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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1959
Page
1
The White House pressed to triple the nation’s educational funding to at least 30 billion dollars yearly to secure free world strength. The Beene Advisory Committee released an 18000 word report urging more science and math emphasis without diminishing other fields, and proposing mobile science caravans for rural areas.
Government charges allege a pretty woman and four men plotted to export war materials via an absconding four engine C74 bound for the Dominican Republic to arm Castro foes. Thirteen involved include the Dominican consul at Miami, with two other suspects named in the arrest list. The case spans Miami and Newark parties and a federal bribery angle.
A pack of seven to ten vicious dogs killed a 24 year old boy, Mark B. Draper, in a vacant Hazelwood lot. Neighbor Melvern Jones Sr beat the dogs off, then police and civil defense joined a countywide search. Armed residents patrolled Berkely and northwest St. Louis County as dog reports spread. Local residents say the dogs had been seen recently near the Draper home and in the area.
United Prey reports snow in Colorado and California mountains as cold front drops temperatures 10 to 25 degrees and brings up to 14 inches in Denver area. Chicago sees 25 degree below prior day with light showers in Sierra Nevada and six inches further north. Tornadoes near Lubbock and Electra cause no damage amid heavy storms.
The notice directs readers to where to find sections in the issue including Churches-Pages A-4, 5 and more. It lists Classifieds, Comics, Treath Notices, Financial, Shipping, Sports, Theaters, Tides and Temperatures, plus TV and Radio pages across pages A and B sections.
Redlands High School disciplined its senior class after liquor was consumed at the Honor Day picnic. Principal Leonard J. Murdy barred many seniors from activities for the rest of the semester and suspended 12 students up to two weeks. There will be no Senior Honor Day next year.
Considerable cloudiness brings a chance of few sprinkles tonight. Sunday features decreasing clouds and a slightly warmer day with milder conditions overall.
President Eisenhower nominates Benjamin C. Davis Jr. a deputy chief of staff for operations in Europe to the rank of major general, the highest ever held by a Black officer. His headquarters are at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
In Nottingham a judge examined 44 ladies panties and tested elastic strain. Judge Abra ham Flint ruled the garments were of poor quality but held the store must pay $148.88 to the wholesalers for unsaleable stock due to condition at sale.
A 13 month old boy was fatally struck by a pickup truck while playing in the street near his home at 2900 Hollett Street in Long Beach. The driver, Louis E. Resinger, 49, said he did not see the infant before the crash. Robert James Davison died at St Helen's Hospital. Funeral arrangements are by Chandler Trager Mortuary Paramount. A Long Beach recreation director, Mrs Ray, was killed when her car crashed through a fence and struck a light standard on Avalon Boulevard south of 154th Street in Compton after apparently swerving to avoid another car. She was pronounced dead at Hon Alt Hospital.
In Van Nuys, a 32 year old bank employee Bill Whitaker shot his wife Arline 28 who had a lover, then killed himself. A babysitter found the bodies and the couple’s two children, ages 24 and 11 months, were unharmed in a locked bedroom. The note blamed the lover’s romance for the tragedy.
Cape Canaveral reports the Air Force launched its 44th Thor intermediate range ballistic missile, a 65 foot craft on a 1,500 mile reliability test. Six of seven space flyers witnessed the event during a three day training visit ahead of a planned American spaceflight in two years. It followed a second Thor launch in two days and a nose cone recovery after a 6,000 mile flight.
In Geneva Western diplomats report the Big Four will recess early next week for secret talks on European disputes. A British source says Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would accept a new phase of restricted exchanges outside the Palace of Nations. U S British French and West German ministers meet Monday to determine a formal plan for these talks with Gromyko.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California the Air Force plans an attempt to launch a Discoverer HI with a mice capsule in the nose of a two stage rocket to place it into orbit toward the South Pole. The mission depends on visual tracking of the first stage and a radio trigger to jettison the capsule near Hawaii for recovery. The firing time had not been released.
A second runaway marriage triumphs in Britain as Jeffrey Letcheson, 19, and Swiss maid Sylvia Polontarutti, 20, elope with his mother’s blessing. Mrs Herbeson pursues but concedes if he returns he may wed in six months. The couple plan a home wedding in London. Earlier, heiress Katherine Dowsett delays marriage to playboy Edward Langley after reconciliation with her father Harry Dowsett.
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