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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1958
Page
3
The former president Herbert Hoover, 31st U S leader from 1929 to 1933, has stayed active despite health concerns. He lives at the Waldorf Astoria, last spoke publicly at Valley Forge, and chaired a commission on executive organization advising reforms.
Federal Judge Edmund L. Palmieri in New York City signed an order restraining entry by the State Power Authority at the Tuscarora Indian reservation. The action suspends land access pending a hearing on a permanent injunction after clashes last week as surveyors and deputies faced resistance during the $600 million project. Leaders of the Tuscarora and Troquois Confederacy arrived to support the dispute over 1383 acres authorities plan to use.
Civil Defense directors from 61 cities in seven western states wrapped a two day meeting in Santa Rosa. Philip D. Boston said the focus is continuity of government lines of succession preserving records and control centers using government personnel and resources. An attack alert will be held May 6 and 7 with a federal phase test July 14 18 as first tests for the national plan.
The ketch Golden Rule with four crewmen reached Honolulu on its way to the Pacific proving grounds to protest planned U bomb tests this spring and summer. Skipper Albert Bigelow planned to stay until midweek to repair a rudder and refuel. Authorities were not known to interfere despite reports the Navy might pick up the crew. The AEC banned U.S. citizens from entering the test zone and Bigelow said the voyage would continue come what may.
A man who married five years ago with no children faced deportation after voluntary surrender. His wife stated they could have acted had they known his flight path. Heikkila had Communist ties in the 1930s in Minnesota, linked to unemployment aid and farm mortgage actions during the Depression. The Supreme Court upheld deportation on April 27, 1953, and subsequent appeals by Heikkila were denied.
Priscilla Whitcomb of Smith College says the 20 year old left Northampton with Richard Thatcher after a 17 month relation ended. Thatcher, paroled from Colorado State Reformatory for a bad check, faced a Massachusetts charge tied to Thatcher renting a car before their disappearance. The pair lived at several Boston addresses under assumed names. Whitcomb plans to stay home while sorting her future, denying involvement of others.
Weather reports show showers in Michigan Indiana Minnesota and the northern Midwest failing to end a widespread forest fire threat. Arson suspected in several blazes as thousands of woodland acres burn with conditions remaining dry and hot in parts of the region.
U S District Court in Tacoma granted an indefinite delay of Teamster president Dave Becks income tax evasion trial set for May 5 The judge noted progress on pre trial activities will guide a new date Becks lawyers cited ongoing publicity as preventing impartial jurors while prosecutors asked for more time for research The case involves alleged tax evasion of 240000 from 1950 to 1953 and may include hundreds of witnesses and about 1000 exhibits.
The report details Truman denying an exclusive 1950 Times interview about unemployment. Krock later corroborated discussing the interview, with Truman apologizing to Krook and Spence. Truman's secretary Acheson refreshed memory, and the former president commented his memory and pace have declined.
Washington updates show George W Healy Jr of the New Orleans Times-Picayune elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors for the coming year. Other officers named include J R Wiggins of the Washington Post Times-Herald and Carl B Lindstrom of the Hartford Times. Turner Catledge of the New York Times serves as Secretary and Earl H Briggs as treasurer. Briggs 69, longtime Long Beach and Santa Ana-area figure, died after a brief illness. He helped open Atlantic Ave and served on park commissions. his wife Eunice died in 1997. Service Monday at Hunter Mortuary Chapel.
Former premier Sim Var accepted a mandate to form a new Cambodian cabinet after Penn Nouth declined for health reasons. King Suramarit called for the restructuring as part of the government’s transition.
Dr. Hugh A. Kuhn, 63, prominent physician, died Thursday of a heart attack in Chicago. He lectured at European universities and served as president of the American Society of Ophthalmology in 1952 and vice president of the American College of Allergists in 1957.
Proxy reveals 14 top GM executives and directors earned 10.5 million in 1957, down from 13.9 million in 1956. Harlow Curtice's compensation reached 621100, with directors including Donner, Goad, Gordon,inds, Kyes, Osborn, Russell, Skinner, Stradella, Bradley, Keating, Wettering, and Wiles also listed among payments.
FBI agents arrested Frank Aubrey Leftwich 36 on the Chicago North Side without resistance, using the alias Ralph Clinton McDonald. The suspect, on the ten most wanted list, had evaded capture since May 1957 while employed as a welder and fled a North Carolina prison camp on October 19, 1954, serving a 6 to 10 year term for assault with a deadly weapon. The capture was announced by FBI Director J Edgar Hoover in Washington.
President Eisenhower and George Allen visited the Gettysburg Country Club for a spring round of golf before a 25 mile drive from Camp David. About 350 Camp David construction workers were laid off temporarily to keep the presidential retreat quiet over the weekend.
Eight year old Rex Staten of Bell was killed when his uncle How ard Dunn fired a gun he believed unloaded. Police say a bullet remained in the chamber. Dunn fled, later surrendered, and is jailed on suspicion of manslaughter. Rex’s father is in county jail for drunkenness. mother’s whereabouts unknown. The boy stayed with grandparents Roy and Kunce after visiting Dunn for rabbit hunting talk. The grandfather had removed a magazine, thinking the weapon unloaded before handing it over.
McElroy and Twining defend SAC warning protocol and confirmatory messages to avoid misinterpretation. They say bombers return without proceed instruction and insist no change, citing security. White House to brief Eisenhower on NATO defense ministers meeting and defense reorganization plans next week.
The Wisconsin Judicial Council proposes cash boxes for motorcycle policemen to speed traffic fine collection. The plan aims to streamline state court fines and improve efficiency in roadside payments.
Tokyo reports the Liberal Democratic Party under Premier Nobusuke Kishi set May 22 for Japan’s seventh postwar general election. The move positions the LDP to seek continued governance as political factions prepare campaigns and voters await turnout.
An OCR fragment describes a hotel along a boulevard facing the ocean with private baths and daily maid service. It mentions a dining room with weekly meals priced around 24.50, and a menu including choice steaks and turkey. Contact details appear garbled.
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