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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1955
Page
5
New York reports a Census Bureau projection by Howard G Brunsman that the U S population will exceed 200 million within twenty years. He notes current 166 million plus 15 million in fifty years and upward revision of future estimates to 186 to 493 million in 1965 and 207 to 228 million in 1975.
Associated Press reports Westinghouse Electric strike clashes erupt at 40 plants across Sharon Pennsylvania Bridgeport Connecticut Union City Indiana and Lima Ohio. Four arrested Bridgeport two divisions reopen with 74 return to work. Federal mediator to resume negotiations in Pittsburgh as unions press for 73 days of stoppage by 44000 workers.
Former Jersey City mayor Frank Hague, age 79, released Christmas Day after a long hospital stay for bronchial ailment. His attorney described him as a very sick man awaiting an uncertain immediate future, with prior reports of a heart attack later denied by family and hospital sources. Hague, long a state Democratic leader, left politics in 1949.
A group of bird watchers in New York observed a rare bald eagle resting on an ice floe in the Hudson River. The sighting marks a notable winter moment for local avifauna as onlookers recorded the unusual behavior of the bird.
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