Christmas Club Payout Set At Record 665000
Frederick city banks expect about 665000 in Christmas Club payouts late November 25 with payments higher than last year. National totals top billion, with 13 million savers and 7000 institutions participating. local banks list payments ranging from 125000 to 350100. Santa appears on November 25 and the season opens after Thanksgiving.
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Frederick City
Santa
Santa Claus
Bonanza
Edward F. Dorset
Christmas Club
National Corporation
Amoun
UN proposes three percent surcharge on Suez Canal shipping
The United Nations General Assembly discussed a three percent surcharge on all Suez Canal shipping to fund the clearance of wreckage blocking the waterway after last year’s military operations. Secretary General Gonteal des Han urged the measure, estimating total clearance costs at about 1,376,022 dollars already funded by cash advances. The plan aims to cover these expenses within three years.
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Var
Gonteal
Des Hanimarskjolanday
General Assembly
U.N
Frederick Bywatries
United States
Washington National Pike
U.S. 40
West Patrick Street
T. Edgie Russell
W. E. ‘Graham
State Roads Commission
Tas
Russell-Graham
Bf. J. Grove J Lime Company
U. S. 1340
G. S. 15
Frederick
U.S
County Community Chest Seeks $3,000 More to Reach Goal
County drive reports show $62,?37 raised toward a $65,000 goal for seven agencies. Over the weekend $1,400 was turned in, reducing the gap to less than $3,000. Divisions lagging include commercial advanced gifts and general canvass, with flu illness hindering volunteers. Chest headquarters in the Federated Charities building remains open for contributions, chaired by Benjamin L. Shuff with E. Hart Etchison and Charles E. Woodman as co chairs.
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Chest
Novi
Federated Charities
South Market Street
Benjamin L. Shuff
E. Hart Etchison
Charles E. Woodman
Laika Named as Sputnik II Dog Aboard Russian Craft
Moscow officials confirmed the Sputnik II dog is a female and named Laika a Russian word meaning little in the Far North. The announcement ends days of speculation as authorities say the name matches the breed and hope to quell press inquiries.
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State Committee For Cultural Relations With
Far North
Foreign Ministry
Knight to Run for Seat in U S Senate
California Governor J Knight announced his withdrawal from re election bids and his plan to run for the United States Senate. He spoke after a 23 minute White House discussion with President Eisenhower and a 30 minute Capitol talk with Vice President Nixon. Knight said the move serves his state and party and follows careful consideration.
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Washington
Goodwin J. Knight
California
U. S Senate
Knight
Eisenhower
White House
Nixon
Capitol
United States Senate
Radios Record Player Taken: Frederick Negro Arrested
An 18 year old Frederick Negro faces formal charges of breaking and entering and larceny for an October 3 warehouse theft at the William Hood warehouse Fair Grounds. Three radios and a record player were taken, valued at about 101 dollars, with one radio and the record player recovered. He was held on 30 bond pending grand jury action.
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Frederick Negro
William $. Hood
Fair Grounds
Sergi
A. Norman Dietz
Frank L. Hackey
South Bentz Street
Bend
Sergi. Dietz
Queen Opens Parliament Emphasizing Free World Unity
London Queen Elizabeth II opened Parliament in the House of Lords. She cited closer unity among United States Britain and Commonwealth and pledged to push non hereditary peerages for both genders. She noted disarmament talks and urged science guided by human aims. The speech, written by Macmillan’s government, signals a planned Lords reform.
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London
Elizabeth
Macmillan Beleves
Eisenhower
House of Lords
Macmillan
Britain
House of Commons
Lords
School Soon Under Roof
Fredericks new two point nine million junior high school nears completion with exterior walls nearly finished and roofing to start soon. L J Keller and Sons push interior work as steel deliveries arrived after delays. The project aims for a September term opening with much interior progress and masons active daily.
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Frederick
L. J. Keller and Sons
Off Year Elections Being Held In Half A Dozen States
Voters in six states cast ballots in scattered off year elections with strife over school integration in Virginia, civil rights issues in New Jersey, and local races across New York City Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Hartford. Governors Meyner and Almond faced Republicans Forbes and Dalton while New York City Mayor Wagner sought a second term. State legislatures and local offices were also on ballots as parties eyed the 1958 congressional contests.
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Associated Press
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Little Rock
Virginia
Eisenhower
Ark
Orval Faubus
Pearnsy
New York City
New York
Robert B. Meyner
Trenton
Malcolms
Forbes
Meyner
Congress
Eisenhowser
TF. Miller Hand
Milton W W.glenn
Margate
Joseph G. Hancock
Green‘wich Township
J. Linda Say Almond Jr
Ted Dalton
Almont
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Upstate
Dalton
Robert F. Wagner
Robert K. Christenberry
New York Athletic Commission
Sisie
Contracts Given For Work On County Roads
The County Commissioners awarded a contract for road improvements to two county roads. T Edgie Russell of Frederick won with a bid of 346 233, just 3 less than the M J Grove Lime Company estimate. The project covers 1.68 miles with penetration macadam surface on Angieberger road for 1 mile and Stevens road for .68 mile near Lewistown and Creagerstown.
