High School Diplomas Studied by VA Hospital Veterans
Long Beach VA Hospital staff and students form a cooperative program with Long Beach Unified School District to allow sixty hospitalized veterans to study for high school diplomas. Accredited instructors, hospital education therapists, and physicians coordinate daily workloads and class subjects including history government English and economics for diploma issuance by Long Beach Evening High School.
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Ashpol
Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital
Long Beach
Oil-field Smog Toll Reaches 22
The death toll from a poisonous smog over the Poza Rica oil-field settlement rose to 22 as Pemex director Antonio J. Bermudez announced the total after visiting the scene. Previously 15 had died, with two more in hospital and five bodies found in brush near the Gulf coast settlement.
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Mexico City
Poza Rica
Antonio J. Bermudez
Pemex
Gulf Coast
Temple Sinai Sisterhood Teas To Mark Silver Year
Sinai Temple Sisterhood plans a tea in the social hall on Tuesday at 8 pm to honor the 25th anniversary of Temple Sinai. Mrs Ravetch and Anna Martin head the tea table, Mrs Goldman pours from a 125 year old samovar, with music by Sheila Brown Billie Jo Bainum and Sheila Bruner. Guests may bring husbands.
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Temple Sinai Sisterhood
Temple Sinai
Molino
Ave
Sevanth St
I. Shalom Ravetch
Anna Martin
Harry Goldman
Ben Grannick
Sheila Brown
Billie Jo Bainum
City College
Sheila, Bruner
Los Angeles
Morse urges coalition policy with both parties on foreign affairs
Senator Morse of Oregon calls for a coalition foreign policy with State Department consults from Republican and Democratic leaders before any international agreements. He criticizes isolationist tendencies and says Congress must act on factual warrants, while predicting Taft-Hartley revisions and changes to injunction provisions in labor disputes.
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Chicago
Sen
Morse
R-Ore
State Department
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Red Cross Nurse Aides Welcomed at Long Beach VA Hospital
Nurses' aides and Red Cross volunteers were greeted by staff and patients as they begin service at the Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital. It marks the first time aides serve there and the first Long Beach hospital service since World War I. Twenty-two completes refresher training. 18 new volunteers join after 45 hours of hospital training and 80 hours overall.
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W. Edwards
Veterans Administration Hospital
Long Beach
Red Cross Board of Directors
Red Cross
Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital
Florence Uhls
Olivine Renier
Alice Munn
Veterans’ Hospital
War Souvenir Lands 2 in Jail
In Seattle two merchant seamen were jailed without charge for bringing back from the Korean war a .50 caliber machine gun and 23 cartridges described as a memento. Det. Sgt. I A Omera identified George A. Nichols 21 of Los Angeles and Homer L. Oliver 23 of Venice California as the men and said they gave signed statements admitting possession of the minor arsenal as a keepsake.
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Seattle
I. A. O'Mera
George A. Nichols
Los Angeles
Homer L. Oliver
Venice
Calif
Ethridge Resigns Information Post
Washington November 25 Mark Ethridge resigned today as chairman of the U S advisory commission on information citing poor health. Etheridge publisher of the Louisville Courier Journal has chaired the commission since its creation over two years ago.
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Washington
Mark Ethridge
U.S. Advisory Commission On Information
Etheridge
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Christmas Seal Sales Boosted by Self-help Boxes
Recovery Service Club members volunteer to handle self-help boxes for the 1950 Christmas Seal Sale. Mrs. Albin Larson, chairwoman for displays and exhibits, notes the effort aims to find unknown TB cases and direct them to medical care. Clark Kastle, president, says the club will distribute self help angels to stores and restaurants and invites merchants to cooperate at the Long Beach headquarters.
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Recovery Service Club
Albin Larson
Long Beach Tuberculosis and Health Association
Clark Kastle
Barkley to preside as Senate opens amid health check
Vice President Barkley is reported to be feeling fine and will preside at the Senate opening in the lame duck session. He is undergoing a checkup at Naval Hospital Bethesda after a severe chest cold. In Long Beach, merchants and Boy Scouts aided a window decoration campaign with posts and posters boosting publicity for the sale. Returns for the first sale week totalled 9005.19 dollars, reported by Ernest P Branson, treasurer of the Long Beach association.
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Long Beach
James W. Lentz
Donald R. Wheeler
Long Beach City College
E. V. Edwards
Washingsun
Sey
Barkeley
Senate
Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Europe Aid Backs U S Costs Hit Seven Billion This Year
Washington reports that U S aid to Europe remains high under the Marshall Plan and new arms programs. Total U S assistance for Europe and allied nations this year tops seven billion dollars, with North Atlantic Pact military aid totaling nearly five billion. The outlook includes continued support and debate in Congress over extending foreign aid and military programs to Europe and beyond.
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U. S
Europe
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Korea
Philippines
China
Indochina
Belghum
Denmark
France
Iceland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Britain
Senate
Democrats
Republi
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Truman
Gordon Gray
The
Army
University of Aot
Gray
Paul Hoffman
Oliman
Sweden
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