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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1957
Page
3
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson criticized fears about the jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill. He argued the change could prevent bitter sectionalism and urged enactment ahead of a Senate vote.
Vice Admiral Henry Varnum Butler aged 83 and longtime aide to Captain Gridley died Tuesday. A veteran of the Spanish American War at Manila Bay and World War I and II, he was born in Paterson New Jersey.
Five amateur sailors aboard the 42 foot sloop Sea Fever, skippered by Larry Alexander, finished nearly 50 days at sea starting from southern Japan in June 1946. The crew including Alexander’s wife Margaret and son Johnnie, plus Richard Lewis and Richard G Snyder, arrived in Honolulu amid light seas and will spend about a month ashore before sailing to the United States.
A health official warned Cameron County residents that an epidemic of sleeping sickness, or encephalitis, threatens the area unless the disease spread is checked soon, as of Tuesday.
President Eisenhower said he is considering Neil McElroy of Procter & Gamble as secretary of defense once the routine Ohio manufacturer investigation is finished. He praised McElroy as one of the finest men in the country and noted former Secretary Wilson's desire to retire before next fiscal year budget work begins in September.
Colorado Springs deputies hunt the wooded upper Pike’s Peak area for 88 year old Mrs. Inestine B. Roberts last heard from Monday. Eight men plus more searchers and equipment expected today as the elderly climber, lifelong hiker, stayed at Barr Camp shelter five miles from the summit.
Pentagon announced the 9th Marine Regiment will depart Japan for Okinawa in a few days, leaving about 40,000 U.S. troops in the region including the 3rd Marine Air Wing, Navy, Air Force, and Army units. The move follows Eisenhower’s pledge to withdraw ground troops from Japan by year end, finalizing a long planned redeployment in the Far East with Adm. Stump guiding the reorganization.
A 1 100 000 lawsuit filed in Santa Monica Superior Court charges plagiarism in the television program To Tell the Truth. Plaintiffs Art Linkletter's People Are Funny Productions accuse CBS Columbia Broadcasting System ANAT Pharmaceutica Inc and Goodson Tadman Enterprises Ltd of copying a similar show from 1938 and 1952.
United States to Soviet inspection plan limits bases in North Allies Middle East Turkey and Pakistan avoid triggering political issues. Harold E. Stassen says zones could expand only with progress on broader disarmament questions during U N Disarmament Subcommittee talks.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover received the annual award from the National Counterintelligence Corps Association at its three day San Francisco convention closing session. About 300 former Army Counterintelligence Corps personnel attended. The event highlighted focus on inspection zones amid tensions with communist nations and their relations to regional security.
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