March to April Economic Outlook From Reserve Board
The reserve board notes that the index of mine, factory and utility activity sits at 102.4 for February and suggests the recession is near a bottom, with March and April showing rising production in autos and steel. Nonfarm employment held steady in March while manufacturing hours rose, easing unemployment only slightly. Employment insurance claims fell week over week, with Michigan and California among the largest declines, signaling cautious improvement ahead.
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Reserve Board
Bureau of Employment, Security
Tises
Michigan
California
Ohio
New Jersey
Sailor Relative Benefit Drive Aids Unclear Illness Fund
A garbled report notes friends donate to aid a sailor's relative and mentions the USS Construction and a Naval Base at Long Reach. It references Mrs. Flossie Millam of El Monte and ongoing unemployment figures in Los Angeles County, with fragmented details about benefits and numbers.
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Beet Sip Maya
Sureau
Ronald Wag
Kenan
USS Construction
Collett
Long Reach
Naval Base
Flossie Millam
el Monte
Los Angeles County
Nurse Honored for Nurse of the Year Citation in Long Beach
Friday night at Fort MacArthur a nurse from the Nurses Corps was named Nurse of the Year for the week ending April. The American Legion Post 617 cited credits and new quarterly period factors as part of a veterans program at the Veterans Memorial Building in Long Beach.
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Betty J. Lynch
Ft. MacArthur
American Legion Post
Technicas
Long Beach
Veterans Memorial Building
Jury Ends Careers for Finch Thiele in Solicitations
Finch and Thiele, longtime city detectives famed for homicide work, were convicted of solicitation offenses. The case spanned June to Sept with tape evidence and county funds used for recordings. Trial delays, a high profile arrest, and a civic jury verdict marked a major city news story of 1960.
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Aley Landry
William Farrington
Henry
Jordan
John Black
William Mooney
Long Beach
Mooney
Sheriff's
Richard Brooks
Dr. Garland
Brooks
Finch
Thiele
Senity Grand Jury
Lorin Q. Martin
Vinch and
Brown proposes state aid shift for junior colleges
Property Tax Hint discusses state aid for junior colleges under a master plan. About 50,000 state college students may be diverted to two-year schools over 15 years, boosting JC enrollment from 150,000 to 250,000. Debates focus on how to fund via per-student increases without new taxes and changes in superintendent selection.
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Miller
Education Department
Junior College Association
Camp signups rise as YMCA families plan summer trips
Los Altos YMCA reports more than 206 member families and daughters of sustaining members have signed up for summer camps for children ages 9-16. Camps at Camp S8alors and Henry and Jordan Lakes in the San Bernardinos offer July or August options.
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Los Altos
Ape
Investiweek
Henry and
Jordan Lakes
San Bern
Mexico City halts anti U S mural at Yaquita jail
Authorities ordered work stopped on a mural painted by Leonel Padilla inside Yaquita jail in Mexico City. The image of Uncle Sam nude with a bomb and nightstick was not part of the original approved sketch.
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Mexico City
UPI
Uncle Sam
Leonel Padilla
Yaquita
Padilla
Aerobee Falls Short Europe Flight Test
A two stage Aerobee sounding rocket launched from Wallops Island Virginia carried an instrument payload intended for a Europe mission to reach 128 miles. The rocket rose as planned and fell into the Atlantic about eight minutes later five point seven miles offshore.
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States
Europe
New York
API
Washington U
Luther H
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Bfc
Mart Yaul
Finch-Thiele
Warren Jordan
Left
Raymond Henry
Agin
Sailor
Bourte
Finch, Thiele
Ziemann
Los Angeles
James A. Thiele
Harry P. Finch Jr
Albert C. Ramsey
Brown
Jose
Public Instruction
of Textbooks
Board of Education
Martin
Chief Mooney
Mexico Halls
U.S
Sleane
Nic
Analis South St
Jim
United States
Canada
Free Nations
Bem
Seaside
New Navy Landing
Ocean Blvd
Golden
Framily
Aerobee
Grey Hoek
Prestige Clothiers
Pine Avenue
P.M
Setrocelli
Etrocelli
International
Bank Americard
Preseys Maste
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