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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1957
Page
4
Lyman described a shift to full-time National Guard missile operations with Nike sites manned by state employees paid from federal funds. About 334th Group seeks 300 more, 50 to full-time posts. part-time units drill weekly and monthly.
Six children aged 3 months to 7 years died Tuesday in a second story Detroit flat fire near downtown. Five were children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Sanders. a sixth was their grandchild. Mrs. Sanders escaped as her husband worked in Ann Arbor.
Eight month old Stephen Nance died from carbon monoxide fumes in a four unit apartment in Long Beach. His mother Sheila and two sisters were seriously ill, removed to Seaside Hospital, while Welter Nance, a seaman aboard the U S Mery Luckenbach, was away at sea. Police and Long Beach Gas Department officials investigated, turning off gas appliances as they sought the source of the toxic gas. A homicide inquiry will follow.
A California labor convention attacks a linkage tax on shipbuilding, calling it a barrier to bids by state yards. The CIO and AFL-CIO leaders argue the tax harms shipyards, boosts unemployment, and favors states without such levies while seeking repeal or removal of county taxes on ships under construction. Congressional figures and local union leaders frame the dispute as part of a broader fight over right to work measures and union corruption probes.
The Japanese liner American Maru sailed for Brazil after a Monday quarantine at Wilmington due to three suspected diphtheria cases aboard. Forty one passengers were allowed ashore later after health officials tested threats. The ship kept 460 aboard except the three sick children were confined with the crew during the one day stop.
The Lone Beach based USS Kermit Roosevelt received the battle efficiency Z for outstanding achievement in competition with vessels of Service Squadron 4. Captain Gerald L. Cameron accepted the award from Captain J. R. Hanson, marking the second such award in three years for the internal combustion engine repair ship operating out of Long Beach.
Derrig funeral services for Sonya Derrig wife of William J. Derrig leader in chiropractic practice will be held Thursday at 30 a.m. in St. Yn Eastern Orthodox Church. The accident involving multiple fatalities near Garden Grove and Encino church service route is under police investigation with charges filed against David DB of Los Angeles.
The second of four lectures on California missions will be given tonight at Norway Hall on Redondo Avenue and Eventh Street. Dr. John A. Schwamm hosts the event as part of a Knights of Columbus Council 987 sponsored series.
The Texas State Society will elect new officers during its Thanksgiving meeting at 6 30 p m Saturday in Linden Hall.
Federal agents raided an arms laden yacht on a dock at Piney Point Big Pine Key and seized 31 Cubans arrested for conspiracy to export arms illegally. The group was preparing a dawn sailing to mount a revolutionary campaign against Batista.
A 25 to 30 year old robber, about 170 pounds, masked as a shopper at Downey Drive-In Market on Paramount Avenue, threatened clerk Elmer James and owner Frank Zacesgin, forcing payment from the cash register. Police report the suspect fled with $588 in receipts. In Beirut, Lebanon, the government raised terrorism penalties to death for security infringements.
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