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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1956
Page
5
Lockheed Aircraft Corp reports a three year high backlog for military aircraft orders in Q3. The figure rises to about 1.58 million dollars, up 34 percent from the nine month 1955 total, as commercial transport and mid-1000s siles boosted the result.
The 28,000 ton tanker Statue of Liberty owned by Cities Service Oil with about 50 Dutch crew has been trapped in the Suez Canal since Oct 31 due to blockades at both ends. Food and water supplies remain adequate as 13 other vessels, mainly tankers, are also tied up, including ships of Soviet Swedish Dutch Italian Norwegian Panamanian and Liberian flags.
Mrs. Silas Jenkins a polio patient in an iron lung at Salt Lake City gave birth in Oakland to a healthy girl weighing 15 pounds 10 ounces. She was off the iron lung for two hours during delivery with oxygen help from Atenas. Husband Wayne Jenkins was at Highland Hospital. their three other children stay with his mother in Salt Lake City. Mrs Jenkins fell ill with bulbar polio on July 21.
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