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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1958
Page
5
Auto makers introduce swivel front seats that swing out 40 degrees at the lever and return on cushion pressure. The feature aids back-in parking and skirted drivers. Also upcoming is a nonglare auto-dimming rear view mirror. General Motors Rochester Products offers a device to reduce engine stalling from high under hood temperatures.
New York AP column by HAL Boyle surveys quirky space age curiosities and trivia. It covers Megacorpse meaning a million dead awaiting disposal after a nuclear attack, driving risk odds, ancient glyph origins, Fields and W C, honeymoon trends, vacation spending, overpopulation fears, heartbeat pauses, Sammy Kaye psychiatry quip, White House budget, shaving math, beef color, thin aluminum, U S Senate snuff, and Sir William Osler dating advice.
A Trans World Airlines Super Constellation with 61 aboard diverted to Cut Bank Montana after an engine fire. One passenger, Wilfred Price of San Francisco, was injured leaping clear as the four engine airliner landed safely. The aircraft came from London en route to Los Angeles and set a grass fire promptly controlled by firefighters. Captain Earl W. Fleet of Kansas City guided a smooth touchdown. The remaining passengers stayed in Cut Bank overnight awaiting another flight.
Robin Rochester three month old son of Mr and Mrs Robert Rochester R 4 Tomah died of suffocation at his home late Monday Deputy Sheriff Allan Oss and Tomah police officer Robert Hurley applied artificial respiration but in vain The baby was pronounced dead on arrival at a Tomah hospital The body was taken to the Ness Funeral Chapel Black River Falls Death believed to be due to a respiratory ailment.
A September Reader's Digest condensation promises a power readers already possess that can boost success and happiness. It cites examples like Charles Atlas Elsa Maxwell and Agnes de Mille and urges readers to use this power to improve family social and business life starting now.
AP reports isolated Muslim revolts against the atheistic regime in China. Hui and Uighur groups clash with authorities amid purges and forced collectivization. Prominent leaders and priests face party expulsions as campaigns spread in Shantung, Kansu, Hopei and Sinkiang.
Administration sources say President Eisenhower is expected to sign a bill boosting Social Security benefits by about 7 percent. He may criticize provisions increasing federal grants for state public assistance programs but aides say the merits outweigh demerits. The measure would raise minimum benefits, set new maximums, and expand taxable earnings base and tax rates.
The National Safety Council estimates 420 people may be killed in traffic accidents during the Labor Day weekend, about 70 more than a non holiday period. It urges drivers to drop speed by 10 mph, travel safely, and not drink drive. The period runs from 6 pm Friday to midnight Monday.
Thirty airmen from Quonset Point Naval Air Station were guests at a Christmas party with a tree gifts and egg nog in a local North Kingston restaurant. The gathering was hosted by civilian friends of Air Development Squadron 6 ahead of their Saturday departure for the Antarctic.
A 300-pound nine-foot shark found on Bronx sidewalks was hauled away by the Sanitation Department. Soon after residents saw an eight-foot porpoise hung from a lamp post, prompting another sanitation response.
AP report notes CBS radio's Mitch Miller Show features witty discussions with top writers. In a Hollywood visit, Miller taped four Writers Guild of America West members Edmund Hartmann Frank Nugent John Lee Mahin Hal Kanter, who discuss writing life and the Hollywood NY contrast.
In Lincoln Neprud's circuit court Friday afternoon the Briggs Motor Sales building and lots in Whitehall were sold for 15000 dollars. The winning and only bid came from Robert O. Gauger, publisher of the Whitehall Times.
Washington reports the United States urges Iraq to restore embassy phone service, permit coded messages, allow full access for American advisers, end delays on diplomatic pouches, ensure quick embassy access for U.S. diplomats and Iraqi staff, and return a jeep seized after two Marines were detained at an oil fire in Baghdad.
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