Baseball Players May Sue Over Nonpayment of World Series Bonuses

The Chicago players have been waiting for more than a month for their money from the World Series.

Nov. 17, 1919: Pacific Coast League umpires want the league to pay for pressing their pants.

Once Around the Radio Dial – 1969

Nov. 16, 1969 One of the true pleasures of contributing to The Daily Mirror is reading old columns by Don Page, The Times' longtime radio critic. I regularly check his work, these days for 1959 and '69. Some things change—by 1969 he no longer wondered whether rock stations will survive or be the end of radio. But there are some constants, such as complaining about too many commercials, too many boring stations and too many stations that sound too similar. Seems to me Page complained a lot and I like that. A reader knew how he felt. No matter the subject, it's fun to read names and stations that I remember. From Vin Scully to KMET, radio was a big part of growing up in Southern California. This column was a collection of notes as Page bounced around the dial. Some of my favorites: --Most disc jockeys have nothing to say. --KHJ's disc jockeys are the best hard-rock voices in captivity but KRLA's staff has more talent. --KPFK-FM is becoming the Free Press of the airwaves. --XERB sounds like a SigAlert with the blues section. --Some of KFWB's newsmen continue to mangle the names of California cities, although the all-news outlet is a quality operation. For me, radio in 1969 was Scully and the Dodgers, Dick Enberg and the Angels and KRLA (I'd switch to KMET in a couple of years). How about you? --Keith Thursby

Family Killed in Kansas Farm Town

"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there.' Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them." --Truman Capote, “In Cold Blood.” Nov. 16, 1959: Intentionally avoiding a direct endorsement until the Republican National Convention, Republican leaders show their support for Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential race.

Monte Montana! Ty Hardin! Jerry Mathers!

Ferd’nand invents the Man Cave.

Back when stock cars were really stock. Elmer Musgrave wins a 100-lap race at Ascot Stadium in a 1958 Pontiac. Rodger Ward is second in a 1958 Ford.

Reporters Walk Out on Rockefeller

 

New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s plan for separate news conferences for print and broadcast reporters backfires when the TV and radio crews in Los Angeles walk out on him.   Louie Malle’s New Wave film “Lovers” is just plain immoral, Philip K. Scheuer says. “Bruins Tiff Wolfpack?” Keith, can you translate that for me?

Nov. 13, 1959: Smog clouds the view on Broadway, looking south from 1st Street ... And a temporary employee with the U.S. Forest Services admits setting the Angeles Crest fire that burned 14,000 acres and killed two firefighters.

Pro Hockey for L.A.

Nov. 11, 1959 Would L.A. warm up to ice hockey? Bob Hannam apparently thought so. Described in The Times as a Pasadena insurance man and president of a local amateur league, he was the front man for an International Hockey League team that would start playing in the Sports Arena in 1960. The plan, if approved by the Coliseum Commission, would be to expand the league into Los Angeles and San Francisco. If the Cow Palace (perhaps the weirdest name ever for a sports arena) didn't add an ice rink, the league would add a second L.A. team for one season to play under a Hollywood name. There's so much about this I find puzzling. Didn't L.A. have an eye on bigger fish than a minor league hockey team? Seems strange to me that given the Dodgers' incredible success, the city didn't work on getting better tenants for the new Sports Arena. Maybe the Lakers were already quietly talking to L.A. And the idea of putting two teams in L.A. and naming one Hollywood, that sounds strangely familiar. Anyone for the Los Angeles Kings of Hollywood? -- Keith Thursby

Dodgers Don't Expect Any Bargains

Nov. 10, 1959 The Dodgers were feeling generous. Frank Finch reported on the team's prospects during the interleague trading period and found Vice President Buzzie Bavasi talking about what teams he could help. "With that short porch in left field at Fenway Park, Boston could use a right-handed hitter. And I think we could help Washington and Kansas City too. Whether they could help us again is something else again," Bavasi said. What could lousy teams like Washington and Kansas City provide the Dodgers? Maybe a place to dump spare parts, since Finch noted the world champion Dodgers suddenly appeared loaded with plenty of excess outfielders and pitchers. -- Keith Thursby

Wife Stabs Bob Crosby

Nov. 10, 1959: June Crosby stabs her husband, Bob, with a 10-inch letter opener during a fight. She tells Beverly Hills police that she grabbed the letter opener to fight him off after he pushed her down during a violent argument. Her husband says she fell when they were struggling over the letter opener. "We've had family arguments before," the bandleader says. "I guess this one just exploded. She seemed to go into a rage. She was so hysterical. The first thing I knew she came at me with both her fists." The Times says most marijuana and 50% to 75% of the heroin coming into Southern California is from Mexico.

Sheriff Peter Pitchess says authorities are hampered in fighting drugs by the exclusionary rule -- limiting officers' authority to search a person and seize evidence based on probable cause -- and the requirement that narcotics informants be named in open court.

Simone Signoret visits Los Angeles with her husband, Yves Montand. She is "small and plump and charming and intelligent," The Times' Philip K. Scheuer says.

Heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson poses with Times sports writer Jeane Hoffman.

Cops Pose as Beatniks to Catch Drug Suspects

Like, dig the crazy berets on the fuzz, daddy-o!

One New York detective even wrote poetry to fit in with the beats! Jack Webb’s cult classic about the newspaper business is about to open.   Los Angeles Times file photo Jack Webb, left, William Conrad and James Bell in “—30—.”

"A Doctor Must Marry His Profession ... Nothing Else!"

Elgin Baylor scores 64 points, an NBA record, as the Lakers beat Boston, 136-115.

House Committee to Investigate Payola

Nov. 7, 1959: A U.N. group finds no proof that Laos had been invaded by communist troops from North Viet-Nam but discovers that Laotian rebels were supplied by Viet-Nam Reds. You may hear more about Viet-Nam in the days ahead -- much more.   A House committee investigating rigged TV quiz shows turns its attention to payola. Here's a clip from a wonderful satire by Stan Freberg (with Jesse White). Stan Freberg, Payola Blues

Students swarm Vice President Richard Nixon during an appearance at Los Angeles City College, The Times says. A little more than a week later, Vincent Stones' father, Kenneth, was killed in a car accident. In March 1960, Joanne Elizabeth Selby was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her nephew.

Girls go bad in two foreign films, "Night Girls" and "Flesh and the Woman."

Carving a turkey is more difficult than it looks for Ferd'nand.

"Powell 47-Sec. Kayo Victim" and "Indians 4-Point Pick to Scalp Bruins Today." Now there's two headlines you won't see anymore ... and "Cuppers?"

Confessions of a Horse Thief

"Buster Brown" visits Athens.

Nov. 7, 1909: A 25-year-old man describes his downfall, including stealing horses and betting money on baseball games. "Tell the young men that sin always brings suffering," Robert Perry says.