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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1954
Page
2
In Omaha a panel on Science and Tomorrow predicts life expectancy rising toward 160 and polio and cancer cures within a decade. Separate notes recall a 107 year old Cumberland woman and Pueblo man verified at 103, illustrating varying age-age narratives in American life.
Siegfried Weisberger of Baltimore insists the age of the Book has arrived as his Peabody Book Shop closes and he releases a defense of books and culture. Readers nationwide and in Canada mail praise, while quotes mock his claim and Gimbel Bros buys his stock for an undisclosed sum.
A Seattle grade school used a thermometer test causing 15 students to be sent home after readings showed fevers. An inexperienced aide reportedly misread the device. In Connecticut, the motor vehicle dept rejected 5000 license renewal applications for missing birth dates, with about 90 percent from women.
Kensuke Matano head of Iino Kaiun Kaisha Japan's third largest shipping firm was arrested in a nationwide crackdown on ship subsidy corruption. Prosecutors aim to question him about ties between major shipping and shipbuilding firms and government officials amid bribery allegations. Nearly 20 others have been arrested or indicted including a Liberal Party deputy secretary as Japan's House probes widening misconduct.
Haiphong area reports say the French evacuated about 2500 Vietnamese families from villages near Doson Airfield to shield the base as 105 American technicians assist French transport planes. In the Red River Delta fighting, Viet Minh losses were claimed at 62 killed and 4 captured, with French barbed wire barricades and paratrooper patrols bolstering defenses around Haiphong's Yass and Cathi areas.
The Army reported five Huk rebels were killed Wednesday in military operations in jungles southeast of Manila. The incident underscores ongoing clashes as government forces seek to quell insurgent activity in the region.
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