20 Oct 1962
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1962
Page
1
An airliner experienced a violent door mishap as stewardess Miss De Moriere was ejected momentarily by a loose lavatory door. Pilot Harold Gould reported the door loss at Bradley Field. After landing the aircraft with 47 passengers unharmed, investigators assessed the event amid bank holdup reports and a separate flight disturbance.
An Air Force KC-135 tanker en route to Johnston Island was hit by lightning 124 miles southwest of Honolulu. The five crew members aboard landed safely at Hickam Base. No injuries reported as the jet completed its mission. The incident occurred after a prior bank holdup report in the area. All figures and details from the report indicate a routine safe landing with no further complications.
Report notes Chinese forces advancing into a broad Indian front. Campaign stops for today were canceled. reinstatement unknown. President and Salinger comments indicate uncertainty as plans proceed.
The United States conducted a high altitude nuclear test using Thor boosters lifting warheads. A new missile used a boost rocket from a surface-to-surface system. The device reached 20 to 30 miles altitude, exploding in a bright orange ball and fading within seconds, much smaller than the July 8 thermonuclear blast.
The collision left the tanker Boheme aground with fire in its stern superstructure. Skipper A Andersson said barges and tow appeared on radar but could not be avoided. The loss of life and missing crew are all from the six year old tanker loaded with high octane solvent lubricating oil, departing from the Esso Refinery at Baton Rouge for Rotterdam.
CHICAGO UPI Earl V Manuel La Salle Street financier who ate peanuts and lived in cheap rooms left an estate worth over one million dollars He died May 28 at 76 and left about 800 securities and farm properties in Minnesota Colorado and Canada The Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co filed an order with Probate Judge Rob rr F Diman authorizing liquidation of the estate Much of the estate goes to 10 charities Manuel known as E V by associates specialized in market and research operations He did not smoke or drink and wore inexpensive suits
Krishna Menon said Indian troops were outnumbered and outgunned in a battle that was still raging this afternoon. He claimed Indian forces were killing four times as many Chinese as they killed, with one or two posts in Ladakh and the Namka Chu River area falling back south of the McMahon Line. The McMahon Line borders India, Tibet, and China, created after the 1914 Simla Convention, not signed or accepted by the Chinese government.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected parole for moonshiner John R. Hardy, serving a life term after being convicted in 1951 of murder tied to a homecoming weekend drinking incident. Alton Joseph Bureau Jr. of St. Petersburg reported that Hardy admitted mixing moonshine with liquor. the victim, a man connected to the celebration, died when a trailer truck ran over him after a sand-water incident.
The Communist weekly No Vos Rumor urged Brazilians to use every possible method to show anti American sentiment during President Kennedy's visit to Rio de Janeiro next month. It urged opposition to the Alliance for Progress, support for Cuba, and resistance to any concessions by the Brazilian government to Yankee imperialism.
University of Michigan experts were called to examine bones found on a local farm near EAU CLAIRE. A crane operator uncovered the bones from mud under six feet of water during irrigation work. The bones are believed to belong to a mammoth that lived thousands of years ago.
Fragmentary item notes a monetary matter with a date and names. Mentions a congress member, audio at a center, and a publication location in Long Beach. Details are garbled but indicate a local government or civic notice or court matter.
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