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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1966
Page
3
The Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration raised their mortgage rates from 5.5 4 to 5.75 percent, affecting new loans negotiated after Monday. The move, announced amid rising conventional rates, marks a rare peak for FHA and follows a history of lower rates in earlier decades.
Los Angeles reports Mel Torme and Arlene settle a protracted divorce battle. The singer keeps custody of their 7 year old son Tracy as marital property issues and mortgage arrangements are resolved. The settlement involves alimony and loan terms under FHA and VA financing, with specific premiums and charges outlined in Superior Court. The couple married in 1956 and separated by 1964.
California highway patrol says a cryptic statement from a badly burned woman spurred further inquiry into the traffic death of Mrs. Melba Marie Gorgan wife of veteran Los Angeles detective Archie Gorgan. Mrs Mata whose English is limited spoke from Hawthorne hospital bed as investigators piece together a possible pursuit by another car before the fatal crash on the San Diego Freeway. Mr. Gorgan was hospitalized with burns and expected to be interviewed later.
A writer notes that women dress in ways that expose legs indoors despite cold, and wear multiple layers for summer events, prompting baffling questions about comfort. He compares a man's attire and asks why physicians offer no clear answer to this gendered climate behavior.
Stephen C. Kessler, 20, a medical school dropout from Brooklyn, told police he had been "flying" for three days on LSD when he slashed Miriam Cooper, 22, and her mother Florence Cooper, 46, in their apartment. Florence, a junior high English teacher, was found dead. Miriam had left home after an argument. Police reported Kessler asked if he had harmed anyone and claimed he did not know what happened.
Rusk counters De Gaulle on ending NATO bases and obsolete agreements. He argues most pacts run for the life of the North Atlantic Treaty and warn that relaxing commitments weakens international law. He asserts NATO remains a key shield against Soviet aims, noting the Berlin crisis of 1961-62.
The California Public Utilities Commission accuses Southern Pacific Co. of a systematic plan to discontinue all passenger service. A petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission cites trains No. 1 and 2 Los Angeles to New Orleans and Puritan service, with no advance reservations allowed, as steps toward harming passenger traffic to justify quitting passenger routes in favor of freight.
In Lusaka 35000 African miners for two weeks halted Zambia's copper industry. Over 22000 returned to work and the rest were expected to resume within a day. Local authorities anticipated a near complete resumption of operations soon.
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