09 Mar 1961
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1961
Page
1
Sacramento report shows 861,400 registrations dropped from 7,464,626 to 6,603,226 after a 1959 purge law. Democrats lost 546,775 registrations while Republicans fell 282,804. Kennedy carried California by 35,623 in a state where many purged did not vote.
Oklahoma Zoo Director Hugh Davis headed an all day chase with volunteers as residents in Mayes and Craig counties report sightings of a full grown male lion. Photographs and paw prints support the claim while a recent circus truck wreck near Adair and previous reports fuel the mystery. Authorities caution wild animal danger though no confirmed escape found.
BLACKSBURG Virginia Tech students attempt a national collegiate record for bottom bunk stuffing 65 pajama clad males packed into a double deck bunk causing it to collapse They claim the record afterward FRANKFORT Kentucky Mayor Rebecca Hurd admits Marysville dumped waste in the Ohio River but says the city cannot afford a sewage plant suggesting jail as a possibility.
New York news reports a factory worker awarded 500 dollars after finding a diamond studded platinum lorgnette in a muddy gutter and turning it to the owner's insurance company. Irma Santiago, who found 119 gems inside, said she will buy her nephew an Easter outfit and pay her mother's arthritis treatment with the prize.
Sen. Clair Engle D California opposes downtown Los Angeles Civic Center location for a new federal customs house. He urges placing the headquarters at the harbor and tying up funding only if GSA shifts site. Assembly backs harbor center to ease access for port users and workers.
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