Aid Approved as Virginia Flood Toll Grows
President Eisenhower authorized emergency federal aid for six southwest Virginia counties Bland Buchanan Dickenson Scott Tazewell and Wise amid week long rains. Gov. Stanley said about 2 000 homeless and 18 000 jobless as damages exceed 10 million dollars. Red Cross set up emergency HQ in Bristol with 200 staff to coordinate help for 5 000 to 6 000 families statewide.
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Eisenhower
Virginia
Bland
Buchanan
Dickenson
Scott
Tazewell
Wise
Thomas B. Stanley
Stanley
THE
RED Cross
Bristol
West Virginia
Kentucky
National Red Cross
John Russell
Red Cross Disaster Services
Viscose Employees To Share $9 Million Windfall
The American Viscose pension withdrawals total nine million dollars to be distributed next week among 16 000 employees in Virginia West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Most checks run $1200 or more with older workers among the larger sums. Distribution occurs at plants in Roanoke and Front Royal Virginia Nitro and Parkersburg West Virginia and Lewistown and Meadville Pennsylvania.
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Virgin's
West Virginia
Pennsylvana
Textile Workers Union of America
Afl-Cio
Roanoke
Pront Royal
Nitro
Parkersburg
W. Va
Murac Hook
Lewistown
Meadsville
Frederick Coop Farm Bureau
Court House
Winchester
Star Leadership Awards Committee For 1957
Miss Charlotte E. DeHart chairs the Winchester Evening Star Leadership Awards Committee for 1957. The awards totaling 1050 dollars will give 350 dollars to one top senior in each local high school system for excellence of character leadership and duty. Winners will be announced at graduation and selections will be made in spring.
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Charlotte E. DeHart
Virginia Avenue
Winchester Evening Star
The
Star
Winchester
Clarke T. Cooper
Amherst St
John McL. Adams
S. Washington St
Frederick County
Leslie M. Bell
Merriman’s Lane
Charles A. York
Stephens City
Clarke County
Edward B. Lee
White Post
Harold G. Potts
Berryville
Saud Confers With Eisenhower Amid Optimistic Talks
King Saud of Saudi Arabia meets with President Eisenhower as U S officials report progress in talks viewed as aimed at backing the Eisenhower program and renewing use of the Dhran base. Ambassadors say discussions have gone well and may yield a formal statement soon.
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Washington
King Saud
Saudi Arabia
Eisenhower
George W Wadsworth
U. S
Laud
Congress
Middle East
United States
Strategic Air Base
Dhanran
Saud
White House
Fires show lower losses in 1956 area reports
Fire damage in the Winchester Frederick Clarke area dropped to about 50 000 in 1956 from 600 000 in 1955 and earlier years while five people died in fires. Alarms totaled 385 city countywide and a new fire inspector began duties in Winchester.
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Taylor Barr
Winchester
Frederick and
Clarke Counties
Winchester-Frederick-Clarke
Frederick County
Clarke County
Clarke
Frederick
New City appoints Floyd Barley as patrolman
Floyd Allen Barley of Stephens City is set to begin duties as a policeman at 4 p.m. He is James Wood High School graduate, four years in the U S Navy, unmarried, living with parents Mr and Mrs Frank Barley. Training under Capt Joseph C Ritter precedes entry into police training school starting Monday evening.
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J. Thomas Boyd
Floyd Allen Barley
Stephens City
Barley
James Wood High School
U. S. Navy
Frank Barley
Boyd
Joseph C. Ritter
King Saud Ordered 60 Cadillacs in High-Value Package
Detroit report says more than 60 jewel-studded Cadillacs were ordered from General Motors for King Saud of Saudi Arabia. Cars allegedly will include air conditioning one-way glass armour plating and gun mounts. GM declined to confirm or deny. Estimated fleet cost nears one million dollars.
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Detroit
General Motors
King Saud
Saudi Arabia
Cadillac
Four Men Rob Libbey Owens Ford Employees FCU
Four heavily armed men robbed the Libbey Owens Ford Employees Federal Credit Union of $50,000 in Toledo Ohio at 9 40 am just after Brinks Express delivered the money. The credit union manager Albert Gottfried said they cleaned us out.
