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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1955
Page
6
The freighter Taganrog passed through the Panama Canal with armed U S Army sentries aboard for the eight hour transit. The ship carried Cuban sugar bound for Russia and waited for a $5000 canal toll as guards were visible on the bridge and decks during the passage.
Sidney Shalett explains why Ike’s TV appearances look polished as White House telecasts navigate network quirks. The article reveals the top director behind the effort, the challenges of airing presidential events, and the bloopers that almost disrupted the show in this week’s Saturday Evening Post.
In Balboa Canal Zone a U S flier named Pi Dale S of Cushing Oklahoma was injured when his single engine craft crashed Monday en route from Costa Rica to Panama City. He reported recovering today from minor injuries after the plane failed suddenly. He said he tried to glide to an open field but landed in a gully, suffering lacerations and coal? injuries in an interior town near Chime, about miles from Panama City.
UN Command called the May 10 shelling of South Korea fishermen off the Haeju Peninsula cold blooded murder. Six fishermen were killed, nine wounded, fifteen missing as five boats sank. UN demanded punishment for those responsible and condemned the attack as violating civilized norms.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov departed Vienna by air today for Moscow. He was bid farewell at a Russian military air field by Chancellor Julius Raab Foreign Minister Leopold Figi and Soviet Ambassador I. I. Ilyichev along with Austrian and Russian officials. Molotov, the last of the big four foreign ministers to leave, had been in Vienna since Saturday after the Austrian independence treaty signing.
Assembly Finance and Insurance Committee endorsed a measure to curb charges on second mortgage loans. Author Assemblyman Charles Chapel of Inglewood said the bill helps borrowers in desperate financial straits against loan sharks.
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