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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1959
Page
6
In Petrolia Tennessee the lack of discipline for convicts who seized three guards and 86 inmates, including white and Black prisoners, leading a 32 hour standoff, was reviewed by A Pat Patterson and the state corrections commissioner. ringleaders will face individual punishment.
New York City Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy moved quickly to boost Harlem patrols and warned of possible race riots he said could outweigh atomic bomb damage. Eighty-eight extra officers were sent to Harlem with more to Bedford-Stuyvesant South Jamaica and the East Bronx after a near riot following a Puerto Rican Italian woman’s arrest and a pistol discharge. Kennedy blamed housing and economic strains for tensions and rejected claims he aimed to create a police state saying he sought to protect law abiding residents. The Marcellus area faced a separate mill closing affecting rail service.
Sacramento report shows California tomato planted acreage for the year estimated at 126000 acres, down from 152900 acres harvested in 1958, according to the crop and livestock reporting service.
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