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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1955
Page
10
Supervisor Francis Dunn calls for a temporary county survey to gather data and assess incorporation trends in Southern Alameda. The plan would fund a consultant to prepare a master plan and conduct a political survey to evaluate feasible incorporations, costs, and benefits for the county and communities.
The piece weighs California's population surge and its effect on possible six new Congressmen in 1960. It argues district boundary control could shift power between Republicans and Democrats, with the GOP favored by current margins but Democrats rising. urging broad voter registration to influence national redistricting.
Washington records show Moscow fails to deliver machinery metals and ships to Egypt India and Afghanistan while Red China complains Moscow stalls shipments. Dulles argues Khrushchev Bulganin rely on Western capital for development. history cites Hitler’s use of trade to expand influence.
The piece argues Soviet barter agreements with Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Mexico mimic Nazi economic leverage, trading oil and machinery for food and agricultural products. It cites Uruguay and Argentina losses, Perón’s protests, and warns Moscow owes nations while politicians in the United States respond with cautious skepticism.
A Congressional Quarterly study projects Democrats may win nine of thirty governorships up for election in 1956, while Republicans could take four. New race dynamics hinge on Midwest risks and gains in Delaware Massachusetts Montana and Utah for Democrats, with current GOP strongholds in Nebraska New Hampshire North and South Dakota Vermont and Washington likely to be retained.
Civil Defense director H. Pleason thanks Alameda County agencies, reserves, underwater squadron, volunteer fire departments led by Niles, the Red Cross, Coast Guard, and Santa Rita detail for flood relief. He notes donations of boats, motors, clothing, money, and meals, praising community response and volunteer shelter efforts in San Lorenzo and the courthouse.
In remarks before the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin declared that the year 1956 will go down in history as a definite turning point in the relaxation of world tension.
President Eisenhower faces fierce push from the Air Force for a larger defense budget. The Air Force argues for about $2.5 billion more to reach 137 wings and contend the current proposal leaves it weakened. Weeks of debate loom as Congress reconvenes, with possible extra requests shaping the next year’s spending. Meanwhile Poland’s pig and ham imports to the UK rise, per Commerce Secretary Weeks.
Ranger Eugene Burns presents a puzzling riddle about the stork, detailing long legs, plumage, and a four-toed bill. The bird’s migratory life, nesting towers, courtship displays, and symbolic significance in Europe and beyond are traced through eras, legends, and cultural beliefs about birth and good luck.
A Thackeray anecdote shows the novelist failing to deliver a dinner speech, then retorting that the next speaker should console him as he would console the other. A separate note hints at a missing will after a desk rifling, with the secretary and Brock Pemberton trading suspicions about relatives.
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