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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1963
Page
1
A major economic disaster hit South Bend Ind when the Studebaker plant shut down causing about 5000 layoffs mostly aged over 50. The piece warns of broader city decline, draws parallels with naval yard closures and urges adaptation through new industries and investment in research to survive future downturns.
In Grand Rapids California men Sanford E. Aday and Wallace de Orteza Maxey were sentenced to a combined 40 years in federal prison for transporting obscene material, the book Sex Life of a Cop, via the mails to Michigan. Aday received 25 years and $25,000 fine. Maxey 15 years and $19,000 fine, with the company fined $25, for their roles in distributing the material. The case, tried by a federal jury, cited exploitation of erotic material and prurient appeal. Fox noted Maxey's prior pimping and pandering conviction and related misconduct.
Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover urged new government procedures to curb undue profits in military contracts. He testified that some contractors use overhead charges and hidden subcontracts to inflate costs, risking free enterprise. Defense officials acknowledge excess profits exist, noting a 3.1 percent average margin versus 6 percent in 1956.
The seven original US astronauts sold their Cape Colony Inn and convention hall shares for about 13,500 each, nearly double their initial 7,500 investments. The sale followed criticism of their near Cape Kennedy venture and was supported by attorney C Leo DeOrsey who noted NASA disapproved of their involvement.
Malibu dispatch reports sheriff detectives identified the body found near Topanga Canyon Boulevard as 22 year old Philip Louis Holtz of Arbor Michigan. A preliminary medical exam could not immediately determine cause of death. The article notes Berliners celebrated New Year with a wall crossing tally and East German ADN reported 27 000 visitors Monday with 155 000 Sunday the largest daily total so far.
Damaged readable fragments describe a delivery or purchase record with prices and locations in Long Beach California. Phrases reference Sanday at Biefe Pine Aves and Cartier Delivery two twenty one dollars ten cents. No coherent event or person clearly identifiable.
Frankfurt report says Oswald Kaduk former SS sergeant faced West Germany's biggest war crimes trial. Kaduk denied guilt shouting about injustice and recalled Soviet sentencing and East German prison harshness. He described executions at Auschwitz with mountain climbing pick and claimed others died in custody.
California's unemployment survey shows a growing labor force of 6.95 million in Oct 1963, with 175,000 more jobs than 1962 but unemployment still high. Unemployment insurance payments rose to 413.5 million in the first ten months of 1963, while employer tax receipts hit a record, leaving no relief in sight as benefit payouts outpace tax growth. Manufacturing gains slow, agriculture falls by 5,200, and gains occur in trade, service, and government.
The article accuses Kaduk and other defendants including guards camp doctors and dentists and a trusted inmate of helping to kill between 2.4 and 4 million people in the gas chambers and furnaces at Auschwitz during wartime Poland.
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