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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1956
Page
1
California dairy prices rise with a half cent per quart bump in eight Southern California marketing areas and a 14.4 cent hike per quart in four Northern California counties. Production costs drive higher rates. prices will apply Sept 1 to March and revert to current levels on April 1 before rising again in Sept 1957.
Dr Alfred C Kinsey a six year old biologist and author of major works on sexual behavior died in Bloomington Indiana after a brief illness He had been in a coma from heart ailment and pneumonia and his Institute for Sex Research faced a pause in new work The Institute recently moved its headquarters to a new life science building on the Indiana University campus Kinsey who rose to fame with Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and its 1953 follow up on female behavior is survived by two daughters and a son in Cleveland Ohio and by a physician husband in Columbus Indiana
In Baltimore two cars racing on a deserted boulevard collided. Four people died, two more were hospitalized with chest injuries. Names of the deceased include William Bartels Edward Bindok Martha Moeller and Arlene Maisch all from Baltimore. The drivers James F Fannon and Carol Niedzwick were injured and hospitalized. Police planned charges of manslaughter reckless driving and speeding.
A brief Ruhr Valley Rhineland storm struck with gusts to 75 mph. Three people died. A 120 foot chimney fell near Paderborn killing two workers and injuring two. In Essen a man fell from scaffolding and died.
President Eisenhower takes a break from convention duties and plays a round of golf on a course near Monterey as featured on Page A-2, highlighting a lighter moment in the post convention schedule.
Fourteen cars of a 70 car freight train derailed and piled up across five tracks on the main line between New York and Boston in Stamford Connecticut. A railroad spokesman said traffic would probably be stopped for about three hours. The accident was caused when a gondola car buckled after its journal box overheated. No injuries were reported.
In Los Angeles a jury awarded truck driver Jesse Aubrey Edwards 306000 after he was paralyzed while helping unload a pine cargo. The injury occurred December 12 when William Warren's tractor trailer toppled. Edwards sought 600000 against Warren and the Birch Trucking Co.
My News item reports Angelo LaMarca taken from police custody for another car trip as Nassau County investigators probe possible accomplice in the July 4 kidnapping and death of baby Peter Weinberger. Police refuse to reveal details while LaMarca’s remarks point to another person unseen.
Four people died and thirty were injured when a bomb exploded on a busy New Delhi street near a theater queue. An unidentified man fled the scene. The blast followed two earlier attacks in the Jama Masjid area, with police warning of sectarian tension.
London reports Egypt may propose guarantees for unimpeded canal shipping as a counterproposal to internationalization demands. Diplomatic sources in Cairo say President Nasser will outline the pledge in a reply to the five nation Suez Canal committee. Continued on Page A-3.
Grace Gayle, four, accompanied her Jamaican father Dean Gayle to his UK army enlistment after his wife died. Sergeants improvised care for the girl for 20 hours, turning a ward into a nursery and letting her watch children's programming. The army granted an extended leave to arrange care and a home for Grace.
Navy officials confirmed a patrol plane was fired on before vanishing off the Red China coast. A crewman’s body showed gunfire wounds, though not fatal, as searchers recovered wreckage and life rafts while 17 ships scoured the Formosa to Shanghai area. Red China protested the U S search as provocation amid incursions into Burma near Myitkyina.
The forecast calls for night and morning low clouds then bright sun. Temperatures change little with a slight breeze. Moderate smog irritation expected for outdoor activities.
Associated Press reports seven children and seven others died in apartment fires across Houston Baltimore and Jersey City. The Houston fire claimed Dorothy Mae Oliver 31 and her children Elizabeth Carol 9 months Patricia Ann 3 Frances 10 and Charlene 12 along with William Bowens 42. In Baltimore four died and a fifth injured as a three story building burned forcing a leap from a window. Names tentatively including Ralph Bailey 43 Leola Smith 35 Stanley Smith 6 and Elmer Hughes 44. Gregory Smith Peterson 8 in hospital. Jersey City fire destroyed four tenements leaving two women and two boys dead while more than 120 homeless. Fire crews found the bodies of two trapped women on the second floor while roof collapse delayed recovery of the boys.
In Los Angeles a 2 month old baby was critically stabbed in the chest with scissors by his father Richard David Gallardo 24 who was arrested on suspicion of assault with intent to murder. The wife Genevieve 17 said the attack followed a quarrel over his infidelity and heroin use. Police found Gallardo dazed near 8th and Wall Streets.
The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party denied rumors of Nikita Khrushchev’s illness or removal. A spokesman said Khrushchev, the party’s first secretary, was at party headquarters and worked as usual in the afternoon, leaving at the normal quitting time for Saturdays.
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