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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1958
Page
5
A note and cash were handed to Marguerita Barone, a 30 year old clerk at Gimbels on Herald Square, by a quiet man. The missive warned of a gun and urged restraint to avoid a holiday tragedy as bulging bag contents were described.
At Panmunjom the United Nations Command pressed North Korea to release 4 South Korean fishermen and their eight boats captured in international waters. U N delegate Rear Adm Iva H Nunn announced the demand during a Joint Military Armistices Commission meeting. North Korean Maj Gen Kang Sang ho said the incidents are under investigation and that some fishermen may have been former North Korean residents who returned voluntarily. Also in Hong Kong Liang Hsi, China s forestry minister since 1949, died of lung cancer in Peiping.
At Panmunjom North Korean Maj. Gen Kang Sang Howmiade the Military Armistice Commission demanded the return of more than 12,200,000 North Korean civilians who fled to the South. U N Rear Adm Ira H Nunn rejected the demand with a brief denial that our side has any personnel of your side.
A Civil Rights Commission probe of New York housing problems, focusing on administration of housing facilities, is planned to begin in February. Commissioner Robert G. Storey of the Southern University Law School declined to specify whether the inquiry will address funeral discrimination and said the commission will seek to learn the nature of the complaints received.
Federal officers report a crime spree linked to robberies from Florida to Washington involving a 14 year old girl and a 22 year old man. Betty Jean Storbergs and David Canelaab Washington pleaded guilty to transportation from New York to Florida in September. The Storbergs were captured after a burglary attempt in Idaho last month. David pleaded guilty to second degree murder and received life imprisonment for an Indian killing in 1954.
The California Public Utilities Commission has ordered Pacific Utility Co. to reduce residential electric rates retroactively to May 3, reflecting a 0.36 cent per kilowatt hour decrease. The action affects customers statewide as part of ongoing rate reviews. Betty Jean Storberg and her husband are not central to the ruling details.
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