Doubleday to Build Large Berryville Plant
Doubleday and Company will erect a book manufacturing plant on 80 acres opposite Berryville station. Construction, by the Austin Company, starts soon with limited operations in fall 1957 and full production expected later to employ 300 to 400 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
Doubleday & Company, Inc
America
Douglas M. Black
Doubleday
Clarke County
Tyree Dillard, Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Garden City
Long Island
Hanover
Smithsburg
New Industries Committee
Edward P. Berlin
Glen A.pton
School of Printing and Management
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Full-Scale Taxi Strike Approved In New York
Taxi drivers vote to authorize a full-scale strike if needed to win Teamsters recognition as bargaining agent. The one-day walkout affected about 50 percent of cabs, with 7 000 of 12 000 fleet taxis targeted. No date set for a walkout. taxis to operate normally today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Teamsters Union
Manhattan Center
United Taxi Owners Guild
Alcohol and Gas Don’t Mix
A brief notice warns against mixing alcohol with gasoline and oil, highlighting safety risks and potential hazards to vehicles and property. The notice emphasizes that improper handling can lead to fires or explosions and urges caution.
Search for more than 20 missing seamen begins at Salem Maritime
In Lake Charles Louisiana doctors and refinery workers will search the burned oil tanker Salem Maritime for the many missing seamen. Cities Service Oil Co says the on deck search will start when flames subside. Dr J W Crookshank medical director said three nearly complete bodies and parts for about 242 more were recovered from the Calcasieu River. He estimated 19 seamen unaccounted for with no identifications provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Charles
Salem Maritime
Cities Service Oil Co
J. W. Crookshank
Cities Service
Calcasieu River
Handley Martinsburg Basketball Postponed and Rescheduled
The Handley Martinsburg basketball game tonight is postponed due to bad travel conditions and moved to February 13 in Martinsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handley-Martinsburg
Martinsburg
For Sale Established Ready to Wear Store
For sale established ready to wear store with complete stock and fixtures offered for less than 70 percent of wholesale value. Located at Esther's 11 West Boscawen Street. Insurance options available through Mutual of Omaha agents C. J. Fischer contact MO 2 8238 or MO 2 7511.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther’s
W. Boscawen St
Call Mutual of
Omaha
C. J. Fischer
Girl Strangled With Own Scarf In Toronto Waterfront
A 13 year old girl returning from a dance lesson was throttled with her scarf and dumped on a deserted waterfront street corner. Police seek the attacker as Ontario reports a spate of personal offense cases including a London Ontario lumberyard death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ontario
Linda Lampkin
Douglas Judges
Susan Cadieux
London
Ont
Hamilton
Smirle Lawson
Linda
Worldwide Military Building Program Proposed by Defense Dept
The Defense Department asks Congress to approve a 1957 worldwide military building program totaling 2.012 billion dollars, with over half for the Air Force. Projects span 292 U S installations, eight foreign sites, and involve overseas housing and land acquisition. California leads in funding at 169.7 million, Alaska tops overseas with 44 million, and the plan includes 150 million dollars from surplus farm product sales to help cover costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense Department
Congress
Air Force
West Virginia
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Canal Zone
Pacific Islands
United States
Navy
Army
California
Florida
Texas
Continental
Philippines
New French Assembly Opens in Paris with Leftist Shifts
France's new National Assembly opened in Paris as Communist deputies and Pierre Poujade's tax rebel bloc maneuver for power. Marcel Cachin, aged 86, was named temporary president until a regular speaker is chosen. Moderate parties face forming a cabinet with Socialist and Radical backing for Guy Mollet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
National Assembly
Marcel Cachin
Cachin
Pierre Poujade
Radical Party
Pierre Mendes-France
Guy Mollet
Giant waterspout sinks tugboat and dredges off Japan
A giant waterspout seven miles offshore near the Pacific coast of central Japan engulfed a tugboat and eight dredges killing four men. Survivors say the vortex reached over half a mile in diameter and hurled water and spray up to 400 yards high, damaging three vessels and injuring others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tsu
Japan
Pacific
FBI Chief Defends FBI in Baseless Charges Claim
J Edgar Hoover attacks a Negro leader over claims the FBI shirks effort in racially charged killings in Mississippi and elsewhere. He demands evidence or a retraction and cites past actions against lynching and the Ku Klux Klan while defending FBI investigations into the cases of Rev G W Lee, Lamar Smith, and Emmett Till.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
T. R. M. Howard
Mound Bayou
Miss
Hoover
Howard
Los Angeles
Mississippi
Mississippi Regional Council of Negro Leadership
National Medical Assn
NMA
Chicago American
South
Carolinas
Georgia
G. W. Lee
Lamar Smith
Emmett Till
Lee
Belzoni
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored
Snow and Rain Bring Relief to Drought Areas
Snow and rain spread across the mid continent to drought-stricken regions, with heavy snow in Arkansas Missouri and Illinois Indiana Kentucky and up to 6 inches in parts of Texas. The storm caused fatalities but brought needed moisture for farmers. Temperatures fell into the 30s across the plains Great Lakes Ohio Valley and New England areas threatening citrus and vegetables.
