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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1953
Page
8
National Music Week, themed Enrich Your Life With Music, will be marked by special concerts at churches, schools, Municipal Auditorium, clubs and Veterans Administration Hospital nationwide next week. Sponsored in Long Beach by the Casld at Women Composers, according to organizers.
Long Beach hosts the annual Postman’s Walk to raise part of a 415 350 dollar county quota for Cerebral Palsy. Local residents are urged to light doorways that night. County drive chaired by Furman with Bob Hope as national head and Jack Webb for the county committee. Multiple concerts and observances are scheduled through the week at First Methodist, VA Hospital lawn, Stevenson School, and Town Hall with public invitations and performances by local choirs, guilds, and orchestras.
The traffic death toll in Southern California for the first quarter of 1953 rose over 11 percent from the same period in 1952, totaling 500 compared with 431 in the previous year, though six of the thirteen counties saw declines.
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