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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1953
Page
2
Jackie Justice of Baltimore narrates a tactile tour of a young elephant at the city zoo. Director Arthur Watson violates a spectator rule to let the boy feel the giant creature, eliciting a delighted, amazed expression and vivid nonverbal descriptions.
A fragmentary quote from an American writer notes a rooster makes more racket than the hen that lays the egg. The wording is garbled and includes stray letters and names.
Government announces two big holiday meals for Korea service members totaling more than two million pounds of food. Nov 26 menus include shrimp cocktail roast turkey pumpkin pie fruit and nuts. A&P window damage from a pheasant incident. other snippets cover liquor and legal cases.
Trieste officials tightened border controls for Italian citizens entering the British American administered Zone A after riots. Eden accused Italian extremists of fueling unrest, while Rome rejected the claims. Churchill urged calm from Italians and Yugoslavs as occupation forces faced withdrawal plans and potential handover of Zone A to Italy.
Two masked robbers in Milwaukee halted a money truck at 5 am, forcing driver Charles McCormick and two helpers to lie on the grass as nine heavy strong boxes were taken. Four boxes remained. robbers used a black car and a red light to signal the heist, appearing to know the route and planning the crime.
PANMUNJOM UP The Indian command said the stalled prisoner of war repatriation program cannot resume and blamed the Communists for the interruptions. Lt Gen K B Thimayya, Indian chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, urged the Reds to drop slowdown tactics. He met the Communist high command at Kaesong and expected to meet again in two or three days. Observers doubt the Communists will accept new rules, while 97 percent of Chinese and North Korean POWs have refused repatriation. A North Korean prisoner was shot by guards during an escape attempt, the commission said. Allied and Communist staff advisers held secret talks near the area as negotiators studied a Communist proposal for a Korean peace conference agenda.
An old Long Beach notice references a press telegram distribution daily except Bandar at Sixth Street and Pine Avenue. It notes carrier delivery details and an audit bureau stamp with a 2002a year mark, and states entry under the 1879 act with a March 16 1898 post office classification.
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