Nutcracker tips and scarce two volume reference found
Big companies crack walnuts by machine but halves are not guaranteed and may crumble. Home shelling advice suggests tapping along the side seam with a small hammer to split, with a pronged tool for the nut meat. For a two volume reference on New Spain in the Anglo American West, only 500 copies were printed in 1932 and one copy exists at UCLA Library, call number F396N42, with inter library loan from the college library.
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Ming
Mrs. C.S
Long Beach
Diamond Walnut Co
Modesto
A & M Nut Co
Los Angeles
Action Line
New Spain
Bes Moines
Jaws
Norwalk
UCLA
Inter-Library Loan
College
Lbrary
Ucla Library Research Department
Linder
Shipping used books to the Philippines by sea
A reader asks for the best method and cost to ship about 100 pounds of used books to a friend in the Philippines. Tom Rankin of Champion Parcel Wrapping Service recommends ocean freight with crating and insurance, total around 40 dollars, and offers pickup and free estimate statements.
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Philippine Islands
M.B
Long Beach
Ocean Freight
Tom Rankin
Champion Parcel Wrapping Service
Long Beach Blvd
Ocean Travel
Rankin
New Heart Transplants Highlight 1969 Era Milestones
New York reports the world’s fifth heart transplant recipient Louis Bieck dies. In California, Mike Kasperak shows progress under Stanford care after receiving a donor heart, while doctors monitor potential organ rejection. Barnard contemplates U.S. move amid ongoing global transplant developments.
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Louis Bieck
New York
America
Mike Kasperak
Stanford University
Adrian Kantrawitz
Brooklyn
Maimonides Medical Center
Kasperak
Cape Town
South Africa
Christiaan Barnard
U.S
National Heart Hospital
London
Philip Blaiberg
Barnard
Louis Washkansky
Southland Sees Light Rain Before Clearing Weather
The Southland's first heavy storm of 1968 weakened to light sprinkles and showers early today as the US Weather Bureau forecast clear skies by tonight. Rainfall was minor, with Long Beach reporting barely measurable amounts and up to a third of an inch in other cities. snow fell in coastal mountains above 5,500 feet and winds carried dust through the deserts.
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Southland
US Weather Bureau
Longrach
Long Beach
Man Jailed in Slaying Of Boy 6
Sheriff's homicide detectives will seek a murder complaint today against 48 year old Bell Gardens man Horace Bell suspected of killing four year old Edward Gleason. The body was found July 13 stuffed in an electrical box off the Long Beach Freeway in South Gate after a six day search.
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Bell Gardens
Horace Bell
Wichita Falls
Tex
Los Angeles
Edward ©. Gleason
Long Beach
South Gate
Vera Gleason
Ludell St. Bell Gardens
Marine plane crash near Battle Mountain Nevada
A U S Marine transport plane carrying at least 19 people reportedly went down in a Wednesday night crash during a storm in the Nevada Wilderness. Officials said rescue efforts were underway as weather hindered search operations.
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Battle Mountain
Nev
Nevada
Reagan and Unruh Face Off Over Food Tax Plan
Sacramento reports Gov Ronald Reagan and Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh clashed in back to back news conferences over potential food taxes. Reagan cited a tax task force study and said any plan would aim to ease overall tax burdens on low income families, while Unruh, leading Democrats, refused to accept food taxes under any circumstances and mocked the governor’s image.
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Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Democratic Assembly
Jesse M. Unruh
Govermor
Big Daddy
Unruh
Death sentences for Kirschke after taunts and terror
The Downey Long Beach official, Jack Kirschke, is convicted of two murders and sentenced to death after he taunted jurors with gory imagery of pellets and gas. Witnesses recount his calm before the court as the verdict is delivered in San Quentin. The case traces to Elaine Terry Kirschke and Orville Crankhan’s deaths on the same night.
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Helen Krouch
East Paterson
N.J
Miss Krouch
Block
al Palo Alto
Kasperak
America
Ferne
Ile
Jack Kirschke
Death
Kirschke
Stark Gree Chamber
San Quentin
Elaine Terry Kirschke
Orville Willian Crankhan
Downey
Long Beach Yacht Club
Bandit Shot After Long Beach Robbery Captured Nearby
A bandit who robbed a Long Beach service station of $900 was shot by police after attempting to fire while fleeing. The suspect, unnamed and booked as John Doe, was captured by Ronald Watters and Robert Fleck with help from Billy Sanders near Parks Station. The stolen money was found hidden under a parked car and no weapon was recovered.
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Long Beach
John Doe
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Ronald W. Watters
Watters
John Miller
Don Blachowski
Juror Says Guilty Verdict for Kirschke Was Hard
Clyde B Warner, a post office clerk, broke the jury’s four month silence after Kirschke was sentenced to death. He said the panel found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and that holding a life in the balance was a hard, painful duty.
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Con
Jack Kirschke
Balding
Clyde B. Warner
United States Post Office Department
Public Opinion Splits on Kirschke Death Penalty
A Long Beach poll shows mixed views on whether Jack Kirschke, charged with double murder, should face execution. Voters range from supporting death to sympathy for a mentally deranged plotter, with one local saleswoman undecided about a gas chamber verdict.
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Sch
Esther Rodd
Goo E Ocean Blvd
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