Texas Floods Forcing Hundreds From Homes Across State
Torrential rains and up to eight inches flooded large areas of Texas as at least six tornadoes damaged property and injured five. Evacuations swelled to 1,500 to 2,000 in Dallas and dozens of towns faced road closures, power cuts, and isolated communities including Comanche and Hamilton.
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Dallas
Texas
Kenedy
Karnes County
Trinity
Department of Public Safety
Comanche
Fort Worth
Killeen
Fort Hood
Tex
Officers’ Club
Winchester area ads and events announce dining hours and dances
Winchester Seed Co mile out Valley Pike promotes Sunday dinner at Shirkey's Restaurant Sunnyside House of Good Food served 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Joe's Ocean Cove to open April 28 then close May 2–3 with weekend hours. Dancing at Winchester Armory to aid the Winchester Baseball Club. Legionnaires dance April 27 with Bobby Daniels Trio. Sears sells bulk garden seeds from Rorbck Co 902 N Loudoun St.
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Winchester Seed CO
Mile Out Valley Pike
Shirkey's
Sunnyside
House of Good Food
Joe's
Attention Legionnaires
Bobby Daniels
Virginia Sets New Automobile Inspection Regulations
State police announce 1955 auto inspection program from May 1 to June 15 for passenger cars and July for trucks. Rear tires now inspected. mufflers must be intact. safety belts checked. directional signals required for cars built after January 1, 1955. Approved stickers issued if pass. seven day rejection stickers permit travel for repairs. Col C W Woodson Jr urges early participation.
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Richmond
Col C. W. Woodson Jr
B&O Plans Special May Train for Shenandoah Apple Blossom
The Baltimore and Ohio will operate a 15 coach plus one combination car special train on Friday May 3 from Baltimore and Waypoints to Winchester and back for the 30th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. Washington passengers board at Silver Spring with pickup at Key points en route. Last year the train carried 1200 passengers to the Grand Feature parade and most rode to the Friday pageant. It arrives in Baltimore at 9 55 a m and departs Winchester at 6 p m.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Winchester
Shenandoah
Baltimore
Washington
Silver Spring
J. F Whittington
Point of Rocks
Brunswick
Harpers Ferry
Millville
Halltown
Charles Town
Summit Point
Two Virginians Awarded Carnegie Hero Medals
Franklin Kirby aged 15 and Earl H. Smith aged 52, both Virginians, received Carnegie Hero Fund bronze medals. Smith saved people from a gasoline truck fire in Colleen, Virginia, Sept. 6, and Kirby saved dairy farmer A. Richard Rector from an enraged bull in Hume, Virginia, Oct. 7, 1956, with a pitchfork.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Franklin Kirby
Joseph Schneider
Middleburg
Earl H. Smith
Lovingston
Smith
Colleen
Kirby
Richard Rector
Hume
Rector
UN Security Council mulls Egypt canal plan consultative step
United Nations Security Council members weigh Egypt’s declaration on Suez canal operation. Iraq and the Soviet Union favor replacing it with an international agreement, while the United States Nationalist China Philippines and others favor trying it. Britain signs concerns over no organized cooperation and possible unilateral revocation. Egypt aims to operate the canal under the 1888 Constantinople convention with specified tolls royalties and improvement funds.
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United Nations
N. Y
U.N. Security Council
Suez Canal
Egypt
Sir Pierson Dixon
Britain
Council
E. Ronald Walker
Australia
Guillaume Georges-Picot
France
Cairo
Shenandoah Ball To Have Music By Buddy Williams
Buddy Williams and his Golden Echo Music will perform at the Shenandoah Valley ball during the Appe Blossom Festival on Friday May 3 at the Apple Palace 605 N Loudoun St J Randolph Larrick chairman of the Name Dance bands committee announced Tickets for the Name Band dances on sale at the Festival Ticket Sales desk in the George Washington Hotel Tommy Tucker and his Orchestra will play at the Queen's Ball Thursday night.
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Buddy Williams
Shenandoah Valley
George Washington Hotel
Tommy Tucker
Psychiatrist hires gunman to kill himself and plans murder try
Detroit psychiatrist C. L. R. Pearman hired an undercover officer to kill him but backed out and failed to meet the rendezvous. Prosecutor Ralph Garber said a warrant for attempted conspiracy to commit murder would be recommended. Pearman faces up to five years if convicted.
