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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1960
Page
3
In San Francisco the Burns says unions and company will resume negotiations Thursday at 10 a.m. Machinists seek about a 27 percent wage raise this year while Lockheed counters with a 4 percent raise this year and 3 percent next, plus a cost-of-living clause. The gap remains wide in labor talks.
News of Soviet walkout from Geneva disarmament talks sparks Western unity. Eisenhower and Macmillan respond to Khrushchev with firm messages while Western nations coordinate replies and seek an early UN Disarmament Commission meeting. State Department signals hope for resumed talks.
The late Philadelphia millionaire John B Kelly dictated a will declaring he would give family character over money if able. The document, dated April 14 and public this week, leaves most of his estate to his wife and daughters with specific gifts and sets up trustees to handle emergencies for his widow. He died at 70 after a cancer battle, leaving a vast business empire including a race track and a brick contracting firm bearing his name.
UPI reports the French government announced preliminary cease fire discussions with Algerian rebel emissaries have ended. Rebels will return to Tunis from Melun, a town 28 miles south of Paris, where talks were held to widen a future meeting on the North African conflict.
Sequoia National Park faces a large brush and scrub oak fire that blackened about 2,500 acres near the park’s southern edge. Officials halted spread with backfires and airborne aid while communications to the scene were kept limited amid ongoing containment efforts.
Nuclear submarine Polaris testing program advances with Cape Canaveral activity. The George Washington arrives to prepare for water launchings and key tests, with sister ship Patrick Henry patrolling by year’s end and return to station for further trials.
In San Francisco the secretary of the police widows and orphans fund was suspended after orders for a veteran fraud inspector to examine an apparent $17,000 disappearance. Patrolman Owen Fogarty, in post since 1936, leads the fund which collects about $60,000 yearly and holds assets near one million dollars with 1,600 members. Inspector Ed Murphy investigations hinge on missing records, while the fund remains separate from the police department.
Three Italian servicemen were killed today when their helicopter crashed near Rovereto Italy. Investigators began examining the cause as authorities confirmed the fatalities and halted related operations in the region.
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