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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1959
Page
1
CAPE CANAVERAL AP reports the Titan ICBM lifted off for the first time on a test flight described as highly successful after prior failures. The launch marked a major milestone for the rocket program and its engineers.
The Senate approves a federal airport aid measure of 465 million dollars despite Eisenhower's push for smaller grants. The move accompanies passage of the omnibus Housing bill, marking early Democratic-led legislation in a new Congress and continuing budget battles. A Titan rocket test near Cape Kennedy is described as largely successful after prior pad failures.
Khrushchev labeled U S Senator Hubert Humphrey a liar amid a heated study of eight hour interview notes. The Soviet premier also attacked the Minnesota Democrat as untrustworthy and claimed he did not share secrets with Eisenhower. Eisenhower agreed to trim an aid proposal by 100 million dollars from 565 million.
The report highlights Khrushchev claiming Yugoslavs seized on Humphrey’s China comments and discusses the Titan missile program as a powerful, new U S system. It notes Humphrey’s Senate remarks contrasting the Titan and Atlas and questions the China alliance dynamics.
President Eisenhower Friday rejected the idea of a visit to the Soviet Union under present conditions. Through his press secretary he said no trip now, despite openness to future meetings if they aid peace. Khrushchev urged a visit and praised US leadership, calling them self serving, while White House framed the invitation as hostile propaganda.
UAW President Walter P. Reuther urged a massive march of unemployed workers to Washington. He proposed 25 to 30 busloads from every large center, with workers sleeping on buses to draw public attention to hunger and joblessness as factories and machines idle nationwide. Marion Davies hospitalized in Pasadena hospital under observation after tooth extraction. condition described as satisfactory.
Vernon Texas AP report says Ray Allen Young, charged with murder of an Oklahoma highway trooper, escaped from an Altus jail Friday night, surrendered two hours later to Texas officers at a farmhouse north of town, with his wife present. The escape followed a wrecked car after leaving the Altus cafe. Washington AP notes the House Commerce Committee ordered an on the spot probe into the East River crash of an American Airlines turboprop jet, killing 65 aboard, and will review safety of another turboprop and a jet plane while FAA leaders reject grounding any planes.
In Montgomery, federal court accuses Macon County voter registration officials of systematic denial of rights to Negro residents for many years. The Justice Department seeks an injunction under the Civil Rights Act to halt alleged discrimination.
U S officials say hope is fading to learn what happened to eleven airmen missing since a Sept incident on the Soviet side of the Turkish border. A released taped record cites a Soviet fighter group attacking a transport plane and the Soviets’ weaker reporting on the incident.
The grave of Capt Rudy J Sciestra, Air Force transport pilot shot down by Soviet jets over Soviet Armenia on September 2, announced by the U S State Department, rests in Woodlawn Cemetery Campion. The plane carried 17 men, six bodies were returned, and Swiestra’s funeral was held November 3. His widow, a Dutch girl, lives at Hilverside, and they had two sons.
The Weather Bureau predicts a 50 percent chance of rain today with a 60 percent chance on Sunday. Californians including farmers gardeners and ski enthusiasts are hoping for rain and snow.
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