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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1957
Page
2
A Soviet radio recounts the true story of Mikhail Kitev, a tractor driver who chased wolves threatening a collective sheep herd on a moonlit road near Ulyanovsk. He killed the pack leader and two more wolves before fending off a fourth, then loaded the carcasses for the village.
Weather data from the United States Weather Bureau accompanies a report on California parochial school tax exemption repeal. The measure would end tax exemptions for schools not used for the mentally retarded or physically handicapped, and a petition drive with 356,315 signatures supports placing it on the November ballot.
A fragmentary newspaper item covers a Nigerian student in East Berlin claiming a female customs officer forced a strip search at the border. It cites the student Olabisi Ajela and references bribes and visas, while a separate political note discusses U S Senate and House races with comments on Pat Brown, Craig Hosmer, and the Knight Knowland feud.
A Long Beach bank in a shopping center at sixth Street and Pie Avenue was robbed of about $40,000 shortly after noon on a Monday in March 1943. The crime was investigated by California authorities with a Superior Court decree recorded in Los Angeles County.
William J Kraft, 15, of 466 right, reportedly swung at an opponent and shattered a foot plate window on Goldfield Ave. His friend Robert Hoyt, 17, of 4704 Matney Ave, was in front of a laundry when the window broke. Kraft was treated at Seaside Hospital for a cut on his right and required 11 stitches.
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