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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1959
Page
2
NASA launched a Nike-Asp two stage rocket at dawn from Wallops Island Virginia to study high altitude wind currents and diffusion of a large sodium vapor trail and cloud visible along the east coast. A second launch is planned for Tuesday at twilight.
Benny Fields veteran of vaudeville Broadway and television died Sunday at 65. Services set for Tuesday in Milwaukee home of record with wife Blossom Seeley at his side. He rose to fame with Blossom in a long marriage and starred in Somebody Loves Me, famed for his soft shoe and suave stage persona.
Joseph Hersch, president of Sullivan County National Bank of Liberty, reported a pouch containing $142,000 in cash and other registered mail missing after delivery to the post office for shipment to a Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. The train reportedly arrived in Hoboken, NJ, without the bag.
Khrushchev’s U S trip prompts heavy press interest with about 150 reporters and photographers seeking coverage. Foreign journalists, Russian officials, interpreters, and local aides swell the contingents as possible stopovers shift from Texas and Florida to cities like San Francisco New York Washington Town Farm and perhaps Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller arrived in Sogne Norway to attend the Saturday wedding of son Steven and his fiancée Aime Marie Rasmussen. She flew from New York via London and Copenhagen, while Gov. Nelson Rockefeller plans to leave New York Thursday for Norway. Anne Marie, 21, chose her sister Thorhild, 19, as maid of honor and selected bridesmaids from school days. Anne Marie and Steven gave a news conference on the Loga wharf before sailing in a rowboat for photos as the couple prepared for the ceremony amid a flurry of letters and telegrams of happiness from around the world. A severe drought storm lashed southern Steven’s area, flooding streams, closing highways, and causing damage and power interruptions.
A South Los Angeles man was shot dead by his common-law wife, Amelia McLemore, 43, who fired twice with a .25 caliber revolver at their home. She was booked on suspicion of murder as investigators labeled it a domestic incident. The report notes tension surrounding a high profile wedding involving Nelson A. Rockefeller’s son Steven and his fiancée Mia.
The Off-Broadway Theater presents James Allardice’s comedy At War with the Army featuring Michael Cobb Bob Giles Keith James Daugherty and Dale Clark. Karen Francus Bernice Nelson Bonnie Ferguson deliver comic turns though the farce feels uneven with wobbly direction and duller female roles.
The Weather Bureau said today a close watch is kept on a suspected storm area in the Atlantic south east of Puerto Rico about 809 miles away in the Lesser Antilles region. The notice places SAN JUAN as the reporting location with official monitoring ongoing.
New York real estate investor Lawrence A. Wren purchased Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn in a deal exceeding 10 million dollars. Clark and associates will manage the 200 acre property under an initial 20 year lease with options ending in 2022.
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