23 Mar 1957
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1957
Page
1
Don Miller describes travels on the basketball tourney trail noting visits to large modern gymnasium facilities. A Lorain County sale draws crowds as farm assets are offered at a full page feature with pictures and stories.
The Country Editor reviews a home showing how association stirs fond and not so fond memories. Dorothy Funk in From the Chatter Box explains Calypso rising in popularity tied to Odyssey. More reading on the Dividend Pages 20 and 21.
A crash in Avon Lake leaves two injured and hospitalized, reported on the first page and second section. The story notes ongoing local concerns and includes brief civic context from Lorain welfare efforts and a by election for a new council president.
The Bermuda talks push a joint Anglo American plan to deter communism in the Middle East. Eisenhower and Macmillan near finalizing basic terms to equip British forces with U S guided missiles and atomic weapons while a broad communique stresses unity and limits on immediate policy in Gaza, Aqaba, and Suez.
Senate Rackets Committee plans to question Teamster President Dave Beck about $270,000 allegedly misused from union funds and other transactions totaling up to $770,000 connected to Beck and related companies. Kennedy said more financial dealings will be explored. Beck will testify with records. Hoffa and Brewster condemned the committee as using smear tactics.
Mostly sunny and warmer today with highs 48 to 52. Tonight will be fair and not very cool with lows 35 to 40. Sunday brings partial clouds and little temperature change. Friday’s range 26 to 47 is noted with no precipitation in the last 24 hours. Humidity readings were 64 percent at 8 am and varied through the day.
In Montreal a Munro quadruplet died Friday night at St. Joseph's Hospital with three siblings in good condition. In Roosendaal Holland quintuplets born prematurely to 28 year old Mrs Cornelia van Hassel Heynen all five babies died within six hours.
An Ohioan, a Swiss man, and a Frenchman pursue a South Sea treasure linked to wartime art plunder. A U-boat veteran aided by Stalder allegedly financed a German voyage, planned a cutter voyage to Norway, and involved a crew of four, under a Bermuda-type hull named Yanu.
The report details a quadruplet birth where one child, the first born and baptized Catherine, died after five hours and 48 minutes, while three siblings survived. The piece links the event to a larger narrative involving a globe spanning voyage allegedly tied to buried treasure.
A strong quake hit near San Francisco forcing highway workers to flee as sand slides caused sections of the coast road to sink about three miles north of Edgemar. Rerouting of all traffic followed after three fourths of a mile of roadway was ruined. Dust rose from sliding sand in the background.
Standard Oil Co of Ohio announced a $3.4 million high test gasoline plant to be built in Neweland this summer with a planned output of 150000 gallons per day of high octane components.
Nine defendants including Rep. William J. Green Jr and former Rep. Herbert J. McGlinchey pleaded innocent to charges stemming from the grand jury probe of the Tobyhanna Army Signal Corps Depot project. A May 3 hearing was set, with defense motions due April 1 and government replies due April 11.
CATRO UP-Egypt plans to form a Suez Canal users association of private companies to help plan waterway development, according to informed sources.
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser outlines a canal operating plan to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, rejecting a government users' association in favor of private firms. talks seen as not going well. The canal will open to ships up to 3,500 tons starting Sunday as Cairo weighs Baghdad Pact membership.
Scientists say time of earthquakes cannot be predicted though strong pressure zones may indicate risk. Don Tocher and Charles Richter discuss the San Andreas Fault from Mexico to Oregon, noting the 1906 quake and the 1952 Hayward shock as context.
A 4.25 magnitude temblor hit San Francisco at 3:13 am EST following a 5.5 quake on Friday. The fires, gas leaks, and cracked foundations prompted evacuations and dozens treated for minor injuries with estimated millions in damages.
A Cleveland youth is wounded in a chest gunfire following a quarrel with another teen. A separate 100 mile northern California quake damages structures along the coast while gas and water lines break and the coast highway buckles. Police report 30 or more injured in the quake area with injuries ranging from minor to serious.
Florida Supreme Court holds a man cannot marry a second wife at the expense of his first, and cannot cut first wife alimony to support a second. Chronicle-Telegram Classifieds offer quick sale and rent ads to ease financial concerns, with an ad-writer at 4751.
Police and recreation supervisor said Cannon in a highly intoxicated state fired at Gott on a sidewalk outside the canteen. The first three shots missed. the fourth struck Gott in the chest, knocking him down. Police reported 43 girls and 90 boys were at the canteen during the incident.
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