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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1953
Page
10
London faces gasoline shortages as a wildcat strike by 2600 tank truck drivers enters its fourth day. London Transport expects diesel buses to stall, garages post sold out signs, and taxi service to falter while motorists seek fuel at high prices.
In Tampa Florida Loretta Manning 27 pleaded guilty to a $1600 grocery store holdup that affected 18 shoppers. She received the minimum 10 year term while her husband George Manning 28 drew 12 years for hiding the money. Relatives care for their two boys aged 7 and 11.
Rep Sam Rayburn warned Wednesday night that world freedom rests with the United States and the price of liberty must be paid. He, as House minority leader, said Americans must be willing to pay the cost to remain free. Sen Mike Monroney quipped that the president elected a Democratic congressman from Wisconsin’s Ninth District.
An express passenger train the New Englander on the Pennsylvania Railroad derailed after striking a derailed gondola near Bristol Pennsylvania. The derailment caused seven cars to derail and carry 60 passengers who were reassigned to the Federal Express from Washington to New York. No serious injuries were reported.
A fragmented recipe note touts fluffy potatoes with baking powder and promotes daily vitamins. It mentions ONE-A-DAY BRAND MULTIPLES with added B-12 and advises asking a druggist for a BLUES package featuring a red 1.
Cheryl Imvin a student who played Little Red Riding Hood in a school play in Houston Texas ran to her mother Mrs J W Irewin crying there is a wolf in the barn The mother investigated and found a wolf shot and crippled in the barn She telephoned her husband who returned home and killed the wolf.
A United Nations Command spokesman said Allies objected to repatriation of the Chinese as the neutral commission failed to inform the U N that the prisoner would be heard. The five nation commission faced a near riot as 431 Chinese refused to return to communism, with a chair-swinging prisoner questioned for hours and protests by Brig. Gen. Hambien and Gen. Thimayya over treatment and insults. The episode followed a Czech-Polish walkout after a 49 to 1 rejection and anti-Red North Korean questioning refusals.
Murray warns that foreign uranium supplies and Soviet advances threaten United States nuclear power and weapons potential. He argues for diversified reactor plans, government support, and a gradual transfer of industrial atomic work from federal control to private industry.
Two thousand shouting students demonstration in downtown Milan oppose Yugoslav claims to Trieste. Posters condemn the British American decision to withdraw troops from Zone A of the Trieste Free Territory and hand control to Italy. No incidents reported. Yugoslavia administers Zone B and pledges a broader claim. Tito threatens intervention if Italian forces move into Zone A.
Swedish doctor Dr Harold Eliasch reported a sharp decline in heart disease and peptic ulcers in wartime Sweden, noting a similar drop in England. Speaking at the 23rd annual heart disease symposium, he said the war busy years may deter health decline as specialists gathered from St Erik's Hospital in Stockholm.
White Plains New York Air Force Secretary Harold E Falbot warns the nations radar defense screen could be valueless if methods exist to block fit out entirely He says ground observers may be needed to identify approaching aircraft and has asked New York civil defense director C K Huenner to stress expanding the ground observer corps
Unionists expected to win the Northern Ireland general election as they seek to hold power. They have controlled the Ulster parliament for 33 years and need six of 27 districts to keep control. Fifty-two seats exist in the Ulster House of Commons, with 21 districts lacking opposition candidates.
Sir Muirhead Bone knighted in 1937 dies at his Oxford home at 77. A noted official British artist in both World Wars, he is remembered for wartime paintings. His son Stephen is a landscape illustrator and his brother James edited the Manchester Guardian from 1912 to 1945.
The Center Theater, part of Rockefeller Center, will be torn down to.make way for a 19 story office building. Erected in 1932 the plush playhouse has hosted movies stage extravaganzas ice shows and television presentations. The theater at 4th Street and the Avenue of the Americas will be demolished in May.
Hong Kong reporters cover the trial of three tailors arrested for boarding a U S destroyer without permission. The men claimed they were merely measuring the ship to understand how it entered the harbor. The incident follows tensions sparked when the U S battleship New Jersey anchored outside during an official visit last August.
Identical twins Ann and Judith Bernie nieces of late orchestra leader Ben Bernie began nursing careers on Wednesday at Beth Israel Hospital. They were born 18 years ago in New York and now join the staff of the hospital.
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A cargo of powdered milk valued at 750000 dollars arrived in Pusan South Korea today for distribution to South Korean families. The shipment was provided as a gift from Catholic communities in the United States and will be allocated through local relief channels.
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