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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1951
Page
1
In Korea during Easter a U S Army unit faces combat and nostalgia. Soldiers in foxholes reflect on faith, home, and the meaning of the holiday while chaplains hold services. In Taegu churches soldiers and Korean civilians worship side by side, forging a lasting bond through shared Easter hope.
A compact update from city and nearby areas covers women’s activities, sports snippets, local magazine items, Parade and A P Wirephoto highlights, plus today’s weather and home edition notices. Key names and venues appear with brief event notes and adjacent photographs.
Bells of Easter ring amid Korea fighting as Christians worldwide seek peace. In Korea U S and UN troops attend simple services in crude wooden altars while chaplains lead prayers for an end to destruction. Jerusalem welcomes pilgrims as bells toll at the Holy Sepulchre.
The Weather Bureau forecasts clear and crisp conditions for most of the country’s Easter parades. Light snow is possible in northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan. Morning temperatures will range from 0 to 50 degrees across regions, with northern Midwest buried under deep snow. Rochester Minnesota reports 7.2 inches of fresh snow pushing March total to 33.2 inches and season total to 74.6 inches.
Local front today reports prosecution plans an interview with Violet John Berling. City primary filings number reaches forty two as of May 8. Navy announces three more destroyers ready for service. Teletype dispatch notes U S will not seek U N permission to extend Korea or to China mainland. Top scientists question Argentina claim of new controlled atomic energy method.
A fragmented OCR fragment lists section indices and page ranges across a historic newspaper. It mentions Aviation, Editorials, Obituaries, Political News, Public Forum, Radio and TV, Realty, Sports, Theaters, and Women’s Activities with various page designations, indicating layout and content scope.
Residents across Long Beach joined national Easter sunrise observances. The largest service was at Veterans Memorial Stadium by the Long Beach Ministerial Union with the Long Beach Municipal Band directed by Eugene LaBuarre. City College chorus, Royal W. Stanton, sang, while Reuben F. Pieters Jr delivered the Easter message. Additional services occurred at City Hall Park, led by Carl L. Taylor of the American Legion, and at Recreation Park band shell with Youth for Christ. Other groups included Los Altos Church choir and Newport Beach chaplain William Bannister, plus various church youth organizations and local groups gathered near the Los Angeles River flood channel north of Compton Avenue.
Traffic accidents and violent mis haps over the Easter holiday left at least 79 dead by Saturday. Highway crashes caused 57 deaths in the first hours of the holiday and another 22 deaths since Friday evening from various non traffic incidents. California reported three traffic deaths and four other fatalities from miscellaneous accidents.
A U S B-26 light bombing group from Long Beach air reservists escorted paratroopers behind enemy lines near Mun san ni Korea. The 452nd Bomb Group dropped 64 tons of bombs then supported low level strafing as four B 26s joined the Inchon assault. One plane damaged, crew led by Brig Gen Luther W Sweetser Jr. greeted by commanders on return.
A military hand grenade exploded on a busy Pusan street, killing eight people and injuring three after a railroad detective picked up the device. The incident occurred on March 24 and involved bystanders and city crowds in the area.
President Truman issued strict safety orders for the Panama Canal Zone to protect ships and harbor facilities from sabotage. The governor is authorized to search vessels and facilities, require ID, and seize ships or imprison violators up to one year with fines up to ten thousand dollars.
Allied troops near the Korea line moved within an hour of crossing the 38th Parallel as Gen. MacArthur said they were free to cross if needed. South Korean units advanced toward the boundary on the east coast while clashes with Chinese forces continued near Chunchon and Seoul.
At Shannon Airport Ireland on March 24 a piece of luggage from a U S Air Force Globemaster believed to have crashed with 53 aboard was found by the U S Coast Guard Casco 630 miles southwest of Shannon. The bag was identified as belong to Captain Lawrence E Rafferty, one of the crew.
The weatherman predicts clear sunny skies for Milady’s Easter display with an afternoon high near 84. Light variable winds shift to southwest up to 15 mph later today. Tomorrow’s outlook calls for variable high cloudiness with coastal morning fog.
Garden City Kansas March 24 Reverend Wilbert R Nelson of the Church of God asks his congregation to attend Easter morning services in overalls and house dresses. He says too much emphasis is on new Easter clothes and not enough on the Easter miracle.
In Cleveland, baby Jimmy Mason Howard, born to Betty Jane Howard at MacDonald House University Hospitals, survived an abdominal pregnancy against odds of 218,000 to 1. The 6 pound 10 ounce boy is the first of its kind at MacDonald and both mother and baby are reported healthy and in good condition.
Two Long Beach men among four survivors of the Wilmington bound tug Hercules washed ashore at Kahuku Oahu after five stormy days adrift in a lifeboat with minimal food and water. Skipper Michael Barone and chief engineer R R Clark, both of 4018 Vermont Ave, Hawaii. Clark treated for burns. Barone said the tug left Honolulu Sunday, was abandoned 290 miles off Molokai after a leak. Survivors drifted past Kauai then to Kahuku, with aid received from locals.
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