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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1957
Page
5
Police used tear gas to break up a political demonstration by women in front of Port au Prince Cathedral as tensions rise from talks among military and political leaders on forming a military government. Gen. Leon Cantave met with five presidential candidates to discuss a potential junta.
Seven California beet sugar plants including Spreckels in Monterey County began a strike with the Union Sugar Workers Council reporting action. The Spreckels Woodland plant started Thursday morning, with Holly’s Hamilton City and Spreckels Manteca and Alvarado Tracy plants shutting down, American Crystal Oxnard plant affected, leaving Clarksburg Bettera and Santa Ana Brawley still operating. Union officials warned the strike could spread to those sites as well.
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey refused to confirm or deny reports he will resign to return to the steel industry. He stated that when a resignation comes, it will be presented first to the President. The chatter linked him to succeeding Ernest Weir as National Steel board chairman, with Weir planning to step down May 16 due to ill health.
Michigan educator G Robert Koopman warns that focusing on talent search risks downgrading the average student and fostering segregation. He says a free society needs citizenship education and broad opportunity, not just elite labs.
State Crime Commissioner Joseph Ford said there is one bookie for every police officer in Massachusetts. He noted about 10,000 policemen serve in the state and highlighted tax figures supporting the claim.
Five persons were injured in a two car crash at Cowles Street and Cota Avenue Thursday evening. Samuel M. Rye, 28, of 1575 Santa Fe Avenue, suffered head injuries and multiple facial fractures. Nevin Lee Hawkins, 19, and Frank Rye Estes, 16, were drivers. Passengers included Roy E. Rohar, 16, and Mary K. Hawkins, 16. All were treated at Seaside Hospital.
A 15 year old described as armed and dangerous fled from his aunt’s home in Orange County. He is said to carry a 22 caliber pistol, wear pegger pants and a white nylon jacket, and was last seen with a brown suitcase after allegedly stealing 5700 from his aunt’s husband. He vowed to shoot it out with police.
In Amman a government spokesman called Suleiman Nabulsi a fugitive and said security forces search for him. Reports from Beirut claim Nabulsi and other leftist leaders have been arrested as Jordan faces martial law, with the army in firm control and curfew lifted briefly for shopping.
Merced deputy sheriff Clyde W. Parker filed a $15,000 damage suit in Superior Court alleging a cattle rancher bit him during a scuffle on October 7. Parker, 42, names Stanley Jones, 45, as the defendant and cites injuries from the incident.
President Eisenhower praised Republican differences as healthy while urging a common core of beliefs. Speaking by telephone to New England party workers in Providence, he outlined the party’s future without an Eisenhower bid and emphasized building a GOP House and Senate in 1958.
Classified notice offers help to draft roomer and boarder ads and invites readers to dial HE 245959 for a Want 40 writer to assist in phrasing.
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