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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1959
Page
3
A three day heat wave drove temperatures above 100 across Australia with twelve deaths from heat exhaustion in the southeast. Nine of the victims were infants and overall deaths from drowning, fires, and heat reached 33 as fires burned in Victoria and across 231000 acres in South Australia.
Ottawa reports the Royal Canadian Air Force will assume operational control of the DEW Line from the United States Air Force. The radar network, built in the Canadian Arctic at about 409 million dollars, has been active for 18 months. London sources say an East-West conference with a broad agenda on Berlin and other major issues may be arranged this spring, likely at the foreign ministers level after substantial prep.
Washington Republicans clash over committee assignments as older GOP senators resist ceding seniority to younger liberals. Sen. Thomas H. Kuekel of California seeks a seat on the Appropriations Committee while Styles Bridges backs a three-committee limit, sparking an intra party showdown with the old guard. No decisions were reached as the GOP Committee of Committees adjourned pending a full Senate meeting.
A basement explosion in San Antonio killed 10 year old Brenda Smith and critically burned two other children in the home of Jarvis Henson. Fire officials say accumulated butane gas likely ignited by smoking in the basement.
A Philadelphia delegation offered the Republican Party a large financial package to bring the 1960 GOP National Convention to the city. The bid included a cash commitment of 350000 plus overhauls and fringe benefits worth millions, with Miami Beach and New York City also proposing subsidies and facilities. Delegations from Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco prepared bids as Des Moines hosted contenders.
Sacramento report outlines a pair of bills in both houses aiming to open the gasoline market to competition and reduce prices by a few cents a gallon. Assemblyman Bruce F Allen cites parolee backsliding and narcotics control as factors, proposing a 480 bed pilot clinic and new testing to prevent price fixing by oil firms. Brown supports the effort, framing it as a cost saving program that could pay for itself if 48 addicts are rehabilitated.
California lawmakers from Sacramento to San Francisco introduced bills and resolutions on taxation, education, licensing, and public welfare. Key items include raising driver license age, creating a separate board for state colleges, extending assembly terms, and expanding highway funding and narcotics treatment centers. The Senate adopted resolutions urging NCAA action on USC and expanding national air pollution controls.
D E Jones, 38, a filling station attendant in Corsicana, says he found 86 bars of gold bullion worth 2,408,000 last May 17 in a berry patch. He left Corsicana with Secret Service agents to lead them to the stash, claiming it was moved from the patch to a location in East Texas woods to hide it where even Russians could not locate it. The Secret Service and authorities would not confirm start dates for the trip or reveal the cache location.
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