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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1951
Page
3
Bellflower reports a drought year with the 1950-51 season totaling 8.58 inches to date, the fourth consecutive season under 10 inches and the county's driest stretch since 1922 to 1924. Previous low winters include 1948-49 and 1949-50, with under 10 inches recorded then as well.
In Dakar, four nations launched what officials call the largest air search in West Africa for a Pan American Airways Constellation missing with about 40 aboard including 12 Americans. Jets and ships comb the Ivory Coast region of the Big Bulge as darkness falls.
The column cites Billy Sunday on self scrutiny and argues against condemning other governments for corruption while neglecting one’s own. It notes decades of State Department cautions that aid to Chiang Kai-Shek’s government was wasted due to internal corruption.
Captain Frank J Crawford, Pan American pilot and Californian from Brandken, vanished over the African Gold Coast area. The search, led by missionaries and local leaders, paused at nightfall in the Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Gold Coast districts and to resume at 2 am EDT with more planes. Three passengers and all nine crew are American. a Canadian businessman and two infants among those aboard.
The 234th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group leaves tonight for Camp Irwin near Barstow for two weeks of field training. An advance convoy departs the National Guard Armory at Seventh and Alamitos at 7 tonight, with the remainder following at 11 p.m. on chartered bases. The unit includes the 720th and 682nd AAA Battalions, commanded by Col. Clifford Beyers, and will operate under the 114th AAA Brigade from San Diego while at camp.
In Sacramento on June 22 UP California’s Franchise Tax Board began a tax collection drive for about 300,000 residents who failed to file 1949 income tax returns. Controller Thomas I. Kuchel and board chair announced that delinquents were found in a recent check, and field officers have been instructed to collect the taxes.
Comic Bob Hope reportedly felt faint and nauseated backstage at the Concert Hall in Los Angeles around 10 30 p m. An unidentified doctor checked his blood pressure and found it normal after a brief rest outside. He then returned home to Hollywood, having performed 19 shows in 17 days. His ROA awards included a World War II jeep to honor his service. Jerry Colonna accepted the jeep for Hope. Other ROA recipients were June Russell Frances Langford George Murphy.
The Chrysler Corporation raises hourly pay by four cents for 1300 Los Angeles plant workers under its improvement factor plan announced today.
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