04 Sep 1956
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Newspaper
Logan Daily News
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1956
Page
1
Hocking County experienced two minor injuries across eight auto accidents during the Labor Day weekend. The Athens post logged nine accidents countywide with eight injuries, noting heaviest traffic Friday to Monday.
Little Karen Mae Helber, two, near Tacoma seeking cure from Rev Oral Roberts. Family fund in Logan rises to 738 dollars plus earlier gifts as churches and workers donate across Hocking County. A benefit is planned at Lake Logan Speedway next Sunday and funds flow from Carborundum plant workers and various plants and businesses.
Logan city schools report a rise in enrollment on opening day with a projected total of 1,625 students after kindergarten additions. County schools total 2,656, with Laurelville strongest at 553 and Gibisonville lowest at 139. Green leads elementary attendance while Ilesboro records the smallest enrollment.
Roger A. Selby announces the purchase of all foreign interests in the Selby Shoe Co. for more than $1 million, consolidating ownership and control of the company’s overseas holdings.
Hillsboro Ohio integrated all pupils in the Webster and Lincoln schools without incident as the Washington School nears completion. Clinton Tennessee shows tense mood with militiamen patrolling, 200 boys entering class, and about half the white students boycotting.
Cairo talks between Egypt's President Nasser and the five nation Suez committee moved to hard discussion after the 18 nation plan for international control. The conference stayed cordial while Britain and France build up forces and arrests widen in a spy ring case including John Thornton Stanley.
Frank Nixon 77, father of the vice president, lapsed into a coma in Whittier California. Doctor I N Kraushaar said coma usually precedes death and Nixon is in very critical condition with death described as a matter of time.
Stuart Crocker 58 chairman of the board of Columbia Gas System Inc died at his summer home in Chatham Massachusetts on Monday. Columbia Gas includes 14 companies led by Crocker and the Ohio Fuel Gas Co among affiliates.
Adlai E Stevenson continues a seven speech Labor Day swing, heading to Los Angeles for an American Legion address after stops in Michigan and the Far West. He criticizes Eisenhower’s leadership while highlighting poverty and unemployment as moral issues and pledges a bold new America.
VIENTIANE Laos Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma said a Communist government will not work in Laos and he could not hold office under such a regime. He had just returned from visits to China and North Vietnam and stated no diplomatic or economic relations with either country.
Cincinnati report quotes the chairman of the President's Committee on Employment Policy saying job discrimination causes economic loss and weakens the United States in its cold war contest with Soviet dominated nations.
President Eisenhower formally offers his Democratic challenger Adlai Stevenson weekly confidential briefings on foreign intelligence reports, signaling an unprecedented level of transparency in the 1952 campaign. The proposal aims to boost Stevenson’s access to sensitive information affecting U S policy while preserving security safeguards.
Washington Court House Ohio officials say the high school activity fund is short by 9100 dollars and have requested law enforcement investigate the discrepancy.
Police fired twice at hunger marchers in Dacca amid protests in East Pakistan. Unofficial reports claim five killed and twenty wounded as demonstrations continued.
In Nicosia Cyprus a British soldier was wounded and a Cypriot policeman narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by a time bomb. The attack signals escalating tensions in the Cyprus region with security forces on high alert.
Washington reports that the Soviet Union has conducted a third nuclear test blast within ten days, according to the Atomic Energy Commission.
Flora Anderson, 22, a University of California graduate, plunged 1000 feet from a rented plane near Stinson Beach after fighting the pilot during a second date. Pilot Stanley Gordon, 28, was questioned and released as investigators label it likely death by own action.
In Hamden Connecticut leads in the Cynthia Ruotolo kidnapping surfaced then faded as State's Attorney Abraham Ullman and police and FBI pressed for information. A stocky dark complexioned woman seen by shoppers was the best lead. parents Mrs Eleanor Ruotolo and her husband await news amid broad public appeals.
President Eisenhower works with Leonard Hall and aides on a streamlined campaign blueprint to start in about 10 days. The strategy covers itinerary dates and major addresses with five to six nationwide talks planned, while avoiding barnstorming. A Labor Day economic report is released to bolster support among workers as the White House signals broader outreach.
Ohio suffered at least 28 traffic fatalities over Labor Day weekend the AP notes as among the nation’s worst. Calif ornia New York and Texas led tolls with higher counts amid seven drownings and four other deaths nationwide. A Licking County crash killed a family of five near Newark.
Perfect weekend weather drew large crowds to Hocking State Parks and Lake Logan with 2,000 visitors at Kachelmacher Park in South Logan. Reunions and a church picnic occurred as the city pool closed after a warm season. Temperatures rose from a 54 degree night to 86 by noon.
The forecast projects average temperatures near normal with highs 78 to 82 and lows 57 to 60. Cooler days are expected Wednesday through Friday with a warmer high on Saturday. Rainfall should total about half to one inch, with showers likely today and again Wednesday and Saturday.
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