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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1961
Page
6
A terse notice urges dialing HE 2.5959 to begin action under the Independent Press Telegram Classified Act, indicating a prompt process for service or agreement.
Palm Springs mourns Joan Davis who died of a heart attack at 48 after a 35 year career as a comic actress in film and television. She found success as the troubled wife in I Married Joan and starred in films like Sally Irene and Mary and Wake Up and Live. Davis began in vaudeville in St Paul, married Si Wills, and later built a radio and TV presence before her death at her desert home.
Car on City dispatch reports 18 year old Harlen Lee Harmon of Medford Oregon waived preliminary hearing on first degree kidnapping charges and was bound over for district court trial. Harmon had pleaded guilty to armed robbery of a gas station attendant and received a five to fifteen year state prison sentence. The kidnapping charge carries life imprisonment.
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