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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1955
Page
5
Snow swept New South Wales and Victoria in Australia for the worst blizzard this year. The southern Alps saw huge drifts as winds abated in mountains but persisted in lower areas. A 0 mile rescue party freed a motorist trapped in a show bound car after a severe orderl collapse.
The bulletin warned Connie would bring the Carolinas their most critical period in the next 12 to 24 hours. The U S Weather Bureau said dangerous winds could brush the central seaboard with gales and a slight westward shift could bring it over the Carolinas. Small craft were told to seek shelter from Jacksonville to Block Island. Navy ships deployed offshore as the center lay about 475 miles east of St Augustine Florida. Weather updates predicted sustained winds near 135 mph with dangerous seas and high tides along the coast.
The government reported a record high civilian employment of 64,995,000 in July, up 979,000 from June and 2,847,000 above July 1954, signaling a continuing five month rise.
Reno report states Gypsy Rose Lee, 41, obtained a divorce from Spanish artist Yulio de Diego, her third husband, on grounds of cruelty and a separation of more than three years. The couple married March 19, 1948.
A large search party failed to locate 11 year old Colleen Patton of Clifton Hills Missouri after overnight searches on Mt Evans near Georgetown Colorado. The expedition focused below the timberline about 3000 feet from the summit as authorities described the rugged terrain as the wildest imaginable full of timber brush bogs creeks and up and down rocks. Colleen disappeared around 9 20 am yesterday while with relatives who ventured into the forest to take pictures. Mt Evans lies 65 miles west of Denver.
Former baseball commissioner and ex U S senator Chandler captured the Kentucky Democratic gubernatorial nomination after a stormy primary. He urged party unity for the November election while facing Republican Edwin H Denney and other candidates. Waterfield won the lieutenant governor nomination for the Democrats.
Polk County Auditor Harold Anderson reports a Des Moines taxpayer sent in a $10 gold certificate that has been out of circulation for 22 years. The unusual act showcases a quirky filing in the barrel tax context.
Grace Hartman Abbott aged 48, once part of the Hartmans duo and wife of Norman Abbott, television director, died yesterday. Fielding Bill Chandler, 51, GE appliance park advertising executive, born in Bayonne, N.J., died Sunday in Louisville. Harry W. Like fet, 63, former president of the American Pigeon Racing Union in the United States and Canada, died yesterday in Pittsburgh.
Rockville Connecticut patrolman Edwin Carleton spotted a reported stolen vehicle and recovered it quickly. The car belonged to his father, according to local dispatch.
Mrs Zenith Tucker of Detroit testifies that Gallagher treats the trial as a joke while another witness Special ist 2 C Edward F Smith, 24, of Fresno, describes Gallagher ordering prisoners to shut up and to get out. Smith recalls Gallagher grabbing a man by the neck and throwing him out in near zero cold near the Yalu River. Baxter is named as one prisoner. the other remains unnamed. Weather at the site is described as severe cold with a frozen river.
In Fort Worth Texas a fisherman damaged a dam and released about 26,000 largemouth bass into the west fork of the Trinity River and a nearby government hatchery pond, ensuring many future catches.
Massachusetts polio cases rose to 848 with 92 new cases reported Monday the largest daily total of the outbreak. Health officials forecast the season could reach at least 1,000 as the disease continued to spread.
A cow was found swimming in the Gatun Lock chamber blocking canal traffic. Officials towed the animal from the lock and sent it on its way by land, delaying vessels briefly in Panama City zone.
Robert T. Miner resigned as chairman of the Seymour school board to become a teacher. The board accepted his request and filled the vacancy.
Radio remarks in New York show Harriman gaining Democratic support as he endorses Stevenson and questions Eisenhower’s durability in a campaign. Governors Ribicoff Knight Stratton note Harriman as a strong intra party challenger while Stevenson remains the favored nominee among Delaware and New Mexico figures.
Mt Etna in Sicily shows fading activity after weeks of smoke and lava from a northeast crater. lava flow has slowed and halted well above nearby villages, marking a notable decline in the eruption's vigor.
Police and deputies chased a gray blue car with driver John Grooms of Cincinnati Ohio. Skaneateles and Navarino roadblocks failed to halt the vehicle as tire tracks led north into Ashby Road. Grooms said he slept through the screech and police continued the search at press time.
Police with a Rochester State Hospital fugitive said he shot and killed his wife Lena Henderson, 27, then led officers to a nearby apartment where her body lay on the bedroom floor in a housecoat. The woman suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
New York State Racing Commissioner George P. Monaghan sought clarification of a Supreme Court justice's opinion that a public school teacher should be licensed to work at a trotting track. Justice Jacob Markowitz said a 1954 law was misinterpreted but did not rule on its constitutionality in the Murtha case at Roosevelt Raceway.
Seven year old Robert Fike of Trafford Pennsylvania drowned Monday night in Chippewa Creek after his father Ross Pike, a non-swimmer, jumped in to save him. Jack Herbold rescued the father as he began to sink near the raft tied to a dock. The boy reportedly fell from the raft into about 30 feet of water.
Dr. Charles S. Schroeder, director, says San Diego Zoo has added a resilient rubber floor atop cement in the gorilla cage to prevent foot pain from the hard surface. The change aims to improve the animals health and comfort.
William Conn of Madison Indiana paints departing generals portraits at the Ft. Knox armored center and presents them as going-away gifts. The practice has become a local tradition in Louisville.
Ann V. Adams of Jacksonville Florida files suit against Kenneth V. Adams seeking seventy dollars weekly alimony and custody of their minor child without divorce. She alleges cruelty and claims he intoxicated himself while helping her into an iron lung, causing a fall and brain concussion, and that he burned her religious books.
New York reports light turnout for second antipolio shot among 171,500 eligible first and second graders. Only 565 children were inoculated yesterday at 24 health centers as inoculations continue through Friday. Health officials cite parental delays for fall, and families traveling on summer vacations.
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