City Council shelves land dispute after tense session
City officials took no action on a motion by Councilman Carroll Henkel to sell back the Commercial Street land for 10 000 after he alleged collusion in the purchase from John K Butler and H Ray Butler. Butler denied wrongdoing and said the deal was for investment and equipment display needs. The debate occurred in a special session in the Corporation Courtroom with no immediate resolution.
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Carroll Henkel
City
Jean
Butler
Council
Henkel
Mr. Butler
John K
Jack) Butler
H. Ray Butler
Butlers
Claude B. Smalts, Jr
Utlers
J. Randolph Larfick
Ordince
H. Ray
John K. Butler
Ene Er Pee
MR. Henkel
John
Doug
Jack
Douglas Butler
Council Fm
Corporation
Carroll H. Henkel
J. Douglas Butler
John K.butler
Ray Butler
Fire Department Responds to Strange Bedroom Fire
Firemen were called to a minor blaze that started when a boy fired a cap gun in his parents' bedroom. Fire inspector W N Gochenour noted the ignition caused the fire before it was extinguished. Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent with 40 days to Easter.
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W. N. Gochenour
Charyk Named Head of New U S Communications Satellite Company
President Kennedy selects Joseph V. Charyk Undersecretary of the Air Force to head a federally used privately owned space satellites venture. The appointment, expected to be announced soon, follows Charyk’s reputation in jet propulsion and high speed flight and aims to expand global communications via satellites like Telstar Relay and Syncom.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
Air Force
Joseph V. Charyk
U.S. Communications Satellite Corporation
Edwina
Charyk
Ahen
Vicor
Las Lal
Rusk Pledges To Block Cuba's Exporting Attack
Secretary of State Dean Rusk vowed Cuba will be blocked if it uses arms outside its territory. He warned a Soviet military presence in Cuba cannot be accepted and said any arms export would be intercepted and stopped. Senators Mansfield and Sparkman praised the stance while Senator Aiken urged retroactive action against Soviet forces in Cuba.
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Rusk
Cuba
Washington
Dean Rusk
Fidel Castro
Houston
Hemisphere
Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Senate Democratic
Mike Mansfield
Montana
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Foreign Relations
Robert A. Brietweis
Living Costs Rise as Food Prices Climb
Washington January consumer prices rose two tenths of one percent driven by higher food costs. Retail food prices gained 1.2 percent for the month with fruit and vegetable prices jumping due to mid December freezes and dock strikes. Food prices were 2.1 percent higher than a year earlier.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Khrushchev vows aid to friends if West attacks Cuba or China
In a Kremlin election rally Premier Khrushchev warned the Soviet Union would come to the aid of its friends if the West launched any attack on Cuba or Red China. He said those who unleash a new atomic war will burn in its fires and backed limited on site nuclear inspections. He also urged peaceful coexistence amid Moscow Beijing tensions.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Cuba
Red China
Kremlin
Defense
Rodion Malinovsky
United States
Formosa
Peking
Geneva
Local Students Held for Larceny at Shenandoah College
Two Shenandoah College students, John F. Ryan III and Owen F. Beeder Jr., were held on $2,500 bail after a breaking and entering attempt and larceny on Route 522 near the Warren Clarke County line. Ryan, 19, is noted as the college student government president. The pair were seen by Robert Jett at his home and detained at gunpoint until sheriffs arrived. State police questioned them with no confirmed link to a separate fatal stabbing nearby.
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Shenandock College
Warren County Law
Rt. 522
Warren-Clarke County
John F. Ryan III
Woodbridge
N. J
Ryan
Owen Frederick Beeder, Jr
Arlington
Robert Jett
Reir
Yesteray
Jett
Winchester Road
H. Denis Hoover
E. M. Snow
U S Helicopters Ordered To Open Fire In Viet Nam
U S helicopters in South Viet Nam were ordered to shoot first while escorting airborne troops. The change, in effect since Tuesday, allows UH1B and UH1 turbo helicopters to lead into combat if guerrillas are believed to be dug in and to spray rockets and machine gun fire to cover troop landings.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Earle G. Wheeler
U.S. Army
Fingerprints Studied By FBI In Hoover Case
FBI crime lab tests on fingerprints from the Hoover home are awaited as investigators pursue possible matches with files in Washington. The double murder of H Denis Hoover's wife and his mother in law remains unsolved with no motive or suspects yet confirmed.
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FBI
Hoover
Frederick County
FBI Crime Laboratory
H. Denis Hoover
L. A. Estep
Washing
D.C
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Commonwealth
Stephens City
Railway Clerks Delay Strike After California Court Order
The Railway Clerks Union obeyed a California court order delaying a strike against the Southern Pacific Railroad for 10 days. Union leaders said they would seek prompt court action to overturn the temporary injunction.
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San. Francisco
Railway Clerks Union
California
Southern Pacific Railroad
China demands talks with Soviet Union while attacking Khrushchev
The Peking People's Daily editorial says China is ready for private ideological talks with Moscow but conditions them with a sharp attack on Khrushchev. It calls Yugoslav Tito a renegade and demands repudiation of Moscow Albania ties, criticizing Soviet trade and wartime pressures.
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Tokyo
China
Soviet Union
Communist Bloc
Khrushchev
Chinese Communist Party
Moscow
Peking People’s Daily
Yugoslavia
Peking
Balkan
Albania
Fieldhouse project discussed by city groups in Winchester
Recreation Commission, City Council, and Planning Commission met to review the Winchester field house proposal. No action was taken, described as informational, while questions about location cost and building nature were aired. A joint committee of council, planning, and recreation commissioners is to be formed to examine details.
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Recreation Commission
City Council
Planning Commission
Winchester
Frederick County
Claude Smalts
Smalts
Council
Winchester Recreation Commission
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Eee
Lauris Norstad
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World Bank
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Forrest S. Racey
Shenandoah College
E.M. Snow
MR. Massie
Robert L. DeHaven
J. T. Churchill Newcomb
Loudoun County
India
Tito
Howard Johnson
George Washington Hotel
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