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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1958
Page
2
A special IGY committee in Moscow voted to extend the international earth, sun and oceans research by one year, delaying the December 1958 end. The extension would run as the International Geophysical Cooperation of 1959, but funding from 60 governments remains required.
Dr Glennan named head of the civilian space agency, taking a leave from Case Institute of Technology. He says American progress is substantial but not instant, and will oversee satellites, space travel, and related facilities amid Sputnik competition.
In Hickory Catawba County a dispute over 42000 donated for infantile paralysis funds pits the National Association for Infantile Paralysis against the local Catawba chapter. NASA backed by Dr Hugh L Dryden seeks the money for non military space projects while county officials confirm funds were donated for local polio care. A child patient was treated at Asheville Orthopedic Hospital as the dispute unfolds.
At the California Democratic State Convention in Sacramento Pat Brown and Clair Engle assailed Republican foes while urging unity. Edmund G. Brown attacked Governor Knight and opposition to Prop 17 Prop 18 and Prop 26, opposing all three ballot measures. Delegates favored opposing right to work and parochial school tax exemption but Brown stood firm.
Georgia Skelton, wife of comedian Red Skelton, collapsed in her hotel room in Las Vegas and was hospitalized Friday night. A doctor at Memorial Hospital said she suffered nervous exhaustion and her condition was serious while Red Skelton performed a night club act at a Las Vegas hotel.
At the Soviet diplomatic headquarters in Geneva no vodka was served at a reception for guests of honor who were delegates to the fourth summer institute for the prevention of alcoholism.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to pay singer Jane Froman and two others $23 403 58 each for injuries from a plane crash en route to entertain troops in 1943. Miss Froman, Gypsy Markoff, and Lorraine Regnan were injured in a Lisbon flight incident. The panel cut the House awards and added Regnan, previously uncov ered by the House bill.
Senator Lister Hill plans to push his 136 billion education aid bill after the House passed a 910 million measure by voice vote, cutting scholarship provisions and shifting funds to a student loan program. The House also approves 260 million for four years of state grants to bolster science math and foreign language instruction with new lab equipment. Hill's plan would fund teacher institutes to raise general instruction levels, a provision absent in the House bill.
Jack Warner remains in a hospital bed after a highway collision as Congress debates federal aid for education. Despite injuries, he advocates scholarships and loan programs, while House amendments shift funds to a college loan plan and bar race or sex discrimination in loans and fellowships. The Senate faces a vote likely early next week amid party debate.
President Eisenhower relaxed at his Gettysburg farm after praising the crew of the atomic submarine on a new Arctic voyage. He stayed in touch with Washington aides monitoring the United Nations General Assembly and Middle East tensions. He planned to remain until Sunday night or Monday morning and may travel to New York next week to present the U S stabilization program for the Mideast.
Novelist Louis Golding, 62, British author of Magnolia Street, died in London after weeks in hospital. He arrived from Washington by helicopter earlier today and had received the Legion of Merit 25 years ago. He was with the Nautilus crew when ill.
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