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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1953
Page
2
A stark meditation on Labor Day weekend danger as Death accelerates across America tagging victims with DOA notes. The piece imagines car crashes, barroom spills, and roadside emergencies, tallying a grim holiday toll and asking how many such harvests one mind can bear.
First Brethren Church pastor Charles W. Mayes arrived in Long Beach this week after attending the National Fellowship of Brethren ministers annual sessions at Winona Lake Indiana. He presided as president of the Foreign Missionary Society and will resume preaching at 11 a.m. Sunday on Possible Impossibilities with an evening message Be Fair to the Scriptures.
In Los Angeles Nevada County sheriff arrested Harriet Henson 30 a defense witness in Mabel Monahan murder trial on a separate murder charge. She testified she was common law wife of defendant John A Santo. Henson is wanted in the December 29 1951 Grass Valley California mining death of Edmond Hanson. John Boles is in custody. Santo Perkins and Mrs Barbara Gram are charged with the slaying. Prosecutor Alexander revealed a recorded conversation tying Henson to the alibi scheme. Perkins wife Eleanor testified Perkins was home the night of the slaying and later at a dentist. Counsel for Santo and Perkins rested after Henson's testimony.
Senator Kuchel told a Sacramento breakfast that politics will play no part in U S foreign policy praising Eisenhower and urging unity. He noted integrity in federal government and criticized excessive defense budget cries while defending current national security aims.
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, freed after over three years in Communist prisons, checked in at Tokyo Army Hospital for rest and a physical. Doctors praised his appetite as amazing. He plans a second news conference and earlier toured Seoul, Korea, greeting cheering crowds.
Jury selection began Friday in Superior Court for the retrial of Andrew C. Griffith, 30, of 1121 Olive Ave, on a rape charge. Griffith was convicted of assaulting a 1-year-old waitress last March 27, but the verdict was erased and a new trial granted due to a ruling on admissibility of a witness question about the victim's reputation. Superior Judge Leon T. David will hear the retrial.
Mrs. Juanita Haney of the city prosecutor's office is promoted from interviewer to investigator with a monthly pay raise from 343 to 385 dollars. She will continue heading the failure-to-provide section, a position she has held for five years.
The Greek government announced an official count revealing that 95 percent of buildings on the three quake devastated Ionian Islands have collapsed or are beyond repair.
Lutherans will hear two guest speakers at Immanuel Augustana Lutheran Church. Rev. Martin Car Olson announces Omi of Southern California will preach, with Elmquist of Angelica Lutheran Church Los Angeles as guest preacher on October 4. Elmquist is former president of the California Conference of the Augustana Synod and resides in Pasadena.
Dr Humbert of Santa Paula opens a five part series titled Journeys With Jesus at First Methodist Church announced by Rev William Harrison Myers pastor The Faith and Friendship Hour at 730 p m on Sunday introduces a former professor with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh Scotland His talks explore geography customs and living religions of Jesus day
A boy about 15 of 4738 Ieoke Street Lakewood received minor injuries when his bicycle skidded on wet pavement and rode into a car at Hayter Avenue and Centralia Street. The car was driven by Martha Gonzalves, 36, of 4151 Iroquois Avenue, California Highway Patrol said.
In Norwalk a 63-year-old Portland Maine woman Eva Campbell died Friday after bullet wounds inflicted by her husband Walter Campbell who then killed himself. The couple argued at Harold Cunninghams home over staying in California versus Maine. Eva Campbell died in a Los Angeles hospital.
TV schedules across KNXT KECA KNBH KHJ KTLA XTTV KLAC Channel listings show programs from 4 PM to midnight. Notable items include Spaceboppers Outdoors at 4, Rod Brown Rocket Rangers at 5:15, various movies, and local host segments with faces like Bob Steele and Jim West. The listings name multiple studios and theaters and feature a mix of Westerns, cartoons, and variety shows.
An extensive listing of radio shows, hosts, and segments across stations such as KMPC, KFOX, KNX, KECA, KLAC, and more. Entries include Alvarez Cooper, Paul Langford, Benny Carte, Tex Williams, and others with times spanning afternoon to midnight, detailing music blocks, news, sports, and religious programs.
Washington reports 23000 men drafted in November matching prior months. Defense says Navy Marine and Air Force have enough volunteers and will not take physicians for now. Since July 1951, 5754 physicians inducted including 542 last month. Army assigns 500 volunteer doctors to Navy and Air Force.
Benzion Meir Quziel aged 73, chief rabbi of Israel’s Sephardic community, died Friday night after a long illness. The Sephardic Jews are descendants of medieval Spain and Portugal.
A TV and radio schedule roundup notes the domestic comedy Ethel and Albert returning to KNBH at 9 p.m. with the couple rekindling honeymoon romance. Also listed are KECA and KNXT programs, NBC Symphony Toscanini pieces, Grand Ole Opry guest spots, Medallion Theater on KNXT, and radio listings including Your Show of Shows, Juke Box Jury, and Hollywood Caravan.
Theodore B. Furlow of 485 Orange Ave Long Beach won the Toastmasters International speech contest in Denver before 2500 members and guests. He works as rigging superintendent at Wilmington Boat Works in Wilmington and belongs to the Long Beach Gave Club 11. Second place went to Joe Modglin of Toledo Ohio.
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