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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1957
Page
2
Mrs. Lyle J. Howland of Rome, British Columbia, leads a penny-a-pound fund drive for DAR supported schools. The campaign has raised $6,000, with many donors handing over flat sums rather than disclose weights. Howland, 5'4" and 140 pounds, contributed $2. The effort aims to bolster a school endowment.
An oversized Easter egg dating from about 200 years ago, laid by an acryornis or roc from Madagascar, is on display at a Buffalo museum. Barbara Lee Hall admires the egg as she wonders if any Easter basket can hold it. Associated Press photo caption.
Observers view the new diplomacy as a Soviet reaction to revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the Mideast crisis, and renewed Anglo American ties. Bishop Frank, a Methodist, arrived late after a wrong turn but was escorted to St James Catholic Church by a patrolman.
The U S Chamber of Commerce urged a long range foreign aid program for the next fiscal year starting July 1, proposing a total of 3.6 billion dollars and partial cutbacks in nonmilitary aid, with a shift toward efficiency and accountability and calls for neutral nations to receive aid without mandatory military alignment.
Sandford Martin, 70, editor emeritus of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, charter member of the International Press Institute and former chairman of the North Carolina Board of Education, died Sunday in Winston-Salem North Carolina.
Mrs. Jessie E. Hockensmith, 37, wife of an Air Force officer, slashed two of her children with a butcher knife and cut her own throat and wrists in their Dayton home. Son William Jr. 12 died, daughter Jo Carol 10 was hurt, Hadley 6 escaped to a neighbor. Maj. William A. Hockensmith found them and said she had been despondent amid ill health. She remained under armed guard at a hospital.
British and Cypriot authorities ease daylight restrictions in main towns, allowing limited travel and activity after four months of tight control. Archbishop Makarios figures in the backdrop as tensions ease and safety measures relax in Cypriot areas deemed off limits.
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