Century of Streetcar Service Ends in Washington DC
AP reports Washington ends a 100 year streetcar era as the last lines shut today. The 1956 franchise switch to buses under O Roy Chalk prompted the closing with planned highway growth making tracks obsolete. The last cars run near the Navy Yard ending a historic era.
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Century
D.C
Jonn Beckler
Washington
Potomac
Navy Yard
United States
Abraham Lincoln
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Theodore Roosevelt
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Supreme Court
Capitol Hill
Congress
District of Columbia
O. Roy Chalk
Forage Meet Set Next Week At Middleburg
Northern Virginia Forage Conference will be held January 31 and February 1 at the Middleburg Community Center. Sponsored by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and the VPI Agricultural Extension Service, the two day program will cover livestock and dairy topics with speakers from VPI and associated extension services. The event features a 12 member committee led by W. B. Bell with sessions on economic considerations, feeding for production, and research results for livestock and dairy producers.
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Northern Virginia
Middleburg
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
VPI Agricultural Extension Service
John Gerken
Clarke County
W. B. Bell
Blacksburg
Monte E. Juillerat
VPI
W. W. Lewis
Extension Agronomist
G. D. Kite
Extension Agricultural Engineer
Easley S. Smith
Association
M. F. Ellmore
Mississippi Ice Gorge Breaks Free at River Blockade
About 100 acres of ice broke from the Mississippi River gorge near Cairo Illinois freeing the jam that had blocked the river since January 12. Eight towboats and 70 barges remained above the gorge while 30 towboats and 360 barges waited below for breakup. The thaw and warm rains accelerated the disintegration and navigation was expected to resume after about a week.
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Cairo
Ill
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Newport News Holds Juveniles For Murders
Two juveniles are being held in Newport News for murder. An 11-year-old boy is charged in the stabbing death of his father Alfonso Bristow, 49, after intervening in a family fight. A 12–13? year old girl admitted smothering her infant son, saying she held a pillow over the child’s face for about 15 minutes. Both are to have preliminary hearings Monday in juvenile court.
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Newport News
Ohio
Alfonso Bristow
Bristow
Riverside Hospital
Donnie M. Burns Jr
NAACP Charges Local Paper With Racial Ban on Contest
NAACP chapter leader in Lynchburg blames Scripps-Howard chain affiliates for barring Negro students from a national spelling contest. He cites Lynchburg News sponsor Carter Glass III restricting entry to white schools, while noting the local paper is independent of Scripps-Howard.
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Lynchburg
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Scripps - Howard Newspaper Alliance
W. T. Johnson
NAACP
James Wagner
Scripps-Howard
Johnson
Scripps - Howard
Board Chairman Edgar Newberry Dies at 75 in New York
Edgar Alan Newberry longtime board chairman of J. J. Newberry Co. died Thursday of a heart attack at 75. He joined the variety department store chain in 1919 as a stock boy and rose to chairman 35 years later.
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NEW York (Ap
Edgar Alan Newberry
J. J. Newberry Co
Newberry
Variety-Department Stores
Rain and drizzle soak wide areas across the nation
A broad storm kept rain and drizzle across the country, turning snow into slush and swelling rivers. Indiana saw flooding in Montezuma, Lebanon, and Spencerville as the Wabash and Chagrin rivers rose. Ohio and Illinois rivers also ran high, while the Mississippi remained ice blocked at Cairo. Temperature swings ranged from subzero in Dakota to the 50s and 70s in various regions.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Montezuma
Lebanon
Lima
Ohio
Spencerville
Eastlake
Willoughby Hills
Cleveland
Chagrin River
Ohio River
Cairo
Ill
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Alabama
Columbus
Miss
New York State
New England
Pacific Northwest
Montana
North Dakota
Minnesota
International Falls
Minn
New Mexico
Lake Erie
California
Tewas
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
Florida
Youth Arrested in Break-In at Burcham’s Motorcycle Shop
A 14 year old from Frederick County admitted breaking into Burcham's Motorcycle Shop on Rt. 522 south Thursday night and taking merchandise including cigarettes and .22 caliber shells. Deputy Boyd McDonald said a juvenile petition would be signed.