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Detroit
Ralph Garber
C. L. R. Pearman
Pearman
Wayne County
Garber
Severe storms sweep across central U S with damage feared
Heavy thunderstorms and showers spread from eastern Texas to the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes with tornadoes reported in Texas. Fort Worth and Dallas received heavy rain while Detroit and Ohio saw hail and funnel clouds. Temperatures linger in the 40s to mid-60s as Gulf air fuels unsettled weather.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Mid- Mississippi
Ohio
Lower
Great Lakes
Tennessee
Middle Atlantic
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Northwest
New England
East Texas
Fort Worth
Dallas
Detroit
Mich
van Wert
Toledo
Jackson
Central Plains
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Peak Apple Bloom Covers Frederick Clarke Area
The Frederick Clarke area reports peak apple bloom across varieties Delicious Stayman and Black Twig yesterday, York Imperial today, and Rome Beasty tomorrow with heavy bloom but frost risk for weeks. Historical dates show earliest bloom in 1945 and latest in 1940, with usual bloom between April 21 and 30.
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York
Record U S Price Paid for Shetland Pony Here Friday
A national record was set when W. P. Button of Wilmington North Carolina paid 13000 for a four year old registered Shetland palomino pony at the third annual breed promotion sale of the Eastern Pony Breeders Inc. at the Farmers Livestock Market on Route 50 west. Ninety seven registered ponies had been sold by noon with about 45 more to go as the sale nears midnight.
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W. P. Button
Wilmington
N. C
Eastern Pony Breeders. Inc
Farmers Livestock Market
Route 50
Festival Queen to Appear on Godfrey Show
Miss Anne Denise Doughty Tichborne known as Queen Shenandoah XXX will appear on Artha Godfrey's television program Monday at 10:30 a.m. on Channel 9. She and her mother Lady Tichborne will arrive Wednesday morning for the Apple Blossom Festival.
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Anne Denise Doughty- Tichborne
Shenandoah XXX
Artha Godfrey
Channel 9
Miss Tichborne
Lady Tichborne
AIDES TO FESTIVAL OFFICERS IN Shenandoah Apple Blossom
Two Scouts named as aides to Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival leaders Thomas G. Scully and Tom Baldridge for the spring events. Tom Scully Jr. will assist his father and Thomas Bentley Kern will aid the director-general. Both youths belong to Troop 2, First Presbyterian Church.
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Thomas G. Scully
Shenandoah
Tom Baldridge
Tom Scully, Jr
S. Stewart St
Thomas Bentley Kern
Harry R. Kern, Jr
S. Washington St
First Presbyterian Church
Orville Wine
Sheiks Back Hussein Government Amid Martial Law in Jordan
In Amman, King Hussein strengthens control as martial law continues. The Arab Legion rounds up leftists and nationalists while government ministers from the Nabulsi era regain their posts. Sheiks and mayors pledge support, and a Karak meeting urges Egypt to halt propaganda.
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Amman
Jordan
Hussein
Arab Legion
Peete
Vurna
Suleiman Nabulsi
Ibrahim Hashem
Nabulsi
Old Jerusalem
Nabuls
Ramallah
Irbid
Suleiman Toukan
Toukan
Karak
Cairo
Egypt
Court of Appeals Rules Against Winchester Permit Denial
The Court of Appeals upheld a Winchester City Court ruling that the city code provision requiring Common Council action on service station building permits is unconstitutional. The case arose after John D. Glover sought a permit for a station on W Amherst Street, and the council refused, citing safety concerns.
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Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Winchester Corporation
Winchester City Code
Common Council
Winchester
W. Amherst St
A. C. Slonaker and Son
Elliott Marshall
John D. Glover
Glover
Corporation Court
Supreme Court of Appeals
Henry H. Whiting
Mr. Glover
J. Randolph Larrick
Thompson Named Envoy to Russia
President Eisenhower selects Llewellyn E. Thompson to be ambassador to Russia replacing Charles E. Bohlen. Thompson was ambassador to Austria and his nomination goes to the Senate next week.
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Thompson
Russia
Augusta
Eisenhower
Llewellyn E. Thompson
Austria
Gales Sweep North Atlantic Threat to Mayflower II
Storms in the North Atlantic delay the Mayflower II voyage toward Plymouth Massachusetts. The 180 ton replica vessel was reportedly south of the storm area with no immediate danger, while Empress of Scotland diverted to avoid rough seas.
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London
North Atlantic
Mayflower Itv
Pilgrim Fathers
Plymouth
Mass
Britain
Mayflower
Mayflower II
Montreal
Liverpool
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George Crowser, Jr
Sylvia Brant
Chamber of Commerce
Georgelington Hotel
Tylero
Hamilton
Waco
Cameron
Rexall
Beavers Drug Store
Winchester Armory
Winchester Baseball Club
SEARS
Rorbuck & CO
N. Loudoun St
B&o
Man
THE
Associated Press
U.S
Godfrey
Husseini
Court of Appeals
Walter P. McConaughy
State Department
Burma
Joseph C. Satterthwaite
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