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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1964
Page
4
The Labor Department reports a stable price situation with a 0.1 percent April rise in the Consumer Price Index to 10.78 from 10 base. Food was steady overall though meat and produce fluctuated, sugar fell but remained high, and clothing plus used cars lifted costs while housing rents rose and energy costs edged down.
Large crowds gathered in New Delhi for Jawaharlal Nehru's 74 year old state funeral. Authorities reported about 140 injured in the crush near the sandalwood pyre as dignitaries including Dean Rusk and Alec Douglas-Home attended. Shastri emerges as leading successor candidate.
Havana officials said Cuba signed a deal to buy 1,970 additional Soviet tractors. Pavel Saken, the Soviet commercial representative in Cuba, stated the USSR would have delivered nearly 9,000 tractors to Cuba by the end of 1964.
About one million workers in auto, aerospace, farm and construction equipment and metalworking industries will receive pay raises of one cent an hour tied to quarterly CPI gains. Factory workers earned more on average, with weekly incomes around 83.49 for no dependents and 132 a week with three dependents, reflecting higher wages and lower taxes.
A Florida to Cuba flight claim sparked, with a flier alleging radar blind spots along the coast from Boca Raton to Homestead. The Sun Sentinel quoted an unnamed man saying he flew to eastern Cuba and back dropping leaflets on Santiago and a field hospital for anti-C Castro guerrillas. Cuban confirmation of the flight came via exile group 30th of November stating its men conducted a Caribbean base operation.
About 670 Imperial Elementary School students in Downey missed 45 minutes of class as police and fire units conducted a room by room search after an anonymous bomb threat called into the district switchboard around 1 22 am. Principal Robert Freeman ordered a civil defense drill. No irregularities found in the fruitless search.
Atty Gen. Stanley Mosk charged that the U.S. Army undercuts controls by supplying free ammunition and cut rate rifles to private arm clubs linked to extremist groups. He alleged Army secrecy blocked his efforts to curb armament flows and accused the National Rifle Association tied board of acting as a government arm of anti firearm lobbying.
Assemblyman Joseph Kennick told 100 delegates at a Long Beach conference that age alone keeps older persons from gainful employment. He urged action beyond 561 to curb age discrimination, proposing study requirements and bills to ease hiring for seniors. He challenged myths about older workers being less capable and suggested delaying fringe-benefit costs and barring age inquiries for 30 days after employment starts.
James C. O'Brien of the United Steelworkers says executives will not use leisure once they have it and the same applies to retirees.
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