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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1950
Page
4
City Manager Samuel E. Vick will return to his office tomorrow after a two week vacation in South Dakota. He spent part of the time in the Black Hills on a fishing trip and will resume official duties.
Surgeons at Seaside Hospital fought to save the left arm of Harvey G Brande aged 13 of 4154 Elm Ave last night after he crashed through a store window in the 4700 block. The bicycle handlebars struck a post, throwing him into the window. Officer Roy W Spawr of 4160 Heather Rd Lakewood applied a tourniquet to halt blood loss from a severed artery, likely saving the boy’s life.
A public hearing on the proposed 1950 51 school budget will be held at 4 p m tomorrow as the Board of Education meets at 715 Locust Ave.
Maj. J Hobart Gay described North Korean tactics using liberated South Koreans as human shields in the first wave. He said the front ranks bore sticks as weapons, followed by green troops, then seasoned fighters, with officers firing on retreating men. He noted North Korean attacks as listless compared with Japanese charges.
New York August 5 The nation enters the critical polio phase with August September and October seen as peak months. Public Health Service reports 6119 cases since January 1, compared with 8279 a year earlier. The 1949 total reached 42,375, a record.
At Oak Ridge Tennessee on August 5 three peacemakers led by Kateul James Otsuka of Richmond Indiana picketed the atomic plant near the controlled area gate. Authorities warned them to stay 500 yards from the gate as they staged signs marking Hiroshima’s fifth anniversary and urging Christ’s path to peace.
Dayton reports a flood of interest from manufacturers for Air Force procurement at Wright Patterson. The Contractors' Relations Section saw 235 calls in one day and about 800 total for the week, with hundreds more letters arriving. A new guide to selling to the Air Force drew over 1,800 requests.
In San Bernardino on August 5 a lone gunman robbed the Santa Fe Federal Savings and Loan Association office. He confronted four employees and a customer, with a fifth employee surrendering the cash, then fled into the noon crowd.
At the California Republican convention the party platform voiced inexorable support for President Truman and the United Nations in restoring world peace. It urged continued resistance to Communists and opposed world federalism, while omitting foreign policy specifics. James Roosevelt, Democrat candidate for governor, framed the Korea conflict as a real war of ideas.
Sacramento Aug 5 The Independent Progressive party endorsed a national committee draft urging admission of Communist China to the United Nations to secure Korea armistice. The statement advocates a united, democratic Korea, condemns use of the atomic bomb, and backs withdrawing the order to defend Formosa. It notes differences over U.S. and Soviet roles and calls for bipartisan convention endorsement.
Areas across the United States woke to autumn like temperatures with morning lows in the 40s and 50s from the upper Great Lakes to the middle Atlantic and New England. Phillipsburg Pennsylvania sank to 43 degrees while Grand Marais Michigan touched 39. Fresno California recorded a record low of 51, as cooler air spread west and south. Scattered showers moved through Missouri River Valley, lower Great Lakes, Arkansas and the northern Rockies, with other regions generally clear.
William O Hart socialist candidate for Wisconsin governor announced the Baraboo Petition at a Socialists rally in Medford Wisconsin He plans to circulate a message urging Russians to overthrow Stalin as counter propaganda to the Stockholm Peace Petition backed by Red front groups He would have the baraboo message broadcast into Russia and satellite states by Voice of America UN radio and underground operatives He cites the Stockholm Peace Petition drafted in March at the Soviet nominated World Congress of Partisans for Peace in Sweden.
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