Mobs Attack Belgian Embassies Across World Capitals
Protests over Congo Premier Lumumba’s death sparked attacks on Belgian embassies in Cairo Warsaw Moscow Belgrade Rome and Paris. In Cairo a fire damaged the embassy while police used bamboo batons to disperse mobs. Police stood by in Warsaw as staff were roughed up. Demonstrations continued with broad regional concern over UN actions and Lumumba’s fate.
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London
Belgium
Cairo
Warsaw
Poland
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
U.S
Moscow
Belgrade
Rome
Paris
Europe
Soviet Union
Lumumbist
Antoine Gizenga
Stanleyville
U.N
Emergency Snow Measure Being Considered Here
Emergency snow ordinance discussed after record snowfall. Councilman Marvin E. Gore Jr. says a definite need exists and is being worked on. City Manager Lee Grant notes about 17000 spent on snow treatment and removal. streets damaged by weather are at their worst in years and repairs will wait for dry spells.
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Marvin E. Gore, Jr
MR. Grant
Lee Grant
Charles M. Zuckerman
Water and Sewer Committee
Council
U. S. Public Health Service
Gore
Council OKs Sewage Job and Hears Requests
The City Council authorized a contract with Howard Shockey & Sons for a sewage treatment plant addition and discussed street and parking requests. Proposals include restoring two way or one way traffic on W Piccadilly and Morgan Streets, widening Commercial Street, and limiting parking on National Avenue toward Pine Street. A demonstration on steel lighting types followed.
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Howard Shockey & Sons, Inc
W. Piccadilly St
Angerona Terrace
Morgan St
Commercial St
National Ave
Berryville Ave
Pine St
Winchester Won't Adopt D S T Soon Despite Support
Winchester unlikely to switch to daylight saving time due to state law requiring Eastern Standard Time and a city population over 200000. The move, endorsed by the Winchester Retail Merchants Association, stalled as the city lacks legal basis to change time. Council debated a local demonstration and a petition urging the change.
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Winchester
Robert L. Pizzano
Winchester Retail Merchants Association
D.S.T
J. Randolph Larrick
Virginia
Carroll Henkel
Thanks to Donnie and Kenneth Lucas for church yard cleanup
The Down Crer The Down Crer vida lain SERVICES could not have been held at Hebron Baptist Church at Gore for the past several Sundays if it had not been for the help fulness of Donnie and Kenneth Lucas clearing off the church yard with a tractor. The pastor Rev. Morris Cather and the congregation extend their thanks. Mrs George Sheetz reports a pileated woodpecker visiting her Red Bud Road yard. The bird is larger than an ordinary woodpecker with a red topknot and is rarely seen here. The fifth grade focus on Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival draws inquiries from all over including David Strong of Goose Bay Labrador. Four Sykesville Henderson High School Band members visit Winchester for festival plans and a Skyline Caverns tour.
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Hebron Baptist Church
Gore
Donnie
Kenneth Lucas
Morris Cather
George Sheetz
Festival
Chamber of Commerce
David Strong
Miss Warren
U.S.A. Air Force Dependents
Goose Bay
Labrador
Sykesville-Henderson High School
Sykesville
Winchester
Front Royal
Skyline Caverns
Directed Acquittal Of Rees Denied In Kidnap-Murder Case
Baltimore AP Chief District Judge Roszel Thomsen denied the defense motion for a directed verdict of acquittal in the Melvin Davis Rees Jr. kidnap murder trial. The government rested after 68 witnesses described the Jackson family killings linked to a Lindbergh law violation, with defense planning to call 15 to 20 witnesses over two to three days if the motion fails.
