10 Aug 1955
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1955
Page
1
Secretary of State Dulles urged patience and nonviolence as South Korea seeks to remove truce supervisors. He promised U S protection for the truce team members, urged against unification by force, and warned atomic war would doom Korea to misery not unity.
President Eisenhower says Mamie is not ill but merely tired after a lively weekend with guests at the family farm. She plans to join the President in Colorado, with the pair coordinating travels around his Philadelphia Bar Association address and Cabinet schedules.
Winchester Common Council learned that plans for a city by pass remain on track with construction set for 1958 under the State Highway Department. Officials warned a possible federal involvement could raise costs beyond the 1953 estimate of about 22 million dollars as Congress debates highway standards.
Five polio cases were found among 114 boys at Camp Avoda in Middleboro Massachusetts as 1955 New England polio totals reach 1189 with 34 deaths. Dr William Fishman says precautions include curtailed activities no swimming and bi daily medical exams for campers. Boston officials keep summer playgrounds open noting most children have been exposed to the disease.
The regular meeting of the Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department is set for Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Brakeblok Plant. All members are urged to attend. Gilbert Heleley, Secretary.
The Winchester Common Council voted to hire an engineer for the public works department and to authorize the public safety committee to study acquiring 25 to 50 of a new theft proof parking meter type after two models were reportedly fool proof. A waste discharge permit was granted to a local fruit firm after upgrades met city standards.
Gov. G Mennen Williams of Michigan says President Eisenhower may be forced to seek a 1956 renomination by Republicans. He thoughts a Stevenson bid could win the Democratic nomination and backs the idea of Harriman weighing a run, while noting Eisenhower’s age and spirit.
About 300 shout ing Koreans ignored a anti violence order from President Syng man Rhee and pressed toward Wolmi Island. U S troops repelled the charge with tear gas and fire hoses at Inchon port injuring 22 Americans and 80 Koreans.
Alvin Duke Chandler refused to resign as president amid a clash between a faculty faction and his supporters at William and Mary. He told reporters he felt he was right and intended to carry out his program for the college, the people of Virginia, and education.
Virginia coastal areas brace for Connie with offshore center 260 miles east southeast of Charleston. Winds 17 mph with gusts to 24, rain 0.27 inch by 7:30 am. Shelters set, windows taped, antennas removed. Navy planes evacuated. coast guard on alert. ships in Hamp ton Roads awaiting orders. Two Norfolk area Navy pilots were killed yesterday.
Ralph Singleton the biologist renowned for using radioactive cobalt to alter plant growth will join the University of Virginia in September as Miller professor of biology and director of Blandy Experimental Farm in Clarke County He returns from Geneva where he served as a US representative at the Atoms for Peace Conference Singleton and associates at Brookhaven developed gamma ray methods to boost corn yields and disease resistance in oats and peanuts Likely to study water and fertilizer use in plants his work aims to create new strains and better understand hereditary factors.
Sir John Cockcroft told the 72 nation atoms for peace conference Britain aims to use breeding reactors to stretch uranium and thorium to meet the equivalent of 250 million tons of coal yearly by 2000. Canadian experts predicted nuclear power could compete with coal and hydro in Canada within a decade, with costs as low as 7 mills per kilowatt hour.
Walter of Pennsylvania told reporters the House Un American Activities Committee will show many in the entertainment industry have been Communists. He named 27 actors writers and Broadway figures to be questioned as the weeklong inquiry opens in New York City.
A crew of 92 construction men labored to tie down a Texas Tower radar station 100 miles offshore as Hurricane Connie threatened. The Coast Guard cutter McCulloch stood by a mile away to ferry workers to shore if needed. The 10 million dollar platform rests on three permanent legs driven 50 feet into the ocean bottom, will rise 96 feet above high water, and serves as a base for a Navy Air Force coastal radar station. Seas were 10 feet, weather watches intensified as the storm's path tracked toward the coast.
The area faces occasional rain and some wind tomorrow as hurricane Connie stalls near the North Carolina coast. Rainfall so far in August stands at .18 inches with July also below average, while today’s high reached 79 and the overnight low was 63. Tonight expected low 65 to 70 and tomorrow’s high near 84.
The Frederick County Schools announce first grade registration on Monday August 15 from 9:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. at all schools except James Wood Armel Gravel Springs Highview and White Hall. Children must be six by September 30 1955. Parents or guardians must accompany with birth certificate. Robert E Ayler Superintendent.
Hurricane Connie moved 225 miles southeast of Wilmington and was forecast to turn northward. Evacuations spread along the coast as the Red Cross activated a coastal disaster plan in seven Carolina cities and authorities warned of dangerous seas and high water.
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