Rockefeller’s seven part road safety program proposed
Gov. Rockefeller proposed a seven part highway safety plan citing 2,869 traffic deaths last year. The measures include driver safety training for violators, vision exams at license renewal, automatic suspensions for speeding, persistent violators adjustments, cross state convictions, a $15 penalty for not surrendering licenses, and a 10 percent downpayment on new auto liability policies.
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William 8. Stevens
Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
Motor Vehicle Department
New England
New York
German Hall Group installation and plans announced
Heinz Kullmann was installed as president of the German Hall Association at Germania Hall. Officers sealed include Andy Maier as first vice president Richard Heilmann as second vice president Mrs Helen Bischofberger treasurer Frank E Popp recording secretary Bruno Anderson financial secretary and Karl Haeussel membership secretary. More than 200 members attended the dinner. New committee heads include Joseph Haag bar Mrs Rose Gloetz kitchen Adolf Anderson house Helmut Reics entertainment Herman Beitmann publicity and Henry Stell sick and visiting. The group plans a Bock Beer Fest on March 4 and a St Patrick’s party on March 18. Membership has topped 700.
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Heinz Kullmann
German Hall Association
Germania Hall
Andy Maier
Richard Heilmann
Helen Bischofberger
Frank E. Popp
Bruno Anderson
Karl Haeussel
Kullman
Joseph Haag
Rose Gloetz
Adolf Anderson
Helmut Reics
Herman Beitmann
Henry Stell
Kullmann
Policemen Save 20 Families From Gas Fumes
In Brooklyn East New York a coal gas leak from a defective boiler flue filled a four story tenement. Four policemen led residents to safety after midnight, waking 20 families and opening windows. Fifteen residents suffered gas poisoning.
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New York
Brooklyn
Set
Marlin Aldinger
Lawrence Budion
Aldinger
Budion
Stephen Jordan
John Mazzucco
De Gaulle urges Gaullists to win upcoming elections
Paris AP says President Charles de Gaulle opened a partisan campaign urging victory in the March 5 and 12 French National Assembly elections. He attacked opposition groups as risking French independence to the Soviet Union or the United States, warning of “disastrous ruin” if defeated and praising his regime in power since June 1958.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet Union
United States
de Gaulle
France
Medicare Patients In Hospitals Longer
A New York AP report notes six Brooklyn and Queens hospitals found Medicare patients stayed about twice as long in the first half of Medicare, averaging 12 days up from six. Administrators attribute longer stays to limited nursing home capacity and ample hospital care at little or no cost.
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New York
Brooklyn
Queens
Catholic Medical Center
Little Rock Negro Head Of Teachers
William Harry Fowler, 44, named to hire and assign teachers and staff in Little Rock School District. He notes decades of desegregation progress since 1957, aims to comply with court orders to speed staff desegregation, and seeks to place people by merit regardless of race. Fowler pledges to hire the best available personnel.
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Little Rock
Ark
Lille Rock
William Harry Fowler
South
Fowler
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas National Guard
Central High School
Eisenhower
Se Schug
New Senator Rodriguez Indicted On Conspiracy Plot
New York Democratic State Senator Eugene Rodriguez, already convicted in a $100,000 shakedown case, was indicted on charges of plotting to murder the state's star witness. The indictment cites a scheme with two henchmen to silence ex-convict Louis Taylor, who testified last December about the extortion demand. Rodriguez, 37, faces a possible 120 year sentence if convicted. Arraignment set for Feb. 17. he remains jailed without bail.
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New York
Eugene Rodriguez
State Supreme Court
Rodriguez
Louis
Fess
Taylor
Wwowu
Vodriguez
Maganot
Senate
Hijacker Discovers Gun Wasn't Loaded
An Egyptian hijacker who forced an airliner to land in Aqaba Jordan found his pistol unloaded. The incident halted the flight to Hurghada with 41 aboard and the plane, passengers, and crew later returned to Cairo without the hijacker Riyad Kamal Jajjar.
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Amman
Jordan
Aqaba
Cairo
Riyad Kamal Jajjar
Hurghada
Red Sea
Snowstorm Sweeps Across Deep South Causes Deaths
A deep south snowstorm moved through Alabama Florida Georgia and South Carolina causing at least eight deaths and widespread disruptions. Birmingham and Mobile saw snowfall with schools closed in Edgeville County South Carolina and two inches in central Georgia as frigid air lingered. Weather officials warned of hazardous driving and no further heavy accumulation expected while temperatures remained in the 30s to 40s statewide.
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ASSO
Deep South
Birmingham
Ala
Mobile
Florida Panhandle
Edgeville County
S.C
Georgia
Weather’ Bureau
South
Alabama
Florida
Miamis
Everglades
Magazine Postal Rates May Be Hiked
Washington reports the government weighs a plan to raise mailing rates for 40 mass circulation magazines to boost revenues by five and a half million dollars. A surcharge of three tenths of a cent per copy would apply to issues over 500 000 in circulation, affecting titles such as Look Time Life Reader's Digest Saturday Evening Post and TV Guide.
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Washington
UPI
Look
Time
Life
Meader's Digest
Saturday Evening Post
TV Guide
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Andrew Kazanjian
Joseph Vartanesian
Hmnayak Intoyan
Henry Kaiser
Haig Chekejian
Ordnance Association
Capital Cities
American Ordnance Association
Col
R. P. Wilson
Association
Northeast
Watervliet Arsenal
Robert G. Betts
W. & L. E. Gurley and Association
Fred Kornet Jr
Arsenal
John J. Graham
Pittsfield
Mass
General Electric
Wilson
Troy
Noble Callahan
American Federation of Musicians
Men Park Nursing Home
15Th Street
Willianch
Anded
Morton
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