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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1954
Page
5
Telephone service between Las Vegas and Los Angeles was interrupted for hours when a power tool severed a water line near a Pacific Telephone building soaking 40 switchboards. The water main was cut as a building next to the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co facility was torn down.
The Legislative Committee on Fairs heard a plan to move the state fair from Sacramento to Los Angeles or San Francisco and to run two fairs annually. Proponents argue one agricultural and one industrial fair, rotating between cities, would attract major league baseball to California. Critics doubt Senate passage.
Nashville Tennessee directors of the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railway referred to the stockholders action on a proposed merger with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The L and N owns 75 percent of the N O St L stock.
In Shawnee Oklahoma two year old Linda Sue Miles died after a peanut became lodged in her throat on Tuesday. The tragedy prompted local authorities to urge caregivers to supervise young children during meals and to seek immediate medical help for choking incidents.
Los Angeles officials approved radio equipment for 35 smog inspection cars at a cost cited as 7 million dollars in 1954. The move, urged by Air Pollution Control, aims to speed field investigations and improve enforcement of smog laws amid court actions and violations.
California Federation of Teachers and AFL unions press to repeal a San Francisco Board rule that bans teachers from campaigning in city county and school district elections. SF local president Arthur Stewart defends teachers as best judges of education leaders, while AF of T leaders in Chicago protest as penalizing active citizenship.
The Labor Department reports 1954 as a tranquil year in postwar labor relations with about 3,450 strikes, idle 1.5 million workers for 22 million man-days, fewer major stoppages than 1953 and 1952, and 18 large strikes versus 28 and 35 in prior years.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen will begin wage negotiations with U.S. railroads in Chicago on January 10. President H. B. Gilbert says the union, with about 100,000 members, seeks a 28 cents hourly raise and minimum daily earnings of $18 for road firemen and $20 for road engineers, based on a 40-hour five-day week.
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