White House Gets Gas Rate Measure
The Senate passed a bill giving the Federal Power Commission authority to regulate gas rates charged to industrial users. It allows gas suppliers to appeal and oppose rate increases in formal proceedings, while over 100 pupils were evacuated from a school as walls cracked. Electric, telephone, and water services were knocked out in Acapulco as a major quake affected parts of southern Mexico.
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Mexico State
Federal District
Mexico City
UPI
Berkeley
University of California Seismograph
Oaxaca State
Acapulco
Washington
Senate
White House
Federal Power Commission
FPC
Uy Ie
Walls
Ohio plant blast kills nine. 46 injured in Toledo
An explosion at the Maumee Chemical Co plant in Toledo left nine dead and 46 hurt. Authorities fear one more body may be inside the debris. The blast tore through a three story building near downtown, sending wreckage across five blocks. Multicolored smoke darkened the sky as chemicals burned and glass littered streets. A nearby building sagged from the blast impacting homes and structures.
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Toledo, Ohio
Maumee Chemical Co
Toledo
L A Police Pair Up in Race Peril
Los Angeles Police Chief William H Parker orders two man squads in four divisions and part of a fifth after escalating race incidents. Three officers were injured and a member of an anti-white Muslim faction killed in a gunfight on the south side April 28. A Watts beating followed a fight involving teens. The plan targets University Newton Wilshire and 77th stations and parts of the Central Division.
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Los Angeles
William H. Parker
South Side
Watts
Parker
Polite
University
Newton Street
77Th Street
Wilshire
Central Division
Portuguese Order to Expel Indians From Goa Within Three Months
Lisbon ordered the release of Indian subjects interned after the Goa takeover. The overseas ministry said Indians must leave Portuguese soil within three months, under agreements reached between intermediaries for the two governments.
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India
Lisbon
UPI
Portuguese Overseas Ministry
Goa
Fake Police Cars Scare Speeders in Placerville
Placerville lumberman Harvey W. West Sr. painted two old cars to resemble patrol vehicles and placed dummies and a life size picture along U S 50 to slow speeders. A patrol spokesman said no law appears to be broken and West claims it is working wonderfully.
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Placerville
Harvey W. West Sr
U.S. 50
West
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Mexico
Taajor
Richter
Chilpancingo
Puebla
Guerrero
U. S
Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey
Ohio
L.A
Jacobsen
C Aadiz
Fito
Downey's Lawn & Garden Equipment
Carson St
Long Beach
Downey Downey Mower & Law CO
Paramount Blvd
Huntington Beach
Towatt's Hardware
Mel St
Long Beach Star Equipment CO
Orange Ave
Dooley
Cherrywood
RCA Victor
RCA Victor TV
Dooley's
Long Beach Blvd
North Long Beach
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