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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1957
Page
7
Nuclear scientists prepare an underground test at a desert mesa to study rock compression and cracking. The device, set 800 feet below, will be fired at 10 a.m. with an output between 1,000 and 3,000 tons, designed to minimize surface disturbance while probing deep rock behavior.
Mrs Richard E Byrd Sr aged mother of Senator Harry F Byrd and widow of a Virginia state leader died at her Winchester home. She reared by a family active in politics and business, leaving two surviving sons and her eldest grandson State Senator Harry F Byrd. Funeral was set for today.
Joseph Caraher, accused of stabbing eight people in Chicago, was ruled insane and committed to the Illinois State Security Hospital at Chester. A psychiatrist testified he is homicidally inclined and unable to cooperate with his lawyer. A seismology team from the California Institute of Technology will place portable seismographs to study ground movement near the attack site.
The mother-in-law of film producer Darryl Zanuck, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fox, died at his Santa Monica home after a period of illness. The report mentions an undergrounder and a bomb code named Whitney, with potential additional shots before a summer series.
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