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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Location
Pasadena, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
4
The event showcased three delta wing fighters at an estimated 680 mph, two night fighters based on the Soviet Flashlight, a Mikoyan designed jet day fighter, and an Antonov twin engined transport. Twining and Khrushchev spoke at a reception, praising Eisenhower and urging disarmament and arms control.
Funds debate centers on a large Air Force increase with Senate votes seen as crucial to U.S. military strength three years hence. Gen Twining and Gen LeMay warned Soviet air power could outrun U.S. unless funding rises. Khrushchev questioned Navy leadership in a Moscow chat with Twining. reporters missed the remark.
President Eisenhower appoints Thomas P. Pike of Los Angeles as special assistant in charge of liaison with government departments and agencies. Pike, 47, was assistant secretary of defense for supply and logistics since April 1954 and previously deputy assistant defense secretary. He and his family run Republic Supply Co. of Los Angeles, a leading producer of oil drilling equipment.
Authorities planned to drag lakes near Hoover Dam today for the bodies of two men who perished in separate swimming mishaps yesterday. Carroll B. Cooke 35 service station operator of Baron Calif lost his life while swimming off a motor boat in Lake Mojave below the dam. Ray Gannon 35 of Las Vegas drowned in Lake Mead while swimming off a point on Rams Head Island.
Secretary Marion B. Folsom said he will send to Congress a package plan combining federal health re insureance and a voluntary risk pool among small insurers. The program targets better coverage for catastrophic illnesses rural areas and older adults.
Eleven people are dead and 77 injured after a passenger train collided with a freight train near Wernt station as a torrential rainstorm hit. The passenger train had left the station shortly before midnight and failed to clear a red signal. Most injuries are serious, authorities said.
Washington reporters say House Democratic leaders, under GOP pressure, agreed to bring up for a vote on Monday Eisenhower proposed 430 million dollar postal rate increase. Democratic floor leader Rep. John W. McCormack of Massachusetts said the move was only agreed to because Republican leaders threatened to act on their own.
Four earthquakes struck central Apennine villages including Santa Sofia Galeata and Rocca San Casciano damaging twenty buildings and forcing thousands into tents. In Rotorua New Zealand a separate nine hour quake sequence caused no damage.
The US aircraft carrier Lexington arrived at Yokosuka Japan marking its first Far Eastern tour of duty since World War II. The ship's visit signals a renewed US naval presence in the region with crews preparing for ongoing operations and training routines aboard.
Kevin Snow of Sierra Madre and Walter Johnson of Pasadena were injured when a car driven by Snow’s father Harry Shaw struck Johnson’s auto. Johnson’s passenger Wayne Flanbury suffered a broken nose. Two Arcadia girls Beverly Lane and Kay Ferguson were badly injured after Lane’s car hit Shoemaker’s car and crossed a vacant lot. Hollywood residents Helen Kian and Virginia Stein were hurt in a Sunnyside Mariposa collision. Delos Marsh of Altadena drove into a canyon on Glendora Mountain Road. Finis Miller of Los Angeles treated for internal injuries after his car crashed down the mountain.
Mayor Frank P. Zeidler, chairman of the American Municipal Association Civil Defense Committee, told a House subcommittee that the United States probably could not win an atomic war due to insufficient civilian capacity to absorb a nuclear blow. He cited the helpless state of home bases and target cities as precluding victory.
New York author Michael Arlen aged 60 died yesterday after a long illness. He wrote The Green Hat and several other novels plays movie scripts and short stories.
Downey woman Laura Kain, 19, reunited with husband Ronald, 21, in San Francisco after vanishing Tuesday from their Bay City home. Police searched statewide. she said she left work, rode a bus, and met a Hawthorne acquaintance before returning with husband to Downey.
After a private talk with his wife, Mr. Kain expresses relief that she found refuge in a good religious home similar to her own, as stated by Mrs. Kain's mother.
The record notes that in 1900 seven million Americans owned homes, compared with twenty five million today, highlighting a long-term rise in home ownership.
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