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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1958
Page
1
UPI reports California jobless claims decreased in the March to April period. Employment figures from a state chamber search indicate unemployment at 429,000, about 7.5 percent of the population, down from 206,000 a year ago.
A swank uptown Atlantic dress shop was stripped of thousands of dollars worth of women's fashions. Detectives say several men used a truck to back up, looting display windows, racks, mannequins, and closets, leaving one mannequin in the window. The Chrys Teen Shop at 4518 Atlantic Ave was entered through a rear door and cleared out. owner Olive Mulholland estimates thousands in losses, with cashmere sweaters, dresses, costume jewelry, and other accessories among the loot.
FBI agents arrested Quay Cleon Kilburn in Los Angeles after a tip from a poster reader. Kilburn, 34, an escaped prisoner and former Utah State Prison inmate, was armed and had used a prison press card to interview inmates. In other items, President Eisenhower sent a message to Khrushchev about talks on nuclear test suspensions, and Edward G. Robinson Jr. recovering from injuries after a fall from a Malibu home. In Los Angeles, bank robber Kenneth St Onge received a five year suspended sentence after a pledge of hunger for his family, with support flowing to the destitute household.
Paris Tuesday AP wires report Premier De Gaulle used a firm stance and warned resignation to push through his reform package. The National Assembly approved the power rewrite by 350 to 165, exceeding the earlier 229 to 224 margin that brought him premiership. Earlier, lawmakers granted him decree powers for six months and authority to crush Algerian rebellion. De Gaulle spoke four times, delivering a blunt ultimatum that without swift action the government could not continue.
A radio irritated worker ignores orders to play music. The boss presses for silence but the crew member recalls hearing a tune about a one eyed one horned flying purple people eater. A fleeting wartime mood note appears in casual office chatter.
Long Beach area voters begin casting ballots at 7 a.m as polls open across the state. Primaries determine party nominations for governor senator and hundreds of offices while Knowland seeks governor against Pat Brown in California’s cross filing system.
Deborah Kerr and her husband Anthony Bartley moved to place their two daughters Melanie and Francesca under English court jurisdiction. The Hollywood star, working in Vienna with Yul Brynner, said the marriage breakup was public and they are now estranged.
Long Beach Unified School District teachers face a tentative 23.36 percent average pay raise with a $929,000 annual cost to district personnel. The plan raises starting salaries from 4500 to 4600 and max pay with doctor’s degree to 9065, with hearings set for the board.
The stock market rose to another 1958 high as confidence grew on Independent Street and energised steels. Four young students allegedly mined a three room grade school with 36 sticks of dynamite, noted on separate pages.
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