The Sun remembers 1957: News of the day

Friday, Aug. 25, 2000 | 9:04 a.m.

March 17: Nevada Southern Ceremony Today

Story: The cornerstone for the first college campus building of Nevada Southern will be laid today in ceremonies at 2 p.m. at the school site on the extension of Maryland Parkway between Flamingo and Bond roads. The cornerstone of the first university building on the main campus in Reno was laid 72 years ago on Sept. 12, 1885.

Made possible by an appropriation of $200,000 from the 1955 Legislature, the Nevada Southern classroom building will be completed late in April, will cover some 80 acres in the Maryland Parkway area and have 240 full-time and 285 part-time students.

April 3: Regal Tropicana Prevues On Strip Today

Story: Today is T-Day in Las Vegas. Ending an extended period of anxiety, the prevue opening of the mighty Tropicana takes place this morning with all Las Vegas and visitors invited to view the regally beautiful resort hotel, the most ambitious on the Strip.

On hand to touch off this special opening for Las Vegans at 10 this morning will be Lt. Gov. Rex Bell, Mayor CD Baker and singing star Eddie Fisher, who opens in a premiere performance headlining "Monte Proser's Tropicana Revue."

Sept. 20: First Full-Scale Atom Test 'Successful'

Story: A man-made earthquake rocked the Nevada desert yesterday in a demonstration of science's ability to duplicate the forces of nature through use of atomic power. The earthquake was created by exploding an atomic device with an intensity equivalent to between 1,000 and 3,000 tons of TNT in a tunnel dug 2,000 feet into a desolate mesa at the northern end of the Nevada Atomic Test Site. The purpose of the test was not creation of the earth movement but to test the confining of the force and radiation of an atomic blast underground.

Oct. 8: U.S. Proves Soviets' First Earth Satellite; Basketball-Sized Spheres Circle Globe

Story: The United States tonight termed Russia's launching of an Earth satellite "of great scientific interest" and urged the Soviets to share details of their momentous experiment. Almost as soon as the news was flashed across the world, the government and private scientific groups threw their massive resources into the task of establishing the orbit, or path, of the sphere in its race around the Earth.