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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1953
Page
9
A Commerce Department survey shows unemployment near a minimal level with 7,262,000 employed in August and a US civilian workforce of 62,306,000. Despite students withdrawing to school, joblessness remains practically unchanged, with farm employment near 2 percent of the labor force.
Sacramento report shows exemptions for churches colleges welfare and veterans pushed total exempt property value to about 914.97 million up from 843.44 million last year. 820,000 veterans accounted for 686.23 million, with noncollege and local limits keeping higher figures from materializing. Unemployment remained stable as industrial activity stayed near the billion-dollar pace.
Washington reports President Eisenhower praised the Red Cross as embodying noble virtues at a dedication in San Francisco. He contrasted workers’ concessions in a Greyhound contract with the Red Cross’s actions, recalling wartime service and praising neighborliness and sacrifice.
French Union troops battle Vietminh in the delta area near Ban Koo Canal southeast of Hanoi. After fierce hand to hand fighting 100 Vietminh soldiers were killed and 86 captured, while 300 more suspected fighters were rounded up. French forces tightened a ring around about 5000 Vietminh troops as hopes rose to end the outbreak.
Sac Press Telegram brief item notes a local event with names and a date from 1953, reflecting the era’s community notices and small actions reported in the paper. The fragment preserves a sense of locality and period reporting.
A fragment describes a majority of Capunn, a migtred Vietminh group near the Gulf of Tonkin facing pursuit by French land and air forces as they attempt to escape toward safer waters.
An OCR fragment markets a condensed issue of 43 articles from Reading Magazine and books. It mentions cost and operation but the text is garbled with stray letters and incomplete phrases. Entities are unclear due to OCR noise.
President Eisenhower today named Freeman Matthews deputy undersecretary of State ambassador to the Netherlands and Selden Chapin ambassador to Panama. Both recess appointments await Senate confirmation. Chapin, a native of Erie, entered the foreign service in 1925 and has served as ambassador to the Netherlands and minister to Hungary. Matthews, born in Baltimore, entered the service in 1923 and has been minister to Sweden and assistant secretary of state before becoming deputy undersecretary.
Los Angeles council weighs police commission findings that a small group of used car dealers defraud buyers. Investigative report by Mark W. Stoithy cites worn tires, altered speedometers, invalid titles, improper inspections, and other safety/consent gaps. Proposals include banning blank contracts and misleading ads.
New York report says a special review board cleared the Council for Social Action of the Congregational Christian Churches of any subversion taint. The executive committee of the General Council announced the finding after reviewing complaints dating back to 1950.
Former President Truman announced construction of the Harry S Truman Library at Grandview, Mo, should begin in about three months. He said more than half of the $1,750,000 required is on hand, with $861,000 in cash and promises of $70,000 more from AFL convention funds for his papers.
Manila reports positive indications from a two month survey of possible uranium deposits in the Philippines. The survey was conducted by two U S Atomic Energy Commission staff members with Philippines mining and geological experts assisting.
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