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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Aug 15, 1958

Page

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Sanders Dies UCLA Football Coach Henry Red Sanders

UCLA football coach Henry Red Sanders died in a downtown Los Angeles hotel room after collapsing from what police said appeared to be a heart attack. He was 53 and had built UCLA into a major program. A woman, Ernestine Drake, said Sanders spoke of football and heat before his death.

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Capitulation Debate Halted in Senate Over Defense Crackdown

Washington Iran era notes report a divided Senate pushed an overnight over eventher before acting on a Democratic proposal to curb Defense Department studies on atomic surrender. Baker said he checked the body for life, but an ambulance crew found him dead after a hotel incident.

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Bellflower Mother Owed Death in Airliner Crash

Elizabeth Cuvelier of Bellflower died just after her son Andrew, 44, perished in a June 30 airliner crash near Hanford. Relatives said she swapped a ship return for an airline pass and died en route to board a Constellation at the airport amid the tragedy. Koopmans of Whittier, husband of Cuvelier daughter Liana, also perished.

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Jordan Rejects UN Aid Plan Amid Middle East Crisis

Jordan rejects a U.N. plan to guard independence after British troops leave. Delegates say Jordan will not permit observers or U.N. military units on Jordanian soil. Amman tightens security around public buildings as reinforcements arrive. references to flight and crash victims append regional turmoil.

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Plane Blast Kills One at McConnell and Injures Six

An old B47 bomber being scrapped at McConnell Air Force Base injured six and killed Charles Vance, 46, of Oklahoma City. Four Tinker AFB civilians worked on site since July 26. two workers, Elmer Stewart and Telles Vaught, were hospitalized with burns.

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Group Plans Draw Poker in Signal Hill

Signal Hill residents, led by Bonnie Price, plan a petition drive to force a referendum on a proposed draw poker ordinance. The plan, modeled after Gardena, would cap licenses at five casinos of seven tables each, with fees of 200 per table yearly plus two percent of gross, aiming to boost city revenue amid oil-revenue concerns.

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French CAN Discount Rate Hiked to 2 Per Cent in SF

The Senate approved a 1.7 billion dollar military construction bill for 1958-59 with 6 million for Long Beach Naval Shipyard subsidence repairs. It raises the House subsidy to resume a 23 million long-term subsidence program, while a 5.5 million gap may be settled in conference. William Knowland vows to contest the larger figure. The change includes a rate shift for the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank to curb borrowing amid inflation concerns.

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Navy funds tied to subsidence grant progress in city plan

Under the military constriction authorization bill the extra 5.5 million cannot be spent until the Secretary of the Navy is satisfied the city's anti subsidence grant is functioning. Beta Houses imposed this stipulation to aid local oil operators and the city by adding an incentive to accelerate the repressurization program and halt subsidence swiftly.

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Abandon Hope in Air Crash

SHANNON Ireland API Hope was virtually abandoned today for the 99 persons more than a half of them Americans who were aboard a New York bound KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Super Constellation which crashed in the stormy North Atlantic in the worst single commercial airliner disaster in history. Ships and planes which searched the crash area 120 miles west of Shannon reported sighting no signs of life among the half inflated life rafts wheels and other debris. A KLM spokesman in Amsterdam said we do not expect any passengers to have survived the crash. The huge four engine plane crashed early Thursday on a cut rate economy fare flight from Amsterdam to New York. Aboard were 91 passengers 53 of them American and 2 Dutch crew of eight. The French trawler General Le Clerc radioed it had found eight bodies and had pulled them aboard. Three of the victims were Dutch the others were not identified. The trawler was taking the bodies to Galway Ireland where it was expected to arrive at daybreak. Among the Americans Were 20 members of the Church of the Brethren all but three of them Pennsylvanians who were returning from a two month long tour of Europe.

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Frederic Joliet Curie Dies in Paris

Nobel laureate Frederic Joliet Curie, famed scientist and noted Communist, dies in Paris. Elvis Presley plans funeral preparations for his mother who died of a heart attack at 3 a.m., with coverage on page B-4.

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