L B Shop Owner Tells Fee Suit Turn in City
City councilmen prepared for a potential showdown over the reported firing of City Assessor Edward G. Hoover by Finance Director S M Roberts. Hoover, 63, would be eligible to retire in May, and if fired could revert to deputy assessor. no order has been signed by City Manager Sam E Vickers who declined to say if he will act as Roberts advised.
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Edward G. Hoover
S. M. Roberts
Hoover
Sam. E. Vickers
Roberts
Charles M. Barrison
Ahern
D. Pat Ahern
Oxar
Het
Vickers
Zee
Wickord
Opal Hutchis
Poppy St
Real estate ad vance fee complaints heard in Long Beach
Long Beach beauty shop operators testified before a State Assembly subcommittee on alleged advance fee schemes. Irene Marle Linn and Kathryn Quick claimed agents and a firm promised sale ads and paid services with refunds not delivered after no sale occurred. Other witnesses described questionable practices and questioned city management.
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Long Beach
State Assembly
Irene Marle Linn
Charles Ford Co
Svith
Hollywood
Long Beach Area
Kathryn Quick
Orange County
Business Mart of America
Assembly
Los Angeles
James J. Holmes
Santa Barbara
WM Hunting Face Saving. Tick-Tocks!
After quitting smoking, WM Hunting turns to idle diversions and public service for local mariners. He builds oversized tide clocks on cliff tops overlooking the sea, but sunny days reveal little beyond the misty, cloudy, clammy features of the clocks.
Thor Performs Well for AF Moon Mission Test
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida AP The Air Force successfully test launched a Thor 1500 mile range rocket built by Douglas as it plans to use Thor as first stage for a two stage vehicle to put a satellite into orbit and possibly reach the moon The launch occurred in bright sunshine and left a white trail observers tracked the missile Flight data indicated the pre warhead trajectory and return into the atmosphere were within preset parameters The Thor engine from Rocketdyne powered the boost assisted by half of the booster engine manufactured by Rocketdyne and the mission marks five of nine Thors described as fully successful in early testing
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Thor
Douglas
Moon
Army
Douglas Aircraft Co
Santa Monica
Calif
Rocketdyne Division
North American Avia ‘Tion Inc
Los Angeles
U S Recognizes New Venezuelan Government
The United States on Tuesday recognized Venezuela's new government. The State Department said Charles Burrows, the US charge d affaires in Caracas, was instructed to inform the Venezuelan government of provisional recognition.
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Washington
United States
Venezuela
State Department
Charles BR. Burrows
Caracas
Airport autonomy push urged by Chamber committee
The aviation committee of the Chamber of Commerce urges a city vote on creating an autonomous aviation commission modeled on harbor and water systems. Proponents say independence from city manager and council is needed to expand airport use and facilities after months of attempts to establish such a body. Continued on A-10.
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Aviation Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
Aviation Commission
Harbor and Water Commissions
Chamber Committee
Cound
All's Forgiven In Cromer After Parking Lecture
Police constable James Woodcock gave Miss Bera Reeve a lecture for illegal parking. He later learned she is a town councillor and his boss. He apologized and the pair reportedly began a honeymoon.
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Cromer
England
Poice
James Woodcock
Bera Reeve
Ilegal Parking
Murder Warrants Readied for Lincoln Slayings
LincolnNebraska Tuesday night a 19yearold fugitive and his girlfriend Carol Fugate became target of a massive manhunt after authorities say they killed Carol Fugates mother stepfather and half sister in Lincoln and three others near Bennet. County Attorney Elmer Scheele filed warrants charging one murder while prosecutors plan to pursue all six, as investigators probe an earlier sexual assault on Carol King before her death.
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Midwest
Carol Fugate
Charles Starkweather
Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Neb
Sweatheart
Nebraska
Carol
Mar
Lion Bartlett
Theother
Bennet
Otlieved
Jensen
Miss King
Meyer
Elmer Schetle
Carol King
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Dan Casey
Scheele
Caroli Fugate
Magi
Final UK Voted on Arab Union
Damascus Syria AP Syrian cabinet grants final approval for union with Egypt in a two hour session. President Kuwatly and officials plan to travel to Cairo to seal the merger creating one state with a single president and army. Cairo to be capital, uniting Egypts 40 million and Syrians 4 million under Nasser.
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Damascus
Syria
Union of
Egypt
Shukri ‘Kuwadly
Mation
Salah
View Bitar
Calro Mone
Gamal
Nasser
Sabri Assall E
Kuwaily
Tuwatly
al’ Fayha
Diamas
Gamel Abdel Nasser
Cairo
Campanella Devastating Injury Halts Dodgers Catcher
Catcher Roy Campanella of the Los Angeles Dodgers suffered a broken neck in a February crash near Glen Cove. He was hospitalized in critical condition after surgery, with doctors saying paralysis might fade and a return to baseball could be possible but uncertain and years away.
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Glen Cove
Roy
Wreckaye
Campanella
Los Angeles
Mobile
T ! Dodgers
Rowena Glen Cove Hospitals
Pal
Bealt
Songstaken
Unarmed Twin Aces End Tulsa Poker Game
In Tulsa a UPI report describes a friendly poker session at the Oklahoma Sheriffs and Peace Officers convention abruptly ending when two aces of hearts appeared in the same deck. A dark eyed stranger dealt five card stud and fled as the aces turned up. None of the officers were armed after weapons were checked.
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Tulsa
UPI
Oklahoma Sheriffs
Assa
Muskie Declines Run for Third Term as Maine Governor
New York dispatch reports Maine's first Democratic governor in 20 years, Edmund Muskie, said Tuesday night he would not seek a third term. He remains undecided about a run for the U S Senate this November.
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New York
Pi—Banning
Muskie
Maine
Senate
Unified Baghdad Military Plans Signal Middle East Command
ANKARA Turkey AP Baghdad Pact Al fies selects a combined military plans staff in a move toward a unified command in the Middle East backed by the United States. The five nation alliance Iran Britain Iraq Turkey Pakistan and the United States as observer approved a long term plan to reestablish a strategic system of highways airfields ports and radio links from the Aegean to the Arabian Sea with civil airports usable for military needs.
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Ankara
Turkey
Baghdad
Middle East
U.S
Ion
Council of Ministers
Baghded Sowers
Britain
Iran
Iraq
Pakistan
Aegean
Arabian Sea
United States
Pact
Mediterranean
Persian Gulf
Russia
Knoll warns of sleeper in school bill hitting Long Beach
Arthur A. Knoll Long Beach school business manager says a new House education bill could cost his district 512 498 61 annually in federal aid. He and four California educators will testify to pressure changes affecting districts with government owned property or large enrollments tied to defense projects. If enacted the administration plan would sharply cut aid, threatening past fiscal 1957 and 1958 figures.
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Willlam Broom
Washington Bureau
Washington
Arthur A. Knoll
Long Beach
House
Knoll
California
Douglas Aircraft Co
Stee
Hosmer
Craig Hosmer
United States
Fed
Brooklyn educator ends life amid school violence
An outstanding Brooklyn educator, overwhelmed by repeated acts of teenage violence at his school, took his own life. The report notes the tragedy on page A-2 as part of ongoing concerns about student aggression and safety in urban schools.
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Brooklyn
Page
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George Weeks
L.B
Calvin Burford
Union
Amy
Harald Levering
Burford
Frank W. Brojeha
La.c. Say S
Robert Jensen
Storm Cove
Arab Union
Nile
Suez
Europe
Africa
Asia
Kuwatly
Dodgers
Fterwards
Robert W. Segstaken
Segstaken
L. B
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