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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1956
Page
4
Editorial warns Eisenhower cannot delegate all presidency duties due to ill health from ileitis and coronary thrombosis. It argues social obligations matter for international relations, questions if the GOP will force a return to power, and notes pressures from party leaders to run Ike despite his condition.
Willing to Learn Installment buying, long regarded by the Communists as a capitalist trick, is creeping into Iron Curtain nations. In Poland and Hungary, workers earning under $200 monthly are offered phonographs and refrigerators on six to 18 installments. Plans aim to expand such sales, signaling a drift toward American-style consumer economics.
The piece questions whether Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission informants or a secret investigative network to block Supreme Court desegregation rulings mirrors a secret police system. It probes state tactics used to undermine federal civil rights orders.
A Gallup Institute poll of adults shows one in three would direct extra military funds to guided missiles and rockets. More would fund missiles than bigger bomber planes, aircraft carriers, or larger ground forces, signaling early public preference for missiles over airpower. Copyright 1936 The Gazette.
Inez Robb argues that meteorology cannot explain shifts in weather over the past decade. She mocks scientists, claiming atomic tests have altered climate, citing longer winters and hotter summers, and ridicules meteorologists for denying the link.
Pan American Airways president Juan Trippe faced questions from a House anti monopoly subcommittee about Pan Am hires tied to the Eisenhower circle. The hearing probed Roger Lewis and Milton Eisenhower Jr., plus a 15 000 share option for Lewis and a $34 420 000 missile range contract.
Victor Riesel warns of two American financial wizards tied to Senate investigations who allegedly infiltrate Wall Street for Soviet aims. They target key production firms and steer purchases through covert foreign funds, including Swiss banks, to aid espionage and sabotage. Senate probes name links to Perla ring and Ware cell, highlighting industrial spying risks and the flow of foreign capital.
Local notes say Mr and Mrs Tawney of Pennsylvania Ave who died in a car crash near Clendenin will be buried side by side in Barren Creek Cemetery after a simple service at Barren Creek Church attended by many relatives and friends. State news notes Prank Witcher McCullough of Cabell County was reap pointed Democratic member of the State Board of Control for a six year term expiring June 36 1937 and serves as treasurer. National brief reports a Hungarian named George Robert Gabor confesses to hoaxes and says he was once engaged to Eleanor du Pont of Wilmington. World dispatches say France considers President Hoover's plan for a yearlong suspension of war debts and reparations with Laval Briand and Flandin in talks and Flandin later meeting President Downer.
A digest of Sydney J. Harris and others lampoons a type of person dubbed a square. It lists traits from clingy optimism and obsession with appearance to narrow-minded judgment. Included are quotes from Senator Soaper and others about social pretensions and habits.
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