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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1960
Page
17
Rocky and Adlai Stevenson deny they are running for president. Both insist they are not candidates despite interpretations of Eleanor Roosevelt's message and public remarks. Rockefeller also says his December decision not to run remains.
Van Nuys police disarmed TV space icon Captain Midnight, Tahn Richard Webb, and jailed him on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after neighbors complained of a shootout inside his home. He was armed with two revolvers, one loaded with blanks. Six officers responded to the disturbance. Webb, 45, reportedly had been drinking.
Coast Guard reports a man tentatively identified as Reuben Garcia, 26, of Lawndale, fell from the 40 foot cabin cruiser R&G three miles off Los Angeles Harbor Entrance and disappeared. The body was not recovered as a Mayday distress signal triggered air and sea searches by Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force. The voyage began in Gardena and involved a rowdy aftermath over fish dumped overboard.
An American military aircraft reportedly flew over Yungshing Island near Hainan on Sunday. Radio Peiping cited a Foreign Office spokesman issuing the 107th warning against such intrusions and China’s charge of the act.
An American manager of King Ranch in Cuba is jailed for ripping down a Castro poster. The incident occurred at Memorial Hospital where a newborn boy prompted a notable event.
Tokyo reports claim the Communist Party controls the push against the U S Japan security treaty and President Eisenhower’s visit. Socialist and Communist groups with Sohyo Labor Federation form the People’s Council Against the U S Japan Security Treaty directing opposition to the pact and Kishi government. Security measures intensify amid fears of violence as protests grow.
Anti Peronist military and civilian forces rebelled in western Argentina overnight. General Fortunato Giovannoni proclaimed himself provisional president from a bastion in the Andes foothills accusing President Frondizi of Marxist leanings. Interior Minister Vitolo said the armed uprising occurred in San Luis Province, 375 miles west of Buenos Aires, and Frondizi planned a Rome trip later today for four weeks in Western Europe.
Sun day accidents in the Los Angeles area claim two five year olds Pamela Kaye Simmons of Lakewood and Jennifer Jones of Gardena. The events raised the weekend toll in Long Beach area to five. Simmons died after a car rolled down a driveway as her father’s vehicle moved in neutral. Jones died after a collision on Avalon Boulevard near Realty Avenue. The crash also injured Jones’s sister and her mother.
London reports plan for joint US-UK around the clock patrols of H bombers. Strategic Air Command and RAF would keep some bombers aloft to deter missile attack with nuclear warheads unprimed until orders. Britain may base Vulcan and Victor assets at US and global bases. Number of aircraft to be kept airborne remains secret.
President Eisenhower stopped in at Jonas Bros exhibits of bear musk ox and other Alaska big game and joked about a 14 foot tall mounted Kodiak bear. He recalled trapping as a boy and earning pennies for musk rat and mink.
President Eisenhower arrives at Elmendorf Air Base Alaska on the first leg of his peace mission amid anti American demonstrations in Japan. He calls Alaska a bridge to Asia and vows to continue to Wake Island and Manila, smiling at security worries as dignitaries greet him.
At lunch a heated argument between two political assistants ends with insults. One shouts I spit on you Democrats the other replies I spit on you Republic Sogeyeans. The Weatherman intervenes calling for spittoons for two.
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