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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1957
Page
8
A high school chemistry teacher was killed and seven students injured when a rocket device made from a pipe exploded during a science class in Floydada Texas. Local authorities said the explosion occurred during a class experiment and involved a homemade rocket.
Obituaries list Albert G. Knott Hugh W. Taylor Garland Foster James Martin Lt Graves and other locals with services and interments at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery and area chapels. An El Paso area rocket incident injured Dennis Whitfill and several students as the Los Alamos linked lesson ended in explosion.
A clash over insult and offense led to a local court dispute as Olivares was fined for alleged wrongdoing after a row involving relatives at a community event. The report also notes deaths from Hollywood to Wisconsin including former officials and notable figures.
The fragment lists names and terms such as Wederink, Bestings, Feather, Goodring, Fukrken, and several scattered references to visas and places. The legible items suggest a public notices tally of licenses or registrations, but most proper nouns are garbled.
Kathmandu Nepal December 5 Nepal government approves two American expeditions to search for the abominable snowman in the Himalayas. Christopher Sergel will lead a expedition from September 1958 to June 1959. Tom Slick of San Antonio also gets permission to lead a second expedition starting January 10.
Ramiro Salinas 28 of 3426 W Gerald drove on the wrong side of the road in the 1500 block of Som and collided with Alex Arredondo’s car in the evening. A patrolman testified Salinas said he must have dozed off and found him conscious later at a hospital. Salinas was fined 25 by Corporation Court Judge Harold Hall after stating he had two jobs.
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