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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1956
Page
1
The page highlights the presidential election season with readers urged to consider voting issues and candidates. It references past Election Days with notes from The Country Editor and includes a look at Nation al Cat Week and various leisure features on Week-End Dividend pages such as photography stamps and a column about town notes.
The column mixes fall season tips with comments on sounds and smells. Joe Cowden argues beat Lorain in What They're Saying. Features include Sunday Supper with Porcupines and a playful take on dunking donuts with a handle.
A driver was pulled from a vehicle near a railroad crossing moments before a train struck the car. The incident occurred on the city block adjacent to the crossing, with responders reporting a noncritical condition. Police investigated possible contributing factors.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was taken to Walter Reed Hospital with acute appendicitis. He arrived at 1:15 p.m. and doctors planned surgery within the hour, with State Department officials noting he is resting comfortably in the presidential suite.
City of Elgrma bids renewal of a five year landfill lease on Garden St. Service Director Michael J Lotko says the current contract expired last Thursday but negotiations continue for another five years. The city has an option clause for renewal and disputes over rent remain the sole open issue.
City and owners Mr and Mrs Tohn Szewszkh clash over rent and use of land as Judge Lotko rejects added payments while negotiations continue. In Washington D C the State Department reports Dulles hospitalized with possible appendicitis and ongoing Middle East crisis keeps officials busy.
In Melbourne a federal report said a plane carrying Russian Olympic athletes left Moscow 24 hours late on Friday. The Soviet ship Grazia remained unreported as details about the voyage to the Games were clarified.
Vienna reports Russian troops halted a convoy of American diplomats wives and children near the Austrian border while Hungary's premier Imre Nagy formed a new government and opened talks with the Soviets. Soviet military negotiators began discussions on evacuating troops as fog and roadblocks constrained travel across northern Ohio and nearby states.
In Lorain County fog led to at least eight mishaps as a Chronicle-Telegram staffer saw twenty cars off the road along Route 20 from Cleveland to Norwalk. Local officials and press noted fog details and related incidents at the scene and on the turnpike.
All 112 miners trapped since Thursday were found alive at Springhills coal mine officials reported. Survivors emerged in a steady stream, many injured, with at least 30 uninjured by dodging gas after the blast that killed thirteen. Rescuers lowered air and light into the shaft as miners crawled toward the surface.
Egyptian radio in Beirut quoted a high command communique saying two ships were lost when an Anglo French naval squadron moved toward Port Said at the southern end of the Suez Canal. The broadcast said Egyptian shore batteries and naval units repelled and chased the attackers as they withdrew into the Gulf of Suez. London and Paris rejected the UN cease fire appeal.
Britain and France rejected a UN cease fire appeal and urged the conflict to continue until conditions are met. Eden said the police action would end as soon as Israel and Egypt accept a UN peacekeeping force and UN guarantees and until a peace settlement and canal arrangements are in place. A UN force and limited Anglo French detachments would be used as needed. The opposition criticized the delay as the war persisted.
Washington officials deplore Britain and France for rejecting an immediate cease fire in the Middle East. They welcome Anthony Eden's remark that Anglo French police action in Egypt could end if the UN sends a force and Israel and Egypt accept it. The situation prompts UN consider proposals for a regional police force and sustained U.S. encouragement from Dulles.
Baghdad reports the Iraqi government ordered troops to cross into Jordan to join Jordanian forces in case of Israeli aggression. The brief note references wartime slogans and a 1944 campaign echo, while unrelated classified ad copy appears in the surrounding text.
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