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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1963
Page
2
Officials in Sacramento announce a restructuring of the investigation unit amid voter power shifts. The change relocates dealer licensing and hearings away from investigators to administrative offices, aiming to improve oversight and training. Twenty-six automobile-industry figures face grand-jury indictments as part of broader reforms.
A vast train robbery near Cheddington northwest of London shatters records with a haul near eight million dollars. Police reel in suspects tied to a heroin ring and a broad underworld network while banks raise rewards to lure leads.
Pravda reported Vladimir Tkachenko, director at a textile machinery plant near Moscow, was executed for taking bribes from factory directors seeking scarce machinery. Forty-two accomplices, including two women, received prison terms up to ten years.
Harry P. Finch and James A. Thiele were granted a new stay in the extortion case as they appeal to the state supreme court. Their attorney Ramsey secured a stay until last month, with orders to appear today in superior court. The former Long Beach homicide detectives were convicted in 1961 and sentenced to 1 to 14 years.
Three members of a prominent Edinburg family died in a plane crash near McAllen Airport. Victims were Br. Vance Deforest Hoffmaster, 48, his wife, J ahnul 45, and a daughter, abuuwl Sti.
Winona Gait Klassen, 22, a Fresno State College student from Dinuba, was named Miss Wool of California after a twin engine Piper J-3C crashed into a flood control levee near San Angelo, Texas, as she prepared to travel for the national contest.
Fort Worth widow received a windfall when a mattress renovation job revealed $950 tucked in the stuffing. The finisher, C R Fincher, had charged $15.81 for the service and explained an employee was shredding stuffing when the discovery occurred. The woman settled the bill with that amount.
A phone hoax at a Manhattan United Airlines office touched off a bomb scare delaying two California bound jets from Idlewild for about ninety minutes. No bomb was found after police searched Flights 819 to Los Angeles and 803 to San Francisco.
New York reports the parsed meteor shower known as the tears of St. Lawrence will appear Saturday night and last for five days. The celestial display is one of about 15 annual meteor showers observed by observers.
The unoccupied Gemini space capsule, developed by Northrop, was parachuted into the Salton Sea in a full scale water landing test. Dropped from a C130 at 20 000 feet, it landed in the salt lake about 100 miles northeast of San Diego as part of preparations for post Mercury earth orbital flights.
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