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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1957
Page
19
London reports Louln Armstrong's wife Mia leaves ballroom teaching to join jazz world. She aided Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah to dance with the Duchess of Kent during Ghana independence celebrations on the iGold Coast.
IL.B. firm Guy F. Atkinson Co of Long Beach is among six contractors awarded a $48,928,101 Reclamation Bureau contract to build Trinity Dam north of Lewiston, California. The earth and rock fill dam will rise 465 feet above the Trinity River. Actress Josephine Hull, 80, noted for Arsenic and Old Lace and Harvey, died in New York after a long illness. She won the 1950 best supporting actress Oscar for Harvey. Hull, born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Mass., was married to Henry Hull’s brother-in-law.
New York dispatch reports blonde Mrs Noree Nash from Beverly Hills California failed to answer four questions on the Big Surprise program. She missed a chance at 15000 and 30000 by not identifying the quartet in the opera Rigoletto. Fellow contestant Mike Provo of New York earned 10000 by recognizing the title.
San Francisco reports Democratic Attorney General Edmund G Brown Jr after talks in Washington with Lyndon Johnson Frank Clements and Paul Butler said California is a key battleground for 1989 elections. Brown avoided a firm decision on Senate or other posts, noting pressure to decide.
Retired boatswain's mate Toby Wells, 45, spoke about Admiral Richard Byrd, recalling his leadership and character after a nine month stint with Byrd decades ago. Wells praised Byrd for leading by example and noted his skill as a checker player during a tribute event in Johnston City.
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