Photographic contest opens to all personnel services
DoD announces third Interservice Photographic Contest with preliminary rounds at service installations through Feb 1951 and finals at the Pentagon around July 9 1951. Prizes include four categories per class plus grand awards. Army Navy Marine and Air Force plus Coast Guard eligible. both reservists and regulars may compete.
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Namera
Washington, D. C
Department of Defense
Army
Air Force
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Defense Department
Pentagon
Washington
Army and Navy Journal
Wings Over the Nation events set for December
City Council approves Wings Over the Nation schedule from December 4 to 10. A memorial will honor Calbraith Rogers first transcontinental flight from New York to Long Beach, ending with a milestone formation flight here. The program includes an aviation banquet and all day air transportation day at Municipal Airport with Boeing Stratocruiser on display.
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Chamber of Commerce
Rogers
Pasadena
Long Beach
Compton
Earl Daugherty
Frank Champion
Beryl Williams
Ogers
Municipal Airport
Boeing
United Air Lines
Honolulu
Walt Wehner
Atomic Defense Film Forum Set At Alamitos Library
Police Sgt William J Mooney will host a free film forum on atomic defense at Alamitos Branch Library tomorrow at 3 pm. The event features Tale of Two Cities and Pattern for Survival about atomic weapons and survival steps approved by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Department.
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William J. Mooney
Long Beach
Alamitos
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Atomic Energy Commission
Department of Defense
Mooney
Chinese Red Soldier Rated Good but Real Test Awaits
An American attache and others weigh the Chinese Red soldier as capable and disciplined yet untested against mechanized forces. The fighter is praised for duty, morale, and artillery skill, but weaknesses in nerve, tactics, and experience in modern war are noted, with caution that conditions may have changed since the civil war endgame.
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Ong Kong
Nanking
Red China
China
Artil
Lery
Stonewall Jackson
Shanghai
Soochow
Cty
WAC Recruiting Sergeant on Duty Here This Week
Long Beach and surrounding area residents are invited to meet Sgt Anne Hempel on Army recruiting duty this week at Jergins Arcade. Hempel, a World War II veteran recalled to active duty, offers information on WAC and WAF programs and potential training paths at Lackland and Fort Lee with jobs ranging from science and medicine to communications and clerical work.
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WAC
Army and Air Force
Jergins ‘Arcade
Anne Hempel
Butler St
South Pacific
Hempel
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Women’s
Air Force Training Center
Lackland Air Base
San Antonio
Texas
Wacs
Fort Lee
Protection Against A-bomb Detailed in Booklet
Long Beach officials announced distribution of the National Security Resources Board booklet Survival Under Atomic Attack. 25,000 copies will be given away at public libraries and the bookmobile, with city receipt expected within two weeks. The Disaster Council reviewed an educational film Pattern for Survival and a new-type Geiger counter. City buildings with basements and concrete slabs may serve as air raid shelters, liability for injuries to shelter users was referred to the city attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton W. Chace
National Security Resources Board
Washington
Long Beach
Samuel E. Vickers
Film Division
William J. Mooney
Douglas Aircraft Co
Edward M. O'Connor
FBI Police School veteran aided postwar civilian governments
He was an Army captain in World War II assigned to duties of the provost marshal's office in Washington. After the war he helped set up civilian governments in bombed areas and traveled to 46 states and 17 foreign countries in connection with his work.
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FBI Police
Washington
Hunting Accident Kills Woman in New Mexico
In Mountainair New Mexico on November 18 a deer hunter accidentally killed one woman and wounded another. Mrs Betty Jo Dial 20 died from a deer hunting accident in red clothing near Estancia. Her sister in law Mrs Bernadine Dial was shot in the hip. The incident marks the first fatal hunting accident of the New Mexico big game season.
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Mountainair
N. M
New Mexico
Betty Jo Dial
Bernadine Dial
Estancia
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News OF the Armed Services
Virginia Newton
John L. Tolles
USN
R. L. Compston Jr
U. 8. S. Roanoke
U. S
CPO Club
Long Beach Naval Station
Floyd Wallace
South Gate
J. Bordemer
D. S. Dinkins
H. Kimbel
Venice
Lucy Stafford
Downey
Maxine Gardner
Anne Parks
Sue Martello
Huntington Park
Gary Towner
Milton Dales
Ruth Hall
Jack Gilmore
Patricia I. Orme
Leity
Ladd Air Force Base
Alaska
America
Ladd
Marks Air Force Base
Nome
Orme
U. S. Army
5001St Medical Group
L. A.orme
Harvey Way
Naval Station
San Diego
Naval
John F. Roberts
Seaman
Chilton
Eet
EV. Hosking
Los Angeles Advertising Club
Pan-American Airways
Ad Club
Japan
New Zealand
Samoa
Guatemala
Siam
Air Express
Railway Express
Atomic Defense Film Forum
Sgt
W. J. Mooney
By Fred Hampson
Women’s Army Corps
Indy
L. W. Berry
D.C
Pine Avenue
Gluck
Ian
Masonic Temple
Lecwt Ave
Willmore
Nvestigute
Quine Frigidaire
Nagae
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