RAF and ships suffer major wartime disaster
A British air force four engine transport crashed off Italy killing 52 aboard including 46 Italian paratroopers and six British crew. Simultaneously a French freighter, the Maori, reportedly broke up in the Atlantic with 99 crew. A French rescue team dropped rafts while search planes and ships combed the Ligurian Sea for survivors. The Maori disaster followed a large nickel ship distress off La Rochelle and a burning British tanker Heythrop with 56 crew and five wives rescued by the Showa Ventura.
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Italy
Atlantic
South Africa
London
Sal
Ligurian
Meloria
Res- Rede
New Caledonia
France
la Rochelle
Heythrop
Jac ‘Pan
Durban
Alec Matthews
Steam Navigation «Co
Tad
Ex officer sentenced for assault in Long Beach case
Former Los Angeles Harbor Division officer Richard Terrence Brown pleaded guilty to felonious assault on a woman in the Central District of Long Beach and was sentenced to six months in county jail with a recommendation for an honor farm. He resigned after arrest and had a prior Army and police service record. A separate note said actress Sandy Duncan is recovering after surgery to remove a benign tumor behind her left eye.
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Los Angeles Harbor Division
Long Beach
Richard Terrence Brown
Ind
Superior Court
Roy J. Brown
Brown
Police
Everett E. Ricks Jr
Chula Vista
Atlantic Ave
Los Angeles 1
Sandy Duncan
KPOT goes off air as FCC shuts teen radio
KPOT a youth oriented FM station with a two bedroom HQ and a closet announcer booth was shut down by the FCC four days after going on air. Manager Brad Sobel 19 says the move shocked them as officers cited monitored broadcasts. The station aired classical and rock music with an eight hour day in a ten mile range using Army surplus gear. Sobel denies drug promotion and says the call letters were a playful lure for students.
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Los Angeles
UPI
KPOT
Federal Communications Commission
Brad Sobel
FCC
Sabel
Sohel
Caddy Rushlow Tops Peace Corps Donors with Generous Giving
Kenneth P. Rushlow a Newport Vermont native and golf caddy became the Peace Corps most prominent donor after sending his disability pension and personal funds to the schools partnership program. Since 1966 he has helped build 67 schools in 40 countries contributing nearly 4000 dollars. Rushlow notes education can cure many ills and says he hopes the money helps children access schooling.
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Washington WW
Peace Corps
Kenneth P. Rushlow
Newport
Navy
Rushlow
New York
Florida
U.S
Latin America
Asia
Africa
Peace Corps Beniguer Fers
Grossinger
Catskills
Palm Beach Country Club
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Hubert Humphrey
Edmund Muskie
San Francisco
Richard Nixon
Rusblow
Rustaw
Kenneth P. Ruselow
Benjamin Franklins
California
California Federal
California Federal Savings Association
Federal
Lakewood
Carson St
Benjemts
Spee
Lena Ican
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