Baby Bern Born at Home in Long Beach Neighborhood
A 25 year old wife of a Long Beach sailor delivered a 7 pound 4 ounce baby girl named Vicki Marie at their Webster Avenue home. The birth occurred in five minutes before EMS arrived, with neighbor assistance and the mother and baby later taken to Seaside Hospital. The father, an engine man second class aboard USS Marvelet, was on duty at the time. Neighbors described the morning commotion and concern for the family as they learned of the surprise birth.
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Long Beach
Ronald K. Hurlbut
Webster Ave
Seaside Hospital
Vicki Marie
Marvelet
Dan
City Fire Department
Betty Kirk
Neishoor
Hurlbut
Taxpayers Get Reduction as New Year Gift
The United States begins 1954 with broad tax cuts affecting about 60 million individuals and 50 thousand corporations. Individual income tax rates fall about 10 percent for most, the excess profits tax on corporations expires, and Social Security payroll tax rises to 2 percent, funding the trust fund. Lawmakers push for further reductions in 1954 as election year momentum grows.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Special Social Security Trust Fund
Pero
Daniel A. Reed Crn. Y
Tanx-Writing House
Ways and Means Committee
Reed
Eisenhower
Fires ravage San Gabriel watershed. Mt Wilson blaze stabilizing
Los Angeles AP reports two wildfires in the San Gabriel Mountains caused about 6.5 million in watershed damage. Mt Wilson installations and a nearby Mt Baldy blaze faced threats but were described as largely under control with backfires and procedures in place to protect Pasadena and Sierra Madre.
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LOS Angeles
San Gabriel Mountains
Mt. Wilson
Monrovia
Janzerg
Richard Johnson
S. Forest
Mt. Baldy
NE. Wilson
Bailey Canyon
Sierra Madre
Hastines
Ridge
Pasadena’ Glen
Mater Dolorosa
Passionist Fathers
Sierra Marre
California
Janial
Johnson
Monrovia Peak
Salt Johnson
Mt. Basay
Nation to Shiver During January
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts unusually cold weather for most of the nation in January with heavy snow in parts of the East. The northwest and New England are expected to see above normal temperatures. The most unseasonable cold is seen in the west Gulf states and central Mississippi Valley. Above normal precipitation is forecast for the Gulf states and east of the Appalachian Mountains. North of Virginia this will be mostly snow. Below normal precipitation is forecast west of the Continental Divide and in the central plains.
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Washington
U. S. Weather Bureau
Northwest
New England
Kirran
West
Gulf States
Mississinpi Valley
Weather Bureau
Appalachian “Mountains
Virginia
Continental Divide
Central Plains
Hairy ape like creatures terrify rubber workers in Malaya
Reports from Perak State in Malaya describe three hairy ape like beings with long sharp teeth seen by rubber tappers. Two males and a female wore torn cloths and carried long curved knives. Estate manager G. M. Browne notes beliefs vary that they are blood suckers or ghosts.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Perak
G. M. Browne
Knowland Challenges Ike on Unemployment Plan
The article notes political sparring over postwar unemployment policy as candidates debate approaches. It mentions President Eisenhower attending a small New Year’s celebration and planning an early start on January 1. It also highlights nationwide New Year festivities and safety warnings for the holiday weekend.
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Knowland
Ike
Moscow
New York
San Francisco
America
National Safety Council
IEE
Eisenhower
Augusta
White House
Navigation cues list sections and page references
A compact index enumerates locations within the paper such as Beach Combing on Page B-1 and Bridge on Page A-7, plus Classifieds B-b through 9, Comics B-9, Crossword 8-5, Editorial A-6, Financial B-3, Obituaries B-2, Radio TV B-5, Shipping B-6, Sports Pacs A-8 and 9, Theaters A-4 and 5, Tides Temperatures -6, Women B-4, and Your World A-2. It serves as a reader guide to where each feature appears.
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Boyle
Oil Company Seeks Scout Leads In Long Beach Area
Oil company agents from a Los Angeles firm seek subsurface oil leases in a triangular area east of Coade y Pine Ave Long Beach offering owners 230 dollars per acre annually and 25 percent royalty. Over 600 acres bordered by Pine Ave to the ocean 10th St and Cherry Ave line the field as protest grows from local associations and clergy urging owners not to commit before further study.
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Coade Y Pine Ave
Los Angeles
Keans
Springmann and Stipek
R. A. Keans
Beig
Labast
Tri-Tiangular
Ocean
Pine Ave
10Th St
10Th
Cherry Ave
Signul
Russell M. Brougher
Property Owners of Development Association of
Long Beach
Pacific Coast Club
Dr. Brower
Roadster Crash Kills Woman in San Dimas
A roadster left Foothill Blvd near San Dimas yesterday night and killed driver Norma June Boyd 32 of Manhattan Beach. Louis Paul Boyd 37 of the same address was hospitalized at Pomona Valley Community Hospital with serious injuries including broken legs and severe head and facial injuries. In San Fernando, a 14 year old Boy Scout leader guided seven lost youths to safety after a night in near freezing foothills. The party, aged 7 to 13, was found hungry but unharmed with temperatures dropping to 35 degrees. Kenneth Vernon, soon to be an Eagle Scout, led the group with crew including his sister Donna and brothers Eugene and Frederick.
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Sylmar
Mickey Finn
Eugene Vernon
Kenneth Vernon
Donna
Fred Vernon
Patrick
McKallip
Sharon McKallip
Kathleen Freeman
San Dimas
Foothill Blvd
Norma June Boyd
Fifth St
Manhattan Beach
Louis Paul Boyd
Pomona Valley’ Community ‘Hospital
San Fernando
Hto
San Fernando Valley
Eugene
Frederick
Patrick McKallap
Sharon
Vernon
Weather Outlook Clears Then Sunny Friday
The forecast calls for generally clear skies today with high cloudiness, gradually brightening into Friday. Little fenipe eat in change.
Harmony Senate Chief Jobs Prospect Clash Over Unemployment Plan
President Eisenhower and Senate minority leader Knowland clash as Knowland opposes a new unemployment program planned to steer defense contracts to areas with high joblessness. Southern Democrats protest, while Bayhake introduces legislation to block the effort. Outcome uncertain as Congress readies for opening.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Sen
Knowland
California
Congress
Knowsland
White House
Truman
Baybank
Red Legation Paper Ban In US By State Dept Order
The State Department ordered Romania to stop publication of a newspaper and other Communist papers in the United States. The action followed Bucharest's ban on News From America issued by the American legation in Romanian, first issued last October with about 1600 copies.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Romania
Slick bank holdup robs Houston National Bank
A masked gunman robbed the Houston National Bank of about 50 000 dollars during a payday morning in Houston Texas and disappeared into a New Year crowd. He entered the downstairs vault room where he held Donny N Allen 19 and others at gunpoint and fled with stacks of big bills in a leather briefcase.
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Houston
Houston National Bank
Sig
Texas
Donny N. Allen
Suapleton
Youing Allen
Allen
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Young Navy
Starf Cheto
Corral
A. C. Kirk
W. R. Snender
Ronald Hurlbut
Firefighters
Wilson
Baldy
Associated Press
Bee McIntyre
Richmond, Va
Burlington
Wis
Harmony
Rowland Evans JR
U.S
Bandit
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