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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1955
Page
3
Women volunteers prepare to witness an atomic test and learn survival tips. The FCDA invites participation, screening volunteers with physical exams and showing a shelter filled with a modeled home scene. The plan includes food stock, blankets, and gear for a three day survival period.
Mohammed Ali cited the Formosa issue as a possible UN solution and noted China’s seat in the United Nations could be raised. The seven day Asian African conference produced a broad set of resolutions on nuclear ban, cultural exchange, and Arab Palestine rights, with mixed signals on recognizing Peiping.
Two Burbank men were critically injured when their private plane crashed on a foggy knoll in Angeles National Forest Sunday night. Donald Frederick Washburn, 37, and Donald Liewlyn, 33, were taken to Lancaster Community Hospital with multiple fractures and internal injuries.
President Eisenhower spoke to publishers about a Plans Global Tour for a new atomic powered merchant ship. The vessel would showcase peaceful uses of atomic energy and travel worldwide, visiting global ports while promoting universal peace and economic cooperation. He linked the project to the Nautilus submarine and emphasized truth in journalism and international economic collaboration. He highlighted two objectives: global peace based on justice and a broadly shared American economic growth, projecting GNP surpassing $500 billion by 1965.
A firsthand account follows Gordon as he battles heroin addiction from Illinois to California. He describes family pleas, a rushed flight home, and returning to East Los Angeles where a grim cycle resumes. He details withdrawal, weight loss, a lab job, then renewed drug use and constant fear of arrest as his addiction tightens its grip.
In Lower Austria Sunday municipal elections, Chancellor Julius Raab's Conservative People's Party led, ahead of the Austrian Socialist Party. The Communist Reds, running as People's Opposition, slumped to 4 percent of the vote from 32 percent in 1950, losing 1,653 votes and two municipal council seats.
Weekend clashes between French security forces and guerrilla bands in Algeria left 11 dead. Eight Algerians died in combat and two victims were found bound with throats cut. One French paratrooper was killed in northern Algeria as Moslem faithful began Ramadan.
Washington report to a House Appropriations Subcommittee notes Air Force concern over vehicle accidents. In 1954 military auto crashes caused 608 fatalities and injuries far exceeding plane totals, with 5,324 military personnel injured versus 529 in aviation. Total auto incidents reached 6,460 against 1,326 airplane crashes.
Mrs Lillian Newman 36, of Compton Boulevard, was stabbed in the chest by her estranged husband Frank Newman 39. She was hospitalized in critical condition after officers found her on a couch with a three pointed file in her chest. Frank Newman was arrested at a liquor store on suspicion of attempted murder.
A new wave of cable cuttings and a damaged railroad bridge disrupted Southern Bell service in Alabama and a Louisville & Nashville line near Calera. Bombs exploded near Gretna Louisiana exchanges. Kentucky dynamite attached to an LAN bridge was found. Talks in Washington yielded no progress as governors consider a Nashville meeting. Police detained seven at Miami for disorderly conduct as crowds protested outside the Atlanta exchange.
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