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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1956
Page
1
Pravda asks what the current Soviet leaders did to curb the excesses of the final years of Stalin's rule, reprinting an AP report from Moscow on the inquiry and public response.
The Big Three and United Steel Workers move toward a tentative three year contract with a 10 cent hourly wage increase in year one. Earlier proposals were rejected as unsatisfactory and mills in Gary Indiana and Pittsburgh area prepared to resume furnaces as a precaution against a strike. News notes Khrushchev’s secret Stalin denouncement speech from the 20th Communist Party Congress appears on wall postings.
Washington AP reports Secretary of State Dulles says Moscow’s control over communist parties outside Russia weakened since Stalin’s death. He cites dissatisfaction within the Soviet and foreign parties, warns of internal perplexity, urges Western unity to deny new Communist victories, notes responsibility partly lies with the United States.
President Eisenhower today signed eight bills passed by Congress mainly minor measures and met with his chief aides in a bed conference. White House press secretary Hagerty said doctors plan to release him from Walter Reed Army Hospital Saturday after three weeks post major abdominal operation.
A barking dog and four women chased away robbers at a liquor store on Vermont Avenue Los Angeles. Two men robbed the store taking about 35 dollars and shot at the clerk Helen Stiber 42 who refused to hand over more money. The assailants used blank cartridges, mauling her and breaking a window with champagne. Store owner Clem Wendling 55 fired six shots from the alley as the robbers fled their car.
In Los Angeles Mrs. Jeanette C. Davis, 40, told police two men and a woman entered her jewelry store Tuesday night tied her with wire and adhesive tape and escaped with 70 dollars in cash and about 2000 dollars in gems and property.
Highway Patrol pursued Ed mond Lockwood 24 and Bill Gene Lockwood 22 after they allegedly robbed Rialto, San Bernardino County, and fled near the San Clemente border. Raymond Lockwood was shot in the shoulder by Sgt Kenneth Deerson and taken to Orange County General Hospital. Bill was jailed in Oceanside. The pair were later found hiding in a nearby home as officers recovered the stolen patrol car abandoned behind a liquor store in San Clemente.
The notice lists sections and page references for daily content including Beach Combing on C-1, Bridge on A-15, Classifieds C-4 to C-11, Comics B-10, Crossword B-9, Death Notices C-2, Editorial A-18, Financial C-3, Shipping Table C-2, Sports A-22 to A-25, Theaters B-13, Tides Temp O-2, TV Radio B-8, Wilson A-19, and Women B-2 to B-5.
The House passed a pension bill for World War I veterans offering up to $90 a month at age 65 to those with incomes within specified limits. The measure now goes to the Senate for consideration in a politically charged debate over veterans benefits.
Rep. Mahan of Texas pushes checking Pentagon needs before backing nearly a billion for the Air Force while Senate authorizes extra 912.6 million for defense. The plan aims to bolster airpower against Soviet gains, with ongoing talks to resolve House and Senate differences on budget totals and distribution among services.
Louis W Baldi of Los Angeles bought a new car with automatic shift. His son George parked it in the driveway. Baldi told him not to move it but the 62 year old backed into the street and, while starting the engine, shifted the wrong lever. The car sped forward and fatally crushed his wife Bertha Baldi in front of the home.
The outlook calls for morning fog and cloudy or sunny intervals with a mainly bright sky. A cooler northwesterly breeze will push daytime temperatures lower, with the region turning cooler Thursday and easing trends afterward.
Fragmentary text notes a San Francisco health department document seeking a rubonic plaque source. Mentions Ventura County transmission via bloodstream and disease movement between arial sources. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
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