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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1955
Page
2
The California State Automobile Association outlines holiday safety tips for motorists to reduce risk on busy travel periods. Advice includes rest breaks, avoiding alcohol, proper following distance, slower speeds at night, and starting early to reach home safely. Civil and university registration notes follow with Berkeley fall term plans.
The Friden toolmakers’ strike continues to Sept 14 by mutual consent, with a restraining order in place since July 15. IAM officials say the toolmakers’ walkout gains no support from their own AFL IAM members, while stewards escort returning strikers through picket lines amid internal disputes and regional tensions.
Parks at Air Force Base reports an Arlington Washington, DC headquarters vacancy for architects with Air Force backgrounds. Salaries range from 8990 to 11399 per year. Applications on standard form 57 available at post offices or federal personnel offices. Submit to Headquarters Civilian Personnel Office Secretary of the Air Staff Room SE-31 Pentagon Washington DC.
The 35th annual 4-H Clubsters convention began on the University of California campus in Davis. Activities include assemblies and six discussion sections before a Thursday trip to the California State Fair in Sacramento with a late afternoon picnic and a fashion show of garments made by club members.
Actress Melinda Markey daughter of Joan Bennett improved after a 22 hour coma from sleeping pill overdose. She left Bellevue hospital in New York with husband Donald Hayden and a private psychiatrist. Gene Markey, her father, flew from Hollywood to be at her bedside. In Hollywood Bennett noted she did not know of her daughter's marriage to Hayden, once married to Wallace Beery's adopted daughter.
Sacramento area crash leaves twelve hurt as a Southbound IRA Greyhound bus collided with a northbound truck trailer on Stockton Boulevard eight miles south of Sacramento. Bus driver James Seymour of Sacramento and truck driver James Holt of Manteca hospitalized. seven remaining aboard treated and released, one in serious condition.
The New York market showed irregular day trading with a gain led by United Aircraft and Phillips Petroleum amid news of a 30 percent stock dividend and quarterly cash payout. Philips slumped on the dilution talk while United Aircraft rose, helping the Dow Jones to modest advances before profit taking trimmed gains. Volume eased to 330,000 at 11 am, with copper stocks retreating and several blue chips lower as the day progressed.
Obituaries report Manuel C. Lewis of San Leandro aged 40 of Hayward and Elizabeth Prentice of Hayward aged 94. Lewis, husband of Rose, father of Celeste, son of Mrs. Margaret Lewis, and a union man with multiple local affiliations, dies in Hayward with funeral plans at Hays Ward Mortuary and All Saints Church. Prentice, widow of George, mother of Thomas H. and grandmother of Rush Ballewang, dies in Hayward. funeral from Sorensen Bros. Chapel with Interment at Lone Tree Cemetery.
Obituary notices report Manuel C Lewis age 40 of Hayward died in hospital after brief illness. He worked for Rylock in San Leandro, lived in Hayward, and belonged to UPEC lodges 14 and 15 and IAM Local 1518. Survived by wife Rose, daughter Celeste, mother Margaret, and siblings. Services set at Hayward Mortuary and All Saints, interment Golden Gate. Newark death of Clarence E Fitch, 46, formerly Hayward, heart attack at work. Burial Lone Tree Cemetery after 3 pm services.
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