Fire in Grand Central subway tunnel traps 1500
Fire in a busy Manhattan mainline subway tunnel near Grand Central Terminal trapped about 1,500 passengers on lighted trains as smoke filled tunnels and stations. Fire crews and a 1,000-strong disaster force led them to the surface with no loss of life, though at least 100 were overcome by fumes. Some waited up to three hours in darkness while others crawled to platforms through heavy smoke. The two alarm blaze began at 9:24 a.m. one block south of the terminal amid construction lumber, drawing all emergency units and two field hospital teams to the scene.
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Frederick M. Winship
NEW York
UPI
Grand Central Terminal
Manhattan
Big Year Ahead For Allied Grape Growers
Allied Grape Growers expect earnings well over 25 percent above average market value for their grapes in the 1959 vintage. North Coast members reported 7.42 percent above average for 1958 after Allied bought United Vintners, now its production and marketing subsidiary. President Robert C. McIntorf said the purchase plan will be paid for by the added income.
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Allied
North Coast
Wine Producers Cooperative
Bis
Asti
United Vintners
Robert C. Mclintorf
Fresno
Uy United Vintners
Perry
Choir and Band Highlight Ukiah Community TV Tonight
A 7 pm program on Community Television features the Seventh Day Adventist Ukiah Junior Academy triple and combined choirs directed by Esther T. Munroe with Yanices Kostenko at piano, followed by the Veltones dance band. Two Ukiah girls discuss study plans in France, and the hour includes a newscast directed by Fred Rutledge from the Blue Bonnet Drive-In.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Seventh Day Adventist Ukiah Junior Academy
Esther T. Munroe
Yanices Kostenko
Veltones
Salee Sudigala
Ukiah
Mills College
Oakland
Miss Truitt
UHS
University of California At Berkeley
University of France
Interstate of America
Daily Journal
Fred Rutledge
Spanish Mountain Television
Jack Baskerville
Blue Bonnet Drive-In
Mendocino State Hospital
Loggers Fists Too Much for Chastened Bear
NEWBERRY, Mich. Seventy-one-year-old Arthur Le Gault, undefeated champion logger, retired from bear wrestling after a dramatic encounter near Engadine. He fought a 250-pound bear in woods, punching the bear, stabbing it with a jackknife, then walking home to seek hospital care. Le Gault, in satisfactory condition, lost a tooth and sustained bites and deep cuts but plans to avoid future bear matches, preferring a gun if challenged.
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Newberry
Mich
UPI
Arthur le Gault
Upper Peninsula
Paul Bunyan
Gault
Nanan
Flighters Bay
Pug le Gault
Engadine
le Gault
Cashier Loses $10,865 After Car Lock
Gerald M. Sandler, a 22 year old cashier and bookkeeper for three firms, placed a blue bag with $10,865 on the car roof while searching for his keys. He locked the doors, drove off, and later found nine of twenty sales contracts but no money, leaving $1,224.28 in cash and the rest in checks gone.
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Washington
UPI
Gerald M. Sandler
Sandler
Ukiah High School 1960 graduates pictured in souvenir issue
Extra copies of yesterday's Daily Journal feature the 1960 Ukiah High School graduating class with photographs. Available at the newspaper office located at 164 East Standley Street.
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Daily Journal
Ukiah High School
Standley Street
Two Men Die In 101 Curve Truck Wreck
Ukiah resident Wallace Burns 40 and hitchhiker Jerry Taylor 26 died when a dump truck loaded with hot asphalt blew a tire on Highway 101 south of Willits. The truck crossed the road, upended, and launched into the embankment after a long skid. Burns had worked for Absco Paving Co. in Ukiah. Taylor’s status as a hitchhiker was confirmed by the coroner. Bodies stored at Anker Mortuary in Willits with funeral plans pending.
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Wallace Burns
Ukiah
Laramie
Wyo
Highway 101
Willits
Wallace David Burns
Jerry Merrell Taylor
Lester H. Phillips
Division of Forestry
Covelo
California Highway Patrol
101
Philips
CHP
Arkansas
Burns
Absco Paving Company
Travelers Trailer Court
Taylor
Absco
Anker Mortuary
Knight First Winner Of Ice Follies Ducats
James Knight of Ukiah won the Ukiah Daily Journal Find Your Name contest the first prize. He receives two free tickets to the Ice Follies opening June 22 at San Francisco Winterland. Names are randomly placed on the classified page Monday through Friday. claim by 5 p.m. the next day at the Daily Journal office.
