Paramount School Bids Prompt State Approval Request
Paramount board asks state approval for 500000 in school construction after opening bids for Lincoln and Collins elementary additions. Lincoln modernization bid 259930 by Leon Slavin Co exceeds estimate by 70000. Collins package bid 247700 by Opperd and Forsberg Co places total Collins cost about 36 percent above estimate. State action expected within two weeks, superintendent Jack Robinson said.
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Paramount
Paramount Board of Trustees
Lincoln
Collins
Leon Slavin Co
Lin
Mond Collins School
Lakewood Gardens
Opperd and Forsberg Co
Poker Bill Revived in Senate Solons Order Hearings on Gaming Ban
In Sacramento on June 7, a Senate committee revived a bill to outlaw large draw poker parlors in a new form but did not pass it. Amendments by Herbert Kluckstein would ban draw poker with more than five tables or over 40 players and authorize nuisance abatement by injunction. Violations carry up to six months in jail and a $1000 fine.
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Sacramento
Senate
Herbert Kluckstein
t-Long Beach
Jesse Mayoo
R.angels Camp
Safe as Crippled Atlantic Plane Lands
In Shannon Treland on June 3 an American airliner with 56 people aboard landed safely after one of its four engines failed. The crippled plane returned to field and landed without difficulty as crews were alerted along the North Atlantic route for possible trouble.
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Shannon
Treland
New York
North Atlantic
Dent Reds in Iron Triangle
Communist forces retreating toward a central Korean mountain redoubt show signs they may abandon the iron triangle. An Eighth Army spokesman notes observed removal of scarce supplies from Chorwon Kumhwa Pyonggang plateau, but cautions against early conclusions as substantial material remains unmoved.
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Howard Uandleman
Tokyo
INS
Korea
Iron Triangle
Eighth Army
Chor- won-Kumhwa-Pyonggang
North
Worea
British Resentment and Class Tension Across Empires
A reflective column argues that affluence blinds the well fed to hunger elsewhere, noting how higher living standards breed friction with lower strata. It claims British rule fuels resentment among millions governed, hinting at continued discussion on page 26.
Blast kills GI as 36 hit at Fort Jackson
A defective 60 millimeter mortar shell burst as it left the tube at Fort Jackson June 7 killing one soldier and wounding 36 others. Most of the injured were hospitalized and eight in serious condition. The blast sprayed steel fragments into a company of infantry, all from the Eighth Infantry Division, just after the shell cleared the mortar.
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Columbia
S. C
U.D
Fort Jackson
Bainges
Eighth Infantry Division
London hunt for two missing diplomats widens to Europe
Officials say the pair had access to top secrets and were last seen on route to France before heading to Russia. Attlee ordered embassies, with Finland to Denmark aid, to search, extending to Western Germany and Austria as Morrison and Burgess, aged 38 and 40, remain missing since May 25.
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Londo
France
Russia
Paris
Attlee
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Germany
Austria
Morrison
Donald Maclean
Guy Burgess
31 Horses Die In Stable Fire In Buffalo
A blaze swept five stables near Buffalo raceway killing about 31 harness horses valued at $150,000. Roughly 3000 spectators watched owners and grooms move frightened animals to safety as the fire was controlled in a hour and racing resumed, with officials estimating building and equipment losses in the thousands.
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Buffalo
Buffalo Race Way
Buffalo Trotting Assn
James J. Dunnigan
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