The Pontiac Press: 1954-12-27

Abstract

379 traffic fatalities nine more than predicted: 20 deaths rank Michigan with the nation's worst ; Handicap no bar to friendliness ; Boy loses legs under train ; Hospital reports Bobbie Dunn, 13, condition good ; Mendes regime to stand or fall on today's vote ; Pope reported resting better, still improving ; Political stories awarded top billing in past year ; Ike keeps eye on Paris crisis ; Fishermen save two from lake ; 25-mile chase nets fugitive; Chou promises fall of Formosa ; California whipped by 70 mph winds ; More rain seen for Pontiac; Noted botanist succumbs at 96 ; Gift exchange deadline is set for January 4 ; '54 saw record number of births as US heads for 220 million people by 1975 ; The day in Birmingham: Commissioners to learn of options on parking land ; Flint father admits strangling own baby ; Stolen car stalls; Two youths caught ; Britain ousts US divorcee ; Somalia comes of age: Italian protectorate picks single-starred blue flag ; House trailer ban in court ; Tobacco, alcohol hold no fears for 93-year-old ; Cardinal Spellman busy ; Bentley wants US to sever Red ties ; Deaf-mute child teaches friends sign language ; Sleeping driver kills another asleep in car ; Dean of dental college to be honored in Detroit