Freeway near Cerritos left six injured. In Huntington Beach Duane A Heine and motorcyclist James Todhunted died from injuries. The Artesia Street freeway crash sent four others to hospital.
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Huntington Beach
Whiursday
San Gabriel River
Cerritos
Duane A. Heine
Armin Heine
Ragget St
Garden Grove
Pacific Coast Highway
Brookhurst Streat
James Todhunted
Luigi Drive
Pao
Warner Avenue
Gothard Street
Artesia Street
California
Robert M. Arsenian
Montebello
Combral
Baldwin Park
Pioneer Community Hospital
Artesiz
Skipper Rose Knighted as Sir Alec for Solo World Voyage
London reports Alec Rose, 50, grocer, knighted by Queen Elizabeth for tenacity and skill shown on his solo circumnavigation in 254 days, 29,000 miles aboard the 36 foot ketch Lively Lady. He arrived Ports mouth to a tumultuous welcome and planned rest with his wife. Sir Francis Chichester had earlier been knighted for a world voyage completed in Sydney.
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London
Alec Rose
Harold Wilson
Rose
Portsmouth
Francis Chichester
Sydney
Three Blazes Blacken 170 Acres in So Cal
Three brush fires scorched about 1170 acres in Southern California on Thursday with one small blaze still out of control today. A major fire near Beaumont burned about 160 acres before being contained by 70 firefighters, started by gunshots from unidentified shooters in Lambs Canyon. The inferno also burned four acres in Angeles National Forest, prompting a highway closure on CA 38. In Chatsworth, LA city and county crews quickly controlled another four acre blaze with undetermined cause.
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California
Beaumont
Riverside
State Division of Forestry
Lambs Canyon
Angeles National Forest
San Gabriel Canyon
Chatsworth
San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles
Berkeley Independence Day rally draws 45000 amid clashes
A roughly 45 000 crowd filled Telegraph Avenue near UC Berkeley for Independence Day celebrations after a week of clashes with police, tear gas, and curfews. Demonstrators supported socialist and anarchist groups, called for Reagan recall, and the freeing of a Black Panther leader. The crowd heard rock bands and mime acts as police reports noted 134 arrests and 45 injuries.
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Berkeley
UPI
Telegraph Avenue
University of California
France
Ronald Reagan
San Francisco
26 Injured When Bus Skids and Overturns
A Greyhound bus from Chicago to Miami skidded on a rain slick highway near Macon Georgia and overturned into a field injuring 26 of 25 occupants. Two or three passengers were reported seriously hurt. The driver William Parks Dobbs of Chattanooga was uninjured.
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Macon
UPS
William Parks Dobbs
Chattanooga
Tenn
Dobbs
Greyhound
Atlanta
Florida
Fireworks and a Viet Cong flag seen on Independence Day in Long Beach
In East Long Beach a Viet Cong flag fluttered from a porch railing as fireworks lit the sky. Bob Granafel, 20, said he flew the flag to protest the Vietnam War, calling it illegal and immoral. He plans to seek conscientious objector status and would move to Canada if drafted. The flag was reportedly made by his roommates Jov Kilburg and Ken Sutch at 8715 Livingston Drive.
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Rex
Robbie
Billy
Bonnie
Sharon
Pretty Thing
Blondo
Canada
Gerda Munsinger
Ernst Wagner
Munich
Bohemian Schwabing
Munsiniger
Wagner
East Long Beach
Bob Granafel
Vietnam
Independent Press-Tetegrum
Granafel
Granatei
Millikan High School
Long Beach City College
Jov Kilburg
Ken Sutch
Deserters disrupt U.S. Independence Day party in Sweden
In Stockholm a July Fourth event at the U.S. embassy drew about a thousand people including deserters from the U.S. armed forces. A group of 200 disrupted the proceedings shouting antiwar slogans, rushed the ropes, and led to seven arrests by Stockholm police. The disturbance lasted minutes before the program resumed with Ambassador William Heath and guest speaker Gunnar Helen.
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Stockholm
UPI
U.S. Bassy Grounds
William Heath
Vietnam
U.S
Sweden
William Jones
American de
Serters Committee
ADC
Gunnar Helen
Kronnberg
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Scarface
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Dillon
Mont
Catherine Ann Donohn
Prairie City
M.D
South Dakota State University
Miss Stephens
Sandra Stahell
Washington
Utah
Dixie Junior College
St. George
Southern Colorado State College
Colorado State University
Sam Houston University
Billy Hines
Skipper Rose
Sir Alec
Auber Street
Paris
AP Whreahoto
L.B
Lieto
Long Beach
Cally
Sarrt Ur
Sue c Urs
Lakaioe
Kai
Bullock's
Clark Ave
Lakewood
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