Language Dividing Line Of Two Belgian Peoples
Two civiliz ations have rubbed shoulders in Belgium for 1400 years. Flemings in the north speak Dutch, Walloons in the south use French. Brussels is multilingual and has seen clashes as Flemish and Walloon nationalists demand equal rights. Language remains the central dividing force behind Belgium on an official frontier running east to west, with 53 percent speaking Dutch and 43 percent French.
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Netherlands
Edwin A. Grosvenor
National Geographic Society
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Antwerpen
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Leuven
Lou
Lvain
Teper
Ypres
Space questions answered in Digest condensed piece
An article condensed from Popular Science appears in the January Reader's Digest on sale. It answers space questions including whether satellites escape gravity and how rockets are steered in space. It also discusses returning a man from the moon without Canaveral’s launch apparatus and covers twelve more space queries.
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Popular Science
Roy P. Weadon Dies At Age 49 In Danville
Roy P. Weadon 49 formerly of 28 Locust Lane Danville died yesterday at Memorial Hospital at 6 25 p m after weeks of declining health He served in World War I with the U S Navy and was a Rivermont Baptist Church member He is survived by four sisters and four brothers Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p m from Rivermont Baptist Church with interment in Highland Burial Park The family resides at Locust Lane and the body rests at Swicegood Funeral Home
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Memorial Hospital
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Jessie Elizabeth Weadon
Inittsylvania County
Denville
Danville Lumber Co
U. S. Navy
Rivermont Baptist Church
Minnie Weadon
Annie Wilmouth
Lottie Dix
Dora Royster
Danville
Eddie Weadon
Blanch
N. Y
James Weadon
Hearing Set Jan 18 In Area Shooting
Martinsville area youth Richard Hodge 19 of 411 Fayette St faces two counts of felonious assault with a gun after allegedly shooting Johnny Venable 17 and Edward Harris 18 in the Block section of Fayette Street. Venable was hit in the right leg and Harris in the left leg. Hodges turned himself in and claims the two youths attacked him over a girl. Both victims received treatment for their wounds.
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Christiane
Richard Hodge
Fayette St
Johnny Venable
Edward Harris
Venable
Harris
Hodge
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Local Teens Head to Youth for Christ Convention
About 50 local teenagers join a large delegation traveling to Washington for the Youth for Christ Teen Convention. The trip includes a bus caravan with sports figures like Bobby Richardson and entertainers, with Billy Graham as keynote speaker at the Washington Armory and a week of events at the Ellipse and other venues across the capital.
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Baltimore Colts
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Frank Tarkenton
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Eveland Browns
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Ted Engstrom
White House
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YFC
Ed Lyman
Hollywood
Sloria Roe
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Washington National Guard
Bobby Richardson
New York Yankees
National Foot
Contract Let For Charlotte Hospital Wing
Charlotte AP report says Little Construction and R. H Wheatley Company won the bid to build a 200 to 233 bed hospital wing expansion at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. The project totals about 4.3 million dollars with 2.7 million state and federal funds plus 15 million in local bonds. The new wing will raise capacity to 800 beds making it the largest general hospital in the state.
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Northwest and Western Railroad System Expands Growth in 1962
The Norfolk and Western Railway reports 1962 as a strong year with grain traffic up over 20 percent and major capital spending of about 60 million dollars. It notes 50 new diesel locomotives and 1,800 freight cars, plus new facilities at Norfolk and Columbus and extended centralized traffic control. Saunders cites early savings from merging Virginia Railway and optimism for 1963 export coal and merchandise freight growth.
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