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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1957
Page
2
Warsaw reports a new regime government alignment with Communist China in a joint statement attacking U.S. foreign policy and backing the Kadar administration in Hungary. The declaration followed events in Europe and signals closer Soviet bloc cooperation.
A young seal wandered into a naval officers club during a luncheon and clapped its flippers for attention. Officers attempted to remove him but he kept returning, eventually prompting authorities to relent as Navy men fed him while talks continued at state and international level nearby.
Five California teenagers aged 14 to 16 admitted taking part in the fatal shooting of hitchhiker Al Jennings 50 miles west of Phoenix. They said they picked up Jennings on Friday, plotted to rob him for $1.50, and fired at him after a failed initial shot. The group fled, leaving Jennings dead in the desert. Two of the teens claimed roles in the shooting while others gathered wood and stayed beside the car.
Eye specialists from Boston fulfilled the late Merrill D. Aldrich’s wish by donating his eyes to the Boston Eye Bank for use by the blind. One eye was transplanted in Mrs. Mary Smart of Bangor Maine, who has been blind ten years, and the other eye was used at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for a transplant on Mrs. Clara Best of St John New Brunswick. Results are not yet known.
Thousands of demonstrators paraded in Karachi demanding U N Security Council action on the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan. The mob burned effigies of Indian Prime Minister Nehru and Kashmiri Premier Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad in a tense protest.
BONN Germany France plans to ask West Germany to contribute over 66 million dollars to sustain French forces in Germany. An embassy spokesman said no formal approach had been made yet, but Bonn is expected to continue financial support. The move comes as Germany delays the expansion of its own army much behind schedule.
A large fire destroyed the headquarters church of the Central New York Methodist Conference and a nearby publishing plant in downtown Syracuse. Another church and two additional buildings were damaged. Fire raged for four hours in subzero cold. Fire officials noted probable arson and began an investigation. Three firefighters were injured, none seriously.
Harvey Banks state water chief forms a board of engineering consultants to review studies on salt water barriers. The panel will examine a proposed Sacramento River delta barrier and an aqueduct from the delta to northern San Francisco Bay counties. Members include Brig. Gen. Hans Kramer, Ray K. Linsley, and O. Porter.
Fragmentary text appears to discuss memory and judgment with garbled phrases and unclear attributions, mentioning Franconk Hoennfomeetae and Frenels epigrams in a damaged OCR fragment. No identifiable date or event is present.
Baron James Nugent, back from films, said Hollywood women are brittle spoiled selfish and dull. He contrasted them with British women and admitted plans to marry an American girl, though he refused to name her and noted she is not an actress.
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