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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1959
Page
1
Transcripts from Sept. 2 intercepts reveal Russian operators directing strikes on an unarmed American transport carrying 17 men. They report targeting, fire, and the aircraft burning with the tail assembly breaking away as they attempt to finish the mission.
The southland air transport incident left Capt. Rig J. Sciestra 38 among those killed after a Russian attack last September. His mother Ruth Swierstra and other relatives survive. Sciestra, a Compton High School graduate, lived at 10229 E Monterey Ave. He was married to Terry and father to John and two other children. Funeral services were held November 15.
Three civilians testing an Air Force C119 died when the Flying Boxcar crashed after takeoff from Oakland International Airport. Pilot M L Ted Vinson and Co-pilot C W Clam pitt plus engineer Russell Hansen were named. Vinson had 14,000 flight hours. cause of the crash was not determined.
Washington charged that Russian fighter planes deliberately downed an unarmed C 130 transport over Armenia on Sept 2 195?, citing intercepted radio chatter. The incident led to 11 missing crewmen and two buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full honors. Senate reactions followed disclosures.
A powerful cold front stretched from the Eastern Great Lakes to Texas, bringing subfreezing highs. Grand Forks North Dakota reported minus 11 degrees at noon as colder air threatened the Atlantic coast. Snow stretched from the southern Rockies across Texas Panhandle Oklahoma into Arkansas with up to three inches expected in southern Missouri as the storm moved east.
The Democratic-controlled Indiana House passed a bill 69-28 to repeal Indiana's right-to-work law. The action was recorded in Indianapolis proceedings with details continued on page A-3.
The Gunsmoke vaudeville tour premiered before about 500 at the YMCA Father-Son Banquet in Veterans' Park Clubhouse. Dennis Weaver, Melburn Stone, and Amanda Blake starred with James Arness absent due to prior commitments, as the troupe described the show as family friendly vaudeville suited for fairs and rodeos.
In Los Angeles police headquarters two suspects, John Calvin Neély 23 and Ronald Caruana, confront each other amid a tense scene over the shooting death of Neély’s best friend a 27 year old woman. The event follows a day of waiting and emotional standoffs at a local scene.
Neely admits shooting Carnans on January 21 and hiding the body in a car trunk due to alleged needling by 27 year old Mrs Carnans. The Weatherman banquet story ties to jailhouse talk and mutual accusations among participants as draw practice continues.
Report covers air safety focus at Los Alamitos Air Station and a Dallas linked murder case. Neely and Mrs Caruana deny involvement with authorities presenting conflicting statements after a face-to-face meeting. Detectors tested inconclusively while both claim innocence before further questioning.
President Eisenhower urged a seven point civil rights program to Congress to make mob violence against school desegregation a federal crime and to empower federal enforcement. He asked funds and guidance for states to implement desegregation and to bolster agencies handling church bombings and related cases amid sharp partisan divides. Southern critics called it bribery and federal intrusion.
An Air Force plane spotted two possible Hans Hedtoft clues east of Cape Farewell Grothe and one object measured about 10 by 10 feet with another box like object nearby possibly a hatch cover. Icebergs and sea ice were reported in the area.
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