December 6, 1958

Saturday, December 06, 1958
Top News Headlines This Week:
Dec 6 - US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back   Dec 7 - R¢mulo B‚tancourt elected pres of Venezuela   Dec 9 - anti-Communist John Birch Society   Dec 10 - U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates   Dec 10 - 1st domestic (New York-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111   Dec 11 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France  
Top Songs for 1958
Don't by Elvis Presley     It's All In the Game by Tommy Edwards    
Tequila by Champs     Sugartime by McGuire Sisters    
At the Hop by Danny & the Juniors     He's Got the Whole World In His Hands by Laurie London    
The Purple People eater by Sheb Wooley     All I Have to Do Is Dream by Everly Brothers    
Volare by Domenico Modugno     The Chipmunk Song by David Seville/The Chipmunks    
1958 Prices US President
Bread:  $0.19/loaf Dwight D. Eisenhower
Milk:  $1.01/gal US Vice President
Eggs:  $0.85/doz Richard M. Nixon
Car:  $2,200 Academy Award Winners
Gas:  $0.30/gal
Best Picture: Gigi
  Directed By Vicente Minnelli
Best Actor: David Niven
  in Separate Tables
Best Actress: Susan Hayward
  in I Want To Live
House:  $18,200
Stamp:  $0.04/ea
Avg Income:  $5,565/yr
Min Wage:  $1.00/hr
DOW Avg:    584
People born on December 6
1896 - Ira Gershwin lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
1906 - Agnes Moorehead Clinton MA, actress (Endora-Bewitched)
On TV in 1958
The Price is Right    The Lawman    Rawhide   
Perry Mason    Peter Gunn    The Ann Sothern Show   
The Texan    Maverick    Wanted: Dead or Alive   
The Rifleman   
Hot New Toys in 1958
Hula Hoop   
Top Books in 1958
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith     The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith    
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov