Spectacular Storm Hits Long Beach Area Across South Bay
A severe storm swept the Long Beach region with lightning strikes, power outages, and flooding. Reports cited damage to a Torrance power pole, a Del Amo area electrical failure, transformer fires in Lynwood, and outages across Lomita Redondo Beach and Palos Verdes. Rainfall measurements varied from Bellflower to Huntington Beach, with notable totals around Torrance and San Pedro.
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Long Beach
Calle Mayor
Torrance
Pacific Electric
del Amo Boulevard
Agnes Street
Lynwood
Carbon Canyon
Grange County
Dominguez Channel
el Segundo Ad Crenstan
Gardena
Southern California Edison Go
South Bay Area
Lomita
South Redondo Beach
Bluff Cove
Palos Verdes
Scroll Avenue
Lakewood
West Long Beach
Pacific
Coast Highway
Jomita- Harbor City
Atta
Compton
Eastgate
Garden Grove
South Fullerton
Yorba Linda
Los Alamitos
Bellflower
Paramount
Downey
San Pedro
Redondo Beach
Anaheim
Costa Mesa
Huntington Beach
Newport Beach
Orange
San Clemente
Santiago Dam
Tustin
Painters Vote on Pact After 95 Cent Hike
More than 5,000 Southland painters will vote on a tentative contract agreement reached with major contractors. Chief negotiator Jack Cox said the package includes a 95 cent per hour raise in wages and fringe benefits, lifting pay from 4.21 per hour. Voting areas include Orange and Riverside counties and parts of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Imperial, and San Diego.
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Lhan
Southland
Jack Cox
District Council
Orange
San Bernardino
Riverside
Imperial
San Diego
Los Angeles
Cox
Right to Brag This Guy's a Real Auto Salesman
Arthur Richards sold a Ford truck to George Peacock keeper of Bishop Rock Lighthouse. He ferried the vehicle seven miles by water to the lighthouse and boasted that selling refrigerators to Eskimos is easy compared with this feat.
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ST. Austen
Ngland
UPI
Arthur
Chirpy) Richards
George Peacock
Bishop Rock
Richards
Beloit executive among six foreigners dead in airliner blast
Beloit International Corp. announces Beloit Division sales manager Emerson Glauner Jr. of Rockton and salesman Raymond A Mayer of Zurich were killed in the airline explosion and crash. Swissair offered no cause and delayed a complete passenger list under new international rules.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Mayer
Swissair
Ecuador Bus Crash Toll Reaches 36 Dead
Final report cites 36 dead and eight injured from the Guayllabamba interurban bus wreck near Quito. Swiss nationals comprised the crew and 68 passengers, including 44 from Humlikon, flying to Geneva to form a farming cooperative. The crash occurred at 7 20 am after the vehicle sped through mist with a loud bang.
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Humlikon
Geneva
Lrip
Jureu
Bettwil
Duervenaesch
Quito
Feuador
UPL
Guayllabambs
Prehistoric Bones Found After Plane Crash in Italy
In Arezzo area villagers reported an explosion during highway work. They found bones of a prehistoric elephant and saw a blazing plane crash nearby. Rescue workers recovered bodies over several hundred feet as fire damaged farms and the village power line. One farmer, Heinrich Lienhard, escaped harm while having breakfast. The incident follows two earlier fatal crashes of the same French built plane in 1960.
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Arezzo
Italy
UPL
Ets
Georgia Prison Riot Triggers Population Cut Plan
Georgia moves to shrink the state maximum security prison after a riot injuring about 200 inmates and causing substantial damage. Prison Director Fred Hallford and Warden Balkcom say rioting underscored the need for additional facilities as guards restored order with tear gas and troopers.
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Reidsville
Georgia
Fred Hallford
Hallford
Vnjul
Ballcom
Washington
UPI
Llong
Navy
Atlanta
Carl Gand
Segregal Prison
Bathyscaph
Pre-1
Fort Snelling
Boston
Cape Cod
Mass
Trisesie
Thresher
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Rociaten
Duerrenaeschi
Ecuador
Ankara
Turkey
Rabal
Morocco
Hullford
R. P.lare
Paikcom
Dupont
America
West Covina
Erely Hall
Hermah
RCA Victor
Golor
Interstate Radio and T.V. CO. “Sales & Service
Broadway
L.B
Mat
Qond's
Lakewood Blvd
Anaheim Shopping Center
Greater
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