Week of June 8, 1955

Salk polio vaccine will not be able to produce enough “to

immunize all children this summer.

Surprise - Russia invited West German Chancellor Konrad

Adeauer to visit Moscow. Russia proposed that Adenauer

should come here “in the very near future” to discuss

establishment of diplomatic and trade relations.

At least 77 persons are killed and another 75 injured when the crash of a flaming

sports car in front of the grandstand in Le Mans’ 24-hour auto race. A speeding

Mercedes crashed into another car and then catapulted inflames over a dirt

retaining wall into the crowd. Pieces of hot metal cut bodies apart. The death toll

is expected to rise.

Brief strike halted - CIO United Auto Workers obtain from General Motors the

same guaranteed wage plant they got a week ago from Ford.

The Senate approves a Democratic-sponsored increase in the national minimum

wage from the present 75 cents an hour to $1 - 10cents more than President

Eisenhower asked.

Soviet Premier Bulganin discloses Russia wants to create a new alliance of

Asia’s Big Three: India, China and the Soviet Union. In an address of greeting to

Indian Prime Minister Nehru at a lavish Kremlin banquet, Bulganin said that the

three nations already have achieved peace in Korea and Indo-China.

between them leading the Brooklyn Dodgers to a 6-2

second game victory and split with Chicago after the Cubs

had snapped don Newcombe’s 10-game winning streak in

the opener.

Week of June 8, 1955

program is supposed to be a cousin of TV’s “Today,” “Home” and Tonight” in

that, the listener doesn’t know what’s coming next. Weaver says when “Monitor:”

goes on a forty-hour schedule this weekend, it will have its work cut out for it. The

intent is to throw away the radio clock and establish a new pattern - a continuous

flow of items, their length determined by their worth.

Week of June 8, 1955

Week of June 8, 1955

Entertainment news -

Lawrence Welk is stripped and bound and her

husband brutally beaten by three hoodlums in

their home. The three masked assailants took

photos of the disrobed singer. Later, a bus boy at

a local Beverly Hills hotel is arrested. Found in his

apartment were photos of Ms. Lon and newspaper

accounts of the attack.

They’re having a tiff, but Dean Martin and Jerry

Lewis say they will remain a team. Basis of the

squabble reportedly is that Paramount suggested

and Lewis subsequently insisted - that the

premiere of the comedy team’s latest movie be

held in a resort in the Catskill Mountains where

Lewis once worked as a busboy and has a lot of friends. Martin felt that, because

of this, so much of the limelight would be on Lewis, that it would be practically a

solo performance. When the matter came up three months ago, martin disclosed,

he refused to go. “I’m not a Jerry about this, but, naturally, I’m upset about it. All

this publicity makes me look like a heel.” Martin says that although he and Lewis

will full-fill movie and TV commitments, he has now decided he’d like to have his

own TV show. “I just want to sing a little more, that’s all.”

Television news - Johnny Carson will be starring in his own show beginning June

30 over CBS-TV. Barbara Ruick, singer and actress will be a featured performer.

Sponsors will be General Foods and Revlon.

Tuesday night television -

with Father, Halls of Ivy, Meet Millie, Red Skelton

Show, $64,000 Question, See It Now

Week of June 8, 1955

NBC - Dinah Shore, News Caravan, Milton Berle Show, Fireside Theatre,

Drama, It’s A Great Life, Tonight

ABC - John Daly news, Cavalcade of America, Who Said That? Danny Thomas

show, Drama, Colonel March Mystery

Tonight Show - Steve Allen welcomes the Redheads, Gloria Mann. With Skitch

Henderson & The Orchestra.

CBS-TV Saturday Mornings

At the movies -

Holm

Week of June 8, 1955

Week of June 8, 1955