Pa Kettle Actor Percy Kilbride Dies at 76
Los Angeles AP reports Perc y Kilbride the Pa Kettle of the movies died at 76 after injuries from a Sept 17 car collision. He underwent brain surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital and died early today at Chase Sanitarium from hardening of the arteries and pneumonia.
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Los Angeles
Percy Kilbride
Chase Sanitarium
Good Samaritan Hospital
Hollywood
Barkley Noble
Kilbride
Kilride
John L. Crowley
Marjorie Main
Ma and Pa Kettle
Miss Main
Hollywood Boulevard
Frank Belmont
Belmont
Miss Angeles
Sanitarium
Virginia plans rest areas with information centers on interstates
At an emergency session the State Board of Conservation and Economic Development backed placing information centers at rest stops along 1000 miles of interstate. The plan envisions 42 or 43 rest areas with about 10 information centers costing roughly 75000 dollars each. Local communities may help fund construction and operation under state control of architecture location and staffing to ensure quality.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Board of Conservation and Economic Development
Sidney F. Small
Roanoke
J. P. Mills
State Highway Department
Mills
Ted Graves
Luray
Virginia Travel Council
Leave Rope At Home Speaker Tells Prison Inmates
Jim Whittaker, first American to scale Mt Everest, was invited to give an illustrated lecture at McNeil Island Federal Prison in Tacoma Washington. The warden asked him to omit ropes and climbing gear from the show.
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Tacoma
Wash
Jim Whittaker
Seattle
McNeil Island Federal Prison
Heroes at Bastogne Remember Each Other After 20 Years
Washington AP report notes WWII veterans of Bastogne gathered to mark the 20th anniversary of the Ardennes battle. Brig. Gen. Anthony J. MacAuliffe attended with veterans as Belgium’s ambassador praised their heroism. A film about the battle was shown and veterans recalled frost and hunger plus the famous reply Nuts.
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Washington
East
Belgium
Bastogne
Bulge
George Washington
Association of the
United States Army
O’ McAuliffe
Pentagon
Louis Scheyven
New York
101St Airborne
Combat ‘Command B
10Th Armored Division
Robert P. O’connell
Boston
Dual Bank Robbers Strike West Covina Branch
Two gunmen, acting independently, robbed the United California Bank in West Covina at nearly the same time. Teller Grace Lund, 80, and teller Yvonne Christopher, 26, were approached and money totaling about 4000 dollars was taken. One robber fled in a car, the other on foot.
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West Covina
Calif
United California Bank
Grace Lund
Yvonne Christopher
Eiffel Tower Financed by Subscription At $1 560 000
The Eiffel Tower was funded by public subscription, cost about 1 560 000 dollars, and paid for itself in under two years. It has reportedly not run a deficit since opening.
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Eiffel Tower
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Speaker
H&m Auto
Valley Ave
Safeway
Anthony JC. MacAuliffe
U.S. Ry
American Command
Ardennes
Stalingrad
Ger
Pullman
F.E.T
Ward Plaza
Loudoun St
W.E. Hutton & CO
New York Stock Exchange
John Cussen
N. Cameron St. Winchester
United States
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