13 Jun 1959
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1959
Page
1
In Chicago a historic era ends as major meat packers withdraw. Swift & Co halted slaughtering today and Wilson & Co ceased operations four years ago with Armour & Co. expected to close remaining killing plants in coming weeks, leaving the city once famed as a hog butcher.
Industry leaders in Chicago warn government restrictions and high rates threaten rail lines relied on for meat supply. Walter J. Little of Washington notes rail companies will try to retain workers but many must accept transfers as facilities move to closer livestock sources and newer plants.
Police probe a Northwest Side killing of 32 year old Mrs Geraldine Nesius. Her body was found by husband Philip Nesius with a handleless tomahawk nearby and a stocking around the neck. Investigators say the weapon belonged to a family collection.
Los Angeles actor agent Samuel Rand aged 28 died at Santa Ana Community Hospital after a .22 pistol discharged while he inspected a weapon at the South Coast Gun Club near Orange County Airport. Night club singer Yvonne Shubert 20 and beauty queen was with him at 12532 Edinger Street. she said Rand handed her a nine shot revolver that twice failed to fire before he took the gun and looked down the barrel.
The Pacific Coast Shippers Advisory Board met at the Lafayette Hotel where Little pressed two core demands: freedom to adjust prices downward as well as upward and the right to offer diversified services. He cited piggyback truck trailer service as a growth area but said government rules limit expansion. He warned that unresolved rate policies and featherbedding by regulated carriers threaten workers and industry, urging regulatory change.
Hundreds of students at Compton College protested televised classes by burning a mock television set. They carried signs denouncing teacherless lectures as President Martin stood firm against the demonstration, which cited opposition to filmed TV lectures in four subjects.
Student leaders clash as anti video demonstrators burn a cardboard TV model and demand better teaching. They argue televised courses entertain rather than educate and note mixed credits and higher costs. President Martin promotes telecourses as economical and to ease teacher shortages amid projected enrollment growth.
Conservative Harold Hicks said in Parliament that noise from planes using the Abtbhtsford BR C airport is scaring local chickens into laying two eggs a day instead of one.
San Francisco mourns criminologist Francis Xavier Latulipe, the police department’s first college-educated officer and founder of the scientific criminology section, who died Friday at age 1i. A wartime 10 percent passenger fare tax repeal is noted, alongside an income tax amendment allowing railroads a longer write-off for new investment up to almost three years for freight cars versus eight years for heavy equipment.
In a segregated Florida courtroom, four white youths face trial for allegedly raping a teenage Negro coed. Patrick Scarborough testified about consent, drawing anger from the gallery as the girl identified him as the gun carrier. Prosecutor Hopkins wrapped the state’s case after confessions were presented.
The analysis notes March highs in the Utility Average and argues utilities show strong earnings growth since 1951, countering the view of them as nongrowth, inflation hedges. It discusses forward buying amid strikes, carload data, and stock market forecasts, stressing utilities as solid bets for conservative investors seeking yields around 4.4 percent.
New York singer Abbe Lane, 27, sues National Broadcasting Co for $600000 claiming a defective stairway on Xavier Cugat’s TV program caused injuries to her left knee during a March 1, 1957 broadcast. Cugat, 59, seeks $100000 for losses of his wife’s services and societal damages.
Westchester police and neighbors searched the neighborhood for the missing boy after he vanished Friday afternoon from his front yard. Four year old Anthony D Amato was located asleep under his house early today when his father Silvio D Amato found him barefoot.
Los Angeles report states actor Jay Robinson started a one year jail sentence for possessing and selling narcotics. He was arrested at his home on November 13 and contends the narcotics were planted. Judge Mervyn A Aggeler previously imposed five years to life in state prison but suspended it for a year in jail and five years probation.
Fragmentary OCR item notes a post office related charge or service at Long Beach with figures like 540.00 and references to delivery, year, and a street area near Pine and Avenues. The readable elements point to a brief postal or delivery notice, but many words are garbled. No clear names or dates emerge.
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