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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1952
Page
8
An 18 mile gas pipeline from Huntington Beach toward Long Beach nears halfway. The 14 1/2 inch line on flat coastal terrain is expected to be completed by the end of January, as crews race against time to relieve a natural gas shortage.
Independent Reporter Spencer Crump reports on a trip east noting colorful opinions of cities and people. The piece also recounts Long Beach trivia, a linoleum city seal tour, a prize design winner, Christmas tales, a church renovation, and a WWI deserter anecdote from Juvenile Officer Bob Deaton.
Christmas Day births fill hospitals across Torrance Long Beach and surrounding communities. Names listed include a girl born to Mr. and Mrs. James Gerry in Torrance Memorial Hospital at 12 16 am, multiple babies at St Marys and Seaside hospitals, and several couples from Compton Lomita Redondo Beach and Long Beach welcoming girls and boys with detailed home addresses.
In freezing air on Christmas Day in Korea Cardinal Spellman celebrated his second straight Christmas mass for 2500 U. S. Marines. Six Marine chaplains gave holy communion to 750 men. Maj. Gen. Edwin Pollock and Brig. Gen. Robert Bare attended the service as the cardinal administered confirmation to Maj. Gen. James C. Fry, commander of the Second Division, who converted to Roman Catholicism on Dec. 12.
A Dutch freighter SS Bacchus and Norwegian owned Holberg collided in dense Gulf fog about three miles from the Mississippi mouth. One seaman aboard the Bacchus was injured and two tugs were dispatched to assist at 4 a.m. near the fog wrapped mouth of the river.
Fred Ledwich, patient at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, was struck by a car at the Paramount Blvd entrance Thursday evening. Sheriff's deputies reported emergency treatment at Downey hospital and transfer to Los Angeles General Hospital where he was described as serious.
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