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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1952
Page
2
New York commentary extols October as the year's zenith a 31 day harvest festival where nature dramatizes the cycle of life. It describes October as the mature season delivering the mellowest wine and warns against missing its amber vitality and wind tuned to a violin night.
The main post office and branches announce ample savings stamps and albums for the new school season. Postmaster Howard K. Goodwin states Series E government bonds are available with a 3 percent annual compound yield to maturity and increasing cash value in early years.
Fragmented report lists ambulance calls and fire alerts at numerous streets and intersections including Fourth and Seventh Streets, Santa Barbara Street, Lakewood area, Bellflower, Anaheim, Vista, and Daisy Avenue. Mentions a fire near a bridge and a house fire with nominal damages and a Friday station response. Local department responded and power was cut during the event.
Nixon plans new attacks on Adlai Stevenson over Illinois governance as governor. He will press the point during a New Jersey motorcade route from Wilmington to New York City, with stops in Bridgeton Trenton and Morristown and a Jersey City speech tonight before a cross country campaign through New England Ohio and New York. The spokesman said details come from GOP sources and are not tied to McCarthy's disclosures.
Washington unions and western railroads remained deadlocked over a union shop and dues checkoff for about one million nonoperating workers. Daniel Loomis of the Western Railways Association announced the stalemate with a possible strike by up to half a million workers hanging in the balance as negotiations continued.
Los Angeles hearings by the House un-American Activities Committee will go public next week after being set for secret sessions. The panel resumes questioning doctors and lawyers Monday amid refusals to cooperate, with potential summonses for more than 20 radio actors and writers tied to a Hollywood communist cell. Dr Milton Lester clashed with Chairman Wood over relevance and rights to speak, prompting threats of removal.
California Motor Court and Trailer Park Owners Association re-elected officers for another year at its eighth convention closing banquet in Pacific East Club. About 450 members attended as Lynn P. Hockensmith of Redwood City was reinstalled as president with Riley Marquis of Pico and Earl Talmadge of Costa Mesa beginning another term. Maj. Gen. Daniel H. Endelson, former commander of California's 40th Division, gave the closing banquet address on war tests and folly.
Fort Worth police say an unidentified man, believed resident of Fort Worth, was jailed early today and accused of an armed robbery at a fancy hotel Thursday night. Victims were Manuel F. Madareaga, 38, a retired Cuban musician, and Candido de la Torre, 49, former Havana city councilman.
U N and Fifth Air Force statements report Sabre pilots shooting down two North Korean MIG 15s and damaging others while Thunderjets bomb the coal mine northwest of Kunu near the Changchon River. Ground forces recaptured Big North Hill after a brief return, with Allied infantry clearing enemy squads to retake the crest.
Senator John Sparkman spoke at a Chattanooga housing project dedication accusing Republican presidential nominee Nixon of trying to derail the 1940 Housing Act. He defended federal aid for low rent housing, praised Kefauver, and noted 500 greeted him at the airport while about 300 attended the dedication, billed as nonpolitical.
Rev. A. Paul McGarvey, former pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, will be the guest speaker Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Long Beach Christian and Missionary Alliance Church at 17th Street and Lemon Avenue. He has been named chairman of the mission work in Japan and is en route to Tokyo to begin his duties.
Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson launched a national observance of Newspaper Boy's Day by placing on sale a commemorative stamp honoring America's 500 000 newspaper boys. The stamp debuted in Philadelphia at Franklin Institute ceremonies, with Donaldson praising carrier boys as vital community links to the press. Special albums were presented to Walter Csuis, a typographic newspaper boy, Gov. John S. Line, and Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll.
The FCCs broadcasting bureau opposed the proposed merger of United Paramount Theatres and American Broadcasting Company. It warned the deal could merge motion picture and broadcasting industries and cited Paramounts antitrust history. The report also linked Paramount affiliates like Allen B. DuMont Laboratories to potential control concerns.
London begins Exercise Ardent as 1000 pilots from Britain, the United States, Canada, France, Belgium and Holland engage in a week of aerial maneuvers over England. About 200000 ground personnel operate radar, posts, guns, and searchlights to test defenses against jet atom bombers.
Australian physicist William J. Mangini saw Britain's first atomic blast from 56 miles away and said it may have been a hydrogen bomb. He noted the orange red flash differed from plutonium test imagery and appeared more destructive than U.S. explosions. Reporters described the cloud as sunlike, not the typical mushroom shape.
Harrison Myers pastor of First Methodist Church will speak Thursday at 5 15 p m during the campus worship service at Scripps College Claremont. Dennison Library will host the event on the campus with Myers delivering the address.
In San Pedro a harbor party clash resulted in six arrests including two 17 year old girls and a 21 year old man. Officers say a one punch fight injured a patrol officer and five adults face drunkenness charges with one accused of interfering with an arrest.
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