Dump Owner Gifts to City Officials Told
Los Angeles AP report says Violet Gillin testified wealthy dump operator Michael Harabedian gave gifts to Monterey Park officials including a residential lot in 1947 to James Bradshaw Jr then mayor or councilman, an $800 Oriental rug, furniture, cash and a Lake Arrowhead cabin item, plus another lot in 1951 to former city official Robert Kline as part of alleged waste industry irregularities.
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Los. Angeles
Monterey Park
Violet Gillin
Assembly
Michael Harabedian
One
Harabedian
Henry Bodkin Jr
Bradshaw
Lake Arrowhead
Gillen
Hugh Dynes
Herbert C.ees
Gillian
Monterey Park City Mail
Robert Kline
Hunts Fishing Worms Killed in Tumble Parson Kyuri
William Wells, 72, was killed Thursday while getting worms for a fishing trip. He tripped over a root while climbing down an embankment and his head struck a storm sewer.
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Kyuri
William Wells
Beach Combing Notes and Page Index Summary
A fragment listing sections and page references for a newspaper issue. Mentions Beach Combing on B-1, Hal Boyle A-11, various pages from Bridge to Editorial, Classifieds, Comics, Death Notices B-2, Financial B-3, Radio TV A-12, Shipping B-9, Weather B-9, Vital Statistics B-S, and Wilson Women pages with scattered garbled text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
Vital Vital Statice
Wilson
Convict Walker Found Guilty in Kidnap Attacks on Beauty Queen
Jack James Walker, 25, choir singer and family man, was found guilty on all five counts for kidnapping and attacking beauty queen Donna Schurr Brott, with an eight hour jury deliberation. The verdict was read as Walker sat in court and his wife Judy sobbed, while Mrs Brett expressed relief justice was done. The case marks a vindication for the 1955 Miss California titleholder and the accuser spoke of moving on.
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Walker
Jack James Walker
Robert Haeckel
Donna Schurr Brett
Judy
Haeckel
Santa Ana
Bob Swanson
Donna Schurr Brott
Ray Arguello
Brett
Mrs Brett
Newport Beach
Lloyd
California
Donna
Mrs. Brett
H Bomb Test Now Set for Saturday
The bulky Cherokee shot H bomb test is set now for Saturday in the United States if the weather will cooperate. The big air drop shot will be observed by newsmen and Civil Defense leaders, and was originally scheduled last Monday.
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JSS
MT. Mckinley
Eniwetoka
United States
U.S
Jets Collide High in Air Near Sioux City
Two FS6D jet fighters from the 53rd Fighter Group crashed 30 miles southwest of Sioux City after a midair collision during a routine training mission. Pilots 1st Lt. Francis T. Bennett and 2nd Lt. Kenneth W. Gera bailed out and escaped unharmed. observers reported ground smoke near Emerson.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Here
Sioux City Air Force Base
Air Force
Francis T. Bennett
Kenneth W. Gera
Emerson
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Two Executed by Rifles for 1949 Murder
Two Midwest men, Verne Braasch of Reinbeck Iowa and Melvin Sullivan of Kansas City Missouri, were executed by volunteer firing squads at dawn at the Utah State Prison for a Beaver Utah service station murder on October 22 1949. The pair were strapped to chairs as 10 rifles fired, each squad of five with one blank shell. Both men professed no statements, and their shirts reddened as they died. They had claimed a hard childhood and lack of fair chances.
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Nicosia
EOKA
Britain
Michael Karalios
Andreas Demetrious
Hill
Shilton
Mediterranean
Point OF the Mountain
Utah
Verne
Alfred Braasch
Melvin Leroy Sullivan
Braasch
Reinbeck
Iowa
Sullivan
Kansas City
Beaver
Utah State Prison
Salt Lake City
Iompou
Charles Wellstrom
Iron County
Wells
Deglect
Verne A. Braaschleft
Melvin L. Sullivan
Missouri
Dope Raid Seizes 63 Suspects In Philadelphia
In a pre dawn sweep, 92 detectives arrested 63 people alleged to be narcotics sellers citywide. Lt Glascow Driscoll, narcotics head, said most were small time with one man found holding heroin who named the supplier Frank Szostek. The raid marked the fourth such operation in just over a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Xttle
Glascow Driscoll
Driscoll
Thomas Manning
Frank Szostek
Inhorm Driscoll
Tommy Dorsey
Gene Krupa Banis
Szostek
Mercia
Chicago
Stevenson Campaign Hits Southern California In Long Beach
Adlai Stevenson spoke to about 1,800 at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium rally and attacked Eisenhower policies. He also greeted longshoremen in Wilmington and made forums in Lakewood Center and Lincoln Park, while a magnitude quake tremor disrupted events across Riverside and Palm Springs.
