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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Tuesday, Sept. 2 -- The Chinese Nationalist Defense Ministry announced that a Communist torpedo boat attack on a Nationalist supply convoy had been beaten off at Lia-Io Bay off Quemoy Island early today.
A young skin diver nearly lost his life off Staten Island yesterday in an underwater struggle with a six-foot sand shark that he had wounded with a harpoon.
Pres Eisenhower signs bill making peacetime veterans eligible for 1 yr of Jobless pay following discharge; provisions; law likened to post-World War II '52-20 Club'; cost put at $70 million a yr
USSR legal expert A Galina argues natl sovereignty be ltd to earth's atmosphere and that no govt may claim jurisdiction over any part of outer space, H Schwartz rept on article in USSR legal pub; holds any govt may launch rockets or vehicles without other govts' permission; suggests eguipment be considered launching govt's property; proposes internatl pact on assigning radio frequencies
School Bd, 5-1, votes to defer Central HS opening to Sept 15 to fulfill understanding with Sup Ct; acts on Butler recommendation; Alford apparently dissented; Hall, Tech, Horace Mann to remain closed; Faubus 'not surprised' by Bd action
1958Lynne Kosky, Australian social worker and politician (died 2014)[†]
Lynne Janice Kosky was an Australian politician and senior minister in the Government of Victoria. She represented the electoral district of Altona in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party from 1996 to 2010 and held key ministerial posts from 1999 through to her retirement from politics, including the key education and public transport portfolios.
1958A USAF RC-130 is shot down by fighters over Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.[†]
The Lockheed RC-130 Hercules are retired variants of the C-130 Hercules, designed for photographic or electronic reconnaissance missions.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]