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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1950
Page
6
New York on September 20 reported that aircraft services Inc said jet work is to begin soon and will involve preparations and maintenance activities at the facility.
A newspaper notice promises a free plan to treat ruptures by Capt Wu A Collings. Readers are urged to send name and address to Capt W A Collings Inc Box 25 H Watertown NY for the full instruction. The notice claims many readers have reported satisfactory results and stresses immediacy in requesting the information.
Army announces first authorization for women to be commissioned as officers in medical and veterinary services. Women physicians and dentists will serve in all medical facilities except forward combat zones, with a monthly professional pay of 100 dollars above base. The move includes reservist officers and headlines a series of visits by Gen Roberts to the San Diego area. Additionally, 14 Marine Corps Reservists pledged their eyes to an eye bank while awaiting assignments.
Half a ton of Padre Junipero Serra materials arrived in Naples aboard the Vulcania and were shipped to Rome for submission to the Vatican Congregation of Rites. Rev. Eric O'Brien of Santa Barbara, a Franciscan monk, will oversee a two to three year gathering of documents for possible canonization. Serra, born in 1713 on Mallorca, traveled to California in 1769.
Sacramento report notes Region Two will receive 1 030 000 for water schemes with 321 000 set aside for planning and specs on the Irling project. Regional Director Richard L. Boke says construction could start within a year. includes Monticello Dam on Putah Creek and canal system aiding farms communities and bases in Solano County. Other allocations cover the Klamath River basin 55 000 Santa Clara San Benito Monterey 50 000 Feather River basin 57 000 Trinity Shasta 65 000 Santa Barbara Santa Maria 10 000 Black Butte 30 000 Folsom canals 70 000 Union Valley 41 000 Sacramento Valley canals 30 000 North Fork Kings 35 000 Kings River Santa Luz division 364 000 Bay area San Francisco Bay 48 000.
A world record price for scoured wool was set at Brisbane sales with seven bases bringing 280 pence per pound. Continental buyers led the bidding, aided by Britain Japan and the United States. Market sources expect much of it to go to iron country buyers in Czechoslovakia and Poland.
A fragment notes that a teacher and missionary in California Territory mentored students and converted pioneers, indicating early efforts in education and religious outreach during settlement periods.
A Salvation Army Social Service Center hobby show will feature Mrs. Marion Ager's odd-art collection from Bellflower including a brass cage with a singing mock bird, a 164 inch string of cultured pearls from Japan, wormwood plaque inlaid with bone designs, hand carved Chinese furniture and linens, a Dresden mandarin doll paired to Robert Ripley’s, and a blue orange dressed figure whose moving hands will run for 45 minutes. Brigadier Fred Ohrn invites the public to attend. no admission fee.
Moscow dispatch notes Pravda naming a list of American and British historians philosophers and economists as imperialist enemies of peace and protec Endorsed are Dewey Russell Toynbee Fay Ward as those who justify war and support atomic and germ warfare
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