Jamaica Switch Fails and Man Keeps $6000
A 60-year-old house painter, Clyde Fisher, avoided a Jamaica Switch swindle that offered $6,000 for a quick withdrawal. Police arrested two Los Angeles men, Garvey Fulton and Vernon Perkins, after Fisher reported the ruse at Long Beach Federal Savings and Loan. Detective Inspector Evert Carroll noted the scam’s classic envelope trick and said a district attorney complaint would be sought.
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Fred Bolinger
Banco
Clyde Fisher
2Nd St
7Th
Loma Ave
Jamaica
Fisher
Long Beach
Joe W. Morrill
Howard F. Baxter
Garvey Frank Fulton
Vernon Perkins
Inspector Evert
Carroll
Bunco
Humphrey Bids for FDRs Toga in California Tour
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey spoke in Los Angeles urging follow Roosevelt’s example to confront national and world challenges. He addressed 1,500 at the Beverly Hills FDR memorial dinner and urged goals of lasting peace, dynamic prosperity, and ending racial bigotry. He toured the Far West to win Dem support ahead of Kennedy in California.
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Robert E. Lee
The
Independent
Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Los Angeles
Franklin DR. Roosevelt
Humphrey
Far West
Democratic Organization
Beverly-Hilton
Roosevelt
America
California
John F. Kennedy
Mass
Pay Boost May Hike Tax Rate
Los Angeles county officials warn a 5 percent pay raise for 35 000 employees will raise the tax rate at least 10 cents per 100 dollars of assessed valuation. County CAO Hollinger told the Board of Supervisors a hike would add to the existing 7 cent levy unless the Legislature acts by May 15 to permit taxation of defense plant inventories. The pay rise is seen as likely after a court ruling limiting how wages are set, excluding working conditions fringe benefits and county finances from consideration.
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Los Angeles
Hollinger
Board of Supervisors
Bombastic Castro Rally Draws Massive Guard Ahead of Speech
More than 1,000 policemen guarded Castro at a park rally before an estimated 35,000 spectators amid fears of an assassination attempt. John Gregory Feller, 23, was seized in the mall area following reports of a plot. CAPE CANAVERAL launched the Air Force 29th Thor IRBM on an 1,800 mile Atlantic test flight. John Stapp, 49, parachuted from a disabled jet after rocket sled fame, while Capt. Harry B. Davis, 36, died when a parachute failed to open.
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Castro
John Gregory Feller
Feller
Cape, Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Atlantic Test Range
Watkins
Cole
Cal
John PL Stapp
Harry B. Davis
Dayton
Ohio
Stapp
Lowry Air Force Base Hospital
Denver
Here
Air Force Missile Development Center
Alamogordo
N. M
Suspend 2 in State Bill Cases
SACRAMENTO The chief and assistant chief of the State Division of Collection Agencies were suspended Friday amid Senate committee charges of racketeering in the bill collecting industry. Harry A. Edwards and Stanley Windrem of Los Angeles acknowledged gifts and failures to act on embezzlement reports. Governor Brown requested the attorney general review the findings of beatings embezzlement and impersonation by some bill collectors.
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Sacramento
Senate
Harry A. Edwards
Los Angeles
Stanley Windrem
Frank M. Jordan
Jordan
Gov
Brown
Atty
Stanley Mosk
Matrix Table Awards Honor Three From I P T
Three Independent Press Telegram reporters were honored Friday night at the silver anniversary Matrix Table Awards banquet of the Los Angeles Alumnae Chapter Theta Sigma Phi at the Ambassador Hotel. Bob Wells won second prize in the feature division for community daily newspapers for his Jayne Mansfield Mickey Hargitay wedding account. Herb Shannon received an honorable mention for a Los Angeles County Fair day seen through a six year old's eyes. Bob Beckman earned an honorable mention in the community daily news division for a hit-run story killing a Long Beach man.
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Press- Telegram
Los Angeles
Theta Sigma Phi
Ambassador Hotel
National Professional Fraternity For Women In Journalism
I, PT
Bob Wells
Herb Shannon
Bob Beckman
Wells
Community Daily Newspapers
Jayne Mansfield
Mickey Hargitay
Wayfarers’ Chapel
Shannon
Los Angeles County Fair
Beckman
Community Daily News
Long Beach
Victim Struck Down in Own Apartment
A 29 year old man was found dead in his kitchen Friday night after being stabbed four times in the back and slashed across the abdomen in his apartment. Police investigating as a homicide.
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Keith Edward Jones
Maine Ave
Jones
Nervelle
San Fernando
Hurst
Texas
Spaceman May 1960 Target Hints at Cape Launch
Space medicine experts in Los Angeles envision sending a man to space from Cape Canaveral in May 1960. Aero Medical Assn president-elect Dr. Ludwig Lederer spoke in favor of tying Cape Canaveral to the 1960 convention in Miami while noting ongoing questions about weightlessness and human physiology in extended spaceflight.
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Cape Canaveral
Los Angeles
Ludwig G. Lederer
Washington, D. C
Aero Medical Assn
Miami
Flo
Cape
Statler- Hilton
Daylight Saving Time Begins in California at 1 AM
Sunday marks the start of daylight saving time in California at 1 a.m. when clocks move forward to 2 a.m. The change is described as simple and requires households to adjust, especially helping children adjust to the new time.
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California
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Erie
Long Beach State College
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Narvelle
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