Villa Rica gas blast claims 17 lives in four downtown stores
A deadly gas explosion in Villa Rica Georgia demolished four downtown shops the drug store the slime store a dress shop and a jewelry store. The blast killed Horace Luther city engineer and Oscar Hixon gas system head among others and injured 20 to 30 people. Authorities say natural gas caused the tragedy and the town was warned against using appliances as rescue teams searched the wreckage.
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Li Col
H. T. Clary
National Guard
Horace
Luther
City Enineer
H. G. Black
Oscar Hixon
C. T. Dyer
Johnny
Hixon Ray
Alana
Vilaica
Villa Rica
Lewis Harrison
O. T. Dyer
Johnny Dyer
Seismic Soundings Place Rock Beneath South Pole Ice
8 297 feet of ice and snow cover solid rock at the Pole with the rock rising 903 feet above sea level. Rev. Daniel Linehan and a Navy team conducted three explosive shots to bounce seismic waves to recorders. Findings support Antarctic land beneath ice rather than a global sea. Further tests planned to map buried land.
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Rennie Taylor
South Pole
Daniel Linehan
Boston College
Navy
Father Linehan
Antarctic
Antarctica
McMurdo
Sound
George J. Dufek
International Geophysical Gear Scientists
Dufek
White House
Sen. Goldwater
Rariz
Palle Mogensen
Blizzard
Bravo
Senators urge secrecy in testing satellites
Sen Henry M Jackson accused the Defense Department of giving the Soviets a propaganda victory by announcing hour by hour failures in a test firing of a small satellite. Sen Everett Dirksen proposed top secret launches, criticizing government handling that alerted opponents and affected launch dates, with President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon noted in the discussion.
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Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Defense Department
Jackson
Seattle
Everett Dirksen
U. S
Eisenhower
Vie House
Dirksen
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Care Of Aged Big Problem In State
Phoenix reports on Arizona Hospital Association convention where Ray Amberg argues care of aged and indigent citizens is a major issue. Miss Jane Rider cites $6.6 million in current Arizona hospital construction adding 305 beds and plans for $644 million more, adding about 1115 beds. Delegates from 41 member hospitals attend.
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Phoenix
Ray Amberg
University of Minnesota
Amberg
Arizona Ospital Association
American Hospital Association
Jane Rider
State Health Department
Arizona
Miss Rider
Award Presented 30 Years Late at Jamestown Exposition
Cmdr Walter Raleigh Gilbert of the British Navy received a golden rooster at the Jamestown Exposition marking the festival’s 330th anniversary. The prize was delivered long after the 1907 boat race amid a financially strained Jamestown celebration.
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Yorktown
Walter Raleigh Gilbert
Gilbert
Sir Walter Raleigh
Jamestown
Richard L Roth Honored by Harvard Phi Beta Kappa
Richard L Roth, Tucson High School graduate, is named among Harvard College seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The mathematics major is the son of Mrs. Paul Robinson of 2002 E Hampton St and won the Elizabeth Wilder Prize for German in his freshman year. Additional seniors will be elected in the spring.
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Richard L. Roth
Tucson High School
Harvard College
Phi Beta Kappa
Harvard
Roth
Paul Robinson
E. Hampton St
Elizabeth Wilder
Passports Granted for POW Family Visits
The State Department will issue passports to relatives who wish to visit six Americans held by Communist China. The move follows renewed requests from families such as Richard G. of Lynn and Philip Fecteau and his wife, parents of a prisoner, as U.S. efforts to secure their release continue. Washington notes a long policy aim and multiple Geneva meetings since 1964, with no return of the prisoners to date.
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Washington
State Department
China
Lane
D-Mass
Richard G
Ecs
Lynn
Mass
Philip Fecteau
Wyman St. Lynn
Olien
United States
Geneva
Department
Jewelry Theft Reported At Phoenix Hotel Room
Mr and Mrs Louis B Cecil report the theft of 4690 dollars from their Phoenix hotel room. The incident was reported to the sheriff's department last night.
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Louis B. Cecil
E. Whit
Sheriff's Department
Phoenix
Bailey
Cecil
Aeto
Tucson
West
Ward Ho
Red East
Masag
Pearl Nec
Pon Dalley
The
Cae
Ius Blosom
Aid Artes
Stevenson Story Ruled Hoax by London Paper
Washington claims Stevenson denounced a London News Chronicle feature as a hoax and said neither his staff nor he authorized the piece. Blair denied theft or approval, while the London paper acknowledged an apology to the governor for embarrassment.
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London
Stevenson
Washington
London News
Sion
William Blair
Blair
Keith Kyle
News-Chronicle
Kyle
P.A. Reuthers
Reuthers News Agency
Kurt Singer
Hollywood
Cali
News Chronicle
NATO
Eisenhower
Singer
Democratic Teader
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