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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1953
Page
8
A souvenir hunter reportedly removed a crimson stool from Westminster Abbey during coronation day. Police urged the thief to return the stool quietly, noting it was last seen inside the abbey at 8 p.m. on June 2 but missing by 3 p.m. the next day.
Gordon Rainey and his two sons Gordon Jr. and Tor were lost for six days in a canyon region on the western slope of the Continental Divide near Pinedale Wyoming. They survived on a small fire and three fish while awaiting a rescue plane that later missed them. A ground party found them Tuesday after they had gone to Fire Lakes to fish.
Secretary of Defense Wilson announced actual defense spending for the year at 43.193 billion dollars, up from the prior year, with quarterly pacing of about 11.396 billion, 10.920 billion, 10.513 billion, and 10.365 billion. The rise occurs despite Senate appropriations committee pressure to curb new defense funds, most of which would impact the Air Force.
The American freighter Cornhusker Mariner, grounded on rocks off Pusan Harbor since Tuesday, is probably out of danger of breaking up, according to a Military Sea Transportation Service officer.
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