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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1957
Page
6
Business Week reports 1957 saw a record 410 billion cigarettes consumed in the United States. Regular nonfilter cigarettes fell year over year, but filter-tip cigarettes surged 42 percent, capturing 38 percent of the market. The trend continues a rise since 1952 after earlier medical links to lung cancer spurred a dip.
January Better Homes & Gardens offers 20 delightful ideas for holiday entertaining. The feature promises different, delicious, and varied recipes with full-color pictures. Get your copy today wherever magazines are sold.
A year end note highlights the forthcoming unemployment insurance office in New York as Santa completes his work for the year. The item reads as a light holiday lead noting a government office launch to aid workers.
The Reclamation Bureau will offer 205 farms totaling 26 353 acres on four projects in Washington Idaho Arizona Nevada and Wyoming next year with veteran preference. Farms include public lands for homesteading and former private lands acquired for reclamation. Announcements and openings vary by project with dates in February April November and June.
The Daily Worker, longtime Communist Party voice in the United States, is reported to be discontinued next Tuesday by a secret party executive meeting the editors contest. John Gates says he may continue publishing. Simon Gorson declined to confirm. The move would end the Sunday Worker in New York and the eastern area.
The article notes a predicted surge in oil drilling across at least six LA areas as companies seek zone variances and permits. Richfield Oil Union Oil Guiberson interests and others plan districts near Tidewater, Potrero, and Inglewood while Humble, Texaco, and General Petroleum pursue new wildcats in Orland Buttes and nearby valleys.
In Johannesburg on Christmas Day, more than 1,000 Africans were treated in nonwhite hospitals for assaults. Hospital officials said many arrived intoxicated, with over 100 admitted with serious injuries. Trailing blood led to casualty wards as stab wounds and head injuries were treated.
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