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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1957
Page
6
An 18-year-old boy, James Albert Mount, confessed to following Ruth Petrosky to her apartment cellar and stabbing her to death with a kitchen knife. He stated he then went to a movie. Mount, discharged Navy, lived across the hall with his father.
A Sikorsky helicopter at extreme altitude near the continental divide lifts 16 year old Dee Orr Kunz of Evanston Wyoming after a fall from a mountain ledge. Kunz suffers a fractured pelvis and broken leg but is resting aboard the Fort Carson bound craft which lands at Lander 40 miles east to refuel with a special 100 octane gasoline tank rushed from Riverton.
In Munice Indiana a knife wielding man attacked a 6 year old girl and her mother in their home on Thursday. He fled as police arrived. The child was hospitalized in satisfactory condition and the mother escaped to summon help. Neighbors assisted after the assault became known. Police identified the attacker as a recent state mental hospital inmate.
A group of hotelmen lawyers and businessmen disclosed plans for a five million dollar 150 room luxury hotel and convention center to be built on the Sausalito waterfront.
Evangelist Billy Graham announced a massive closing rally for his revival in Times Square on September 1. He cited past crowds at Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium and said the Times Square event could be his largest audience yet.
An intern from Montreal stabbed his 18 year old wife Sandra Feldman at their home in Chicago after she planned to return to Canada with her parents. Police described the attack as a berserk act and she was hospitalized in serious condition. Her parents had asked for alertness due to concerns over violence by the husband.
The Senate sent a veterans housing bill to conference with the House to extend the direct home loan programs through July 25, 1959. It adds 50 million to 825 million in direct VA liens, with House support at 200 million. The bill would raise the direct VA loan ceiling from 10 000 to 15 500 for rural areas and towns up to 23 000 population.
Eight teenage foreign students were placed under observation in New York as possible Asiatic flu cases. They were among 58 transfer students who arrived by plane from Holland, with officials saying it would take several days to determine if they have the disease.
Street lighting work in part of Lakewood paused briefly Thursday night due to an equipment failure. Officials said the outage affected areas between Clark Avenue and Bellflower Boulevard and Candlewood Street and Artesia Street with no residential power cuts. A Lederle Laboratories live attenuated polio vaccine showed successful two phase tests in American children, as reported by South American physicians.
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