Cumberland Valley Firemen Hold 60th Anniversary Parade Prizes
Prizes totaling 1125 dollars will go to winners at the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s Association 60th Anniversary event scheduled for 2 p m Saturday. The parade features 20 pumpers an aerial ladder truck 13 marching units six bands and two drum and bugle corps with prizes for best appearing equipment majorette best band and oldest fire apparatus among others.
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Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association
Prise
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Cumberland Valley Volunteer Fireman's Association
North
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Aes
I. Ae
Showers Move South as Drought Persists in Central U.S.
The Associated Press reports showers advancing southward while drought remains severe in Arkansas Missouri Kentucky and Tennessee damaging crops and pastures. Forecasts promise more rain over the weekend and government aid includes partial funding and railroad freight rate cuts on hay shipments to the affected states.
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Associated Press
New England
Arkansas
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Brannan
Wisconsin
Michigan
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Adrian Carrol Cook
Ruth Botcalli
Mt. Dean, Jr
Jack Dillon
Dick Steinborn
Tony
Milo Steinborn
Little Mountain Church Grove
ROYAL
Sell — Exchange New Tires
Southern Tire IE Battery Ca
McGranery Against Deporting Latva ls Facts Correct
Atty General McGranery says no reason to deport Karl Latva of Wendell New Hampshire, who paid 90 cents in Communist dues 18 years ago. He would not break up the family if facts hold, and FBI will review the case under the McCarran Act. Latva’s sons Carl and Paul call the announcement good news and hope their father is cleared.
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Washington
Atty
McGranery
Karl A. Latva
Wendell
N. H
FBI
McCarran
Latva
Communist Party
Boston
Carl
Paul
Guild, N. H
Funeral Honors For Eva Peron Begin Final Stage
President Peron led Eva Peron’s bier through Buenos Aires under flower petals as Argentina enters the final stage of 15 days of funeral honors for the late first lady. The gun carriage carried the mahogany casket along a 15 block route from the labor ministry to theCGT offices where thousands viewed the casket.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Peron
Eva
General Confederation of Labor
Labor Ministry
Peron
CGT
Two New York Women Enter Pipe Smoking Contest
Two New York women compete for the international long distance pipe smoking title in Long Beach California. Mrs Hug Gnam Jr of Jefferson Valley and Mrs Kay Alderman of Peekskill join about 400 male contestants for the title held by Paul Spaniola, a 39 year old father of nine from Flint Michigan. Mrs Gnam has five years as a pipe smoker and Mrs Alderman three years.
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Long Beach
Calif
New York
Hug Gnam
Jefferson Valley
Kay Alderman
Peekékill
Paul Spaniola
Flint
Mich
Weatiers
Gnam
Alderman
Medal of Honor Winner Rescued By Helicopter
The Medal of Honor recipient from Guadalcanal was rescued after an emergency helicopter flight over North Korea. He was a former commanding officer of Marine Air Group 12, with Lt H O McEaucher piloting the helicopter that carried him to safety despite being hit by flak and nearly out of fuel.
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Eee
North Korea
Galer
Guadalcanal
Marine Air Group 12
Korea
H. O. McEauchern
Pasadena
Three Shots, Three Years Ends in Husband Killing
Ex marine Dan Webster Shattles was killed by his wife Mary Helen Shattles who admitted firing one fatal shot as he dozed on a sofa. Police records show previous shootings in 1949 and 1951 with minor charges and later withdrawal of a reported aggravated assault.
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Atlanta
Dan Webster Shattles
Shattles
Mary Helen Shattles
Murster
Mary Helen Manus
Miami
Fla
Accidents on Route 522 Hurt Two People
Lolita Angeline Messman of Bristol Tennessee sustained minor injuries when her 1951 Pontiac collided with a 1952 Ford tractor truck about 18 miles northwest of Winchester on Route 522. A wheel came off the big truck causing damage to both vehicles. About an hour later Edward H. Billet of Union New Jersey skidded a 1950 Packard into a ditch and rolled over. Kevin Ronald Billet two years old suffered a cut ear and was treated at Winchester Memorial Hospital.
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Lolita Angeline Messman
Bristol
Tenn
Winchester
Edward H. Billet
Union
N. J
Kevin Ronald Billet
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Lumber owner killed by falling boom in Pound
Melvin Collins 64 owner of Collins Lumber Co in Pound Wise County was killed yesterday when struck in the face by a lumber boom. He is survived by his wife and ten children.
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Pound
Melvin Collins
Collins Lumber Company
Wise County
Collins
Virginia Highway Toll Hits 511. Five Deaths Reported Today
Virginia records four today and six yesterday raising the annual highway death toll to 511. Names include Maude Mills 56 of Caroline County James Wheeler 33 of Bedford Richard Sinclair 28 of Bedford Samuel Lawson 4 of Roanoke Frank McKay 52 of Roanoke and Meely and the Change child in a Nelson County crash near Lovingston.
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Virginia
Forge
Maude Mills
Guinea
Caroline County
James O. Wheeler
Bedford
Richard Sinclair
Samuel Lawson
Roanoke
Frank McKay
Meely
Change
Nelson County
Lovingston
Humphrey
Pulaski Hospital
Floyd-Carroll County
Dugspur
Paisley
South Boston
Brown
Newport News
Riverside Hospital
Mills
Wheeler
Sinclair
Young Lawson
McKay
Firefighters Hospitalized After Dewey and Almy Chemical Blaze
In Cambridge Massachusetts thirty four firefighters were hospitalized and a hundred others overcome as a stubborn blaze at the Dewey and Almy Chemical Co factory that makes weather balloons sent smoke through the floor. About fifty workers escaped before the fire reached sulphur and rubber and over a hundred nearby residents were evacuated due to fumes. The plant manager stopped acetone flow to avert a possible catastrophe.
