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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1962
Page
8
Local 400 called a strike affecting about 1000 workers at Bell Brand Laura Scudder's and Tom Sawyer potato chip plants. The union rejected a 3 percent yearly pay increase over three years, citing health fund contributions and benefit boosts. Employers say they would hire nonunion staff to run plants.
California personal income rose to 47.9 billion dollars in the first quarter of 1962, a 7.8 percent gain from a year earlier and 7.5 percent above the first quarter of 1961, with wages and salaries up about 4.5 percent from a year earlier.
A well in Narragansett County collapsed trapping Irving J. King and his wife Verlee as their son Clifford, 19, and 14 year old Gary dug frantically. Rescue workers lowered into the shaft and, after multiple collapses, freed Clifford and pulled King from the earth unconscious with oxygen. Verlee died at the scene.
Six Hungarian soccer fans in Vienna for a match have sought political asylum in Austria. Police report three women and three men, all unmarried, arrived with a group using a collective passport.
Laos premier Prince Souvanna Phouma arrived in Paris to attend his daughter’s wedding held Saturday as part of Laos’ new coalition government arrival and wedding plans.
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