14 Jun 1956
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1956
Page
1
Market reports show a steady trend in the Northwest and Batesville Floral regions with poultry prices holding. Wheat futures edged higher while other cereals retreated, and soybeans and corn traded lower amid cautious trader sentiment as export news and warm weather influence grain markets.
Washington lawmakers led by Sen Mundt and allies from South Dakota and Wisconsin filed bills to curb a Supreme Court decision barring government mass dismissals of workers not tied to national security. Sen Cain of Washington, critical of the loyalty program, urged swift action as hearings continued.
Governor Faubus, nearing renomination for a second term, blasted former Gov. Francis Cherry in a press conference. He suggested Cherry backed Republican Pratt Remmel, noting Cherry now earns about 150000 a year in a Washington job. Faubus recalled a 1954 GOP peak and dismissed GOP worries as minimal, saying their high point was 1954 with Cherry behind them. Mitchell’s nomination as governor candidate for Republicans loomed as a future test.
Police in Parkville detained 21 year old Carl Daniel Kier on serious charges after a reported slaying in North Baltimore. Victim Mrs John H Boost 48 lived in the fashionably suburbs. Weapons found at the scene included two butcher knives a Japanese saber and a brass figurine. Bloodstains and ice cream spatter marked a violent struggle described by authorities as the era’s most brutal crime.
Kabul dispatches say five days of earthquakes across Afghanistan may have killed over a thousand people. Shocks were strongest in northern mountain regions near nomadic tribal areas adjoining the Soviet border, with details sparse and unconfirmed.
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