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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1958
Page
1
A naval air crash near Okinawa leaves 26 Marines dead and raises questions about carrier operations. Investigators say debris and wreckage indicate a midair collision during routine patrols over the Pacific, prompting official condolences and calls for safety reviews by the Marine Corps and Navy.
A weak storm front brings cloudiness and light showers today with most rainfall expected in the morning. Clearing is forecast later today and Sunday as a storm earlier in the week dropped heavy snow in mountain areas.
Washington reports unemployment rising to a record level with 5.1 million jobless figure for January. Government projects to spend about 450 million dollars on military construction to spur jobs. BES notes 3.268 million UC-covered workers unemployed for the week to Feb 22, with initial claims dipping to 435,900 for the week ending March 1.
Independent military editor James Allen reports from Mare Island on the commissioning of the Navy's first supersonic missile submarine. TV interviewer John Wingate answers Randolph Churchill's Thursday night trade with threat of lawsuit.
The Navy postponed Friday's Vanguard satellite test launch due to minor technical difficulties. Officials said they would attempt again at daylight as soon as possible, weather or further mechanical issues could push the date into next week. The Air Force confirmed the postponement at the missile test center, with plans still to try Vanguard and Army Jupiter-C launches later in the week.
Five people including three children died from gas fumes in a four room home in San Bernarding. Jay Carper 25 Redlands and his partner Weverly Nielsen 22 plus her children Robert Leroy 2 Kerry Arnold 5 and Victoria Lynn 4 were found by police. Coroner R E Williams said Carper died on the floor while attempting to escape from a bedroom where the others lay overcome.
A fragment from LAC SAYS notes that federal spending estimates run short. The Commerce Department says the 41,000 mile interstate highway program will cost $27 billion, not the original $27 billion, with 10 years ahead and five years more to go.
Three crowded commuter trains piled up in a three way collision at a suburban station Friday night. Police said at least 20 persons were killed and more than 80 were injured.
The Internal Revenue Service placed a 27539 dollar tax lien Friday against Peruvian singer Yma Sumac and her former husband Moises Vivanco for a 1951 tax shortage. The couple divorced last year.
Dunco detail officers burst into the office and dragged away the assailant as WM Front Man bragged about being the best in the business. The deputy described WM’s disbelief and the suspect’s apparent exasperation in a tense confrontation.
Los Angeles heiress Marjorie Durant Waller testifies she must beat the drunken driving conviction or lose a million dollars. Officers recount her arrest on a freeway ramp after a purse theft and alleged advances to witnesses as her husband Rams player Ron Waller faces scrutiny.朗
A U S Marine Corps transport plane carrying 25 aboard collided with a fighter off Okinawa Friday night. Three bodies were recovered and more seen as wreckage and bodies were located near Senaga Shima, five miles south of Naha.
A Rolling Hills man James Dillon and his associate David Mosbacker from El Segundo were killed when their small plane crashed and burned near Kingman Arizona during an attempted landing at Site Six strip. The crash occurred about 10 30 p m They had flown to Needles California to call Dillon s wife and returned to the resort runway operated by Site Six Development Corp. Witnesses Bill Thompson and Elmer Crank reported the aircraft plummeted and caught fire trapping the occupants inside. Dillon had developed Site Six as a fishing resort and planned housing vineyards and further lake shore development.
Princess Grace entered confinement at the Monte Carlo palace on Friday in anticipation of the birth of her second child. Palace doctors expect delivery in the latter half of next week.
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