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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1957
Page
7
Newport Beach City Council votes tonight on whether to revoke or suspend the Rendezvous Ballroom license for public dances. A quasi judicial hearing heard police testimony about lewd dances and unrest, with owners Johnson and Anderson appealing past actions while arrests and violence were noted around the venue.
Former President Harry S Truman, during a south Florida stop, was greeting a wheelchair-bound figure when he realized it was a wax likeness of himself from a St Augustine wax museum. He laughed off the moment and wondered who the “bird” in the chair was.
In Toulouse France a French tight rope act ends at 17 hours as 17 year old Francina Pary is left perched on a high wire for 17 hours with a 22 year old Nick Steffen having quit at the 17 hour mark. The act aimed to surpass a 34 hour endurance record and faced a countdown clock atop the Youlouge Sports Arena.
A rosary will be recited at 7:30 p m Tuesday in Mottell's and Peck Chapel Palme for Michael Roger Gavens 15 killed Saturday when a pistol held by a young friend discharged Requiem mass will be said at 9 p m Wednesday In Our Lady of Refuge church and interment will be in All Souls Cemetery Robert Shrider 18 of 2111 Fanwood Ave told police the McAllber automatic discharged as he showed it to Gavens and is in protective custody in the Long Beach Juvenile Bureau The dead lad is survived by his father Joseph and mother Ruby and a grandfather George P Simmons
A disputed agreement between Trans World Airlines and Pilow includes increased pay and fringe benefits while officers served away from home. White, stationed in Honolulu, claimed a dime dated as expense evidence. After 31 years he says he finally received the coin from a vending machine at a La Grange firm.
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