Dress Loaned Crown Makes Leona Gage Miss United States
Maryland teen Leona Gage won Miss United States after wearing a dress borrowed from a Long Beach merchant. The duo’s Go-for-Broke gamble yielded a $2,000 prize with runner ups earning smaller sums. Barbara Gage and Leona started with $35 and $20, bought a dress marked down from 90 to 45, and flew to California then Maryland to claim the title.
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Maryland
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America
Long Beach
Leona
Barbara Gage
U.S. A
Mss A
Barbara
Miss Maryland beauty reflects on Miss U S A race
Leona Mary Gage, Miss Maryland, describes the pressure of pursuing the Miss U S A crown and the one track mind she developed. She recalls the reaction to being named Miss Maryland and fears the Miss Universe result will again unleash shock waves on her.
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U.S.A
Len Hogan
London
Conn
Maryland
U. S
Ijoff
Tim
Somersworth
Atlantic
Loretta
Anyj
Anthony Focca
Grossactress
Sayion
Johning
Myrna Loy
Turley
New London
Pate
Francis Py Brophy
Dam Nears Break Threatening Capulin Area Flood
Capulin Colorado residents fled to high ground as a 45 year old dam overflows threaten the Rio Grande valley. Workmen battled a gaping hole while Army Corps of Engineers warned of possible flood reaching Capulin and La Jara within hours. Authorities evacuated nearly a thousand people and prepared shelters as the dam’s 17,000 acre foot capacity remained at risk.
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Colo
Alamosa Creek
Jerry Crawford
Alamosa
la Jara
Ben Phillips
Eee
Terrace Reservoir
Army Corps of Engineers
Albuquerque
Rio Grande Valley
Alamasa
Rio Grande
New Mexico
Tas
Sheriff Phillips
H. Mathias
Colorado State Engineer
Army Enginneers
Phillips
Cohejas
Cult Edwards
Capulia
Heiress 24 Plunges to Her Death in Park Avenue Penthouse
Milwaukee socialite Patricia E Philipp 24 daughter of Cyrus Philipp and granddaughter of a former Wisconsin governor died after jumping from a Park Avenue penthouse. A signed note read this is the only way out and you are not to blame. Her body was found on a terrace roof of an adjoining building. The penthouse was used by a downtown investment firm for visiting guests.
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Park Ave
Patricia E. Philipp
Wisconsin
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Al‘fee
Miss Philipp
Cyrus Philipp
Milwaukee
Union Refrigerator Trarigit Co
Bark Ave
34Th St
Spanthouse
Two Moms Die As Babies Survive In Separate Crises
In New Albany Mississippi a mother, Mrs G C Wilhite, 23, carrying her six month old son, died after a likely vehicle strike while the infant survived. In Florida, Mrs Harvey King, 25, died when lightning struck an oak tree. her son Ronald fell near her untouched and unharmed.
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Mississippi
New Albany
Miss
G. C. Wilhite
Albany
Steyunk
Harvey King
Dade City
Fla
Ronald
Weather Update Low Clouds Night Mostly Clear
The forecast calls for low clouds overnight with mostly clear skies otherwise. Temperatures are not expected to change significantly, indicating little variation in the overnight and early morning hours.
Chinese Find 16 AF Plane Bodies
Chinese rescue team reached the wreckage of a U S Air Force transport with 16 aboard and found no survivors. Police reported only 10 bodies identified in the mountain wreckage. The two engine CAT transport vanished Tuesday night en route from Clark Field Philippines to its Taint base.
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Clark Field
Philippines
Taint
California seals record bill signing amid deficit fears
SACRAMENTO AP California with a record number of laws faced an estimated five million dollar deficit after a historic bill signing spree. Gov Knight signed 2 669 bills from the 1957 Legislature, vetoing 23 others while curbing expenditures by five million dollars. The old age pension bill raised max benefits and created a permanent program for disabled and needy residents, with monthly supports up to 105 dollars depending on need.
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California
Knight
State Finance Department
House Group Opens Probe of Cigarettes
Washington hearings featured sharp contrast on smoking and lung cancer. Dr Clarence Cook Littlie of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee challenged a direct link, while Dr Cuyler Hammond of the American Cancer Society argued the evidence shows cigarette smoking causes lung cancer.
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Congressional Investimatire
Gmuvee
Clarence Cook Litlie
Tobacco Industry Research Committee
Cuyler Hammond
American Cancer Society
Hammond
Little
Teenagers rate parents highly in brain department
A large majority of American teens rate their parents positively in the brain department according to this week’s What Young People Think feature on Page C-4, reflecting high regard for parental guidance.
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America
Diary of a bench brig: local gossip and daily notes
A compact jumble of page tags and sections lists columns and features across sections. It notes variety such as deaths, editorials, financials, and comics with page designations and author references typical of a midtown newspaper layout.
Rep Bowler Dies in Chicago at 82
Democratic Congressman James B Bowler of Illinois 7th district died in Chicago at age 82. He had suffered a heart attack years earlier and had not attended sessions of the current Congress, reducing Democratic House membership to 233 with 200 Republicans remaining.
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Chicago
VFI
James B. Bowler
Illinois
Congress
FBI Agent Fined for Refusal to Turn Over Records in Fraud Case
In Bowling Green Kentucky a federal judge fines FBI agent Marcus Wallace 1000 for refusing to hand over requested records amid a fraud case. Judge Swinford cited a Supreme Court ruling mandating disclosure or dismissal of the prosecution and urged Wallace to confer with superiors before Oct 13 sentencing. The scene unfolds as contractor E H Hall faces trial on false statements tied to Federal Housing Authority loans amid seven indicted contractors.
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Bowling Green
Mac Swinford
Swinford
Marcus Wallace
Supreme Court
Wallace
Washington
E. H. Hall
Federal Housing Authority
Hall
Four missing after 26 foot boat sinks off San Mateo coast
Four aboard Gail Wilkes motorboat sail from Moss Landing toward Half Moon Bay when the 26 foot craft capsized offshore. A body found on the eerah beach, presumed to be one of the four, as Coast Guard helicopters scour the area for the remaining missing two couples and a second wreck, the Pen Jay, located near Point Ano Nuevo.
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UPI
San Mateo
Coast Guard
Gail Wilkes
Pigeon Point
Point
Nuevo
Wilkes
Helsen
Moss Landing
D. J. Wymer
Santa Clara
Half Moon Bay
Jet Crash Ignites Three Homes on Forest Street
A jet fighter plane crashed on Forest Street in Worcester Massachusetts today, igniting three homes. No occupants were reported injured immediately but flames scorched lawns up to 50 feet from the wreckage as the aircraft burst into flames.
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Worcester
Mass
Forest
Boy Die After Baseball Hit To Chest Near Detroit
Eight year old Virgilo Madrigal died Wednesday night after a baseball struck his chest near his Detroit home. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Lincoln Hospital. His father Joel Madrigal, 42, told police. A medical examination was set to determine the cause of death.
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Virgilo Madrigal
Lincoln Hospital
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