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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1954
Page
5
Memorial services mark nine years since the Hiroshima attack. Mayor Shinzo Amai presided as crowds prayed for no more war. Survivors recall the blast and rescue, while city ruins and rebuilt homes show slow recovery.
Air Secretary Talbott announced production of Boeing 707 as a Stratotanker for air refueling, signaling a breakthrough in the jet passenger plane race. The move aims to push America ahead of Britain with a limited number ordered and ongoing tanker design competition among Douglas, Lockheed, Consolidated Vultee, and Fairchild.
Retired U S Army colonel and former military governor of a Korean province returns to Korea to organize 4-H Clubs for farm youth. Charles F. Anderson of Beatrice, Nebraska, through the American-Korean Foundation, expands 4-H work begun before the war, reaching 50,090 Korean youths in about 200 clubs.
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to provide 2.99 billion dollars in new foreign economic and military aid, 94.9 million more than the House. It also reappropriates 52.58 billion in unobligated balances, bringing total program funding for the year to 5.57 billion. The House bill totals 364 million less, with tighter use of prior-year unobligated balances. conference action sets June 30 next year to end the economic aid portion and allows one more year to liquidate remaining funds.
A labor agreement was signed Thursday in New York by representatives of Bethlehem Steel Co and locals of the CIO United Steelworkers of America.
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