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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1959
Page
1
WM's aide warbles a solly song as Assistant notes a Japanese tailor song. The exchange features WM asking about the humming, the aide offering a possible title and the assistant suggesting The Oriental name Go Mend A Sigh.
Sen Green Hart and Mayor Shoemaker led the opening of the 6,600 foot bridge span costing 11.58 million for traffic. About 300 civic leaders witnessed the event, balloons released to honor the project while a mixup delayed some deliverables. Mrs Jane Brown Hospital was treated after a fall during the day.
An Air Force C118 transport with four crew members crashed 15 miles east of McChord Air Base during a routine training flight. All four perished as the aircraft exploded on impact. In Rockford Illinois heavy rains forced 500 more to flee, part of a rising flood that has displaced 1,500 since Monday night and could grow.
In Gary Indiana 100 teachers from seven schools ended a two day strike after three school board members quit The 100 striking teachers agreed to return to classes today They had protested board policy on working hours transfers salaries sickness and regulations involving 5000 children in the district
The Santa Fe Texas Chief plowed into a car near Ardmore Oklahoma killing four and injuring two. Engineer Floyd Webb described seeing flying bodies as the speeding train struck the auto. In Clinton Missouri a head on collision eight miles west of town on Highway 35 left three dead on the scene and one dying at a hospital.
April first brings record heat in Long Beach with 90s and a 93 high at the airport the year’s apex. L.A. and nearby cities hit 92 96 and 90 as smog lingers residents report the strongest smog in the Lakewood Los Altos area. Forecaster G C Shields says Santa Ana winds push hot air from the desert and highs near 87 expected today with continued heat through the week.
Elizabeth Taylor announced to James Bacon that she and Eddie Fisher plan to marry in six weeks if Debbie Reynolds consents to a quick Nevada divorce. Fisher said he had asked Reynolds before, but she declined, and Taylor would leave mid May to film in Europe with Fisher accompanying her.
A 20 year old Texan former airman confessed to strangling Durella Boyer, a teenage waitress, after meeting her in Los Angeles following a quarrel with her parents. He claimed self defense then admitted the crime after five hours of questioning. Further details link a second suspect, Willard Szendre, in the case. Debbie's Nevada divorce consent was noted in related remarks.
A pair of killer tornadoes and hurricane like blasts struck Texas and Oklahoma Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, killing six people and injuring at least 61. An Air Force tanker crash in central Texas killed four crewmen. The storm began 70 miles south of Dallas near Vaughan and Bynum, then moved north across the region.
SAN DIEGO UPS reports the 1st Marine Brigade will move 21 transports and assault ships for Exercise Big Land. Hawaiian Island troops will stage an amphibious rehearsal near Coronado before a live bombardment of San Clemente Island. Over 5,000 Marines are to hit Camp Pendleton beaches Monday with air support, later joined by 15,000 sailors and Marines for four days of maneuvers ending April 10.
Thirty eight LESC frat members crowd into a small foreign car. Mexico considers new measures against the Soviet Embassy staff as the aftereffects of a wildcat rail strike unfold. Page references: A-3 and A-11.
A new plan announced by Jack Hammond of the Long Beach Insurance Assn promises up to a 20 percent premium reduction for safe drivers and may cover previously uninsurable drivers. The Safe Driver Insurance Plan applies to new or renewed policies in California starting May 1 and is projected to save present policyholders about ten million dollars in its first year.
Washington The FAA rejected Long Beach airport expansion while proposing broader state and regional airport needs over four years. The plan calls for 54 heliports, new airports in Los Angeles and San Diego, and continued nonstop connections up to 300 miles away with a $200 million state need of which $158 million covers commercial land.
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