Week of April 1, 1958

1300 are rescued from a Norwegian passenger ship in the Indian Ocean. The

ship caught fire and eventually sank in the Indian ocean, but a British freighter

steamed to the scene and made a dramatic rescue of all aboard but one.

President Eisenhower signs the $1.85 billion housing bill. Will the highway bill be

next?

President Eisenhower proposes that nonmilitary space exploration projects be

supervised by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) -

reconstituted as a civilian space agency.

President Eisenhower proposes to put additional $1.455 bullion into “high priority

defense programs” during the next fiscal year. That’ll boost the defense budget

over the $40 billion mark

Nikita Khrushchev warns the West to keep hands off Hungary and tells

Hungarian Communists they had better be ready to fight their own battles if

another revolt breaks out.

war to destroy President Batista passes in silence.

Havana remained calm and silent.

A $1.8 billion highway-building bill - a major effort in the

campaign to overcome the recession - speeds through

Congress. The bill will provide thousands of new jobs,

put the construction of the 41,000 mile superhighway

network - the interstate system - back on the original

13-year schedule and establish a national policy of

regulating billboards on the interstate system.

A Capital Airlines Viscount planes crashes on landing in Midland, Michigan,

killing 47.

Turner is stabbed to death by Lana’s 14-year-old

daughter, Cheryl. According to police who tried to

piece together the story from Lana and her sobbing

daughter - Stompanato had long been unwelcome

in the Turner home and resisted every effort of Miss

turner to discourage his attentions and leave the

Week of April 1, 1958

house.” He threatened the movie star several times when she asked him to

leave, and beat her with his fists at least once. He was stabbed in the right side

with a 10 inch butcher knife.

Ex-mobster Mickey Cohen is found guilty of battery and the disturbing the peace

in the slugging of a waiter.

asked to ante up a $10 thousand bond. When she said she

couldn’t, tax agents said they learned that in Judy’s hotel room,

she had $18 thousand worth of jewelry and other valuables. It

was suggested that these valuables be turned over to

authorities, as a guarantee Judy wouldn’t leave the state until

the $8,673 tax is straightened out.

Herbert Yates, President of Republic Pictures told shareholders

that the company would be out of the business of making movies for theaters by

July 31. Actually, the studio stopped making pictures two years ago. Since then,

other producers have made pictures for Republic release. TV’s Revue is

currently on the lot and produces, among other shows, “Leave To Beaver.” Yates

said he was optimistic about earnings for the company’s TV production,

processing and plastics divisions and is sure they are in the black.

Ford Motor Company presents model of a “wheel-less” vehicle. In the

presentation, engineers described it as a new form of high-speed land

transportation; probably in the field of rail surface travel and that full-size

“Glideair” vehicles could be operational in the foreseeable future.

stands 34 feet high. Into it went more

than 80,000 man-hours and 300 gallons

of paint. Found as the Disneyland train

enters a darkened tunnel, passengers

experience the sensation of actually

looking down into the canyon.

At the supermarket - a 1lb can of Yuban

coffee, just 79 cents. A can of Campbell’s tomato soup is just 5 cents.

Week of April 1, 1958

Week of April 1, 1958

Saturday Night

Week of April 1, 1958

Television news - Donna Reed is set to star in a pilot film for a projected

situation comedy called “The Donna Reed Show” being shot at Screen Gems.

Husband Tony Owens is producing the pilot of which, ABC-TV has the first

option.

length film “Magoo’s Arabian Nights.” Jim Backus will

again dub the voice for the lead character. This

Tuesday night at 8:30 on ABC - Wyatt Earp. Right after

the show, tune to CBS for the 64,000 question. Virgil

Earp, 79 year-old last surviving member of the famous

Earp family, goes for the top money after answering

the $32 thousand question last week in the “wild west”

category.

Pop music this week in 1958 - Laurie London - “He’s Got The Whole World In His

Hands,” The Platters - “Twilight Time,” Chordettes “Lollipop,” Johnny Cash -

“Ballad Of A Teenage Queen” and The Champs - “Tequila,” Connie Francis -

“Who’s Sorry Now” and Huey (Piano) Smith & The Clowns - “Don’t You Just

Know It.”

At the movies - Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster in “Run Silent, Run Deep.”