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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1958
Page
1
News reports from Castel Gandolfo reveal Pope Pius XII suffered a second cerebral stroke, with partial paralysis and grave danger. Vatican officials noted slight improvements and renewed treatment as doctors and prelates gather, while the pope received Holy Communion and absolution amid ongoing crisis.
A 300 pound cockpit canopy was jettisoned from a Navy T33 trainer at 12 000 feet and landed on Halo Verde Avenue near Metz Street in Long Beach. Lt Guy J Johnson and Midshipman Oberacker were uninjured. Neighbors describe a bomb like crash with debris raining on nearby houses. Police say the canopy posed no injuries or property damage beyond shock.
The first full scale underground atomic explosion of the current Nevada test series is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Yucca Flat. The blast will be small, under one kiloton, set off in a honeycomb tunnel line. No radiation or surface damage is expected. The detonation marks the fourth underground US test in the program.
Communist planes swirled over Quemoy triggering a burst of Nationalist antiaircraft fire. Nationalist forces used the pause in the Formosa Strait truce to push in supplies by air and sea, as MIG fighters covered the scene and radar and reconnaissance craft observed from above.
Stamford reports Roy W. Johnson of the Defense Department ARPA added a one sentence ad lib stating a space man could be in space within 24 to 36 months. He gave no vehicle details and could not elaborate on the remark or its origin. Johnson said the target date was new and came up this week.
A California quarry worker was buried under a 100 ton rock mass for an hour and a half before fellow workers pulled him out alive. Caretas Ramirez, 54, described his relief and fear during the rescue and noted danger from rigging machines. In Georgia, Annette Donovan Lyles faced charges for allegedly poisoning multiple relatives with arsenic. Washington briefs cover the presidential transition with Jerry Adams assisting, and a U.S. airmen missing case renewed with a state department demand for information.
Eighteen people were reported drowned when three sailing vessels went down off the Bahama Islands as Hurricane Janice with 86 mph winds plowed the Atlantic. UPI reports delayed from Nassau. A 45-foot Haitian sloop sank near Tarnbull, Long Island, about 200 miles southeast of Nassau.
The Independent Revenue Service imposes a fee after attempting to tax Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas over the governor's residence expenses. A note warns would be robbers not to use a withdrawal slip bearing their own name.
A Greyhound bus colliding with a pavement roller on the New York State Thruway left 21 injured and hospitalbound. The bus, traveling from New York City to Buffalo, slammed into the roller at Interchange 33, crossing grass and the median before stopping down an embankment. Bus driver George Bata lias, 37, was mildly hurt. roller operator Niles Leach, 45, was seriously injured as passengers escaped through windows and a second bus ferried the uninjured to continue the trip.
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