Butler Civil Rights Vow Sparks Southern Debate
The platform debate centers on Butler's civil rights pledge and Southern leaders' responses. Sen. Sam Ervin warns against breaking the Democratic fold while John Battle declines to forecast a Southern split. Farm policy clashes arise as Wickard and Schuman oppose direct payments, reviving Brannan Plan debates and parity price support discussions.
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American Farm Bureau Federation
Charles B. Schuman
Wickard
Brannan
Charles Brannan
Congress
Richard $. McKnight
South Wayne
Wis
Ohio Valley Battered by Weekend Floods
The Ohio Valley faced heavy weekend rainstorms with at least seven deaths blamed on the weather. A family of three was missing and feared drowned in a western Pennsylvania creek after an auto toppled in. Unofficial damage tops three million dollars as hundreds are stranded and floodwaters threaten the Monongahela River.
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Associated Press
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Monongahela River
Pennsylvania
Floods Raze Towns Across Ohio Valley Officials Warn of Aftermath
Heavy rains across the Ohio Valley triggered Nash floods with five to six inch deposits in West Virginia western Pennsylvania and nearby states. Pittsburgh area floodwaters receded but caused major damage to small communities along the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers. Western Pennsylvania faces over a week of debris removal and utility repairs with three deaths reported and search efforts ongoing near Monessen south of Pittsburgh for a missing couple.
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Randolph Urges Gradualism in Civil Rights Plank
Former West Virginia Democrat Jennings Randolph urged the party to couple gradualism with courage in adopting a civil rights plank. He favored a clear statement supporting the 1954 Supreme Court decision while allowing time for gradual adherence. The platform committee began full hearings in Chicago with 108 members and full committee hearings replacing subcommittees.
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Shuman
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John McCormack
Massachusetts
Chicago
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Elkins
West Virginia
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Weston
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Typhoon Wanda Kills Hundreds in Chekiang Province
Communist China reports a major storm disaster last week as Typhoon Wanda, racing in at 150 mph, killed at least 1,860 people and injured 3,200 in Chekiang. The typhoon destroyed about 38,000 houses and swept in from the Pacific.
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Marland Predicts New State Plant in Surprise Hint
West Virginia Governor Marland teased a forthcoming major announcement at a news conference without details. The event came amid Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Co’s $120 million expansion at Ravenswood, part of a $216 million total project making the Ohio River operation the nation's largest integrated aluminum facility. Governor Marland and industrial commissioner Andrew V. Ruckman attended but offered little on the timing or location. He declined to commit to a presidential candidate, suggesting readers would see him in Chicago next week.
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Blast Kills 2 at Plant Injures 13 in Niagara Falls
Two workers died and 43 were hospitalized after two blasts at the Olin Mathieson Chemical plant in Niagara Falls. The explosions hit three small buildings around noon, shattering windows up to a mile away and prompting oxygen-gear fires and Army Navy base fire support. Identifications of the dead were not released.
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Steel price boost follows nationwide steel strike
U S Steel Corp and other producers raised prices by about eight dollars and fifty cents per ton as steel demand resumes after a 34 day nationwide strike by 650 000 United Steelworkers. Production is restarting with U S Steel at 34 percent capacity and wage and cost adjustments from the new labor pact drive pricing.
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Ike and Dulles Discuss Suez Crisis At White House
President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles met privately for 44 minutes at the White House to discuss the Suez situation. A U.S. Sixth Fleet with the aircraft carrier Randolph left Naples for routine Mediterranean exercises as Britain bolsters naval forces. Nasir mobilizes reserves and both Egypt and the Soviet Union delay replies to a 24 nation conference invitation.
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Mediterranean
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Soviet Union
Britain
SUEZ AT A GLANCE Aboard NATO Mediterranean moves and Rumsfeld?
Naples reports six U S Sixth Fleet units sail from Italian ports into the Mediterranean amid Suez tensions as Italy’s destroyers watch. Britain sends troops and ships to the region as Egypt nationalizes the canal. Cairo weighs talks while Baghdad, Damascus, and Washington react to the crisis. The U S stock market sinks on Suez fears.
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Prison inquiry urged after convicts mutilate selves in Georgia
Gov. Marvin Griffin announces a new probe into brutal prison conditions after convicts at Rock Quarry Buford and Reidsville hospitals attempt self-mutilation with sledge hammers. Seven attempt again. two succeed. Guards and inmates attest to beatings and abuse as committee hearings occur.
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