May 8 Mothers Day I got Lil a blouse and the kids got her perfume for Mothers Day. We got mom a set of fruit knives and flowers. Lil Harry and the kids over also and we had a delicious dinner. Lil bought us a coleus plant. Pop & Sylvia performed a card trick. Sylvia did Susan and Peggys hair. We had the Giant Pirate double header on - split.
May 9 The wanton killing of a 15 year old boy, mistaken for a rival gang member by a 17 year old has brought the problem of juvenile delinquency to a head here. Polio vaccine shots have been ordred halted pending a study of the manufacturing process.
May 10 Fifty one workers were injured and one missing as the main floor of the New York Colosseum being built at Columbus Circle collapsed.
May 11 Tommy Burns is dead at 73.
May 12 More than 125 bodies have been recovered in a Japanese ferry collision. The Dodgers lost to the Cubs after winning 11 straight and 22 out of their first 24 games of the season. We got the news that Uncle Abe in Florida had died.
This was Abe Kasen, not Abe Edelstein. But another case (no pun intended) of someone (Molly Edelstein) marrying someone with the same first name as their sibling; at least the third in the family.
May13 Sylvia went to a dungaree party where one boy was present. Eugene and Jerry saw 'Science' lost [sic] to 'Music & Art' in tennis and were disappointed.
