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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1956
Page
6
An insurance ad tells of a policyholder receiving 21 from a claim after a dog caused a car to lurch backward. The motorist left the engine running as the dog climbed around the front seat and knocked the gear shift into reverse, steering wheel entanglement, and the car crashed into a store.
Three of four premature quad boys born Monday died at Lancaster General Hospital. The remaining survivor, Norman Charles Hohenwarter, listed in fair condition, is the first born. The four babies weighed 14 pounds 7 ounces in total. Father Norman C. Hohenwarter, a $65 weekly postal clerk, and mother Regina, 25, had expected twins in about a month. they also have two older sons, ages 6 and 3.
President Eisenhower, after finishing two congressional messages, will take it easy in Key West. White House press secretary James C Hagerty said today marks the first idle day since his arrival, with no government work session on the schedule.
President Eisenhower, convalescing after a Sept. 24 heart attack, completed his State of the Union message and the FY budget. He is in Key West on doctors orders for outdoor exercise. He will host President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek of Brazil at breakfast tomorrow.
The Army Corps of Engineers officially closed the book on a century old plan to dig a canal from Lake Erie to Lake Michigan. Records show 1837 as the starting date with a few ditches near Mt. Clemens before funding ran out.
A Cleveland jail inmate failed to escape as a hacksaw blade baked into a birthday cake could only cut through the first sixteenth inch of a hexagonal prison bar. The tool did not progress beyond the initial section, ending the attempt.
A Senate Labor subcommittee opened hearings on a bill to lift distressed labor regions from economic doldrums. It proposes 100 million in loans for plants and 100 million in grants for public works, plus tax write offs, retraining, extended unemployment benefits, and food aid while government agencies buy surplus labor area supplies. The panel plans field studies in New England New York Pennsylvania West Virginia Kentucky and Illinois.
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