Eisenhower Says Islanders Provide Lesson For World
President Eisenhower, en route to South America, told Puerto Ricans the islanders offer a lesson to aspiring peoples. Demonstrators urged independence or statehood as he arrived, but he praised Puerto Rico as a proud self governing commonwealth joined to the United States by choice. Governor Munoz Marin welcomed him and noted differences over union form.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
South America
Eisenhower
Washington
Commonwealth
United States
Luis Munoz Marin
Commonwealth of the United States
Altro
Emergency radio aid offered to Wardensville during snow
The Shenandoah Amateur Radio Club announced readiness to provide free communications to Wardensville when it was cut off by snow last week. A relay was prepared from Colorado but Wardensville did not need the service. residents expressed gratitude for the gesture. Nearby, two women share the same name Lucy Kephart living in Front Royal and Boyce, though not acting. Irvan O Connell hosted about 20 evening grosbeaks at 8 Loudoun Street, a rare winter eastern sight bred in Canada and northern U S. The Sun shone after a light snowfall of a quarter inch, with a five day forecast predicting mixed precipitation and up to 6.5 inches of snow total.
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Lucy Kephart
Front Royal
Boyce
Irvan O’connell
Mississippi
O’connell
Loudoun St
United States
Canada
O’connells
Budget bill work resumes in Virginia House
A Virginia House appropriations subcommittee resumed work on the state budget with chairman Howard H. Adams aiming for a full committee vote the next day. The plan calls for revenue not far from 84 million dollars to meet essential needs without frills as 21 hours were spent over the weekend. Delegate Roy Smith proposed raising the lower income tax rate from 2 to 3 percent on the first 3 000 and cutting personal exemptions from 1 000 to 600, also applying to dependents, against the governor’s vow not to sign higher income taxes. The House Finance Committee prepares for a public hearing on Del Robert Whitehead’s beer tax hike and a new three cent per pack cigarette tax.
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Richmond
House
Howard H. Adams
Adams
Roy Smith
Petersburg
Appropriations Committee
Smith
House Finance Committee
Del
Robert Whitehead
Roanoke
Almond
Airmen's Club Defended by AF Officials
NAHA Okinawa AP Maj Gen Dale C Smith denies finding any unsavory or illegal activity at Kadena Air Base airmen's club after a Methodist temperance leader alleged it is a center of vice. Col Glenn T Eagleston says no Hawaii trips or wide free-drink programs exist and hostesses are hired through labor offices with standard medical exams.
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Naha
Okinawa
Kadena Air Base
U.S. Air Force
Dale C. Smith
313Th Air Division
Caradine R. Hooton
Methodist Board of Temperance
Washington
Eisenhower
Smith
Hooton
Time Magazine
Hawaii
Glenn T. Eagleston
Kadena
Five Arrested In Reported Nazi KKK Link
Austrian police arrested five suspected leaders of a secret Nazi undergroup with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and a worldwide anti-Semitic network. A raid on a Vienna printing facility seized large quantities of propaganda bearing Klan imprints.
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KKK
Vienna
Austria
Ku Klux Klan
United States
United Part
Ameri
Pingley & Carper Cleaners
Snowstorm Lashes Midwest Then Dims in Northeast Passage
A major snowstorm moved from the Midwest into the Northeast slowing punch as it dropped up to eight inches in parts of Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and the Great Lakes region. Snow covered Ohio Pennsylvania New York and Maryland while the northern Rockies spawned new snow across Montana Wyoming Utah and Colorado. Highways reopened and many areas dug out as temperatures fell to near zero in Kansas Iowa and Nebraska and teens in the region. Public notice from J. ER samen & Real Estate appears at the end.
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Midwest
Midlands
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Texas
Rockies
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
Nebi
South Dakota
New York
South
Florida
South Atlantic
Eisenhower asserts U S defense power amid tour
President Eisenhower reassures Americans of ample and evolving defense strength as he announces a 15 000 mile Latin American goodwill tour. He cites a deterrent force robust in numbers, missiles, bases and unusually long range ballistic capability.
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Washington
United States
Eisenhower
U.S
Green Bay
Ted
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Imen
Preyeron
D-Mo
St. Louis
Rain Helps Clear Roads In Virginia
Rain and more of it brings relief to Virginia mountain residents after recent heavy snow. Snow fell across the southwest and reached Winchester and Charlottesville, though totals were less than in the prior two weeks. The State Highway Department reported all primary roads open and stood ready for drifting as snow piles remained high in some areas. Lee County saw up to four inches of snow yesterday.
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Virginia
Winchester
Charlottesville
Highway Department
Lee County
Sukarno Upsets Khrushchev With Asian African Appeal
In Surabaya Sukarno addresses 50,000 supporters denouncing exclusion of Asian and African nations from the Paris summit. He criticizes US policy and predicts Soviet lead in space and world influence, urging broader representation for peace. Khrushchev, on stage behind him, receives enthusiastic cheers as Sukarno calls for freedom for all Asian and African territories.
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Surabaja
Indonesia
Sukarno
Nikita Khrushchev
Paris
Khrushchev
Behid
West Java
United States
Sia
Freedom Award Winners Named at Valley Forge Ceremony
Sen. John L. McClellan and Secretary Wilber M. Brucker, joined by Maj. John B. Medaris, top the 1959 Freedom Foundation awards at Valley Forge Military Academy on George Washington’s birthday. Medaris earned the best essay prize with a $1,000 award. other honorees included Cmdr. William R. Anderson and Lt. Cmdr. Donald M. Hanson among nine special leadership recipients.
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Valley Forge, Pa
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Secretary of the Army
Wilber M. Brucker
John B. Medaris
Freedoms Foundation
George Washington
Washington
Valley Forge Military Academy
Special Freedom
Brucker
William R. Anderson
Donald M. Hanson
San Diego
Calif
Hollywood
Ward Bond
Bob Hope
Armand Penha
Fairhaven
Mass
FBI
Seven Children Die in Oberlin Fire Tragedy
In Oberlin Ohio seven children died in a flash fire that gutted the rear bedrooms of a one story frame house. Two adults escaped including sisters Lucille Isom 24 and Mary Malone 20 with their mother Sylvia Malone. Victims were four Isom and three Malone children ages from 6 months to 8 years.
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Oberlin
Isom
Sheila
Linda
Dennis
Marshelle
William
Malone
Diane
Martin Jr
Margaret L Hodgson Hat and Dress Shop Sale
Silk and rayon dresses reduced to five dollars. All wool dresses and winter hats offered at lower prices. Store reads MARGARET L. HODGSON Hat and Dress Shop with date fp-2-22-1b.
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Margaret L. Hodgson
Fire Ravages Harrisonburg Rooming House. 5 Dead
A predawn blaze in a three story Harrisonburg rooming house killed five people including two children and an elderly blind man. Eight others were hospitalized with burns or injuries. The cause was not determined. Damages were expected to exceed $50,000.
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Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley
Roanoke
Concord
Campbell County
Harry Hoffman
Mary Elizabeth
Harry Jr
Otis Rowan
Claude Bowman
Clarence B. Davis
Nellie
Davis
Hoffman
Harold Crawford
W. K. Fox
Lloyd Underwood
Ruth Underwood
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Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
House Committee
Airmen’s Club
Great Lakes
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Maryland
J. Ersamen & Real Estate
THE
Associated Press
President Sukarno
Thunder
Soviet Union
McClellan, Brucker
Medaris
Freedom
Army Ordnance Missile Command
Huntsville
Ala
Space
Anderson
Navy
North Pole
Hanson
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