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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1966
Page
1
Washington correspondent emeritus of the Chicago Tribune and former Washington bureau chief, Arthur Sears Henning, died Friday at age 89. He retired as bureau chief in 1949.
The Astor Hotel on Broadway between 44th and 45th streets will shut after 62 years and be demolished for a 40 story office building. Sold to Sam Minskoff & Sons for about $10.5 million, it hosted stars and guests including Arturo Toscanini and Billie Burke.
Clark County detectives extended the probe into the late Ralph Alsup Sr. murder, recovering a 12 gauge shotgun barrel about a mile from his Paradise Valley home. Investigators said other clues emerged as Sheriff’s deputies pursued the weapon, as Alsup, 54, a Local 525 business agent, had been a key figure in a labor dispute with a governor contractor at the Nevada Test Site.
The trial of film producer Dennis H. Loraine in a counterfeit conspiracy case recessed after Melvin Belli was excused from service. Loraine testified about a proposed film titled Operation Goldfish with Sean Connery, while co-defendants Randall and Terry had pleaded guilty. Prosecution witnesses include Thomas Roe, an unindicted co-conspirator, who said he lent $100,000 to Loraine for a backer’s plan, amid broader allegations of distributing counterfeit Swiss notes to cover debts.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge ordered Erich A. Weber and spouse to pay 2,250 damages for denying four Negro boys admittance to Will's Plunge near Del Paso Park. Judge Robert W. Cole ruled the Webers refused entry due to race, under a state law allowing damages for denying equal access. The plaintiffs were Demetrios E. Fisher, Dee, Robert W. Dotsen, and Michael Williams.
In Garland, two convicted prostitutes and a third woman allege sex discrimination after police released two male companions while the women were jailed for soliciting in a hotel room. An appellate court heard arguments on Friday, with counsel accusing Oakland police of a blanket policy targeting the women.
Philadelphia school district officials delayed about 600 employees’ pay due to a computing error that shifted the decimal point. The accounting computer printed checks for 1500 instead of 190 dollars before it was shut off. The affected workers will receive missed checks early next week, a district spokesman said.
A New York Supreme Court judge ordered a jury to decide if artificial insemination constitutes adultery grounds for divorce. Dr John M Prutting sues Kate Prutting claiming adultery due to her “test tube” baby born Sept. 24, asserting his lifelong sterility from radiation exposure as a physician.
Tass reports Igor Moiseyev, 60, director of the Folk Dance Ensemble of the USSR, awarded the Red Banner of Labour for his services in developing Soviet choreography.
An advanced Minuteman II ICBM was launched from a modernized Minuteman I silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base as part of a test series to verify modernization procedures on operational silos.
New York reports the Independent Film Importers and Distributors of America awarded San Francisco film festival recognition at an awards dinner in Hotel Americana. Mrs Shirley Temple Glack accepted a scroll from Richard Brandt of Translux Corp and former distributor head.
Albany Times Union reporter Ted Skerritt failed to hear a caller who whispered a question about the word laryngitis. The caller finally spoke loudly to ask how to spell the medical term.
Brig. Gen. Keith McCutchlavant-garde critic remarks accompany Copland receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Utah. The ceremony precedes a Utah Symphony concert featuring his Appalachian Spring and other contemporary pieces.
In San Francisco Chinatown, Miss Chinatown U S A will be selected tonight from seven national contestants as celebrations for the lunar year 4664 begin. A wide program of New Year events, including exhibits and dances, marks the district’s largest Chinese community outside the Orient.
The late Nina Clemens Gabrilo witsch granddaughter of Mark Twain left most of her estate to the American Cancer Society in a probate filing. The will signed February 13 1934 and filed Friday left her personal effects to attorney Al Matthews. A friend received $100 and $75 monthly for two friends and a relative who died January 6 was the writer’s sole remaining descendant.
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