31 Die When Plane Explodes in Midair, May 13, 1959

May 13, 1959, House on Haunted Hill

Emergo was a fake skeleton hanging from a wire that was pulled out into the audience. My little hometown theater didn't have it, alas.
May 13, 1959, Times Cover There's no shortage of interesting items today. A Capital Airlines  plane en route from New York to Atlanta explodes east of Baltimore, killing all 31 people on board. Another Capital Airlines plane goes off the runway in Charleston, W.Va., killing two people and hospitalizing six.

Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher get married in Las Vegas .. Fred Astaire wants to give back his Emmy award … and two youths are wounded in an ambush while walking along the streetcar tracks near 8315 Maie Ave. in Firestone. The two wounded youths were members of the Peewees, who had reportedly been looking for a fight with the Quarters Gang.

May 13, 1959, Crash

"I ran to the back door and saw three pieces of the airplane coming down. All of them were on fire."

May 13, 1959, Crash

A passenger praises a stewardess for pushing him from the burning aircraft. She says: "I honestly don't remember."

May 13, 1959, Nixon

The Times' Robert T. Hartmann looks for lasting changes from Richard Nixon's 1958 trip to South America.

May 13, 1959, Nixon

"Probably the quickest reforms following the Nixon trip were made by the U.S. Information Agency…. The USIA stepped up its efforts to reach the influential new middle class.

May 13, 1959, Kellogg


Leola Buck Kellogg, who joined the California bar in 1919.

May 13, 1959, Arechigas

The Arechiga family's battle over Chavez Ravine moves to federal court.

May 13, 1959, Arechigas

The city's claim to the property will be attacked in the proposed federal suit on the grounds that at the time title to the Arechiga property was obtained by condemnation the city no longer planned to use the property for a public housing project.

 May 13, 1959, Editorial on Chavez Ravine and the Arechigas

"Sympathy for the Arechiga family of Chavez Ravine comes easily and universally and that is one of the reasons we're glad we're Americans. The family will be taken care of, we may be sure, with the same unquestioning generosity that is bestowed on the victims of unheralded calamity."

"But when the Arechicgas are securely resettled, there will be something left of the case that is not so candid as the eviction which an easy-going government had put off for at least six years. What is the motive of the agitators who have been trying for nearly a week to make martyrs of the Arechiga family?
 

May 13, 1959, Librascope

What the well-dressed IT administator is wearing for 1959. Note the Librascope LGP-30, which had 113 vacuum tubes and 1,450 diodes.

May 13, 1959, Comics

Al Capp continues to decorate his panels with extraneous Ozark babes.

May 13, 1959, Sports

Braven Dyer's got another nickname: whistleball. Make that pro whistleball.

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