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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1958
Page
3
Ex Marine Lester Nickelson 38 and Maxine Johnson 33 plan a 11 am ceremony at the Veterans Hospital chapel. Both will use wheelchairs with Nickelson facing more surgery and Johnson confined by multiple sclerosis. The couple’s Christmas package engagement amused onlookers as rings finally signaled a serious marriage vow.
Lester Nickelson, an Inglewood beauty salon operator, fixed Maxine Johnson’s hair for her wedding to her fiancé in wheel chairs at 11 am today in the Veterans Hospital chapel. Johnson, who has faced multiple injuries and MS, hopes for a hopeful future with support from family and friends.
Ernst Heinkel, famed designer of German military and civilian aircraft, died after a brain hemorrhage at 70. Heinkel helped develop jet aircraft and rockets, led in wartime design, and had planned a postwar partnership with Messerschmitt to revive Germany’s aviation industry.
London informed sources report a runaway robot pilot forced a Britannia four engine airliner into a dive before the crew shut off power to the automatic pilot. The incident follows talk of a similar system causing a Britannia crash last year that killed 15 people.
Mrs Pat Boone wife of the singer gave birth to a girl in Hackensack hospital Thursday. The baby is the couple’s fourth daughter and weighs a T pounds.
A House Judiciary subcommittee heard that Southern California is the center of a $500 million annual obscenity business. Witnesses described coded mail schemes and argued new laws to prosecute publishers where materials are received rather than origin. The panel weighed expanding Post Office powers to curb obscene materials sent by mail.
Superior Judge John G. Gebbert continued the murder trial of German war bride FelCit as Nicholson to Monday to allow the prosecution and defense to work out stipulations on evidence. The defendant, 32, is charged with beating her five year old daughter Heidi to death last July 1. The child’s body was found stuffed in a motel closet in Riverside.
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