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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1948
Page
4
West Warwick Rhode Island July 24 UP police ended a boys bonanza after youths bought banana splits with counterfeit or odd money. Officers found a cache totaling about 2000 dollars hidden in a long empty house library stuffed inside book pages.
The Long Beach Red Cross Transportation Unit reports 900 volunteer service hours since May 18 after reactivation under Mrs. Al Slaight. Twenty five drivers plus on call volunteers support outings for the Braille Club, the Indoor Sports Club for the incapacitated, and Naval Hospital patients. The unit ferries ambulatory patients to Hollywood Bowl concerts and transports hospital patients and dependents to other facilities for treatment. Ross E. Hall calls motor service the chapter backbone and Mrs. Slaight names Mrs. Pat Williams as vice chair. Leading volunteers include Edna Lippman Eva Miller Margaret Truesdell Dorothy Johnston H. A. Harrington Clara Stoner Mayme Wright Eleanor McClelland Alice Girocco Muriel Ricketson Leo Crane Rosalie La Bine Natalie Seltzer Helen Thomas Theresa Slone and Frank Hunter plus Hallie Bridges and June Spencer.
Lt. Joseph S. Sulenski his wife and son sail home to San Francisco from Korea where he served 14 months with the First Infantry Sixth Infantry Division aboard the Army transport General Shanks Mrs Sulinski is daughter of Mrs R J Wolf of 4300 Elm Ave assistant veterans seek reunion with United States family arrival imminent
Thirty thousand people are expected to attend the Flower Show at Municipal Auditorium August 5 to 8. Amateur and commercial entries promise the largest general display ever in the Southland led by dahlias and tuberous begonias. Southern California and other states supply flowers and plants. Lecturers include Alfred C. Hottes Maria Wilkes and Roy Metcalf.
In Peru Illinois on July 24 an 11 year old boy and his 13 year old nephew fished from the Illinois River and found a tobacco can containing six old ten dollar bills and two twenty dollar bills totaling 100 dollars. The two boys used the container for worms while their uncle supervised.
The famed Prague Town Hall clock resumes operation after three years of silence following wartime bomb damage. Twelve apostle figures march again, a black cock crows on the hour, and Czech artisans spent over two years restoring the mechanism led by a painter who copied the Calendarium by Josef Manes.
Belmont Shore Fiesta de la Playa runs August 22 to 29 with a pre Fiesta breakfast August 12 at 7 30 a m on East Second Street seating about 5000. Activities include a barbecu e parade boat races a kiddies parade a men bathing beauty contest and a grand parade led by Gene Driscoll.
Hitler’s former headquarters where the Munich pact of 1938 was signed is now Amerika Haus a U S information center for Germans. Here 15000 books 5000 magazines and newspapers music rooms lecture halls and a theater are provided for Germans to learn about the United States and the rest of the world from which they have been isolated so long. It is one of the biggest of several such centers in American zone cities.
The California Mineralogical Society plans its state convention in Sacramento during June 1949. The 1948 convention at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium drew about 35 000 visitors. The group has 40 chapters statewide.
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