Lakewood Wife Survives River Ordeal Pats for Missing Husband
Mrs. Lillian Rich of Lakewood endured a two day river ordeal in the Colorado River country of southeast Utah after a motorboat overturned Sunday morning. She credits survival to life jackets and prayed for her mate, Frank A. Rich, 65, who was last seen clinging to the boat as they drifted.
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Lillian Rich
Lakewood
Colorado
Utah
Deihert F. Rich
Rich
Cedar City
House OKs Budget for Space Unit
The House approved a bill granting NASA 480 million dollars for the next fiscal year beginning July 1, authorizing 70 million for Project Mercury. A separate appropriation bill is pending, with NASA planning short test flights in the coming year despite no orbit attempt for about 18 months.
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Washington
House
Civilian Space Agency
Senate
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Houses
Appropriations Committee
Hoffa denies nationwide Teamsters strike threat
James Hoffa told the Houston Chronicle that reports of a nationwide strike threat over restrictive labor laws were distortions. He insisted there was no plan to end all contracts on a single date, while Whitey Sawyer stood by an AP quote of Hoffa. Senator McClellan urged Congress to act, proposing anti trust rules apply to transportation unions.
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Houston
Teamsters
James
Hoffa
Houston Chronicle
Brownsville
Tex
Associated Pres
Whitey Sawyer
Sawyer
Brownsvills
Rio Grande Valley
Washington
John McClellan
D-Ark
Congress
McClellan
Senate
Four Die in Louisiana Public Safety Incident
In Lafayette Louisiana a Black man opened fire fatally injuring a White woman and two police officers before being killed. Coroner Henry Voorhies identified Albert Victor as the suspect who barricaded himself in a house and injured officers with a public safety item.
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LA Fayette
Leroy King
Harold Abadie
King
Abadie
Henry Voorhies
Lafayette Parish
Albert Victor
Voorhies
Victor
Paul Ducharme
Soviet Urged Wife Killing Case and German Unification Debate
In Geneva Mrs Beatrice Gurley, 41, freed after pleading guilty to attempted murder for paying a detective to kill her husband, who stands by her. Judge Willard warned Gurley about taking back a wife, while the husband said he sleeps fine with her. Separately, U S Secretary Herter urged Soviet entreaties to reconsider German unification as essential to European security, signaling Western flexibility on disarmament tied to unity. Gromyko opposes unification, with no leak to new inducements, and ongoing debate continues.
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Beatrice Gurley
Dave
Ben Willard
Gurley
Geneva
UPI
U. S
Christian A. Herter
Herter
Germany
Gromyko
Russia
Soviet Union
C130 Crashes into Barracks Killing Three in Japan
A U S air force C130 cargo plane crashed into barracks at Ashiya in southern Japan while attempting to land from Iwo Jima. Three men died and fourteen were injured, with two in serious condition. Names withheld pending next of kin notification.
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U. S
Air Force
Japan
Ashiya
Iwo Jima
Carl Leblan
Ctor
Victor’ Tc Haled
Seaplane Blast Kills Five Men in Martin Co Hangar
An explosion in a Martin Co hangar while workers cleaned a P5M2 Marlin seaplane hull with a solvent killed five men and left at least five injured. A Martin spokesman said about a dozen men were bathing the hull when the blast occurred and the cause was not yet determined.
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Baltimore
Martin Co
Martin
Ferry Sinks in Storm With 119 Saved
A ferryboat carrying 127 commuters across Guanabara Bay sank in a heavy rainstorm. Eight passengers were reported saved. Navy launches and private boats joined the rescue. The bay was filled with life preservers as survivors were rescued.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Guanabara Bay
Rose
Crosby Twins Grow Up Distinctly Says Hal Boyle
The note outlines that Bing Crosby’s twins Phillipy and Dennis have developed differently, part of a magazine listing of pages and sections including Beach Combing, Hal Boyle, and various feature pages. It hints at a multi-page feature about the family with varied topics and sections.
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Bing Crosby
Phillipy
Dennis
Hal Boyle
Dulles Awarded Medal as King Baudouin Dances With Debbie Reynolds
Hollywood report from Washington notes King Baudouin of Belgium at a party honoring John Foster Dulles. Eisenhower posthumously awards the Medal of Freedom, while Dulles battles cancer and pneumonia. Reynolds attracts the king's attention during MGM luncheon attendance. other stars present include Mamie Van Doren, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Kirk Douglas, June Allyson, and Elizabeth Taylor. The King plans to visit Disney and then fly to San Francisco.
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MGM Commissary
Mamie van Doren
Baudouin
Miss Reynolds
Eddie Fisher
Nevada
Elizabeth Taylor
Mervyn Leroy
Bel Air
Natalie Wood
Robert Wagner
Kirk Douglas
Dick Powell
June Allison
MGM
Dying Veteran Entreats Long Beach For Lost Love
William F. Van Horn, a veteran terminally ill, asks Long Beach Police to find Billie Barnes, a woman he met briefly during World War II. Van Horn recalls Rainbow Pier strolls, ash blonde hair and green eyes, and hopes to reunite before his supposed year or less remains. He believes Billie may have lived near the Ocean View Hotel and worked at a Pike concession.
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Cupid
Long Beach
Billie Barnes
William F. van Horn
Wadsworth
Kan
Rainbow Pier
van Horn
South Pacific
Hittie
William H. Dovey
Billie
al 2 Pike
Ocean View Hotel
Weather outlook with clearing skies tonight
A clear night followed by morning clouds on Thursday. Temperatures rise, little warmer Thursday afternoon with a maximum around 68 by noon today.
Dope Ring Bust Captures 2 Men in Major LA County Case
Narcotics officers arrested Jose Lopez and E S Frias Rodriguez after a raid yielded heroin valued at about one million dollars and two pounds of marijuana. Federal agents say the pair have ties to a Mexican ring moving five tons of marijuana into Southern California. Lopez, from Los Angeles, and Frias Rodriguez, from Mexicali, were booked on federal narcotics possession charges. A relative of Lopez runs a lab in Sinaloa, Mexico, producing highly pure heroin.
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Los Angeles
R. B. Brooks
Jose Lopez
E. S. Frias Rodriguez
West
Lopez and Rodriguez
California
Lopez
Frias Rodriguez
Mexicali
Mex
Sinaloa State
Mexico
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