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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1962
Page
3
In Tokyo, Japan's major ports nearly ground to a halt as about 60,000 dock workers walked out for 24 hours. They demand legislation guaranteeing stable employment.
Hong Kong dispatch reports Chinese Communists at meetings denounce Soviet Premier Khrushchev as revisionist chauvinist sectarian and opportunist. The events, claimed to reflect the official party line, were held across the country since January and included comments by arrivals from Communist China.
In Landrum South Carolina Mr and Mrs George Arledge argued over biblical gender roles. She grabbed a .22 rifle and fired twice injuring Arledge with wounds near the heart and in the cheek, later hospitalized.
Richard P. Pavlick, 74, will be brought back to Florida for trial on a charge of threatening to kill President John F. Kennedy in December 1960. He had been confined in Massachusetts and deemed insane after arrest in Palm Beach. Federal judge William H. Becker allowed the return for trial. Pavlick, a retired Belmont New Hampshire postal worker, was said to have planned to become a human bomb during Kennedy’s Florida visit. memoirs mention a car crash and dynamite, but he reportedly reconsidered when the Kennedy family appeared.
Six people remained in Akron hospitals after an explosion and fire at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co research center. One person was killed, a chemist identified as Dr. Christian E Best, 46, of Manchester. Fire authorities estimate damage at 1 million dollars.
Physicist Bobby Liley, 29, sues owners and developers of the Monterey Highlands housing tract in Monterey Park for $50,000 alleging racial discrimination. He claims the project falls under a federal anti discrimination law due to FHA insured loans for the $24,000 homes and seeks an injunction requiring his offer to buy be accepted.
Police recovered the 175 pound bronze statue The Sailor and His Sweetheart stolen from the Philadelphia Museum of Art on March 18. Officers said they found the statue in the basement of the home of Thomas G. Dickeo 19. He was charged with burglary.
The Country Parson notes gratitude for young people who tackle goals deemed impractical by older generations. Convelohl, AMT., by A. Cronk.
NATO commander General Lauris Norstad told President Kennedy on Monday that air traffic in the Berlin corridor remained heavy despite Soviet harassment. Norstad said the increased traffic is significant as it continues under tense conditions and amid patrols and diplomatic strain.
Dutch navy spokesman says torpedo boats were spotted near the south shore of West New Guinea over the past two nights. The boats entered shallow estuaries to evade larger ships, likely lacking fuel for a return to Indonesian waters, and may try to hide in bays to avoid capture.
A coal mine in Kyushu, southern Japan, caved in today, killing five miners. Fifteen workers escaped the disaster, with rescue operations underway and authorities investigating the incident for causes.
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