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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1954
Page
26
The release lists Monday December 20 cinema offerings at Long Beach venues. It includes film titles such as Garden of Eden and Fire Over Africa with prices and showtimes like 11:37, 1:25, and 7:90, along with entries for other movies and venues.
Actor Robert Newton lists ten figures he deems poorly dressed including Harry Truman Charles Laughton Howard Hughes George Kaufman Ernest Hemingway Albert Schweitzer Tallulah Bankhead Greta Garbo Bea Lillie and Elsa Maxwell. He says he is tired of dressing up and that an old suit is an old friend.
In Dover New Hampshire the public works department dismissed six longtime winter employees as part of cost cutting. Their $1200 annual pay was deemed too high and the horse drawn sidewalk snowplows have been replaced by mechanical plows.
Moira Shearer, famed ballerina from The Red Shoes, says she has danced for the last time. At 28 she portrayed Titania in Old Vic’s A Midsummer Night's Dream and plans to retire from ballet to join husband Ludovic Kennedy and daughter Aïsa Margaret in London.
Los Angeles report indicates investigators are just scratching the surface of a liquor license probe in Hunt County. An attorney general team checked backgrounds on more than 30 licenses in Los Angeles County since 1950 with eight cases turned over to prosecutors and three filed.
An all day search by state police, volunteers, firemen and bloodhounds failed to find the Englewood boy Frederick Squires, 10, of New Jersey. The search was called off when he turned up hitchhiking home, clearly homesick.
James Cahill 24 a sailor from Winthrop attached to the Rendova in San Francisco spent Christmas at home for the first time in four years. He was struck by a motorist who failed to stop while en route to a subway station for the last four miles home. Cahill sustained internal injuries and a fractured left leg.
A United Press survey shows judges and lawyers sharply divided over whether a test tube baby is legitimate and if the mother is an adulteress when a third party donor is involved. Some say illegitimate but others condemn labeling the child. experts urge new laws to define artificial insemination status.
Washington report shows Safe- Driving Day reduced traffic deaths 15 percent, injuries 46 percent, and total accidents nearly 20 percent from last year. Rear Adm. Miller credits public compliance and notes steady declines in 1954 despite a 3 percent rise in travel. Ohio leads in speed-set licensing with 130 sets, Wisconsin 107, Utah without radar.
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