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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1954
Page
4
Los Angeles city council may vote next week on a measure to ban all trucks over three tons from using the Hollywood Freeway and Lankershim. The proposal also limits trucks under three tons to one specified lane. Committees approve. state board must approve before use.
President Eisenhower outlines a broad program stressing highway modernization and federal grants in aid. He names a Tennessee Valley Authority official as possible appointee and signals Alaska defense considerations while deferring tax and debt questions. He intends to stay within income as deficits cannot continue.
Wilmington officers arrested Eduardo Minjares and Robert Foss in a tropical yard scene near 322% Lakme Ave. at 3 a.m. after finding heroin paraphernalia and seven powder capsules. Police had monitored the house for days on tips of narcotics activity.
Washington and Santa Ana report that prospects for Hawaii statehood dimmed as House Rules Committee delays threaten sending the Hawaii and Alaska bills to conference. Speaker Martin notes seven votes lacking. Knowland backs separate consideration. potential filibuster looms as August adjournment nears. Polio cases rise in Orange County with six-year-old Sharon Jackson and Michael Haughey listed as non paralytic polio patients.
The Senate approved restoring U S citizenship to anyone who lost it solely for voting in political elections or plebiscites held in Japan since Sept 2 1945. A House amendment corrected plebes cite to plebiscite and the Senate accepted it unanimously, sending the bill to the White House.
General Bryan finishes a 31/2 year Korea tour returning to the United States. He and his wife spoke of efforts to stop narcotics use, noting reduced intake after help from religious aid but ongoing use. Bryan earned the Distinguished Service Medal and will resume duties at West Point.
In Miami Oklahoma on Tuesday Ottawa County Sheriff James A Alleman ordered seven prisoners out of the jail due to extreme heat. The inmates were taken to the courthouse lawn under shade where they were allowed to play cards while awaiting further action.
United States and Britain push for a Southeast Asia defense alliance while seeking possible concessions in Indochina and Korea. Churchill warns against forcing China into the United Nations, Attlee dissents, and Dulles heads back to Paris to brief Eisenhower as Geneva awaits.
Cranfield England reports the world’s first crescent-wing bomber disaster as the massive Handley Page Victor crashes. Four editors and specialists confirm fatalities and investigate the experimental aircraft’s failure.
Report says a baby girl was found injured near Seminole after an alleged assault involving a knife. A Seminole physician suggested possible rape. Hobbs police stated the baby was raped. The child was located in an abandoned car ten miles west of Seminole on U S Highway 180.
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