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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1960
Page
3
Paris AP reports France canceled a Thursday flight ban over a large Sahara area near the Reggane atomic test site. No reason given, but observers expect a test alert regime and restrictions before any atomic device is exploded, amid opposition over nuclear fallout concerns.
Integrated Revival reports Billy Graham forbids segregated gatherings in Africa. He opens 24 meetings in Monrovia at Antoinette Tubman Stadium and cites South Africa as prohibitive due to strict segregation laws. In Moscow, smallpox vaccinations surge after artist Kokoryekin dies from the disease and travels to India.
A passenger train collided with freight cars near Settle England killing five people and injuring ten others, none seriously. The incident occurred Thursday prompting emergency responses and an investigation by rail authorities.
The Schleswig Holstein Justice Ministry orders experts to verify Anne Frank diary as a defense against a far right politician who claims a fake. Lothar Sticlau faces defamation charges after asserting in a school paper that the diary is falsified. The diary recounts a Jewish family hiding from the Nazis and has inspired a play and film.
Gov. Brown's water experts outlined that project water will cost more than current irrigation rates, with larger increases for agricultural users. A $2 per acre foot credit would aid farmers with more than 160 acres, but only if 75 percent of costs are pledged. If contracts dwindle, the plan may not proceed.
The article outlines water pricing and the feasibility of the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta and Feather River Project. It notes costs around 1 dollar per acre foot, with higher existing price ranges, and discusses potential first deliveries to Marin County by 1962 and to Southern California by 1871, subject to voter decision in November.
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