Soviet Claims Are Questioned By Brucker
Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker challenged Khrushchev’s claim of reduced Soviet forces telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that 175 Soviet line divisions remain largely armored and mechanized. He urged modernization of U S tanks aircraft missiles and small atomic weapons for the next fiscal year. Senator Russell complained of inadequate air lift to move ground forces to brush fire war hotspots.
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Washington
Wilber M. Brucker
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Brucker
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
U.S
U.S. Army
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Russell
Defense
Thomas S. Gates
Nathan F. Twining
Joint Chiefs Gramts
Gates
Sailor Returns Home After Naples Tour On Rainy Night
A sailor just back from 27 months in Naples Italy rode a motorcycle from New York toward Tennessee. He stopped at a service station on N St to warm up as cold rain fell. His gear included a soaked third pair of trousers and belongings tied high on the bike. The Mercury read 26 degrees that morning with a low forecast near 18 to 23.
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N. St
Naples
Italy
New York
Tennessee
Two Plane Disasters Kill 58 People in Turkey
Two crashes hours apart in Turkey left 58 aboard believed dead. A U S Navy P4M reconnaissance amphibian vanished after refueling in Naples and a 9,500 foot peak wreck near Adana was found. Scandinavian Airlines Caravelle crash near Ankara killed 42 aboard.
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Ankara
Turkey
Rota
Spain
Karanfil
Adana
Scandinavian Airlines
U.S. Navy
Naples
Italy
James Jopkins
Mariella Laurrenen
Scadinavian Airlines
Air France
Judge Appoints Clarke Jury Commissioners
Berryville Circuit Court Judge Elliott Marshall appoints five jury commissioners for Clarke County. The group takes office February 15 and serves a one year term. Members listed include Mrs Davis C M peer set Ralph N Dorsey and C Funkhouser.
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Berryville
Elliott Marshall
Davis
C. M. Peer
Ralph N. Dorsey
C. Funkhouser
Blizzards Sweep British Isles Across Regions
Blizzard conditions with hurricane force winds hit northern Britain, blocking rail lines and highways from Scotland to the English midlands. More snow was forecast for today and tonight across the area.
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London
British Isles
Scotland
English Midlands
Aid Pledged By Kishi For Needy Nations
Japan’s Prime Minister vowed Japan will share the burden to aid less developed nations. He said the free world cannot be half rich and half poor as he addressed a National Press Club luncheon. He praised the U S Japan mutual assistance treaty signed at the White House.
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Washington
Japan
National Press Club
Kishi
U. S
White House
United States
Eisenhower Begins Final Year in Office
President Eisenhower marks the eighth and last year in office with hopes that his world peace crusade bears fruit in the coming 12 months. He notes he has 18 to 15 months remaining and shows preference for private life, while friends say he enjoyed his second term more than the first.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Eisenhower assures Congress rising prosperity can continue
President Eisenhower told Congress that the United States can sustain rising prosperity into the 1960s if the budget stays balanced, inflation is kept down, and productivity grows. He outlined steps to curb inflation, reduce the federal debt, and maintain price stability while resisting wage and price controls.
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Congress
Americas
Washington
Eisenhower
America
White House
Eeceta
Virginia Sales Tax Plan Hits Divided Legislature
Gov Almond’s 80 page proposal would impose a 3 percent sales and use levy on most goods from autos to xylophones with few exemptions. It targets meals, liquor, and consumer purchases while excluding real estate stocks utilities and farming inputs.
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Richmond
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Virginia
House of Delegates
Del
Charles K. Hutchens
Newport News
Almond
C. H. Morrissett
Sam” Pope
Hutchens
Morrisset
Investigators Hunt for Clues To Capital Airlines Crash
Investigators search wreckage near HOLDCRAFT Virginia for clues into the Capital Airlines Viscount crash that killed 50 people. CAB teams study the unusual impact pattern and scene as removal crews recover victims and artifacts for transport to a Richmond morgue.
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Capital Airlines
Holdcraft
Tidewater
Virginia
Civil Aeronautics Board
George A. van Epps
CAB
Yyee
County Youth 11 Dead in Route 50 Car Crash
Wayne Tabor of Rt. 4 was killed instantly when struck by a 1955 Plymouth driven by Garland Cather on Route 50 near Merriman's Lane. The fifth grader at Round Hill School was pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital. Funeral planned Friday at Jones Funeral Home with interment at Shenandoah Memorial Park.
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Wayne Tabor
Rt. 4
Winchester
Frederick County
Rt. 50
Merriman’s Lane
J. W. Detrick
Plymouth
Garland Rt
Cather
Memorial Hospital
Ival
Douglass Hill
G. T. Griffith, Jr
Detrick
Alfred
Dorothy Good Tabor
Round Hill
Pearlsburg
Jones Funeral Home
Forrest B. Oglesby
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Shenandoah Memorial Park
Budget warlooms two billion cut goal in 1961 request
House Appropriations leaders aim to slash at least two billion dollars from new appropriations in the 1961 federal budget. Chairman Clarence Cannon and Rep. Taber say civilian payroll cuts offer the best savings, with 42 000 civilian jobs eyed, including at least 4 000 to be cut. The budget projects increases in personnel, but the plan seeks to hold levels.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Clarence Cannon
DMO
Rep
Taber
New York
Cannon
Five in Family Meet Death at Train Crossing
Five members of the Brown family died in a railroad collision near Amarillo Texas when a Santa Fe San Francisco Chief No 2 struck their automobile. Victims were Dr Robert Lee Brown 37 of Canyon Texas and his two sons David 6 Robert Jr 9. his wife Dorothy 34 died an hour later and daughter Sharon 11 six hours after the crash.
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Amarillo
Tex
Texas Panhandle
Santa Fe
San Francisco
Robert Lee Brown
Canyon
David
Robert Jr
Brown
Dorothy
Sharon
Corbin Sentenced to Year for Assaulting Trooper Malbon
Clarke County Circuit Court found Russell Harold Corbin guilty of unlawful wounding of State Trooper H. K. Malbon after pistol whipping him following a speeding stop near Boyce on December 11. The 18 year old from Sandusky Ohio received one year in the penitentiary.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Russell Harold Corbin
H. K. Malbon
Elliott Marshall
Sandusky
Ohio
Corbin
Justice of the Peace
Boyce
Malbon
David G. Simpson
Commonwealth
Edward McC. Williams
Beverley Leake
Edward Durell
Henry Jenkins
Jack Russell
Adrian Hanline
William L C. R. Funk
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Hunter Vaught
Clarke County High School
Warren County
Hunter
Akron
Edna Schmicker
U.S.A
Ee Navy
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Stockholm
Copenhagen
Duesseldorf
Germany
Vienna
Austria
Istanbul
Damascus
Cairo
Heas
Clarke
Senhower
Eisen
Hower
John F. Daffron
Virginia Ichief Medical Examiner's
Jerry Wayne Tabor
Budget House
Anderson
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