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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1959
Page
2
UCLA psychologist Dr. Jack Fox released a report claiming myopia is a psychomatic disorder driven by mental and emotional disturbances. The study involved 80 participants, 40 near sighted and 40 with normal vision, with near sighted individuals showing greater inhibition and tendency to repress anxiety.
A 20 year old Victoria Texas man known as Tex admitted to murder in Los Angeles after police traced him through fingerprints. He said he beat 17 year old Durella Boyer with an electric iron and strangled her with the cord in her one room apartment. Boyer had recently moved from outside Omaha to the city seeking thrills.
Fragmentary item notes a delivery issue at a post office on Long Beach Street. Mentions Malch 3 Seale and SolYaay with unclear references to an address and a bread-related crowding claim. No clear outcome.
A Chicago bound Milwaukee Road passenger train derailed in a Cedar Rapids area yard. Eleven people were hospitalized including nine passengers and two crew, with at least twenty additional passengers bruised. The train consisted of two coaches a Pullman baggage cars and a twin diesel unit.
Unprecedented dry spell hits crops and fenners in Southern California as dry farming and irrigation enters costly crisis. Farmers face higher irrigation needs for grains beans sugar beets almonds and other crops while range grasses struggle. The parched pattern lingers north of the Hawaiian Islands delaying rain. Los Angeles Weather Bureau records show the first rainless March in 82 years and the second warmest March. sun 94 percent of days, normal 73 percent, seasonal rain total 5.08 inches vs 13.04 normal and 18.00 last year.
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