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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1951
Page
5
Easter services across Long Beach churches are detailed, with multiple congregations announcing times and programs. The article lists Baptist, Christian, Brethren, Congregational and other denominations, their service times, soloists, choirs, and special programs marking Easter.
Easter plans span Episcopal Evangelical and Reformed Foursquare and Full Gospel, with St Luke's St Thomas Contatti Parkway and North Long Beach churches offering multiple services. Rev Hiram Crosby Jr Rev Arle Hoelscher Rev William La Marr Rev George A Jeffrey Rev Martin Bruer Rev Oscar C Mees Rev Henry Ernest Koch Rev Carl H Robertson and others preside. services include sunrise 7:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11 a.m. and afternoon programs plus choir concerts pageants and baptisms across Long Beach Los Altos Park and surrounding areas.
Vienna reports in the Austrian Catholic press service say six bishops pledged loyalty to the Czechoslovak government were subjected to severe torture by the Czech secret police. Bishops Hradec Kralove, Picha, Trochta allegedly received injections and high heat, with Picha strapped to a rotating chair. Others, Carsky and Lazik, faced intense physical pressure.
Tabernacle services will be conducted Monday at 7 20 p m in Wilmington Chapel 1520 E Pacific Coast Hwy Pastor Fred Tenning says David Shock of Immanuel Temple Los Angeles will deliver the sermon on The Word of God.
Church calendar lists Easter cantata by Willis Brewer with soloists Rene Mason Joanne Pagones and others. Catholic Masses at St Anthony's and St Batholomew's include multiple low and high masses with school choirs. Salvation Army Salvation services at The Citadel and Young People’s League Easter program in the afternoon. Unitarian and First United Presbyterian offer morning and evening Easter services with choral music and guest speakers.
Francis Cardinal Spellman airs an Easter message to Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland via Radio Free Europe from West Germany. He says the white star of fearless faith can outshine atheistic communism and prays for deliverance from persecution. He cites Poland Latvia Lithuania Estonia Czechoslovakia Hungary Romania Bulgaria and China as persecuted nations and praises courageous faith.
Dr Kenneth Emery, USC geologist, told a Western Society of the Geological Society of America meeting that a 5000 square mile offshore basin off Southern California may hold about 40 million barrels of oil. He cited sediments from Velcro IV samples and estimated 400 cubic miles of organic matter, potentially recoverable without loss.
Two barges loaded with tail well drilling equipment, lashed by Pacific Towboat and Salvage Co, will depart Long Beach port for a wildcat project. They head to San Ignacio Lagoon to beach and move equipment 18 miles inland. The Coastal Star returns for a load and sails to San Francisco for the same project, carrying Seattle bones and nut shells for glue.
John M. Rigby of Long Beach has been named chairman of the Paramount U. S. Defense Bond Committee. He succeeds Kenneth Sheller and will lead local efforts to promote defense bond sales through the Treasury program.
Two new candidates filed for the First District council seat. Francis H. Gentry, 69 LaVerne Ave, architect and former Long Beach mayor, and F. Donald Don May, 31 Colorado Blvd, Belmont Shore restaurant manager, join incumbents A. Lynn Parmley and others in a growing field. The primary municipal election is set for May.
President Truman proclaimed April 14 as Pan American Day and urged state governors to issue similar proclamations. The 61st anniversary of the Pan American Union is marked, as foreign ministers of American nations meet to consider actions for common defense of the republics and the free world.
Churches in Downey Norwalk Seal Beach Garden Grove and surrounding areas announce Easter services including sunrise and early morning worships. The schedule features special music choirs baptisms confirmations sermons and youth pageants across Assembly of God Lutheran Methodist Nazarene and Friends churches with multiple services and Easter programs for all ages.
In Rome on March 24 bells from over 400 churches joined in a Easter celebration led by St. Peter's and St. John Lateran. Thousands of pilgrims and visitors gathered as Pope held a general audience from a portable throne in St. Peter's Basilica. The crowd included Germans, French, Dutch, Swiss, Swedes, Spaniards, Americans, and U. S. troops in Germany, with the Pope speaking in five languages.
Long Beach Civil Defense orders forty thousand more copies of the government pamphlet Survival Under Atomic Attack for local households. Police Sgt. W J Mooney said 75,000 pamphlets were already distributed but firemen ran out before every dwelling could receive one. a prior 25,000-copy shipment was also exhausted through targeted distribution and library availability.
The Alameda will of Mrs Henry J Kaiser filed yesterday in Suouri states that most of her estate goes to family charities while stock in several industries will go to the Henry J Kaiser family foundation. The estate value will be set by appraisal. Mrs Kaiser died March 14 after a long illness at age 63. Her two sons Edgar and Henry Jr were not named in the will.
Los Angeles March 24. The Superior Court fixed the price of six lots for the Harbor Freeway at 117000. The award ended a three week trial of a condemnation suit. The property lies between Figueroa and Fremont Streetsouth of Fourth Street in Los Angeles. An offer of 113000 had been rejected by the Courtetes which originally asked 283000.
Sunset Beach Improvement Association filed a protest with Associated Telephone Co. requesting party-line service or withdrawal of the firm’s lines. Secretary William F. von Der Ahe disclosed the action in a letter to the company’s general manager.
Chicago report outlines a dramatic rescue as Keith Dishnow clung to window ledges for nearly five minutes on the sixth floor, then was helped through a window by bystanders after he narrowly escaped a fall yesterday. The tense incident concluded with the victim pulled to safety.
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