Simbolon Ousted as North Sumatra Army Leader
Lt Col Djamin Gintings announced from Medan that he replaced Col Maludin Simbolon as military commander after tanks surrounded Simbolon's home. Sukarno ordered the handover while some factions backed Simbolon, amid unrest across Sumatra and a London trip cancellation for Sastroamidjojo.
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Simbolon
Sumatra
Djamin Gintings
Medan
North Sumatra
Maludin Simbolon
Gintings
Sukarno
Juries Named For Winchester Corporation Court Next Week
Two juries are scheduled in Winchester Corporation Court for the coming week. Civil jury set for Thursday January 3 at 10 a m includes Arthur L Dunlap Cecil F Elliott C H Schutt William R Barr Jay H Lowden Jr Russell LaFollette John O Billmyer Elsie C Alexander Snowden Newcome Woodrow L Rhodes and Clarence L Jones. Felony jury on Friday January 4 at 10 a m lists Harry Taper Arthur L Dunlap Sadie Taper Hattie Q Giles Cecil F Elliott Boyd Headley C H Schutte Lester Arnold Sr Inza C Welch William R Barr Jay H Lowden Jr Russell LaFollette Eugene P Miller Elsie C Alexander Snowden Newcome Genevieve Anderson Katherine Ford Woodrow L Rhodes Clarence L Jones and John O Billmyer. After Christmas sale hats lingerie bags at Buzzella s Shop. Dance Saturday night December 29 Winchester Armory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur L. Dunlap
Cecil F. Elliott
C. H. Schutt
William R. Barr
Jay H. Lowden Jr
Russell LaFollette
John O. Billmyer
Elsie C. Alexander
Snowden Newcome
Woodrow L Rhodes
Clarence L. Jones
Harry Taper
Sadie Taper
Hattie Q. Giles
Boyd Headley
C. H. Schutte
Lester Arnold Sr
Inza C. Welch
Jay H. Lowden, Jr
Eugene P. Miller
Genevieve Anderson
Katherine Ford
Woodrow L. Rhodes
Price Buzzella’s
Storm Blankets Northeast With Heavy Snow
A surprise winter storm blankets parts of the Northeast with heavy snow. Buffalo New York sees over 10 inches, causing traffic snarls and triggering airline cancellations. Snow also falls in the Ohio Valley and western New York, while Sault Ste Marie Michigan totals reach 14 inches. Florida remains cool with lows around the low 40s.
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Buffalo
N. Y
American Airlines
Ohio Valley
Pennsylvania
New York
Great Lakes
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Florida
Mercury
Miami
Darden Starts Round the World Trip from Charlottesville
University of Virginia president Colgate W. Darden begins a 22000 mile global tour as part of Eisenhower’s foreign aid committee. He leaves Washington’s National Airport with Ben Fairless and four others, visiting Madrid Paris Bonn Vienna Belgrade and other capitals before returning Feb. 17.
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Charlottesville
Colgate W. Darden
University of Virginia
Eisenhower
Darden
Washington
Benjamin Fairless
Us, Steel
Madrid
Paris
Bonn
Vienna
Belgrade
West Germany
Austria
Yugoslavia
Greece
Turkey
Istanbul
Ankara
Tehran
Karachs
New Delhi
Rangoon
Bangkok
Saigon
Manila
Hong Kong
Formosa
Korea
Japan
United States
United Nations
U. S
Pre Deadline Tax Payments in Frederick County Report
Frederick County Treasurer reports on December 5. local taxes paid 89.46 percent and state taxes paid 88.56 percent. Totals show local taxes 423 330.24 with 378 726.45 collected by deadline. state taxes 205 015.70 with 181 743.25 collected. Unpaid total 67 876.33, with overall taxes 628 34.03.
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Frederick County
State Corporation Commission
Rep Hand Dies Of Heart Attack In New Jersey Home
Cape May New Jersey reports Rep T Miller Hand a six term Republican member of the House died last night of a heart attack while seated in his Cold Spring home. He was 54 and had just been re elected to a seventh term representing New Jersey’s 2nd District which includes Atlantic Cape May and Cumberland counties. Hand had served as a lawyer newspaper publisher county prosecutor and mayor of Cape May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape May
N. J
T Miller Hand
Cold Spring
Haras
Elizabeth
Hand
New Jersey
Atlantic
Cumberland
Cave May
Bus Segregation Strife Sparks Gunfire and Arrests
Violence and mass arrests hit two Southern states over desegregation of city buses. In Montgomery, gunfire followed voluntary integration on Friday while Birmingham faced court action threats. Mobile reports drivers told to handle seating delicately as officials press segregation.
