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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1958
Page
2
The Navy ends nine conventional ship projects to fund nuclear powered submarines, cruisers, and carriers. The move saves about half a billion dollars and shifts toward Polaris missile submarines and nuclear carriers, with Gates citing rising costs and new designs.
San Francisco naval yard faced 105 million dollars in canceled work due to a Navy economy order. The 86 million dollar Chicago cruiser conversion and 25 million dollar frigate project were shelved, though the Mahan frigate and Oriskany conversion remain active. 7,200 workers affected.
London readers endure a long strike era as 50,000 busmen stay idle for six weeks. Meantime 70,000 workers across transport and docks face idle days and jams in peak hours. Meat supply tightens as Smithfield market drivers and dock workers join the disruption. Prices of beef and potatoes rise about 10 percent amid the strike impact.
France's natural gas production has more than doubled from 273 million to 595 million cubic meters between 1952 and 1957, highlighting rapid growth in Marseille's energy sector.
Hong Kong based report says the last two American priests held in Communist prisons are to be freed Sunday. Four other Americans, including Downey Feeteau McCann and Redmond, remain jailed with sentences up to life. Wagner and McCormick face release or next expiration dates, with Wagner hospitalized for asthma.
Venice gondoliers held an emergency meeting to decide whether to strike or stage a peaceful demonstration to protest motorboat competition. They warned motor traffic and wave damage threaten their livelihood and the traditional gondola fleet, once thousands strong, now dwindled to hundreds.
Elfrida von Nardroti, 32, Brooklyn, surpassed prior records by winning 10,500 during her 17th Twenty-One appearance, bringing her total earnings to 248,000. She defeated Wolfgang Weissleder, a patent attorney and marine architect, 21-0, after answering seven questions in fiction romances and classical composers.
Jackson Mississippi officials at the state mental hospital said they cannot yet say when the examination of Clen on King, former professor at a Mississippi Negro college, will be complete. King has been held at Whitfield hospital after attempting to enroll at the all white University of Mississippi and being seized by state authorities. The governor and others refused to detail the seizure for 24 hours, though it was learned the man was picked up on a lunacy warrant. Doctors will decide if he should be committed for treatment. Dr J Head heads 17 psychiatrists on the panel. Leroy Wilkins of the NAACP protested the action.
In Rio de Janeiro President Eisenhower has agreed to the idea of a hemisphere conference with presidents or foreign ministers to repair U S Latin American relations. Roy Rubottom presented the pledge to President Kubitschek after secret talks with Foreign Minister Soares. Plans for a Dulles visit in August were also discussed. The move follows tensions sparked by mob attacks on Vice President Nixon in Peru and Venezuela.
Turkey's airlines carried 218,806 passengers in 1957, up from 86,331 in 1950. Landing and take-off capacities rose from 8,080 yards to 41,860 yards over the period, reflecting significant expansion of aviation operations.
Washington reports that a nuclear blast may create a new Arctic harbor north of the Arctic Circle. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss said rams will visit Northwest Alaska this summer to assess safety and practicality for a 1960 harbor blast between Cape Seppings and Cape Thompson as part of Project Plowshare to aid mineral deposits and shipping in the region.
The body of 52 year old Invin Dayes of Paradise was found floating in the Sacramento River about 22 miles north of Red Bluff Monday afternoon. Dayes, who disappeared May 18 during a fishing trip at Anderson, was located by a group of pleasure boaters.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told President Eisenhower the United States must exchange atomic secrets before Britain would suspend nuclear tests and urged free world nations to fund world trade. He asked IMF strengthening and Germany loans, as they discussed world problems at the White House.
Rome reports the Christian Democratic Party failed to secure a majority in national elections. The party's council convened to form a minority government for the summer, but Republicans led by Giuseppe Saragat rejected joining a coalition. A late postponement leaves a murky path to autumn coalition talks.
The government reports 2,500,000 people in 5,000 villages of Bombay state hit by the famine caused by extreme drought and failed monsoon rains. Relief measures costing three million dollars have been ordered.
Police investigated threats targeting a Negro newspaper and the home of Assistant District Attorney Cecil Poole after a husky voiced caller warned of burning crosses and a church bombing. The incidents followed earlier cross fire and a Bible-toting clash with racial integration.
Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, warned at the Mila summit on Mackinac Island that Asia faces danger from Communism. He urged rapid rearmament and a dynamic ideology while discussing the Moral Rearmament movement’s aims during Dr. Frank Buchman’s 80th birthday event attended by visitors from over 30 nations.
A man recounts leaving a MEA program and training in Scotland to become a newspaper editor. He says his life was utterly selfish and now commits to moral re armament, planning to dedicate his life to the cause.
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