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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1956
Page
8
Deputies and volunteers will resume Sunday in a bid to locate Glen McMartin and Ronnie Smith television technicians from Eureka California who disappeared in February on Red Mountain during a blizzard. A search party of six was briefly snowbound near the KIEM relay station.
Sacramento report says District Attorney John M. Peirce asked Charles G. Johnson California state treasurer to fire Francis O Shea the treasurer's son who resigned after a check cashing incident. The finance director said the decision to prosecute rests with the DA and pledged full cooperation. An audit of the treasurer's office was launched and will take several weeks.
California motorists will receive reflector stickers for their 1957 auto registration instead of the current metal tabs. State Department of Motor Vehicles director Paul Mason cited lower costs and a safety advantage as the two main factors in the change.
Senator Hickenlooper secured easy renomination in Iowa's primary, crushing opponent Countryman by about 129,459 to 63,484 votes as Democrats polled over 100,000. He swept populous counties and backed by farm price support stance. Dayton was the Republican rival for the Senate.
Bud May and Joe Dawson, both of Colville, were electrocuted while working on a pole near the Colville Indian reservation. The two men apparently came in contact with a 13 000 volt line, and the accident was reported as dead. In other notes, Evans led with 53 537 votes and Wilcox 31 869, Loveless 63 444 to Plummer 28 785 in late tallies, while two Iowa incumbents faced no strong opposition. Haridas Muzumdar, an Indian native and professor, received more than 57 000 votes but lost to Talle about two to one.
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