The Pontiac Press: 1956-08-09

Abstract

Legislature takes up jobless pay boost: Williams sends request to ease payroll taxes ; United Fund seeks $612,202 for 1957: October 23 set for drive start in Pontiac area ; One man can't do it alone: How about it, city hall? Let's get rid of starlings ; Britain recalls troops, general from Germany ; Ortonville entry wins fair honor ; Floats, livestock fair highlights ; 'Any Dem can beat Ike', Truman tells Chicago ; Cobo piles up 191,000 margin ; Sacrifice 30 in mine pit hoping to save other 230 ; Wheeler nominated in sixth by 3 votes ; Broomfield denies statement in press ; Kalamazoo ups its population by annexations ; Voting machines save city $1,633 on first trial ; Township wins, schools lose ; Sanity of Moore may be tested ; The day in Birmingham: Calliope heralds dance for town's teenagers ; Explosion toll may hit 1,200 ; Commissioners to canvass vote on pensions tonight ; Commission names Detroit port director ; Utica plant awarded big defense contract ; Plane's radar gear resembles a saucer ; Maxwell and January Tam's early leaders ; Hare aide resigns position in Ecorse ; GOP flying wedge ready for convention ; Congressional hopefuls ; 'Tobi' useful hangovers from Japan's feudal past ; Sullivan overcomes threat of pneumonia ; Save 'kidnaped' boy from his parents ; Apparatus intensifies brightness of X rays