Mystery blooms and weather tease neighbors in odd town tale
A quirky notice shows a dog and litter seen in mismatched cars with California plates, followed by a Spring bloom joke about artificial flowers planted by neighbor Mrs. Robert Schmitt. The piece ends with a weather forecast forecasting more rain by Saturday.
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Harry Koon
Middle Road
Make
They
California
Jack Pennypackers
S Lane
Ool
Robert Schmitt
Notice to return borrowed spreaders and bank tax info
Public notice requests return of spreaders borrowed last spring to Winchester Seed and includes tax saving club reference. Mentions Farmers & National Bank rates and a meeting on April 1 at 7 29 p.m with refreshments and weekend specials at Ward's Pastry Shop with German chocolate cake and pineapple cheese cake.
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Winchester
Farmers & National Bank
Ward’s
Flood Damage Mounts Across Nation With Rising Rivers
Floods from Nebraska to New York surge as major rivers rise. Thousands of farm acres flooded, hundreds of roads closed, and schools halted across Midwest states. Homeless rescued by boat helicopter and ambulance. death toll rises to nine with multiple states affected.
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Nebraska
New York
Midwest
Missouri
Ilinois
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Indiana
Michigan
Kansas
Pennsyl Faia
Ohio
West Virginia
Mississippi
College sit in protests sweep through South as whites jailed
Eleven white students from Illinois and their professor were jailed in Montgomery Alabama after sharing a cafe lunch with black students. The incident sparked renewed clashes over where Negroes may eat and followed widespread sit in actions across the South.
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Illinois
Montgomery
Ala
Dixie
R. D. Nesmith
Mac. Murray College
Jacksonville
Ill
Rufus Talley
South
All Negron University
Baton Rouge
Felton G. Clark
Jaimey
Tallahassee
Fla
Little Rock
Ark
Rockefeller Suffers Setbacks In Legislature
New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller faced a series of setbacks as the 1960 legislative session ended. His housing plan for shelters faced rejection by a Republican-led Legislature, marking major losses for the administration amid intra party tensions. The session also produced some victories for Rockefeller.
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Albany
N. Y
Nelson. A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Police Fire on Mob at Durban Jail
White police fired on an African crowd marching on Durban jail. Initial reports say three Africans were killed and three wounded as the column moved down West Street toward the jail.
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Durban
South Africa
West Street
U.N. Council Aims to Vote on Action Over Durban Killings
The United Nations Security Council moved toward a vote on a resolution urging intervention by Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold after killings in Durban South Africa. Diplomats expected approval but warned of possible British or French veto prompting a General Assembly emergency session. Contagious violence and boycotts continued in South Africa with mobs marching, burning, and forcing Africans into settlements as soldiers tried to restore order.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N. Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold
Council
General Assembly
Durban
South Africa
Cae Tome Semate
Theea
Skircasu
Mishes
Iilacaants
Cato Manor
Johannesburg
Census Army On the March Today
Washington The 1960 census army moves door to door across the nation aiming to count 55 million households. President Eisenhower and the First Family are among early stops as census workers gather responses, aided by new prefilled questionnaires to speed data collection.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhowers
John Smiths
United States
White House
Robert H. Burgess
Louis J. Alexis
Eisenhower
Alexis
Burgess
Census Bureau
Eisenhowers
Post Office
Rose
Wood
France Holds Second Nuclear Test Blast
France announced another plutonium bomb explosion at the Reggane site in the Sahara near Oran. The test, smaller than the first, followed Khrushchev’s opposing stance on further nuclear tests and came as De Gaulle met with him in Rambouillet for talks.
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Paris
France
Nikita Khrushchev
Western Sahara
Charles de Gaulle
Khrushchev
Moscow
de Gaulle
West Germany
Soviet Union
Reggane
Oran
U.S
Hiroshima
Six Die in Fire On Virginia's Coast
A fire in a two story Lynnhaven area home near Princess Anne County killed six people, including three Bohlander children aged 18 months to five years. Eleven year old David Allen Tucker survived after alerting a neighbor. Separate reports say James W. Williams, 90, died in Pulaski County during the same day.
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Virginia
Lynnhaven
Lynnhaven Inlet
Princess Anne County
Norfolk
Janet Bohlander
Joseph
Navy
Boston
Mass
Linda
Kim
Doris Bohlander
Daniel
Coney
Lisa
Starr
David Allen Tucker
Janet
Doris
Bohlander
James W. Williams
Pulaski
Weather eye satellite launched to photograph earth cloud cover
Cape Canaveral reports the Thor-Able rocket carried the TIROS satellite into orbit at 6:40 a.m. EST. Officials say the satellite, weighing 270 pounds, aims to photograph cloud cover to help meteorologists map cloud patterns and link them to fronts and storms. If in orbit about 4000 miles high for 98 days, TIROS could aid hurricane data from the Caribbean.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Weather Eye
Aeronautics and Space
Washington
Earth
Space Agency
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
Announc
Tiros
Tiros I
Caribbean
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Diane
John Mosby Academy
Tait
Prc
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Associated Press
Howard Johnson's
George Washington Hotel
Strasburg
Johnny's Sport Shop
Robinson
Weather-Watch
Rambouillet
Rambouilett
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