Plot Against Paraguayan President Is Suppressed
In Asuncion the government announced it uncovered and suppressed a plot against Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, who seized power after a coup against Dr. Federico Chaves. The interior minister Tomas Romero Pereira said some civilians, retired officers, two academy officials, and cadets were arrested as part of the failed conspiracy.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Alfredo Stroessner
Stroessner
Federico Chaves
Strongman
Fulagio Estigarribia
Colorado Party
Estigarribia
Military Academy
Patria
Tomas Romero Pereira
Chaves
Romero Pereira
Harrison weighs amending reciprocal trade law
Rep. Harrison of Winchester Virginia proposes stockpiling strategic materials from Iron Curtain countries under reciprocal trade legislation. He argues relying on those nations risks national emergencies and calls for domestic or friendly-source peacetime supplies. He urges a Virginia depot for low grade manganese ore.
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Washington (P
Iron Curtain
Rep
Harrison
Winchester
United States
Secretary of Defense
Wilson
House
Ways and Means
Virginia
Last Night's 17 Degree Low Could Recur Tonight
The region logged a 17 degree low last night with forecast predicting a similar cold snap tonight. Intermittent sun and snow flurries gave way to a mainly partly cloudy sky as the AP forecast calls for a low of 18 to 25 degrees and more cloudiness tomorrow with a chance of flurries in nearby West Virginia.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Mrs Thorne Details Gifts for Son in Court Fight
Mrs Marion Thorne 54 testifies about gifts to her son Montgomery Ward Thorne in a $1.7 million estate dispute with Maureen Ragen and her mother Aleen Ragen. She recalls an Army jeep at age seven, a $5,000 electric train, a $3,500 motor boat, two $250 motor seaters, guns worth $700, a $250 horse, a St Bernard, and annual outboard motors. Thorne died at 20 last June 19. a coroner found death natural. earlier will left more to the Ragens, but the mother was sole heir under an earlier will.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward
Marion Thorne
Denver
Washington
California
Thorne
Ragens
Maureen
Aleen Ragen
Turkish Tobacco Conceded Lower in Nicotine Content
In Richmond a cigarette maker’s research director acknowledged Turkish tobacco has slightly less nicotine than domestic leaf. He criticized Turkish Information Office literature promoting 100 percent Turkish cigarettes and disputed claims of Turkish nicotine at 6 percent versus 1.5 percent in Turkish leaf.
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Richmond
Turkish Information Office
Newport News
Virginia
New York
TIO
Weather Report Notes Temperature Readings
A brief weather snippet records the current temperature at 40 degrees with a comparison to last year’s high of 43 and low of 25 degrees on the same date.
Hampshire County Education Buses and Winchester Auctions Listed
January sales directory lists auctions and sales across Hampshire and Frederick counties. Items include 5 used buses at the Hampshire County Court House front in Romney and real estate sales at the Frederick County Court House with bonds and farms in Apple Pie Ridge. Also estate sales, furniture, antiques, school equipment, hog sale, tractors, livestock, farm machinery and farm implements across Winchester and surrounding areas with multiple named auctioneers.
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Hampshire County Board of Education
Hampshire County Court House
Romney
W. Va
L. R. Swartz
Frederick County Court House
Kernstown
E. T. Snider
Howell M. Bond
Bond Home Place
Brown Farm
Apple Pie Ridge
J. T. Householder
Winchester
Rt. 11
Old Zinn Farm
Charles P. Duvall
G. G. Baker
Patton’s
N. Cameron St
Helen B. Lutz
Albert Whitacre
White Hall
Lutz Farm
G. D. Orndorff
Murphy Farm
Old Charles Town Road
Charles R. Duvall
Judicial Gag Clamped on Two Critics of Tito's Regime
Belgrade Yugoslavia freed former Vice President Milovan Djilas and Vladimir Dedijer but imposed a judicial gag on two critics of President Tito. After a 15 hour secret trial the five judge court gave them suspended sentences and probation for three and two years respectively. They must refrain from criticizing the government or face imprisonment.
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Belgrade
Yugoslav
Yugoslavia
Milovan Djilas
Vladimir Dedijer
Tito
Red
Djilas
Dedijer
Borba
Communist Party
Peko Dapcevic
How's Your L Q Answers Revealed
A list of quiz answers printed on Page 4 includes Portugal Alaska Massachusetts United States presidency South America a writ of quo warranto tooth decay Barefoot boy with cheek of tan a withered left arm and the Order of the British Empire.
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Massachusetts
the Presidency of the United States
South America
Order of the
Virginia Horticulture Society Elects Glaize a Director
E M Jones of Washington in Rappahannock County was elected president of the Virginia State Horticultural Society at its 59th annual meeting. Directors named include J Morris Crumpacker Roanoke A E Dowdy Wise John D Neff Staunton A H Teske Blacksburg Phillip B Glaize Winchester P F M Frederickson Mount Jackson Henry Chiles Crozet and Ben R Lacy III Front Royal Retiring president J Kenneth Robinson Winchester named the society representative to the Virginia Agricultural Conference board.
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Roanoke
E. M. Jones
Washington
Rappahannock
Virginia State Horticultural Society
J. Morris Crumpacker
A. E. Dowdy
Wise
John D. Neff
Staunton
A. H. Teske
Blacksburg
Phillip B. Glaize
Winchester
PF. M. Frederickson
Mount Jackson
Henry Chiles
Crozet
Ben R. Lacy III
Front Royal
J. Kenneth Robinson
Society
Virginia Agricultural Conference Board
Europe
United
Winchest er expert notes apple export potential
Dr A B Groves of Winchester says Europe’s apple production has doubled in fifteen years due to more plantings while the United States has fewer plantings, suggesting the nation may export more apples in the future.
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A. B. Groves
Winchester
Europe
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International Soundphoto
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Communist Party Central Committee
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Alaska
Va. Horticulture Society
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TNS Fencing
Freez
At' Ez
Sania
Pittsburgh
Williamsburg Restoration, Incorporated
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Royal
R. C. Allen
Westinghouse
A. B. Dick
FE. T. Snider
G. G. Baker City Hall
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