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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1957
Page
3
Citizens flooded City Hall and the Hall of Records with tea bags and anonymous notes aimed at city leaders over high taxes. The protest, likened to a Boston councilmen and CouryeS Tea Party, drew widespread attention as residents delivered the tea and messages Friday.
Washington judge Curran reversed a May conviction of Dr Otto Nathan for contempt of Congress and acquitted him. Nathan, 64, NYU economics professor and estate executor of Albert Einstein, argued the Supreme Court ruling behind the reversal. He called the outcome a victory for freedom and for limits on investigations of political beliefs, while local officials weighed recall threats and planned a mass meeting at Mt. San Antonio College stadium.
A severe windstorm battered Orange County and wider Southern California causing millions in damage. Orange County crops were decimated by 30 percent with winds toppling oil derricks and damaging 200 homes. The Angelos National Forest burned 25,000 acres while towns Monrovia Duarte Sierra Madre Bradbury and Azusa faced threats. A Western Airlines DC6B shockingly jolted 22 passengers injuring several including a stewardess and a passenger. Rescue crews and power lines struggled to recover as weather cooled and seas hit Santa Rosa Island and Catalina Island causing more vessel incidents and evacuations.
Galveston merchant TollER, 29, admitted smuggling 12 ounces of marijuana into the United States. Judge Roszel C. Thomsen sentenced him to five years in prison after TollER came ashore from a ship in Baltimore. Customs officials found the contraband inside his belongings.
Harriet Livermore testified in the murder trial of Lt. Ewing Scott that after his wife vanished, he began dating her three months later. She recalled Scott saying the wife had left him but that he would wait seven years to be declared legally dead and even proposed a Guatemala trip on a non platonic basis.
Cecile Dionne aged 23, the second of the surviving quintuplets, will wed television cameraman Phil Langlois, 26, at Sacred Heart Church near Callander Ontario. The ceremony follows a postponement from last year, with ninety guests invited. Cecile’s sister Amelia married Germain Allard in Montreal last October.
An advertising notice details the Huntington Hotel at 1700 E Ocean Blvd Long Beach touting two lobbies, private baths, wall to wall carpeting, telephones and daily mail service. Dinner features breaded meats, turkey and Virginia ham with meals offered at $24.50 per person per week and curbside dining for outside patrons.
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