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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1956
Page
5
Hasil O Conn or, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, described the polio drug outlook as more hopeful than years ago. He said drugs for treatment and prevention may be discovered and could protect unvaccinated people if a severe epidemic struck.
In Ibadan Nigeria a jobless African electrician Michael Tayo tossed a note toward Queen Elizabeth II during her royal tour at University College Hospital. He claimed unfair dismissal from the hospital under construction and was arrested briefly before release. The incident occurred as the royal car moved away and the queen appeared unaware.
The noted playwright Sean O'Casey is hospitalized in Torquay England. A hospital spokesman said he is not seriously ill and declined to disclose the nature of the ailment.
New Orleans revelers fill the streets as Rex and Comus preside over Mardi Gras festivities. The city’s famous mood of release ends at midnight with Lent beginning, after a season that started with the Ball of the Twelfth Night Revelers. Patricia Charbonnet serves as Rex’s debutante queen? Henican is noted as the fairybook queen.
A four man United Nations group from GUAM GPA departed for Saipan and Tinian Islands this morning as the first leg of an economic political and educational survey mission to the Pacific trust territories.
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