24 Nov 1958
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1958
Page
1
Two men in papier mache masks robbed a Lakewood meat market after hours, forcing owners to the freezer and opening the floor safe. They escaped with 2045 dollars before fleeing as a shopper raised the alarm. owners freed themselves about ten minutes later.
Queen Frederika of Greece visited Los Angeles amid severe smog and a near alert level ozone reading of .49. She was driven to a luncheon at John A. McCone’s home in San Marino where an officer supplied eye lotion and she used it at the residence before heading to Disney land with Princess Sophie. Attending the luncheon were scientists educators Cardinal Francis McIntyre and actress Irene Thunne.
A Long Beach man Fred Pries 45 and his two Sea Scout sons Larry and Gary were rescued Sunday six miles off Marina del Rey aboard their 18 foot cabin cruiser after drifting 32 hours in dense fog. They started from Catalina Island Saturday morning and, lacking food, rigged sails and paddles from boat scraps to head toward land. The Coast Guard towed them to safety after locating the drifting trio in rough conditions as fog hampered a search.
Rep Hosmer proposes a worldwide ban on radioactive fallout as part of a speech noted on page A-6. A Boston executive was seized in connection with a four million dollar bond pilot reported on page A-15.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced it will stop guaranteeing to buy all uranium miners produce to avoid overproduction and to focus on future explorations. Purchases will be contracted only for ore from deposits found henceforth, at prices and terms set by the commission. In Arizona, a bus carrying 18 people overturned on U.S. 60 70 near Wickenburg, injuring the driver and 15 passengers, none seriously. Rudolph W. Kein, 38, of Tridio, Calif., was at the wheel. In Durham, North Carolina, a man died after rescuing his family and then returning to a burning home to save his elderly parents, who also died.
Two sailors died when two planes collided off the south coast of Cuba on Friday. Aviation Electronics Technician William K. Hawthorn of Clarendon Pennsylvania and Aviation Ordnanceman Richard Lee Jadwin of Wellsville New York were identified as the deceased.
A four story cinder block frame in Fort Lee New Jersey housing the world’s first movie studio burned. The structure used now as a television warehouse collapsed into rubble with damages estimated between 500000 and one million dollars by Assistant Fire Chief Fletcher Creamer.
Carolyn Pendray, Iowa's first female legislator, dies at 16 in Pleasant Hill. A Democrat, she was elected to the Iowa House in 1928 and re elected in 1930. In 1932 she won a State Senate seat, leaving a lasting mark on state politics.
William Gregory a 28 year old metal worker from Sutton Engrant regained hearing after eight years of total deafness when his rain suit suddenly blared Elvis Presley. He recalls a click and a miraculous transformation as the radio roared and he could hear everything perfectly.
Police filed two special accident reports after Elsie Diamond and her husband Harry Li faced a domestic dispute at 1624-D Rose Ave. She threw hot coffee and swung a shoe, he wrested the echo away and struck her on the head. She was treated at Community Hospital for a head wound.
Actress Marilyn Monroe and husband Arthur Miller landed by plane from Los Angeles on Sunday. Monroe recently finished filming a movie in Hollywood.
Fog shrouds Southern California as Anne and Ward Trumbull welcome two Korean orphans, James and Georgana, into their home near Lakewood. The ceremony at St Thomas Episcopal Church marks a community adoption-like rite amid medical care for the children and a family’s four-year effort to grow their family. The fog delays traffic while a sunny forecast returns by Monday with highs near 72.
The Danish motorship Nicotine Maersk docked in Honolulu after a 450 mile dash to port amid a forward hold fire. Firemen blasted the blaze with a carbon dioxide hose as crew battled flames on combustible cargo aboard the freighter.
Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson review U S military standing amid space age shocks. Rockefeller and Ford reports warn America is losing lead to the USSR with ICBMs and strategic missile vulnerability. The Gaither report urges dispersal of the Strategic Missile Command to avert catastrophe.
Berlin dispatch reports three police officers confronting a cameraman Ernst Lechner at Potsdamer Platz on the West Berlin border while he photographed a transit area. The piece also surveys Cold War military balance, noting Soviet and U S naval capabilities, with projections for 1962.
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