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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1958
Page
9
New York reports actress Rosalind Russell will reprise her Broadway lead in Wonderful Town for a CBS Television special airing November 30. The broadcast highlights her original role and marks a live musical presentation with a star cast anticipated by fans.
Pittsburgh based Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, head of Selective Service since 1941, warned that many youths dodge induction by feigning mental and physical deficiencies. He cited 56 percent of those called up listed as unfit and questioned 20 percent failing fourth grade mental ability tests, suggesting faulty testing and players at beating the system while noting most youths, if given a chance to serve, would make good soldiers.
In Columbus, two Cincinnati inmates died eight minutes apart in the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary during an attempted robbery case. The execution marked the first double death on death row in 11 years, with detectives reporting the men were linked to a pot of crimes staged in September 1955.
Pilot Max Schumacher 33 and passenger Dona Reed 38 on a news helicopter crashed into a tree to avoid striking children on a Glendale grade school playground. Schumacher broke his back and Reed was thrown through the nose as the craft burst into flames but no children were hurt. The pair had been surveying traffic for KABC when the engine failed at 450 feet and Schumacher steered toward a deserted yard to spare the kids.
Floods following torrential rains drown seven people in western and southwestern Poland and force the shutdown of 16 industrial plants as production halts in the region.
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