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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1957
Page
2
In Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Richard Fulden grants a legal status to a dog named MAJOR, an aging collie owned by Earl Jackson. The 18-year-old pet faced accusations from a neighbor about running free, with attorney Grover Dodson returning from retirement to defend.
Police questioned 46 suspects in the San Pedro murder case of Smith and his dog Major. The investigation centers on robbery as the motive. Smith carried about $1,000 and a diamond ring was missing. Rajah the parrot was revealed as a city art exhibit participant, and local notes share humorous anecdotes about Albinism, the Tishers garden, and Gen Sem Rayburn’s patriotism and Texas roots.
The article reports a boycott by white pupils at a previously all-Negro school in Natal Province South Africa over school integration. About 40 white students in the district stayed away on Monday and Tuesday amid tensions linked to centuries old tribal dynamics and protests.
Police said Roland Massee, chief of detectives in Quebec City, killed his three children Lisette 12 Micheline 8 and Richard 4 by tossing them into the St Lawrence River before drowning himself at Pier 25 around 6 30 p m Eyewitnesses described a man taking his children for a drive then attacking them at the harbor and disappearing.
OLD SAYBROOK Conn The Peruvian submarine Tac Iquique ran aground during builder’s trials in Long Island Sound off Saybrook A spokesman for General Dynamics Corp said the vessel was undamaged with no injuries The craft carried 41 electric boat employees and 16 Peruvian navy observers aboard
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will head the Soviet delegation to the United Nations General Assembly opening September 17. Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily Kuznetsov will chair when Gromyko returns to Moscow after the first two weeks. Georgi N. Zarabin and Arkady Sobolev are also named delegates.
Berkele y distinguished alumnus Earl Warren will reunite former classmates on the University of California campus Thursday in the 43rd reunion of the Class of 1912.
In Los Angeles a heated executive board meeting followed charges from the AFL CIO Ethics Committee that the Teamsters union is corrupted by influence. James R Hoffa, heir to the presidency, dismissed the move as inconsequential to his candidacy.
UPA reports a California engineer asserts planes with up to ten engines could be built, enabling fast transport with multiple vehicles and supply platforms. The discussion occurs amid tax cut debates affecting Metropolitan Water District funding, highlighting water imports from the Colorado River and its impact on Long Beach.
Temperatures listed for major cities show a mix of highs and lows. Oklahoma City 97 72, Los Angeles 92 86, Chicago 68 60, Detroit 87 55, New York 88 63, San Francisco 62 54, Miami 88 75, New Orleans 34 62. The data appears as a nationwide temperature snapshot from the United States Weather Bureau.
The Santa Fe Railway on Tuesday reported net income of 32.83 million dollars for the seven months ended in 1957 versus 36.02 million dollars for the same period in 1956.
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