City to Negotiate With Firms for Trunk Sewer Main
Common Council last night authorized the city manager to negotiate with outside firms south of the corporate limits to install a trunk sanitary sewer main along Abrams Creek. The action supports area development tied to a new city water system and includes plans for financing via waste-discharge revenue. The council also approved two subdivision plats, a shelter for Ground Observer Corps, and sewer reporting requirements for new and modified house sewers.
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Common Council
Ground Observer Corps
GOC
U. S. Air Force
Air Force
Water and Sewer Department
Marvin D. Weaver
Lee Grant
Fred I. Brumback
Abrams’ Creek
Grant
Bellview Heights
Glaize Developments, Inc
Bellview Ave
Valley Ave
Brandon Drive
Shakeup in Soviet Union Signals Internal Dissatisfaction
President Eisenhower commented on the Soviet high command reshuffle noting it reflects internal discontent in Russia. He said it will not alter U S policy for peace and cautioned the U S must stay alert though it may not signal a tougher Soviet stance. He recalled meeting Marshal Zhukov, calling him a capable officer, but could not infer any peace impact. The conference covered atomic developments, Formosa tensions, and the Tachens evacuation.
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Eisenhower
Russia
United States
Georgi K. Zhukov
Red Antiaircraft Batteries Shoot Down U S Plane At Tachen Evacuation
In Formosa the incident involved a U S Navy AD Skyraider shot down by Communist batteries amid the Tachen Islands evacuation. The crew ditched four miles west of the Tachen, were rescued with minor injuries, and the Navy called the event not a hostile act.
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U.S
Taipei
Formosa
Tachen Islands
Red
Tachens
Estes
Hardesty Home in Clarke County Damaged by Fire
Fire started when an oil furnace exploded at the Hardesty residence near Berryville damaging four rooms on two floors. No one was home. neighbor Simon Newlin raised the alarm. Most furniture was removed. smoke caused extensive damage and clothes burned for Philip Hardesty. Estimated loss about 40000 dollars.
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Hardesty
Clarke County
Holmes Hardesty
Berryville
Stephens City Fire Company
E. E. Rogers
Middletown
Middletown Company
John Enders Fire Company
Hardesty House
Simon Newlin
Kenneth C. Hardesty
Philip Hardesty
Kenneth Hardesty
Philip Hardestys
Mrs Custer to Lead Queen and Court at Shenandoah Festival
Mrs. Monford D. Custer Jr. will head the Queen and Her Court Department for the 1955 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival, with Mrs. George H. Murphy as assistant director. Custer, a Wellesley College graduate from Ohio, is active in local clubs and civic groups and resides at 407 S. Washington St. The department will select Queen Shenandoah XVIII for the April 28 event and arrange for the princesses during their festival stay.
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Monford D. Custer, Jr
J.P. Arthur
Custer
Patricia Ann Priest
George H. Murphy
Ohio
Wellesley College
Wellesley
Mass
Girl Scout Council
Hospital Auxiliary
Century Club
Little Garden Club
Red Cross
Murphy
Shenandoah XVIII
Winchester
Nehru urges China to avoid force over Formosa
Indian Prime Minister Nehru told a London news conference that Red China should not seize Formosa by force. He said time is needed to work toward a peaceful settlement and that India and Russia are exchanging ideas on cease-fire options, though no plan has been set.
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London
India
Nehru
Red China
Formosa
Russia
Formosa Strait
Peiping
Warmer Weather Forecast for Area Tomorrow
The area is forecast to warm up tomorrow after a 40 degree high this afternoon. Tonight should be fair and not as cold with rising temperatures tomorrow. low temperatures tonight likely between 28 and 38 degrees.
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Associated Press
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Financing Approved For Dixon-Yates Power Project
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved 542 million dollars in common stock financing for the Dixon Yates power project. Mississippi Valley Generating Co. will issue stock to Middle South Utilities and The Southern Co. to feed TVA grid power via a private plant, with an Atomic Energy Commission contract. Rowen dissented. Goodwin Jr. joined Republicans. Opponents vow court appeals to block financing. Big loans from insurers are to follow.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Dixon- Yates
Commission
Mississippi Valley Generating Co
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Atomic Energy Commission
Paul R. Rowen
A. J. Goodwin Jr
Powerful New IB Drug Disclosed
At the 14th Veterans Administration Army Navy conference in Atlanta physicians learned of cycloserine a potent new antituberculosis drug. VA plans a 200 patient control test to define its effects while earlier 37 severely ill patients showed negative cultures improved breathing and weight gains with minimal fever.
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Atlanta
Veterans Administration
Army—Navy
Academy of Medicine
Stalinist Fate Seen for Malenkov in U S Analysis
American officials who study the Kremlin view Georgi Malenkov as destined to die or vanish from power following his yesterday’s loss. They compare his likely fate to Stalin’s method, noting Khrushchev's rise and Molotov and Kaganovich remaining players, while Malenkov’s removal appears probable though not guaranteed.
