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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1954
Page
16
California toll of road deaths from January to April 18 1954 totaled 736, down from 988 in the same period in 1953, Highway Patrol commissioner B R Caldwell reported.
Edwin reports from the Long Beach Public Library show per capita circulation at 3.25 for cities over 100,000, below the national average 4.89 and below the ALA standard. The library holds 1.08 volumes per person, expenditures at $2.25, with the Main Building project urged to raise resources to meet standards. Residents deserve higher quality library service, and a new main building is under consideration by the Citizens' Committee.
Ventura County approves a special use permit for an 1100 acre site in the Simi Hills three miles south of Santa Susana for an experimental atomic plant. The plan includes expanding North American Aviation’s rocket engine testing station at a total estimated cost around 1.5 million dollars.
Ipoh district reports the 45 year old communist guerrilla Loh Kok, famed as the Man with 100 Lives, was shot by a Malay private on a rubber estate 20 miles north of Ipoh on April 8. He was a Malayan Communist Party district committee member noted for numerous escapes using civilians as shields.
In a gesture of sympathy from Japan, 1200 cherry trees were presented to West Berlin Mayor Walther Lehrei ber on Wednesday to honor the courageous spirit of the city’s citizens.
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