Engle Warns Democrats Against Overconfidence Rally Address
Rep Clair Engle urged California Democrats to avoid overconfidence at a Long Beach rally, warning that waiting for Republican division to settle the 1958 Knowland race could cost victories. He attacked tight money policy as inflationary and harmful to housing, farming, and small business, signaling a Senate bid if supported. The event kicked off a broad 1958 fundraising drive with door to door canvassing led by Joe Kenrick and Tom Griffin, following an honor visit to the Simpson home on 2nd Street.
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Clair Engle
Long Beach
YWCA
Engle
U. S. Senate
California
Pri
GOP
W.F. Knowland
Joe Kenrick
Tom Griffin
Raymond C. Simpson
B. 2Nd St
Water firm defends pipeline charges at PUC hearing
Lakewood Water and Power Co. presented documents and testimony to the State Public Utilities Commission in Lakewood to show the reasonableness of Mutual Pipeline and Construction Co. charges totaling about 820,000 dollars over six years. Key witness Donald R. Short of Boyle Engineering testified the water system is well managed and cost totals reasonable. The hearings, led by Commissioner Rex Hardy and Examiner Stewart Warner, resume at 10 am and run through Friday in Lakewood City Council Chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakewood Water and Power Co
State
Public, Utilities Commission
Mutual Pipeline, and Construction Co
PUC
Lakewood
Donald R. Short
Boyle Engineering
Santa Ana
Short
Mutual
Southland
Wakewood
Atty
Amos Fleming
Water Company
Jack Croul
Lakewood City
Council Chambers
Rex ‘Hardy
Stewart
Co. Warner
Pleven Fails To Form French Government
Rene Pleven abandoned his bid to form a postwar French government after 36 hours as premier designate. He told President Rene Coty he would not lead a minority cabinet and sought a broad majority excluding only the extreme right and left wings.
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Paris
Rene Pleven
Rene Coty
Pleven
France
Agen Oe
Gunplay by Officers Kills CHP Officer in Ventura
A California Highway Patrol officer died and a prisoner was wounded in gunfire during two separate incidents. In Ventura, Rienzo Alameda, 36, a former Marine and music teacher, killed Officer Robert E. Reed, 36, after Reed arrested him following a high speed chase. Alameda, who had no criminal record, reportedly claimed a hysterical reaction to confinement. Alameda grabbed Reed’s gun and fired into his chest at Ventura County Hospital, where Reed died. Alameda was jailed on murder suspicion. In San Bernardino County, Ernie Olivas, 28, of Pomona, was wounded by a deputy during a traffic stop near Barstow after going berserk and attempting to seize the deputy’s gun. Olivas was hospitalized with a nonfatal shoulder wound. A separate case saw James Glenn Watson, a 26-year-old dishwasher, arrested at the Mexican border and charged with three armed robberies in Long Beach area. Watson, identified as the robber of Ruth L. Buckner at Park Pharmacy, May 1967, and linked to other robberies, faced arraignment with a $10,000 bond. He was found with a loaded automatic gun at the border.
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Los Angeles
California
Ventura
Robert E. Reed
Ventura County
Rienzo Alameda
University of Southern California School of Music
Alameda
le Conte
Hollywood
Reed
Ala
Willam Fernandez
Olivas
San Bernardino
Long Beach
James ‘Glenn Watson
Superior Court
Percy Hight
A -Watson
Oman
Harold McClintock
Ruth L. Buckner
the Park
2Nd St
McClintock
Watson
Ets
C.O. Bennett
Howard Baxter
Lynn
Wood
San Diego
Bennett
Alice M. Sager
A&i
Pacific Ave
Mercedes: O'Brien
Fall From Automobile Fatal to Arcadian
Arcadia California resident Frank Biffer aged 58 died in a Albuquerque hospital after injuries from a traffic accident Saturday. State police said his wife Mrs. Biffer fell from a car driven by her husband when it skidded on wet pavement on U S 66 east of Albuquerque.
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Albuquerque
Frank Biffer
South
Arcadia
Calif
Quiz Scott Panel on Lack of Body
In Los Angeles on Wednesday jurors heard the trial of L Ewing Scott for the murder of his wife Evelyn Forosby Scott. The state argued a body need not be found to prove death under reasonable doubt. Questions explored timing and possible concealment as the defense contested the lack of a body. Scott, 61, returned from Detroit after fleeing to Canada. his wife is presumed deceased but is claimed to be alive by the defense.
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Los Angeles
L. Ewing Scott
I. Miller Leavy
Evelyn Forosby Scott
Leavy
Mrs. Scott
Clement D. Nye
Detroit
Canada
Windsor
United States
Scott
P. Basil Lambros
First Dionne wedding set for Friday
The first Dionne quintuplet bride Annette 23 will wed Germain Allard 24 in a private ceremony in Montreal. They plan a simple event with about 20 guests. Annette recently finished music studies and met Allard at Christmas. The parents of the quints may not attend due to flu recovery.
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Montreal
Dionne
Annette Dionne
Germain Allard
Oliva Dionne
Annette
Allard
Riverside
Perty
Lewis L. ‘Troy
Banning
Calif
University of Montreal
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Malcolm Epley
BOYLE
Axminster
Dutch Rug & Upholst
Harding
North Long Beach
Hazelbrock
San Bernardino County
Ernie Olivas
Pomona
Barstow
Robert Fereed Victina
Mark Twain
Milner
Kentucky
America
James Crow
the Gredlat Neame
Bourbon
F Company
Frankfort
National Distils
Ferwoy
Gor
Quiz Scott
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