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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1959
Page
4
Oakland Tribune reports ex convict Joseph Parnasus manuscript smuggling from San Quentin. He admits aiding in moving a book out of prison and notes no names among fellow prisoners. The piece references Chessman and a prior Tribune prison story about a manuscript excerpt from a second book.
Centenarian Zacatécas, born 1851 in Mexico, died Wednesday in San Jose at 107% after a cart ailment and pneumonia. He emigrated to the United States in 1956 and boasted never having been sick a day before.
Virginia officials and business leaders weighed private schooling as a response to racial integration. Governor Almond proposed private education for areas resisting mixed schools, while Navy plans to provide schools for children of military personnel if local systems don’t reopen soon. The debate follows waves of Massive Resistance and court challenges to integration efforts.
Gov Grown named Palo Alto based Stanford Law School associate dean JL Silbaugh as chief deputy saving and loan commissioner to replace Derwood S Krause who resigned. Silbaugh, 41, takes the new post in Sacramento Tuesday as part of the state’s savings and loan commission leadership change.
UPI reports Senator J Eugene McAteer introduced a bill in the California Senate requiring anyone who packages children’s toys for retail sale to clearly state on the outside of the package and in all advertisements that the toy is unassembled if applicable. The measure targets do it yourself toys seen during Christmas shopping.
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