Road Unit Adds New Major Highway Projects
The State Highway Commission approved 22.629 million dollars in new major road projects for 1955 56 to preserve the 6 cents per gallon gasoline tax. Projects include four laning US 50 in Alameda County 2.1 million for the Golden State Freeway in Los Angeles 4.5 million for L A County rights of way and 2.8 million for a freeway section on US 101 in Sonoma County. The move follows Gov Goodwin Knight’s request to keep the tax at its current level while lawmakers consider auto tax cuts. The commission had initially earmarked 198 million for major construction in its October budget.
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Sacramento
State Highway Commission
Goodwin Dd Knight
U. S&s
Shell Oil Co Hit as Smog Rule Breaker
Los Angeles UPI reports Shell Oil Co faces smog violations accusations amid alleged smoke above regulatory allowances from a refinery stack. The case cites up to 500 dollars per count. this is the second action against a refinery this year following Wilshire Oil Co fines in March.
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Shell Oil Co
Los Angeles
UPI
Louis J. Fuller
Shell
Wilshire Oil Co
Nations Recognize Laos Cambodia in Manila Pact
Manila reports President Ramon Magsaysay and the Philippine Council of Leaders agreed to extend diplomatic recognition to Laos and Cambodia. A trade mission will also be sent to South Vietnam to strengthen ties and regional stability.
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Manila
2Pi
Ramon Magsaysay
Philippine Council of Leaders
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Japanese Youth Sells Body Sign for 70 000 Yen Job
Satoshi Horita a 22 year old from Tokyo stood on a bridge for three days wearing a sign "For sale this body 70,000 yen" to raise 70 000 yen for his tubercular brother’s medical care. He accepted a clerk job with a rubber company and thanked kind Americans who offered help. He previously rejected two strangers’ offers due to unclear duties.
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Tokyo
Satoshi Horita
Horita
Japan Airs Assurances to Allison
Tokyo reports say Japan's new government tells U S Ambassador John Allison it backs Western democracies and opposes communism as firmly as the Yoshida administration. Cabinet officials kept the Molotov talk on Russia as a wait-and-see matter while steering toward a more independent line. In a separate action, Tokyo’s lower house approves the Japan Burma peace treaty and WWII reparations agreement, sending them to the Diet for upper house approval.
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Tokyo
Japan
U. S
John Allison
Ichiro Hatoyema
Allison
Red China
Soviet Union
Shigeru Yoshida
Hatoyama
Mamoru Shigemaitsu
Russia
Shigemitsu
V. M. Molotov
Rotaro Nemoto
Mo'lotov
Nemoto
Yoshida
U.S
Diet
Parliament
Dual Water Board Proposal Advanced
A plan by the Irrigation Districts Assn of Southern California to create two independent groups to supervise California water, including a water rights administration and a seven member water commission, advances to a joint interim reg reg meeting. Dowd described its duties, while critics warned of a possible giant state bureaucracy.
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Eye
Department of Water Resources
Dowd
Evan T. Hewes
Imperial Irrigation District
el Centro
Acdi
Aitine
I Red German Brunette Held as Spy
A East German brunette, Imgar d Margarethe Schmidt, 25, was held incommunicado in Berlin on espionage charges. The arrest was confirmed by U S prosecutor Thomas C Lancian of Everett Massachusetts. She faces trial in Frankfurt and could receive life in prison if convicted or as little as a few years if she pleads guilty.
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Berlin
UPL
Iimgard
Margarethe Schndt
U. S
Thomas C. Lancian
Everett
Mass
Ameri Nich Commission
Frankfurt
Lancian
VW. 5
High Commission
Miss Schmidt
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