Chou En-lai signals readiness to negotiate with U.S.
Chou En-lai indicated Red China is willing to negotiate with the United States to ease tensions in the Far East and in the Formosa area. U.S. officials reacted cautiously, awaiting Bandung reports while noting Washington does not recognize the Communist regime.
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Red
Bandung
Indonesia
Chou En-lai
Red China
United States
Far East
Taiwan
Formosa
China
Chu
United States of America
Soviet Union
Washington
State Department
Gettysburg
Secret Service
Eisenhower
Soviet Sub Fleet Seen At 375 Vessels Says Navy Chief
New York Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas says the Soviet Union now operates about 375 submarines, seven times the size of Germany’s U-boats at the start of World War II. Also a local festival ad touts prizes up to 500 dollars including a pony. registration at 3111 North Brad dock Street. contact Mr. Gale at 8548.
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Navy
Charles S. Thomas
Soviet Union
Boys & Girls
N. Braddock St
Riteway Cleaners
Gale
Open Sat
Sun
U S Calls Red China to Sincerity Before Talks on Formosa
The State Department after talks with President Eisenhower urged Communist China to show sincerity before direct negotiations. It listed three steps: immediate cease fire in the Formosa Strait, release 15 American airmen and about 40 U S civilians, and accept the UN Security Council invitation to debate ways to end hostilities in the Formosa area.
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Washington
United States
Red China
China
State Department
Eisenhower
Chou En-lai
Far East
Formosa
Formosa Strait
U. S
United Nations Security Council
Margin of Avery's Win Shifts in Ward Board Fight
Sewell Avery won control of Montgomery Ward in a hard fought stockholders meeting. Vote counts hinged on valid shares with Ward’s adjournment set for May 13 as inspectors finalize distributions. Wolfson claimed victory while Avery framed it as a consolidation of directors with cross holdings and policy clashes.
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Chicago
Sewell Avery
Louis Wolfson
Montgomery Ward and Co
Wolfson
Ward
Montgomery Ward
Club of Directors
Edmund Krider
Avery State
Edmund A. Stephan
Florida
Merritt-Chapman & Scott
Capitol Transit
Washington, D. C
NBC Plans Color Telecasts of Grid Games Next Fall
NBC announces a major rise in color programming with about four hours of color TV weekly this summer and next fall. Sylvester L. Pat Weaver says the network will color telecast four to five college football games next season.
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NBC
New York
National Broadcasting Co
Sylvester L. Pat Weaver
Abuse of Sick Leave by Postal Workers Charged
Government investigators report wide abuse of sick and administrative leave by post office workers costing taxpayers millions annually. GAO says paid sick leave is misused, with substitutes covering up to 100 percent of annual leave and some cases exceeding 108 percent by borrowing from future leave. New York City and Philadelphia offices show many taking leaves as earned. Critics say retirees receive large sick leave grants as reward for not using it.
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Washington
General Accounting Office Gao
House Post Office Committee
New York City
Philadelphia
Post Office
Shawnee VFD Launches $25 000 Fund Drive for New Hall
The Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department will start a month-long campaign on May 2 to raise 25 000 dollars for a new 60 by 100 foot brick and block fire hall in Pineville Frederick County. Gilbert Helsley chairs the drive and says funds may be cash or pledged over a year with semi annual quarterly or weekly installments. Checks go to Building Punch Shawnee Volunteer Fire Company Winchester. The hall will serve as a community meeting and rental space with two truck bays a kitchen lounge and a 60 by 60 auditorium. The current equipment is housed in a Paper Mill Road building loaned for the purpose.
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Frederick County
Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department
Gilbert Helsley
Pineville
Helsley
Punch
Shawnee Volunteer Fire Company
Winchester
Shawnee
Dr Salk Honored at White House Ceremony
President Eisenhower hosts Jonas E Salk and his family in a rose garden ceremony. An aide chats with the Salk children as a citation lauds his vaccine work against polio. Basil O Connor, NFIP president, also receives recognition for infantile paralysis efforts.
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Dr. Salk
White House
Washington
Jonas E. Salk
Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Salk
Secretary of Welfare
Basil O’connor
National Foundation For
Rainy Spring Delays Area Farm Work and Pasture Growth
County agents report area farm work about one to two weeks behind last year due to wet March conditions. Pastures are green but growth is slowed by cool nights. feed from pasture covers 50 to 60 percent of needs, with development behind last year in Frederick and Clarke counties. Eastern areas see pasture growth ahead, while cooler northern counties anticipate smaller small grain yields, with alfalfa growth damaged by insects.
