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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1951
Page
2
The piece argues pay raises for city workers including firemen and police will cost taxpayers over a million dollars annually. It criticizes inefficiencies in public departments and calls for real efficiency to save money while noting workers deserve fair pay for a good day's work.
Four Long Beach servicemen are scheduled to arrive in San Francisco today aboard the transport General Buckner on rotation to Korea. Names listed include Capt. David L. Cantor Sgt. Richard F. Romberg at 1836 Temple Ave Sgt. Ive Harvard Th. Monson at 1010 Mitchell Ave and Cpl. Don 1D. Taylor at 620 TE 15th St.
Secretary of Defense Marshall arrived at Ridgway headquarters in Tokyo to review Korea war operations with the Allied supreme commander. He toured the front and denied any link to truce talks, saying the trip aimed to see military operations and the Eighth Army.
London reports a massive manhunt for missing British diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess as signals point to their possible long Mediterranean voyage. UK informants fear they may have fled to Russia or its satellites, amid one of the century’s great mysteries.
Washington report outlines Charles E. Wilson of General Motors earning 626 100 dollars in salary plus bonuses in 1950, with 61 205 in GM stock and 31 dollars cash. Other high earners include Albert Bradley at 161 425 in salary plus stock and cash, Crawford H. Greenewalt at DuPont with prominent pay totals.
A tornado smashed through Corn Oklahoma causing heavy property damage and one death from lightning to Eddie Mergert while driving his tractor on a nearby farm. A second tornado struck west of Lawton with no reported damage and up to 40 houses damaged in Corn. Telephone lines to the town were knocked out and authorities requested portable lighting, cots and blankets.
Manila June 8 195. President Elpidio Quirino signed honorary Filipino citizenship for two former US lawmakers who backed Philippine independence in 1934. The honorees are former Senator Milland R. K. Tydings of Maryland and former Representative John McDuffie of Alabama.
The British Foreign Office suspects MacLean and Burgess may be in continental Europe after their sudden disappearance. A planted message to Burgess's mother and other clues suggest a possible kidnap plot, while officials deny any duty breach and mobilize about 15,000 police across Western Europe to search for the two men.
City Council meanwhile plans for the July 3 first meeting to elect a mayor with the city clerk presiding. Probable candidate Mayor Burton W. Chase is favored alongside former mayor Clarence Warner and Raymond Kealer. Six years ago 59 ballots elected Herbert Lewis.
A panel of three psychiatrists was named to examine 34 year old murder suspect McCracken after he pleaded innocent by reason of insanity at arraignment before Superior Judge Robert Gardner. They will report before the July 9 trial. The case centers on the killing of 10 year old Patricia Jull the Hull girl found buried in Trainies Canyon near Santa Ana.
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