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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1958
Page
3
United States voters cast about 48 million ballots as parties faced broad upsets. Democrats aimed for double digit Senate gains and governors shifts, with Alaska and California races key. Nixon campaigned for Rockefeller and Keating amid a climate of expected party realignments.
Democratic National Chairman Paul M Butler predicts Democrats will gain 11 or 12 Senate seats and 47 House seats. Democrats would hold the Senate 49 47 and the House 235 200, including last held vacants, excluding Maine where Democrats won a Senate and a House seat. Republican Chairman Meade Alcorn forecasts a major upset but offers no specific numbers.
Former Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero won Cuba's election by a wide margin to succeed President Fulgencio Batista amid low turnout and bloodshed. Rebel Fidel Castro had urged a boycott as unofficial returns from 5,032 precincts showed Rivero Aguero leading with 651,859 votes.
In the 1958 California primary race, US Senator Knowland channels his right to work stance as a business reform bid against Governor Knight and Attorney General Brown. Brown supports Warren tradition while Knight pursues a GOP leadership path with intra party strife marked by Nixon tensions. Engle runs in the northern district contest.
Local voters faced long ballots with races from city measures to state offices. The big local issue was Jobs for Long Beach and Prop X to abolish the Municipal Band while a Kenrick Klocksiem contest for the Assembly drew attention. Returns expected late Wednesday night with independent press and party headquarters open for public watching.
Harry Hugh Sayle aged 68 of Hendersonville North Carolina died Monday. Sayle was credited with building the first hotel at Miami Beach Florida. He was a prominent hotel pioneer in the region.
A Long Beach hotel advertises dining and lodging along 1290 E Ocean Blvd offering oceanfront access from boulevard to sea. Two lobbies private baths carpeting desks telephones daily mat service with a large dining room. Rates include room and meals at 26.50 weekly per person. Dining room serves outside public with club breakfast and dinners listed.
The 76 year old former Venice patriarch Giovanni Cardinal Roncalli was crowned as Pope in St Peter's Rome watched by relatives and a vast crowd. Cardinal Cina placed the crown as the new pontiff chanted the urbi et orbi blessing. The ceremony aired worldwide by television and radio with a plenary indulgence granted to listeners and viewers.
In the Saturday Evening Post a feature on Ralph Bellamy portraying President Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campo bello. The piece details the actor’s extraordinary challenge of mimicking polio affected gait and mannerisms and explores Bellamy’s controversial on and offstage persona.
Prize winning author John Bartlow Martin reveals figures on divorce in the United States and details Los Angeles Conciliation Court experiments aimed at addressing this social calamity with a new corrective approach.
An exclusive Post report tours Cape Canaveral’s rocket launch center revealing daily life, the preparation and firing process, and schedules for manned space shots. It contrasts U S and Russian space programs while profiling the operators and engineers behind the missions.
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