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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1959
Page
2
London officials report success using a tape of Elvi s Presley signals to frighten seagulls from aircraft jet streams. Birds fled temporarily but returned soon after the tape ran long. Authorities praise Presley's persistent appeal as key to the avian deterrent.
Ten Kansas City area mayors plan a March 28 demonstration after officials rejected fire sirens as effective tornado warnings. Roeland Park mayor W G Moore proposes tying steam whistle compressors at four filling stations to blast all four whistles simultaneously to wake residents.
General Nathan F. Twining and Secretary of Defense McElroy urged Congress to approve Eisenhower’s foreign aid program totaling 3.99 billion dollars with 1.6 billion for military aid. They warned cuts would erase modernization and force improvements, citing Nationalist Chinese defense of Quemoy as a key example of mutual aid value. House members questioned war aims in Europe and cited possible larger cuts to the aid program beyond last year’s reductions.
The Coast Guard cutter Ewing rushed to a U S Navy radar picket ship 250 miles off the California coast to aid an unidentified crew member with a severe attack of pleurisy. The Ewing expected to meet the vessel at noon and return by early Thursday. The man would be flown to Oaktond Hospital at Osk Knoll.
San Francisco reports Edmund G. Brown returned to California after a four day whirlwind tour of Washington. He praised the reception accorded him by Republicans and Democrats alike and said California has been wooed. Brown concluded the trip with meetings involving 27 California lawmakers.
In St. Paul Minnesota Dr Charles A Olson 71 died after choking on a steak during dinner with his wife and a niece Mrs Len Neinast. Last November at the farm home his son Robert aided by his brother Charles performed a tracheotomy with a paring knife to save him after choking began. Olson had recovered and resumed practice prior to this fatal event.
HONOLULU OPS Rear Adm. Benjamin E. Moore disclosed that Russian submarines and surface ships have been snooping along the Navy Pacific barrier between Midway and the Aleutians. He oversees a 4500 mile electronics fence extending the DEW system. He noted frequent Soviet contacts with destroyer pickets and surface ships along the barrier. A Navy spokesman said patrols cover the entire north Pacific from Japan to Pearl Harbor area. High winds push jet time from northern regions to U.S. cities.
United States plans a Vanguard three in one satellite including a magnetometer and a balloon for drag tests launching from Cape Canaveral. Dr John P Hagen announced the experiment to weigh about two pounds and to unfold a 4 inch balloon for precise space measurements.
A promotional snippet touts Girard's Original French Dressing unsweetened as lighter and brighter among 47 brands. It claims a distinct, fresh taste and invites readers to taste the difference and enjoy a livelier salad dressing option.
An advertisement promises comfortable shoes and foot function restoration. It touts Dr Hiss Shoes with a 30 day money back guarantee and lists clinics in Long Beach Los Angeles Pasadena San Diego and San Francisco with trained doctors at the Hiss Clinic to treat functional foot disorders.
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