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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1950
Page
8
The Board of Water Commissioners will open bids at 9:00 a.m. for seven business type coupes intended for use by reader services. The notice outlines the purchase by the board and the date of the bid opening.
Hollywood review mocks Jack Carson in Illegal Bride as a flashy dressed star who cannot ride, shoot, sing, or act. The piece notes his screen behavior, home habits, and overdone fringed wardrobe while contrasting voice and hand use with another actor and critic Ginger Rogers.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will sponsor a 15 minute program over KGER at 9 p m today. Ralph Bellamy stars in a dramatic presentation with Hollywood talent to stress polio facts and precautions for parents and children.
Washington August 4 President Truman signed a bill creating the young American medal for bravery to honor four youngsters for heroism each year Two winners may be under 18 for saving a life and two for courage in great public service Chel sponsor says first peacetime civilian medal An award process includes governors nominating candidates with four names sent to Congress and the President awarding the medals.
A county jail inmate, Charles Anthony Mc Dermott, overpowered a jailer and fled the county jail. He walked out of a judge's office last night wearing the judge's coat, but the coat was on inside out in the darkness, delaying recognition by officers.
A pacifist coalition plans nationwide events to protest nuclear warfare and Hiroshima. Religious services and Gandhian demonstrations will be held with nonviolent picketing and poster campaigns led by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, War Resisters League, and the Peace Makers.
Dallas man Leon Williams, 47, died when a gust blew crates off a truck he rode on. He fell from the vehicle and sustained multiple skull fractures. The incident occurred yesterday in Dallas.
The Presidents commission on migratory labor begins a two day hearing in Paso Texas Representatives from organized labor and farmers groups will present evidence Chairman Maurice Van Hecke arrived yesterday Archbishop Robert E Lucey of San Antonio and labor economist William M Peterson are due this morning The panel will split up between Phoenix and Los Angeles later in the week with three members remaining in California.
In Boston on August 4 seven ty-eight sailors were ordered to report for duty in the First Naval District but 77 will appear. Dr. George R. Brown Jr. of Wellfleet received a 60 day deferment at the request of Cape Cod selectmen because he has appointments to deliver a dozen babies between now and October.
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