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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1957
Page
2
The article recounts Gallino, a fierce bull raised near Albacete, Spain, who charged and injured ranch hand Martinez after being provoked with oats. Five bulls formed a protective ring, forcing Martinez to a hospital for treatment while Gallino retreated to a corner, sulking.
Clashing items show Prime Minister Macmillan facing mock duels with landowner Hugh Lanfear via weekly postcard challenges. Separate reports describe trains colliding with Evans station at Edgewood and Arcola depot incidents, plus a local car joke involving Officer Roger McCue and a police phone call.
A ten hour telethon in Long Beach raised 6248 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society with pledges totaling 4248 received. Don Cat Saint chaired the event at headquarters while volunteers canvassed door to door to reach residences. The statewide drive nets 117000 in Southern California in 1956.
The Weather Bureau reports high and low temperatures for major cities including Los Angeles Omaha Las Vegas Phoenix Boston Pittsburgh Chicago Portland Cleveland Denver Des Moines San Francisco Seattle New York and Washington with readings largely in the 40s to 100s. Tides note today high tides at 9:40 a.m. and 6:01 p.m. with low tide at 4:38 a.m. and 5:04 a.m. Tomorrow highs around 5.9 feet and lows near minus 1 foot. sunrise 6:22, sunset 7:87.
Air Force authorities in Washington urged rush of U S vaccine supplies to Britain to prevent a major Asiatic flu outbreak among American airmen. Over 400 U S airmen in Britain had been reported stricken, with hundreds hospitalized in the past 10 days. Vaccine expected by Oct 1, even as 188 men were listed sick in London.
The president of Van Camp Sea Food Co. Inc. Long Beach and Terminal Island announced Sunday that the company has withdrawn from a proposed 700000 advertising campaign by American and Japanese canneries to promote fish consumption. Gilbert C. Van said the plan would not be in the best interests of his firm, American fishermen, or the American canning industry.
Firemen saved about 535,000 in property when a blaze at 10842 Los Alamitos Blvd threatened multiple buildings. Three crews battled the flames with help from Orange County forestry officials. cause not determined. Largest concern was preventing spread before extinguishment.
Harvard law graduate George 5S Abrams, 25, Newton, Mass., said he spoke with crowds in Moscow and that Russian people are brainwashed and unfriendly. He described seeing 100 pamphlets by Hungarian students, reading from a UN report critical of the Soviet role, and criticized U.S. travel policy to Communist China.
The report commends the city manager and council for two new appointees Long'tine school head Warry Moore to the Planning Commission. It notes Moore has retired yet remains eager to continue public work, describing him as the kind of capable person needed for commissions and other public committees.
By Fetronids IR Bob Reid as the new water board commissioner, the message praises him as a high type man with banker's judgment and common sense. The public should appreciate the service of board members. the writer asserts they are the highest type individuals in the community.
Athens Georgia Sunday report quotes Jasper Burton 51 night manager who calls Margaret Lydia Burton alias Mrs Gray an amazing woman despite a 200000 dollar embezzlement charge at Decatur and a conspiracy case against their daughter Sheila Joy Burton 20. He vows to seek dropping charges for her daughter and offers modest support.
Hundreds of Latin American inmates at Texas Marler prison farm quit work Saturday to protest a six day cotton harvest schedule. They resumed quarters Sunday after denial of food and drink on orders from Q B Ellis, prison system general manager, ending the six day week action.
Irish nationalist outlaws blew up a border customs post and a post office garage in Northern Ireland. There were no casualties and the raiders escaped.
A mutilated body found in Lake Michigan is identified as Judith Mae Andersen, 15, missing since August. Dentists and oral surgeons compare dental charts and a vaccination scar to confirm the head and torso match, while the father remains skeptical until final confirmation.
Mrs. Meyers, of Albany, Oregon, was killed instantly on Bend highway forty miles west of here when her car bounced over a deep dip on a hill, throwing her from the vehicle as police reported.
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