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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1956
Page
4
California railroads may face new safety legislation after a Santa Fe wreck that killed 30, prompting a county grand jury investigation. District Attorney presented jurors with evidence and hearings set to decide if formal recommendations should be made to the state.
The British Foreign Office said a Cairo letter did not show renegade diplomat Donald MacLean was receiving U S documents from an American contact in Cairo. Sir George Young said there was no indication the author was engaged in espionage. The letter, dated 1951, mentioned MacLean but was under investigation by U S and British officials.
WAL proposes new wage terms to Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and other unions to end a five week strike. Chairman Edwards of the National Mediation Board says the offer raises pay for about 850 clerks and baggage handlers from roughly 250 weekly to 25 to 30 dollars a month per person, while the union seeks 35 dollars. Negotiations continue daily with two other unions, the Machinists and the Air Line Pilots Association, amid ongoing labor action across 12 western states and Canada. In Cyprus, gunmen killed three Greek Cypriots, suspected of informing for the British government, in the latest escalation.
CORONADO An Interstate Commerce Commission representative told the California Trucking Assn annual convention Tuesday that trucks should be checked by drivers before trips as thoroughly as pilots check airplanes Pete Dawson the commission s San Francisco director of the Bureau of Motor Carriers said The first step in eliminating accidents is to have a mechanic make sure the vehicle is road worthy Then have the driver comply with ICC safety rules and regulations by checking equipment before taxing it on the road.
WILLIAMS AIR FORCE BASE Ariz The Air Force today identified the two pilots killed when their jet trainers collided over the Gila Bend gunnery range west of here Victims were 1st Lt Paul D Jacobs 25 Cincinnati Ohio and Edward H Bovey Chelmsford Mass Both were assigned to the base flight wing and had served in the air force for several years.
A weather dispatch notes a split pattern with cold Canadian air holding above freezing in parts of the Ohio Valley while upper Midwest and Dakotas stay below zero. Warmer moist air from the Gulf advances northeast through the South and into New England, yielding readings in the 60s in the Ohio Valley and lifting temperatures east of the Appalachians.
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A Canadian test pilot William Fer was killed when a single-engine Havilland Otter plunged 5,000 feet into a snow covered farm north of Toronto on Tuesday. Eyewitness Wilden Gordon said the port wing folded and the plane began to spiral downward.
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