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Water Supply Bur repts use highest since '53 as result of heat wave; warns against waste
Min Lloyd (GB) holds planes known to West
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A E Stevenson asks $800 million yrly with grants on unrestricted basis, s, NEA; denies Fed control is inevitable; favors adjusting aid to natl income; Amer Legion Comdr Collins fears Fed control
Quill wires new NYCTA urging speedy settlement of pay dispute; NYCTA to set conf; will seek 3-yr pact
1955Len Barker, American baseball player and coach[†]
Leonard Harold Barker III is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He pitched the tenth perfect game in baseball history. Barker pitched with the Texas Rangers (1976–78), Cleveland Indians (1979–83), Atlanta Braves (1983–85) and Milwaukee Brewers (1987). During an 11-year baseball career, Barker compiled 74 wins, 975 strikeouts, and a 4.34 earned run average.
1955Ali Naci Karacan, Turkish journalist and publisher (born 1896)[†]
Ali Naci Karacan was a Turkish journalist and publisher. He was involved in founding the Turkish daily newspapers Akşam (1918) and Milliyet (1955), and his family, including grandson Ali Naci Karacan, built up a publishing group around Milliyet. He was the President of Fenerbahçe S.K. (1926–1927), and the editor of the newly founded Tan from 1935. Born Ali Naci, he later took the additional surname Karacan.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]