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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1958
Page
2
Long Beach taxpayers face the 10th deadline with rising tax bills driven by higher assessments and increased spending. The column argues costs grow as values rise, urging organized protest to curb spending and avert further tax hikes, noting deficits and pension fund uses.
Long Beach and Vicinity shows hazy sunshine with night and morning fog and low clouds. High near 65 to 70 with water at 60. Alaska high pressure dominates the west while a ridge extends to the Gulf of Alaska. Coastal fog increases south of Paint Sur with partial sunshine inland. Tides list highs 4:53 am and 3.7 ft, lows 11:14 am and 1.0 ft. Sunset 4:44 pm. Lowest national temp 2 degrees below zero at Minot, highest 87 at San Angelo.
London dispatch says President Tito of Yugoslavia diverted a destroyer from his escort Thursday to assist a stricken sailor aboard a Swedish tanker Vives. Tito, aboard the Galeb en route to visit President Nasser at Port Said, ordered one escort to answer the call for medical aid.
Single copy notice lists a delivery service and price of two dollars for Main street area. The fragment mentions month year and a small quantity. No clear event or organization identified.
Fragmentary city hotel notice for Riley at the Huntington Hotel describes an oceanfront block section with private baths and wall-to-wall heating. It mentions two tables, theater access, single rooms per person rates, club breakfast, and a contact phone, with limited legible details.
Mourners from science attended funeral rites for Sir Hubert Wilkins at St An drew's Episcopal Church in Framingham Massachusetts. Wilkins 70 died of a heart attack Monday in a hotel room. He was a geographer with the Army Quartermaster R and D Center developing Arctic Antarctic protective gear. After cremation his ashes will be interred in Westminster Abbey London.
Five letters by Paul Gauguin, who died penniless, sold for 1930 dollars in Paris. One letter notes his wife’s debts and selling his belongings, another reads I will be 50 years old, beaten to the ground, without strength and without hope.
East Meadow New York United Press International reports actress Kating Binge died November 17 after a severe stomach ache and complaints of overeating. A medical examiner said she ate a mass of food the equivalent of three or four full meals before death from regurgitation and overdose of sleeping pills. The 19 year old model and TV actress had appeared on Studio One Alcoa Hour and Playhouse 80.
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