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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1948
Page
6
5% COLLEGE offers free courses on income tax returns for incomes under 5000 dollars. Classes led by tax specialists start 7 p m Wednesday at Wilson High and 7 p m Thursday at Polytechnic High. Enrollment is this week, with students paying for books.
An Australian farming family returning to their Lismore home after severe floods found a seven pound mullet in their best bedroom. They killed 42 squatting snakes in a nearby farm, and on another farm the owner and his two sons killed 122 snakes in the house and surroundings.
Miss Elizabet Draper arriving from Nairobi with a precious package dropped it in Buckingham Palace Road. A double decker bus passed over the package and destroyed butter tea pineapple eggs and other perishables.
A tiny powerful hearing aid designed for home church and work use claims to let whispers be heard clearly. The inventor distributor Wyatt Gibbons at 19 Pine Avenue Long Beach California invites inquiries promising operation costs reduced to pennies and no risk.
The Long Beach elementary schools plan a weekly lunch schedule with tray lunches at 25c and a la carte options. Dishes include Spanish noodles, savory beans, chopped steak, beef and rice casserole, and macaroni and cheese. Beverages and desserts such as milk, fruit, and pies accompany daily offerings.
In Kiruna Sweden gardener Einar Eng tends seven greenhouse grapevines 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle at 16400 feet above sea level. His hothouse vineyard yields nearly 700 pounds of grapes annually for the Kirunavaar Luossavaara mining company. Arctic sunshine supposedly improves flavor over southern Swedish varieties.
More than 1500 educators and laymen will attend two California state conventions in Long Beach. The School Trustees Association meets Oct 3–6 and the state superintendents Oct 6–9 with Douglas A Newcomb greeting delegates and Roy Simpson speaking. The event includes a School of Tomorrow exhibit and a statewide teachers institute with about 6000 attending. Willard Goslin and Dr Alexander Stoddard are among notable participants.
A complete law curriculum begins at 6:30 p m Oct 4 at the Law School of Pacific Coast University in Poly High School Long Beach. Attorney James E Pawson teaches corporations. Thomas Cochran handles criminal and personal law. A A Ralph Gley and Aaron K Phelps cover con aa and securities. Henry Taecker teaches torts. Dr Carl H Manson administers the school and registrations at 236 Newport Ave.
In Berwick England on September 25 a dog named Beasley is trained to retrieve cigarettes hidden under tobacco shop counters. The dog searches behind counters while owner Robert Beasley continues to smoke, highlighting a quirky response to a tobacco shortage.
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