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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1958
Page
2
In Huntington West Virginia a furniture store employee named W M A Jack Austin faced a prank that floodlights his home with fake deliveries a color TV car grocery truck and an ambulance none of which were ordered. The spree ended with Austin and his wife puzzled over the anonymous campaign of mischief.
Barbara Foley and Emil Tengen wed in a hospital ceremony after a private plane crash injured them last week. The groom stood long enough to kiss the bride and cut the cake as nurses and doctors watched, with a month of recovery expected for the bride.
Washington dispatch reports a Senate confrontation between Sen Clinton Anderson and Atomic Energy Commission chair L. Strauss. Anderson accuses Strauss of promoting McCarthyism and mischaracterizing nuclear tests while Strauss defends integrity amid claims of propagandistic opposition to test programs. Bourke Hickenlooper defends Strauss as a man of character.
Prominent author James Branch Cabell dies at 79 in Richmond after a long career. In Bolivia, President Siles Zuazo asks the United States for 200 million dollars over four years to avert economic collapse. Vice President Nixon meets him in La Paz during a Latin American tour.
Jakarta security forces rounded up scores of Indonesians and some Chinese including S T Hsieh the Nationalist Chinese Central News Agency and Time Life correspondent. Officials accused detainees of subversive acts against President Sukarno with no indication of American involvement. Armed guards filled the capital as authorities prepared an invasion fleet toward North Celebes in East Indonesia.
Mar guerite Temple ONeill Taft widow of William Howard Taft III died Sunday in New York. Her husband, who died in 1952, was a nephew of the former President.
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