IC Train Hits Freight At Elkville In Snowstorm
A southbound IC passenger train collided with the caboose of a Centralia Cairo freight at Elkville during a snowstorm at 6 50 a m derailing two diesels and four freight cars. The engineer and one passenger were injured and 16 officials ordered derrick trains from Centralia and Carbondale to clear wreckage. Passengers were moved to Carbondale.
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New Orleans
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J. Kelly Creed
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Janesville
Wis
J. E. Jefferson
Anna
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Jefferson
Cairo
Glenn Perkins
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Perking
Navy Bandsmen Die In Rio Plane Crash
An air collision near Guanabara Bay Rio de Janeiro killed at least 40 people, including 28 Navy band members and crew aboard a C-34 type plane en route to a dinner for President Eisenhower in Brazil. The band had arrived in Brazil on Feb 16 and joined a goodwill tour.
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Argentina
Rampage Sharpshooter Raymond Slain After Fatal Shooting Spree
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on February 25 Daniel Raymond a 42 year old mountaineer armed with two rifles went on a nine hour rampage from his second story home firing at moving vehicles killing four and wounding five before dying in a firefight with state police aided by an Army tank. Victims included Mary Frances Sissler 1 and Frita Maes 53 of Ohiopyle Willian Burd 46 of Farmington and May Maust 52 of Farmington. Wounded were Harry Cromwell 32 Lawrence Swenglish 18 Carls Mayet 22 and Maust’s two children Mary 3 and Eddie 18 months. Raymond had fired from his home and set it afire earlier with his wife and three children evacuated to safety amid the chaos. The rampage ended when authorities forced him to flee and he was killed by battlefield fire.
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Uniontown
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Chalkhill
Raymond
Pennsylvania
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Fitna Maes
Ohiopyle
Willian Burd
Highway Department
Farmington
May Maust
Harry Cromwell
Lawrence Swenglish
Landonville
Carls Mayet
Mary
Eddie
Burd
Robert Richey
Richey
George Smalley
Joseph Pickens
Swenglish
Pittsburgh
Cromwell
Maes
Sissler
Living Costs Drop for Second Straight Month
The Labor Department reports the consumer price index fell one tenth of a percent in January to 125.4, the lowest since September yet 1.3 percent above a year earlier. The change affects wage adjustments under union contracts, with about 60,000 workers in aircraft and farm machinery facing one cent an hour cuts, around 14,000 trucking workers getting a one percent raise, and no changes for about one million in auto sectors.
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Labor Department
Eisenhower praises Brazil aid as rain-drenched welcome greets him
President Eisenhower, amid heavy rain in Sao Paulo, thanked Brazil for its partnership and pledged continued U.S. support for Brazil's economic development at a luncheon. In the same dispatch, Southern Illinois faces heavy snow warnings as a winter system moves through. The Labor Department reports spendable earnings near a January high, with average weekly net pay for a four-person family at 92.33 dollars, up about 4 percent from a year earlier.
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Eisenhower
Illinois
United
Labor Department
Therinker
Chattanooga Riots Prompt Firemen Deployment and Water Use
Chattanooga police shift to 12 hour duty, aided by civil defense and firemen carrying hoses to disperse crowds after two days of mass demonstrations. Forty arrests reported, with pistols seized. violence subsided as water spray cooled tempers and police patrolled a three block downtown area.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
A. PB. Dunlap
Downey Owes 83000 in Back Taxes, Sun-Times Says
Former Stratton aide William W. Downey faces federal tax collection of 83000 as investigators review his finances. Downey resigned Jan 1 to run a Springfield public relations firm, after serving Stratton since 1951-53 and coordinating with legislators. The Springfield grand jury was reconvened today but no subjects disclosed.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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