Tornado devastates Tionesta area leaving seven dead
In Tionesta Pennsylvania a Friday night tornado felled homes and tractors, killed seven people and injured many, tearing a 30 mile path through the Allegheny National Forest. Residents, volunteers, and authorities worked through the night to reach the trapped, while power lines remained down and loot fears grew.
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Tionesta
Allegheny National Forest
Goreeaee
Jack Kennedy
Faery
Tucker
Morris Confer
Confer
Pennsylvania
May stock prices set record despite drop in farmers' prices
The Associated Press reports May farm product prices fell 1.5 percent to the lowest in over two years while stock prices climbed. The Dow Jones industrials rose 9.63 to 1315.41, a new intramonth high, on lower interest rates and a mixed factory orders report showing declines in April and revisions in prior months.
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Commerce Department
New York
Regency
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Pierre
Essex House
Who Is the Alleged Navy Spy John A Walker Jr
Richmond AP report questions John A Walker Jr a former Navy officer charged with spying for the Soviet Union. associates described him as a private detective with charm and as a patriot while secretly aiding a communist government. The story notes Walker involvement with the Ku Klux Klan and a pending lawsuit over a disguising sting during an injury claim investigation.
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Richmond, Va
John A. Walker Jr
Navy
Soviet Union
Ku Klux Klan
Anti-Defamation League
B’nai B'rith
Klan
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Agape Ge Les Friends
Walker
Philip Prince
Tandy Corp
Rockville
Virginia Beach
Virginia J
Invisible Empire
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League
Virginia-North Carolina
Irwin Suall
Virginia
John
John A. Walker
Jim Blair
Bus Crash Kills Six In North Carolina Spill
A fiery collision on U S 13 near Snow Hill, North Carolina, killed truck driver Carson Conger and five Greene County school children, injuring 20 others. Witnesses described mangled victims as firefighters worked to free survivors. Authorities investigated whether the tractor trailer crossed the center line before the crash.
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Snow Hill
N.C
T. C.W. Oakley
U.S. 13
Raleigh
Highway Patrol
Steve Taylor
Taylor
Carson Lee Conger
Norfolk
Greene County
Conger
W.D. Teem
Dennis McKinney
McKinney
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