Bond Vote Asked By Newcomb 1953
Long Beach seeks a 520000000 school bond issue for district growth. Superintendent Douglas A Newcomb outlined plans for three new senior high schools, two junior high schools, seven elementary schools and 15 additions. Enrollments exceed 49,000 with 12 percent growth from last year.
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Board of Education
Douglas A. Newcomb
Newcomb
Long Beach Unified
Long Beach
Lakewood
Harvey Way
Crest Ave
Hill St
Webster Ave
Palo Verde Ave
Spring St
Woodruff Ave
Willow St
San Gabriel River
Wardlow Rd
Avalon to Resume Catalina Island Freight Service
Avalon plans to enter shipping of freight and supplies to Catalina Island residents. ILWWU leader says a P K R Wrigley backed plan would resume SS Catalina operations if expenses drop by 300000 yearly, with Catalina Island Co absorbing 106000 and labor 100000, city 100000. Mayor says union rejected city freight operation offer. Harbor Water Taxi and city crews handle freight until new arrangement.
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Avalon
Catalina Island
Gordon Giblin
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
P. KR. Wrigley
Chicago
Catalina Island Steamship Line
Catalina
State Public Utilities Commission
Giblin
Wrigley Interests
Steamship Company
Catalina Island Co
Avane
Harvey Cowell
ILWWU
Harbor Water Taxi Co
Bryan Bayly
Avalon Council
Jhases
William Green Led AFL To High Prosperity At Death
A tribute recalls William Green as a great conservative labor leader who guided the AFL to peak strength of about eight million members. Green’s early training under Samuel Gompers and his long stormy life define his legacy in American labor history.
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William Green
AFL
Bill” Green
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
Green
Eisenhower taps Benson for agriculture post in cabinet
President Elect Eisenhower rapid fire appointments elevates Ezra Taft Benson of Utah to secretary of agriculture and Sherman Adams of New Hampshire to White House assistant. Benson, a 13 year Mormon leader and farm expert, previously led the National Council of Farmer Co operatives and advised state farm marketing. Adams expected to steer executive office reorganizing efforts. Eisenhower meets with U N officials during rounds of diplomacy before Korea trip.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ezra Taft Benson
Utah
Sherman Adams
New Hampshire
White House
Korea
Benson
Eischhower
Labor
Benson i
Eisenhower
University of Idaho Extension Service
National Council of Farmer Co-operatives
American Institute of Co-operatives
Adams
Lisenhouwer
Warm, sunny day ahead with cool morning in Long Beach
The Weatherman forecasts a chilly start near 38 degrees at sunrise, followed by a high of 62 degrees, about five degrees cooler than yesterday. Skies in Long Beach and surrounding areas will be clear, bringing bright sunshine throughout the day.
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Long Beach
Runaway Girls Pursued Escape in Torrance Chase
Two Torrance teens JoAnn Harlan and Margaret Epefanio, both 15, missing seven days, were reportedly seen in a green sedan late Monday in Torrance. Police said Leo Harlan, father of JoAnn, joined the pursuit as the car fled amid a reported attempt to escape.
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Torrance
Soimita
Leo Harlan
JoAnn Harlan
Andrea Ave
JoAnn
Margaret Epefanio
Two 1932 Letters Unsealed On Beach Camp Bet
Nov 1 1932 two lumberjacks at a Manzanita Oregon camp shared letters written 20 years earlier predicting life ahead. One forecast safe return from a war with Japan, Roosevelt as president, higher wages, and marriage outcomes. A reunion trip to review the letters is planned.
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Thornton .Ave
Jastad
Smith
Japan
Ex-Con Shot Kills Himself After Hollywood Hotel Shootout
Hollywood officers report a gun battle with ex convict Richard Kenneth Franklin 40 who fled to a hotel roof and killed himself after wounding police during a chase. Franklin, released last August from San Quentin for robbery, entered his apartment with a drawn gun and opened fire on Detectives Brady and Indorf before escaping upstairs.
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Hollywood
Richard Kenneth Franklin
San Quentin
Franklin
James P. Brady
Robert W. Indorf
Allies Regain Two Outposts On Korean Front
Allied troops recaptured two outposts on the Central Korean front and the British Commonwealth Division raided Chinese positions in the West. The U S Eighth Army reported a counterattack that recovered Jackson Heights after a strong Communist assault last night. The area remains hotly contested.
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Seoul
British Commonwealth Division
U. S.S
Eighth Army
ondJackison Heights
Sabre Theft Charge In Koreas F-86 Spy Plot
In Tokyo a court martial charges S/Sgt Giuseppe Cascio of Tucson and S/Sgt John P. Jones of Manchester with conspiring to sell secret F 86 Sabre flight data to the enemy. Cascio faces 16 counts of black marketing plus the conspiracy counts while Jones, after arrest in Tokyo, was moved to the United States for treatment.
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Tokyo
Far East Air Forces
Korea
Guiseppe Cascio
Tucson
Ariz
Air Force Intelligence S
John P. ‘Jones
Manchester
Mass
Cascio
Far East Air Forces Headquarters
Air Force
South Korea
Jones
United States
Piot
Soviet Denounces Indian Korea Truce Plan at UN
At the United Nations, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky dismissed India's truce proposal as designed to perpetuate the war. U S Secretary of State Dean Acheson pledged support with changes. India pressed for priority in voting on related Korean resolutions amid broad diplomatic maneuvering.
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United Nations
WN. Y
Andrei ¥. Vishinsky
India
U. S
Dean Acheson
United States
Acheson
Britain
Korea
U.N
Vishinsky
Peiping
Pyongyang
Kremlin
Two Pedestrians Hurt in Downtown Long Beach
Two pedestrians were injured in separate accidents a block apart in downtown Long Beach Monday evening. Anthony Gallagher, 90, of 241 Daisy Ave., and Herschell Biggs, 45, of Richmond, were treated at Seaside Hospital for cuts and bruises.
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Long Beach
Anthony Gallagher
Daisy Ave
Herschell Biggs
Richmond
Seaside Hospital
Thirteen Die in Two Military Air Crashes
Thirteen military airmen were killed in two crashes Monday while search continued for a C 124 Globemaster with 52 aboard off Alaska and a missing petroleum engineer in California. Eight Royal Canadian Air Force crew died when a four engine Lancaster crashed near Comox Vancouver Island. An ambulance crew pulled three survivors from the wreckage. one died later. A separate four engine Air Force bomber crashed into a creek near Edgewood Maryland, killing five crew members. a photographer civilian and some crew survived.
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United Press
Alaska
California
Civil Air Patrol
Taft
el Monte
Royal Canadian Air Force
Comox
B.C
Air Force
Army Chemical Center
Edgewood
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