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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1954
Page
2
A lone detective narrates a surreal chase through crowds as Father Time is pursued for alleged misdeeds. The city’s figures from January to December comment on wartime, politics, and events, ending with the narrator resigning to the notion Time has left us.
Resi dents in a Pasadena Glen section faced possible evacuation as a Mt Wilson Monrovia Peak flareup burned 14,000 acres since Sunday. A second fire near Mt Baldy scorched 4000 acres with losses estimated at 7.395 million. Firefighters backed by a 1000 man crew fought flareups and kept watersheds safe as houses remained threatened and the Wilson hotel, observatories and transmitters stayed secure.
President Eisenhower and a Washington team arrived in Augusta to finalize the State of the Union message. Ambassadors and aides, including Henry Cabot Lodge and Joseph M. Dodge, gathered at the Augusta National Golf Club with early frost in the air. The group discussed defense mobilization and the two month old plan to direct contracts to high unemployment areas, while Knowland and southern Democrats criticized the policy. A photographer noted insured cameras as the President eyed the scene before delivering the message to Congress in a New Year session.
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