Weekend May Have Decided Sales Tax Fate
Virginia lawmakers returned to work after a weekend home that could decide Gov. Almonds sales tax plan. A single vote shift in the House Finance Committee could save the measure by changing the 9-8 split against the tax. The committee prepares for a crucial revisal and a public hearing looms on the 3 percent plan, a 2 percent substitute, and a 2 percent proposal by Del Sam Pope. A state gas tax increase also faces a vote, with potential revenue of about 12.5 million dollars annually.
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Richmond
Virginia
Almond
House Finance Committee
Whitehead
Del
Sam Pope
House Committee
House of Delegates
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Fireman lauded for James M. Jordan blaze in Stephens City
Richard Clem of the Stephens City Fire Co. was praised for his solo response to a Friday fire on Rt. 522 near Armel that ruined three rooms of the Jordan home. A faulty flue is blamed. Clem set up ladders and used a hose, arriving before Boyce Fire Chief Garland Brown's crew.
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Richard Clem
Stephens City Fire Co
James M. Jordan
Rt. 522
Armel
Jordan Home
Boyce
Garland Brown
Clem
Stephens City
Moscow Radio Starts Russian Lessons For North America
Moscow radio began Sunday night instructing North American listeners in Russian. The first lesson lasted about nine minutes teaching three letters and the word vash your. A new lesson will air each Sunday at 8 15 p m EST and repeat Tuesday and Friday at the same time.
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London
Moscow Radio
Income Tax Credit Plan Offered Assembly
Virginia lawmakers proposed an income tax credit to offset a potential sales tax. The plan by Del. Julian H. Rutherfoord Jr. and Del. Kossen Gregory would allow a 1.5 percent credit on net income up to 15 000, reducing the tax bill and aiming to raise about 100 million dollars in new state revenue with a 3 percent sales tax.
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Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
Almond
Dels
Julian H. Rutherfoord Jr
Kossen
Gregory
Roanoke
Commonwealth
Rutherfoord-Gregory
Fire Sweeps Cheektowaga Riding Stable
A Cheektowaga riding stable fire killed two horses and caused 45000 dollars in damage. Twenty eight horses stampeded onto Buffalo International Airport runways with one hit by a car. origin of the blaze was not determined.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Buffalo International Airport
Cheektowaga
Capitol Airlines
Rob Roy
Nehru invites Chou En-lai to New Delhi talks
Prime Minister Nehru invites Chinese Premier Chou En-lai to a top level meeting in New Delhi in mid to late March. He notes the border dispute remains unresolved with wide gaps between their positions while offering a framework to reduce tension and resume control of Indian sectors now held by China.
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Nehru
Chou
New Delhi
India
Chou En-lai
Mier
China
Tibet
Ambulance Demolished In Shenandoah Bridge Crash
Friendship Fire Company ambulance sustained heavy damage in a head on collision on the Shenandoah Bridge at Harper’s Ferry. Passenger Mrs. Christian Gutman suffered three broken ribs and possible kidney injury. husband unhurt. Ambulance crew James Geanious and John Fletcher received bruises. James Harrison, 19, of Knoxville Md., driver of the other car, was cited for failure to control. Franklin Harper’s Ferry Police and West Virginia State Trooper T H Wade investigated. patients treated at Charles Town Hospital and Memorial Hospital.
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Friendship Fire Company
Shenandoah Bridge
Harper’s Ferry
Christian Gutman
Valley Ave
Johns Hopkins’ Hospital
Baltimore
Gutman
James Geanious
John Fletcher
Geanious
Bolivar
Franklin Ree
Harper's Ferry Police
West Virginia
T. H. Wade
Charles Town
Winchester
Memorial Hospital
Harrison
Mrs. Gutman
Memorial Hoopla
Flames Claim Six in Bend House Fire
A two story Bend house fire killed six people including Mrs Ronald Salt Jr and her four children Marilyn 5 Larry 312 Bonnie 2 and Billy 1 and her sister Patsy Jean Taylor 15. A passerby reported the blaze and firemen found flames pouring from both floors.
