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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1958
Page
3
De Gaulle’s plan wins a strong referendum showing 68 year old ex Free French leader secures overwhelming support as Algeria reports 97 percent yes in counted districts. Moslem women vote for the first time marking a historic aspect of the referendum.
Two Air Force balloonists Clifton McClure and M Lee Lewis rode a 3,000 foot open gondola as a sniper fired seven shots from a dirt road near Union Iowa. McClure, slated for a 100000 foot ascent Tuesday, described the attack while ground crew attempted to pursue the shooters. A separate Manila Bay taxi boat blast left a woman and three children missing with twenty others injured.
Hollywood mother says her husband Elmer Clarence Max Menkel has been missing over three months. She claims the government may invest up to five million dollars in his motion detector invention to detect nearby aircraft and prevent in flight collisions. He allegedly left after accruing debts while pursuing funding. Polaris Engineering of Los Angeles notified her of government interest.
George A. Sattler, 70, co founder of the Gaffers and Sattler Stove Co, died in a Santa Ana hospital after a fall at home. Officials said the accident was not the direct cause, with no specific cause given. Sattler and his brother John founded the stove company in 1805 and he led the firm until 1927.
Long Beach and Vicinity mostly sunny today and Tuesday with low clouds fog early Tuesday. Highs around 82 today, 86 Sunday, water 67. Southland beaches clear and warm, surf calm. Interior valleys 100–103, upper valleys 90–95. Mountain areas sunny, cooler nights. Tides high 5.8 ft at 9:25 am and 4.6 ft at 8:56 pm. lows 11 ft at 3:19 am and 0.6 ft at 4 pm. Sunrise 5:46, sunset 5:41.
In Eureka a car plunged into a stream, drowning nine youths. The dead include James Conner, 26, Samuel Thomas, 19, and Gordon, 17, with two others escaping from the water as the vehicle lay half-submerged.
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