Fun and Frolic as 1960 Arrives Worldwide
The first hours of 1960 saw celebrations worldwide with church services parades and bowl games. Merrymakers greeted the new decade with hopes for happiness and prosperity as auto horns sounded in Paris Moscow and other cities. President Eisenhower celebrated with friends and family before continuing on page 2 Cal. 4.
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Associated Press
Paris
Germany
Red China
Soviet Union
Moscow
Eisenhower
Teens collect trees for Burning of the Greens night
City officials thank the Teen Age Club for collecting Christmas trees around town for the Burning of the Greens event. Garbagemen will pick up trees with regular waste for one week only starting January, using open trucks due to enclosed equipment limits. Winchester greenskeeper Lewis Lamp to join Mid Atlantic Greenskeepers panel in Baltimore Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Lewis Lamp
Winchester Golf Club
Mid- Atlantic Greenskeepers Association
Baltimore
City OF
Winchester
Sunken Valley Forge Crew Safe Says Ship Breaks Up
The American freighter Valley Forge broke up on reefs 50 miles southeast of Singapore. All 37 aboard were believed safe, with 22 rescued by the Fiskerton and eight by a salvage tug. Captain Petrone and six others remained unconfirmed. Indonesian and British forces monitored the scene as survivors might be accounted for.
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John Griffin
Singapore
Valley Forge
Fiskerton
Peter F. Petrone
Bintan Island
Charles Kidd
Baltimore
Navy
Peninsular Navigation Co
New York
Mapor Island
Griper
Actress Margaret Sullavan Dies Before New Starring Role
New Haven AP report states actress Margaret Sullavan, 48, died Friday shortly before going on stage in a new play. Coroner Corrigan cites possible barbiturate poisoning. autopsy results pending toxicology test to confirm or rule out self administration.
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Margaret Sullavan
New Haven
Corrigan
Bell Clothes of Winchester
State
Hartford
Sullavan
Kenneth Wagg
Traffic Death Rate Slows After New Year Holiday Peak
National Safety Council data show highway fatalities slowed during the New Year weekend after a Friday spike. The group warned 320 to 400 deaths were possible during the 78 hour period ending Sunday midnight, with a record 364 deaths for a three day span in 1956.
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National Safety Council
Midwest
Beamer Girl First Baby Of New Year
Debra Ann Beamer daughter of William Edward and Mary Wanner Beamer was the first baby of the new year arriving at Memorial Hospital weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces at 12 50 a m. Her parents aged 33 live at 448 Kerns Row and have three older children. The second and third New Year babies were girls of the same weight. Next arrivals were Michele Lynette Smith and Donna Kay Nickleson from Yes Spring West Virginia and Hayfield respectively.
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Debra Ann Beamer
William Edward
Mary Wanner Beamer
Memorial Hospital
Kerns Row
Michele Lynette Smith
Cecil Bryan Smith
Yes- Spring
W. Va
Donna Kay Nickleson
Charles William Nickleson
Hayfield
1500 Negroes Demand End to Freedom of Choice Plan
About 1500 African Americans marched to the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to urge repeal of the free dom of choice school law and the Prince Edward County pupil placement act. They also asked emergency authority for Gov. Almond to reopen county schools as a religious rally heard King urge citizens not to accept private segregated education.
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Richmond AP
General Assembly
Martin Luther King
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Prince Edward County
Confederacy
Richmond
King
Board of Supervisors
Virginia
Khrushchev Hints at Cutting Arms to Pressure Talks
Khrushchev suggested the Soviet Union could cut armed forces and rely on rockets, signaling a possible opening move to pressure the West at Geneva talks. The New Year’s remark was made at the Kremlin for foreign diplomats, while U.S. officials weighed its implications for disarmament proposals aimed at total abolition within four years.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Washington
Geneva
United Nations
U.S
Kennedy enters race for Democratic nomination in New Hampshire
Sen. John F. Kennedy announces formal entry in the Democratic presidential race and will contest the New Hampshire primary on March 8. He outlines aims to curb the arms race, boost science and education, support farm economy, cities, and achieve broad economic growth while preserving freedom and moral purpose. He notes his role as a front runner with attention to policy priorities.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Free World
Kennedy
al Smith
Eight die in head-on Florida crash near Lake Okeechobee
Eight people died when two autos collided on U S 27 about 17 miles south of South Bay Florida. One injured woman later died at Belle Glade Memorial Hospital. cause and whether the count reached nine remained initially unclear.
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South Bay
Fla
U.S
Lake Okechobee
Miami
Pennsylvania
Belle Glade Memorial Hospital
Saw Highway Patrol
Pahokee
Mary
Marianne
Tuesday Bell Clothes of
Winchester
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Clarke County HS
George S. Pine
Berryville
Muggs
Shirkey's
House of Good Food
Sunnyside
THE
Prince Edward School
Sen
John Kennedy
Byrd
Felx de Weldon
Richard E. Byrd
Morial
Arlington Cemetery
Memorial Bridge
Washington Star
Florida
Winchester Evening Star
W.va
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