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Frederick County
Burcham
Rt. 522 South
Boyd McDonald
Ralph Kelly dies former U S customs official and Baldwin head
Ralph Kelly, 73, a former U S commissioner of customs during Eisenhower, died Friday. A Pennsylvania Republican figure, he once led Baldwin Locomotive Works.
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U.S
Vero Beach
Fla
Ralph Kelly
Customs
Eisenhower
Kelly
Pennsylvania
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Modern Etiquette Q and A from a homemakers column
A Q and A on casual courtesy at gatherings covers selecting candy from a host’s box, whether a best man should escort the bride’s unmarried maid of honor home, and whether guests need individual vegetable dishes at a home dinner. The adviser says choose what appeals, prioritize the couple, and avoid unnecessary table options.
Heart Attack Victim Carried 23200 Cash
Jennie Lipman suffered a heart attack and was taken to Bethesda Hospital. A nurse found a wax paper packet containing 13 thousand dollars in bills plus a total of 23 thousand two hundred dollars in mixed denominations. Her son Maurice stated he did not know of the cash. The note ends with an unrelated line about water used to grow wheat.
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Chicago
Jennie Lipman
Bethesda Hospital
Lipman
Maurice
Sailors Escaped After Wreck Traps Them For An Hour
Two Michigan sailors escaped serious injury after their car overturned on Rt. 522 north near the Midway truck stop. Driver Henry Bloomfield 21 and passenger Gerald Shumaker 19 were treated at Memorial Hospital and released. The wreck, caused by loss of control on a curve, left the vehicle demolished with both men trapped for about an hour before the Midway wrecker freed them.
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Michigan
Henry E. Bloomfield
St. John
Mich
Gerald Shumaker
Vermontville
Memorial Hospital
Midway
Winchester
Escapee Appeals Gov to Refuse Return to Virginia
Albert Eugene Hoffman aged 46, who escaped from the Virginia State Penitentiary after 21 years of a life sentence for armed robbery, appealed to Governor Terry Sanford in Winston-Salem to avoid being sent back to Virginia. Hoffman was recaptured in Winston-Salem on January 21, thirteen days after his escape.
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Winston-Salem, N. C
Winston-Salem
Virginia State Penitentiary
Terry Sanford
Virginia
Albert Eugene Hoffman
Virginia Parole Board
Danville
Hoffman
TV Schedule Dense with Films and News Across Prime Time
A long list of evening programs shows movies, news, sports, and variety across channels. Notable items include The Defenders Perry Mason Gunsmoke Wagon Train and Rabid slate of dramas and cartoons with Alan Ladd Roy Rogers Popeye and Beverly.
West Virginia Senate to vote on sales tax extension
The West Virginia Senate is set to vote Monday on a one year extension of the Barron administration sales tax plan. Debate included rejected amendments to exempt groceries and school activities. The body also considered pipeline legislation and two other bills on banks and a constitutional term limit.
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Charleston
W. Va
Senate
Barron
Judiciary Committee
Weekend TV Schedule Mix of Sports and Drama
Saturday features Royal Palm Handicap at Hialeah on Channel 5 at 4 30 p m Bowling on ABC at 4 30 p m and All Star Golf on NBC at 5 p m Have Gun Will Travel on CBS at 9 30 p m Stars Richard Boone as Paladin hired by Mexican General Ortega to find the exiled Count and Countess Caseras with a fortune in bonds NBC will air a taped launch coverage special A Don Giovanni opera on NBC and Go Fight City Hall on CBS star Irene Dunne in a political action tale Sunday includes Don Giovanni at 2 30 p m and 8 p m with Caesar and Gorshin etc Disney Wonderful World of Color at 7 30 p m Sancho the Homing Steer story and The Battle of Newburgh on White Paper No 9 at 10 a m.
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Hialeah
Channel 5
ABC
NBC
CBS
Richard Boone
Paladin
Ortega
Gerald Price
Caseras
G. E. Theater
City Hall
Irene Dunne
Woody Purvis
Margaret Henderson
Miss Dunne
Walt Disney’s
Wonderful World OF Color
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