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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1958
Page
3
Homicide detectives investigated a dawn fire that killed Clara and Wanda Sanders and Catherine Sanders, ages 8, 6, and 8, in a Hill Street home. Firefighters battled flames as investigators sought the cause, with possible accidental origin and no immediate suspect identified.
Christmas travel rush sees planes stuck on the ground and trains buses packed as American Airlines and Eastern Air Lines face wage and hours demands. Federal mediation vies to end the stalemate with a tentative peace proposal while airports handle passenger flow and cancellations amid a holiday lift.
London radio Moscow urged an intensified atheist propaganda effort during Christmas to erase religion from minds. The Communist theoretical journal Kominform called for a profound, resolute campaign to spread scientific and political knowledge among the masses to overcome religion.
Betts, treasurer-elect, will take the oath of office before business and industrial leaders at a luncheon in San Diego on December 29. Jelvie will attend as part of the event.
The Air Force plans to launch a 1300 to 1400 pound satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in early January, as part of the Project Discoverer sentry reconnaissance program. The first phase aims to place spy satellites on a north-south track, with the satellite expected to reach roughly the same orbit as the Atlas satellite now circling Earth.
A Ventura report says Elizabeth and Thinein of Santa Barbara offered money to several people before two ex convicts were hired to kill Olga Suncan, the 14 year old mother-in-law of Olga, whose body was found in a shallow grave north of the city. The Venturas County Grand Jury will hear testimony on the slaying. The young mother-in-law denies any plot connection but admits posing as Clan last August to influence a marriage between the younger woman and attorney Frank Duncan.
A Mie Constellation en route from Paris to Munich with 34 aboard crashed near Schwechat Airfield outside Vienna. Only four were injured as the plane exploded and burned on impact amid heavy rain and poor visibility. Dozens survived. authorities identified Walter Reyer as the first passenger named.
In Bournemouth England a four engine Bristol Britannia on a routine pre Christmas test flight crashed in a field in thick fog killing nine of twelve aboard. The airliner struck a telephone wire and disintegrated near the field end, all dead and injured were British Overseas Airways Corporation personnel. Captain B. Incheon reported no trouble minutes before the crash from Llaura Airport outside Bournemouth.
A twin-jet bomber flipped in the air and crashed at Edwards Air Force Base during practice. Capt. Robert H. Williams of Alhambra, 32, was killed in the single-engine takeoff and landing exercise.
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