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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1957
Page
8
News wires report President Eisenhower’s Paris visit looks likely after medical briefings. Adenauer, recovering from influenza, said he was delighted to attend. NATO allies eye a Friday meeting as US officials signal possible early rejection of new proposals.
In Bournemouth England Hagerty notes the president's remarkable recovery and says Eisenhower would be one of three opening speakers at the Paris meet. The piece mentions a mix of names including Betty and Harold Macmillan, with focus on a disrupted pay envelope incident and a candidate nomination in Britain. The notes include references to France Luxembourg and the November 1958 election context.
San Francisco and Roseville reports show Governor hopeful Edmund G. Brown dismissing William F. Knowland as silly for pressuring a stance on Red China. Brown backs national party platforms on nonrecognition and UN entry while focusing his campaign on California issues and local leadership. Knowland, addressing a Rotary Club, defends labor issues and right to work while pledging voluntary union membership and dues.
Washington reports Catton and rice farmers nationwide voted overwhelmingly to approve marketing quotas for their 1958 production. The action aims to control supply and stabilize prices across major crops.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers faced a fifth day of heavy rain and transit disruption. Downtown streets clogged, trains and buses overpacked, and 722 morning trains only partially run. Police, ambulances, and offers of overtime and bonuses failed to quell the strike amid mounting absenteeism and stalled commerce.
The article notes a potential break from the Transport Workers Union amid a subway system labor drive. It cites TWU as the system’s backbone with about 23,000 of 35,000 workers, and quotes Michael J. Quill on a vague framework to end the strike, while factions discuss forming an opposition movement with slim chances in the next election.
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