26 Jan 1956
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Newspaper
Sarasota News
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1956
Page
1
Inside the News notes Sarasota cattle win top honors at the Manatee County Fair livestock show. Also mentions mothers planning annual polio fund march and traffic board approving new drive-up mail boxes downtown.
Tonight offers a mix of council dinner at Lions Den and tax prep class at Sarasota High School Room 114. PTA meeting at Sarasota Junior High School Auditorium. A lecture at First Juity Center and a concert by Witold Maliuzynski at Municipal Auditorium. Play "Picnic" at Palm Tree Playhouse and lecture "Israel Miracle of the Century" at Jewish Community Center. Seats vary from $0.15 to $15 for members and the public.
Florida Governor LeRoy Collins speaks on atomic industry plans for the South. He says the region should be first to plant both feet inside the new Atomic Age as the world crosses the threshhold.
The Kremlin broadens its diplomacy with new missions in 12 countries since November 1 and recognizing Sudan. Valerian Zorin leads a major post in West Germany while Nikolai Generalov heads Libya’s first mission. Russia also pursues economic aid in Latin America and oil refinery plans in Syria amid UN negotiations and other global outreach.
About a dozen mailboxes between Siesta Key Bridge and the Siesta Key shopping center were smashed with a building brick sometime last night, the sheriff's office reported today. A separate item notes a Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Dr. Jonas Salk for the polio vaccine and Soviet Russia giving up the Porkkala naval base near Helsinki.
In Richmond Virginia and Washington a surge of support for interposition arises as governors including Thomas B Stanley and Marvin Griffin push resolutions to challenge the 1954 Supreme Court desegregation ruling. Debates hinge on whether states may block or modify federal mandates through constitutional amendments.
Tunisian violence resurged as isolated bands and grenade attacks reappear after 18 months of instability under French protectorate. The outbreaks, starting two weeks ago, underscore ongoing political and economic difficulties despite past autonomy talks led by Habib Bourguiba and Tahar Ben Amar. France's Mendes France era waned as Edgar Faure pursued partial home rule after 1954.
Two rival forces will share top billing as the Warsaw Alliance nations convene in Prague tomorrow. The conference will assess Communist gains in France's elections and is to be fed by Soviet leaders Molotov and Zhukov, who arrived from Moscow with General Ivan Boney, commander of the combined Warsaw forces.
In a humorous exchange a customer asks why she never gets what she asks for and a floorwalker suggests politeness may be the cause. The light moment captures a poke at shop service with a polite reply.
The Tamiami Corp announces acquisition of 80 000 square feet of construction and parking space on Main Street from Washington Boulevard to Wallace Avenue for an eight story air conditioned building at Main and Washington. Haven B Page, president, described three purchase contracts and three long term leases totaling 13 lots including Fletcher Avenue sites. The project contemplates a capital structure around 4 170 000 with directors Haven B Page Frances W Page and others from Sarasota and Benjamin Seigel of New York.
Minnie Mermaid muses on antique lyrics about mutual fondness and parallels a weather forecast noting readings at 9:30 a.m. with 53 degrees and a barometer of 29.96. She cites similar temperatures for Friday and Thursday, and records an east-northeast wind at 68 mph in the nation’s weather page.
NY attorney Marshal MacDuffie says Khrushchev told him in Moscow that Eisenhower and U.S. leaders aim for peace and reject war. The discussion covered disarmament and avoiding a new conflict, amid reference to Bulganin’s friendly note to Eisenhower.
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