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Montgomery
Ala
Shuttlesworth
Mobile
Mobile City Lines, Inc
Mobile City Commission
Florida buses resume after franchise suspension
In Tallahassee the Capital Transit Co. and nine drivers were arrested for attempting to run buses without a franchise after the City Commission suspended the franchise. Police Chief Frank Stoutamire urged drivers to keep buses segregated as operations resumed today.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Frank Stoutamire
Capital Transit Co
Bus Integration Sparks Violent Incidents in Alabama and Florida
In Alabama Birmingham a peaceful integration drive led to two Negroes arrested, while in Florida Tallahassee a transit order suspended Cities Transit Co to push desegregation. A shotgun blast and shotgun and rifle fire targeted buses. no injuries reported as white drivers remained. Community leaders urged continued integrated bus seating amid protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Charles Ausley
Inter-Civic Council
Birmingham
Ala
F. L. Shuttlesworth
Aluminum Plant Blast Kills Two in Newnan
An explosion in the smelting department of the William L. Bonnell Co aluminum plant in Newnan Georgia killed two workers James Johnson Crook and George Luttrell and injured at least four others including one in critical condition. The blast disrupted power citywide for 35 minutes and damaged nearby homes and trees. Plant officials said the firm will suspend operations until further notice and estimated losses at 250000 dollars insured. Maintenance man Luke Johnson helped shut off gas to prevent further fire.
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Newnan
William L. Bonnell Co
Luke Johnson
Newe Nan
James Johnson Crook
George Luttrell
Bonnell
Paul Johnson
William L. Bonnell
Salvage Fleet Approved to Start Southern Suez Clearing
Cairo reports say Egypt agrees UN salvage fleet can begin clearing the southern end of the Suez Canal immediately The effort focuses on mine clearance at Ismailia and Suez while removal of sunken ships and bridges awaits Israeli withdrawal from Sinai
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Suez Canal
Cairo
Raymond A. Wheeler
U.N
Ismailia
Suez
Egypt
Sinai Peninsula
Harper
Ismaila
Mahmoud’Fawzi
U. N
Dag Hammarskold
News York
New York
Moscow Radio
Port Said
Cardinal Wyszynski to Visit Vatican
Poland's Roman Catholic primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski is due to visit the Vatican around January 6. A triumphal reception is planned and a red hat presentation by Pope Pius XII is anticipated after his release from confinement by Poland's Communist authorities.
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Vatican City
Poland
Stefan Cardinal
Wyszynski
Vatican
Pius XII
Traffic Deaths May Hit Record Toll During New Year Holiday
National Safety Council estimates 490 highway deaths from 6 p m Friday to midnight Tuesday, edging past the previous New Year record of 497 set in 1952-53. The Christmas period logged 708 deaths, a first holiday total above 700, with 54 fires and 124 other fatalities.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
U.S
Council
California Brush Fire Rages Adding New Fury
A gale driven blaze in Malibu and surrounding canyons expands to over 20 000 acres with two new spots and 50 to 70 mph gusts. At least 27 homes destroyed including Ralph Edwards’s luxury beach house. one man, Frank L Dichover Jr., 32, dead. Evacuations widespread as fire jumps the Pacific Coast Highway and Red Cross and Salvation Army assist.
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Malibu
Calif
Pacific Ocean Island
Santa Monica Mountains
Ralph Edwards
Edwards
Beverly Hills
Beach House
Raymond Burr
Gordon Jenkins
Charles Erskine
Arthur Freed
Hugo Freed
Jackie Coogan
Paradise Cove
Coogan
Pacific Coast Highway
Klinger
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Los Angeles
Frank L. Dichover Jr
Zuma Beach
Tanker Plane Crashes in Alaska With Eight Aboard
An eight man four engine tanker plane crashed northwest of Willow Alaska sixty miles north of Anchorage after taking off from Elmendorf AFB on a routine training mission. A ground team was en route to the scene and it was not yet known if anyone survived. Also listed are two shooting matches at Hammack's Garage Middletown scheduled for December 28 and 29.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Alaskan Air Command
Willow
Bald Mountain
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Air Force
15th Highway Death County Man Killed Near Clearbrook
James Walter Fincham of Clearbrook died after being struck by a 1946 Dodge pickup on U S Route 11 north of Clearbrook around 6 pm. He was Frederick County's 15th traffic fatality in 1956. Fincham, born March 29, 1901, was an orchard laborer for H W Butler & Bro. Surviving family includes his father, three brothers, three sisters, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements were in complete today, body resting at Omps Funeral Home.
