Jersey Area Cleared In Propane Blast
A storage tank containing liquid propane exploded in Bayonne New Jersey injuring four people, with one in critical condition. Police evacuated a five block radius as flames reached high into the sky and nearby oil tanks. Firefighters gradually gained control by early morning while investigators tallied damaged drums and explained how the blast occurred.
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Bayonne
N.J
Sun Gas Products Corp
Constable Hook
New York Bay
Carrie Holbrook Dies at Home in West Frankfort
Carrie Mae Holbrook, 67, of 604 E Seventh Street West Frankfort, died at 3 am Wednesday from a cerebral hemorrhage. Franklin County Coroner Eugene Dorris ruled the death, the West Frankfort Fire Department emergency unit arriving too late. She belonged to Union Free Will Baptist Church. Survived by daughter Vernice Hertagna of West Frankfort, son Arthur of Detroit, Michigan, sisters Elsie Fleming, Gladys Keeling, Mildred Coyle, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Friends may call at Walk Funeral Home West Frankton. arrangements incomplete.
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Carrie Holbrook
Carrie Mae Holbrook
Sth
West Frankfort
Franklin County
Eugene Dorris
Vernice Hertagna
Arthur
Detroit, Mich
Elsie Fleming
Gladys ‘Keeling
Pana
Mildred Coyle
Chicago
Walk
West Frankton
Services Friday for Alex Vinson 90
Alex Vinson 90 died at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Wagoner's Home Johnston City born November 29 1870 in Thompsonville. He leaves niece Hazel Knollenberg Terre Haute Ind. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday Murman and Wilson Funeral Home with Rev Floyd Hale officiating. Friends may call after 6 p.m. today. Burial Lakeview Cemetery.
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Alex Vinson
Wagoner
Adams St
Johnston City
Thompsonville
Vinson
Hazel Knollenberg
Terre Haute
Ind
Murman and Wilson
Floyd Hale
First Methodist Church
Lakeview Cemetery
Bird proofing work starts along Inaugural Parade route
Workmen using a crane boom spray trees on Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC to deter starlings and other birds from roosting during the inaugural events. AP Wirephoto shows crews atop the lifting platform applying the spray to city trees.
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Washington, D.C
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ixon Press Secretary Returns to Paper
In New York police commissioner Kennedy plans to appeal a court ruling accusing him of disobeying an order against promoting policemen to higher duties without succession. A contempt citation was issued by Justice Arthur G Klein, who gave Kennedy 10 days to comply or face jail. Kennedy later said he would appeal and believed he had complied. In Washington, Herbert G Klein, Nixon’s press secretary, will return to editorial work at the San Diego Union, citing a preference to stay in newspapers and the Copley organization’s opportunities.
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H. V. Police
New York
Stephen P. Kennedy
State Supreme Court
Arthur G. Klein
Kennedy
Klein
Washington
Herbert G. Klein
Richard M. Nixon
San Diego Union
Lein
Rowing Copley Organization
Spencer Smothers Dies Rites Set Friday
Spencer Smothers 92 of West Frankfort died Tuesday in Eubanks Nursing Home Benton. He was a retired farmer. Survived by daughter Elsie Duncan of Kalamazoo Mich sons Neal and Earl of Kalamazoo Arthur of Manteno Jesse of Bell Gardens Calif 19 grandchildren 32 great grandchildren. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Friday at Walter Funeral Home. Rev. Eogar Purdy West Frankfort First Methodist Church officiating. Burial in Tower Heights Cemetery.
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Spencer Smothers
West
Frankfort
Eubanks
Benton
Smothers
Elsie Duncan
Kalamazoo
Mich
Neal
Earl
Arthur
Manteno
Jesse
Bell Garden
Calif
Walter Funeral Home
Eogar Purdy
West Frankfort First
Detroit Presbytery Backs Multi Church Merger Vote
The Detroit Presbytery with 110 United Presbyterian churches voted 216 to 4 in favor of merging Presbyterian Methodist United Church of Christ and Episcopal congregations. The merger was approved in an overture to the General Assembly meeting in Buffalo next May. Harbin Lawson is in his tenth season as basketball coach at the University of Georgia.
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Detroit
United Presbyterian Churches
Presbyterian
Methodist
United Church of Christ
Episcopal
General Assembly of
The
United Presbyterian Church
Buffalo
Harbin
Red
Lawson
University of Georgia
Drowns in Hawaii Riley while fishing near reefs
Harold Riley, 29, from Nanakuli, Oahu, drowned off a western Oahu reef when rough waves swept him from two companions who reached shore. Riley, formerly of rough waves, disappeared December 29 in Honolulu while checking fishing nets. He is survived by his widow and child.
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Riley
Honolulu
Harold Riley
Champaign
Oahu
Nanakuli
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Stanley Buchalski
Chester
N. Y
Bayonne Hospital
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Earl Lewis
Port Jervis
Harold McCarter
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IXON
Detroit Presbytery
Louie
Suppor
Egyptian Heights Heprin, Ill
Wesson
Birds Eye
Booth
Pevely
Jonathan
Gans
Mayrose Link Sausage
U.s.no
Sunkist
Hawaii
Telek of
Carbondale, Ill
Keen Vu
TIAN
Illinois
Carbondale
Carbondale National Bank
Smeeets
Tnnes Pas
Fred W. Wood
O. D
Cee N
Southern
Herrin
Murphysborq
Marion
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