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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1953
Page
1
Ocean floodwaters inundate homes in Seal Beach prompting evacuations and emergency response. Rescue crews assist residents as storm-driven tides surge through coastal streets amid sustained heavy rainfall. Local officials urge caution and monitor flood levels.
A thick fog blanketed Southern California causing numerous crashes. In Downey a 13 year old boy Leonard Stopf remained near death from brain injuries after a rear end collision at Clark and Rosecrans. Foster father Robert Curtis was injured. Potopov, 20, admitted driving without permission with license revoked and was cited for unsafe speed in zero visibility. Four passengers in Potopov’s car were hurt including Cora Jones Herbert Hatfield Donald Johnson and Norma Reese.
U S Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson and Admiral Arthur W Tadford head to the Far East to ease South Korea's threats to wreck the armistice next month. Rhee has promised not to resume hostilities until after a potential peace conference, which may not occur.
Two electric commuter trains collided near Sydenham Station as Christmas shoppers crowded the cars. Two women were killed and 139 injured, with 29 in critical condition. Police initially reported a death, later corrected. Rescue crews used torches to pry loose trapped passengers from wreckage.
A hazy sunny day is expected with some night and early morning fog. Temperatures show little change, offering steady conditions through the period.
A former Boston schoolteacher Miss Merle Tabor says a stranger offered to guide her car with a flashlight Friday night. The Samaritan drove her home then demanded payment, grabbed her purse with 17 dollars cash and 176 dollars in Savings Stamps, and fled after speaking to a passenger as a collision occurred. Dense fog affected travel in Lakewood and Belmont Shore, forcing some motorists to abandon cars while flights were diverted to Lockheed Airport.
Two freighters collided at the mouth of the Alameda Estuary before dawn. The Norwegian motorship Skaubo and the Weyerhaeuser lumber ship Skaubo and Weyerhaeuser sustained dents on their port sides. One stateroom bulkhead was scarred but all seven passengers and crew escaped injury and both ships continued on course.
Egypts Antiquities Department announced a discovery near Sakkara south of Cairo of a 5000-year-old step pyramid possibly dating to the third dynasty. French archaeologist P Lauer and Mohamed Zaky Ghoneim led the dig uncovering a buried structure with a base of about 25 542 square yards and awaiting further excavation. The find accompanies news of 10 Sphinx statues found between Luxor and Karak temples in southern Egypt.
KOMAKI Japan A B 29 Superfortress crashed and burned at the U S Air Force base killing two crewmen. Four engine craft carried eight aboard three escaped unharmed and three had minor injuries. Cause not immediately known.
An applicant for a detective job dressed in a cap and coveralls barged into Police Chief John Millican’s office seeking a badge and to become a policeboy. The chief offered to check drawers. a secretary produced an old yellow tin badge. The man, John MecAlemore Jr., a Negro, aged 4, pinned the badge and left to “pick up boys picking up things.”
Twenty two American war prisoners planned a festive Christmas behind barbed wire as the U N Command urged reflection on staying with the Reds. A 12 page letter urged them to ensure their refusal to return home was not irrevocable and copies were sent to Lt Gen Thimayya and the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission chairman.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon is expected to give a nation wide radio and television report on his 16 week round the world goodwill tour. Final broadcast plans were not settled but could be announced soon with Christmas week as the likely time. Nixon indicated he was prepared to address the public upon Eisenhower's approval after returning from the 45 539 mile journey.
A box of matches exploded in Prime Minister Churchill's left hand during a Trinity House luncheon in London. He sustained a slight burn and later departed for his country home with his arm in a sling, waving to sightseers. Lord Moran, Churchill's physician, attended him this morning. The event welcomed Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden as an elder brother at the Maritime Pilotage Association's headquarters.
A brief index lists where to find sections such as churches classifieds comics radio ships and weather in Boyle page B-3 and other pages including financial obituaries sports theaters and tides temperatures across A and B sections.
President Eisenhower led the final day of meetings on his 1954 program focusing on more effective investigation and prosecution of subversives and criminals. Participants included Sen. McCarthy Rep. Velde Sen. Wiley and Rep. Reed as Brownell prepared proposals. Continued on Page A-3 Col. 6.
The coast south of Long Beach endured extreme surf as a 6 foot 8 inch tide tore two Surfside Colony houses from their pilings and flooded Seal Beach ground floors. Sea walls eroded, a road washed out, and residents brace for more on Sunday morning as officials warn of continued danger.
Rescue teams battled through rain toward a United States Navy P2V Neptune crash site on Myrdalsjokull Glacier Iceland. Planes dropped survival gear and observed possible survivors amid bad weather and low visibility. Two flashes of red distress signals were seen from the wreckage, with uncertainties about survivor numbers.
A terrified 11 year old Lakewood boy Thomas Campbell of 2458 Ostrum Ave was rescued after being buried up to his neck in irrigation mud near Stude Baker Road and Stearns Street. Firemen freed him in about 30 minutes and he was taken to Community Hospital for exposure shock and exhaustion. Passersby heard his screams and said he wandered into the field about 150 yards before the sink hole appeared.
Philadelphia story reports businessmen in Upper Darby charged Cecelia the seal with obtaining a luxury flight from California to accompany Sylvan the seal. The plan aimed to boost Joyland Christmas attractions by pairing Sylvan with Cecelia nicknamed Cecil. Despite the grand entrance and plane, Sylvan remains listless and uninterested.
Journalism students at Memphis State were asked by Dr William Howard Taft to name two kinds of libel during an exam this week. One answer recorded was “Libel to, and libel not to.”
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