Hammarskjold Thanks Chou En Lai For Hospitality
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in Hong Kong after talks in Peiping, sent thanks to Premier Chou En Lai for hospitality. A U N spokesman said progress was made toward the release of 11 imprisoned American fliers but cautioned that the outcome would take time.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hong Kong
Qag Hammarskjold
Peiping
Red China
Chou En-lai
U.N
Hammarksfold
Kowloon
U. N. General Assembly
Hammarskjold
Lowu
Chou
Tokyo
Government House
United States
New York
Scandinavian Airways System
U. S
U. S. State Department
London
Hammarskiold
Foreign Ministry
New Delhi
Formosa
Britain
Dulles Says U S Will Be Slow to Anger Over China
Secretary of State Dulles declared the United States will be slow to anger in handling the Red China issue and the release of American prisoners. He spoke at a peace luncheon celebrating the centennial of the Young Women's Christian Association.
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New York
Dulles
United States
Young Women’s Christian Assn
3 Inch Snowfall Snarls Traffic and Hong Kong Talks
A 3 inch early snowfall snarled Winchester traffic injuring Virginia State Trooper Lewis Carroll. The weather eased by noon as salt and limestone treated roads. Ham mar ska jold and Chou En Lai held talks in Kowloon with cautious optimism over possible release of U N and American airmen.
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Virginia
Middletown
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Costa Rican Village Taken By Rebel Nicaraguan Force
President Figueres announced a small rebel aerial force seized Villa Quesada a Costa Rican village 50 miles from the Nicaragua frontier. Costa Rica severed relations with Nicaragua and sent a military detachment to assess the town as tensions rise with Nicaragua over alleged invasion plans.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Jose Figeres
Nicaragua
Villa Queseda
Mario Esquival
Rodolfo Quiros
Villa Quesada
Poas
San Carlos
Council of the Organization of American States
Washington
Central American Republic
Alfonso Ortega Urbina
Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa
Figueres
Antonio Cacio
Nicaaguan
Anastasio Somoza
Commercial Bank Shareholders Meet Today
Stockholders of the Commercial & Savings Bank held their 39th annual meeting at 11 a.m. on N. Loudoun Street. W. E. Edwards was named chairman and Miss Betty Vonn Brill secretary. Directors for 1955 include Boyd, Brumback, Duncan, Edwards, Larrick, McVicar, Riley, Robinson, Sheetz, Slonaker, and Teets.
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Commercial & Savings Bank
N. Loudoun Street
W. E. Edwards
Betty Vonn Brill
Silas G. Cather
C. Vernon Eddy
P. E. Lineburg
Harold R. Edwards
Fred S. Boyd
Fred I. Brumback
Ray H. Duncan
Herbert S. Larrick
C. P. Mc
Area Students Named for State Band Clinic Here
Eighteen students from local high schools were selected to participate in the All-State Band Clinic to be held at Handley February 4 to 6. Handley students include William Grant, Dorothy Daugherty, Houston Carr, Sue Sybert, Earl Fauver, Philip Grove, Tommy Wolfe, Eugene Miller, Betty Jo Johnson, Richard Pugh, Cecil Cadwallader, Camilla Hagen, Harold Madagan and others. James Wood representatives are Thomas Ashton, Arkie Dye, Dean Nunn and Ralph White, Clarke County’s Gilbert Grey, Galen Strance directs Handley Band, George Turner leads James Wood Band, Ernest Bowman leads Clarke County band. Ladies Auxiliary meets Shawnee Volunteer Fire Dept. January 13 at American Brake Shoe Co. G. A. Helsley, Sec. Ip-1-11-31.
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Handley
William Grant
Dorothy Daugherty
Houston Carr
Sue Sybert
Earl Fauver
Philip Grove
Tommy Wolfe
Eugene Miller
Betty Jo Johnson
Richard Pugh
Cecil Cadwallader
Camilla Hagen
Harold Madagan
James Wood
Thomas Ashton
Arkie Dye
Dean Nunn
Ralph White
Clarke County
Gilbert Grey
Galen Strance
Handley Band
George Turner
James
Accused Slayer Guarded Overnight at Rock Bridge Jail
Extra guards were posted at Rockbridge County jail where police hold Alonzo Russell 42 after the murder and rape of Emma Moore Duncan 56. Mrs Duncan was found strangled in her Arnold’s Valley home. medical examiner Dr E V Brush confirmed rape.
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Lexington
Rockbridge Couny
Arnold's Valley
Alonzo Russell
Emma Moore Duncan
E. V. Brush
Early approval for Ike trade program forecast by leaders
Democratic and Republican leaders forecast swift passage of President Eisenhower's three year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. Hearings on the bill are slated to begin next Monday as supporters push for tariff cuts, investment incentives, and expanded international trade measures.
