Year s Worst Tidal Blitz Hits Beaches
Southern California shores suffered their worst wave on the winter season as breakers from the year s highest tide battered seawalls flooded homes and damaged waterfront installations from Redondo Beach to San Diego. Piers, cottages, and a barge wrecked. police closed Crystal Pier in San Diego and residents fled as water covered streets and sent salt water flooding high onto coastlines.
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California
Redondo Beach
San Diego
Surfside Colony
Seal Beach
Earl L. Johnson
Elaine
Johnson
Sunset Beach
Huntington Beach
Redands Beach
Crystal Pier
Pacific Beach
Sua
Imperial Beach
del Mar
Train Wreck Injures Dozens Near Union Station
A capital city express crashed into Union Station on Thursday after brakes failed, injuring about 60 people though no one died. The Pennsylvania Railroad engine burst through the concourse floor into a baggage area, with six taken to hospitals overnight and one Baltimore man among the seriously hurt. Station staff and crew actions averted greater loss of life as the speeding train barreled past the crowd.
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Union Station
Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad
Boston-to- Washington
Federal
Horace A. Baldwin
Irving Goldberg
Baltimore
Henry W. Brower
Pensions Debate Between City Manager and Columnist
A Salt Lake City pension policy dispute unfolds as City Manager Vickers and the local columnist clash over pension design and Salt Lake’s shift from a former system to the federal Social Security setup. The column notes earlier resistance and legal hurdles while advocating earlier conversion.
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Vickers
Salt Lake City
Pay Rise Advised for School Administrative Staff
Salary boosts of 174 a year were recommended to the Board of Education for about 150 administrative employees in the public school system. The report by USC professors Melbo and Nelson also proposes two simplified pay classifications for principals, with about 10 jobs affected, while praising the 1947 schedule as largely sound. Teachers were not included in the study.
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Board of Education
University of Southern California
Irving Melbo
D. Lioydls Nelson
Melba
Nelson
Melbo
Weather Outlook Promptly Swells To 74 Degrees
The forecaster says hot desert breezes fade today. Expect sunny skies and warmer weather with temperatures rising to about 74. Wind should be light.
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Long Beach
Pension Bill Offered in California Assembly
Sacramento L. A bill introduced Thursday by Assemblyman Rosto-L Patterson-R Visalia proposes pensioners could earn up to 50 dollars per month in wages without deductions from their 30 dollar maximum public assistance allowance. The measure aims to adjust the income threshold for pensioners under state aid rules.
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Sacramento
Charles Chapel
Redondo
Franz Nybye
Rostoe-L
Patterson-R.visalia
U S Spain Reported Planning Defense Pact
The Chicago Sun Times reported that the United States and Spain planned a defense pact of at least twenty years with collective self defense. The treaty would grant four U S air bases in year one and three more in year two, plus use of Cartagena as a naval base for the U S Fleet.
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Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
al Washington
United States
Spain
Washington
Frederick Kuh
U. S
Cartagena
U.S
Ice chunk narrowly misses Whittier by inches
In Whittier on Thursday a 13 by 6 inch block of ice fell from a cloudless sky near Mrs. Catherine Martin and her son Dickie as they weeded a garden. A shower of small ice particles followed the large fragment, with neighbors noting similar occurrences and speculating it came from an airplane.
Fascination Game License Plea Dropped
Promoter John T. Gibbs drops bid to challenge city license for Fascination a downtown skill game. Attorney Ramsey seeks refund of $2800 license deposit from City Treasurer Brejcha. Refund decision awaits City Council action and city official review despite prior court rulings and a pending Supreme Court retrial.
