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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1961
Page
3
Scotland Yard reports a thief slipped through the yard gates Wednesday morning and drove away in a blue and white plainclothes sedan. Police spotted the car near Paddington District on Thursday and officers returned it after a crowd gathered to watch the attempted ambush.
In Los Angeles Mayor Yorty orders police to enforce all municipal vice laws except one ruled by the California Supreme Court. City Attorney Ambershurg blasts the move as misguided while Parker sides with the attorney, as all parties seek a workable legal path amid the court’s prostitution regulation ruling. In Sacramento, Attorney General Mosk studies possible state laws after the high court said cities lack power to regulate vice, noting the state has pre empted the field.
The Defense Department reported about 1,000 suggested bomb and radiation shelter designs received on Thursday. Future submissions will be limited to manufacturers and contractors.
Former Sears Roebuck chairman McConnell, 67, dies after illness. Born in Sandusky Ohio, he led the board from 1958 to 1960 and had been with the company 44 years, retiring after a long tenure spanning 1946 to 1958 as a top executive in Chicago.
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