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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1957
Page
4
An item reports on a civil defense drill phase ending with President Eisenhower’s return to the capital. The exercise simulated evacuation of up to 41 to 54 million Americans and assessed relocation centers with limited damage. Hagerty, White House press secretary, noted the president was informed of the evaluation results.
Ernest M. Gentry said Robert Lee Barrow, 28, and Kenneth Wells, 30, were arrested after a narcotics sting went wrong. The agents lost 720 dollars in marked currency and the two pistols plus a station wagon were recovered. Barrow and Wells, both with prior prison sentences, allegedly forced the agent and his companion from a car on a country road near Barrow’s home before fleeing.
An advertising note touts Dean's Pills as fast relief for backache headaches and muscular pains. It claims quick action through soothing tablets and diuretic effects while urging readers to ask for the product by name.
Traffic crashes over the weekend in Orange County killed four people and injured about forty. A 20 year old Costa Mesa youth died from motorcycle injuries suffered Thursday. Within the county several residents were killed in crashes including Befino Mendoza 13 La Jolla Colony Placentia Edna Tobias 52 San Diego Hubert Deleon 19 Los Angeles James Caulft 25 Los Angeles James Corzine 20 Santa Ana Street Costa Mesa died Saturday night in a Newport Beach hospital. Outside the county Norris Northup 48 Garden Grove and Carl Cochran and son Michael Cochran 16 Anaheim are listed among the deceased.
Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson attacked a San Luis Reservoir bill in Congress calling for state financing of early storage with federal funds left out. He argued it would burden the state financially and deprive Southern California of a supplemental water supply, warning the plan would eventually require a larger reservoir than proposed and might raise prices for local farm owners.
The second victim of a runaway truck and trailer in Dunsmuir died Sunday night. Mayor J Morgan Jones announced the city will begin stopping interstate trucks entering from the north. Trucks with defective brakes would be impounded and drivers cited after a series of crashes on US Highways 89 into Main Street.
A fragmented program overview shows J Girls rehearsing Miss U S A roles with events across a week. Details note heats, semifinals, trophies, and appearances by Sailors from Long Beach area, with exhibitions by the Singers Workshop and Miss Universe selections and coronation plans.
Senator McClellan says the Senate rackets committee will resume hearings to investigate alleged attempts to intimidate a witness. He accuses James P. Cross of the Bakery Workers Union and cites retaliatory measures. The witness, who filed an affidavit on union affairs, was set to testify.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power filed for a preliminary permit with the Federal Power Commission for a Bridge Canyon dam and 750,000 kilowatt hydroelectric plant on the Colorado River 117 miles upstream from Hoover Dam in Arizona. Estimated cost exceeds one billion dollars with transmission lines to Los Angeles costing about 109 million. operation could begin in 1966.
France suspends for one year the indemnity payments for production cutbacks as the government bets on rising demand after the common market expands. Since 1953 about 375000 acres of vines have been uprooted amid a wine surplus. if demand grows, the measure will apply in 1958 with tariff reductions starting in 1959.
Wallace E. Swan, 52, reported a burglar entered an industrial plant through a skylight and was attacked with a rubber hammer. Swan fired three times, and James Lee Young, 25, of Pavot ma, was pronounced dead at St. Joseph Hospital. Police note past arrests for grand theft, burglary, and narcotics.
Senator Green, 89, who was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital after heat and exhaustion, was expected to return to his office late today or Tuesday. He collapsed briefly while attending a reception at the Pakistani embassy.
In New York a new healing substance reportedly relieves hemorrhoids without surgery. Doctors observed striking improvement in several cases with prompt relief of pain and gradual shrinking of the swollen tissue over months, with patients claiming piles have ceased.
The passage details Bryndis and other girls traveling to Long Beach after a judge Pratta arranged for a paid ticket. Bryndis expresses homesickness yet appreciates the company of the other girls and mentions lacking a return ticket to Iceland while a chaperone plans to address it this week.
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