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Baltimore
Roszel C. Thomsen
Melvin Davis Rees Jr
Thomson
Benjamin Lewis Hill
Buckner
Mildred Jackson
Mildred Jack
Jackson
Susan
Gambrills
Cherry Lane Road
Apple Grove
Carroll V. Jackson Jr
Janet
Fredericksburg
Six Arrested In Raid At 448 N Kent St
Six men were arrested in a raid at 448 N Kent St after police found beer wine and cigarettes linked to Ritters Variety Store thefts. Charged with grand larceny of merchandise over 50 dollars, the suspects include Nathanial James Jackson Joseph Bizzell Marion Henry Lockett Russell Smith Edward Day and Charles ert. Jr
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N. Kent St
Ritter
Kern St
Russell Smith
West Alley
Nathanial James Jackson
Kent St
Joseph Bizzell
Marion Henry Lockett
Seabring
Fla
Edward Day
Larry's Market
West Washington
Anderson
Boscawen St
Stevenson Denounces Congo Move at United Nations
U N Amb Adlai Stevenson denounced the Foxe Union Congo move as a declaration of war against the United Nations. The Security Council meeting was disrupted by about 10 Lumumba supporters who surged into the galleries, forcing a 15 minute clearance. Stevenson urged unity behind Dag Hammarskjold to resist weakening UN role.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.S
Adlai Evenson
Foxest Union
Congo
United States
Stevenson
U.N. Security Council
World Organization
Patrice Lumumba
Prt
Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold
Goldberg Forecasts Three Million More Unemployed in 13 Months
Secretary Goldberg told Congress that about three million more Americans will face long term unemployment in the next 13 months. He urged quick passage of Kennedy’s bill to extend unemployment benefits and boost state reserves with higher employer payroll taxes.
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Goldberg
Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
Congress
Kennedy
House ‘Ways and Means
GOP
National Committee
Battle Line
Sam Rayburn
Orgegan
Frederick County to Hold Saturday Classes for Snow Days
Frederick County schools will operate on February 18 and 28, with early dismissal by one hour on both Saturdays. Supt. Robert Ayler said these two days compensate for two of fourteen days lost to snow.
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Frederick County Schools
Supt
Robert Ayler
Birthday Sales Begin Here Tomorrow In Winchester
Washington's Birthday sales in Winchester start tomorrow and run Friday and Saturday. About 40 stores participate with 22 cent items and deep discounts on shoes hats lingerie jewelry and more. Some ads appear in today's Star and others in tomorrow's edition.
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Washington
Winchester
Robert Pizzano
Winchester Retail Merchants Association
54 Americans Among 73 Dead Near Brussels
A Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 crashed near Brussels killing 73 people including 54 Americans and the U S figure skating team. Among the dead were Mrs Maribel Vinson Owen and her two daughters, with the team en route to Prague for world championships. A farmer was killed and others injured as debris scattered and a morgue was set up at the airport.
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Brussels
Belgium
U.S
Sabena
New York
Brussels International Airport
Maribel Vinson Owen
Winchester
Mass
Laurence Owen
Maribel Owen
Owen
Laurence
Steffi Westerfield
Gregory Kelley
Bill
Laurie Hickox
Colorado Springs
Colo
Bradley Lord
Dudley Richards
Boston
Donna Lee Carrier
Diane Sherbloom
Roger Campbell
Los Angeles
Rhodie Michelson
Long Beach
Calif
Douglas Ramsay
Detroit
Ray
Ila Rae Hadley
Seattle
Larry Pierce
Indianapolis
Bob
Pat Dineen
Boeing
Cmdr
Louis Larbrechts
Seacoast Village
Local Man Involved in Fatal Crash on Rt 11
A truck driver Oliver McDonnell 60 of Winchester was involved in a fatal crash on Rt 11 about 70 miles west of Carlisle Pennsylvania. William Richman Smith 33 of Greensboro North Carolina was killed when his disabled tractor trailer was struck by McDonnell’s truck the impact throwing Smith into the other vehicle. Earl V. Armfield of High Point NC riding with Smith was hospitalized with a fractured nose and multiple cuts.
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Carlisle
Oliver McDonnell
Winchester
William Richman Smith
Greensboro
N.C
Smith
McDonnell
Earl V. Armfield
High Point
Provisional Confederate Congress Passes Fort Sumter Move
One hundred years ago, the provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery Alabama voted to seize Fort Sumter in South Carolina and Fort Pickens in Florida by force. The body also resolved to appoint commissioners to the U.S. government.
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Provisional
Confederate Congress
Montgomery
Ala
Fort Sumter
S.C
Fort Pickens
Fla
Provi Congress
United States
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E. R. Huntsberry, Jr
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Pat Weidenhaus
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Washington, D. C
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Jack Brandon
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Brandon
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George Washington Hotel
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