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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1958
Page
1
The Weatherman warns that controlling weather will bring tougher decisions, as forecasts shift to policy choices. His assistant questions feasibility while noting elections loom yearly for the next term.
Marlon Brando arrived late and left early at the United Nations Dance program in Long Beach, delaying the start by about 22 minutes and cutting his speaking time. He spoke briefly about the UN and sat through performances, while the crowd applauded other groups, including the Shuffles N Ruffles square dancers.
NOVA SCOTIA miners face a deadly cave in at Springhill No 2 Cumberland Mine as rock shifts block ventilation and hold 166 workers below ground. Rescue teams led by George Calder race to reach the trapped men while a 28 year old Nova Scotia journalist perishes in a separate crash en route to cover the event.
A slate fall at a slope mine near Kingwood, West Virginia killed three men and injured a fourth. The bodies of Lawrence Turger, Louis Rager, and an unnamed Fields were recovered about 244 hours after the accident, which trapped workers about 990 feet back in the North West Coal Co. mine. Glen Williams, assistant superintendent of the Baltimore Coal Company, identified the dead and noted the accident occurred Thursday.
An expectant mother in Fenton Missouri jumped into the Meramec River to rescue her 18 month old son James after he fell from a dock. He was unconscious but revived on the bank with the help of his mother and sister Orella. The husband doubted her swimming ability as the rescue occurred about 25 feet from shore.
Dallas air craft worker Leonard O. Cooner barricaded himself in his home Thursday after a doctor revived him from an overdose of sleeping pills and threatened to shoot anyone approaching. Police used tear gas and entered the house to find him on a front bedroom floor uninjured and he was taken to Parkland Hospital for examination.
A B47 Medium jet bomber departed from Lockbourne Air Force Base near Columbus Ohio with three crew aboard and disintegrated in a fiery crash shortly after takeoff. Officials report the craft rose about 500 feet then lost a jet engine as the left wing dipped and struck the ground within a triangle formed by runways.
In Joplin Missouri Sam Ike Sour notes that President Elsehower has gone sour. Rayburn, visiting for a party rally, predicted the Menarnts would increase their majority in both houses of Congress May.
A fragmented note from Page NEXON and GOP aspirant Nelson Rockefeller shows political tension in New York with limited time for dialogue. The passage hints at concurrent entertainment and political discourse while signaling a fragmented, newspaper-style clash between figures and regions.
A trace of rain was recorded in Long Beach Thursday as intermittent showers fell in Southern California. Continued cloudiness and more showers are forecast for today and Saturday as a slow moving weather front from the Pacific Northwest passes through the area. Heaviest rain in the Southland Thursday was reported in San Marino with .19 inch and San Gabriel with .16 inch. High temperature in Long Beach Thursday was 68 degrees. Low temperature was 62 degrees at Long Beach. At Long Beach Municipal Airport temperatures ranged from 66 to 72 degrees.
U S forces in eastern Cuba evacuated about 45 American women and children from areas plagued by rebel kidnap gangs. The operation centers on Cuartana Naval Base with departures for Nicaro nickel plant workers and families, amid ongoing tensions from Townsend and Castro era upheavals.
A masked robber entered the Ate gkin Market at 348 WW Start and forced owner Willard Atkin to hand over about $60. Police, including Lt. Garrison Wilson and officers Hesslink and Lewis, chased the suspect through Magnelia Ave area. Two shots were fired. a 357 Magnum and a hat with gloves were found near the chase. The man, about 5'10" to 6' tall, wearing a dark top and Levi’s, fled after dropping items in an alley.
The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Boris Pasternak, the Soviet author of Doctor Zhivago. His novel, banned in Russia and published abroad, lambasts communism. Pasternak, aged 68, receives the prize of $41,420 from the Royal Swedish Academy.
A 20 page tabloid supplement in today’s paper outlines the autumn fashion story for men. The Independent Press-Teli Bram provides readers with thorough coverage of styles decreed for men and the best clothing buys this season.
In Sacramento Governor Knight disclosed a postcard from William Bonelli currently jailed in Mexico City. The document claims Bonelli mocks prison life while California seeks extradition to Riverside County for bribery charges involving his former State Board of Equalization role. Knight noted Bonelli’s threats amid ongoing efforts to bring him back to California.
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