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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1956
Page
2
Rep Norblad proposes legislation to ban production of cars exceeding 70 miles per hour or require governors to enforce a speed cap. He questions federal jurisdiction but fears interstate commerce clause could enable action. He says the Washington auto show highlighted high speed and power with sales pitches for cars over 100 mph.
In a pre election scene Finnish youths sculpt a snow portrait of President Juho Paasikivi, who has said he will retire. They use evergreens and tin cans for hair mustache eyes and pipe in this UP photograph style moment.
In Daventry England farmer David Lloyd says he received a check for zero pounds from the food ministry claiming a clerical error left him entitled to nothing despite live stock sales. Lloyd jokes he might keep the check as a souvenir, while officials acknowledge the error. In Dallas, burglar Robert Hodge, 26, survived a botched home operation after two accomplices tried to remove a bullet with a kitchen knife and gin. He had been shot by restaurant owner Bert Fant during a robbery. Carlson Ramsey, 12, wins Lone Star Artists of Hairdressing, and hearing aid audiologist John L Burton shares patient success stories to promote Beltone aids.
Moscow reports the Soviet of the Russian Republic begins its year with plans to approve the 1955 budget and decrees issued by the president. Premier Bulganin absent since January 3 amid unconfirmed illness or vacation rumors. Khrushchev and Molotov attend as party and state leaders plot budget details.
A Norfolk and Western train derailed at Cedar Curve on Tug River near the West Virginia Kentucky line. Engineer Walt Willard of Bluefield was found dead. fireman Ernest Ho Back, 27, also of Bluefield, died later. About 27 others were injured and treated at Williamson Memorial Hospital. many passengers received emergency care at the scene. The train carried five Pullmans, three coaches, two mail cars, and one express car.
The ad states the Long Beach Sixth Avenue location and Sunday issue details. It lists Audit Bureau of Circulation figures per week per year, with 45 cents and 2.00 dollars pricing, and notes mail circulation and second class matter status. The Love Beach post office entry date is included with 1888 registration.
Fragmentary report describes ambulances rushing to wreckage and traffic halting on mainline near Williamson. It mentions Portsmouth Ohio and the Norfolk and Western division, with no clear indication from the superintendent's office about normal conditions.
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