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T. Edgie Russell
Frederick
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Angieberger
Lewistown
Stevens
Creagerstown
Gaillard Poised To Win Assembly Backing For French Premiership
Felix Gaillard, 38, expected to win National Assembly approval to lead France’s 24th postwar government ending a 36 day crisis. He assembles a cabinet with Socialist and Conservative support, aiming to stabilize finances and Algeria policy amid past premiers’ refusals to join.
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Felix Gaillard
National Assembly
Gaillard
France
Are Nios
Armand Fallieres
Gail Yard
Bourges - Maunoury
Assembly
Algeria
Soca
Christian Pineau
Robert Lacoste
Mollet
Eye shaped object stalls autos in New Mexico sightings
Lubbock witnesses report a brilliant colored egg shaped object that stalled about a dozen cars on a desert road between White Sands Proving Grounds and Alamogordo. Air Force Missile Development Center engineer James Stokes ties local reports to similar sightings across Texas and elsewhere as a national inquiry begins.
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Tex
New Mexico
Air Force
Wbis
James Stokes
Air Force Missile Development Center
Hotloman Air Force Base
Alamogordo
X.M
Terry Clark
RALG
Desert Bish
US. 34
White Sands ‘Proving Grounds
Jones
Texas
White Sands Proving Ground
Ior
Chicago
Virginia
Clark
Holloman
Stokes
Tilsa
Russia Walks Out Of United Nations Arms Talks
Russia refuses to continue arms talks unless all 82 U N members join in. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov announced the decision to delegates, saying no rash statements would be made. Western delegates hoped for reconsideration as Britain and France voiced discouragement and Canada called it shocking and disappointing.
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U. N. Disarmament Commission
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Ruznetsoy
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Kremlin
Jules Moch
France
Soviet Union
Alan ‘Oble
Wallace Nesbitt
Canada
Nesbitt
London
United States
U. N. Assembly
Wee Women ee Beauty Wish Revealed
A comic strip fragment shows Wee Woman admiring vanity and wishing beauty stayed skin deep. The scene notes playful self awareness and ends with a wink at fashion trends.
Would Adopt Divorced Wife As Child Heir
Sebring Florida area report states Walter H. Rebman 76 former Borden Co. secretary seeks to adopt his divorced wife Virginia M. Rebman 44 as his child and heir in Highlands County Circuit Court. Married since 1947 in Palm Beach, they moved to Sebring in 1949. Mrs Rebman, owner in real estate, sued for divorce with a decree granted Oct. 21, citing mental cruelty and alleged pressure from her husband to pursue the split.
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Fla
Borden Co
New York
Walter H. Rebman
Highlands County Circuit Court
Virginia M. Rebman
Rebman
Palms Beach
Rebmas
Stoica In Plane Crash At Moscow Airport
Romanian Premier Stoica survived a plane crash near Moscow in thick fog. The doomed flight carried the Romanian delegation to the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. It was unclear if other passengers escaped and heavy delays affected arrivals. The party left Bucharest yesterday amid the Nov 7 commemorations.
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Chinu
Stoica
Bucharest
Picture Shows Strange Light Over West Texas
Dallas journalist J G Kirby a former bomber pilot and gem expert said he photographed a strange glow near Amarillo on Aug 2 1956 while rock hunting with his family He told the Dallas Morning News the FBI and Air Force held back the story until recently claiming the object was a glowing emerald trail about 15000 feet high weaving around a cloud He reports two similar sightings in West Texas since noting glowing objects in the region and that authorities later advised he need not keep quiet.
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Dallas Morning News
West Texas
J. G. Kirby
Amarillo
FBI
Air Force
Kirby
Hensley Field
Texas
Eisenhower to Fly to Germantown for AEC Dedication
President Eisenhower will fly by helicopter Friday from the White House south lawn to Germantown Maryland to dedicate the new headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission. The midafternoon ceremony is expected around 2 30 p m with an eight seat military helicopter carrying AEC Chairman Lewis L Strauss and other officials. ZAPOTOCKY TL VIENNA Czech President Antonin Zapotocky is reported seriously ill at a Prague sanatorium after years of heart trouble the broadcast said last night.
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Eisenhower
White House
Germantown
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
Significance of Sputnik II fuel debated by scientists
Washington reports weigh a Soviet announcement that Sputnik II used few new power sources with doubts about a new fuel type. Laika’s 7 day journey is said to be satisfactory, while experts debate rocket design and energy sources. Soviet statements and American projections raise concerns over possible nuclear propulsion and future moon missions.
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Laika
Soviet Planetarium
Earth
Kiril P. Sanyukovich
Russia
Pioneer Earth
Sputnik Ik
Project Vanguard
American Space Satellite Program
Sputnik
Sputnik I
Sputnik IE
Moscow
Academician
Briskushtin
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Jackson Dash
Seattle
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Mass
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American Rocket Society
Durant
H. Gurford Siever
Massachusetts Institute of Technmolegs
Durantreaid
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