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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1950
Page
4
The article argues tax rates rely on gas sale income from city wells in the harbor area totaling 3,441,210 this year while the overall tax levy is 3,632,285. Without gas revenue taxes would double, reinforcing the case against unsustainable spending. It cautions future taxpayers about relying on gas income and urges restraint on costly habits.
President Truman, in Independence, says the present world crisis is unprecedented. He warns against allowing lack of honor to enter U.S. politics and cites Hammurabi to Jesus as the ethical origin of laws. He deems the Sermon on the Mount the best guide for living.
The Voice of America will broadcast a multilingual Christmas message to audiences behind and beyond the Iron Curtain. Plans include President Truman’s brief annual message, a Bible drama, and music by the Trinity Choir, with regional features for Arabic, Hungarian, and Soviet audiences and programs for the Far East in multiple languages.
Falls City Neb Dec 2 Sheriff Vern Atkins said he has a personal interest in asking Falls City residents to play out of Christmas. He explained prisoners are fed from his kitchen and he has just enough turkey for his family and two men now in jail.
President Truman says the political situation at home is secondary to a global issue. He urges mobilizing Catholics Protestants Jews the Eastern Church and other groups to promote decency and honor and to work together rather than fighting. He claims progress is being made.
A Canadian Pacific Airways DC-3 crashed on a snowbound Okanagan mountain, killing Capt. Quinton Moore and injuring pilot Leo Doucette. Seventeen of eighteen aboard survived after RCAF rescue teams reached the scene. emergency supplies and medical aid were dropped as ground parties battled deep snow.
The sixth annual Print Makers Society of California exhibit will be on view at the main public library starting January 24. About 46 etchings lithographs and aquatints will be shown with one to be offered in Long Bench this year. Mrs Mary Pearson serves as librarian in charge of the exhibit.
University of Connecticut professor James T. Barnett notes Rudolph the red nosed reindeer as the only original addition to Santa Claus folklore in a feature on Foliodore Stores annual social register. The piece places Rudolph among notable Christmas folklore items in Conn.
Acting investigators sought two women suspected of damaging several guns and smashing gasoline tanks on 17 motor transport units with an axe in an apparent sabotage plot. The acts appeared aimed at crippling reserve units in Ontario and possibly elsewhere in Canada.
FBI undercover operative Matthew Cvetic testified before HUAC that Steve Nelson, Pennsylvania Communist leader, called the United States “our enemy” and Stalin “our leader.” Nelson faces sedition charges and possible contempt of Congress for not answering questions.
Susanna Foster, former film star and wife of singer Wilbur Evans, gave birth today to a baby boy weighing five pounds ten ounces. Hospital attendants reported both mother and child are doing nicely. Foster had been in the hospital since Thanksgiving May.
HUAC released a docu ment titled Memorandum of the State Review Commission describing Communist Party members' conduct when confronted by FBI agents. It recorded rules such as do not talk refuse entry without a warrant and do not accompany officers without a warrant, and advised contacting the Civil Rights Congress. The document also labeled Matthew Cvetic a government spy and criticized the FBI as a Gestapo.
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