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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1957
Page
1
Cape Canaveral reports a renewed push to launch a baby Vanguard satellite this month. Investigations into Friday’s launch failure focus on thrust loss and fire damage to the jointed stand and pad while engineers rush repairs and static tests.
Washington December 7 The Strategic Air Command SAC seeks a two billion dollar defense budget increase for the next fiscal year with much for missiles and long range bombers. Senator Robertson notes the Air Force requests that full amount, but doubts half will be approved. Officials warn the U S lags in missiles and SAC remains deterrence while lawmakers debate dispersal bases and more planes.
President Eisenhower, at Gettysburg, received a preliminary Pentagon report on why the Vanguard launcher failed. White House press secretary Hagerty said the full report is expected next week and may not be public.
President Eisenhower proclaims next Tuesday as United Nations Human Rights Day and urges study of the UN rights declaration signed December 10, 1947, and the U S Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights turns 166 on December 15.
Pravda editorial broadcast by Moscow radio criticizes red tape and bureaucratic busybodying as barriers to Soviet industrial work. It cites Perm council operations where daily meetings of chiefs and departments lasted two to three hours, illustrating bureaucratic inefficiency.
Gale-force winds tore across the northern plains and Rockies with gusts up to 72 mph. Light planes were overturned at Denver and airplanes ripped from moorings. Blizzard conditions were seen in northeastern Colorado while western Nebraska faced mixed rain and dust. The cold front shifted weather from the Gulf Coast to New England with snow in southern Michigan.
A small group on Ford Island rededicates the Pearl Harbor Memorial beside the Arizona as Navy Club officials join Navy chaplains in prayers for the 1941 dead. Marvin R. Dee, national commandant, leads a drive to raise funds to enclose the wreck with concrete and steel for a lasting memorial.
Moscow radio asserted rocket debris from the first satellite fell in Alaska and along the U S West Coast, urging Washington to forward all remains to Soviet scientists. Khrushchev claimed the US landed the rocket. U S officials said no firm evidence of a hit.
French army headquarters said 131 Algerian nationalist rebels were killed in three operations. One French soldier died and another was wounded. authorities reported the offensives were ongoing.
Yugoslav sources say President Tito told U S Ambassador Riddleberger that Yugoslavia refuses more American military aid due to repeated reappraisals. He cited humiliation for Yugoslavia while seeking continued economic and political ties with the United States. The report notes Brioni Island meetings and Tan jug dispatches on the Moscow 12 Communist parties declaration.
Crowds braved a downpour to attend the dedication of Bluefield’s new half million dollar post office at North and Jefferson, part of a national push to deliver mail the next day. Irving W. Thomas praised modernization amid debates over funding as a memorial plaque for Jim Shott was unveiled.
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