Eisenhower approves billion dollar education plan
President Eisenhower approves a four year, seven point program for federal aid to education aimed at boosting science and math instruction and providing 40 000 scholarships while stressing state local and private funding. The plan includes 225 million in the first year and a 1 billion dollar four year total.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Russia
Congress
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Folsom
Oklahoma City
U.S
Asia
Africa
Near East
National Science Foundation
James R. Killian Jr
Science
Technology
Wyoming Man's Plan To Get Even With Neighbors Backfires
James Tilley 28 of Herndon Mountain Wyoming County is reported in serious but satisfactory condition at Bluefield Sanitarium after a dynamite blast. He planned to throw dynamite near a neighbor to settle a dispute over noise. The fuse exploded prematurely, blowing off his left hand and ripping flesh from his left thigh. He had obtained the explosive during excavation for a basement. Walls tumble.
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Wyoming
James Tilley
Herndon Mountain
Wyoming County
Bluefield Sanitarium
Tilley
Wayne Thomas
Freight Train Collides With Halted Passenger Run
Roanoke Virginia December 30 194? A freight train crashed into the rear of a stopped passenger train at Cloverdale station derailing several cars. One injured fireman William R Harris 49 of Roanoke taken to hospital. Initial reports say passenger train halted at the station when freight No 2 rammed the rear.
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Roanoke
Cloverdale
Here
William R. Harris
Rover Ave
N. W
Norfolk and Western
Tear gas ends Inglewood bar siege by two bandits
In Inglewood California two gunmen surrendered after a three hour standoff at a street corner bar cafe. Police using tear gas captured Howard Lee Scott and Roger A Hoskins both 19. Five hostages including Evelyn Shane 37 were held at gunpoint but unharmed.
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Inglewood
Calif
Howard Lee Scott
Roger A. Hoskins
Los Angeles
Evelyn Shane
Gas积 Accumulation Hampering Probers In Amonate Mine Blast
In Amonate Virginia lingering gas in two explosion racked sections continues to hinder investigators seeking the blast cause that killed 11 miners last Friday. A West Virginia Mines hearing is set for tomorrow with testimony from escaped workers and those who worked near the blast.
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Amonate
Pocahontas Fuel Company
West Virginia Department of Mines
WC. Sturgill
William A. Fullarton
Pocahontas Fuel
Fullarton
Rain and Snow Forecast for Mountain State
West Virginia expects rain tomorrow with possible snow mix in the north. Snow flurries may spread statewide by Wednesday as colder air moves in. Temperatures through Saturday run about four degrees below normal.
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Huntington
Dec
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Sparkman Urges Policy Overhaul to Counter Sputnik Influence
Senator Sparkman of Alabama urged a reshape of U S foreign policy to counter Soviet space achievements in Asia He warned that nations fearing Soviet conquest in space may accept Communism as a path to development if the United States does not offer a clear neutralist policy and economic aid The report followed his tour of 13 Asian countries and stressed risks to independence across Far East Southeast Asia and beyond.
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Washington
Sen
Sparkman
D-Ala
Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Far East
Southeast Asia
Africa
Near East
Europe
Western Hemisphere
United States
Asia
Child Found After Two Day Ordeal In Virginia Mountains
Shirley Ann Ramsburg, three, was found near a tree two days after disappearing from her Shenandoah Valley home. She wore no coat or shoes and needed treatment for exposure and shock but showed no complications. A search by police, firemen, National Guardsmen, and volunteers followed a missing report filed by her father.
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Donald K. McIntyre
Shirley Ann
Shenandoah River Valley
Killer in chase dies in Georgia crash
Wanted gunman Henry Clay Overton, 44, of Martinsville, Virginia, dies in a high speed crash near Wrens after fleeing with accomplice Russell Carpenter. The wreck also kills two drivers, one a construction worker en route to Cape Canaveral. Overton and Carpenter had slain five in Washington and fled toward Florida. The state patrol continues a statewide lockout with no chase for Carpenter in Wrens.
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Wrens
Georgia
J .L. Knight
Henry Clay Overton
Martinsville
Overton
Knight
Charles N. Wray
Cape Canaveral
Fla
High Point
N.C
Russell Wayne Carpenter
Washington
D. C
Jacksonville
Carpenter
Here
State Patrol
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Ray Barnett
Graham’ High School
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Louthan
Walthall
Graham High
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Fields
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George Kaldes
Kenneth Fisher
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Doris Mattingly
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