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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1957
Page
5
Rita Hayworth said there is a possibility she will marry producer James Hill over the New Year weekend and surely before the end of January. She noted Hill has been in hospital for surgery and that they are house hunting while she finishes her film Separate Tables.
Manuel Roderick from Hayward hosts a large scale miniature railroad in his San Lorenzo home room measuring 12 by 18 feet. The layout models numerous real lines with six engines, auto couplings, and special equipment including milk car and cattle car relations. Roderick, born in Hayward, bought the first postwar Bay Area model train in 1946, dreaming of a permanent backyard train room for daily access for his family Maureen and Michael.
Washington Zoo plans a festive Christmas feast with a unique menu for its animals. Bears will dine on 49 pounds of sorghum bread as part of a large holiday meal including worms for hoopoes, oyster shells ground to powder, hay and horsemeat. Porcupines will eat yule logs with celery and orange.
Berlin reports say Communist leaders push for toys of war to indoctrinate youth. They denounce dolls while urging tin soldiers and models of guns and tanks for Christmas. Libby and others warn nuclear and chemical dangers tied to propaganda themes, with experiments noted in West Germany and ongoing research at universities.
Paris dispatch reports Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns cautioned that Indonesia’s political instability risks a final and irretrievable fall into communist hands. He said Indonesian actions against Dutch interests undermine Indonesia’s standing and threaten Europe’s security, insisting the New Guinea dispute is not anti colonial but colonialist in nature.
American scientists experiment with pedal pills and fertilizer aimed at saving man and soil from the perils of an atomic attack, seeking a practical aid for civilians and agriculture in wartime.
The Agriculture Department reported 67 farm owners including Mississippi State Penitentiary each received over 50 thousand dollars in Sail Bank payments this year. Garvey Farms led with 278 thousand for 2,279 acres, Harris Ranches followed with 209 thousand for 1,664 cotton acres. The department noted totals may vary due to multiple names per operator and warned of questions raised by the Harris case, which led to a 1958 payment cap.
Denver report summarizes James G. Patton of the National Farmers Union urging a farmer controlled marketing board to curb overproduction and balance farm supply with demand. He says gross income may rise while net income falls, and cites acreage restrictions and potential Congress action this election year.
A Reno Nevada corporation has purchased the 2000 square mile Holland livestock ranch spanning northern Nevada and California. The Drummer Corp sold the property to buyers including David E. Bright of Los Angeles Arnold H. Chicago and Lawrence J. Holland of Reno. The exact price was not released though the ranch had been offered around 152.3 million dollars.
Paris reports housing strain as Americans shift to living aboard barges and boats along the Seine. Gaston Edmonds and Sheila Ma’s home on an 82 foot yacht anchors near Place de la Concorde and the Eiffel Tower. Marion Skielgig, born in Boston and raised in California, shares a barge with three Siamese cats. They enjoy warmth and freedom from rents that rise for apartments, while electricity strikes in France barely affect them.
In a Pravda marked article the Setov chairman Gen Ivan Serov claimed the United States funds espionage and sabotage in socialist states. He said U S money buys spies wreckers and terrorists to subvert the USSR and surrounding nations and called emigre governments a pool of mercenary scum aiding Western powers.
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