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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1952
Page
14
A dense listing of radio programs and timings across stations such as KFI KECA KLAC and more. Entries include music talk shows news features sports updates and cultural programs with multiple hosts and station identifiers. Notable items feature World News Serenade and Crossroads programs along with early morning recitals and late night music hours.
The Belmont-Napies Exchange Clio won the sweepstakes for the second year running at Alamitos Bay and Naples canals parade. Edward Price played Santa, aboard a deck with two sleighs and three reindeer, for Naples. Awards went to multiple clubs and boats across divisions, with firsts in civic, cruiser, and outboard categories, preceding a banquet on Jan 3 at Sam’s Sea Food Spa.
Tele Vues highlights birth via Caesarean in Denver with Terry Vernon and family, plus atomic submarine demonstration on KNXT. Berle and Ameche host Texaco Star Theater. various station realignments, wrestling, boxing, and Santa Claus on KNBH KECA KNXT KTLA KLAC KTTV.
Jane Wyatt leads a Fireside Theater presentation about an elderly man who misreads love with a younger woman while his wife plans a divorce and reads for rents. The fragment mentions other shows and a Christmas themed monologue with various performers.
Los Angeles residents claim injuries from the “bloody Christmas” beatings and file damage suits against Police Chief William Parker and several officers. The actions bring total sought damages to about 850000, with Jack Wilson requesting 100000 and Eddie Nora 300000 for permanent injuries. Names include Minter Griffith Colwell Fremont McCaffrey Lantz and others involved in past jail incidents.
At 1:36 p m today the USS Montague in Long Beach Harbor welcomed 20 Boys' Club youths and 80 crew children for a Yule celebration. Santa Claus distributed gifts around a tree in the ship's forward recreation hall.
Jeffer son Junior High School teachers organize a Christmas gift exchange for German math teacher Helmut Foerster who arrived last August. Foerster swapped jobs with Long Beach’s Siegfried Ringwald in Ploemams, Germany. A fund of 866 dollars funded Ringwald’s plane ticket, enabling Foerster’s wife Latte to reunite with him at Los Angeles International Airport on Christmas Eve.
The Rev Hirai B Crosby Jr vicar of St Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Mission Lakewood will address Chamber of Commerce members at 7 15 a m Wednesday in the Empire Room Wilson Hotel His topic is A Christmas Message Crosby a New York City native was a football coach and athlete before ministry a Dartmouth graduate and Cumberland University law graduate 1923 Dr Ray Barker to be introduced as man of the week Breakfast Forum Chairman L VY Bostwick will preside
A free Christmas show will be presented at 16 a.m. at the Bret Harte branch library 1408 W Willow St by the Walsworth Puppeteers. The entertainment also will include Rufus and his Southern Minstrels.
Fragmentary OCR reveals a dense TV schedule listing KNXT KNBC KSA listings across 1:00 P M to 1:00 A M with programs including News Music Movies Sports and Talk shows. Names such as John Reed Willem Hartnell Jodie Reba Stuthe Nicki Dryden and Jane Fravkcion appear amid channel codes KNXT KETV KTTV KECA and KSAU with entries suggesting a full day grid of programming from afternoon into late night.
The Supreme Court broadens Interstate Commerce Commission authority to consider interstate losses in regulating intrastate freight rates, notably affecting Florida. Justice Douglas and Justice Black dissented, calling the move an overreach and a sovereignty issue. In a separate ruling, the court upheld listing conduct rather than multiple acts in wage hour complaints, supporting Judge Ridge’s dismissal stance.
County Supervisors propose legislation at Sacramento to empower cities to block pollution from other regions. The push follows Los Angeles plans for a sewage plant near Griffith Park and effluent into the Los Angeles River. Supervisors Lege and Darby urge county counsel Kennedy to seek support from Long Beach Glendale Vernon South Gate and Lynwood.
French headquarters reported Monday that at least 50 Communist rebels were killed in two jungle clashes in Cochin China. A communique said 30 Reds fell in the first battle, while another fight in the Badan region south of Saigon Sunday left 20 dead and 10 captured.
George W. H. Brown, longtime Long Beach businessman, named chairman of the Chamber of Commerce education committee by President Al Davis. Brown will direct the education program coordinating local and state school activities and studies legislation affecting schools, succeeding Marshall Stone who served two years.
Signal Hill officials recommended reinstating discharged sergeant Chris Roy Blake as patrolman to be restricted to uniformed work and forgo pay since firing. The council, backing Mayor Lloyd Tomlin, requires Blake sign a waiver of pay claims and be demoted never to work in plain clothes. Officer John C. Lybarger received a commendation as the council posted the citation.
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