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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1957
Page
8
Regio Calabria scene as Pietro Nucera, mayor of Raghudi, is jailed for abducting schoolteacher Francesca Zavattiery after she rejected him. Police traced them through Aspromonte and a cave note led to his arrest as the judge pursued the case and questioned both parties.
A 22 year old pipefitter Richard Lee Karns survived an explosion in the hold of the Bethlehem Steel Co docked tanker on Terminal Island. Welder Lee Stallings died, four others burned. Karns reportedly attempted suicide weeks earlier and was treated after an overdose at home. Karns ascribed to sedatives, and his mother says he had been very nervous since the blast.
A burning cross and a sign reading racist extremist group were placed in the driveway and front yard of Mrs. Jeanne Johnson, a Black schoolteacher, on Saturday night. The incident marks the fifth warning she has received since moving to the all-white area four months ago.
A woman reports ongoing damage to their lawn after each planting by her husband Lonnie, 40, a merchant seaman, asserting they will not move despite the repeated destruction.
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