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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1954
Page
4
Los Angeles officials voted to double the city sales tax to 1 cent per dollar effective July 1. The measure is projected to raise about 13.5 million dollars annually, with a similar increase in the use tax on goods bought outside the city for use here.
A Texas representative dismissed rumors of a bill to create a comprehensive inventory of the national forests. He stated there is no pending measure and no proposal asking for such an inventory, calling the circulating reports utterly false.
A state agent may disclose today whose fingerprints were found on the auto that contained the bludgeoned bodies of Guard Young and three children. Everett A. Chamberlin, fingerprint specialist, is to explain the fragmentary print from the Young car on Oct. 11, 1952. Defendants Santo Perkins and Henson face murder charges. Santo and Perkins have sentences for another murder case. Prosecutor Om may recall agent Roger F. Greene and Ernest Wenberg. Greene found hairs, while a 19 inch pipe near the Young car was noted but not enough for analysis.
Luxembourg's grand duchy approved the six nation European Defense Community treaty 46 to 4, becoming the fourth nation to ratify. The vote, amid Communist opposition, leaves Belgium Italy the Netherlands West Germany and France to act. full effect awaits all six ratifications and formal signature by Grand Duchess Charlotte. The pact envisions a 2,000,000 strong army with 500,000 rearmed West Germans, and requires six party ratifications before taking effect.
Lt Gen S E Anderson commander of the U S Fifth Air Force in Korea said there has been no appreciable shift in Red China s Air Force since the Korean War and no evidence of mass movements of Communist planes into South China He noted observers speculated Peiping might shift air units southward to aid Vietminh rebels in Indochina during a Formosa tour
A boy and girl twin pair born to Mr and Mrs Milford H Williams at St Josephs Hospital in Warren Ohio weighed 9 pounds 13 ounces and 8 pounds 11 ounces respectively for a combined 19 pounds The Williams family includes seven other children and another set of twins Williams a steelworker is the father.
Rep Secrest of Ohio testified to the House Ways and Means Committee that 89 percent of farmers polled in his district favored joining the social security program. The figures came from a district survey presented in his prepared testimony.
Kyodo News says a Japanese fishing boat returned to port with 33 000 pounds of tuna contaminated by radiation from the U S hydrogen bomb test at Bikini. Geiger counters read just below danger. crew count was slight, some reports differ. The vessel fished March 17 to 21 but did not enter the main danger zone.
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