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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1959
Page
7
A House hearing showcased a prototype flying platform by Spacetronics Inc that hovers inches off the ground using air pumps. Chairman Carl W. Bellum said the device targets speeds near 100 mph and aims for civilian, military, and sports uses with commercial versions within 18 months priced around 4000 dollars.
Mexican authorities moved the wanted bank robber Frank Lawrence Sprenz toward the U S border with two immigration agents on the case. Captured while fishing off the Yucatan coast, Sprenz had escaped from jail and faced multiple U S crimes, including a $29,955 Ohio bank holdup. Police traced his Piper Pacer wreck to Veracruz as the police pursued the suspect toward the border.
The widow of Joseph Town Pugh reported hearing a shot and found the 84 year old yacht broker dead in a upstairs sleeping porch in Belvedere California. Pugh, once a yacht builder from Brighton Pennsylvania, had sailed Cape Horn in 1899 as third mate on a sailing vessel. He had lived in Southern California since arriving from the East after suffering a stroke 14 months earlier.
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