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John T. Gibbs
Albert C. S. Ramsey
Frank W. Brejcha
Gibbs
Lcense
State Supreme Court
Ramsey
Fascination, Inc
Brejcha
Philip J. Brady
Atty
Fred N. Howser
Edward G. Hoover
William H. Dovey
Kenneth Sutherland
District Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Turns Bandit Son Over to Police
A Burbank father Frank M Schoengarth turned his son Robert L Schoengarth over to authorities after the boy admitted an armed robbery at a liquor store. The father returned 250 to the victim Morris Friedman. Robert L Schoengarth, 18, was booked on suspicion of armed robbery.
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Burbank
Morris Friedman
Schoengarth
Robert’ L.schoengarth
Erne Ote
Truman Moves Oil From Tidelands To Navy
President Truman announced he would turn over all offshore tidelands oil to the Navy for defense, a move critics say bypasses Congress and defies states’ rights. Governors and lawmakers condemn the order as a last minute maneuver, likely to be reversed by a new administration.
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Washington
Truman
Navy
Congress
White House
Tidelands
Hugh Butler
R.neb
Senate Interior Committee
Eisenhower
Butler
Sacramento
Earl Warren
California
Baton Rouge
Robert J. Kennan
Louisiana
Mr. Truman
Kenton
Ange
S. Re
Adelands
Austin
Tex
Allan Shivers
John Ben Shepperd
Texas
Shivers
Shepperd
Bob Anderson
Iiew Seers Retary
State Senate Ratifies Oil Fund Release for City
The state Senate and Assembly approved a charter amendment authorizing general municipal use of tidel and oil funds. Voters in the Nov 5 election backed the change which transfers 50 percent of the funds into city wide public improvements. By end of 1952 the three funds held over $117 million, rising $2.4 million monthly, with nearly $60 million ready for use pending federal lift of impound restrictions by Congress or the Supreme Court.
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Long Beach
Congress
Supreme Court
Motor Officers In Collisions At Ocean Boulevard
Motor officer Jerry F. Walsh, 32, suffered a possible fractured left leg and bruises after a collision with a westbound car driven by Ronald S. Adkins, 16, at Ocean Blvd and Pine Ave near the State Theater. Walsh was taken to St Mary’s Hospital. Earlier, Major Officer Earl E. Moore Jr., 30, escaped injury after ramming the back of a car stopped for a red light at Ocean Blvd and Pacific Ave driven by Olga E. Moreno, 22.
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Jerry, F. Walsh
Ocean Blvd
Pine Ave
Walsh
Stanbridge Ave
Ronald S. Adkins
Cerritos. Ave
Adkins
State Theater
St. Mary's Hospital
Mojor
Earl E. Moore Jr
Clark
Pacific Ave
Olga E. Moreno
Studebaker Rd
Paramount
Truman bids farewell urging unity to finish cold war task
President Truman in a televised farewell address urged the nation to back his successor and continue the effort to prevent World War III. He credited his administration with averting a broader war, defending a moral, peaceful path, and emphasized Ike as key to carrying on the Cold War. He recalled Korea as a necessary action against aggression and warned against unilateral moves toward war.
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Washington
Truman
Besertcoear
Mr.Truman
Eisenhower
Mr. Truman
Korea
Manchuria
Ethiopia
Rhineland
Austria
Douglas Back Wages Today
Retroactive pay totaling 576000 will be distributed today to 18000 employees of the Long Beach Douglas plant. The checks are part of 750000 in retroactive pay for 46000 Douglas employees in Long Beach Santa Monica and El Segundo plants. The pay increase of five cents an hour was granted August 25 1952 and approved by Wage Stabilization. About 1200 salaried Long Beach employees received checks totaling 137000 last week as part of 660000 in retroactive pay distributed to 5000 salaried workers in the three plants.
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Long Beach
Douglas
Santa Monica
el Segundo
British Planes Collide Aloft Over Malta Sea
Two Royal Air Force crews suffered losses when a Lancaster bomber and a two engine Valetta transport collided aloft near Malta Thursday night. Wreckage of the Valetta with 21 to 24 British airmen aboard was found near the last reported position of the Lancaster, which carried seven crew.
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Malta
Pene Sea
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The
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