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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1948
Page
1
In a broadcast from WAINGAPORE on August 14, a Malayan envoy speaks of traveling to England and mentions a Singapore officer. A phone call requests the home address of Maj. Gen. Cox and extends a farewell invitation to the general, with a question about plans for the trip.
Dr. John S. Boustog president of the Colorado Medical Society says the fear of hard work harming nerves is a superstition. He notes nervous breakdown comes from overwork but is not caused by work itself.
The Long Beach Better Homes Show opens Saturday at Municipal Auditorium with an outdoor sports arena added this year. Organizer Max Livoni estimates 75 000 attendance over nine days, up from 50 000 in five days last year, with exhibits expanding outdoors to relieve booth crowding. Barbara Britten will officially open the show with daily programs from 2 to 6 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m., featuring new gadgets, kitchens, and home living displays.
Volume gains offset by fewer transactions as July 1948 totals show 625 sales worth 7,185,150 dollars, up from June and July 1947. Belmont Heights led price gains with several sales above 28,500 dollars and a surge in larger properties, while overall city totals reflect stricter down payment lending.
MOSCOW August 14 UP. The ministry of education of the U S S R has decreed that Soviet schools must provide after school activities for children of working parents until their parents return from work. Schools before the war offered such facilities. The ministry cites high after school failure rates and serious street accidents among this group.
Chicago August 14. Fishermen may gain dry boots this summer as a local chemical firm develops targets to absorb evaporation and water penetration in rubber and leather boots for reliable dryness.
In Berlin a bulb thief earns over 500 dollars weekly by stealing light bulbs from subway cars, stations, lobbies, and booths. One criminal admitted two years of exclusive bulb theft and selling bulbs on the black market, earning a prison term of twelve to fifteen months.
North Long Beach led with 145 sales the highest count while ranking second in dollar volume at 1 127 400. The Wrigley area placed third in Igor category sales with 127.
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