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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1953
Page
2
Mrs. Kitsmiller, a polio survivor in Park Ridge, moved into a $25,000 house funded by a public subscription. Neighbors donated labor and funds to create a barrier-free home with an intercom system, hydrotherapy bath, and ramp access, easing daily care while she uses an iron lung.
Ralph Henry Cameron, pivotal in Arizona statehood and later a U S Senator, died at Doctors Hospital in Phoenix after a heart attack on a business trip. He helped Arizona gain statehood in 1912 and served 1921 to 1927, with mining ventures across several states and a long West tied life. His wife and daughter Catherine survive. Cameron, born in Maine, was the last territorial delegate to Congress.
The Vatican newspaper reported that Pope Pius XIII will require a lengthy convalescence following illness described as influenza and bronchial pneumonia. He has begun regaining strength and resumed some duties but has not yet appeared publicly or held audiences.
Fragmentary OCR shows a Long Beach postmark with a delivery and circulation audit note dated 18, 1888. It mentions a post office action under an 1878 act and references Long Beach attorney or official names and addresses in a garbled form.
Former Michigan Republican Roy C. Woodruff died at Walter Reed Hospital at age 76 after 17 terms in the U.S. House. A Bay City native, he served from 1913 to 1915 and again from 1921 until retirement at the 82nd Congress. He held seniority among Republicans and served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army during the Spanish American and World War I eras.
Adolph Caspar Miller, last survivor of the original Federal Reserve Board, died Wednesday at his Washington home aged 87. Appointed by President Wilson in 1914, he served on the board from its founding until his death.
Seoul dispatch says fighting shrank to raids and patrol clashes along a 155 mile battle line as warm weather returned. Rain hit the west while Allied planes attacked in the afternoon, hitting troop concentrations and a rail tunnel. MiG-15 encounters occurred with no damage claims, and a B-26 noted 135 red trucks destroyed.
A motorist and three others died in a Baltimore and Ohio West Virginian derailment near Gaithersburg Maryland after a car jammed a switch in freezing rain and fog. About a dozen crew and passengers were injured. The train from Washington to Parkersburg derailed, the locomotive and seven cars left the rails, with the car dragged 500 to 600 feet under a highway bridge. The four victims were identified as John Fox his wife and son Pete and Upton Harding. Train personnel R G Morgan and P B Frye were hospitalized in Washington. The crash halted east bound service pending track clearance. A second derailment near New Smyrna Beach Florida involved The Vacationer with no serious injuries.
Lakewood planning council invites all Lakewood organizations to send representatives to discuss the annual Pan American festival activities. The meeting is set for 7 30 p m February 20 at the Activity Building. The festival is planned for April.
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