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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1957
Page
6
Sacramento announces new penalties for underage drinking and false IDs. Violations could bring fines from 250 to 2000 dollars, license suspensions, or revocation. The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control gains power to levy fines for certain violations, and on sale license fees rise from 28 to 84 dollars.
Shukri Kuwatly, Syria's president, flew back from Europe to resume duties after medical treatment in Switzerland and West Germany. In California, a state board rejected several negligence claims stemming from deadly incidents at Agnews and Camerillo mental hospitals, including a case of a patient found incinerated and another who lost fingers in a food chopper accident.
State Controller Robert C. Kirkwood left Sacramento on Tuesday for a three week European vacation. He will join Mrs. Kirkwood and their two children who traveled earlier to Zurich Switzerland for the trip.
A coroner's jury found a defective portable television set caused the electric shock death of Howard Erenstein in his Skokie home. The device allegedly carried lethal voltages between cabinet and ground after passing factory tests. General Electric officials said they could not determine how the unit escaped checks.
Philadelphia group of Quakers informed by Russia that it welcomes call to suspend H bomb tests by the Soviet Union in the U S and Great Britain. Similar replies came earlier from the United States and Britain.
Mrs. Osean T. Disney left 2000 in her will to be placed in trust for a neighbor, Mrs. Mac Burke, to care for Scotty the dog and Skippy the parakeet. Disney died Thursday, with 1000 going to the Humane Society of Missouri and 1000 to the St. Louis Society for Crippled Children. Probate filing occurred Tuesday.
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