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Adlai Stevenson
Long
Wilmington
Eisenhower
Long Beach Municipal
Southern California
International Union For Longshoremen
Broad Ave
San Diego
UPI
Stevenquake
Sanson
Diego
Los Angeles
Stevenson
Riverside
Palm Springs
Vice
California
Gerald Desmond
State of Technology
Pasadena
Epee
Fred
Robinson
George Vermillion
Nixon
Lakewood Center
Lincoln Park
Long Beach
Marhing
Wilmington Dispatch
Rioters Halt Trains Over Fare Increase in Rio
Rioters blocked Rio de Janeiro suburban rail line for hours protesting a 60 percent fare rise. Police opened fire as about 2,000 demonstrators clashed near Duque de Caxias station, wounding six. crowd forced engineers from cabs and looted freight cars carrying chickens.
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Rio de Janeiro
Duque de Caixas
Arizona Chief Requests U S Drought Relief
W McFarland today asked President Eisenhower for drought relief for Arizona. He said the drought situation this year is worse than 1915 when the federal government provided 500000 dollars for livestock growers in 11 Arizona counties.
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Phoensa
W. McFarland
Eisenhower
Arizona
Walkout Closes Beatty Circus in Oxnard
Performers from Clyde Beatty Circus walkout after AGVA order over $15 000 back pay owed to members. Karl Knudson says equipment left Los Angeles by train for Deming NM winter HQ. The union bars any member from performing until back pay is settled and the circus plans are canceled.
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Oxnard
American Guild of Variety
Clyde Beatty
Karl Knudson
Los Angeles
Deming
AGWA
Union
Weather brief hints at warm Saturday day
Fragmentary note suggests a warmer Saturday with mild conditions though details are unclear.
Police bullets halt kidnap robbery attempt in Los Angeles
Police halted a pre-dawn kidnap and robbery at Dr Ralph Dorn's home after a gun battle. A suspect Alvin Marshall, 21, was wounded in the leg and arrested. Dorn, 65, faces abortion charges and is due to stand trial May 28. The robbers fled with $850 before police arrived.
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Los Angeles
la Canada Chire
Ralph Dorn
Alvin Marishall
General Hospital
Edward Jokisch
Marshall
Dr. Dorn
Jokisch
Homer ‘West
Jobisch
Three Babies Die as Los Angeles Hospital Isolates
Mysterious infection claims three infant lives at Los Angeles General Hospital. Dr George M Uhl orders nursery isolation for premature babies as 28 infants are kept apart. Origin unknown but suspected bacterial staphylococcus. investigation ongoing until the 28 show no symptoms.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles General Hospital
George M. Uhl
Airmen Get Prison for Beating Briton
Two American airmen aged 19, Melvin Dean Hubbard and Early Layne Wilkerson, were sentenced to four and two years respectively for beating L. H. Payne after catching him spying near a lovers lane with two girls. The prosecutor said Payne was struck and stabbed along a suburban cow path near Oxford.
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Oafuel
Edgianawr
Melvin Dean ‘Hubbard
Beckley
Layne Wilkers Son
Smith County
Tenn
L. H. Payne
Oxford
Boy Dies After Tractor Tops Over Near Manistee
A six year old boy suffocated when mud and water covered his face after a tractor overturned near a farm home five miles south of Manistee. The boy pinned by the vehicle while Norman Eric Holster and his father Norman Edward, 38, were riding it. The front wheels hit loose gravel and the tractor plunged down a four foot embankment.
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Norman Eric Holster
Norman Edward
Manistee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Convict Walker
Beauty
Cyprus
Dighenis
National Organization of Cypriot Fighters
Union of Cyprus
Greece
Cpls
Gordon Hill
Ronnie Shilton
Philly
Con
Adlai
Municipal Auditorium
L. B
Assairs
Baja
Southland
Paperee al Vent
U. S
Beatty Circus
la Canada Chiro
IL. A
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