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Washington
Kremlin
Georgi Malenkov
Moscow
Malenkov
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
U. S
V. M. Molotov
L. M. Kaganovich
Khrushchev
Lavrenty P. Beria
Beria
Eisenhower Says No Proof Russia Led Hydrogen Bomb Race
President Eisenhower told reporters there is no proof Russia has surpassed the United States in hydrogen bomb development. He noted Molotov’s boast as not worth speculating about and urged global vigilance to prevent atomic war. Senators Jackson and Hickenlooper said the U S leads in nuclear weapons and will stay ahead with effort.
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Zhukov
Eiisenhower
Russia
United States
Molotov
Eisenhower
Washington
Soviet Union
Sens
Jackson
D-Wash
Hickenlooper
R-Iowa
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Moscow
Red
America
Malenkov
A. S. Pavelenko
Pavlenko
V. M. Molotov
AFL and CIO Agree on Historic Merger Plan
Negotiating committees of the AFL and CIO reached a merger pact to unite the rival labor bodies into a single federation. The accord, brokered by AFL President George Meany and CIO Chief Walter Reuther, awaits ratification by subcommittees and conventions of both unions.
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Miami Beach
Fla
AFL
CIO
Organized Labor
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
AIL
George Meany
Walter Reuther
Schenck Named Rouss Banquet Toastmaster
Final plans for the Rouss Fire Company annual banquet are announced by chairman C. Douglas Brown and assistant Marvin D. Weaver. C. F. Schenck will be toastmaster at the Friday 7:30 p m dinner. Rev. Robert A. Whitten will give the invocation, with Montague and Doris providing entertainment. Sidney Snellings will play dinner music and a 350-person crowd is expected at the fire hall.
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Rouss Fire Company
C. Douglas Brown
Marvin D. Weaver
C. F. Schenck
John J. Hawse
Robert A. Whitten
Montague
Doris
Sidney Snellings
Sidney Veasey
The
Golden Glow
Winchester Woman Killed in Crash Near Mt. Jackson
A Winchester woman, Sdamae Hull Friedline, 65, died when her 1953 Chrysler struck a bridge abutment on U S Route 11 north of Mt. Jackson as she apparently fell asleep at about 3 30 p m. She was en route home after visiting a husband in Waynesboro. The accident was Shenandoah County s first fatal crash of 1955. She was born October 30 1889 in Somerset Pa and survived by her husband and father plus two brothers. Burial plans call for Somerset County Memorial Cemetery.
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Winchester
Shenandoah County
U. S. Rt. 11
Mt. Jackson
Sdamae Hull Friedline
Pennsylvania Ave
Bill Berry
Friedline
Waynesboro
General Electric Co
Berry
Pennsylvania
B. E. Williams
Walter Hoffman
Somerset
Somerset County Memorial Cemetery
Evacuation of Tachens Reaches Critical Stage
U S Admiral Sabin says civilian evacuation of 30 000 Chinese Nationalist civilians and troops on Tachens has reached the critical stage with civilian removal complete The message notes possible Communist attack timing and emphasizes world opinion and Nationalist soldiers as potential targets The Navy begins evacuating Nationalist troops after civilian phase ends
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Estes
U. S
Tachens
Adm
Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin Jr
U. S. Navy
Kern Motor CO
Malenkov Given Minor Post as Head of Power Stations
In Moscow Georgi Zhukov was named defense minister as Malenkov shifted to deputy premier and power stations chief. Bulganin resigned as defense minister and Malenkov’s post reflects boosted heavy industry priority amid a Khrushchev-led government shakeup.
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Malenkov
Moscow
Georgi K. Zhuskov
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet
Georgi K. Malenkov
Nikolai A. Bulganin
Bulganin
Zhukov
Kremlin
Defense Ministry
Ivan S. Koney
L. P. Beria
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Communist Party
Stalin
Berlin
Front Royal AF Pilot Dies in Night Intruder Bomber Crash
An Edward Air Force Base pilot Capt. Anderson B. Honts Jr. and a civilian died when their Martin Night Intruder B57 crashed five miles north of Apple Valley California during a routine test flight. The crash left the cause undetermined and the site about 100 miles northeast of Anaheim in the Mojave Desert.
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Apple Valley
Calif
Edward Air Force Base
Were
Air Force
Anderson B. Honts, Jr
Siuree
A. B. Honts
Front Royal
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Centenary Reformed Church
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
C. M. Rosenberger
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United Nations
Mrs. Custer
J. G
W. J. Oheren
South Tachen
Keelung
Formosan
Alfred M. Pride
7Th Fleet
China Coast
Lenawee
Henrico
East China
Hodgson & Brown
W. Boscawen St
Dixon-Yates
Security and Exchange Commission
Alexei I. Rykov
Soviet Council of People’s Commissars
Lenin
Rykov
Karl Radek
Radek
Leon Trotsky
Mexico City
Ike
Schenck
Rouss
Round Hill Fire CO
Round Hill Community Fire Company
Round Hill
Harry Patterson
Shawnee Fire CO
American Brakeshoe Co
G. A. Helsley
Shenandoah Production Credit Association
National Farm Loan Association of Winchester
James Wood High School
Julian A. Everly
Treas
Front Royal AF
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