Series of Five City Break-ins Probed by Police
Winchester police probed five break ins in the city last night. About $150 was reported missing from a service station and an auto was stolen from outside a garage where coins were removed from a vending machine. Police listed the firms entered during the incidents.
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Winchester
M. M. Adams
Amherst & Boscawen Sts
A. C. Slonaker & Son
Pennsylvania
Chapman Motor Co
Boscawen St
Pine Motor Co., Inc
Braddock St
N. Braddock St
Heatvale Motor Co
Adams
Slonaker Firm
Solid Achievements Of Stanley Lauded By Byrd Jr
Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr on the Senate floor praises Governor Thomas B. Stanley for four years of steady administration. He highlights budget reforms and highway and school initiatives, noting Stanley defended state sovereignty in a federal court dispute and kept public schools open.
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Stanley
H. F. Byrd, Jr
Richmond F
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Thomas B. Stanley
Byrd
Senate
Dept. of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals
Virginia
Tom Stanley
Washington
Commonwealth of Virginia
Washington Court
Commonwealth
Schenck Reports 4705 Raised By TB Seal Sale
At the Winchester Tuberculosis Association quarterly meeting C F Schenck Christmas Seal Sale Chairman announced receipts of 4705 25 from Christmas Seal sales to date The goal of 5000 was hoped for as continuing contributions pour in from Winchester citizens in the fight against tuberculosis.
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Schenck
Winchester Tuberculosis Association
C. F. Schenck
Winchester
Eisenhower to ask Congress for nearly 74 billion missile age budget
President Eisenhower will send a 1959 budget to Congress totaling about 73.8 billion dollars with a raised debt ceiling. The plan projects a small deficit for the current year due to higher defense outlays and lower revenues, and includes a contingency fund of about 590 million dollars for new technology.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
State of the Union
Defense Department
Fisenhower
Harry Truman
Democrats Call on Ike to Back Up Program With Specific Blueprints
Democrats pressed President Eisenhower to supply concrete blueprints for his eight point program arguing specifics are needed to meet the space race and the threat of Communist imperialism. Senate leader Lyndon B. Johnson praised the speech but demanded detailed plans before committees consider recommendations.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
House
Sam Rayburn
Dtex
White House
Rayburn
Two Truck Drivers Die in Whisky Haul Crash West of Appomattox
Two Richmond truck drivers were killed and a third injured when a tractor trailer carrying about 700 cases of ABC whisky rear ended another on U.S. 460 west of Appomattox. The trucks were owned by Carter Bros Inc. and bound for Roanoke. A relief driver and a witness described the mangled cab where the victims were found. The incident raised Virginia's highway toll to 16 for the year.
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Associated Press
Appomattox
Richmond
Roanoke
State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Robert Leroy Couch
Tunstall
Henry Lewis Barnett
Barnett
Couch
Carter Bros, Inc
ABC Board
William H. Holmes
Harold A. Griffin
Griffin
Lynchburg
Holmes
Cold Tightens Grip On Coastal States
A cold snap grips the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida with subfreezing nights and teens in the mid Atlantic. Florida growers report frozen citrus fruit in Deland Lake Alfred and Winter Haven as a warming trend approaches from the mid continent.
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Florida
New England
mid-Atlantic States
Deland
Lake Alfred
Winter Haven
Mid Continent
Atlantic
New
Atlas Missiles Fourth Intercontinental Flight Launched
The U S Air Force successfully launched its fourth Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral. The test, not full range, saw the missile rise in a plume of smoke with a bright flame and land in a preselected target area after about 25 minutes of flight. The Defense Department confirmed a successful launch.
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Atlas
Cape Canaveral
Fla
U. S. Air Force
Convair
Canaveral Station
Atlantic
Washington
Pentagon
Defense Department
Missile Test Center
Department of Defense
Canaveral
Three Dimes Fund Events Set for Saturday
Richard K. Eddy announces three Saturday events for the 1958 March of Dimes fundraiser. The Mile of Dimes the Coffee Sale and the Sale of Roses gather volunteers from James Wood High School with coordinators Prentice Barley Gilles Bray Jr and James Biddie. Local florists donate roses while Boy Scouts lend help at Lou doun and Boscawen Streets for the mile and coffee stand.
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Richard K. Eddy
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
James Wood High School
James Biddie
McCrory
S. Prentice Barley
Gilles Bray, Jr
James Wood
Jake Harold
Thomas Coffey
Jimmy Berryman
Distributive Education Club
Mary Lou Owings
Robert E. A
Bulganin Calls for East West Summit Draws U S Study
Russia proposes an East West summit perhaps in Geneva within two or three months. Washington studies the move while stressing no change in policy for preconditions such as disarmament and German reunification. Officials see potential for easing nuclear tensions if Moscow shows concessions. Senator Fulbright notes Dulles expressed cautious optimism about resuming disarmament talks.
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Washington
Russia
Eisenhower
Bulganin
Geneva
Pravda
NATO
United Nations
Moscow Radio
Switzerland
U.N
United States
Bulgaria
Europe
Dulles
Sen
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Freezing Weather Lingers in Florida
Florida endures a hard freeze for a second day with subfreezing temps across the state. Cit rus groves on low ground face renewed damage while higher lands may dodge danger. Officials say temps mostly near or above danger for crops by tomorrow morning.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Warren Johnson
Federal State Frost Warning Service
Citrus
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Orlando
Tampa
Ocala
Clewiston
Fort Myers
Vero Beach
West Palm Beach
Whitehead says general fund underestimated funds
Richmond Del. Robert Whitehead told the House of Delegates that Stanley recommendations underestimated General Fund available for appropriation by about 27 million dollars. He noted the unobligated surplus was four million as the governor projected in the overall one billion dollar budget presented to the Assembly yesterday.
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Eisenhower
Richmond
Robert Whitehead
House of Delegates
Stanley
Assembly
Whitehead
Cabinet resignations signal crisis in Perez Jimenez regime
In Caracas the entire Venezuelan cabinet resigned to grant President Marcos Perez Jimenez a free hand after a New Year uprising. Rumors of a military junta circulated as tensions rose, with tanks near the palace and halted public ceremonies while officials considered the crisis and possible shifts in power.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Marcos Perez Jimenez
Perez Jimenez
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