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Long Beach Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Aug 10, 1956

Page

3

Nixon Stassen press White House talks on Nixon run

Vice President Nixon and Harold E. Stassen visited the White House separately seeking to discuss Stassen’s dump Nixon campaign. Stassen said his drive to unseat Nixon and back Gov. Christian Herter on the GOP ticket continues and gains encouragement. Nixon and Stassen both declined to reveal talk details amid a broader political sequence following Dewey Rogers talks and a Eisenhower Humphrey conference.

Washington Nixon Harold E. Stassen White House Stessen Stassen Christian Herter Massachusetts Farmer Wew York Thomas E. Dewey William P. Rogers Eisenhower Treasury Humphrey Hisenhower Rogers Executive Mansion Hower Murray Snyder Sherman Adams Adams Snyder Stasson Wixon Herter Steve Nixon Xan Dewey New Yorker San Francisco TOLN al Chence Vncential Sen. Schoeppel R-Kan Stagson Schoeppel GOP Kansas

Kansas Mailmen Face Wasps In Central Kansas

Kansas mailmen in a central area report wasps swarming from rural mailboxes and refusing to heed postal authority. Assistant postmaster Herbert Chittenden urges residents to spray mailboxes and control the nests to protect carriers.

Bays Kan Kansas Herbert Chittenden

Governor Coleman Sees Civil Rights Plank Favorable to South

Governor J P Coleman says the South is finally getting friendly treatment in the Democratic platform process. From Chicago he reports the party leadership wants a civil rights plank aligned with Southern views. He notes past conventions favored northern liberals and that the South faces own state problems. He cannot predict final outcomes but calls the shift meaningful after 12 years with prior neglect.

Jackson Miss J. P. Coleman Democratic Party Chicago Coleman Retuoln

Military plane crash in Italy kills five sailors

A Italian military plane crash near Catania Sicily today killed five crewmen. The navy craft had just taken off from a nearby military airport.

Italy Catania Sicily Upi

AF Reports Bash of Engine Trouble

The Air Force disclosed that six times in three days planes were sent to escort military aircraft that developed engine trouble off the California coast. A Hamilton Air Force Base escort guided a MATS C 97 transport with six people to a safe landing after engine trouble on a flight from Hickam Field Hawaii.

Travia Air Force Base Air Force California 41St Air Rescue Squadron Hamilton Air Force Base San Rafael Hickam Field Hawaii

Briton reports rich platinum find in Argentina mine

British geophysicist Sir Christopher Gibson announced that a seven year survey uncovered a rich platinum deposit in northeast Argentina. He described a placer type mine with platinum in black powder form, the first such deposit found in Argentina since 1890.

Argentine Buenos

Meany Demands Strong Civil Rights Stand at Democratic Meet

AFL–CIO President George Meany urged the Democratic platform committee to confront civil rights fully and uphold the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. Senator Gore assailed GOP atomic policies, arguing labor loss in nuclear power progress amid crowded hearings and tense clashes between civil rights advocates and Dixie delegates.

Afl-Cio Greevese Meany Democratic Party George Meany Supreme Court Jenze Meany John McCormack Emanuel Coller New York New Albert Gore Tennessee Dixie Gore Congress Clinton P. Anderson New Mexico Senate House Joint Atomic J Energy Commission Ameri Jhis

Marine death in Ohio linked to burned car case

Authorities widened a search after a Flaming car fire in Indigo tied to a 421 year old Palm Desert car painter David R. Schultz. A truck driver reported picking up a bloody hitchhiker identified as Ralph Fred Neiss of Cleveland after the vehicle burned near Hwy 74. Deputies say the man left Riverside before the bus wreck.

Indigo David R.I Schultz Palm Desert Ohio Ralph Fred Neiss Cleveland Here Lear Riverside

Moderate Weather Forecast for Democratic Convention in Chicago

The Weather Bureau predicts moderate summer weather for the first two days of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Temperatures are expected to average near normal with highs around 84 and lows near 63, with little fluctuation through Tuesday.

Chicago Bureau

Dirksen plays down Stassen bid as flopped

Senator Dirksen dismissed Harold Stassen’s campaign against Nixon as a powerless boomlet that never took off. He noted the Illinois delegation backs Nixon and said Stassen has not secured a speaking role or formal delegate status at the GOP convention.

San Francisco Sen Dirksen R-I Harold Stassen Nixon Harold GOP Stassen Illinois H. Meade Connecticut Ihairman St. Francis Hotel

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