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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1956
Page
2
In Pikeville Kentucky twenty annoyed housewives with shovels and picks repaired Read Coburn Hollow near Huddy to pressure county officials. They completed about a half mile and planned to resume Friday on the next mile, saying the road had been promised improvements last election but remains rough and impassable for a school bus.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Anatole France born 1821 and mentions names Thibault and Anate with a critique. The readable text hints at literary figures or critiques but lacks full context or clear events. No definite dates, places, or actions emerge from the surviving words.
State Lands Commission may take a stand on Prop 4 at a Sept 27 meeting in Los Angeles. John M. Peirce, state director of finance and commission chair, said the initiative will be on the agenda. The staff recommended opposing Prop 4, seen by supporters as conservation, by opponents as monopolistic. Peirce noted the final decision rests with voters, not officials, unless the attorney general’s opinion alters the state's interests in tideland and oil development.
Buffalo reports the Bell X2 reached about 23 miles high and near 1,900 mph in tests at Edwards Air Force Base. An Air Force spokesman said altitude records are classified. Similar claims appeared in multiple papers, citing Kincheloe as pilot and Bell as builder of X2.
Sharon Kay Ritchie Miss America of 1956 and Don Cherry obtained a marriage license Wednesday. They plan to marry at 7 p.m. Saturday in Denver Central Christian Church, officiated by Dr Val Wilson, president of Colorado Woman's College. Ritchie, a Denver freshman, is daughter of Forest A. and Mrs. Ritchie of Grand Island Nebraska. Cherry hails from Wichita Falls Texas.
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