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Bend, Orc
Ronald Salt Jr
Marilyn
Larry
Bonnie
Billy
Patsy Jean Taylor
Nashville
Tenn
Four-Foot Snowdrifts Close County Schools
Winter’s violent storm swept the East causing widespread travel disruption and school closures from Ohio to North Carolina. High winds, heavy snow, and drifting closed hundreds of schools while flights and rail service were curtailed and weather-related deaths mounted.
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Associated Press
Southland
Ohio Valley
New York
New England
Dixie
Ohio
Atlantic Coast
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vania
Kentucky
Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Lake Erie
Upstate
Connecticut
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Eastport
Maine
Mikoyan Booed by Norwegian Students
Anastas I. Mikoyan faced a hostile reception in Oslo as about 800 students booed him for claiming Soviet refugees in Norway were criminals and for denying political prisoners in the USSR. He defended Soviet policy, praised peace talks with Eisenhower, and warned that the United States would risk war with its postwar armament.
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Oslo
Norway
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Soviet Union
Mikoyan
Nor- Students Assn
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Revo Mikoyan Pees
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Virginia Storm Leaves Eight Dead Across State
Virginia endured the first major winter storm of the season with 4 to 18 inch snow across the southwest and the遇 state. Eight deaths were linked to snow related accidents and heart attacks. Roads were hazardous, many schools closed, and transportation disrupted as crews cleared drifts and towns resumed post storm.
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Patrick County
Portsmouth
Falls Church
Virginia
Carroll
Franklin
Roanoke
Wise County
Laem
Loudoun Cunty
Charlottesville
Richmond
Excited Britons Gather Outside Palace Gates
Crowds formed outside Buckingham Palace as the birth of Queen Elizabeth's third child neared. Maternity nurse Sister Helen Rowe moved into the palace, while obstetrician John Harold Peel waited at his London flat seven minutes away.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth
Helen Rowe
Palace
John Harold Peel
Khrushchev Attacks Western Aid at Indian Steel Plant
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told Indian workers at a central steel plant site that Western aid backs colonial policies. He argued only a strong Communist bloc justifies aid and condemns capitalist dependence, praising socialism as the path to independence.
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Bhilai
India
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
West
H Bomb Talk Mounts In France After Sahara Test
Paris reports a debate over France building an H bomb after the Sahara Desert detonation. Pierre Guillaumat and Defense Minister Messmer acknowledged study steps while Soustelle urged pursuit of a nuclear strike force. An Elks Club notice appears at the end.
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Paris
France
Pierre Guillaumat
Atomic Energy
Sahara
Guillaumat
Pierre Messmer
Jacques Soustelle
de Gaulle
Aurore
Soustelle
Elks Club
B.poe
Car Plunges 75 Feet and Driver Lives in Baltimore
A motorist drove off an icy bridge Sunday and tumbled 75 feet onto a frozen railroad bed. V. Nichols, 41, escaped with crushed seats and knee cuts, murmuring I don't know why I'm alive. He was charged with reckless driving.
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Baltimore
V. Nichols
Snow storms close roads and disrupt schools in area
A major weekend snowstorm dumped four inches with four foot drifts, closing secondary roads and many schools in Frederick Clarke Shenandoah Warren and surrounding counties. Highway crews worked to clear bus and mail routes while primary highways stayed open with constant plowing. Several injuries were reported from sledding and ice slips, and area police handled multiple crashes.
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Bedford County
Montgomery County
Giles County
Botetourt County
Smyth
Grayson
Bland
Tazewell
Virginia
Fauquier
Loudoun
Shenandoah
Frederick
Rockingham
Score
Cleveland Lee Dodd
Frank E. Rouse
Radford
Appalachian Power Co
Claytor Lake
Collins L. (Collie) Owens
Portsmouth
Highway Department
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Clarke
Warren
Winchester
Howard K. Grove
Grove
Front Royal
C. A. Menefee
Voor
Robert Willingham
Berryville
Shirley Ricketts
Cameron St
Memorial Hospital
Keith O'Mary
Plains
Burton Orndorff
City
Domace Gues Disha
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