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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1955
Page
6
Billy Graham announced his six week Scottish crusade was the largest evangelical event in history. He reported a total audience of 2,547,065 via television and telephonic hookups, and closed with more than 100,000 attendees at Hampden Park Stadium.
Wisconsin inventor promotes a Vacumatic Carburetor that claims to save gasoline by jet ing and vacu mating. The unit is automatic and uses super charge principles, claiming easy installation for cars trucks and tractors. Manufacturers offer full details to interested readers who send their name and address.
In Sacramento a 40 year old transient John P Lanphier admitted striking Frederick A 33 a clerk with a baseball bat during a drinking party at a caretaker shack and a seal wine bottle on a table with the dead man on a bunk. Thompson 59 told a boat owner there is a dead man inside and was booked as a material witness.
Moscow reported Marshal Vasily Chuikov, postwar German occupation commander, accuses U S official representatives of slandering the Soviet Union and downgrading Soviet wartime exploits. He writes in Fravda on the Berlin battle anniversary, contrasting Zhukov's May Day speech that did not name the United States.
Washington governors gathered for two days of closed briefings on foreign affairs national security highway issues and the polio vaccine program. President Eisenhower planned no direct participation but invited governors to a White House coffee and dinner at the Mayflower Hotel.
In Atlanta area the 50th day of widespread railroad and telephone strikes shows no settlement prospects. Louisville & Nashville Railroad labor actions and Southern Bell Telephone Co. walkout slow service to about 2,300 customers after six cable damages. No sessions scheduled in Atlanta despite negotiations planned in Washington. Weekend violence included sporadic dynamiting and cable cuttings with limited damage reported elsewhere.
Dr Henry L Jaffe presented at the California Medical Assn report on radioactive iodine used to slow heart energy conversion and blood flow, easing work on the heart for some patients. About 200 treated at City of Hope center, with four of five showing some benefit and several regaining activity.
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