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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1958
Page
1
Franks Clark of 355 Granada Ave was awakened by police early Friday morning and told his 1953 Oldsmobile had been stolen and ditched on Colorado Street near Pacific Coast Highway. Clark helped push the car upright, then drove it home and went back to sleep.
A four engine British Royal Air Force bomber carrying a goodwill message from Lincoln England crashed near the Detroit River on Friday. Six aboard were killed and debris damaged several homes, with police reporting no survivors. The Mayday call came from Wright Patterson Air Force Base after the jet departed Goose Bay Labrador en route to Lincoln Air Force Base Nebraska.
Arthur Godfrey escaped injury when his two passenger Bell helicopter crash landed at Leesburg Airport. He cited a malfunction caused by centrifugal forces just off the ground as the Civil Aeronautics Board sent investigators.
President Eisenhower cited government cost stability as proof the economy can recover from the recession without triggering inflation. He dismissed a Fed chair’s suggestion for consumer credit controls to curb boom bust cycles. Cheryl Crews ends seclusion after stabbing. coroner’s jury calls it justifiable homicide.
Indian officials fret over maps in a Soviet publication that show large northeast frontier areas as Chinese territory. They will not protest in Russia, arguing Moscow would deny originality and Peiping would call it an old map from a prior government.
Sources say the Japanese government has agreed to begin negotiations with Russia on a cultural treaty, a move announced Friday by informed officials. The talks aim to deepen cultural exchange and formalize cooperation between the two nations.
Former Navy lieutenant commander and 7th District councilman John F Baker died Friday night aboard USS Haven after a heart attack at home earlier. Born April 18 1903 in Sandy Hook NJ he served WWII in the Pacific and later fought to keep the Naval Shipyard open. He leaves Mary and children Startey Iran ces and siblings in Long Beach and New York area. Funeral arrangements are set with Mottell’s Peck Mortuary and a special election will be held within 90 days to fill the vacant seat.
Philadelphia. Mickey Cohen sues Curtis Publishing and writer Dean Jennings for one million dollars claiming four Saturday Evening Post articles titled Mickey Cohen The Private Life of a Hood libeled him. He alleges 10 false statements of murder assault conspiracy fraud and other crimes and seeks 250000 general damages 600000 punitive and 250000 special damages for alleged harms to his life and plans for a forthcoming book.
Anita Louise Tebbetts, a Stanford University coed and Wilson High School graduate from Long Beach, was found dead in Roble Hall after a lunch hour. A .28 caliber revolver was found beneath her body. She had left a note reading Mother pray for me, though police found no note. Tebbetts, daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederick C Tebbetts, had been troubled by studies and had previously attended USC after Wilson. She was remembered as a popular, high achieving student with future promise.
President Eisenhower announced Adm. Lewis L. Strauss would succeed Sinclairs Weeks as secretary of commerce. Weeks resigns for personal and family reasons, effective after November 10, with Strauss to take over via a recess appointment and Senate confirmation sought in January.
Oilman Robert R. McKeown, 47, of Galena Park, Texas, drew a 60 day jail term for conspiring to ship arms to Cuban rebels. He also received a two year suspended sentence on illegal firearms possession.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced Friday a suspected Russian test detonation triggered another alleged yield event. Officials described the incident as a possible nuclear test with immediate regional and global implications.
On the road with Nixon the vice president predicted that Knowland and Knight will win if their California campaign tempo remains high. He said campaign pace and tactics could decide the outcome, stressing the last ten days could be decisive.
Report notes independent Harry Truman and Vice President Nixon exchanging small bouquets in a brief Friday moment on Page A-5. Also mentions faint hope for 83 men trapped in a collapsed coal shaft in Page A- art.
Weather fronts move through the Northern Pacific as heavy rain floods Long Beach and Sunland-Tujunga areas. Roads washed out in Solamini Canyon near Ewhall, with streets flooded and stores inundated. Thunderstorms predicted for mountains and desert regions.
Eric Cullenward widely known Bay Area public relations man and former newspaper editor died Friday in Herrick Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. He was 86, born in Sydney, Australia, and formerly managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner and Los Angeles Examiner, executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and later chief of the State Bureau of Documents. In the late 1930s he served as executive secretary to San Francisco Mayor Angelo Rossi.
The exchange hints at a Danish meteorologist beating a human forecaster with an electronic brain. It frames automation as the end of bureaucracy, and notes Bare panels as the scene of the discussion.
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