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Long Beach Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jun 27, 1955

Page

11

Solon presses ICC on funding for more inspectors

Senator Warren G Magnuson told AFL Teamsters officials the Interstate Commerce Commission resisted adding funds to hire 30 to 50 more safety inspectors to enforce public carrier regulations. He called the ICC an arm of Congress and criticized its preference for the executive branch.

Los Angeles Warren G. Magnuson D.-Wash Interstate Commerce Commission Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee AFL International Brotherhood of Teamsters ICC Congress Sen. Magnuson Executive Branch Civil Service

Romulo Cites Russ Rift for Policy Shift

Philippine Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo on Face the Nation said a Kremlin rift drives Soviet tactic changes. Substituting for Molotov, he described a power struggle in Moscow and a potential return to altered Russian behavior if a winner emerges.

San Francisco Carlos P. Romulo Vyacheslav M. Molotov Kremlin Romula CBS Molotov U. N. General Assembly Russia Soviet Moscow Romulo

Override Ike on Guard Bill Sparks Civil Rights Debate

Washington activists press Congress to override Eisenhower on reserve legislation pushing for non segregated state National Guard units. NAACP leaders urge a constitutional amendment to end segregation while lawmakers discuss expanding the trained reserve to nearly three million by 1960.

Ike Washington Congress House Eisenhower Ste Clarence Mitchell The National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People House Armed Services Coun Mitchell Charleston S. C Birmingham Atla Atlanta NAACP Rep Powell D-Ny Senate Winstead D-Miss Committee For Action

$2 Million Drydock Plan for Puget Sound Naval Yard

Senator Jackson tucks a five million dollar planning and design authorization into a military construction bill for a large drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton. The dock would repair Forrestal class carriers and could handle an atomic carrier. total project cost estimated 30 to 45 million dollars. The measure does not appropriate funds, only authorize future appropriations.

Washington UPI Senate Armed Services Subcommittee Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton Wash Sea Jackson D-Wash Raymond Fogler Navy Fogler

Run for Canyons If Bomb Falls Advised by Safety Expert

UCLA Medical School dean Dr. Stafford J Warren says the canyons of Santa Monica and San Gabriel, plus Whittier and Puente Hills, offer the best shelter in case of an atomic attack. He notes four hour alert could allow many to evacuate, with shelters, roads, and improvised hospitals needed to handle refugees and avoid dead ends.

Los Angeles California Stafford J Warren Warren Ucla Medical School Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains Whittier Puente Hills Richard F. Lynch Los Angeles Civil Defense

Churchill declines invitation to Central City Festival

Secretary says former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill has rejected an invitation from Colorado Governor Ed Johnson to attend the Central City Festival this summer.

Churchill London Winston Churchill Colorado Ed Johnson

House OKs Extension of U.S. Debt Limit

The House approved a one year extension of the temporary six billion dollar debt limit increase, sending the bill to the Senate. The measure would raise the legal ceiling to 281 billion dollars until July 1, 1956, preserving Treasury flexibility as expenditures outpace income in the year’s second half. Democrats attacked the administration’s budget balance promises, while Republicans framed it as a financing issue.

Washington Senate House Treasury Cooper Ways and Means Committee Rep. Jenkins Ohio

Dog Cat Row Ends With Knife Attack in Los Angeles

In Los Angeles a dispute between dog and cat owners escalated to violence. Leland Ray Hesson, cat owner, is jailed on assault with intent to commit murder after Glenn Thomas, dog owner, was stabbed in the stomach and hospitalized. Hesson claimed he retrieved a butcher knife after the dog neared the cats.

Los Angeles Leland Ray Hesson Glenn Thomas Hesson Thomas

Adventists Fold Tents After Camp Meeting Ends

Seventh-day Adventists ended a 10 day camp meeting in Lynwood and families began returning home while about 200 pastors and their families stay several days to clean up. Officials call 1935 convocation their greatest with over 20 000 at Saturday Sabbath services and George Vandeman delivering a televised Sunday devotional address to a packed auditorium.

Lynwood Jane George Vandeman Washington, D.C

U S Rests in Bridges Oyster Case

In San Francisco the government rested its civil suit to strip Harry Bridges of U S citizenship and seek his deportation to Australia. Judge Louis E Good man ordered a recess until Monday July 1 as the trial proceeds without a jury. The government claims Bridges lied about never being a Communist Party member.

San Francisco

Woman injured by stray baseball at concession stand

Mrs. Dorothy A Regan of 123 N Golden Ave suffered a broken nose Sunday when a fastball bounced back from a Pike concession throwing area, striking her about five or six feet away. The fracture was confirmed by X rays at Seaside Hospital.

Dorothy A. Regan Golden Ave

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