County Board Adopts Revenue Hike for Record Budget
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted a general tax rate of 1.9728 per $100 assessed to raise 434,035,205 for fiscal 1958 59, the highest county budget on record. The flood control rate rose to 2.772 per $100, with district and city tax splits boosting central area taxes to 15 43 cents per $100.
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Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors
the Country Board
Metropolitan Water District
Britain tests high altitude nuclear device over Pacific
Britain successfully exploded a high yield hydrogen device as part of a Pacific Ocean test conducted by a task force on Christmas Island. Details were scarce from the ministry of supply, but officials confirmed the operation involved a hydrogen bomb test at high altitude.
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London
Britain
Central Pacific
Ministry of Supply
Christmas Island
Free Discussion In Moscow Weighs IGY Science
East and West scientists met in Moscow under the International Geophysical Year program. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts notes sun study advances and upper atmosphere observations, with many solar observatories in the Soviet Union and seven in the United States. The informal talks in Moscow, not the formal meetings, reveal the true collaborative spirit and shared scientific curiosity.
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Moscow
Walter Orr Roberts
Russia
W. C. Roberts
Mien Altitude Observatory
Boulder
Cole
United States
Soviet Union
IGY
Masked housebreaker slays physician and wife in Staten Island
A prowler wearing a white mask stabbed a doctor and his wife to death when they went to aid their 8-year-old son who was being choked in bed. The boy survived. the killer escaped with no apparent loot as police cordoned off a large Staten Island area near Manhattan where the killings occurred around 2 am.
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New York
Staten Island
Manhattan
British, Iceland Sailors Battle as Vessel Boarded
A British trawler in the no fishing zone off Iceland's east coast was boarded as British fishermen and Icelandic coastguards clashed aboard. A separate account notes a double murder at a U S Public Health Service facility in Reykjavik involving Dr Melvin A Nimer and his wife Lore Jean Nimer, both 31, killed during an attack while their child alerted police.
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Melvin A. Nimer
Mxes
Lore Jean Nimer
Marine Hospital
U.S. Public Health Service Institution
Nimer
Utah
Melvin Nimer Jr
Reykjavik
Iceland
Iceland Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Tatlin
Royal Navy
Seybisfjord
Eastbourne
Tragic family murder case tied to Iceland coast radar report
Police say the father may have fallen while grappling with the killer as blood trails ran down stairs. The mother died hours later after telephoning police as the boy called for help. Four children, Gregory aged 2 and Jennifer 5 months survived unharmed. Former Orem Utah residents were involved. Continued on page A-2.
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Reykjavik
Tinder
Beltanett
Radiojing
Laisa Menard Cohine Ee
Little Teeland
Cane Police
Britain
Mocatt
Re Os Rayer Bora
Nimer
Gregory
Jennifer Jean
Orem
Utah
Plane Falls in Pacific Cost 19 Feared Lost
A C124 transport plane carried seven crew and 12 passengers when it crashed five minutes after takeoff from Guam en route to Clark AFB Philippines. An air-sea search found debris and three bodies 30 miles west of Guam. two bodies and one found by helicopter later. Flight originated at Travis Air Force Base California and had departed days earlier.
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Guam
Travis
Air Force Base
Calif
Clark Afb
A Air Force
John Walker
Air Force
Naval -Ir
California Freeway Master Plan Unfolded Before Committee
A California freeway master plan costing 10 to 114 billion dollars and spanning about 12 250 miles was presented to a legislative committee. Financed without new taxes, it retains a half cent gas tax after this year. J G M Gilliss said freeways would save lives time and money with a 20 year payoff. Target date 1980. W Vickery noted most highways would be replaced by safer freeways. London rioters clash as police with dogs quell crowds. 34 arrested raising total to 57.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
G. M. Gilliss
State Department of Public Works
Gillies
Labor Day Traffic Toll Near Record High
The Labor Day holiday period saw a rising traffic death toll with 417 deaths and 114 drownings by noon, plus 66 miscellaneous accidents totaling 617. California led with 52 deaths, while Texas and New York reported 26 and 22 fatalities respectively as final figures were awaited.
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Tue Shague
Netherlands
Prince Herbhard
U. S
Navy
National Safety Council
Don Helder
Naval
California
Texas
New York
Once a Slave Broken Hip Slows Down Woman
Denver's Mrs Dove Hines, born a slave in Texas, is 103 but will celebrate her 104th birthday on September 23. A fall at home last weekend slowed her pace though her doctor says she is eager to return to church work and her eight great great grandchildren.
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Denver
Dove Hines
Texas
Chiang Ships Sink 11 Red PT Boats
Chinese Nationalists claim naval success near Amoy and Quemoy as 11 Communist torpedo boats are sunk and a 12th likely eliminated while efforts to reinforce Quemoy are disrupted. Artillery on Quemoy also fires, and a troop carrier must return to the Pescadores Islands with limited reinforcements.
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Chiang
Taipei
Quemoy Island
Quemoy
Amoy
Pescadores Islands
Storms mix shelling and hurricane reports in Caribbean and Formosa
Reports detail a heavy shell barrage on Amoy and Tatan Islet amid a Formosa Strait clash, with 125,000 shells fired in the first 10 days, as Hurricane Ella weakens to a 60 mph storm off Cuba and Cuba warns of possible flash floods while Florida issues craft advisories.
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Quemoy
Defense Ministry
Tatan Islet
Amoy
Formosa Strait
Reds
Islands
the -Islands
Miami
Ella
Cuba
Florida
Palm Beach
Fort Myers
Keys
Florida Straits
Gordon Dunn
Santiago
Hydrogen Power via Deep Hole Steam Aims for Cheap Electricity
Dr. Edward Teller speaks at the atoms-for-peace conference in Geneva proposing that blasting in deep holes could turn water into steam for inexpensive electrical power. The note guides readers to related pages across the newspaper for features on weather, entertainment, sports, and vital statistics.
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Edw Rd Teller
Geneva
China Sentences 2 Ex-USAF Men
A Chinese court in Taipet Formosa sentenced two former U S Air Force officers to prison for smuggling 15 ounces of heroin into Formosa. Harry Pelziger of Los Angeles received 16 years and Lee Steven Darragh of Pittsburgh 12 years. Twelve years is the minimum under Nationalist China narcotics law. Maximum is death. Darragh was arrested June 2 and Pelziger two days later.
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Taipet
Formosa
U.S. Air Force
Harry ‘Pelziger
Los Angeles
Lee Steven’ Darragh
Pittsburgh
China
Darragh
Pelziger
Weather Outlook With Clouds and Fog Creeping In
Low clouds and fog persist late tonight and tonight into Wednesday with mostly sunny conditions on Wednesday. Little temperature change expected with a noon reading near 76 degrees.
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DR. W. 0. Roberts
IGY Significant
Princess
Ira. von Furstenberg
Alphonse von Hohenlohe
Venice
By Eddy Gilmore
Notting Hill Gate
Cal
Pacific
Otting Hill
Nero
Paddington
West Indies
Nottingham
Notting Hill
Hal Boyle
Wilon
USAF
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