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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1952
Page
15
French naval vessels sank 79 Communist sampans while patrolling the northern coast of Indochina, the announcement said. France reported the action occurred on June 19 with no further details provided.
A gray cat trapped on a cross-arm above Newport Beach tracks near Atlantic Ave was lowered in a basket by EP Malmberg and a San Pedro line crew after an SOS. Residents prepared a feast for the hungry feline once rescued.
Two southern Lutheran synods welcomed Negro congregations into their Caucasian fellowships. Dr J W Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, told delegates at the Southern California district conference in Long Beach that Negro congregations were received equally in the Texas district and the Southeastern district covering Georgia and parts of the Carolinas. Rev Kurt Brink praised the move as a new day for Christian race relations amid anti Communist resolve.
Fifty live vedalia beetles were en route from the University of California citrus experiment station in Riverside to the Samoan Islands in the Far South Pacific. The insects, imported from Australia in 1888 to fight cottony cushion scale, will be released there to combat a similar outbreak.
Long Beach State College announced a few teacher vacancies for the Long Beach Summer Reading Clinic to aid students with reading retardation. Applicants should apply at the college. nine graduate credits will be offered. The staff is led by Dr. Leo T. Phearman with Dr. Narramore and Mrs. Jabus Fortmann assisting.
New York report states Mrs. Bessie Honig, owner of a four story fire trap tene ment with no fire escape or sprinkler system, was charged with second degree manslaughter for seven tenant deaths. She claimed she did not kill anyone, while prosecutors say her culpable negligence caused the fatalities.
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