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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1959
Page
2
Rockefeller and Anne Marie rehearse their church wedding with family members present. The couple plans to marry in the church in the coming weeks and will host a reception afterward.
The Long Beach event prompts protests over privacy and press freedom as organizers plan a new international beauty pageant amid financial and sponsorship tensions. Rockefeller family remarks, Norwegian wedding plans, and regional energy news intertwine with the contest’s staging and safety concerns.
Riley reports consumer prices jumped in July driven by restaurant and housing costs while spendable earnings for factory workers fell, shrinking buying power. Price drops in fruits vegetables but gains in automobiles and other items offset. Westinghouse Electric and Chicago Transit Authority workers to receive modest wage increases.
Los Angeles police questioned Nash about possible confessions beyond Berg and the Rice boy murders. The 36 year old inmate, on death row, had killed at least 11 men and boys and spent years in isolation with no visitors. His body to be cremated after conviction for two murders. Police verified three other killings in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Richmond.
In New York the abandoned Jamaica racetrack in Queens may host the United States' largest cooperative middle income housing project. The City Board of Estimate approved in principle a 178 acre purchase costing about 69 million dollars. The plan includes apartments for 6,350 families with an initial down payment of 600 dollars per room and a monthly maintenance rent of 23 dollars per room.
Pacific Gas and Electric announces the first geothermal electric generating station in North America. A 12,500 kilowatt unit 26 miles north of Healdsburg will use geyser steam, expected to cost 2 million dollars and finish next summer. Healdsburg lies 67 miles north of San Francisco.
The California Highway Patrol seeks to identify three persons killed in a crash on U S 101 about 39 miles north of here. The car bore Indiana license plates.
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