Powers Dies in Helicopter Crash After Firefighting Work
Gary Francis Powers, famed U2 pilot turned flying broadcaster, dies in a helicopter crash while covering brush fires in Southern California. Colleagues remember him as gentle and highly skilled, though he harbored bitterness toward the CIA over his prison years.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Gary Francis Powers
CIA
Air Force
Powers
Joann Larson
KGIL
Russia
Neece
Pentagon
Moscow
Rudolf Abel
Board of
Senate Armed Services Committee
John A. McCone
Len Leverett Saltonstall
R-Mass
Claudia
Francis
Gary Jr
California
Lockheed
Bell
KNBC
Irwin Safchik
Redwood Park Expansion Bills Faces Opposition In House
The House Interior committee backed a 48 000 acre Redwood National Park expansion with 359 million for buyout and a 40 million job aid package to assist timber workers facing layoffs The plan aims to curb erosion from logging near Redwood Creek and protect The Worm grove and the world’s tallest redwood while opponents caution about cost and a land grab.
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Washington
UPI
House Interior Committee
Redwood National Park
Phillip Burton
Redwood Creek
Orick
Calif
Humboldt County
Ako
Alo
Burton
Don Clausen
Clausen
Deadly explosion at Air Products plant in Delaware City
Four workers died when a nitrous oxide blast shattered a small Air Products and Chemical unit in Delaware City. Fire crews contained chemical leaks for hours as two gas tanks and two rail cars leaked. Investigators determined the cause is under study with about 50 people present at the plant.
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Delaware City
Del
UPI
Air Products and Chemical Corp. of
Allentown
New Castle County
Joseph E.graham
Newark
Wiliam Harmon
Mark Frazier
Stewart Stabley
Fred Calhoun
Storms Lashing East Coast Trigger Power Outages
Thunderstorms drenched the Eastern Seaboard with heavy rain and caused widespread outages in New Jersey and New York. In Trenton more than four inches fell, flooding roads and sparking a school fire, while 30,000 homes lost power. Several utilities reported outages across the region as storms moved north and south.
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United Press International
Seaboard
New Jersey
New York
National Weather Service
Trenton
U.S. 1
Kinamminson
N.J
Quaker Friends School
Chinaminson
Public Service Electric & Gas Co
Jersey Central Power & Light Co
New York City
Consolidated Edison
Staten Island
Bronx
Westchester County
Atlantic Coast
Gulf Coast
Columbia
S.C
Hooks Tapped as NAACP President Faces Media Critique
United Press International reports Benjamin Hooks takes the helm of the NAACP in Los Angeles and criticizes white news executives over coverage of the black movement. He warns the media may be triggering a self fulfilling prophecy while addressing past support for Martin Luther King. In Miami Beach Somoza’s heart attack recovery isStable though still early to gauge surgery needs. Senator Hayakawa named grand marshal for Little Tokyo Nisei week. Bellevue sees Gen Richard Ellis named ninth SAC commander in chief.
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United Press International
Hooks
Los
Angeles
UPI
Benjamin ‘ Hooks
National Association For the Advancement of” Colored People
Martin Luther King
NAACP
Omoza
Miami Beach
Fla
Anastasio Somoza
Miami
Los Angeles
S.I. Hayakawa
Little Tokyo
Firefighters battle California blaze near Mt Diablo
A lightning sparked fire near Mt Diablo 30 miles northeast of San Francisco burned about 3000 acres of brushland forcing evacuations of 10 to 15 homes. Deputies said several structures may have been destroyed and a high school shelter was opened in Clayton for evacuees.
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San Francisco
UPS
Mt. Diablo
Pat Upton
California Department of Forestry
Contra Coasta County
Clayton
Upton
Mitchell Canyon
California
Slowest Typewriter Claims 5850 Chinese Characters
A Chinese typewriter with 5850 characters claims a maximum speed of 11 words per minute, making it the slowest typing machine described.
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Strategic Air Command
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