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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1959
Page
18
The Press Telegram reveals eleven additional winners in the $10,000 Lucky Numbers Game, bringing total winning serial numbers to 22. Deadline for today’s prizes is Thursday at 5 p.m. Winners should bring Social Security card and ID to the PT business office at 604 Pine Ave, Long Beach.
Honolulu and Hilo confront a major hurricane packing 130 mph winds moving westward toward the Hawaiian Islands with forecasts placing landfall near Hilo then Honolulu. Typhoon Ellen barrels toward Okinawa with winds up to 135 mph as U.S. forces relocate aircraft to safer areas in Japan and the Philippines.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon toured the Warsaw mass execution site and the Palmiry Forest graves, urging an end to racial hatred as he warned that future wars would destroy cities like Warsaw. He noted Poland’s victims including Janusz Kusocinskis grave and spoke of unity for peace.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is likely to arrive in the United States on September 15, with a Washington landing anticipated. Officials say final word must come from Khrushchev, and a New York appearance at the United Nations General Assembly remains possible after Washington. The visit signals a high point in U.S. Soviet diplomacy, aiming to ease East-West tensions through direct talks with President Eisenhower and a nationwide tour. Moscow reports say Khrushchev will bring his wife, son, and daughter.
Brief note lists page locations for features by Hal Boyle on Page A7 Beach Combing on Page A7 Bridge section A7 Comic features on Pages B4 and B7 Classifieds span Pages D2 through D7 Your Workt appears on Page A2.
Long Beach medical society attacks phone fee practice as insurers blamed for claim delays. West European press welcomed the Khrushchev Eisenhower talks with caution about power balance. A California quake near Nevada disrupted Berkeley briefly as officials reported no major damage.
Famed Anamosa poet Paul Engle and his wife and daughters Sara and Mary Evelyn were held at knifepoint for eight hours at their summer home by two Des Moines fugitives from a reform school. They were bound with plastic-covered wire before the escapees fled in Engle’s station wagon. One suspect, Sills, was later captured after abandoning the car. Morrison fled in another vehicle.
Weather forecast notes low clouds late tonight and early Wednesday with a mostly sunny Wednesday afternoon. Temperature little changed with a maximum near 77 degrees by noon today.
An earthquake woke Fresno area residents at 12 37 a m with no damage expected. The Weather Bureau noted barometer changes at the tremor time.
Nearing 3,000 cabins above Apple Valley with a second finger of fire approaching rugged Deep Creek Canyon, crews from 10 cities join California, federal, and county firefighters. Ten square miles of watershed burned, only about 20 percent containment reported as flames threaten Cedar Springs and Hesperia with thousands of homes at risk. The Miller Canyon blaze forced crews to abandon hoselines while protecting homes and saving a dozen structures. Continued coverage on page A-4.
In Washington the Senate Housing subcommittee voted 5 4 against overriding President Eisenhowers housing bill veto and began drafting new legislation. Senator Sparkman led the panel with confidence the new bill would resemble the 1 375 billion package, aiming to complete work by night.
Los Angeles fire authorities search for a missing fire hydrant knocked over by a car. The hydrant disappeared after the incident, raising questions about property recovery and municipal safety.
Secretary of State Christian A Herter plans to depart Geneva at 2 am Thursday returning to the United States. The foreign ministers conference set to end Wednesday and Herter will fly home on the same special jet that brought him to Geneva for the second half of the conference nearly four weeks ago.
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