Little Rock Central High Guardsbarred Integration
Grim-faced armed National Guardsmen blocked racial integration at Little Rock Central High School. A lone African American girl attempted multiple times to cross a 200-strong line, but soldiers redirected her under Gov. Faubus. A crowd jeered, while federal judges ordered continued integration. Public safety officers remained on site as the city prepared for the new school term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Little Rock Central High School
Orval Faubus
Ronald N. Davies
Faubus
Central High School
Virgil Bloesam
New Teen Starts Kennel to Fund College Training
Terry E. Litton, a 15 year old junior at North Hagerstown High, runs a kennel to finance college plans. Described as mature and industrious, he defies negative stereotypes about teens while pursuing business and academic success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry Liston
Annua Mason & Dixon Kennel Club
Municipal Stadium
Daily Mail
Terry E. Litton
North Hagerstown High
Terry Litton
Soviet TU-104 first civilian jet to land in the United States
A Soviet TU104 twin jet left London for its planned 18 hour flight to McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey marking the first Soviet civilian aircraft to reach the United States in two decades. The Moscow to McGuire run with refueling at Keflavik Iceland and Gander Newfoundland covers about 5570 miles. Reports vary on passengers aboard with figures from 19 to 60 plus a 12 member crew including three Britons. Most travelers were Soviet delegates and translators for the U N General Assembly. The plane was to be guided by pilots after entering U S air space with a crew of 12 from Moscow. The trip follows a 1937 military visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
Moscow
Keflavik
Iceland
Gander, Nild
McGuire Air Force Base
New Jersey
Guire
North Pole
Transport Ministry
U. N. General Assembly
McGuire
U. N
New York City
Gander
Royal Air Force
Don
Newfoundland
Terry
Avenue
Daily Mail
Paul Ottinger
Jdog
Funkhouser
John William Strobridge
Vanville
W. Va
Strobridge
South
Prospect Street
John D. Stauffer
C. A. Stover
Midway Road
Luther J. Moats, Jr
Summer Street
Madison Avenue
C. M. Shingleton
Feai ‘Bute Potomac Mercer
Mass Of Cool Air Heads Toward Region
A mass of cooler air threatens to push through the humidity today with temperatures falling to the 60s from Kansas to the Ohio Valley and New England. Light scattered showers and lower temps spread across the Midwest and Northeast as a cold front moves in from Canada. the Texas Eldorado area reported a 75 mph wind and nearly 3 inches of rain in a short span.
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Weather Bureau
Midwest
Washington County
Kansas
Ohio Valley
Atlantic Coast
New England
Appalachians
Pakotas
Great Lakes
Texas
Oklahooha
Colorado
Eldorado
Texi
Inara
Kees Dyavitle
Travis Knode
Maryland
Seurus le
Rumsey Steamboat Birthday Jet Boat Demonstration Event
The Rumseyan Society marks James Rumsey’s 170th anniversary with a jet boat demonstration at the Rumsey Monument in Shepherdstown. Keenan Hanley of Hanley Hydro Jet, Inc., will pilot a hydrojet adaptation of Rumsey’s 1787 water propulsion, with Rep. Harley C. Staggers delivering the principal address on West Virginia’s pride in the inventor.
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Rumsey
James
Shepherdstown
Keenan Hanley
Hanley Hydrojet, Inc
Prospect
Ohio
Hanley
Rumseyan Society
Rumsey Monument
Rumsey’ Park
U. S
Lowes
Fotemat
Harley C. Staggers
Weat
Virginia
West Virginia
James Rumsey
George M. Beltzhoover, Jr
Brucetown
Beltzhoover
Society
Rumsey, & Marylander
Sleepy Creek
Berkeley Springs
Washington County
Bread Theft by Family Pet Described in Absence
The Jessie Hurd family on White Hall Road left home for two weeks to Michigan. During their absence a bread-eating dog learned to open screen doors and steal bakery loaves left by a deliveryman. The dog was caught in the act, and the habit ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Hurd
White Hall
Michigan
Birs
Hurd
Hame
Onead
Mrs. Hurd
Anxiety Over Cracking Liberty Bell A Teen Letter
A Columbus Ohio visitor to Philadelphia writes to Benjamin Franklin asking him to safeguard the Liberty Bell after expressing worry about a crack. The unidentified 10 year old girl pleads that the bell be cared for, amid the Liberty Bell’s famed status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Ben Franklin
Columbus
Ohio
Election Board Plans Primary Election Preparations
The Election Board will start machinery for the 1958 primary, set for May 20, with filing around March 10 for state and county offices. A 10 filing fee applies to central committee and state convention delegates, the first for these posts. Voter address transfers continue as the board and permanent registers press to clean lists, noting about 25 percent of the county’s 136,000 voters may live at different addresses. Transfers can be done at the Court House or by mail, with a two cent card signed by all household members if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Election Supervisors
J. R. R. Black
Black
Central Committee
Ransfer
Court House
Boonsboro High School Next on New School List
Plans advance for a new Boonsboro High School to serve grades through 12 with eventual enrollment of 750, converting the existing 7 12 campus into a junior high. A October meeting with community groups will preview preliminary drawings after architect review and county approval discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boonsboro
Board of Education
William M. Brish
N. L. Engelhardt, Jr
Board of County Commissioners
Burgh Aaid
Presient
Boonsboro High School
Funn
Brish
Avonshoro High
Sandy Wook
Yarrowaburg
Dargan
Rohrersville
Sharpsburg
Keedysville
Ike and Mamie Eisenhower Vacation to Newport
President and Mrs. Eisenhower depart Washington for Newport Rhode Island with three of their four grandchildren, David, Barbere Sean, Auwe, accompanying them to the airport as they begin vacation travel.
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Eisenhower
Newport
R. I
Washington
David
Barbere Sean
Auwe
Crackdown on giant narcotics ring in New York
A sealed indictment in Federal Court names 46 defendants and 16 associates in a vast international narcotics smuggling and distribution operation led by Harry Stromberg. The ring allegedly moved heroin cocaine and opium from Europe, with shipments reaching New York Washington D C Illinois Ohio Michigan Pennsylvania California and other states.
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New York
New York City
Harry Stromberg
France
Williams
Washington, D. C
Illinois
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
California
Massachusetts
Local Marine Receives Belated War Honors
First Lt. James R. McCarter of 36 Glenside Avenue Gerstown received a second Purple Heart for wounds in Okinawa April 1945. He was also awarded the Presidential Unit Citation with the 4th Marine Division along with the American Theater Asiatic-Pacific Campaign and World War II Victory Medals. He enlisted January 1942 and was commissioned October 1947, now with Western Maryland Railway, married with two children.
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James R. McCarter
Glenside Avenue
Gerstown
Okinawa
Sixth Special Infantry Company
U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
Bell
Saipan
Tialan
McCarter
Marine Corps
Gan
Randolph McCall Pate
4Th Marine Division
Western Maryland Railway
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Charles Schneider
Khotme
St. Louis
Berkeley
Ruth
Richard
Linda
Charles
Pet
Liberty Bell
Ike
Mamie
U.S
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James Marten
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