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Long Beach Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1955

Page

4

Coal Miners Win $2 Day Salary Raise

Washington reports that John L. Lewis secured a secret deal with northern coal producers to raise miners pay by $2 a day. The agreement through the Bituminous Coal Operators Association adds $1.20 on September 1 and 80 cents on April 1, 1956, raising the UMW basic wage to $20.25 daily plus additional contract improvements.

Washington UR John L. Lewis Lewis Assa

Wreckage Thought to be La Salle Griffon Found

The Toronto Telegram reports a 40-foot white keel with hand hammered spikes found near Tobermory on Lake Huron may be La Salle’s Griffon, last seen 1679 on Lake Michigan with fur cargo. Orrie Vale, a retired Tobermory fisherman, links the wreckage to the Griffon after years of investigation and historians have examined the wood and iron for authenticity.

Toronto Toronto Telegram Tobermory Ont Bay Island la Salle Niagara River Lakes Erie Huron Michigan Green Bay Lake Michigan Orrie Vale Lake Huron Bruce Peninsula Manitoulin Island Manitoulin Vale

Madison County Supervisor Declines Lie Detector Test

Dane County Supervisor Walter Simon refused to take the sheriff's new lie detector test stating that every married man has a natural born lie detector, his wife.

Madison Wis Dane County Walter Simon

Mormons Choir Opens European Tour in Glasgow Kelving Hall

In Glasgow Scotland a near capacity 3500 crowd awaited the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Kelvin Hall for the first European concert. All seats sold, 379 voices filled the hall. Dr J Spencer Cornwall praised the acoustics as rehearsals proceeded and church president Dr Davis O Mackay greeted the group before a London departure after Manchester and Cardiff visits.

Glasgow Scotland Kelvin Hall Salt Lake J. Spencer Cornwall Davis O. Mackay Mormon Church London Manchester Cardiff

Warren Returns to California Visits Knight in Bay Area

Chief Justice Earl Warren travels to the San Francisco Bay area after brief meetings with his son and Gov. Goodwin Knight. They pose for pictures and discuss families, then reunite with Robert, Warren’s UC Davis student son. Warren tours Knight’s office and looks forward to Philadelphia for the John Marshall Bicentennial.

Earl Warren San Francisco Bay Area Goodwin Knight Knight Warren Robert University of California At Davis California Philadelphia John Marshall

Fire devastates Niedzisko village in Poland area

Radio Warsaw reported a massive blaze in the Polish village of Niedzisko near Samosz on Thursday. About 54 homes were burned as residents were away in fields. no injuries were reported.

Poland Wienws Austria Niedzisko Samosz Radio Warsaw Jones

Scientists Work Nights to Develop Sphere Satellite Plan

A 14 member U S physicist group led by Dr Homer E Newell Jr privately studied the feasibility of launching a small belt into orbit about 200 to 300 miles up The team worked from March to May in Washington and concluded the project could be undertaken within the era’s time and tech limits They will aid the planned earth satellite under the International Geophysical Year program with officials noting many other scientists may join the effort The group includes notable figures from Harvard MIT University of California and Johns Hopkins among others Newell described as a top upper air specialist and rocketry authority.

Kenneth 0. Gilmore Washington NEA Smife White House Homer E. Newell Jr Outer Space Fermis Schields Einsteins Oppenheimers Tellers U.S S Dy Jose Kaplan U. NationalCommittee LPR Enebieineptyh Now Pub i Association Washington Defense Department Devel Alan Shapely Us.n.c Boulder Laboratories National Bureau of Standards Athelstan F. Spilhaus Institute of Technology University of Minnesota Newell Naval Research Is Laboratory

Long Beach Ministers Offer Wide Range of Services

Diverse church calendar lists sermons and events across many denominations in Long Beach. Notable speakers include Rev. B Eugene Tanner at Calvary Church and Rev. Ira L Heath at Calvary Temple, with services from 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. daily, plus film programs and youth events at multiple venues.

Assembly OF God B. Eugene Tanner Calvary Church Ira L. Heath Calvary Temple God Bob Jones The Christ Ambassadors H. T. Langley Harry M Richardson LaSheil Church Christ Mark A. Smith Long Beach Church Eagar Pierce South, Gate Mr. Pierce Mark F. Smith First Church J. Russell Gardner Pasadena Paul Brandyberry North Long Beach Church Joseph Bachman Howard E. Stewart Emmanuel Church John Crozier Belfast Ireland Europe Sarah N. Switzer Louise Newman Long Beach Chapel Rex B. Barr Long Beach Veterans Memorial Auditorium Satan Eugene Benvau Church of Christian ‘Healing Mary Dougherty Mary C. Firtle Spiritual Science Church Temple of Christian Com- Tadeshiz

Circuit Rider Al Salter to Speak at Pine Ave Church

Al Salter formerly of Long Beach now a Denver radio evangelist and director of the Radio Gospel Fellowship will preach at Pine Ave Church of God in a 7:30 p.m. service He hosts world wide broadcasts The Challenge to Youth and Strength for Today heard on KMPC Sundays at 3 30 a.m.