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Frederick County
John T. Wolfe
Clarke County
B. B. Gregory
Virginia
U. S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Weather Bureau
Frederick and
Clarke
Captain Video Parade Grand Marshal Named for Festival
Washington reports announce Captain Video as grand marshal of the upcoming festival parade. The piece also notes the Federal Reserve Board raising stock margin requirements to 70 percent, up from 60, in a bid to curb credit in the rising market.
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Federal Reserve Board
Wall Street
Al Hodge to Lead 121-Unit Shenandoah Apple Blossom Parade
Al Hodge the TV star known for Captain Video was named Grand Marshal of the 28th Annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Parade to be held Friday April 29. Parade director Howard Shockey praised his role as a futuristic hero and his appeal to wide audiences. Hodge, born in Ravenna Ohio, once a college track star, remains in excellent shape for appearances with his Video Ranger and agents.
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Captain Video
Howard Shockey
Hodge
Ravenna
Ohio
Buffalo Bill
Mr. Keene
Ferrell
Grand Marshall
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
van Johnson
Esther William
Arthur Godfrey
Ed Sullivan
Winchester
Jean Spratley Stephens
Smithfield
Virginia
Shenandoah
Southern States Hit by Storms and Tornadoes
Violent spring storms lashed the midcontinent with tornadoes in southeast Missouri and Arkansas. Sikeston and Lutesville suffered major damage with $500,000 to $800,000 in losses. four houses burned in Biggers and 12 more damaged. The weather spread to Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Illinois and Tennessee with hail rain and thundershowers.
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Sikeston
Lutesville
Arkansas
Biggers
Ark
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Illinois
Tennessee
Dakotas
New England
Survival City Nevada to be target in record atomic civil defense test
Survival City in Nevada will be the target of a record atomic age civil defense test named Operation Cue. The multimillion dollar setup costs 1.75 million dollars with 150 firms contributing, and involves 2000 soldiers 400 civil defense workers and hundreds from the Atomic Energy Commission. Observers numbered 1400 will view from about seven miles from ground zero as 10 homes are subjected to a nuclear blast with mannequins and test animals in shelters and trenches erected for the event.
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Survival City
Nev
Las Vegas
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Civil Defense
Atomic Energy Commission
News Noir
Ground Zero
Wacs
Lot
199 Calves Bring 157 377 At Spring Sale
Buyers from 10 states paid 157 377 43 for 1 199 steers and heifers at the Third Annual Feeder Stocker Calf Sale at Farmers Live Stock Exchange. Sale averages topped last year with 550 lb stock averaging 131 25 per head and 235 69 per hundredweight. Steers 817 head 466 805 lb averaged 146 77 per head and 235 69 per cwt. Heifers 382 head 192 770 lb averaged 98 07 per head and 19 43 per cwt. Rejections were few with 68 of more than 1 000 calves rejected. Highest price at sale noted. Continued on page 10.
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Midwest
Farmers’ Live
Stock Exchange
I. Fred Stine
Livestock Exchange
Stine
National Advisory Group to Allocate Vaccine to States
The plan to allocate Salk polio vaccine emphasizes directing supplies to those in need while maintaining free immunization for first and second graders. Secretary Hobby intends to appoint a small national advisory panel to guide state allocations, with each state setting its own priorities.
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Washington
Hobby
Eisenhower
National Foundation For
Schewels
Schewels Furniture CO
W. Cork St
Winchester
Stephens City Auxiliary Plans Space Ship Parade Feature
The Stephens City Women’s Auxiliary to the Fire Company will sponsor a 36 foot space ship for the grand feature Parade next Friday. Grand Marshal Captain Video will ride it as spectators view the ship from ground level. Construction is underway at Galliday Lumber Company in Stephens City with space cadets from the town accompanying the group. The ship will be led by the Stephens City Drum and Bugle Corps.
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Stephens City
Drum and Bugle Corps
107 Year Old Confederate Vet to Receive Diploma
William Allen Lundy, one of three surviving Confederate veterans, will receive a Crestview High School honorary diploma on May 10 during commencement. At 107, he joined the senior class in January and said he was “about 90 years late.”
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Crestview
Fla
William Allen Lundy
Crestview High School
Lundy
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