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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1956
Page
10
Romney Duncan and John Ireland, misdemeanor convicts at Stokes County prison near Banbury, North Carolina, strolled away from a road gang after bidding farewell to the guard on Tuesday. The guard could not intervene under state law, as misdemeanor prisoners may not be fired upon.
Sacramento report states a tougher financial responsibility law for motorists starts Friday. It broadens impact to car owners by allowing suspension of vehicle registration cards and license plates after major accidents, expanding beyond previous driver license suspensions.
At Carobil Hospital one man died and a woman remained sedated for treatment of injuries after a family shooting. Four sons are named in juvenile court petitions as investigators say the Parker family scandal involved a 12 year old daughter Charlotte and a Bethlehem Steel worker father in Maywood.
The Federal Communications Commission will not block Western Union's plan to raise interstate press telegram rates by about 822 percent, effective September 14 along with higher rates for US Canada Mexico service. The overall increases are expected to lift Western Union Telegraph Co revenues by around 20.3 million after patronage adjustments. Additional FCC-approved hikes include 19.3 percent general commercial messages and 16.3 percent press messages, with varied increases for money orders and cross border routes on September 14 and September 24.
A U S Navy ground crewman was killed Tuesday at Atsugi Japan when he ran into the propeller of a fighter plane during an exercise. The man, unnamed, was directing the aircraft from the flight line onto a runway at the naval air station.
GLENDALE Traffic Patrolman Harold E. Coombs aged 64 went to a doctor to seek certification to return to duty after sick leave since June. In the office he showed symptoms of a coronary attack and was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital after an ambulance was summoned.
In New York early trading, steels rose fractions to around two points while leading stocks in other divisions eased about a point. The market paused after retreating Tuesday on news of the Suez Canal and the Maine election.
Union Pacific Railroad plans a new Omaha to Los Angeles local passenger service starting September 23. The train will offer a lunch counters car with moderate meals and unreserved coach seating. Sleeping car space will run between Cheyenne Ogden and Las Vegas Los Angeles with westbound departures from Omaha at 10 05 am CST arriving Los Angeles 5 30 am PST the next day. Eastbound will depart Los Angeles 5 45 pm arriving Omaha next day at 7 pm.
Mrs Rankin recalls her 19 month old son Jeffrey called little angel. He wore an angel food cake pan as a hat Tuesday in Los Angeles. Pan jammed on his head and firefighters used sheet metal shears to remove it at Valley Receiving Hospital.
Liberty, Texas. Three men were killed instantly in a collision between a truck and a car on Highway 90 between Liberty and Dayton. Dead are Frank Watson Jr., 30, Bobby Dale Herndon, 23, from Path of Liberty, and Gabriel Miripe Denis, 42, of Lafayette. The van style truck sideswiped the car on the two lane highway and plunged over the embankment.
Sir Winston and Lady Churchill marked their 48th wedding anniversary without the family dinner party due to the Suez crisis. A low key observance was reported as the couple refrained from the usual celebrations.
In Cyprus near Larvac a clash between Cypriot fighters and British troops left seven Tommies wounded as gunfire from automatic weapons and shotguns erupted during a Tuesday night ambush on the south coast.
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