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Associated Press
Mid-Continent
Gulf States
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Great Lakes
Arkansas
Missouri
Ilinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Malden
Paducah
Flippin
Ark
Texas
New England
Corpus Christi
Tex
Gulf Coast
San Antonio
Rio Grande Valley
Rockies
Plains
Great Lakes Region
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic States
Interposition Resolution Offered in Virginia Senate
A compromise interposition resolution introduced in the Virginia Senate pledges to resist the Supreme Court desegregation ruling by legal means. Senator Harry C. Stuart with wide sponsorship argues for amending the Constitution to curb federal authority and unify Southern states in this effort. The move comes amid broader legislative actions on school funding, constitutional conventions, and judicial expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Supreme Court
Virginia Senate
Harry Carter Stuart
Russell
Senate
Stuart
Jeb. Stuart
Robert E. Lee
Virginia
Stanley
House
Covington
Galax
Norton
Milk Commission
Dels
Harrison Mann
Arlington
Harry B. Davis
Princess Anne
Board of Supervisors
Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
VALC
Eisenhower Has Not Decided on a Second Term
President Eisenhower said he has no objection to entry of his name in New Hampshire or other state primaries but has not yet decided whether to run again. He will announce once his mind is firmly fixed and will support a program of peace before the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
New Hampshire
Illinois
Dulles
Fisenhower
Life Magazine
Itinerant Held Over Will Charge After Desert Abduction
A 33 year old itinerant, Wayne Vance Taylor, was arrested after a 7 year old girl, Carla Hixon, found battered and bleeding in a desert near Mesa. County Attorney William P. Mahoney Jr. said Taylor would be charged with holding against will aggravated assault and grand theft. The girl was in serious condition. Taylor claimed memory loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesa
Ariz
Carla Hixon
Atty
William P. Mahoney Jr
Phoenix
Wayne Vance Taylor
Here
Mahoney
Taylor
Cal Boies
Carla
Desert
Mississippi farm boy's 304 bushel acre sets corn record
Lamar Ratliff, 16, of Baldwyn Miss, grew 304.38 bushels on one acre, far surpassing the former 241 bushel mark. He credits hard work and mule Dolly with help, and receives $1,500 in prizes and college funds from Farm Journal and seed firms. He plans to study medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lamar Ratliff
Baldwyn
Miss
Lamar
Dolly
Paul
The
Farm Journal
Ratliff
Mississippi
A. J. Custer
Fort Wayne
Ind
Weather shifts to rain with snow north and west
The forecast shows southeast rain with snow or sleet turning to mostly rain in the west and north. About 2 to 4 inches of snow north before rain. Cloudy tonight with rain mainly east and north. Low 25 to 32 in the west and north, and in the 30s in the southeast. Friday expect considerable clouds, wind, and cold, with possible snow flurries in the mountains.
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Adars
APTN
Austin Company
Bank of
Clarke Corporation
Doubleday & Co., Inc
Cleeton
Winchester
Frederick Woodbridge
Adams
Woodbridge
Columbia University
Art Commission of
City of New York
Black and Decker
Hampstead
Schick Electric Razor
Lancaster
Grace Mine
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Morgantown
John Beckley
Austin
Black
Harrison
Burr P. Harrison
Rep. Harrison
Dillard
Ben Atwood
Potomac Edison Co
Hagerstown
Andrew Bowen
Northern Virginia Power Co
Win
Doubleday President
Frederick Clarke
Ike
Flays
Evening Star
West Va
Beyond
Boy
Stieff, Gorham, Towle
International
Lunt & Wallace
Hodgson and Brown
W. Boscawen
Southern Tire Service
Handley Campus
Thurs
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