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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1959
Page
20
Brooklyn doctor charges two infant deaths at Kings County Hospital Center were caused by a nurse shortage, one in 1958 and one this year, amid broader concerns over pay and staffing. He cites a general impression of more deaths, while officials note staffing constraints and retention losses as factors.
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New York judge Samuel Leibowitz urges city leaders to halt migrants from Puerto Rico until crime in slums is curbed. He cites unpublished delinquency figures claiming Puerto Ricans account for 20 percent of city youth crime, contrasting Puerto Rican self help claims of 8 percent across all crime.
Ocean County Judge John J. Ewart invalidated parts of the local motor vehicle ordinance in a test ruling. Drivers embraced a temporary loophole as police stood by, unable to issue tickets while the ordinance must be rewritten and resubmitted to the state DMV.
HYANNIS Mass AP The stabbing of Walter F Munford 59 president of U S Steel Corp was ruled an accident He is recovering at Cape Hospital a three inch abdominal wound closed by surgeons District Attorney Edmund Dinis said there is no evidence of wrongdoing after Munford slipped on a polished kitchen floor at the Munford summer home in Chatham He apparently impaled himself on a knife he was carrying Mrs Munford found him bleeding Guests included Dr Robert B O Connor U S Steel medical director Munford was elected president last month at a reported salary of 250000 a year
CHICAGO UP I reports Siamese twins Mary Helen and Marie Ellen Schultz died after a 2 1/2 hour operation to separate them at Children's Memorial Hospital. Dr Willis J Potts led the procedure noting they shared one heart and liver and Mary Helen had nearly no lung tissue. Marie Ellen received the stronger organs but both girls died within hours.
Cleveland AP report says a male impersonator, identified as Harry F. Dunlap, claimed to be the companion of an odd bank robbery plot. Police say Dunlap fled from a taxi after a cab driver complained of unpaid fare and was arrested. the alleged accomplice resembled a woman with mousey blond hair and carried a small automatic pistol in a red bag.
Boston police and Medical Examiner Luongo agreed on an inquest into the death of Lynn Kauffman a 23 year old divorcee whose body washed ashore in Boston harbor after disappearing from the Dutch ship Utrecht bound for New York The medical examiner noted bruises suggesting a beating prior to her going into the water while Captain Fallon favored death by own action with possible accidental death as a second possibility The victim daughter of Mr and Mrs Theodore Kauffman Jr of Chicago had worked for two years for Professor Stanley Spector of Washington University in St Louis and had resumed her maiden name after the divorcee long voyage from Singapore to New York encountered distressing news on board
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