Vets Council Backs Death Penalty Ban
In San Francisco the California State AVC backed abolishing capital punishment while opposing Gov Brown’s water bonds. The AVC urged a user funded water program with revenue bonds and no subsidy. The Democratic women’s division also urged death penalty abolition, calling it ineffective as a crime deterrent.
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Edmund G. Brown
California State Council of the American Veterans Committee
AVC
Brown
Women’s
Democratic State Central Committee
Record Storm Dumps Snow and Death Across Nation
A five day storm that began in the Southwest in March battered cities from Boston to the Midwest. Nearly 200 deaths were attributed to the furious plunge, with millions in damage and deep snow threatening floods in western Pennsylvania as thawing waters rose.
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Boston
New York
Pilot Freed in Slaying
Riverside police released 1st Lt. William Kenneth Blake of March Air Force Base after an all night grilling over the fatal shooting of his ex wife Dorothy Simons. Detectives offered no breakthrough in the case as they pursued custody dispute details.
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Riverside
Dorothy Simons
William Kenneth Blake
March Air Force Base
Defense policy critics clash with Eisenhower plan in early primary week
In Washington the House Armed Services Committee approved a softened bill targeting influence peddling by retired officers and barring them from selling to the Armed Forces within two years of leaving service. Nixon urged constant re assessment of intelligence as Kennedy warned America is unprepared in disarmament and called for a U S arms control research institute ahead of New Hampshire primary voting.
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House Armed Services Committee
Army
Air Force
Navy
Boston
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Nixon
New Hampshire
Durham
N. H
John F. Kennedy
U.S. Arms Control Research Institute
Kennedy
University of New Hampshire
SAG strike pits actors over TV replays and pay
A SAG spokesman argues picket lines are unnecessary as most actors earn under 4000 a year while Charles S. Boren of the Association of Motion Picture Producers says talks failed. Producers offered pension health welfare and raises to push a $99 daily floor, but the dispute centers on double payment when films are sold for TV exhibition.
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Europe
SAG
Guild
War Pal Nabs 3 in Hero's Slaying
Three youths were in custody after the killing of Korean war hero Peter Martinez on Beach Street near Montezuma Club in Firestone Park. Allan Ortega, a special officer who had saved Martinez in Korea, fired to stop their escape. Cesar Saldana Closa Philip Barela and Devilo S. Delfino were booked on murder suspicion. A deputy was wounded when Otis Weaver was killed by a shot from the scene.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Firestone Park Street
Peter Martinez
Montezuma Club
Beach St
Firestone Blvd
Allan Ortega
Ortega
Martinez
Korea
Firestone Park
Cesar Saldana Closa
Bell
Philip Barela
Huntington Park
Devilo S. Delfino
Closa
Otis Weaver
Weaver
Thomas C. Stover
Stover
Nickel Company Quits Cuba
Freeport Nickel Company suspends its 119 million dollar Cuba project. The Freeport Sulphur subsidiary cites a new Cuban mining law imposing a 25 percent tax on ore exports and other recent developments as the reason for the suspension.
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New York
Freeport Nickel Company
Cuba
Freeport Sulphur Company
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Joan F. Dilley
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Pittsburgh Weather Bureau
Gladstone
Bitner Pontiac
Lake Ave
Eisenhower
U.S
Lake At
Walnut
Pasadena
Kaiser’s Meat Market
MIT
SWIFT
Preble’s
Safety Liquors
RISKA
Neptune Seafood
North Star Bakery
Charles S. Boren
The
Association of Motion Picture Producers
War Pal
Nickel Company
Mark Twain
of Historic
America
Bourbon
Kentucky
OLD Crow Distillery CO
Frankfort, KY
National Dist. Prod. Co
Chicago
Prudent Gov
Institute of Life Insurance
Madison Avenue
N. Y
Maytag Shop
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