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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1957
Page
9
Gov. Frank Clement urges a voluntary pupil assignment strategy in Tennessee to preserve segregated schools. He backs five acts allowing boards to maintain separate races, transfer pupils, jointly operate schools, and adjust school bus rules while opposing weakening compulsory attendance laws.
Julian Carper vice president of the State AFL-CIO will speak at Local 511 Rubber Workers Union meeting 7:30 p m Friday at the Teamsters Hall on N Cameron St He will discuss relief problems with the AFL CIO Community Services Department George Dooley will meet with Local finance committee Tomorrow Two films will be shown a comedy and Millions of Us a labor union history film
A consultant study for the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council proposes a one-cent per gallon rise in the gasoline tax and a two dollar annual increase in license plate fees. The report also urges reallocating state funds to balance urban and rural road needs and notes a potential shortfall after the interstate program.
The Department of the Navy says portable elevators were installed in the cruisers Houston Augusta Baltimore Quincy Indianapolis and the battleship Iowa. Ramps were added to the destroyer Cummings and the presidential yacht Potomac.
Jennie Ann Lindstrom 17, a University of Colorado freshman in Boulder, says she will not travel to New York next week to reunite with her mother Ingrid Bergman who is flying in from Europe January 19 to receive a New York critics award. The two have not seen each other in seven years. Bergman is married to Roberto Rossellini and Lindstrom is child of Bergman and Dr. Peter Lindstrom.
The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee will meet January 16 in Richmond to select a successor to the late E R Combs as state Senate clerk. Ben D Lacy, Gov Stanley aide, is the leading candidate with support from committee members. Other names mentioned include Jesse W Dillon and Sidney S Kellam. Kellam said he is not interested in the post.
A two story vacant building exploded in a downtown Negro area injuring five persons. Windows were shattered up to six blocks away and one car was demolished while a second was hurled into the air by the blast.
Henry Keith a 53 year old Negro told police he was fooling around pulling wires lighting a cigarette when the building exploded He survived in satisfactory condition with a broken leg and burns on his face arms and hands The vacant building housed an empty restaurant and had been vacated in November for turnpike right of way plans.
City Utilities Director J Metzser said a gas meter denial to a building followed an order to shut off the gas and was directed toward the structure.
The Children Singing Class conducted by Prof. Harold Reeves Yarrel in the Wittechester studio of the Church of Christ at Valley Ave and Lambden St starts its winter term. Open to children aged 10 to 15 for diction sight reading and musicianship. Two concerts yearly. Fee reasonable. Information Mohawk 2-5489 after p m.
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