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Ike
Washington
Eisenhower
U. S
Rep
Cooper
D-Tenn
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Rayburn
D-Tex
Rep. Halleck
R-Ind
Winchester Retail Merchants Set Meeting for January 26
The Winchester Retail Merchants Association will hold a general meeting January 26 at the George Washington Hotel. New president Ralph Mulvey led the first 1955 board meeting, which approved condemning a Virginia sales tax and discussed local purchases for the Apple Blossom Festival.
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Winchester Retail Merchants Association
George Washington Hotel
Merchant’s Group
Ralph Mulvey
The
Merchants’ Association
John J. Carr
Virgina
Russian plan to blast Central Asian sea to alter Europe weather
Western diplomats report Moscow plans a vast irrigation network in Siberia and a diverted Ob and Yenisei river system to create a Central Asian sea. Nuclear detonations could carve out land to form the sea, potentially warming Siberian and European winters.
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Central Asian Sea
Europe
London
Moscow
Siberia
Soviet Council of Applied Sciences
North America
Beria
Yenisei
Arctic Sea
Central Asian
110 Mowed Down by Guards American Freed From Soviet Labor Camp
American prisoner John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit, released from Vorkuta, recalls a 1953 July revolt that killed 110 prisoners and wounded 500, with estimates of 50 to 60 executions afterward. He links Beria to the uprising and describes brutal camp conditions and mass internment of Germans and Poles. Noble and his father were captured in 1945 and sent to Vorkuta in 1950 for alleged support of American officers and food.
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Vorkuta
John H. Noble
Detroit
Russia
Noble
Arctic
Moscow
Georgi Malenkov
Dresden
Siberian
Apple Crop Sparks Rise in Local Bank Assets in 1954
The three local banks posted higher total assets as of December 1 1954 marking a third consecutive yearly rise. Bank spokesmen attribute the gain mainly to the 1954 apple crop, described as the best in years and highly profitable. End-year totals rose over 1953 with Farmers and Merchants, Commercial and Savings, and Shenandoah Valley showing significant gains.
Stockholders Hold Annual Meeting At F M Bank
The Farmers and Merchants National Bank held its annual stockholders meeting at the main banking house with Mrs. Lewis M. Allen presiding. Officers reported increased deposits and earnings. a death of vice president Joseph L. Kalbach was noted. Directors for the ensuing year were named and new officers elected including J H Yost as president and J T Kremer as vice president.
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Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Lewis M. Allen
Joseph L. Kalbach
Williess
Paul M. Haldeman
J. H. Yost
J. T. Kremer
Wiliam H. West, Jr
B. Beverley Byrd
Charles Hill Jones
Ray Robinson, Jr
D. K Russell
C. Ridgely White
Wvoara
J. Thomas Kremer
Shed Burns Today In Berryville
A candle started a fire about 8 a.m. in Berryville destroying a garden shed owned by Robert Holmes. The Enders Fire Company arrived. the shed stood about 20 feet from the Holmes home. Mrs. Holmes used a candle to search for galoshes and accidentally started the blaze. Some meat and other contents were saved. a lawn mower and tools may be okay. The shed was a total loss with no insurance.
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Berryville
Robert Holmes
Enders Fire Company
Holmes
Five day Virginia weather outlook from January twelfth to sixteenth
The Virginia forecast calls for near normal temperatures with cold spells midweek and late week. Expect rain or snow Thursday night and again near the weekend. Total precipitation about one half inch.
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Richmond
Virginia
Norfolk Society Drops White From Membership Rules
Norfolk County Medical Society last night voted to omit the word white from its membership description and requirements, removing racial language from its standards. The change aligns the society with inclusive policy while maintaining current eligibility criteria and affiliations.
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Norfolk
Norfolk County Medical Society
President Proposes 5 Percent Pay Hike for Civil Service and Postal Workers
President Eisenhower urged Congress to raise government worker pay about 5 percent and boost postal rates. He also proposed a health insurance program for government employees. He sent two messages, one on Civil Service pay and the other on postal pay and rate increases. He urged a permanent independent postal rate commission and higher rates for first class mail.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Solons
Frederick County Supervisors Schedule Two Key Meetings
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors announced two upcoming meetings. January 26 will focus on preparing the county budget for 1955 56, and March 14 will allow citizens to request secondary road improvements. The board reviewed budgets for Public Welfare and Health, with Dr A L Lindall seeking 4200 for the local health unit and an additional 350 for 1956 57. The county will then fund 26.43 percent of the health budget. Also approved was a 1000 transfer from the Dog Fund to the General County Fund to cover unused sheep claims. All supervisors attended.
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Frederick County Board of Supervisors
State Highway Department
Department of Public Welfare
Health Department
Health Direcor
A. L. Lindall
C. M. Rosenberger
State Health Department
Lindall
General County Bund
Advice For Polio Prevention Inspires Public Support
Daniel E. Leatherman, director of the Winchester-Frederick County Polio Chapter, urges readers to fund polio prevention after showing the crippling effects of polio and the use of iron lungs and crutches on affected children.
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Daniel E. Leatherman
Winchester-Frederick County
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