Leonard Booker Bethany Church Norman Spurgeon MacPherson Far West Robert Hale Fischer E. Harlan Fischer Fellowship Church Holy Land Winfield Edson Robert Louis Hubbard Los Altos Tiny’ Roebuck Frank Craig Woods Seaside Stanley Benson William ©. Cole University Church Love's Reserve Virgil Harper Fisher White Temple Church OF the Brethren Robert E Bob) Richards First Church Church OF Christ Ianest Beam Lakewood Village Church OF God al Salter Albert J. Kempin Pine Avenue Wilford R. Hall Paul Edward Long Beach Radio Gospel Fellowship of Denver Colo Pine Ave KMPC

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Anacapa Santa Cruz Santa Rosa San Nicholas Catalina Santa Barbara First Congregational Church Roger Huffman Sea Scout Howard Hamann Harry H. Graves Mormons Bay Area Milton Rosen Ty Singer Ely Wouth F. L. Whipple Department of Astronomy Harvard University Naval Research Laboratory W. Benning Ballistic Research Laboratory Aberdeen MD. Proving Ground W. G. Dow Electrica Engineering Department University of Michigan C. Gerson P. Wyckoff Geophysics Research Directorate Air Force Cambridge, Mass B. Haurwitz New York University Joseph Kaplan Department of Physics University of California di, Townsend He de, Newell DE. S. F. Singer University of Maryland William Stroud Evans Signal Laboratory Ft. Monmouth N. Ts J. A. van Allen State Univerity Iowa William Pickering Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology John Townsend Rosen Viking Rome U. S L. W. G. Duff-Forbes Jonah Charles Webster Mayes Gerald Leggitt Chapman College John Willian Hanna East Side Louis Alan White T. J. Turley Reuben Luther Anderson H. R. Shaffer CWE Carl Lawson Crain North Long Beach Robert L Berrell Palo Verde Avenue Lloyd Cummings Parkcrest Chinen i Hiram B.rosy St. Gregory's Francis C. Benson Belliss St. Luke's Church Temple Hiram Bedford Crosby Jr St. Thomas of Canterbury Evangelical and Reformed Gideon Story Arlie William Hoelscher Wood Community Church Evangelical ‘United Brethren Joseph A. Ryan Burns Memorial Church Camp Cedar Crest Mary V. Rood Lakewood Church Friends Amy Herald Emmanuel Mickelson Erich Vv. Oelschlaeger Hugh J. Krieg Grace Church Martin C. Olson Immanuel Louis Frederick Mertz Lakewood Theodore Foreid Naples Walter M. Fehner St. John's Church Jonathan David John Herman Peters St. Stephen's Church Al‘Stred Storvick St. Timothy's Church Donald G. Sehnenker Charles N. Goehring St.Paul's Church Gustav A. Storker Willard A. Schurr Atlantic Avenue Church Richard V. Bendel Belmont Heights James Henry Hughes Californian Heights Community Church Harry B. McFarland Fred Gale Francis Byron Baldwin East Long Beach William L. Collin Crusaders Claude W. Young Crawford Trotter Ray H. Firth Los Arcos St James Earl Bartlett Moore Memorial Aubrey Crawford Rov Carl Mason Victor B. Sawyer Richard Wilson Cain Silverado Park Nazarene Reuben Field Pieters Robert V. Dickerson First Bible Church J. Irving Rhoades Mission of the Church Hollis Lewis Richard Gordon Irving Paul J. Aijian St. John's Community Clifford Jones Second Church Arthur Briggs Jack Alvin Kent United Presbyterian Nelson ‘Warner First L. Roy Lash Starr King Community Church C.M. Ward Mari Nemantly Assemblies of God ABC Radio Network Mert CN. Ward Rev Bartley Lasater United States Canada Calvary Assembly OF God Assth Qek St. Lomita Calif F. C. Williams Light of Truth Psychic Science Linden Hall Linden Ave Idie Delamater Jearett Pl Interdenominational Revival Center Bird Man OF Church OF Faith T. M. Melroy Cerritos Ebell Theatre John Efferlin Harold Sherman E St. St KCOP Edward C. Willits CO Cherry Ave Crane CO Churches OF Christ Artesia H. ©. Cooper West Long Beach Spring Delta Ford Carpenter Central Atlantic Ave William R. Ward Paone Bible School Churches of Christ, Scientist Mother Church First Church of Christ, Scientist Boston Massachusetts First Church OF Christ Scientist Elm Avenue KFUM Scientist Cedar Avenue Seventh Street Third Church OF Christ, Scientist East Third Street Fourth Church OF Christ East Market Street Surmy Locust Avenue East Broadway West Third Street Atlantic Avenue Woodruff Park Avenue
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