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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1959
Page
1
LA C SAYS welfare agencies in hundreds of communities report hungry children and mounting destitution as the steel strike lingers ten weeks. Unions reportedly lack funds to aid, while public and private agencies face legal limits under Taft Hartley. The piece urges intervention to prevent widespread hardship.
Three Polytechnic High School students were suspended Monday for hanging an effigy of Mayor Norris Poulson from a 10 foot rope on the art building balcony. A fourth youth, a college student, was said to be involved as the school conducts a full investigation and bars the others from classes during suspension.
Los Angeles reports 22 year old Carole Tregoff faces a Friday hearing as the district attorney seeks to revoke or raise her bail from 25000 to 100000. Charged as an accomplice in the murder of Dr R Bernard Finch's estranged wife Barbara Finch on July 18, she allegedly funded a murder plot with two men. Cody, 29, in custody in Minneapolis, testified she financed the plan but he denies intent to act. The immediate bail withdrawal failed.
Army rescue team retrieved the body of First Lt. Charles Guess of Corvallis Oregon, the pilot of a single engine L19 recon plane that vanished on a White Mountain slope in Inyo National Forest. The wreckage was spotted by hunters near Bishop California, 15 miles northeast of the area.
Two men convicted of advertising a machine to cure cancer received six months in county jail and $250 fines. Emerson Warth and Webster Billington, a Santa Ana manufacturer of the “audible sound” device, were sentenced with three years probation on three counts. A co-defendant, Mrs. Golda Franzen, was granted a six month suspended sentence.
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The Paddlewheel satellite detected a third, undetected radiation belt about 1,000 miles from Earth, potentially increasing danger for manned spaceflight. NASA announced at a news conference as Explorer VI risks remain. The news also included the first crude Earth picture from 13,500 miles out.
Nich Jung chen, chairman of the Scientific Planning Commission, says China is advancing in rockets and electronic computers amid speculation it may launch a space missile on October 1 to mark the nation’s anniversary.
FBI announced the arrest of Kenneth Jarome Wieter 32 in Los Angeles for making three anonymous bomb threat calls. He confessed to an FBI office call on Sept. 18 claiming a bomb on a plane and stated the flight was bound for Chicago. No bomb was found. he had prior guilty pleas in Seattle in 1957 receiving two one year sentences.
The Intercollegiate Forensics League drawn from Southland colleges plans a forensics clinic at Long Beach State College Saturday. Topics include western state problems, international relations, and whether Congress can reverse Supreme Court decisions. Morning background on Congress and the Court by James C. Lien. Clinic chairman is Warren Lashley. Last year U S per capita meat newsprint?
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