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Toledo
Ohio
Libbey- Owens Ford Employes Federal Credit Union
Albert Gottfried
House panel seeks 275 million for Social Security benefits
The House Appropriations Committee recommended 275 million dollars to fund improved social security benefits as part of a 335,090,000 dollar supplemental bill for the remaining five months of the fiscal year. The total is 46,997,500 less than President Eisenhower requested, boosting the social security program to 1,575,000,000 for the year ending next June 30. The panel also earmarked 15 million for drought emergency conservation, 20 million for farm ownership loans, and 45 million for revolving loan funds for the Small Business Administration.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Social Security Administration
Agriculture Department
Mail Business Administration
Plane collision in Van Nuys schoolyard kills seven
A four engine airliner on a final test flight collided with a jet fighter and disintegrated over Pacoima Junior High School injuring 78 people and killing seven including four transport crew. The scene drew hundreds of witnesses and prompted calls for testing limits near populated areas.
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Pacoima Junior High School
van Nuys
Calif
San Fernando Valley
Virginia Weather Outlook and Local Notices
The forecast calls for rain this afternoon and tonight with heavy rain in the south. Highs around 37 to 40, lows near 35 to 40, windy and cooler Saturday. Five day outlook expects temperatures about 4 degrees above normal with rain or snow late Sunday into Sunday night and again Tuesday or Wednesday. Also notes sunrise and sunset times for Winchester and local meeting notices for South End Fire Co and various local ads and sales.
Soviets Charge West Evading Disarmament Solution
Moscow accuses the West of evading a disarmament solution and speeding up preparations for an atomic war. Leonid Ilyichev announced in a Tass-distributed statement that the United States is expanding military bases abroad and arming them with atomic weapons, prompting Soviet calls for continued efforts toward a solution. The note cites Eisenhower’s budget message on six atomic support commands and revisits past warnings about allied nuclear bases inviting retaliation.
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Moscow
Tass
United States
United Nations
Foreign Ministry
Leonid F. Ilyichev
Soviet Union
U.S
Eisenhower
Pentagon
U. S
Britain
France
West Germany
Italy
Turkey
Iran
Japan
Honey production up eight percent in Virginia last year
Virginia beekeepers produced 3,861,000 pounds of honey, an eight percent rise from 1955. The state contained 143,000 commercial bee colonies, reflecting continued industry scale and growth.
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Richmond
Virginia
Old Dominion
Safety Council estimates 95 000 Americans killed by accidents
The National Safety Council places the 1956 toll at 95 000 dead and 9 450 000 injured with a total cost of 10.8 billion dollars. Traffic deaths reached about 40 000, but final figures may shift and the record remains unsettled. Delayed deaths could alter totals.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
NSC
Police Training School Opens February 4 in Winchester
The 1957 Police Training School of the Winchester Police Department will begin Monday February 4 and run 7 to 9 p.m. at City Hall. Captain Joseph C. Ritter leads the program with sessions on communications, evidence handling, civil law, accident reports and traffic laws taught by local and state officers and an attorney. The week concludes with plans for the annual Police Banquet on February 21.
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Winchester Police Department
J. Thomas Boyd
Joseph C. Ritter
J. T. Marshall
Virginia State Police
F. M. Punk
Warren Rudolph
Robert K. Woltz
Winchester
H. C. Birckhead
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John J. Hawse
Star Leadership Awards Committee
Miss DeHart
Walter S. Flory, Jr
Blandy
University of Virginia
Boyce
Handley
Douglas James Wood
the Star
Martha Ann Butler
Handley High School
Charles David Symons, Jr
Lloyd Allen Johnson
Clarke County High School
Fran Jo Ducknall
Nalda Baughman
Kathryn Bell
Shirley Hauptman
Shirley Ann Gilliam
Beth Ames
Lke
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U. S. Naval Academy
Midshipmen
Navy
Duke University
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Willie Simms
Friendship Ambulance
Minnie Martin
Herbert Jones
Potts
Highland Ave
James Robert Luttrell
Robert Luttrell
Cross Junction
James William Dix
Greenspring
Memorial Hospital
Ruth Shanholtz
R. P. Altizer
Lewis Taylor
Pidgeon Hill
Larry Burcham
N. Loudoun St
William N. Gochenour
South End Fire Company
Winchester Common Council
Col
Floyd Barley
New City Policeman
Rouss
Reuss Fire Co
Congregational Christian Church
Hammack
Willow Lawn Farm Market
Valley Ave
Ward
Credit Union
Los Angeles
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California
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South End Fire CO. Revilar
John A. Boyd
Douglas Aircraft
Continental Air Lanes
M. C. Dougherty
Northrop Aircraft, Inc
Pacoima
Jack Bacich
Curtis A. Adams
Glendale
Hapmamas
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Mt. Hebron
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