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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1958
Page
3
Turko Cypriot mobs invaded Larnaca, attacking Greeks and British residents amid fresh clashes on Cyprus. Reported killings and injuries prompt security concerns as Nicosia sees renewed sectarian violence. In Lisbon, Americo Tomas won Portugal’s presidency by a wide margin, signaling strong support for Salazar era continuity.
Bernard Lloyd aged 22 from Birkenhead died after dancing off New Brighton pier with partner Jean Grey age 20. They plunged sixty feet to rocks as police reported. Grey was seriously injured in the accident and authorities investigate cause.
London report says 16 year old Jean Baxter dropped a sixpence into a man hole and stuck her finger trying to retrieve it. Firemen freed her and the cover at Charing Cross Hospital. Doctors eased the finger and she suffered no lasting harm, though the coin vanished.
A 32-year-old aircraft company engineer, Alger La Verne Struble, was electrocuted Sunday afternoon when landing a cabin cruiser in his Reseda backyard. Mrs Struble called to him from inside the boat, saw him frozen at the front, and pulled the electrical plug before he collapsed and died. West Valley police investigated the incident as an accidental electrocution.
Delegates to the 88th annual Peace Officers Assn of Calif meeting convene in Sacramento. The conference at the Lafaye te Hotel opens with a reception and luau at the University Club. The main business session addresses 1959 legislation with J Frank Coakley moderating. Participants include George Brereton and William H Parker.
George E. Vanmeter, 25, a former Olympic cyclist and trainee for national bike races, was flagged by police for speeding 42 mph in a 30 mph zone in suburban Florissant on Sunday.
Algiers AP reports Algerian Moslem rebels launched two major attacks on French forces, losing 105 men in a 48 hour flareup after Gen de Gaulle urged reconciliation. The fighting near the Moroccan and Tunisian borders left 93 rebels killed and 34 captured, with more than a ton of military supplies seized including 54 rifles. French paratroopers killed 12 Mostem rebels and captured one in the Naromah region near Morocco and inland from the Mediterranean.
A 38 year old truck driver was arrested on suspicion of assault with intent to commit murder after allegedly attacking his estranged wife with a hatchet. Jean Louise Agee, 41, said he lurked under a dining room table and struck her at her home, causing a deep arm wound requiring stitches.
A San Pedro swimmer sustained 200 stitches for an abdominal cut after diving into shallow water at Colorado Lagoon. Arthur W. Hermann, 4% of 973 W. 26th St. San Pedro, was treated at Community Hospital after striking an object from a small pier on Nieto Ave.
Karl William Kain, 76, of 29 lW Zane St, suffered a possible skull fracture and fractures of both legs when struck by a car on Long Beach Blvd at Platt St Sunday night. Driver Charles Winne Middoux, 32, of 45241 Linden Ave, cited for failure to yield. Kain treated at St. Mary's Hospital.
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