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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1963
Page
3
Bay area youth Roberts G Bell, 20, faced a desperate rescue after a jacked car pinned his hand to the axle. Firemen lifted the vehicle. doctors reported only a cut with no fracture. A nurse offered quiet Christmas wishes as Bell left hospital.
A 17 year old suspect, Christopher Rodney Walker of Compton, was reported in satisfactory condition after being shot in the chest by Lee R Burris a 53 year old retired Gardena police officer who helped break up a robbery at a Gardena liquor store. A second suspect Claude Edward Jones also 17 of Compton was booked and a third suspect fled the scene.
A Globe Arizona article describes a Christmas card tradition where the Globe Police Department has received annual cards from an ex hobo since 1932. This year the sender signs as Police Sgt Phillip Gadfaden of Long Branch New Jersey.
In a Christmas address Cardinal Spellman mourned President Kennedy and spoke of national sorrow. He urged unity amid rising bills and wars and called for healing among Roman Catholics and the nation as servicemen abroad face duty and sacrifice. He warned against divisions and urged a calm, reasoned approach.
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