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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1953
Page
9
President Eisenhower outlined a plan to sell government owned synthetic rubber facilities to private industry. He stressed preserving fair value, competitive benefits for consumers and fabricators, and readiness in emergencies, while noting no legislation has been prepared and Congress and executive agencies should review RFC recommendations.
Allied planes guard a returning POW convoy route as UN Far East commander General Clark weighs when to answer renewed truce talks at Panmunjom. Preparations for a broader prisoner exchange proceed if a truce is signed, with a warehouse built for equipment and camps to expand.
Washington reports Mrs. Vane Morrow Spaulding of Charleston West Virginia was named assistant to Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Hobby. Spaulding, an NAACP executive and financier, has 20 years in social welfare and led Negro relief in West Virginia. She helped found child care institutions and served in Citizens for Eisenhower Nixon in 1952. A Kentucky native and Fisk University graduate.
Boston College seismograph logged a strong earthquake 3100 miles south at 8 37 26. Jesuit scientists locate the tremor in northern Peru or southeastern Ecuador.
A DC-3 type transport with 25 aboard failed an engine and disappeared while flying over the Cascade range near Mount Rainier. Pilot Capt. Albert J. Lerette Jr. and co pilot William Harshaw, plus stewardess Adra Long, were aboard. passengers were soldiers whose names were not immediately released. Search included Coast Guard and Navy helicopters and civilian planes. The plane, cruising at 140 mph, iced up but not seriously before contact was lost. The last confirmed stop was Spokane after a 12:35 am takeoff from Largo North Dakota. two crew members remained aboard to join later eastbound flight.
Bobbie Joyce Westfall of 1211 Electric Ave reported a missing or stolen billfold and its $13 contents during a heater incident at 219 East Ocean Boulevard, with police alerted today.
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