Labor Day picnic tragedy and other brief items
Family picnic in Waterford Ohio ends with injuries after a neighbor's silo project mishap. Forest King, 6, required stitches. Rabin King, 7, and Brenda King, 25, also treated for wounds. Other notes cover Prince Philip and Ships Monthly, Genoa jewel thief Tarzan, a drowning rescue on Lake Erie, Soviet ambassador Mironova in Geneva, and a 70-year-old joining Peace Corps in India.
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Delbert King
Waterford
Ohio
Forest
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
W. Va
Britain
Prince Philip
Queen Elizabeth
National Maritime Museum
J. H. Marlin
London
Alvini
Costa
Hazen Harrison
Lake Erie
Monroe
Mich
Edward May
Harrison
William
U.N
Geneva
Soviet Union
Zoya V. Mironova
United Nations
Pits
Mironova
Foreign Ministry
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
New York
Peace Corp
Mabel Yewell
Peace Corps
India
Bombay
Poonan
Riot Hits Avalon Ship After Mass Brawl at Sea
At Avalon a ship melee led to ten youths arrested after passengers and crew fled spraying shaving cream and water. Coast Guard boats hauled others from the water as authorities filed charges including assault with intent to commit great bodily harm and rioting. Local officials noted about 1,700 aboard the vessel during the incident.
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Coast Guards
Avalon
Charles Stillwell
MGRS
Hesi
Rip
Coast Guard
Lennox
Jaslice
John J. Duzich
Wicliff Ave
Jid
S. Pacific Ave
Michael Turner
Bynner
John Burke
McRae
Ronald Aruno
Elenita
Gabriel Tabyanan
Ernest Castajheda
Fourth St
San Pedro
Craig
Stillwell
Radar Unit Destroyed by Typhoon in Ryukyu Islands
Typhoon Cora with winds near 190 mph destroyed one of two US air force radar stations on Yakojima. Wide damage to crops and houses reported with no deaths among 39,750 residents. The storm sank one boat and damaged 71 others as it moved toward the China mainland. Winds also hit Taipei up to 70 mph.
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Tokyo
Airborce
Ryukyu
Miyakojima
Cora
Okinawa
China
Formosa
Taipei
Holdup at L A Airport Nets Pair $24 000
At Los Angeles International Airport early today two men robbed weekend receipts for deposit. One wore a uniform and posed as a worker to gain entry while a second man helped lift suitcases containing about $24 000. Police described the ploy and said the uniformed man entered the office then produced a gun. The supervisor and two staffers were injured and hospitalized.
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Los Angeles
Twoj
Wen
Allo Fie
Unitors
Ad- Co. of America
Los An
Cigéles
New York
Eliahu Ben
Horin
Harold W. Allenjer
Dorothy Walday
Mount Sinai Hospital
Ferl
thelHe
Brice A-Brac Proves Explosive In Maryland Home
In Baltimore Mrs Mamie Wood’s dust gathering bric-a-brac included a 75 mm shell left by a former tenant. A telephone repairman found it on a couch during remodeling prompting police removal to an incading tent. Bomb experts from Edgewood Arsenal later claimed the 1.5 foot projectile. Mrs Wood remarked she believed it was a souvenir.
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Baltimore
Mamie Wood
Under Truck Frees Pinned-Down Mate In Colorado
In Commerce City Colorado Pauline Pettus watched as her husband James Pettus 43 was pinned beneath a lifted panel truck while repairing the clutch. The jack slipped trapping him but Mrs Pettus climbed out grabbed the bumper and levered the vehicle up freeing him. No injuries reported.
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Commerce City
Colo
Pauline Pettus
Pettus
Engine Fire Forces Pan American Flight Back to Sydney
A Pan American Boeing 707 carrying 71 passengers turned back to Sydney airport ten minutes after departure as one engine burst into flames. Passengers escaped via emergency chute. fire teams fought the blaze with foam. Capt. Clifford Liwily attempted to jettison fuel but couldn't. the three-engine landing avoided disaster.
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Sydney
Australia
Pan American World Airways
Fiji
Honolulu
Los Angeles
Clifford Liwily
Weston
Falling Rock Wrecks Baldy Cabin in Fire
Fire near Bear Canyon destroyed two cabins, one heavily. A 75 man crew, a helicopter and tankers fought the blaze. Valuations vary: $4,500 fuel damage. $10,000 cabin value to the owner. The blaze moved near a 173 foot Douglas fir, largest of its kind. Fire crews battled multiple Northern California blazes over the weekend.
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Baldy
California
Klamath National Forest
Siskiyou County
Lake Berryessa
Morgan
Hill
Mount Hamilton
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Washington
UPI
United States
Gulf of Yonikin
Chiha
State Department
U. S
Robert J. McCloskey
Peking
Gulf of Tonkin
McCloskey
Red China
Viet Nam
Peking Radin
L.A
Tennyson
Eyaret Sr
Pete
Sindy Hile
N.Y
Ran-Tichh Weir
Vantage Press
St Sk
Erlc Laudenslager
Angel
Imastfeak
Alfred
45Th
Adane
BOND
Lakewood Center
Lakewood Blvd
America
Anaheim
Greater
Srep Cliy
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