Week of July 23, 1958

President Eisenhower sternly rebukes Soviet

Premier Khrushchev’s “extravagantly expressed

fear” of general war, rejected his demand for a five

-power summit meeting on the Middle East, but

suggested Khrushchev could speak for the soviet

Union before the U.N. Security Council if he wants

to.

President Eisenhower tells Soviet Premier

Khrushchev any U.N. meeting between them must

be arranged and conducted strictly within Security

Council rules. Earlier Khrushchev agreed

conditionally to attend a summit meeting on the

Mideast in the U.N. Security Council.

Premier Khrushchev says hotheads holding

important government posts in some countries

are trying to start a new war. He named no

names. His statements came after an anti-U.S.

blast by the government newspaper Izvestia

and accusations by the Communist party paper Pravda that the United States is

guilty of meddling wire pulling and open aggression in the Middle East.

America’s largest and most important satellite is hurled into orbit. Its job was to

tell if deadly radiation in outer space will long delay man’s greatest adventure - a

flight to the moon.

The White House brands as “ridiculous” a Soviet charge that the Baghdad pact

powers, including the United States are plotting new “aggression” against Iraq.

Gov. Orval Faubus receives overwhelming endorsement of his rigid stand

against integration by winning an avalanche of votes to a third-term nomination in

Arkansas’ democratic primary, which is equivalent to election.

Prince Charles, heir apparent to the British throne, is named Prince of Wales by

his other, Queen Elizabeth II.

Sports - Henry Aaron drives in three runs with a homer and a single to lead the

Milwaukee Braves to a 4-1 victory over the Cubs.

Week of July 23, 1958

Sen. William Langer R-ND urges Congress to prohibit baseball teams from

showing their games over pay-as-you-see television.

Passing - Burton Holmes (88) creator of the

travelogue and America’s leading globe-trotter-lecturer

for nearly 60 years.

Entertainment news -

Passing - Oscar Wallachs (76) co-founder of

Hollywood’s Wallachs Music City and the father of Glenn

Wallachs - president of Capitol Records.

Chuck Connors stars in a new western - The Rifleman:

Westerns aren’t gong to die. Some of them will go off the

air, but the good ones will last. And we’ve got a good one. It’s a different story,

something new, because there is a boy in the script - Johnny Crawford. He plays

my son Mark. Johnny’s a nice kid and a good actor.” “Our story, The Rifleman, is

the intimate adventures of a widower and his son who face the dangers of man

and the hazards of the wilderness. Lucas and mark learn from each other. Lucas

uses a rifle in the series because he believes that guns are made to be tools.”

Ms. Melba Bennett - a 23-year old model who says she fell down several flights

of stairs trying to elude the amorous attentions of Hugh O’Brian (Wyatt Earp) of

television, sues him for $65,177,000. She said she came to his house to get

acting coaching, but he made advances and began chasing her. He eventually

“grappled and wrestled” wither at the top of the stairs, she lost her balance and

fell down several flights. O’Brian denies the charges.

New postal rates go into effect this week:

First class letters - 4 cents an ounce

Post and postal cards -3 cents each

Air mail (not exceeding 8 ounces) - 7 cents an announce

Air post and postal cards - 5 cents each.

Third class mail (including unsealed printed greeting cards - 3

cents first 2 ounces 1 ½ cents each additional ounce.

Week of July 23, 1958

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards news, Documentary on Middle East Oil (see ad), Leave

It To Beaver, Drama, The Millionaire, I’ve Got A Secret, Circle Theater

NBC - Huntley-Brinkley report, Wagon Train, Father Knows Best, Kraft Theatre,

It Could Be You, State Trooper, Jack Paar

ABC - Disneyland, Tombstone Territory, Ozzie and Harriet, Baseball Corner

Kraft Theatre - Murder strikes the photo department of a big metropolitan daily.

Ozzie and Harriet - David heads toward the doghouse when he creates an

uproar at father and son banquet.

Baseball Corner - Buddy Blattner chats with Birdie Tebbetts, Johnny Temple,

Ernie Banks, Lefty Gomez