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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1949
Page
17
In a continued hearing the City Council rejected moving Army bar racks from Costa Mesa to 1400 1410 Summit St. Six members voted to support area property owners opposing the move with Wagner absent. Kealer Carleson voted yes while Joe Ramsey led the opposition.
A special reconnaissance unit of the 1st Marine Division will conduct exercises in extreme cold during January and February to study conditions before full scale cold weather operations. Major General Graves B. Erskine announced the maneuver "Mincowex 50-A" without listing exact locations. It is believed the tests may occur in the Bering Sea area.
A brief home tips note urges quick money by disposing of unwantables and provides a single dialing cue, 6 9066, for action. The item reads as a blunt advertisement urging fast sale or removal services with minimal detail.
London officials predict Americans will spend 75 million dollars in Britain next year. Lord Hacking and John Bridges urged more hotels and gasoline, smoother laundry service, and fewer restrictions on purchases to boost tourism revenue while the pound value shifts.
Sharman Douglas, attractive daughter of the U S ambassador to England, is named woman of the year by Harvard University s Hasty Pudding Club. Club president Benjamin Gaylord praises her for promoting goodwill and charming examples of the American way of life among young Englishmen.
In Greenville Pennsylvania Max Sutton, 53, a film projectionist, prepared the Jordan Theater to show Always Leave Them Laughing. The audience laughed through the screening as Sutton collapsed and died of a heart attack, the show continuing.
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower said on his return from a hunt north of San Antonio that he bagged only two quail. He described himself as a near-failure as a shooter.
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