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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1962
Page
1
MOSCOW UPi reports a Kuznetsk factory forewoman says Communist officials humiliated her for wearing a low cut dress made from an approved pattern. She states volunteers plus district Communist officials forced her from a dance floor, photographed her shoulders, and questioned her modesty.
A 15-year-old, Lewis Poole, at a local produce market threw an apple at a coworker that missed and struck patrolman Richard Hoover’s motorcycle. Hoover punched Poole in the mouth. Both attend municipal court. Poole faces assault, disorderly conduct, and throwing articles at moving vehicles charges. Poole also filed assault and battery charges against the officer.
Dutch authorities impose nightly power cuts in Hollandia and Biak as tensions rise in West New Guinea. Deputies report an odd incident near Los Angeles involving two boys and a family pigeon story amid broader security measures. Former President Eisenhower travels by train from Paris toward Copenhagen to visit Elsinore and Hamlet’s castle with his companions.
In Prosser Washington a 22 year old corporal Albert Gordon Squair shot a hole in his left leg with a rifle to drain venom from a rattlesnake bite. He limped a mile to his ranch home with his parents then to a hospital where he was described as in good condition. He had been hunting coyotes in the Horse Heaven Hills when a rattlesnake struck. He said he had no other way to drain the poison. The incident occurred Tuesday.
Honolulu reports show the United States delays a second high altitude nuclear test over Johnston Island by another 24 hours, following earlier postponements due to cloud cover. Officials remained hopeful as conditions shifted, with the blast now planned for late tonight in Hawaii and visible there though less spectacular due to lower altitude and reduced explosive force.
Washington reports House Foreign Aid Appropriations Committee chair Otto Passman proposes a 2 billion dollar cut to Kennedy foreign aid funds. The House approved a 4.6 billion ceiling for the current fiscal year, but the actual appropriation awaits subcommittee action. Passman aims to trim spending to about 2.5 billion, citing unused funds and payment imbalances. Kennedy likely to seek Senate restoration if cuts pass the subcommittee.
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