Deadly fire at Hancock Oil refinery explodes in California
Flames and explosions ripped through the Hancock Oil Co refinery on Signal Hill. Two Hancock employees are dead and four others injured including three firefighters. Officials fear several workers may be missing as a 4,200 gallon tank of tetraethyl lead threatens a toxic release. Firefighters expect the blaze to burn out while evacuations are considered if the toxic cloud ruptures the tank.
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Hancock Oil Co
Signal Hill
Hancock
Perrernestead
Hames
Hancock Oil Stock Rises After Major Refinery Fire
Hancock Oil stock advanced to 46 25 a share despite a 15 million dollar fire at Hancock Oil Co refinery on Signal Hill. Officials said air tests found no poisonous particles at 10 am as seven APC cars monitored downwind. Firefighters focused on a large natural gas tank as a vast smoke plume forced an evacuation in Long Beach.
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Hancock Oil Co
Signal Hill
j _ Im
Air Pollution Control District
APC
Hancock
Lloyds of London
Iperijing
Long Beach
Argentine navy destroys mystery sub off southern coast
Argentine destroyers attacked an unidentified submarine off the southern coast during maneuvers near Bahia Cracker 800 miles south of Buenos Aires. Four depth charges were dropped as oil surfaced. search was called off after no further trace was found. The sub was tracked by radar near Puerto Madryn.
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Buenos “Aires
Arturo Fiordizi
Bahia Cracker
Atlantic
Buenos Aires
Frondizi
Puerto Adryn
British Reject Russ Protest on H Tests
Britain rejected a Soviet protest over resumed British nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific. The government sent a brief note to the Soviet embassy in London on May 12 clarifying its position, but the contents of the note were not made public.
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London
Britain
Pacific
Pflimlin Moves to End Revolt in Algeria Crisis
Paris Premier Pierre Pflimlin asked the National Assembly for urgent consideration of constitutional reforms to strengthen government against military civilian defiance in Algeria. The assembly backed its steering committee to receive reform proposals next Tuesday with a vote in principle then a second vote on the reform measure the following day.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Pierre Pflimlin
Algeria
Fire kills 12 Indian children at remote British Columbia hospital
In British Columbia a two story Indian mission hospital and school on the Anahim reserve burned after two explosions. Twelve sick Indian children died, ages from infants to nine years, as volunteers and nun Sister Mary of the Cross battled flames. One survivor, a 5 year old, was rescued by the nun who suffered severe burns. The fire destroyed the building within ten minutes and authorities suspect oxygen tanks may have blown up.
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Williams Lake
B. C
Mary ‘S
British Columbia
Here
Vancouver
Indian Affairs Department
Mary
Weather Outlook Sees Sunny Skies with Mild Weekend
Variable cloudiness but mostly sunny conditions prevail Saturday. Temperature holds with a high near 78 degrees and little change from today.
Boy Receives First Bite After Esophagus Repair
Four year old Ronnie Presley of Louisville Mississippi tasted solid food for the first time after a complex operation rebuilt his esophagus. Surgeons used a 14 inch section of his large intestine and left a guiding tube in place before he adjusts to eating. He is expected to go home soon.
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Memphis
Tenn
UPI
Ronnie Presley
S. A. Presley
Louisville
Miss
Ronnie
Classified and TV Radio Listings Note Page Map
A dense index line lists where to find features across sections including Beach Combing and Hal Boyle on page B sections, Bridge on B-9, Classifieds C-1 to C-10, Comics and Crossword on C-6, Editorial B-8, Financial B-3, Shipping Table B-12, Sports C-1 to C-3, Theaters B-16, Tides Temperatures B-1, TV Radio C-8, Vital Statistics C-1, Wilson 8-8, Women C-4, and Your World A-1
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Hal Boyle
Wilson
Women
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Twitor
Woodward H. Langford
Davenport Rd
Los Alamitos
James E. Edwards
Fullerton Rd
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Bellflower
Hancock Employe
Ernest Wagner
E. Harcott
Yamén Evarté
Olive Ave
Lakewood
Paramount
Harold Lindquist
Kelly
Municipal Airport
Spring St
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Junipero Ave
Edwards
Langford
Don Webster
Blaze
Hancock Oil
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Venezuela
Steff
Cruck Bundquist
Pflimlin
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