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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1957
Page
7
A freight train derailed and collapsed a street bridge in Syracuse causing a massive traffic jam. A worker was killed, others injured as overturned cars and wreckage blocked Route 57 and City Street. Police redirected traffic and investigated the crash.
An actor and a retired cab driver faced off for sixteen thousand dollars on a TV quiz show. Hans Courjet and Tom Kane, both in their late forties from Rockport New York advanced to next week’s show to vie for thirty two thousand. Kane defined sap and pantheistic with specific meanings, while Lieberman a Philadelphia tailor topped McConigal in a separate round earning one thousand six dollars.
Evangelist Billy Graham told 19 200 Madison Square Garden listeners that Daniel’s parents taught him spiritual values. He urged parents to lead by example to guide teens toward righteous paths and avoid delinquency, noting many youths make pivotal life decisions in their youth.
More than 50 business and civic leaders from San Pedro, Wilmington, Torrance, and Gardena traveled by bus to Bay Area scout camps at Lake Arrowhead last week to gain exposure to outdoor settings offered by the Los Angeles Area Council. Participants included Los Angeles City Council President John B. Gideon and Sewer District Chairman James L. Rush as they tried archery, axemanship and rope work before returning.
Thousands of pilgrims converge at the Shrine of the Black Madonna near Czestochowa for a vow renewal ceremony. The event draws near a million attendees as Cardinal Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski leads the eucharistic procession around monastery walls on the eve of Poland’s 1000th Christian anniversary.
Northern California Democrats outlined a target of 250000 to fund the 1958 campaign. Lionel Steinberg of Fresno urged matching a 1948 Republican infusion from DuPont and Rockefeller sources. He said California must mobilize 26000 workers for a door to door effort beginning October 1. Last year the drive raised 183000.
KUSHIRO Japan reports a Russian patrol ship seized a 20 ton Japanese fishing boat Meday in the South Kuriles chain. Coast guard believes four men were aboard. Japanese lighthouse keepers at Nosshapy on Hokkaido’s eastern shore saw the Russian vessel seize the boat and escort it toward Shikotan island.
September Better Homes Gardens outlines a quick meal concept by blending two canned soups with a Haver ingredient. It presents recipes such as Callen Chow der, Pea Soup Royale, Crab Bisque and other soups, plus jive suggestions for enacks and sup surpers of Jiinches. Get the magazine today wherever magazines are sold.
A Royal Air Force Valiant bomber crossed the Atlantic Sunday, four hours four minutes, averaging 540 miles per hour from Ottawa to England with five aboard. An Air Ministry spokesman said it was not an official record as there were no observers. It was a routine return flight from Ottawa. The Valiant is a four jet plane designed to carry atomic bombs. The official record from Obrawa to England is 9 hours 42 minutes by Canhetta in June 1935.
Walter B. P. Zeller, 60, chairman of a major Canadian dry goods chain, died in Montreal on Sunday. He founded Zeller's Ltd in 1981 and served as director of the National Trust Co, The Toronto and Tolhurst Oil Limited.
Howard Fast rebutted charges in the Soviet press saying he based his alleged anti Soviet slander on Communist sources including diplomats from Eastern Europe and Khrushchev remarks about Stalin. He criticized Soviet spokesmen for appeals to name calling while defending his use of Communist background for his statements. Fast, author of Citizen Tom Paine and Freedom Road, had長 break with communism publicized in Moscow.
Robert Gordon of the Anti-Defamation League urged Jewish youths at Aleph Zadik Aleph to confront prejudice. He called antisemitism a diseased state of mind and said young Americans must mobilize to eliminate bigotry and counteract bias.
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