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James Knight
Ukiah
Ukiah Daily Journal
Knight
San Francisco
Winterland
Daily Journal
Poles Clash With Police in Poznan Football Riot
Poles clashed with police for the fourth time in little over a month at Poznan. Several injured, according to reliable sources. The official Polish press agency cited hooligans and young brawlers protesting officiating in a match between Warsaw Polonia and Pozna Lech that ended scoreless.
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Police
Warsaw
UPI
Poznan
Warsaw Polonia
Pozian Lech
Soviet Union unveils new disarmament plan at Geneva
Soviet Union formally presents a new arms elimination scheme at the Geneva Disarmament Conference calling it an oasis for discussion. Valerian Zorin rejects American flights over the Lower Union as nonconstructive while Khrushchev’s personal attacks are noted as a tension factor. The plan seeks destruction of all nuclear warhead delivery means within 12 to 18 months and total disarmament within four years.
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Geneva
UPI
Soviet Union
Valerian A. Zorin
U. S
Lower
Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Orin
Zorin
Khrushchev
Moscow
Boy 4 Injures His Sister With Gun in Berkeley
Berkeley, UP I reports 4 year old Dennie Elliott picked up his father Frank Elliott's .38 revolver and fired. The bullet pierced the wall and hit Dennie’s sister Glenda, 3, in the side while she lay in bed with a bottle. She suffered a flesh wound and was listed in satisfactory condition.
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Berkeley
UPI
Frank Elliott
Dennie
Glenda
Voting in Ukiah Precincts Reported Spotty at Noon
County Clerk Jim Broaddus reported at noon today that voting in Ukiah precincts was spotty with some precincts showing only a bare scattering of voters while others were well under way.
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Jim Broaddus
Ukiah
Broaddus
Speeding Woman Driver Kills Two Vegas Children
In Las Vegas a 61 year old woman from Toledo Ohio driving about 60 mph slammed into three six year old girls crossing an intersection killing Virginia Ann Sabo and Carol Sue Decker while Diane Marie Gresser survived with minor injuries. Aura L Easley was booked on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter after witnesses said she swerved around two cars stopped at the intersection.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Aura Lhasley
Toledo
Ohio
Easley
Virginia Ann Sabo
Carol Sue Decker
Diane Marie Gresser
Ukiah Journal Delivery Hotline For Late Papers
Readers not receiving their Ukiah Daily Journal by 6 p.m. can call the delivery line at HD 2-2991 for same day service.
Hopland Joint Graduation Plans for 15 seniors
Hopland schools schedule a joint commencement on Tuesday June 14 at 8 p m for 15 high school seniors and 18 eighth grade pupils. The program features eighth grade processional by Gil Hayward pledge led by Galvin Graham and William Goodman. State Sen Jack Slattery guest speaker and diplomas presented by R H van der Mehden and Robert Rosetti.
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Hopland
Gil Hayward
Galvin Graham
Willam Goodman
Frank Navarro
Graham Henry
Stevens Stiles
American Legion
William Goodman
Betty Spellering
Donald Macmillan
R. H. van der Mehden
Hayward
Dorothy Simmons
Jerry McCain
Jack Slattery
von der, Medden
Robert Rosetti
Board of Trustees
Isidore Kennedy
OFM
State Votes Along Party Lines Today
California voters cast ballots strictly by party in a rare primary under a 1959 rule allowing filing on both party ballots. Incumbents sought cross party write ins, with key contests in the 16th and 22nd Congressional districts featuring Chotiner Bell Jr and a large Republican field, while James Corman led the Democratic side in the 22nd.
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Devan L. Shumway
San Francisco
UPI
California
Congress
House of Representatives
Assembly
Senate
John F. McCarthy
San Rafael
McCarthy
Donald L. Jackson
Joe Holt
GOP
Murray M. Chotiner
Nixon
Alphonzo E. Bell Jr
Jerry Pacht
Les
James C. Corman
Los Angeles
Convair machinists strike. other workers return to duties
World Happenings in Brief reports Convair machinists prolong a crippling strike at four At Ids missile bases while workers at two Convair plants resume duties. A separate dispatch notes Soviet attacks on Eisenhower, disarmament talks resume, and California warehouse workers win a 21 cent pay raise for 9,000. A space center restriction and a fatal Oakland crash are also detailed.
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San Diego
Calif
UPI
Convair
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Ruth Hoffman
Veterans’ Memorial Building
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H. D. Henderson
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Bobbie Lynch
American Legion Auxiliary
Davis
Hopland High School
Philip Lynch
Box 129
Vegas
Ukiah Daily
Christian A. Herter
Japan
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Usp
Atlantic Missle Test Center
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This Space Center
Howard G. Bain
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