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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1955
Page
2
Omaha police arrest Tom James Dalton 59 after he reveals 2755.96 in cash and bank books proving years of coal shoveling savings. He boasts future independence with social security only, warns against women and drinking as he explains his wealth.
Los Angeles attorney Joseph J. Scott appealed to Vice President Nixon for help to free George and Charles Finn, inmates in a Springfield Missouri federal prison, who are portioned to a 25th day of hunger strike after a 1960s-style trial over ownership of a C 46 surplus plane. The Finns, WWII Army Air Corps fliers, were jailed for a year after handcuffing a federal prosecutor.
The Assembly Education Committee approved a bill to operate a $7,000 neuropsychiatric hospital at UCLA. Senator Richard Richards of Los Angeles sponsored the measure, which now proceeds to the Ways and Means Committee for further consideration.
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