29 Dec 1956
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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1956
Page
1
President Eisenhower expressed shock at the high number of New Year holiday traffic deaths. Early reports show 19 auto fatalities and one fire fatality, with a Baldwin Borough crash contributing to the toll. The NSC predicts a holiday motor-vehicle death record as the four day period ends.
Budapest reports the state prosecutor will present an indictment against Mihaly Farkas and his son Vladimir plus several former AVH officers. Farkas, defense minister and top general under Rakosi, and Vladimir, a former AVH colonel, face charges tied to purges and torture. The case aims to placate Hungarians while potentially shifting courts.
New York reports Westinghouse Electric ordered to supply two mast hoists for The Anaconda Company at the Ryan shaft in Butte Montana. Hoists will lift ore at 36 000 pounds per minute from depths up to 4720 feet. Surface work begins soon with sinking set for next year. The $1 000 000 package includes motors generator sets and speed control gear. Each hoist uses two 3 000 horsepower motors and 2 500 kilowatt generator sets.
The Weather Bureau will begin quoting rain odds next month. A sample forecast shows fair conditions today with increasing clouds, then rain tomorrow. Probabilities given: one in ten today, four in ten tonight, nine in ten tomorrow.
The Christmas weekend saw 706 Americans killed and about 24,000 injured in traffic accidents nationwide. The National Safety Council predicts 490 fatalities for the New Year celebration, signaling a potential record for the holiday week.
Warplanes were dispatched to north Sumatra to deter a rebel attack on the pro government coalition led by Ali Sastroamidjojo. Meantime, rebel leader Col. Maludin Simbolon escaped custody as factions within the cabinet show fissures, while regional grievances push for more local control and resource profits.
The Anaconda Company mines and plants in Butte will close for two days Monday December 31 and Tuesday January 1 with Sunday December 30 as a work day. Men in F class normally off on Monday will have Sunday off. Continuous operation hoist and pump men will work December 31 instead of Sunday.
A Southerner dominated House subcommittee urged reestablishing racially separate public schools in the District of Columbia asserting integration damages educational opportunities. The report clashes with the 1954 Supreme Court ruling and drew swift opposition from the Washington committee for the public schools. Northern Republicans Miller and Hyde said segregation would be unconstitutional without a constitutional amendment. They accepted some report points noting Negro leaders must address internal issues while recognizing problems linked to integration.
A 22 year old Rosa Jordan was shot in the leg on an integrated Montgomery bus, the first gunfire since buses were desegregated under court order. A second bullet struck the same bus minutes later with no injuries. Police halted all city bus runs and questioned passengers as tensions rise nationwide amid a DC school segregation debate and other regional incidents.
Former Boston mayor and longtime politician James M. Curley 82 was stricken with a massive intestinal hemorrhage Friday night. A City Hospital spokesman said his condition was very grave and preparations for immediate surgery were under way after a circulatory collapse last Thursday.
President Eisenhower plans to present Congress with a two part proposal to deter Soviet influence in the Middle East. The plan includes standby authority for military action if needed and a broad economic aid package potentially worth about half a billion dollars. Secretary of State Dulles will join the White House discussion with Democratic and Republican leaders on New Year’s Day.
President Eisenhower arrived in Augusta for a weekend golf trip and announced three changes at the Pentagon and federal agencies. Mansfield Sprague and Edward McGuire were named assistant secretary of defense and deputy assistant secretary respectively. Thomas J. Herbert resigned as chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board. Dr. Lowell Coggeshall also resigned as a special assistant to the HEW secretary.
East Montana sees fair skies with little temperature change through Sunday high 50 to 60 and low 30 to 40, cooler near 20 valleys southwest. West Montana remains fair with highs 40 to 48 and low 15 to 25 Saturday night. Data reflects 12 hour maximums and 18 hour minimums ending 5:30 p.m. Friday.
SUEZ Egypt The United Nations again hit a delay in opening the Suez Canal to world shipping. No movement occurred Friday despite earlier announcements that work would begin. Egyptian officials cited unclear orders from Ismailia while U N aides and salvage ships awaited instructions.
Donald Gamble 49 a motorcycle dealer and his wife and 13 year old daughter were found alive about 24 hours after their light plane crashed into a fog covered hill 60 miles south of Boise. Gamble said the crash was caused by flying in fog and poor visibility during a caravan to Hollywood.
United Nations New York Egypt charged that Israel killed about 2150 Arabs in and around the Gaza Strip after an invasion on October 29 Israel denied the charge and disputed casualty figures.
Paris garage owners complain rationing has left them underpaid as clerks, urging the government to pay indemnities for the rationing period. The system has slashed gasoline sales and each limited dispense triggers heavy paperwork for both garageman and customer.
In the earliest Roman calendar the year had ten months with December as the last month. The ten month system ended, but December retained its name after the calendar shifted to twelve months. Want Ads are ready to go into action for you. Dial 5451.
Montana industries posted a record payroll of 436.4 million dollars in fiscal 1956, up 12.1 million from 1955, with 113,896 covered workers. Mining and manufacturing led gains. construction cut wages. Unemployment fund held 43.7 million. interest topped one million for first time. UCC reports 210 employees. Chadwick H. Smith presides with Albert F. Root and Paul R. McClure on the board.
The State Department revoked the passports of three U S newsmen who entered Red China against a travel ban. The action cites Trading With the Enem y Act provisions and notes China’s detention of 10 Americans as a barrier to travel. Included are William D Worthy of the Baltimore Afro American and a Look magazine reporter photographer team.
Secretary of Agriculture Benson urged Congress to permit sales of surplus farm products to Iron Curtain countries at cut rate prices. He said Soviet satellites form a large potential market for stockpiles, with sales in dollars or bartered for metals, but law changes are needed.
George Lofts bought a sheet of 240 stamps at a Dartford post office. The sheet was printed without perforations, a rare error unseen since 1914. Stanley Gibbons values the sheet at about 10 000 pounds, far above its 2 pound purchase price, prompting plans for the proceeds.
A third major fire swept inland through the Santa Monica Mountains threatening Lake Sherwood and Malibu area ranches and resorts. Six houses burned in Ventura County. total structures lost exceed sixty with over 37,000 acres blackened. Evacuations urged as flames threaten George Brent Eve Arden Allan Ladd ranches and other large properties. The outbreak may be arson. officials warn the fire could wipe out days of Malibu fire progress.
In St Marys West Virginia a 15 year old girl died after kerosene ignited a stove fire killing four other family members and leaving six survivors. In Ironwood Michigan a mother and five children perished in a seven room farm house fire leaving only charred ruins. The grieving father William Heiley was summoned from the Peterson mine to learn of the loss.
The Navy announced Friday the delivery of two F8U Crusaders to the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent Maryland, marking the first shipment for fleet use of the aircraft described as the world’s fastest Navy fighters, capable of over 1000 miles per hour.
Spokane city council on Friday ordered cash payments for all traffic fines after two $70 checks from violators bounced, prompting the cash-only policy to be enforced citywide.
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