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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1956
Page
5
Post Office plans to purchase over 5,000 new postal vehicles including 3,748 three quarter ton trucks many with right hand drive, 1,500 motor scooters, 2,000 bicycles and 6,000 golf cart style mail carrier carts. About 200 offices will gain open type counters and 22,300 new mail boxes will arrive by spring.
Military observers say Afghanistan is likely purchasing small arms tanks and plates from the Soviet Union. They cite past Afghan requests but note no firm details on quantities payments or delivery dates. Premier Mohammed Daud announced contracts with Russia and Czechoslovakia for arms.
Manila forecasts show Typhoon Emma packing 110 mph winds curving away from southern Japan and tracking 650 miles east southeast of Basco toward Luzon at 11 mph. Emma is the sixth typhoon in five weeks, with Peiping reporting 222 missing at sea after Dinah hit Fukien, causing nine deaths on Formosa.
In Watonga Blaine County Earl Goerke reported that his assistant Ted Fisher a leading western Oklahoma GOP figure and former Blaine County attorney who was a candidate for the State Corporation Commission and Congress was shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday. Goerke said the assailant was his former wife Mrs Lucifer who was taken to Western Oklahoma State Hospital at Fort Supply. No motive was known.
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