Heat wave bakes Southern California with record highs
Temperatures surged across Southern California with Los Angeles matching a July 3 all time high of 36 C and towns like Van Nuys, North Hollywood, San Gabriel, and Pasadena posting triple digits. A brush fire sparked by heat and wind forced renewed containment efforts near the Verdugo Hills in Burbank while Julio Sanchez, 48, collapsed at a water and power project but recovered after hospital treatment.
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Julio Senchez
Department of Water and Power
California
Vargot
North Hollywood
San Gabriel
Pasadena
Santa Rtta
Burbank
Verdugo Hills
APL seeks bids for two new round-the-world ships
American President Lines said it would circulate plans and invite bids on its two new round-the-world passenger cargo ships, the President Lincoln and the President Roosevelt, in a move announced Wednesday in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
American President Lines
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Inglewood youth turns self in after prowler cases
A 19 year old from Inglewood surrendered at General Hospital admitting involvement in two Hollywood prowler incidents. Chester Elroy Lamba said he acted after feeling “getting in 100 deep.” He claimed to have accosted former model Shirley Johnson and attempted entry at an apartment, while Huntington Park police questioned parts of his account. He had prior charges including a rape suspicion later reduced to child molestation, and a later guilty plea for disturbing the peace.
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Los Angeles
Inglewood
General Hospital
Hollywood
Chester Elroy Lamba
James. Ecoromides
Mollywood Police
Lamica
John Stark
Mary de Matt
Jané
Shirley Johnson
Lemica
Stark
Huntington Park
Lamba
Knight Signs Unitizing Bill for Tideland Oil Field
Governor Goodwin Knight signed Assembly Bill 930 allowing the city to enter voluntary unitization agreements in the tideland oil field. City officials call it a first step toward cooperation with oil operators to combat subsidence. Talks with Union Pacific Railroad Co. and Phillips Petroleum Co. have begun, with more operators planned. Dr. Frank Hudson, a geologist, will study unitization effects on repressurization and subsidence, while the city amends the Long Beach Development Co. contract to boost water injection for repressurization.
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Goodwin Knight
Assembly
Tideland
Walnfred Jacobson
William 3. Grant
Herbert R. X Kiockslein
Union Pacific Railroad Co
Phillips Petroleum Co
Withington
Frank Hudson
Long Beech of Development Co
Quest for Freedom and the Founders’ Fears
An excerpt reflects on how the framers of the Declaration sought liberty from a distant king. After seven years of struggle they created a Bill of Rights to shield citizens from an overpowering central government. It warns that today’s people may tolerate creeping bureaucratic control unless they act.
Independent work on new schools faces delay in strike
Mild form of polio reaches epidemic proportion in Johnson City Tennessee. The article notes delays in independent construction on new schools as Southland strike deadlocks continue. Page Aad and pages 3-4 reference more details.
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ZEA Ue
Southland
Johnson City
Tenn
Holidays Bring 535 Deaths Predicted on Roads
The National Safety Council estimates about 45 million vehicles will travel during the Independence Day period. NSC projects 535 Americans will die in traffic accidents during the four day weekend beginning Wednesday at 6 p.m. legal time and ending Sunday midnight.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
NSC
Liegal
Eisenhower Says A Bomb Test Fallout Must Be Vanishing
President Eisenhower told reporters he would invite any country to witness a future test to prove fallout is near zero. He warned scientists not to reveal clean bomb methods and defended ongoing disarmament efforts while noting possible scientific gains from continued testing. He dodged questions on steel price jumps and Idaho controversy, and hinted at 1960 presidential prospects with a cautious smile.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
U. S
WU. S. Steel
Congress
Civil Rights Battle Set on Monday in Senate
Senate leaders from both parties announced the civil rights fight will begin on Monday as President Eisenhower’s plan faces Southern opposition. Knowland plans to bring the bill to the floor early, while Senator Russell signals a filibuster and a possible national plebiscite proposal in 1958 elections.
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Senate
William F. Knowland
Calif
Eisenhower
Kanowland
Lyndon 5. Johnson
Richard
Russell
D-Ga
Knowland
Lpot
Fireworks and Events Mark Long Beach Fourth of July
Long Beach hosts fireworks on Rainbow Pier at 9 15 p.m. viewable from downtown beaches and Bluff Park plus another display planned for Disneyland Anaheim and the Los Angeles Coliseum. Private fireworks are illegal. cap pistols allowed. City concerts resume with Long Beach Municipal Band and Lions Club youth fund events. A separate incident recounts Jon Disede, 15, injuring his mouth with a candy explosive in Sidney Nebraska.
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Rainbow Pier
Beaches
Bluff Park
Disneyland
Anaheim
American Legion
Los Angeles Coliseum
Oahu
T. H
Outer Harbor
Marine Stadium
Rado St
Nielo Ave
West Long Beach
Huntington Beach
Pa- Lions Club
Sts
Sidney
Neb
Jon Disede
Jon
How High This Noon Hidden Song From WM Revealed
A secretive WM writes songs, discovered by junior WM rifling a desk. The grease pencil isobar sheets reveal a hidden piece titled How High This Noon, suggesting a prior, unshared composition by WM.
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Junior Wm
JWM
Known Quake Death Toll 750 in Iran As Rescue Efforts Continue
TEHRAN Iran rescue teams sweep the trembling Caspian region seeking survivors after a powerful quake that may have killed over 1000. By Wednesday the known death toll stood at 750 with more than 3000 missing across ruined villages along the Caspian south from Soviet Turkmen to Soviet Azerbaijan. Many presumed sought safety in open fields and woods.
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Tehran
Iran
Caspian Sea
Azerbaijan
Kremlin Shakeup Purges Stalin Loyalists From Ranks
A Soviet Communist Party communique purges Deputy Premiers Malenkov Molotov and Kaganovich and others for reviving Stalin era policies. Dmitri Shepilov and Deputies Saburov Perukhin are also demoted. Presidium expands to 15. Zhukov and Furtseva gain full presidium status. first woman in the body. Khrushchev consolidates control as observers foresee further government removals. Continued on Page A-4, Col.21.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Georst Malenkay
Vyacheslav Molotov
Lazar Kaganovich
Jose Stalin
Dmitri Shepilov
Maxim Saburov
Mikhail G. Perukhin
Kremlin
Lavrentia Beria
Nikita 5
Khrushchev
Central Committee
Malenkov
Molotov
Kaganovich
Shepilov
Saburov
Perukhin
Georgi Zhukov
Ekaterina Furtseva
Furtseva
Shepi
Passenger Train Hits Car at Durfee Crossing
A Union Pacific Xpress passenger train collided with an automobile at the Durfee Road crossing near Pico on Wednesday afternoon, fatally injuring the driver George L. Blanchard, 63, of 352 San Fidel Ave, La Puente. The train was en route from Chicago to Pico.
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Pico
Union Pacific
Durfee Rd
Deacon Arrivvay
Pico Emergency Hospital
George L. Blanchard
San Fidel Ave
la Puente
Union
Prospects Gloomy for Traffic on Fourth in Long Beach
Long Beach officials warned of heavy July 4 traffic after 1956 seeing nine injury and numerous non injury accidents last year. Police reported 12 non injury crashes and 123 injuries across 166 incidents from 6 pm to midnight. Predictions suggested a sharp rise in injuries, with several years showing fatalities and multi person injuries.
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Southland
Long Beach
Cape
Los Angeles
Dent
Lengsof
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