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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1954
Page
2
Chin Tay, 55, was mixing whisky with a live rattlesnake to make a medicinal potion per an ancient Chinese recipe. The snake bit Tay as he watched the process at Harbor Emergency Hospital. the fangs had been removed, and he was sent home after treatment.
Berkeley researchers exposed ducks to pictures of pellets to test depth perception. The study found the birds showed increased interest when pellets were portrayed with depth cues, suggesting a three dimensional vision ability. In Leicester, a beard-cutting fundraiser drew barbers to shave Grimsley’s beard, raising funds for blind veterans.
The 10,000 ton freighter Oceanic, sailing from Long Beach to Japan, developed a very bad crack on the port side near Kuriles. The Japanese coast guard Daito located the ship 270 miles east-northeast of Nemuro and escorted her to Hakodate, with arrival expected the next day.
Legislative Auditor Landsberg warns that California must tap rainy day reserves or raise taxes to cover a 1955-56 budget shortfall. Post and Knight advisers urge sharp service cuts and tax hikes, including a cigarette tax, while warning against exhausting reserves.
Orthodox Archbishop AQOSCOW IP archbishop has been sent to New York to assume duties as head of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America and the Aleut islands. He succeeds Metropolitan Germogen, who died last August.
Federal court hears Cary Chessman request for habeas corpus hearing to revisit his 1940s trial records and potentially delay the gas chamber case. Petition seeks impounded original shorthand notes, witnesses from Los Angeles, and access to court reporters to challenge transcript accuracy amid past state challenges.
Archbishop Spellman left Tokyo bound for Okinawa aboard the carrier Princeton in Yokosuka Harbor after a nine day stay. He said mass today before departure, continuing a itinerary through Japan and the Pacific region.
Investigators sought the cause of a C 126 Flying Boxcar crash that killed nine near New Hope Alabama. The aircraft from Sewart Air Force Base to Brookley Air Force Base carried four crew and seven passengers. Survivors included Airman Robert Johnson Cumberland City Tennessee and A Michael P Kinunne. The plane struck Shin Hook Ridge about five miles southeast of New Hope. weather was overcast with reports of turbulence.
In St Paul Minnesota a bloody tattoo formed by the impact of license plates on trousers led to the arrest of Tonald A. Parizing, 21, for leaving the scene after he admitted driving the car that seriously injured Miles Janka. Police traced the plate imprint, found multiple plates with the same number, and linked them to six local suspects. Cooper, the injured man, remained in hospital with a fractured leg, but his condition improved.
Corpus Christi, Texas. Father Norman Stuber, 29, a popular priest and radio broadcaster, cut ties with the Catholic church and married Dorothy Rogers, 29, a divorcee and KRIS operator. The couple, with two small children, moved from San Antonio to Corpus Christi in 1946, and Stuber's Catholic radio programs were canceled. He hopes for another job as an editor or worker, but declined further comment amid threats and public scrutiny. Catholic officials offered no comment on the action.
Admiral Turner Joy, former UN forces commander in Korea, urged the United Nations to consider a naval blockade of Communist China unless prisoners are released. Testifying to the Senate committee, he said a blockade could be a legal extension of the Korean conflict, though it might not restart fighting. He noted he did not believe UN forces would trigger World War III if Korea had ended differently.
Dag Hammarskjold leaves New York for London on the third leg toward Peiping to secure the release of 11 U N and other imprisoned personnel. He will be joined by a U S delegation including Lodge and Bokhari as they pursue talks with Chinese leaders in Peiping and later New Delhi.
Gordon P. Larson head of research for the County Air Pollution Control District faced divorce from his wife of 21 years after she alleged physical cruelty. She sought custody of their two children and division of community property while asking that Larson be kept from the family home during the case.
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