Last Rites For Fireman Mare Mims At Mortuary
Firefighter Mare Nfarace Mims, 27, who died in a collision of two fire trucks on Anaheim Street, was honored at a packed memorial service. More than 60 off duty firefighters formed a guard of honor, 17 recently trained, and engines paused at intersections along Sunnyside Memorial Park procession route. Rev W R Hall spoke of Mims as a boy who dreamed of firefighting, enlisted in the Navy during a global conflict, then joined the local force just a week before his death.
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Long Beach
Marc Horace Mims
Press-Telegram
Mortell
Mare Nf
Arace Mims
Mr. Mims
Sunnyside Memorial Park
Anaheim St
Atlantic Ave
2Rd St
Roosevelt Rd
W. R. Hall
Lakewood iVillage Chapel
Mims
Civil Service
Pacific Ave
Hall
Optimistic Ladies Guild Delegate to Regional Conference
The Optimistic Ladies Guild of Long Beach will send founder Mrs. Willa B. Conner to represent the group at the Southwest regional conference of a group focusing on world leadership. The event runs April 30 to May 1 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, hosted by the American Association for the United Nations. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche will open the literary session on the first morning.
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Optimistic Ladies Guild of
Long Beach
Willa B. Conner
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles
American Association For the Cited Nations
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Sailors Free Admission to Long Beach Horse Show
Sailors in uniform will be admitted free to the First National Long Beach Horse Show at Veterans Memorial Stadium for the matinee on Saturday May 12. Naval shipyard workers Douglas and North American plant employees and SoCal students receive special discounts as plans for the May 10 13 event progress. Dr Carl Bishop vice president of the Horse Show Association says the halfway mark in selling and sponsoring the 60 stakes and classes is near and the board meets tomorrow night at Municipal Auditorium to discuss plans.
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Navy
Long Beach
Municipal Auditorium
MacArthur Gets His First Look at Television
Gen Douglas MacArthur, freshly returning to New York, saw television for the first time in his suite at the Waldorf Astoria. A Hooper survey placed his Congress speech rating at 48.7 percent, higher than Kefauver hearings, while his parade through New York drew a 43.6 percent viewership in homes with TV sets.
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MacArthur
New York
Douglas MacArthur
Congress
Courtney Whitney
Iotel Waldorf-Astoria
New York City
Whitney
San Francisco
Washington
Arthur
MacArthurs
C. E. Hooper
Kefauver Crime Committee
Hooper
Prophet’s verse helps Haifa police nab contraband cart
In Haifa April 24 a police reading of Isaiah prompted the capture of a caravan of asses loaded with contraband smuggled from Arab lands beyond the Jordan. The owners fled by night, but the hungry beasts led to the culprits in a frontier village.
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Fuak
Israel
Haifa
Land of Israel
Jordan
Isaiah
Sailboats Overturn on Alamitos Bay
Two sailboats overturned on Alamitos Bay yesterday afternoon due to stiff winds. Three occupants were rescued from the water by a Recreation Department speedboat. lifeguards reported no injuries.
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Alamitos Bay
Recreation Department
Hymn Writer Dies in Springfield at 54
SPRINGFIELD Ohio April 21 I Rev Dr Barney Elliott Warren hymn writer who authored over two thousand hymns and helped establish Churches of God in seven states died at his home today He was 54 years old.
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Springfield
Ohio
Barney Elliott Warren
Churches of God
States
Neon Sign Color Gas Used in Iowa Hospital Studies
A new anesthetic gas xenon produces vivid purple neon sign colors. Used in four major operations by a University of Iowa team, the noninflammatory agent induces rapid sleep with quick patient wakefulness at Iowa hospitals.
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Luwa City
Iowa
Toursman
State University of Iowa
College of Medicine
Anesthetic Seded Quickly After Ward Say Doctors
Drs. Stuart C. Cullen E. G. Gross Robert M Feather stone and Charles Pittinger report the sedative used in ward cases acted quickly with no ill effects. The xenon gas was drawn from the atmosphere in tiny amounts and supplied by Linde Air Products Company as a by product of oxygen and nitrogen manufacture.
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Stuart C. Cullen
E. G. Gross
Robert M.featherstone
Charles Pittinger
Linde Air Products Company
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Viking Way
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