Freak tidal wave hits La and Texas coasts
A dramatic 5 to 6 foot tidal surge rolled along canals and harbors from New Orleans to Port Arthur. No deaths or major injuries reported, but docks, vessels, and a grain elevator were affected. Seismographs hinted at ground movement linked to nearby seismic activity.
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Texas
New Orleans
Buxton
New Orln
Spring Hill College
Mobile
Ala
Louis J. Eisele
Weather Bureau
Coast Guard
Leon Poche
Avondale Shipyards
Port Arthur
Tex
Baton Rouge
Albert E. Kent
Television Schedule Highlights for Saturday Evening
A dense listing of 1960s era programs across networks shows 5:00 to 2:05 with movies, dramas, comedies, and news. Notable items include Run Silent Run Deep with Clark Gable, Blackboard Jungle with Glenn Ford, The Defenders, Gunsmoke, and The Saint among many others.
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Clark Gable
Sunday TV and radio lineup with Amite River flood wave note
The listing details a long Sunday broadcast schedule including CBS Sports Spectacular and The Ed Sullivan Show among many programs. A report notes an Amite River flood wave four to five feet high with boats and ramps damaged and a witness describing riverbed exposure before water surged back.
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A. S. Lainer
Denham Springs
Lanier
Pretty Plus Beach Dress Pattern Offer
Advertisement for sewing patterns shows a Pretty Plus shift dress design in flowery cotton to wear as a beach dress. It lists 35 cents per pattern with 15 cents extra for first class mail and special handling, and directs readers to send 50 cents for a Spring-Summer Catalog and a free coupon for one of 250 design ideas to Anne Adams in New York.
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Anne Adams
Winchester
Evening Star
Patte, Dept
West 17Th St
York 11
N.Y
Diem Official Condemned To Guillotine In Viet Nam Trial
Kan Quang Dong a high intelligence officer under Ngo Dinh Diem was sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in Hue. A crowd of about 2000 cheered outside the courthouse as the verdict was read for murder extortion and illegal detention and torture of prisoners. The nine member tribunal ordered property confiscation and set a 5 day execution window pending mercy appeal. Dong earlier killed Tran Ba Nam in 1958 and Vo Con in 1959 the government claimed they were French spies a charge it says was used to extort.
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Hue
South Viet
Nam
Kan Quang Dong
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dong
Diem
New Revolutionary Court
Ngo Dinh
Can
Military Revolutionary Council
Tran Ba Nam
Laos
Vo Con
Viet Nam
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Craig B Burleson
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Wide World of Sports
Jack Webb
Sugarfoot
Bourbon Street Beat
Trails West
Lawbreaker
The
Lieutenant
Jackie Gleason
the Detectives
Joey Bishop
the Lawman
Lawrence Welk
the Defenders
Montgomery Clift
Hollywood Palace
Phil Silvers
Brave Men
Ernest Borgnine
Nina Foch
Dick Powell Theater
Glenn Ford
Richard Kiley
Man With Nine Lives
Boris Karloff
U.S. Army Chorus
Georgetown Univ. Forum
Dimension Four
Fighting O’flynn
Richard Green
Judy Garland
Fred Astaire
Tokyo
Cary Grant
Meet the Press
Evening Report
Newsnight
Bill Dana
Mark Evans
Ed Sullivan
Grindle
Bonanza
Boston Symphony
Naked City
Washington
Saint Joan
Richard Widmark
Claudette Colbert
Pat O’brien
Nel
A. G. Slomaker
Dearing
Carpenter’s
Eephia
Titie
Uaams
Captain
Amon
Mikee
Mikes
Morty Meekle
Boyn
Jackson Twins
Jan
Nancy
Uriend Padra Sediente
Blondie
Thank You
MR. Bumstead
Snuffy Smith
I Shore
Jedge Potter
Beetle Bailey
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Lay
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Gure
Frese
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