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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1958
Page
8
Washington AP reports revised Commerce figures show the 1957 recession deeper than earlier estimates. GNP rose to 425.8 billion in early 1957 from 422, with the peak at 445.6 billion in late 1956. Business investment slumped, while personal spending and government purchases shifted.
Scouts from Troop 40 spent Saturday at Freeman Lake with a list of local families and leaders including Howard May, Mr Needler, Marisa Mey, Jackie Needler, James May, Virgil Needler Jr., Doyle Saverns and the Saverns family. They also visited Mr and Mrs John Shaw in Covington Kentucky.
The United States pressed for an international military force to replace U S Marines in Lebanon amid Security Council deliberations. A Soviet veto loomed and Sweden urged caution while Ambassador Lodge insisted on a UN backed solution to protect Lebanon's independence.
A U S Marine force moved five miles from landing beaches into central Beirut while crowds cheered. A second contingent of 1,500 Marines arrived from 13 transports as rebels halted fire near the Basra Muslim quarter. By 3 p.m. key areas of the city were under Marine control and a unit guarded Ambassador McClintock and President Chamoun at their residences.
About 1,500 Transport Workers Union members kept a wildcat strike against Pan American Airways at the missile test center in Cape Canaveral. A second action saw 1,060 Pan American workers at Miami International Airport stop work for an hour and 50 minutes.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey will be the keynote speaker at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association meeting in French Lick on August 23. The event follows approval by Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler after a state committee session.
Lonnie Whitson and family have returned from Columbus Ohio where Mr Whitson did construction work. They visited Mrs Whitson’s sister Mrs Don Blazier and Mr Blazier. The Good Deed Friendship Club met at host Mr and Mrs John Richwine for the annual picnic with Mrs Leonard Het hosting next on Aug 19.
The piece recalls boozy 1920s Chicago reporters like Hagen and Hall of the Herald and Examiner, famed for pranks and wake stunts. It recounts telephoning city desks, staging coffins, hijinks with a fake wake, and a culture that blurred danger with humor in a volatile era.
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