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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1956
Page
1
AP Foreign News Analyst William L. Ray argues 1956 tested United States leadership amid Soviet ascent and global upheaval. The year reshaped American foreign policy, elevating U S prestige and setting 1957 as a crucial test of how Washington meets the era’s challenges and opportunities.
Hungary plans to return to the United Nations General Assembly led by Foreign Minister Imre Horvath after walking out on December 11 to protest perceived UN interference in Hungary’s internal affairs. Endre Sik will head the delegation on return. Nepszabadsag notes rising aid from Russia and the West, with estimates of needed funds to restore the economy, unemployment rising, and coal production lagging.
Three Constellations arrived from Tripoli with one reaching Dhahran after a one hour flight. The other two landed at Muhrraq Bahrain. The crashed plane struck sand on final and burst into flames. Fifteen killed, twenty seven injured or survived. Dhahran’s approach system was down. A Bahrain Airlines executive called the wreck a total writeoff. Charleston base reported eleven aboard the C121C Super Constellation.
Burlington Wisconsin story follows the Liars' Club contest where Albert B Hopkins of Madison won the World Champion Lion title for 1956. Hopkins, a 49 year old electro plater, received the gold plated diamond studded medal for relating a tale about hogs in gumbo soil. The report blends other bizarre notes including a Louvre painting incident and a fragment about a stone thrower.
UN salvage work will clear a ship channel through the Suez passage by March for ships up to 35 feet draft, with full depth 34 feet 3 inches by May. The UN fleet, totaling about 23 vessels and growing, operates with Egyptian authorities to restore east west navigation, aiding tanker and bulk traffic as oil lines in Syria are also surveyed for reopening.
New York police report a decline in bomb scares after a three day surge that produced 75 calls. 36 came Friday, 26 Saturday, 13 Sunday as investigators focus on the possibility of a lone bomber or crank. Three devices found Sunday caused a two hour subway disruption.
Los Angeles reports two year old Happy Neujahr will have a happy New Year. Father David, an aviation electrician, notes the family surname is pronounced New Year.
At McMurdo Sound 16 Americans at the South Pole could celebrate New Year 24 times in 24 hours if not for the Polar Science Station and IGY work. Deep Freeze bases run on Mike Time in New Zealand, 17 hours ahead of New York, with greetings from Russia’s Mirney Ayr. The Soviet ship Ob is unloading at Mirney as two more vessels head there.
The outlook predicts temperatures averaging three to six degrees below normal with a high near 35 in the north and 41 in the south and a low around 22 to 24. Tonight and Tuesday will be warmer, then alternating warming and cooling on subsequent days. Precipitation averages about half an inch, chiefly as rain or snow midweek and again Saturday, with frequent lake effect snow flurries near Lake Erie.
Washington reports President Eisenhower plans to keep discussions within the United Nations for the time being and not pursue a new five nation conference including Britain France Russia the United States and India. The proposal is deemed not useful now but a later meeting could occur if progress is possible, with talks to continue in the UN disarmament commission. Pravda flags 1956 as an important peace landmark.
Police searched Sunday night for an unidentified gunman who entered Ironton’s city building earlier, fired at Patrolman Robert Griffith, 27, as he sat in the police headquarters. The bullet missed Griffith. the gunman fled in an auto after Griffith gave chase, with no motive known.
Representative Walter Airs from Pennsylvania questions security in granting permanent residence to 21,500 Hungarian refugees arriving from Austrian camps. He singles out two groups as possibly problematic while endorsing temporary admission under emergency refugee act for 6,500 refugees.
Secretary of State Dulles meets UN Secretary General Hammarskjold in New York to outline the Eisenhower administration plan to deter Soviet expansion in the Middle East. He stresses political goals and seeks standby authority from Congress while detailing proposed 400 million dollars in aid over two years for Middle Eastern Mediterranean states.
Fog rolled into the Malibu fire zone as officials called for continued control of the blaze. Equipment from 58 counties moved toward the Lake Sherwood and Zuma Beach areas where over 60 square miles burned. Sixty seven homes were destroyed and one man died with two firefighters seriously injured.
Nineteen boys from an East German high school slipped across the border to West Berlin after staging a five minute silence in class to protest Soviet intervention in Hungary. They will be flown to West Germany to complete their high school education.
Advert says buyers flock to classification 56 for used TVs amid family recreation rooms. TVs priced at 40 dollars, call Sunnyside Drive or phone 24584. Seller reports success after selling their TV set.
The Associated Press reports a national toll from traffic accidents during the New Year holiday climbs but at a slower pace than the record Christmas toll. By now 213 lives from mishaps, 24 from fires, 37 from miscellaneous accidents, making 214 total.
President Sukarno proclaimed a state of war and siege for South Sumatra after a bloodless coup by Col Maludin Simbolom protested Jakarta rule and tax policy. The decree suspends certain freedoms and extends territorial waters affecting shipping. The move follows unrest across Sumatra and echoes a prior emergency in two other provinces.
The Veterans Administration estimated that 50 Washington veterans received GI home loans totaling 85 000 000 000 during 1958, the third highest year in 12 years, but down 22 percent from 1955 when 649 600 loans totaling 7 100 000 000 were guaranteed.
Deputies say three teens from Zanesville and Cincinnati, all 16 or younger, flagged a Zanesville cab in snow at Roseville. A 15-year-old boy allegedly pulled a pistol, ordered the driver out, and the youths fled on foot after wrecking the taxi near Cannelville.
A solemn requiem mass will be sung at Holy Rosary Church in Columbus at 9 30 a m Wednesday for Herbert S Duffy former Ohio attorney general who died at his home Saturday night after a brief illness
Violence echoed across the South on the final day of 1956 as protests over school and bus integration intensified. Alabama buses were attacked in Montgomery and Birmingham, while college teams faced athletes of color in tournaments. Civil rights leaders in Tallahassee and Tampa faced restrictions as they pressed for bus desegregation and integrated seating.
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