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Frederick County
Ed. U. S. Rt. 11
Clearbrook
James Walter Fincham
Donald A. Sheetz
Fincham
Sheetz
Mr. Fincham
H. W. Butler & Bro
Madison County
James M. Fincham
Annie Dodson Fincham
Robert Fincham
Berryvile
Raymond
Perce
Boy Kills Mother by Accident Loading Shotgun
An 11 year old Rockingham County boy accidentally shot and killed his mother while loading a double barreled 12 gauge shotgun in the kitchen of the Huffman home at Briery Branch near Harrisonburg. The victim was 35 year old Mrs Roy W Huffman. Funeral services are set for Friday afternoon at Briery Branch Church of the Brethren.
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Harrisonburg
Rockingham County
Melvin L Hoover
Hoover
Landa Carroll Huffman
Roy W. Huffman
Huffman
Briery Branch
Briery
Church of the Brethren
John Gwathmey Dies Veteran Virginia Author and Journalist
John Gwathmey a Richmond author and longtime outdoors columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch died in a Richmond hospital after a long illness. He was 70 and wrote six Virginia based books including Legends of Virginia Court houses and Legends of Virginia Laws. He spent most of his career in Richmond with earlier stints in Charlotte Gadsden Florence Baltimore and Ashland. He served in the Navy during World War I and is survived by his wife Harriet Harris of Abingdon.
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Richmond
John Gwathmey
Virginia
Gwathmey
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virgin
Virginia Lawyg@ts.” Gwathmey
Charlotte N. C. Gadsden
Florence
Ala
Baltimore Md
Ashland
Richmond Public Schools
University of Richmond
Harriet Harris
Abingdon
Family Appeals For Condemned Man
In Richmond the family of Frank J. Snider asks Gov. Stanley to commute Roanoke rapist’s death sentence to life imprisonment. Snider of Cadillac, Alabama was sentenced June 27 in Hastings Court for raping a 10 year old girl.
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Richmond
Roanoke
Gov. Stanely
Frank J. Snider
Cadsden
Ala
Snider
Hastings Court
Nixon and Hoover Confer on Hungarian Relief Effort
Vice President Nixon flies to New York to confer with former President Hoover on the Hungarian relief problem. They plan to visit Camp Kilmer after the Waldorf conference to discuss agency needs and U S contribution.
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Nixon
Hoover
New York
Herbert Hoover
la Guardia Field
Waldorf-Astoria Towers
Austria
Camp Kilmer
N. J
United States
Camp
Kilmer
Congress
Tracy S. Voorhees
William P. Rogers
U. S
John B. Hollister
International Cooperation Administration
Loy W. Henderson
Lewis W. Douglas
Great Britain
Virginia forecast and sale note from Winchester paper
Partly cloudy tonight with low temperatures in the 30s across regions and warmer highs Friday. The page also advertises a year end sale at Margaret L Hodgeson Hat and Dress Shop with clearance on hats, wool skirts and wool dresses through December 31.
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Virginia
Argog Ical Kg
Noobs Morale
Les Coste
Cisaciante
Margaret L. Hodgson
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Sastroamidjojo
Col
Acmad Hussein
K. H. Dachian
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Dachian
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Celebes
Java
War Ministry
Army
London
Farlher
Corporation Court
Winchester Corporation Court
Winchester Armory
Associated Press
Pacific Shore
The
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Ins. Corp
Modernage Shop
Sabrina
Bark Mill
G P. m
Cardinal Wyszynski
California
Corral Canyon
U. S. Highway 101
Sequit Canyon
Los Angeles County
Keith Klinger
Hammack
Middletown
Garland Brown Poland
Wine Bros
Pion Beoo Oa
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