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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1954
Page
5
Virginia continues nationwide Salk polio vaccine testing inoculating selected second graders in Lou doun and Norfolk County schools as part of the program.
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a new bargaining rights election to be held before May 26 among rival New York harbor longshoremen's unions.
The 1954 Virginia bank report shows liabilities and capital totals for State No. 414 with deposits, reserves, and memoranda. Harold R. Edwards signs as Executive Vice President and Cashier. Betty Vonn Brill notarizes on April 23, 1954.
Washington heard a proposal to teach communism as a comparative form of government in U S high schools. Dorothy Gordon of the New York Times Youth Forum urged introducing Marx works with qualified political science instructors to contrast democracy with Soviet ideology.
Shadish testified that Dickenson, a 28 year old corporal from Crackers Neck Virginia, served as an orderly at Pyok tong and showed ordinary compassion. He described two harsh winters with temperatures near 27 degrees below zero and treated about 100 prisoners daily during four months there. No complaints about misconduct were reported or heard, despite rumors that intelligence officers tried to block his testimony.
Moscow reports the Soviet Parliament reelects Marshal Klementi Voroshilov as president of its Presidium and confirms Premier Georgi Malenkov with his Council of Ministers. New ministries expand the government to near Stalin-era size. Molotov and Bulganin retain top posts. Malenkov and Khrushchev outline a large State budget and denounce U.S. aggression while calling for China recognition and a pledge to respond with atomic force.
About 435 AFL Bus Drivers Union members walked off the job at Toledo Community Traction Co leaving Toledo Ohio a city of 320000 without public transportation.
Four persons died Monday in Virginia traffic crashes, raising 1954 toll to 228. Victims include Wallace R Bramble 19 Burgess Northumberland County in a car wreck on U S 360, Lloyd E Stewart 18 Hickory Norfolk County in a single vehicle crash on U S 17, Ethel L Lewis 85 Bluefield Tazewell County as a passenger in a wreck on State Route 655 at Tip Top, and Thomas H Yarborough 31 Irvington Lancaster County when a pickup overturned on State Route 644 west of Ophelia.
Visitors are admitted to the Trappist-Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Trappist Kentucky where thousands attend yearly retreats. The site is the monastery referenced in Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain and welcomes people of all denominations.
The Clarke County and Luray game at Boyce was postponed indefinitely due to wet fields. Clarke will host James Wood May 4 at Reuss Park at 3 15 p m, the second game of the series following a 6 1 Clarke win in the opener.
The Western Big Three held informal talks on Indochina with France and reviewed the Far East situation. They reportedly agreed on the nations to be at the negotiating table as France faced events in its colony.
Diplomatic sources say Molotov’s snub of the three Western ministers signals a refusal to convene a Big Four. Chou En Lai’s Geneva visit is viewed as a bid by Peiping to gain parity in major power talks, a stance the Americans reject.
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