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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1955
Page
2
A London home service broadcast scolds middle class parents for neglecting their teens. It targets 16 year olds, noting nail polish, parrot-colored ties, and vulgar expressions as signs of decline, while contrasting such youths with affluent, cultured households.
Thousands of Argentine workers returned to jobs as CGT leaders resolved to end a three day general strike. Meat packing plants resumed full operation after three days of partial shutdown while transport and communications sectors largely ignored the call. The move supports the new government of Maj. Gen. Pedro Aramburu amid Peronist tensions and a government crackdown on union leaders.
Gene Martin, a Paris car salesman, advertised in the Paris Daily Enterprise that he would trade a 1956 convertible for two 50 yard line box seats at Saturday's Kentucky Tennessee football game in Lexington. He noted the carnival game usually sells out by season opener.
Vernon Moran, a retired Army sergeant, requested a longer term in a forgery case in Indianapolis. Judge Scott McDonald sentenced Moran to 126 months, after Moran remarked he could use more time while his Army pension covers his expenses.
Chicago dispatch notes Democratic leaders eyeing a Stevenson Kefauver ticket for 1956 as expanded convention rules lift delegate limits. Mentions fundraising gains, state sentiments, and interest from key committees and city leaders amid cautious optimism and talk of a possible ticket pairing.
The government ousted CGT secretaries general Luis Natelini and Andres Framini and allowed suspended union leaders to meet in the CGT headquarters seized by troops. The move followed a decree outlawing the strike and a government aim to remove disruptive figures rather than keep them active.
Two South Korean Mustang fighter planes collided near Pusan on Thursday. Both pilots bailed out safely. The crash destroyed two farm houses and marked the third air accident in ten days in Korea.
A dynamite blast at the Silver King shaft near Buena Vista Colorado kills two lead miners. The victims are David Richard Spiebman 35 of Colorado Springs and Henry E. Stout 43 of Riverside Colorado. Their bodies were recovered four hours after the explosion.
McALester report details 21 year old Harbie Fairis Jr. facing execution delayed by a 60 day reprieve after accomplice Raymond Carral Price confessed to shooting detective Bennie Cravatt during a 1954 Oklahoma City supermarket holdup. Price and James Skinner received life terms.
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A fragment from a Brownsville dispatch notes a California Air Force wife, Mrs. Don Weaver, finding Texas confusion and vastness. She intended to visit Brownfield and Sweet Texas but landed in Brownsville, near the southern tip, illustrating how names and places can be misleading in the state.
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