Knife Fight Hurts Three In Long Beach Home
A Long Beach aircraft worker, his estranged wife Dolores and a nephew were injured Tuesday night in a knife scuffle at the Paramount Boulevard home. Robert Crocker, 37, was treated for a slashed wrist. Dolores Crocker, 31, for a hand wound. Stanley Crocker, 31, for back and arm wounds. The incident began when Crocker drove to the house with his stepdaughter and a struggle over a large hunting knife ensued. The trio were hospitalized and Crocker later questioned by police.
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Long Beach
Community Hospital
Robert Francis Crocker
el Cerro
Buena Park
Dolores
Paramount Blvd
Stanley Michael Crocker
South St
Crocker
Younger Crocker
Lakewood Sheriff's Deputies
Elder Crocker
Across the Nation Hemet B47 Crash Kills 3
A six jet bomber crashed short of a runway during landing near Hemet killing three crewmen and injuring a fourth who survived. The aircraft was returning to March Air Force Base after a navigational training flight when it struck a field. The victims were Lt. Col. Dor Wyn, Maj. John W. Tho, and James M. Brownin. A separate item reports Richard Alten Hest, a 10 most wanted fugitive, arrested near a ranch west of Denver, charged with kidnapping a policeman in Oregon and wounding another in another state. Field notes indicate potential cross-edge coverage of two separate incidents.
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Hemet (Ap
March Air Force Base
Thomas Ca
Dor Wyn 38
John W. Tho
James M. Brownin
Amekrmupolis
Wyo
FBI
Richard Alten Hest
Here
Hart
Denver
Scott
Werner
Hent
Harrisburg
Ore
Bro Ansville
13th Child Born At Hawthorne Hospital
A 28 year old Laxndate woman gave birth to her 13th child a 6 pound 11 ounce girl at Hawthorne Community Hospital. Mother and baby are reported doing fine. The father Gene 43 a truck driver for a manufacturing firm in Harbor City watched as the family welcomed the newest member amid the usual siblings and relatives.
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Hawthorne
UPI
Hawthorne Community Hospital
Alicia Garnicia
Gene
Muufacturing
Harbor City
Question of anti Semitism swirls around Strauss bid
Washington UPI dispatch notes sharp congressional fight over Strauss as commerce secretary amid religious prejudice concerns. President Eisenhower supports Strauss flatly and instructed Senate GOP Leader Dirksen to announce the White House stance after talks with Republican leaders.
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Washington
UPI
Lewis L. Strauss
Commerce
Congress
Strauss
Eisenhower
Senate
4.6 Cent Tax Hike Faces Long Beach Budget
City Manager Sam Vickers urged a city budget of 28,845,506 for 1959-60, up 1.53 million from the prior year, with a property tax rise of 1 to 4.6 cents per 100 dollars assessed. Assessor J. R. Cole said the hike would cost the average property owner about 90 cents yearly on a 3,000 dollar assessment. the current rate is 1.3224.
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Long Beach
Ory
Sam Rickers
J. R. Cole
Vickers
Louisiana Governor Long Held in Protective Custody
Under court order, Louisiana's Gov. Long is detained in protective custody at a Galveston hospital. Snakes may be classified as animals in a campaign to keep rattlers out of pools.
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Louisiana
Gov. Long
Galveston
East German Chief Rebuked by Herter at Geneva
At the East-West Foreign Ministers Conference in Geneva Secretary of State Christian A. Herter publicly rebuked East German Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz. West German adviser Wilhelm Grewe pressed the attack with tape recordings to prove East German intrIgues if denials continued.
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Geneva
UPI
Christian A. Herter
East Germany
Herter
Wilhelm Grewe
Lothar Bolz
West Berlin
Bolz
Drei A. Gromyko
U.S
Berlin
Mailing of Filth Hit at Woman's Club Meet
Los Angeles news reports at a 1000 delegate federation convention that racketeers mail obscene material to youth. Miss Chloe Gifford warns this business could double in four years unless parents act. Post Office says 700000 to 1000000 American children will receive unsolicited obscene material by mail this year.
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Los Angeles
Chloe Gifford
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Giffard
Lexington
Washington
Summerfield
Post Office Department
Seven Missing on River Found Safe in Memphis
Seven people including five children were missing for about five hours while motorboating on the Mississippi River near Memphis. They were found safe three hours later near the woods south of the city. The boat reportedly ran out of gas and beached in Tennessee.
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Memphis
UPS
Mississippi
Bill Urdak
Johnny
Michele
Anny
Virgil Green
Fort Benning
David
U.S
Andrew Kian
Weatherman and wife seek festival guidance at music event
The Weatherman and his wife quarrel over which festival event to attend first. They ask an usher for guidance, hoping to be directed to the Lieder as their best option.
Limit OKd on Anchovies
A pending bill to impose a 35,000 ton bag limit on anchovies or canning won approval from the Assembly Fish and Game Committee. The measure, S. B. 150 by Murdy, cleared the panel 7-2 and moves to the Assembly floor after Senate passage. The bill pits sports fishermen, backing it as conservation, against commercial fishermen who oppose it.
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Sacramento
Assembly Fish and Same Committee
Merdy
Assembly
Senate
Nicaraguan troops repulse two rebel invasion forces
Loyal Nicaraguan troops drive back two rebel invasion attempts in central Nicaragua near Felica and other areas. Rebels report 23 dead, with clashes across four fronts. Washington hosts an emergency OAS session to discuss the attack as Somoza confirms fighting in Chantales and Matazapa.
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Managua
Nicaragua
UPI
Central
Luis So Orasahad
Felica
Costa Rica
Ilesto Sevilla- Sacasa
Alife Cuba
Nicarag
New York
Guillermo Cosy Tang
Somoza
Chantales
Matazapa
Haircut escalates to pistol threat at pistol point
Charleston barber J Roy Duncan recalls giving a young customer a haircut that roused a furious father. The father, Basil Blackwell, returned with a pistol after a prior trim, prompting Duncan to seek no charges. Magistrate John R Stall issued a peace bond.
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Charleston
S. C
Barber J. Roy Duncan
North Charleston
Duncan
Basil Blackwell
Blackwell
John R. Stall
District Rejects Gov Brown Water Bond Bill
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California rejected Gov Brown's water bond bill of 1.7 million dollars as detrimental in present form. Directors said the Senate version contains provisions harmful to Southern California and would be unacceptable unless revised. The bill aims to finance development of the California water plan to bring water to water-deficient areas. The Assembly committee scheduled a hearing next Monday on the measure.
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Los Angeles
Metropolitan Water District
Southern California
Brown
State Senate
California
Hugh Burns
Fresno
California Water Plan
S F Teller Jailed in Theft Hoax
San Francisco bank teller Joseph F. Pearce was jailed on charges of making false statements to the FBI regarding an alleged March bank robbery at Crocker-Argent Hank’s Van Ness branch. Bail set at $2,000 by US Commissioner Joseph Raresh. motive cited as covering a cash shortage.
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Francisco
Pearce
FBI
Time Will Tell Frog Shortage Delays Pregnancy Nests
In St Louis Missouri doctors at St Louis Maternity Hospital say a Minnesota cold snap cut off the supply of frogs used in pregnancy tests. Officials acknowledge the delay is a factor in confirming motherhood as weather slows deliveries and tests. Time will tell how soon frogs become available again.
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Minnesota
St Louis
St Louis Maternity Hospital
St. Louis
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