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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1953
Page
5
In Indochina, Communist invaders were reported on the move out of Laos as French Laotian forces pursued. The Vietminh 304th division, led by Gen Hoang Minh Tao with Red China training, was said to be heading east and southeast toward the Annam coast after months of incursions from northern Vietnam.
Washington reports indicate plans to mobilize four additional South Korean divisions, boosting the ROK army to 20 divisions, with the United States to supply equipment and manpower support. U S forces and a British Commonwealth Division held the line last winter, while 14 ROK divisions then. Since then two more ROK divisions were added.
Los Angeles announces J. C. Thompson as the new weatherman with long California experience. He arrives from Washington D C where he served in the Weather Bureau's Scientific Services Division. Thompson began with the Weather Bureau in Sacramento in 1929 succeeding A K Showalter who moved to Washington last December to head the combined Weather Bureau Air Force Navy Weather Analysis Center.
In Los Angeles Marian Tregaskis testified to cruel grounds in an uncontested divorce from author Richard Tregaskis. She cited his long absences, saying loneliness drove her to buy two cats as she awaited his return after a 21 month trip.
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