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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1962
Page
2
Townsend Club No 10 meets for a covered dish lunch at noon Friday at Linden Vill Linden Avenue and Broadway. The Youth Talent Showcase Band will perform.
A damaged OCR fragment notes tensions and a confrontation with references to a 25 year term and Tet related context. The readable text shows garbled place names and unclear actions but indicates a local disturbance report without coherent details.
Two convicted robbers escaped a county prison transport near Denver, assaulted a deputy, and terrorized a mother and her seven children in a suburban Aurora house before surrendering to police. Theodore Ruark and Charles Ferguson, both ex-convicts, hijacked a car, fired shots, and held officers at bay as tear gas and armed officers surrounded the Rutledge home. Ultimately they abandoned plans to harm the children and yielded with hands raised.
The Ig Beach Harbor Commission approves a one story office building at HO Harbor Plaza to serve as headquarters for International Towers Inc. A $30 million hotel commercial center was already approved. Construction on Pier 1 area and adjacent land may start soon with completion expected within 45 days. Charles C Weidtien, president of International Towers, announced the plan.
Governors at a regional conference clash over civil rights amendments and federal transportation plans as Gov. Rosellini is elected chairman. Tensions rise between Rockefeller and Powell with Brown of California pressing for orderly debate. The session ends amid partisan jabs and chocolate bar diplomacy.
Will Jones, 40, of 439 5S Harbor Bld, San Pedro, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Maurice C. Sparring Tuesday to five years to re imstate prison for slaying a longshoreman in an argument over a card game. Jones, a shoe shine stand operator, was convicted of Second degree murder for the March 24 shooting of Fred Douglas Hawkins, 39, of 105 EF. 1 St, Wilmington, in downtown San Pedro.
Former residents of San Marcial New Mexico plan the 30th annual reunion at Bixby Park Cherry Avert and East First Street at 10 a m on the sixth day.
President Kennedy's tax revision proposal runs into renewed trouble as Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harry Byrd sets a July 17 deadline to reach full agreement. If no accord by then the bill will be set aside and trade hearings begin, shortening time to finalize tax changes. Byrd plans executive sessions only from July 1, limiting chance for consensus. Disputes over withholding on dividends and interest loom large as administration supporters face votes.
Larson 24 was jailed for six months by Superior Judge Maurice C Sparling on grand theft. He was arrested May 26 after impersonating a company official to take 225 dollars from a Long Beach department store cash register, and was captured in the building Ray Leo Larson 38 of 1005.
Former President Eisenhower plans a Bonn trip with his wife two grandchildren and a party of friends. A US Embassy spokesman said Tuesday the visit will include diplomacy and sightseeing in the German city.
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