13 May 1960
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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1960
Page
1
A colorful AP dispatch from New York catalogs a string of cabbie jokes and passenger jabs as riders vent frustration. The piece sketches a lively exchange of digs about fares meters and service, capturing street humor and urban friction in a single ride.
Associated Press reports mass arrests in Chattanooga Tennessee after a downtown demonstration. Police jailed several youths for disorderly conduct following a confrontation at a store counter, with two soaked by water. Thirty-two juveniles were sent to a detention home and others held on bonds.
Farmers near the flooded Wolf Alvar pleaded for motorists to slow down as fast boats created wakes flooding front parlors. Firefighters rushed to a stove fire. two boys, Ed Coleman Jr and Ramis Griffin Jr, helped extinguish it with a garden hose and received only a chilly response from the fire chief. Lawrence Lipajig, freed from a 10 day sentence for delinquent parking tickets, found a parking ticket on his car after courthouse release. A New York case saw oil in a basement with a deliveryman pumping 100 gallons into an incorrect pipe after a furnace switch to gas two years prior.
Washington AP reports that Jerome K Kuykendall, head of the Federal Power Commission, says he will no longer take free airplane rides from the utility industry though funeral trips may still occur. He testified before the House Oversight subcommittee amid questions about off the record contacts with natural gas pipeline interests.
In Sacramento the Assembly Insurance Committee, chaired by Thomas M. Rees, says it will hold hearings in September on insurer practices that cancel car policies, forcing drivers into Assigned Risk programs and raising costs. Rees argues drivers have a right to fair hearings and opposes sudden cancellations often tied to minor accidents or health issues.
In St Louis Missouri Stefen Meyer 6% unemployed semi invalid shot and killed his wife Anna 67 as she sat in a wheelchair Then he attempted suicide He was booked on homicide suspicion He told police he was despondent about his wife illness and his own health The remorseful dialogue preceded the fatal act and his gun misfired on self-harm before the final attempt failed A hospital exam noted a grazing bullet wound on Meyer’s head
Nervell Stewart of the National Pharmaceutical Council told the Senate subcommittee that his group has no apologies for its role in disputed hospital drug dispensing practices. He disputed charges of threats and harassment and said the council will raise improper practices to pharmacists and hospitals while cooperating with the investigation. The council comprises 22 drug manufacturers dedicated to prescription medicines.
Andrew Carnegie, famed industrialist, reportedly stated it is disgraceful to die rich and donated sizable sums totaling 150,004 dollars plus 1000 before his 1919 death.
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