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Newspaper
Redlands Daily Facts
Location
Redlands, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1964
Page
1
In fog at Jajnice Station eight miles south of Belgrade a speeding train rammed into a standing crowded train. Police report at least 52 dead and about 120 injured with some in grave condition. Survivor likened scene to an earthquake. Engineer Milan Manojlovic said he saw the red light too late to stop.
HOLLYWOOD UP I reports actor Troy Donahue and actress Suzanne Pleshette to wed in a civil ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel tonight. Judge Edward Brand to perform the marriage with Greg Benedict as best man and Karla Most as maid of honor. The bride’s parents are Eugene and Mrs. Pleshette of New York.
San Bernardino Valley remains sunny today and Sunday with minor temperature changes. Gusty northeast winds rise over mountain ridges and canyons late tonight into Sunday, producing stronger gusts below canyons. Highs near 70, tonight's low around 32 to 35, with slightly warmer sections today and in southern deserts.
Harold T. Hamilton, a Rialto private investigator flying from Ontario to Fresno, ran out of fuel in dense fog near Fresno. Howard Winters of Fresno located Hamilton’s plane with radar and guided him to a safe landing at Madera Municipal Airport. Hamilton had about five or six gallons left when Winters found him.
Alabama state troopers sealed the Auburn University campus as Harold Alonzo Franklin, 31, prepared to register for graduate history and political science courses this afternoon. Troopers and highway patrols manned watch posts and entrances, with Gov. George Wallace directing the security. Franklin faced a guarded, tense scene yet the campus showed no overt unrest as students, many in raincoats, presented IDs on entry and exit.
New Hampshire Governor Nelson Rockefeller critiqued Barry Goldwater’s bid, challenging his solvency and security plans and his stance on the United Nations. Goldwater, entering the presidential race, outlined views on economy, civil rights, farm policy, Cuba, NATO, and the John Birch Society in a Phoenix news conference.
In Norwich England two teachers faced a confrontation after a school incident. Ivy Fyshe 37 restrained her upset reaction while Mary Balls 25 alleged Fyshe threatened to cut hair slit throat and remove giblets. Glynis Balls 15 involved in the dispute over hair combing.
Eddie Fisher said he would defend Elizabeth Taylor if 20th Century Fox seeks to withhold any of her profits from Cleopatra. Fox reportedly moves to attach Taylor’s multi million salary and a share of profits, due to delays and higher costs during Rome shoot.
Sen. Barry Goldwater left Phoenix for Washington to wage the Republican presidential nomination fight with Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. He ruled out televised debates with Rockefeller, calling such debates like a session with a New Frontier member, and noted he has debated Prest Johnson for a decade. Goldwater, in a heavy cast from foot surgery, said his job is to win delegates first, then discuss the campaign. He plans to campaign in New Hampshire, file for Illinois by January 27, and enter Oregon on May 15 and California on June 2.
West Berlin officials say negotiations to keep the Berlin wall open fail and the barrier will be sealed at midnight Sunday. The wall opened by East Berlin on December 18 allowed 1,318,519 passes over the Christmas holidays. No further passes will be issued. West Berlin spokesman Egon Bahr confirmed the failed talks between West and East Berlin.
Pope Paul VI entered Jerusalem walking the Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa, passing crowds, barbed wire barriers, and armed guards. He drew emotion as he prayed at each station and sought peace amid a city divided between Israel and Jordan, with Jordanian King Hussein welcoming the papal party in Amman.
Blonde actress Eva Gabor and husband Richard Brown were attacked in their North Bay Village apartment near the Racquet Club. Two masked bandits tied them, beat Eva with a pistol, demanded a $12 karat diamond ring worth about $25,000 and stole jewelry and cash before fleeing.
A vast joint task force including 70 Air Force Navy and Coast Guard aircraft and ships presses a wide search for nine men missing after a C124 Globemaster cargo plane went down Thursday over the Pacific. The operation covers about 414000 square miles and expands with planes from the Mainland Japan and Guam joining four Navy ships already on scene. A series of SOS signals and a mysterious flash of light rekindled efforts.
A Russian university professor Yuri Aseyef 35 an associate professor of Philosophy from University of Lenin grad an exchange student at Harvard suffered critical injuries in a three story plunge at 369 Harvard St Cambridge. Federal Bureau of Investigation State Department and police joined the probe after Aseyef applied for asylum Dec 29 and notified Dec 31. He died? No, he was treated at Cambridge City Hospital with spleen removal and scalp wound after being found in the Platts apartment.
President Johnson said he will trim next year’s budget to the irreducible minimum. He cited space money cuts of several hundred million dollars and possible overall 1965 spending below 100 billion, while preserving lunar goals for 1970 and pursuing new programs to fight poverty and boost Appalachia, retrain workers, and provide elderly medical care.
Labor Secretary Wirtz urged raising overtime to double pay to spur hiring in manufacturing. He told President Johnson that 919,000 new jobs could open if manufacturers hired more instead of paying overtime. He cited rising youth unemployment and a stay-in-school program proposal.
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and Polish Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka were said to be on a working vacation at a secluded hunting lodge near Olsztyn province, Radio Warsaw reported. The leaders arrived with top aides for a hunting holiday and no details on their schedule or talks were released.
United Press International reports freezing temperatures across north Florida with Cross City at 29 degrees while Chicago and Detroit see 37 and 37 respectively. The day brings showers from a cool front across the Mississippi Valley and light snow in central New Mexico, with New York and Washington warmer than Dallas.
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