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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1957
Page
2
Readers learn that Illinois squirrel diet shifts threaten Bell Telephone Country by gnawing lead sheath on cables, prompting salt block trials and expert study by University of Massachusetts researchers. Salt blocks failed to deter the rodents as officials note their preference for lead.
Indicted with the younger Layman on robbery charges from the March 13 1956 assault of Dolph Skaggs, 20 Vine Grove Kentucky are Capt Carlos Johns Sgt F H Zimmerman and patrolman Myron Marrs all suspended. Marrs charged with theft of a receipt shown in the newspaper. Layman accused of neglect of duty. Other officers charged with neglect of duty taking bribes and being employed by private concerns. Burkland charged with drunken driving and bribing an officer. Johns suspended after state troopers said Burkland was drunk and Turned him over to Johns for arrest, though the captain says he did not believe him drunk. Gilmore accused of carrying $1093.75 from Layman Cal Skages. Receipt pictured in the newspaper bore signatures of Skages and Gilmore. Messick said he had been given the receipt by an officer but returned it after it was photographed. Marrs Wednesday night admitted taking the receipt saying it would be evidence to remove Chief Layman and expose the whole corrupt situation in the Third District. Bingham said the two newsmen engaged in no activity except being good newspapermen faithfully to community interest. He said if charges aim to stop the paper from printing unsavory tracts it would not work. He said his paper would continue to print such matters.
The Chosun Ilbo reported a U S Army train guard shot and killed a 15 year old Korean boy near Kumchon after a group of youths tampered with a sidetrack boxcar door. Sp 3e Raymond L Bailey of Brownsburg Indiana identified by the Army fired warning shots then fired at the ground and struck Song Joon Won who died about ninety minutes later in a hospital.
A cricket caused a temporary outage at KRIO radio station in McAllen Texas when it climbed into a delicate part of the transmitter and triggered a short circuit. Station manager Chuck McKassen said the incident knocked the station off air briefly.
Secretary of State Dulles and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko will meet in Washington Saturday to discuss the Middle East. The talks will center on preventing Soviet power spread, disarmament talks, and tensions in the region amid U S diplomatic efforts with the United Nations and Arab states.
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