World News Briefs from Dacca to Cyprus violence
Police opened fire on demonstrators in Dacca as hunger protests left five dead and about twenty wounded amid a flood-induced shortage. In Algeria, French forces reported 14 rebels killed near Constantine and one French casualty. Laos PM Prince Souvanna Phouma rejected a Communist government and foreign ties with China or North Vietnam. In Cyprus a British soldier and a Cypriot policeman were wounded as a time bomb hit Larnaca and an Acropole hotel annex was damaged with no injuries.
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Army Maneuver Is Transferred to Fort Riley
CHICAGO Fifth Army headquarters announced the field maneuvers known as Operation Red Arrow have been transferred from Fort Leonard Wood Missouri to Fort Riley Kansas. The Army cited economy since the 1st Division to participate is stationed at Fort Riley.
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Kansas constitutional amendment proposal July 1956
The Kansas Legislature proposes to amend section 1 of article 11 of the state constitution to revise the taxation system. The measure requires two thirds approval in both the House and Senate and is submitted to qualified voters for adoption or rejection. The October 1956 notice continues framing the proposition as a legal amendatory question to be placed on the ballot.
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Ottawa Herald
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Yeas
Secretary of State
Sees New Era For Industry
AFL CIO leader George Meany told the American Legion the United States stands at the threshold of a second industrial revolution with automation and atomic power set to transform life. He predicted factory work will shift to machines yet ample jobs will persist, noting new schools homes roads and power projects. He urged embracing shorter work weeks to keep full employment and warned against loosening collective security against Soviet threats.
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George Meany
Afl-Cio
American Legion Today
United States
American Legion
Meany
Russia
Lapses Into Coma Whittier Father of VP Nixon
Whittier California Frank Nixon, father of the vice president, collapsed into a coma and remained in very critical condition. Doctors warned death could follow, noting the coma often precedes mortality. His brother Ernest, a retired University of Pennsylvania professor, had just arrived. He had been ill August 22 with a ruptured abdominal artery and stomach hemorrhages.
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Bear Attack Injures Denver Man Near Steamboat Springs
A 48 year old Denver man, Leo Roybol, survived a bear attack after a companion killed the wounded black bear that charged them near Steamboat Springs. The man sustained severe fang and claw wounds to the head, arms, hands, and hips.
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Cooler Air Moves South
Cooler air from the Northern plains spread east and southeast with showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures fell up to 20 degrees in Grand Island Nebraska and St. Cloud Minnesota as precipitation affected the western Great Lakes, upper and middle Mississippi Valley, and the Central Plains with generally light rainfall.
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Many Missing In Typhoon Dinah Wake Off Fukien Coast
Peiping radio reports 76 fishing boats with 220 aboard missing after typhoon Dinah slashed the Fukien coast. Taipei dispatch tallies six dead and about 10,000 homeless on Formosa. Manila Weather Bureau notes a new typhoon Emma forming near Guam. Wanda death toll and injuries cited for prior month.
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Stockton Teen Dies in Tractor Accident Near Stockton
Jerry O'Regan, 18, was killed when a tractor overturned in a field about 12 miles northwest of Stockton Kansas. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J M O'Reagan and a Stockton High School graduate who played football basketball and ran track.
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Jerry O'Regan
Stockton
J.M. O’reagan
Stockton High School
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