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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1957
Page
2
Cold weather drives skunks into Stillwater Oklahoma A&M College area causing a minor downtown invasion. Zoology expert Dr Roy W Jones notes scavenging behavior while Alpha fraternity brothers address a pet skunk issue. A studio accident and a ceiling collapse narrative follow in separate dispatches.
At the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences meeting in Annapolis Md Maj Gen B A Schriever announced new unidentified missile projects including the Thor 3500 mile IRBM entering flight tests and milestones for Atlas and Titan IIICBM programs. Film shows covered Lockheed X17 North American 140 and Army LaCrosse field artillery missile with claims of precision while X10 Nautaho and X47 re-entry tests were noted. The Baltimore Symphony funding debate opened with Schriever suggesting a closed concert to assess value.
The University of California spent about 175 million dollars last year with only 35 percent from state funds. More than 80.6 million came from federal agencies under research contracts. The Soviet Cairo exhibit will feature heavy machinery aircraft and consumer goods valued around 1.435 million. Egypt's Commerce Minister disclosed the Russian offer as part of the fair.
In Detroit a Dutch postal official, Hendrik Kuiper of The Hague, 37, died after falling from a downtown hotel to be listed as an apparent suicide. The incident followed study work in the United States and left officials in Washington and Detroit noting troubled spirits. Separately in Niles, Indiana, Harry McDowl was fined 45 dollars and 4.20 in costs after speeding and insulting an officer with a threat.
Fifty nine Japanese miners in Duisburg Hamborn have settled for three years at the Friedrich Thyssen mine to study western mining methods. They report adjusting to sauerkraut instead of rice as their biggest hurdle, while language barrier is only a minor issue.
Partial OCR text from a Long Beach notice lists addresses and numbers with stray letters and unclear context. It appears to reference the Audit Bureau of something and a price or rate figure, but no complete action, deadline, or authoritative entities are readable. The fragment yields no clear event or instruction to summarize.
Washington observes President Eisenhower weighing Thel Herter as a potential chief policy coordinator while Nixon faces a mounting controversy. Danish authorities expel Soviet attaché Antol Rogov for activities deemed incompatible with his post, signaling a growing Cold War tension over espionage and diplomatic limits.
Windsor Ontario reports the death of Wiley M. Moxley aged 68 a president and general manager of International Playing Card Co Ltd and director of United States Playing Card Co died Monday.
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