3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 76

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 54
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 51
Harry Chester Peterson 55
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 55

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 18
Peggy LaNae Peterson 14

General

Population: 2.89 Billion

• Entertainment: Russian Boria Pasternak publishes Doctor Zhivago
  "I Love Lucy" goes off the air,
  Writers include Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac (On The Road), Gore Vidal, Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat), Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
  Artists include Chagall, Le Corbusier
  Music includes Carl Orff, Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein(West Side Story), Meredith Willson (The Music Man), artists include Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline, Harry Belafante
  The Miracle Worker broadcast on television
  Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story performed
• Medicine: Asian flu pandemic kills 4 million worldwide
• Politics: Internation Atomic Energy Agency established
• Science: First satellite with Soviet's Sputnik
  Giberellin isolated
  Nobelium discovered
  International Geophysical Year
  Crick proposes RNA and DNA functions
• Deaths: Christian Dior, Diego Rivera, John Sibelius, Arturo Toscanini, The Aga Khan, Joseph McCarthy, Humphrey Bogart, Admiral Richard E Byrd

Africa

• Egypt: UN's Jammarskjold visits Nasser - UN reopens Suez Canal to navigation
• Ghana: Gold Coast becomes independent and changes name - first sub-Saharan country to do so

Americas

• General: OAS (Central America) settles dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras
• Bermuda: Eisenhower and Macmillan hold Bermuda conference
• Cuba: Guerrilla activity under Castro against Batista
• Mexico: Earthquake hits Mexico City

Asia

• China: Premier Zhou Enlai survives assassination attempt aboard the Kashmir Princess jet
• India: Smallpox in Calcutta
• Malay: Becomes independent monarchy and renamed Malaysia
• Mongolia: Quake

Europe

• General: Treaty of Rome sets up EEC (European Economic Community) or Common Market
• Great Britain: Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister
  Queen Elizabeth visits Canada and the US and addresses UN General Assembly
  Wolfenden Report on homosexuality and prostitution published in Britain, British bank interest rate raised
  Regular London-Moscow air service started
  Britain explodes thermonuclear bomb in central Pacific
  Sir Lawrence Olivier receives honorary doctorate from Oxford
  New Cambridge Modern History begins publication
• Hungary: Death of Nicolaus von Horthy ex-regent of Hungary
• Norway: Death of King Haakon VII of Norway – succeeded by son Olaf V
• Soviet Union: Sputnik I sends signals and Sputnik II launched with Laika on board
  Chou En-lai visits Moscow
  Gromyko becomes USSR Foreign Minister - Molotov Malenkov Spekilov and Zhukov sacked
• Spain: Franco announces Spanish monarchy will be restored on his death
• West Germany: Saarland annexed by Germany

Middle East

• General: Fort Salmanassar in Nimrud-Kalash excavated
  President Eisenhower formulates "Eisenhower Doctrine" for protection of Middle Eastern nations from Communist aggression
• Israel: Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula and hand over Gaza strip to UN forces
  US resumes aid to Israel
• Jordan: King Hussein proclaims martial law
• Turkey: Quake

Pacific

President:

Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower

General

• Business: Teamsters Union expelled from AFL-CIO when Jimmy Hoffa refuses to expel criminals and union refuses to expel Hoffa
• Crime: Arrest of Ed Gein – serial killer who had severed heads as bedposts, skin lampshades skullcap soup bouls, human heart, face mask of skin, lips necklace, mammary vest made of vaginas and breasts, and a nipple belt – some he dug up
• Culture: Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road revving up Beatnik culture
  "Beat" and "beatnik" take hold to describe "Beat Generation" described in Kerouac's "On The Road"
• Entertainment: Bridge on the River Kwai debuts
  Leave it to Beaver premieres
  Charles Van Doren wins $129 million on "Twenty One"
• Law: Civil Rights Act passed
• Medicine: McGill University uses LSD studies for depression – gave electroshocks while on LSD
• Sports: Mickey Mantle wins American League All-Star sixth year in a row
  Bobby Fischer age 13 becomes world chess champion
• Transportation: Major John Glenn sets speed record in jet

East

• Maryland: Reports of a goatman
• Massachusetts: Dust devil lifts children into the air
• Pennsylvania: Childrens Hospital in Philadelphia experiments on children from 3-11 removing blood and restraining children

Midwest

• Illinois: East St. Louis receives 16.5 inches of rain in 24 hours
• Iowa: Cancelled check from Kansas City found in Ottumwa, IA (200 mi) after tornado
• Michigan: Mackinac Straits Bridge becomes world's longest suspension bridge

South

• General: Race riots
• Arkansas: Little Rock Nine banned from attending public school by governor
  President Eisenhower sends in troops to enforce desegregation
• Louisiana: Hurricane Audrey hits with tidal waves following - 530 dead between Louisiana and Texas
• Texas: Hurricane Audrey hits with tidal waves following - 530 dead between Louisiana and Texas
• Virginia: Mine disaster kills 37 with 143 rescued

West and Pacific

• Alaska: 8.2 earthquake and tsunami
• California: Giants move to San Francisco and Dodgers to LA
• Hawaii: Tsunami due to Alaska quake
• Nevada: Operation Plumbbob leads to 32,000 cases of thyroid cancer NW of Las Vegas

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,488,314

Temples: 10

Other

• Ward education committees organized to enroll students in seminary
• Plan to move Ricks College abandoned after public outcry - expansion instead
• October Conference cancelled due to flu outbreak
• Elder Spencer W. Kimball undergoes throat surgery for cancer
• Mamie Eisenhower undergoes surgery – is prayed for by General Authorities and she starts healing
• Senator Kennedy meets President McKay and discuss politics, but McKay is not impressed at the time
• Pacific Board of Education created to supervise Church schools