Assembly Takes Recess as Whitehead Promotes Taxes
Nelson County Delegate Robert Whitehead announced plans to introduce bills in the House of Delegates to place selective sales taxes on tobacco and whisky. He floated a possible two percent general tax if schools are adequately funded but warned political hurdles may block action this session.
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Richmond
Robert Whitehead
Nelson County
House of Delegates
Whitehead
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Assembly
ABC
Firemen battle blaze after meeting interrupted
Boyce firemen began a meeting to elect officers when a fire alarm sounded at a stable blaze. They fought grass fires after the roof caved in as they returned to the room. Also notes on longer days, upcoming cold weekend, and a lunar eclipse March 18 with post office Christmas display.
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Boyce
West Drives Aim to Break Soviet Secrecy Barriers
Washington reports a spring push by Western powers to loosen Soviet secrecy as a prerequisite for arms control. A planned international inspection system for the Soviet Union and its forces is central to Geneva talks resuming March 15 with a 10 nation committee split between Communists and Western Allies.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Geneva
United States
Britain
France
Free Nations
Nikita Khrushchev
State Department
Pentagon
White House
Senator Blames Death by Own Action Bomb For Airliner Crash
Senator A S Mike Monroney cites strong evidence that a death by own action bomb caused a National Airlines crash near Bolivia North Carolina killing 34. FBI involvement and CAB testimony cited as investigation continues.
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Julian Andrew Frank
Westport
Monroney
Bakke
CAB
Eisenhower to Spend Weekend Quail Shooting in Georgia
President Eisenhower left for a weekend quail hunting trip in Georgia. He traveled with friend George Allen and will stay at Blue Springs plantation owned by W. Alton Jones. The trip includes a stay at Turner Air Force Base and a plan to return by Sunday.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Georgia
George Allen
Blue Springs
W. Alton Jones
Cities Service Co
Turner Air Force Base
Albany
White House
Secr
Anne Wheaton
Air Force
Laubach to Speak At Mission Here Next Week
Dr. Frank C. Laubach renowned literacy pioneer will headline a city wide Laubach Prayer Mission at First Presbyterian Church next week. Morning School of Prayer led by Dr. James Robertson runs 10 30 to 11 30 a.m. daily at Braddock Street Methodist Church chapel. Services are open to all.
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Frank C. Laubach
Laubach
First Presbyterian Church
Braddock Street Methodist Church
James Robertson
Dr. Laubach
Arctic Drama Nears Conclusion Near Arctic Ice Floe Evacuation
A C130 evacuated eight men from Station Charley on a fragile ice floe 440 miles northwest of Barrow Alaska. The Arctic drill began eight days earlier with a crack in the ice and was to continue with the remaining four men to be lifted out early today. In total twelve men were evacuated on Thursday as military and civilian scientists faced a remote, dangerous ice base.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Charley
Arctic Ocean
Barrow
Air Force
FTC Charges Four Firms Over Deceptive TV Ads
The Federal Trade Commission accuses Standard Brands Blue Bonnet Margar ine Colgate Palmolive Aluminum Co of America and Lever Brothers of deceptive TV demonstrations. Commissions say visuals used tricks, like sandpaper on shaving cream and cigarette machine tests, misled viewers to choose brands. Also named are Bates & Co and Ketchum McLeod Grove.
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Washington
Oral Trade Commission
Commission
FTC
Desca Tele Ikea and Co
Standard Brands, Inc
New York City
Colgate-Palmolive Co
Palmolive Rapid Shave Ravine
Aluminum Co. of
Wear-Ever Aluminum Inc
Philadelphia
Lever Brothers Co
Federal Trade Commission
Soviet Parliament Approves Massive Armed Forces Cut
The Soviet Parliament unanimously approved Premier Khrushchev’s plan to cut 1.2 million troops and rely on nuclear weapons. Gromyko urged world parliaments to follow, signaling possible similar actions by the United States Britain and France. The session adjourned after strong applause for the one third manpower reduction and defense maintained by atomic weapons.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Andrei A. Gromyko
Khrushchev
Central Commute Trust Council of Ministers
Mikhail Suslov
Supreme Soviet
Gromyko
United States
Britain
France
Justas Paleckis
Presidiuim
Quakes Rock Peru Again
In Lima and Ancon Peru strong earthquakes caused collapses and fires while weaker shocks rattled the capital for about two hours before dawn. A near tidal wave swept the Pacific coast as residents spent the night outdoors and reports of damage from a 1942 quake linger in the area.
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Lima
Peru
Ancon
Employment Reaches Record 65.699 Million in December
Washington reports total employment at 65,699,000 in December, a record for the month and the first December without a job downturn since World War II. Unemployment falls to 3,577,000 as steel shortages end and workers return.
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Washington
James P. Mitchell
Seymour Wolfbein
Ice Storm Closes Schools and Halts Traffic Across Regions
An ice storm disrupted travel and closed schools from New York to Michigan and Wisconsin. Two deaths near Syracuse followed icy roads. 4 to 8 inches of snow were forecast for eastern New York, with planes grounded in Flint, Muskegon, and Saginaw.
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Associated Press
New York State
Midwest
New York
Hudson
Mohawk
Syracuse
Connecticut
Maine
Michigan
Saginaw
Upper Peninsula
Flint
Muskegon
Devils Lake
North Dakota
Alamosa
Colorado
Jersey Turnpike
Newark
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Janesville
Wis
Madison
Fort Dodge
Dubuque
Iowa
Fire destroys two story brooder house and 2000 chicks
A Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department response reports a blaze about 5 30 p m yesterday gutted a two story frame and stucco brooder house on the Berryville Pike owned by L E Ellis. Two thousand two week old chicks owned by Wayne Kirby were lost and valued around 500 dollars with insurance on the chicks and some on the building.
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Shawnee Vfd
L. E. Ellis
Berryville Pike
Wayne Kirby
Ellis
Kirby
Britain welcomes Khrushchev arms cut pledge
Britain welcomed Khrushchev's plan to cut the Soviet armed forces by 1.2 million men after a cautious U.S. reaction. London stressed the cuts would not reduce Soviet military power, while Washington urged inspections and an international verification system ahead of Geneva disarmament talks.
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London
Britain
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Foreign Office
U.S
State Department
Wington
Khrushchev
David Ormsby
Gore
Geneva
General
Paris
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