Eisenhower Signals 74 Billion Budget With Space Aim
President Eisenhower gave all but final approval to a next year budget around 74 billion dollars marking a peacetime peak. He plans to submit the spending plan to Congress January 15 and deliver the State of the Union January 9 focusing on national security and space weapons. Defense spending drives the rise as missile advances prompt emphasis on defense.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Percival Brundage
James R. Killian Jr
Science and Technology
James C. Hagerty
Susan Eisenhower
Washington
State of the Union
Government Circle
End to New York Transit Strike Threat Sealed by City Pact
City Hall and the Transport Workers Union reached a two year contract ending the Christmas Eve transit strike threat. The deal covers 52,700 city employees and 8,200 private line workers with wage gains of 15 to 25 cents per hour over two years, no fare increase, and awaits union ratification. A separate settlement between TWU and nine private bus lines sped the resolution with similar pay hikes and a Williams system-wide impact.
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New York
City Hall
Michael J. Quills Transport Workers Union
City Transit Authority
Harold A. Felix
TWU
Westchester County
Robert F. Wagner
Quill
Queens
Staten Island
Assn. of
Transit Authority
Charles Patterson
Candidates File For April Primary No New Contests
Candidates for the Common Council filed for the April primary. In the first ward a five way race persisted by noon while the second ward had three incumbents filing for three seats. By noon all except Eugene C. Babb of the second ward had filed. Babb planned to file later.
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Common Council
Boscawen St
Richard Rosenberger
Eugene F. Dearing
Stewart Bell, Jr
Ralph Cain
L. Marshall Castleman
L. M. Allen
H. W. Buler, Jr
First Ward
Richard A. Goode
Eugene C. Babb
City Officials Sworn in This Morning by Clerk
Four city officials elected in November were sworn in today before Corporation Court clerk Peyton J. Marshall. G. G. Baker remains city sergeant since 1942, M. D. Weaver becomes treasurer, Dabney Watts continues as commonwealth's attorney, and Taylor Barr is commissioner of revenue with four-year terms. Municipal Judge John W. Rice also sworn in for a four-year term.
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G. G. Baker
M. D. Weaver
Dabney Watts
Commonwealth
Taylor Barr
John W. Rice
Common Council
Peyton J. Marshall
Baker
Barr
C. FP MecVicar
Watts
Weaver
No Edition For Tomorrow And Holiday Schedule
The Evening Star will not publish tomorrow due to New Year’s Day. Publication resumes Thursday. Holiday notices include garbage collection pause with Saturday pickup for Wednesday trash and bus service suspension on January 1st. Local ads promote fireworks and seasonal sales at Stotler's Texaco and Lucky Inn with event details.
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Evening Star
Area Prepares Goodbye to 1957 and Hello to 1958
The region moves to bid farewell to 1957 as plans for New Year events form. A weather forecast warns of rain tonight changing to snow in mountains with temperatures dipping into the 30s. Tomorrow night brings more cold. Watch Night services and dances are planned at churches homes and hotels including Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Ball at the George Washington Hotel and the Winchester Galf.
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Memorial Hospital
George Washington Hotel
Winchester Galf
Shotgun Blast Fells County Man in Frederick County
A Frederick County man was wounded in the left hip by a 12 gauge shotgun blast fired by his hired man, Melvin Tyson, 55, who is jailed on felonious shooting charges. Tyson, living on Paper Mill Road, was intoxicated and unquestioned last night as sheriff investigators began a fuller probe.
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Frederick County
John W. Hockman
Paper Mill Road
Melvin Tyson
Kernstown
Hockman
Tyson
DeHaven
No Traffic Deaths In Past 24 Hours Reported
State Police report no traffic deaths in the past 24 hours. Virginia's toll for the year is 9 to date. On this date last year the toll stood at 626 for 1956 total 830 for the year.
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Richmond
Virginia
Red Skelton narrowly escapes fatal asthmatic attack
Santa Monica Calif comic Red Skelton suffered a severe asthmatic attack causing heart failure. His wife and a rescue squad revived him at the Bel Air home and he was hospitalized in Santa Monica in serious but not critical condition.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Red Skelton
Bing Crosby
Skelton
Georgia
Fire Department
Bel Air
St. John’s Hospital
Red
Crosby
Virginia road deaths in 1957 exceed historic disasters
Virginia’s unofficial 1957 road toll nears 898, exceeding 1941 Virginia highway fatalities and surpassing many famous disasters. The piece compares traffic deaths to events from 1912 to 1955, noting total Virginia road fatalities since 1932 at 20 608 and naming peak months and years.
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Richmond
San Francisco
Virginia
Arizona
Grand Canyon
North Atlantic
Old Dominion
United States
Monongah
West Virginia
Texas City
Tex
Cocoanut Grove
Custer
France Begins Sahara Oil Output To Touggourt Rail Route
Algiers reports the first oil from France's Hassi Messaoud field in the Sahara is en route to Touggourt along a 150 mile pipeline. From Touggourt the crude travels 300 miles by rail to Philippeville on the coast. Officials withhold details to avoid rebel attacks on the pipeline.
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Algiers
France
Sahara Desert
Hassi Messaoud
Mediterranean
Touggourt
Philippeville
Pentagon seeks 1.206 billion emergency funds for missiles
The House appropriations subcommittee will begin Jan 8 hearings on a Defense Department request for emergency funds totaling 1.206 billion dollars to augment current year spending. Officials say missiles and anti-submarine priorities drive the request amid broader defense budget talk for next year.
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Washington
House
Defense Department
Mahon
D-Tex
McFlrov
Sen
Hayden
D-Ariz
Senate Appropriations Committee
Chavez
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Congress
Jerauld Wright
U. S. Atlantic
NATO
Atlantic Command
Pentagon
Wright
Navy
Winter Snowstorm Deluges Midwest Week's End
Winter's first major snowstorm moved east across the Midwest causing hazardous New Year’s Eve travel. Four traffic deaths in Kansas and two in Missouri blamed on slick roads. Chicago saw a rash of minor accidents as snow neared six inches. Warnings extended across Kansas Missouri Illinois and Michigan. Kansas City recorded four inches with up to another inch possible. Arctic air followed pushing temperatures to five above in Missouri and Kansas. International Falls Minnesota dipped to minus 24, Bismarck minus 25, Butte minus 15, Duluth minus 7.
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Midwest
Kansas
Missouri
Chicago
Illinois
Michigan
Kansas City
International Falls
Minn
Bismarck N.C
Butte
Mont
Duluth
Gulf of Mexico
Tito Receives Medical Clearance After Treatment
Belgrade Yugoslavia January report from Tanjug states President Tito has completed medical treatment and doctors deem his health fully satisfactory. The illness was not specified. Previously announced last November he could not attend the Soviet Union’s 40th anniversary due to acute lumbago. He was treated at Brioni Island retreat and will spend time in Slovenia.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tanjug
Tito
Soviet Union
Brioni
Slovenia
Yugoslav Republic
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USMC
Shawnee Ave
Shirley
Ihe
Brundage
Killian
New York Transit
V.F.W
Old Stone
Strasburg
Lovett’s
Great Reuctions Lovett S
N. Loudoun
Episcopal Church
Southern Tire
S. Braddock
Stotler
Duff
Front Royal Rd
Fells County
Comic Red Skelton
Sahara
Pifer's
W. Boscawen St
Winchester
Connie I. Renner Plumbing & Heating Bear
Kent
Bruce Wilson
Springfield
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