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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1954
Page
9
Salt Lake City leaders push for a western highway link from Chicago to San Francisco. A joint executive committee chaired by Oren Probert of Elko Nevada was appointed to coordinate efforts of the Forty-Niners Trails Associations across Utah California Nevada and the Highway 30 Associations in Wyoming Nebraska and Iowa.
A federal judge ruled that a telephone recording of a talk between Warren L. Stephenson and Robert Parsons cannot be used as evidence. The three count indictment hinges on testimony about Navy contracts. The case may resume only after an appeal to higher courts.
Pasadena California Institute of Technology plans an 8 million dollar upgrade to its wind tunnel raising maximum wind speed from 750 mph to 1400 mph. Built in 1944 the facility now under jet power and new aerodynamics aims to provide higher velocities for better testing, says Josiah Smith associate director.
Louis Stark, 66, Pulitzer Prize winning labor reporter for the New York Times, died at his home Monday of a heart attack. He covered labor in the nation’s capital from 1932 to 1951 and recently wrote editorials for the Times.
A wildcat walkout by more than 1000 locomotive engineers and firemen spreads from Newton Abbot to Bristol and Paddington in London. Union leaders urge a return to work as services are sharply curtailed and crews spend nights away from home across the Western region.
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