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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1955
Page
4
In Montreal about 550 youngsters were brought to city clinics on the first day of free Salk polio vaccinations. Officials aimed for 6,000 daily but called the turnout disappointing and speculated that U.S. polio cases after inoculations frightened parents.
Washington The House Armed Services Committee voted 27 to 5 to extend two years the draft for doctors dentists and veterinarians. The measure would push the law to July 1 1957 before the current expiration of June 30.
London headmaster F R Witty reports a survey of 275 secondary students aged 11 to 15 showing those who miss school more days read 10 to 25 times more outside class and achieve better English marks. The stay at home students cited include chores and errands as reasons for absences.
Vienna reports a May meeting in Warsaw among Russia and seven East European satellites to form a unified military command. Observers say the move may provide a legal basis for keeping Soviet troops in Hungary and Romania after the four power occupation of Austria ends. Participating states include the USSR Poland Czechoslovakia Romania Bulgaria East Germany Hungary Albania with Communist China as observer.
Search efforts continue for a missing Navy jet with Civil Air Patrol planes from Albuquerque scanning the Navajo reservation at Toadlena north of Gallup after reports of an explosion. Additional aircraft from Kirtland Air Force Base were expected to join, as crews probe areas 50 to 100 miles north of Kingman Arizona following a truck driver's sighting of an orange yellow flash.
The New York Times reports the United States agreed to train select Royal Air Force bomber crews to use American atomic weapons. Weapons would be delivered to British units in Europe only on the U S President's order, per U S law.
An 18 year old Hiroshima high school student Makoto Chiba died at Tokyo hospital. Doctors linked his death to radiation sickness from the 1945 atomic bombing. Autopsy by Dr Noboru Tanaka noted bone marrow depletion and potential radiation related leukemia in Japanese survivors.
Columbus Ohio doctor warns pogo stick craze may risk heart strain and potential brain injury. Dr. Robert A Evans urges a cap on jumps noting 20 consecutive bounces as a safe maximum. Reports cite Mary Jane Stebbins 11 of Zanesville setting a 6 202 jump claim amid many 5 000 plus tallies nationwide.
Paducah Kentucky plants were hit by the telephone strike for the first time today when two private lines between Paducah and Oak Ridge were severed. The service was cut from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m.
State revenue rose noticeably in April with gains across income, sales, and motor fuel taxes. Total collections reached 13,420,153, up from 12,309,798 a year earlier, boosting ten month fiscal total to 96,716,367 a 2,951,660 increase. The sales tax topped 3,861,224, motor fuel 3,615,961, and income tax 4,206,848, each higher than April 1954. A sirloin steak note appears unrelated.
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