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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1950
Page
4
Betty Hutton to headline a star role in an upcoming theater broadcast. The evening radio program features Ginger Rogers and Paul Douglas in The Barker. Listen at 3:30 PM on KFY, U.S. Steel Hour.
Manila dispatch reports search parties combing through smoking ashes and hot boulders for more victims after the eruption of Eibokhibak yok jean. Eighty four lives had been reported lost, with funeral services for 61 victims held at twilight amid a reddish glow from clouds and crater smoke. About 35 residents of Camiguin on Mindanao were burned by hot ashes, and more than a score remain near death in temporary hospitals.
A spokesman for the 34 general duty nurses at Frick Memorial Hospital in Mt. Pleasant Pennsylvania says the nurses will quit work tonight unless a $40 monthly pay boost is granted. Nurses have not had a raise in three years and now earn about $140 monthly.
Police officer Ernest L. Richards with over 20 years on the Long Beach force filed for a pension yesterday and stated he will enter construction as a state licensed contractor joining his son Ernest L. Richards Jr. who graduated from USC last June.
A vivid account of the Inchon landing, detailing the initial bombardment and rapid Marine beach assault on Wolmi Island. It covers 6:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. moves, air and sea actions, flag planting on Wolmi’s highest point, and General MacArthur’s close inspection of North Korean defenses before the Inchon operation proceeds.
Luton England September 16 Lesh George Bernard Shaw the 94 year old Irish playwright recovering in hospital from an operation to mend his broken thigh spent a quiet day. A bulletin said tonight that he was comfortable and cheerful. He was injured in a fall Monday and his bladder condition yesterday caused some anxiety though his general condition had not worsened.
Conferees strived for agreement on a grant tax bill with a $1.5 billion annual boost in regular corporation taxes and a hike in individual income taxes set to start Oct. 1. They settled two issues, adopted Senate language on family business partnerships, and dropped changes to losses from selling or abandoning business property. They also discussed GI pay exempt in combat zones and defense spending totaling about $11.7 billion for military program expansion and $4.0 billion to aid allied motions. The finals include Army funding of $3.166 billion, Navy $3.724 billion, Air Force $4.560 billion, and 5333 new warplanes. A major cut halved a $60 million economic controls provision, and Voice of America funding was set around $73 million. School construction aid was cut by half to $24.5 billion in the Senate plan, while the House omitted it. Congress aims for a pre-election recess, with must-pass items remaining on the docket.
A World War II era dispatch reports heavy action near Seoul with Allied air power striking retreating North Korean forces and field reports noting enemy confusion on the Naktong front. The piece also covers political moves in Washington on defense and social security legislation.
In St Petersburg Florida Mrs Robert Gosford returns from hospital with her 18th child ahead of the couple’s 22nd wedding anniversary. Ellen Caral is three weeks old as the newest Gosford. Fifteen children live with the parents, ages range down to 21, one set of twins. Mr Gosford is a carpenter who migrated from Jamestown RL. Mrs Gosford is 39. She says the school trains them during the day and they are trained in the evening.
Rain and low clouds did not stop a large air assault as 845 sorties were flown by air force navy and Marine planes. Essex class carrier counts rose to three American and two British in action off Korean waters amid advances from Taegu toward Seoul and Inchon. Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay reported mud and mines hampering the First Cavalry near Taegu, with 165 miles to Seoul. UN forces at Inchon staged heavy unloading as Marines crossed the Han River toward Kimpo and Youndungpo, while South Korea’s naval chief doubted North Korean organized units this far north.
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