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Cambridge
Mass
Dewey and Almy Chemical Co
Victims Identified in Clarke County B 26 Plane Crash
Four victims of a Clarke County B 26 crash were identified by a firm representative. The deceased include pilot M Cody previously linked to Caspar and co pilot. Names listed: White 35 Eugene Tolman 6459 Radford Ave North Hollywood CA, Oscar Earl Sivage 35 7538 Kraft Ave North Hollywood CA, Cecil M 52 Montana St Swood CA, Bascom Lang 38 1801 West Texas Midland TX. Bodies recovered after the bomber crashed in misty rain on a bombing range near Berryville.
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Clarke County
Mator
John R. Wilson
Senerieet
Washington
White
Eugene Tolman
Radford Avenue
North Hollywood
Calif
Oscar Earl Sivage
Kraft Avenue
Cecil M
Montana Street
Swood
The
Oil Company
Bascom Lang
West Texas Street
Midland
Tex
Central Division
M. Cody
Caspar
Wyo
St. Louis
Ridge Tains
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Bulgaria protests Greek shelling before United Nations
Bulgaria filed a formal protest with the United Nations alleging Greek shells and mines fell on Bulgarian soil during an island clash along the Evros river. Greek authorities reported mortar and machine gun fire on Gamma Island to drive off Bulgarians, while Athens minimized the incident as local.
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United Nations
N. Y
Muate i
Rosess
Greece
Wagemeaee
Island of Border
Athens
U. N. Secretariat
Neytchev
U. N
Gamma
Sophocles Venizelos
Gre Sano
Fate of American John Hvasta After Czech Prison Escape
Diplomatic and intelligence efforts search for John Hvasta, a naturalized American from Hillside New Jersey, who escaped a Czech prison over seven months ago. Officials lack confirmation of his fate as they weigh whether he is alive or dead while he remains unlocated outside the Communist bloc.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
John Hvasta
United States
Hillside
N. J
Hvasta
Rew
Vienna
Stevenson Picks Mitchell National Committee Chief
Stevenson appoints Wilson Wyatt to lead his campaign HQ and names a lieutenant to a key post. In Denver, John Foster Dulles echoed Eisenhower and Nixon that foreign policy is the campaign’s major issue, warning of peril from current policies and backing Eisenhower’s experience. Senator Lyndon Johnson urged a sharply tougher, bolder U.S. policy at a Dallas Legion convention.
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Ie Eisenhower
Stevenson
Dulles
Dean Acheson
Eisenhower
America
Sen
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Senate Preparedness Committee
Texas American Legion
Dallas
Johnson
Donald Wilson
Clarksburg
W. Va
Legion National
U. S
Acheson
James F Lewis Washington Kin Dies In Florida
James Freeland Lewis 76, a great great great grandnephew of George Washington, died Wednesday in a St. Petersburg convalescent home. Born in Berryville Virginia, he was the great great great great grandson of Betty Washington sister of George. He was a retired broker previously with Pinch on and Company in New York City and moved to St Petersburg five years ago from Hackensack.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
James Freeland Lewis
George Washington
Berryville
Betty Washington
First Press
Lewis
Pinchon and Company
New York City
S J. Petersburg
Hackensack
Strictly Amateur In Politics Says Stephen Mitchell
Stephen A Mitchell, a potential Democratic candidate for governor alongside Adlai Stevenson, says he is a political amateur and has not been notified of any selection. He confirms no work with Americans for Democratic Action and notes a long acquaintance with Stevenson dating to the late 1930s and early 1940s when they met at a Chicago rally and later in Washington.
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Chicago
Stephen A. Mitchell
Adlai
Steven Chatmay
Wr Mitchell
Stevenson
Mitchell
Fis
Sparkman
Americans For Democratic Acpga
Gov. Stevenson
William Allen White
America
Washington
Argument ends in staying at birthday party
In Stony Creek Virginia Haywood Jones about 22 was at a birthday party when an early morning shooting killed Frank Pulliam in St. Philip Hospital Richmond Pulliam died from a forehead wound after the 1 a.m. incident Sheriff T B Fannin said Jones admitted the shooting during an argument a revolver used remains unfound Both men were Black residents of Stony Creek and Sussex County
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Stony Creek
Haywood Jones
Frank Pulliam
St. Philip
Tal
Richmond
Pe Bare
Sussex County
T. B. Fannin
Jones
Fannin
Winning Ratio Most Successful Of Korean War
The U.S. said American Sabre jet pilots shot down another Communist MIG today the 19th of six straight days of smashing raid against the Russian built gang early yesterday and a bloody battle raged for ten hours with seventy nine enemy killed.
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William C. Barnard
Seoul
Korea
Ro Ag
Group Forms Third Party In U S After Meeting
About 100 people frustrated with Democrats and Republicans voted to form a third party. Led by Mrs Suzanne Stevenson of Connecticut, the group carried the idea to sponsor Operation America and the Minute Women of Maryland. They planned to act immediately despite forecasts of limited electoral impact this year.
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Chicago
Suzanne
Stevenson Connecticut
Minute Women
United States
UN Sponsorship
America
Washington, D. C
Maryland
Ste Alter
Kirby
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