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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1966
Page
1
Irving Texas grandmother Emma Severson, 76, wins a motorcycle in a contest and travels to Dallas with her husband Arnold to collect it. She recalls riding horses and shows off mounting the bike while her husband starts and rides the machine around a store lot.
Boston's four day newspaper strike widens as a third craft union threatens to join the printers and mailers. Stereotypers Local No 2 voted 157 to 7 to authorize a strike if needed, extending a walkout that has idled five of the city’s daily papers. The strike costs hundreds of thousands daily. about 4,500 workers are affected across the Globe, Herald, Traveler and Record American, while other papers publish under terms already set.
Sacramento reporters say the Senate will fast track Assembly passed riot control bills sparked by last summer’s Watts unrest. Key measure would impose a minimum five year sentence for arson amid insurrection and make possession of a Molotov cocktail a felony. Assembly approval was 55 to 17 with broad Republican support.
Fragmented report outlines clashes over social welfare funding and drunk driving penalties, with mentions of school funding battles, bond elections, and constitutional amendments. It notes proposed penalties for emergencies, cocktail firebombs, and device safety inspections amid a broad legislative rush across states and the Senate.
Newark police say a man identified as Samuel Stout, 47, stabbed Jima de Vose and Hildegarde de Vose in front of Penn Station as they tried to sell their car. The couple died and a 12 year old boy was critically wounded. the suspect fled as officers arrived. The woman died en route to City Hospital and the infant was not saved.
Lady Shirin Moynihan also known as Princess Amina opens a four week run at The Pigalle in London. Her husband Baron Moynihan says she will retire when the 1400 pound weekly contract ends. He defends her career and recalls his late father’s support.
Reports from behind the iron curtain say the Soviet Union plans a space spectacle likely to feature cosmonauts changing ships in flight. A Warsaw radio Moscow correspondent notes a two ship rendezvous with spacewalks, possibly before the March 29 Communist Party Congress.
Accra reports Lt. Gen. Joseph Ankrah says Ghana will seek financial and technical help from friendly nations, expelling Communist advisers tied to Kwame Nkrumah. Ghana plans price stabilization for cocoa and IMF aid, while Nkrumah’s supporters face detention and exile as 1966 coup fallout unfolds.
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