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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1959
Page
4
Congress resumes work in Washington with a split mood among lawmakers. Fewer than a dozen senators attend the session as debate on a rural electrification bill proceeds briefly before adjourning. Rep. Sidney Yates describes voters as unsettled, while others see both contentment and agitation.
Relatives search for 32 year old Dennis Farrell who has lived as a hermit in Griffith Park for five years. His brother Lyle of North Platte Neb and uncles Ance and A R Copley of Medford Ore join the hunt in a dense wooded 5000 acre area. Farrell, shot in the lung as an Okinawa infantryman, says he sees no future and police released him back into the park. He was spotted raiding garbage cans and skulking in the park before this renewed effort to persuade him to come out.
Washington report says a business group urged a tax hike to cover a projected 1960 deficit. The Committee for Economic Development, with 21 Russian scientists at Accra Ghana meet, argues outlays should be cut while foreign aid grows. If more revenue is needed, taxes should rise, targeting low and middle income earners or a general sales tax.
An American ice show titled Holiday on Ice plays to standing crowds in Moscow and will give a free performance for 6000 Russian children on Thursday. Officials said the special show was arranged because many children could not buy tickets to the revue.
Maritime authorities in Kushiro Japan sought Soviet Fishing Rescue Service aid in locating eight fishing boats with 40 fishermen reported missing in a gale off northern Japan. The vessels were thought to have drifted toward the Kurile Islands controlled by the Soviets.
In Alma Michigan three children aged six and seven died Tuesday in an attic fire that trapped them. A fourth child aged nine escaped. Their mother Mrs Millie Boswell suffered critical burns while trying to rescue the youngsters. One report lists the victims Connie ten and others unnamed among the dead and wounded.
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