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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1958
Page
7
The subcommittee report describes the nation in a race for survival yet asserts America retains vitality to produce needed defenses. It avoids blaming past defense errors and urges future policies shaped by free world historians.
Richmond links the Appropriations Committee action to the Senate approved emergency bill granting 10 million dollars for the State Literary Fund with potential added 5 million from Gov Almond. The push comes as school financing needs loom and tax increases face opposition. industry leaders press for a 3 percent sales tax to fund higher teacher salaries alongside corporate and income tax reductions.
James R. Hoffa assumes the Teamsters presidency under a court settlement that ends charges of a rigged convention. A three member board of monitors will oversee him for a year, with reports to the court. The Teamsters National Executive Board will decide their stance on the AFL CIO after Hoffa's accession.
The Rev. Carl Fuqua, dean of religious studies at Kittrell Junior College in North Carolina, will be guest speaker at St. Paul A M E Church for Youth Week. His background spans Morehouse College, Garrett Biblical Institute, and Chicago work in YMCA and social services.
Fairfax County police and federal agents net 54 pounds of prepared opium valued at 500000 in a four state crackdown on an international drug ring led by deported gangster Charles Lucky Luciano. Twenty six others were rounded up in New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania with heroin seizures totaling over two million dollars.
Postmaster General Summerfield told the Senate that without a postal rate increase Congress may face another five billion dollar rise in the national debt ceiling, pushing the total to 280 billion dollars, a move the Eisenhower administration approved yesterday.
U.S. and British researchers publish reports in Nature and Physical Review about controlled thermonuclear fusion using hydrogen to produce energy. They note two main challenges: reaching extreme temperatures for tritium or deuterium and confining the hydrogen.
The report states both nations claim to have produced fusion reactions for brief moments but temperatures and containment remain far from practical. They caution that further experiments are needed to confirm a self sustaining reaction and to reach usable energy.
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