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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1960
Page
11
At Rockingham Park in Salem New Hampshire reporter Jim Stack of the Manchester Union returned a lost $100 to a bettor who had dropped it at a mutuel window. The man then gave Stack a $10 double ticket that paid $93.80, totaling $169 in return.
In Tonawanda New York a rescue attempt on Ellicott Creek in heavy rain turned tragic as Julio Martinez ten drowned while his companion Peter Luljanich seven remained missing. The two boys, last seen struggling in the swollen water Wednesday, were pulled from the current and rushed to hospital where Martinez was pronounced dead.
In Sacramento police found Jennie Van Wort 19 in a rooming house with a loaded pistol and 40 shells after a Wednesday disturbance. She fired at least nine shots through a door and walls, injuring no one but killing a photographer's skin, and held her 1-year-old roommate Janet Himmerick hostage with tear gas before being booked for attempted murder and related charges.
John A. Smroyer, aged 78, known as a dress manufacturer and publisher of the Shamolskt Pa. Citizen weekly newspaper, died Wednesday in Danville Pennsylvania. The obituary notes his involvement in local industry and journalism.
California Attorney General Stanley Mosk said he is studying a plan to force rehabilitation for the state's 600000 alcoholics. He argued enforcement may protect society and help the alcoholics, noting alcoholism is statistically and economically the most important issue.
Forty people are believed drowned when a boat capsized in the Indus River near Rawalpindi on Wednesday. Local authorities searched the river as rescue teams coordinated efforts to locate survivors and identify victims.
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