04 Jul 1951
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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1951
Page
1
More than 140,000,000 people will join a day of celebration. A spry white-haired dealer in a flash striped top hat and tails fronts the festivities. Uncle Sam, born July 4, 1776, is 175 years old today. Five main events headline Long Beach fireworks display.
Tokyo dispatch reports Chinese and North Korean radios boast Red victories in Korea and mock American retreat. Ridgway’s bid to move peace talks up to July 10 remains unanswered by Peiping or Pyongyang. Peiping accuses U S forces of threatening Manchuria as justification for Chinese entry into the war.
President Truman’s Independence Day address from the Washington Monument will be broadcast locally on KECA KNX KEE KFOX and KFI at various times. A speedboat regatta and displays are planned with fireworks at Veterans Memorial Stadium and Rainbow Piers starting about 9 p.m. The stadium show funds the Long Beach 20-30 Club’s Cavalcade of Fire benefit for local youth activities.
The program features Victor McLaglen's Motor Cycle Corps Boza the Clown the Mitchell Choir Boys and the Long Beach Municipal Band and will start at 8 30 p m A beauty contest to select Miss Seo FIREWORKS Page 4.
SAN PEDRO July 3 9 Yachtsmen finish sails gear and rigging for the start of the 7th San Pedro Honolulu race. A Coast Guard task force of 28 vessels will clear the harbor channel and first five miles as 27 contenders depart at noon.
The writer laments decline in courage since the Declaration of Independence signers and questions whether modern readers grasp the preamble's message. He frames liberty and unalienable rights as ideals once used to resist overbearing government, suggesting contemporary society has strayed from that doctrine.
Vatican City introduces time clocks for government staff as part of new rules to improve discipline and efficiency. All subordinate personnel including lower ranking prelates must clock in and out of offices.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey landed at Haneda Airport Tokyo on a private Far Eastern mission. Delayed 24 hours at Wake Island due to a burned-out starter, he surveyed the island and inspected the square yellow stucco building where the Truman MacArthur conference occurred.
The 116th Fighter Bomber Group, an air National Guard unit stationed at George Air Base in California, with squadrons from San Bernardino Jacksonville and Savannah, will be assigned to Far East Air Forces in Japan. The unit operates Thunderjet F-84 aircraft, normally numbering 73.
A high government official warned that fighting in Korea will continue until an armistice is secured between United Nations forces and Communist aggressors. He cautioned Americans not to expect a cease fire before UN military leaders meet Chinese and North Korean Red commanders at Kaesong.
Washington July 3 striking Capital Transit Co employees voted to return to work and buses would resume full operations by tomorrow. The AFL affiliated union and company representatives reached an agreement offering 15 cent hourly raise fringe benefits four paid holidays double time not two under prior deal a 75 per month pension plan and three weeks vacation after ten years instead of fifteen.
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