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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1958
Page
2
Harold France reports a redwood topped picnic table with aluminum legs stolen from his property at 343 Miles Ave. The $59.95 item disappeared Saturday night or Sunday morning.
A Syracuse couple pleaded guilty in County Court to first degree grand larceny for the May 11 robbery of Anthony Tomasso in DeWitt. Rosa May Dunaway and Warren Amond face sentencing June 24 before Judge Leo W. Breed.
City Parks Commissioner Paul Wells asked the Common Council to raise park speed limits from 8 to 15 mph and replace aging signs. He urged rescinding the 1920 eight mile limit and to prepare an ordinance setting a 135 mile speed limit in parks and playgrounds. The council may act on the measure this afternoon.
P. Wilson Schiller executive director of the Onondaga County Youth Board will attend an Albany meeting of municipal youth bureau directors called by State Youth Commission Chairman Mark A. McCloskey to evaluate current programs exchange ideas and plan intensified juvenile delinquency reduction efforts J. T. Cosgrove field representative for Onondaga County will also attend from the State Office Building 333 E Washington St.
Traveling teams visit North Syracuse Village Hall for Cicero and Clay voters. Voters may register daily at the election board office 601 James St from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m or at the motor vehicle bureau branch in the courthouse from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Police investigate a Sunday morning beating and robbery of Miguel Nunez age 38 at 529 Cedar Street. He says two men aged about 35 and 30 grabbed him from behind in a gas station parking lot, dragged him into an alley between 608 and 610 East Genesee Street, rifled his pockets finding only cigarettes, and knocked him down. The assailants wearing Ivy League cap and light jacket, and the other in a dark sleeveless sweater and dark clothes.
Deputy Warden Alvin C. Gilette reports the Wethersfield facility in Connecticut reached a record high population of 915 inmates. The note mentions the Port of New York sees over 10,000 ocean-going vessels arriving or departing each year.
Men and planes from the 111th Fighter Group and the 140th Aero Medical Transport Squadron arrived for two weeks of training at Hancock Field. The Pennsylvania units join six air national guard groups training here from June 7 to July 31. Pilots will conduct air to air rocket missions over Lake Ontario while the medical squadron will fly simulated air evacuation missions in a C 119 replacing the C46 and 47. Governor Harriman is invited to attend the Governor's Day ceremony.
About 2000 Syracuse and Onondaga County workers will file for extra unemployment benefits starting June 23 under the Temporary Unemployment Compensation Act. Another 2000 may file in Watertown Oswego Fulton Auburn Cortland and Oneida offices. The act adds 13 weeks of benefits to those whose regular benefits have run out since June 30 1957 or between now and March 30 1959 with no retroactive effect.
Evangelist Oral Roberts attracts about 6 000 residents to the New York State Fairgrounds for the third night of a 10 day crusade. About 200 souls are said to have made decisions for Christ, bringing the total to roughly 800. Roberts prays with the sick in the designated invalid tent as the Assemblies of God lead the local event with Rev. Joseph R. Flower as general chairman.
Syracuse University educator Dean Virgil P. Rogers testified as a pro integration witness in Little Rock hearings. He argued that rescinding the integration order would embolden Communists and praised the eight Central High School students for courage while noting only about 40 of 1950 students caused trouble. He urged student participation in discipline and recalled Arkansas and Faubus actions.
The Onondaga County chapter of the Civil Service Employees Association will hold its annual meeting tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the McChesney Community House. Reports and officer elections will set the year's program with Joseph Kelly, NYS Civil Service Employees Association first vice president, as principal speaker and installer of officers. A postmeeting entertainment program by Chester Duff features Mrs Tina Simms Abel Barbuto and Carleton James, with refreshments served.
City Finance Commissioner H Beaman Tremble and City Auditor Joseph Bourke visit Milwaukee for a conference of municipal finance officers that began yesterday. They expect to return to City Hall in a week.
Retroactive unemployment benefits totaling 747 802 have been mailed to 13 976 people in the Syracuse District after a March law raised the max weekly rate from 36 to 45 dollars for qualified applicants. Checks cover the difference since July 1 1957 with distributions by county and district.
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