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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1957
Page
5
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State Department eased its travel ban allowing close relatives to visit six Americans imprisoned in China. Mothers of Richard Fecteau, John Downey, Hugh Redmond Jr., and others plan to apply for entry to Shanghai to see their sons, seeking long awaited reunions amid espionage and life sentences. The six include Robert McCann, Joseph MacCormack, and John Wagner, all held since the early 1950s with sentences ranging from five to fifteen years.
In Charlottesville a police car led a smoking garbage truck to the city dump to dispose of smoldering ashes. A fire engine followed to extinguish the blaze after the cargo was dumped, creating a dramatic downtown procession.
Advert says Udga Tablets quickly ease excess stomach acid and ulcer pains with a protective coating. Claims include rapid relief, safer eating, and a money back guarantee after 252 million sold since 1928.
Two gunmen bound and gagged jewel merchant Paul Kampf outside his lower Manhattan office and escaped with diamonds worth $20,000. Kampf, 35, suffered a head injury but recovered. the gems were insured.
British troops rush into Belize, British Honduras, to bolster garrison amid charges that George Price and other PUP members discussed uniting with Guatemala. Gov Thornley dismissed Price from the council executive. Price had recently led a delegation to London to seek aid and constitutional talks.
A 16 year old De Witt Clinton High School student, Robert Gelman, admitted stabbing eight year old Diana Pennella in her Bronx apartment. He gave no motive and was charged with homicide after a brutal 23 stab wounds. The victim was a Holy Spirit parochial school third grader. detectives worked the case with 40 officers.
A B-47 Stratojet clipped its wing tip during takeoff at Barksdale Air Force Base, slid into a muddy field and burned. All four crewmen were killed: Capt. John F. Dent Jr. of Clinton Maryland pilot, Capt. Jack W. Duncan of Toledo Ohio observer, 1st Lt. Carlton A. Boutelle 37 of the base, and Capt. Jack E. Tarquhar of Yoakum Texas commander who radioed aborting the flight. The wing broke loose and witnesses report the wing contact with the runway as the plane gained speed.
Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi of Japan shows marked improvement after a stomach and intestinal illness that followed a state dinner with President Carlos P. Garcia. The 61 year old leader plans lengthy talks with Garcia on World War II reparations trade and travel curbs before returning to Tokyo tonight.
The piece warns of pickpocket activity from New York to Los Angeles during holidays. It notes methods using crowds on buses subways trains and in churches, with examples from New York Pittsburgh and Chicago and tips for women and men to guard wallets purses and packages.
A 73 year old night caretaker Clayton Allen dorph died in a blaze that heavily damaged the Troy Masonic Temple in Troy. Fellow night watcher John Short 71 and Max Schlamiak 64 escaped or were rescued as firefighters battled the flames on Third Street. The body of dorph was found near the second floor stairs after alarms sounded and all off duty firefighters were summoned.
A Stevenson spokesman labeled a London News-Chronicle dispatch a hoax. William Blair said neither Stevenson nor any staff member wrote or authorized the piece which attacked the Eisenhower administration and criticized NATO summit plans in Paris.
In San Jose California Ross Castangalo 26 found Robert Baer 39 in a parked car with exhaust fumes. He disconnected the hose and called police Baer recovered Castangalo later confessed to taking 130 dollars from Baer's wallet and was jailed but freed after returning the money by order of the district attorney.
State police search Central Adirondacks for two Seawolf sailors John Munson 28 of Ledyard Connecticut and Robert Griffith 26 of Harvey Illinois missing since November after leaving New London in a car towing a boat with South Carolina plates. New York troopers aided as reports of a possible sighting near Blue Mountain Lake were unconfirmed.
A chimpanzee named Buttons will hand out gifts to 40 monkeys at the Denver Zoo Christmas party on December 22. Mrs. Billie Shannon of Idaho Springs funds the event now in its 201st year, with a decorated tree for a needy child if possible.
United Nations General Assembly debates on Algeria end in a 37 37 deadlock with six abstentions after a watered down resolution for private talks fails. The original Asian African resolution urged self determination and direct negotiations between France and Algerian nationalists, but amendments removed that clause.
Judge James Cassidy ordered David Hicks Jr. to pay Frank J. Martin $69.83 for damages to Martins car. Martin protested suggesting ten dollars would suffice, then handed the amount to the Fraternal Order of Police, calling it Christmas spirit.
Take notice that a 1957 Ford sold to Wilbert A Singleton under a conditional sales contract dated August 26 1957 will be sold at public auction December 17 1957 at 10 A M at 1601 West Genesee Street Syracuse New York Dated December 7 1957
In New York City 1600 garbage collectors walk out affecting about 130 000 establishments across five boroughs and parts of Westchester and Nassau counties with 1600 workers from Teamsters Local 8135 striking private firms. Bernard Adelstein union president led the action after failed contract talks extending expired terms.
In Rochester a 65 year old crippled man named Henry Greene died in a blaze that swept part of a two story frame building. Firefighters found his body at a window he had struggled to open. Four other people were carried from the building and several escaped on their own.
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