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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1958
Page
3
A jury found heiress not guilty after testimony about police conduct in the arrest of Mrs. Waller and actress Joyce Byerly. The trial featured claims of officer misconduct and a hidden tape recorder used to capture conversations at Mrs. Waller’s home. Byerly faces a separate drunk charge in the same court.
William Porter Hutte, 51, of New Orleans, jailed in Edinburg after a traffic stop in Lyford led to a check showing he fled Huntsville penitentiary 32 years ago. State Patrol Officer C Dumas’ hunch aided the arrest for a 5 to 15 year rape sentence.
L B Flier and Pal survive a plane crash on a snowbound peak after icing and loss of power. They endured hours in wreckage, improvised snowshoes, and scarce food before being found by loggers and taken to a sheriff’s substation. They return to Castle AFB attached to the 2035th squadron and await news on Air Force Academy entry.
Kremlin accused the United States of seeking outer space control and banning ICBMs while resisting foreign base abolition. It urged a permanent outer space program, an international space data center, and simultaneous prohibitions, with a UN center to supervise space commitments. Khrushchev warned of not remaining mere onlookers if foreign bases or forces moved on Eastern Europe.
The Senate approved an insurance tax bill by 61 to 19, saving insurers about 123 million dollars on 1957 investment income and sending the measure to President Eisenhower for signature. The chamber also defeated a Yarborough amendment to raise personal income tax exemptions from 600 to 800 for one year.
A Southern Pacific Cascades derailment near the Cascades left 27 injured, mostly passengers, as three-unit train derailed between Klamath Falls and Eugene. Rescue crews planned to remove the injured within hours. the cause was not announced.
A 24 year old Pacoima house wife Shirley Ray Dodd was killed when her car was struck and forced across lanes on the San Bernardino Freeway near Eastern Ave in Los Angeles. Her husband James H. Dodd age 24 and their three year old daughter Debra were treated for minor injuries. The third auto driven by Clarence E. Bair 47 of Ely Monte was also seriously involved and taken to Angeles Emergency Hospital. Traffic on both inbound and outbound lanes was tied up for 40 minutes as investigators described a multi vehicle sequence beginning with a rear end hit by an unidentified eastbound car and subsequent collisions.
MOUNDSVILLE W VA A 15 year old high school freshman Dean Smith admitted in a written statement to killing his mother Grace Wims with a hatchet while they were alone in the family trailer. He said he stuffed the body under his bed and later confessed the disappearance tale was a hoax. Marshall County prosecutors planned to file a murder charge.
Two U S Army twin engine planes landed near Tokyo becoming the first light planes to make the 15000 mile ferry from Maguire Field New Jersey. A third L23 Seminole joined later but was grounded in Okinawa for engine trouble. The group, unable to cross the Pacific due to limited range, traveled via Newfoundland the Azores the Middle East and southeast Asia. They had aimed to reach Japan on March 4 but bad weather caused delays.
Fragmentary OCR shows a Long Beach California postal class matter notice with rates and delivery details. Reads like a listings snippet for sale or publication at Pine Avenue, Lone Beach, with incomplete entries and dates.
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