Former Mental Patient Confesses to Palisades Slaying
West Los Angeles police work to verify a 31-year-old former patient Gerald Meredith Magee who admitted fatally plugging Doris G. Bowman at her Pacific Palisades home on January 2. He was found Saturday in pajamas along the Sunset Strip amid rain.
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Gerald Meredith Magee
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Charlotte
Dutch import controls may set European market pattern
The Foreign Agriculture Service says the Netherlands’ tight controls on livestock and meat imports could shape the European Common Market. It notes duties bonds subsidies and export rebates used to stabilize prices and fund export promotion across bacon pork and other products.
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UPS
Foreign Agricultu Service
Netherlands
Dutch Product Board For
United States
New Mining Contract Set
Phelps Dodge and the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers announced a new pact for Bisbee Douglas and Morenci properties effective immediately through July 1 1964. It provides two wage boosts for Mine Mill workers from 8 to 11 percent with one pay rise now and the other on July 1 1963. Barraza said the agreement brings labor peace and stability to communities where the company employs people. Negotiations for a similar contract with Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation will be held Tuesday in El Paso.
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Phelps-Dodge
Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation
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O Brien to Visit Ghana Over Academic Post Offer
Former U N official Dr Conor Cruise O Brien said he will travel to Ghana next month to discuss with President Kwame Nkrumah his offer of an academic post. O Brien, a former U N representative in Katanga, resigned from his civil service post in protest of perceived Western opposition to U N policies.
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Causes of 1960 football plane crash blamed on overload and premature takeoff
The Civil Aeronautics Board cited a combination of overload, premature liftoff, and poor weather for the Arctic-Pacific C46 crash in Toledo on Oct 29 1960 that killed 22 people including 18 California Polytechnic football players. It found the aircraft overweight by about a ton and criticized Arctic-Pacific Airlines and pilot Capt. Donald Cheser for disregarding safety rules.
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UPI
Civil Aeronautics Board
Toledo
Ohio
California Poly
Arctic-Pacific
Donald L. J. Cheser
Arctic - Pacific Airlines
Parking Meter Looter Alarm Cuts City Losses
Spokane report details Robert J. Strand’s meter alarm system that alerts police instantly when meters are tampered with. The device, installed in a basement workshop, covers about 2,500 downtown meters and prompted rapid police response, reducing theft and boosting collections from 1960. Strand outlines a patent pending and potential private adaptations despite city rules.
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UPI
Robert J. Strand
Strand
Honolulu
City Hall
Clifford N. Payne
Smoking Decried By Medical Chief
Dr. Lester Breslow, chief of preventive medicine for the state Health Department, said cigarettes do more harm than good. Speaking to 80 County Community Council members, he cited lung cancer doubling every decade and called the current rate a real epidemic. He urged personal health efforts to leverage medical progress.
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State Department of Public Health
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Mary Martin Daughter Marries in Leesburg Ceremony
Mary Heller Halliday twenty daughter of singer Mary Martin and producer-husband Richard Halliday wed Anthony Weir twenty five an advertising man in a Leesburg Virginia ceremony at the Leesburg Methodist Church.
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UPI
Mary Heller Halliday
Mary Martin
Richard Halliday
Anthony Weir
Leesburg Methodist Church
Wall Street Decline Prompts Mixed Investor Confidence
Bradbury K Thurlow of Winslow, Cohn Stetson notes the stock market drop unsettled investors as the Dow Jones slips from about 740 to under 700 in six trading days. He says services reflect belief the decline is a minor, temporary reaction despite a strong year for fire and casualty insurers per the Value Line Investment Survey.
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UPI
Bradbury K. Thurlow
Winslow, Cohn & Stetson
Thurlow
Clarke & Co Sees Mixed Electronics Sector Outlook
Clarke and Co states the electrical code net group has performed unevenly since last September. The firm notes many stocks sit below two year highs and predicts higher market prices over the next six to nine months on an anticipated cyclical earnings recovery.
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Hattori Sees Incentives Boosting U.S. Industry
E. F. Hattori & Co. says new incentives for five settlements equipment will lift U.S. industry. They estimate machinery spending could rise as much as ten percent in the first quarter of this year.
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E. F. Hattori & Co
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Greece Honors Sen Hugh Scott For Friendship Services
Sen Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania will be awarded the Royal Order of Phoenix by the Greek government for outstanding services to U S Greece friendship. The decoration, presented by King Constantine or on behalf of Greece, will be conferred by Dr B Vitsaxis the Greek consul general.
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New York
UPI
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Greece
United States
Scott
B. Vitsaxis
Joe Louis tops heavyweight title fight total
Detroit based report notes Joe Louis was the busiest heavyweight champion with 27 title fights. Harry Charles is cited as second with one percent. The figures include attempts to win the crown.
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Detroit
UPI
Joe Louis
Charles
Kennedy Boosts Sway in UN Bond Plan Amid Congo Moves
President Kennedy gains unexpected support for a U.N. bonds buyout plan as Congo shifts toward a pro Communist stance under Antoine Gizenga. The move, seen as affecting U.N. bond votes, contrasts U.S. anti Communist policy with broader Cold War pressures including Cuba and the Dominican Republic tangles. Senator Barry Goldwater criticizes perceived double standards in U.S. and world reactions to communism.
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UPI
Kennedy
United States
United Nations
U.N
Congo
U. N
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Skilled Men Trained For Mechanisms
In Stamford Connecticut and other centers a group of learned men works on projects once unimaginable. They study how to train ordinary workers to understand and operate complex mechanisms in weapons, industry, and communications. Dunlap and Associates claims to be the oldest private firm providing human factors services and cites shipboard life, dragline cabs, postal sorters, and lunar base work as examples of their scope.
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UPI
Stamford
Conn
Dunlap
Dunlap and Associates
Winslow to Host Training for Air Force Reserve Unit
The 9620th Air Force Reserve Recovery Squadron based in Phoenix plans to train in Winslow at the municipal airport. Lt. Col. McCauley Clark met Winslow officials to outline plans. About 98 airmen will stay in local hotels and train at the National Guard Armory with weekend drills in April May and June and a two week summer encampment August 4 to 18.
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UPS
9620Th Air Force Reserve Recovery Squadron
Phoenix
Winslow Municipal Airpo
Col. McCauley
Clark
National Guard
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