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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1957
Page
1
Senate Democrats said President Eisenhower's Middle East plan faces extensive revision and weeks of hearings. The House approved the measure 355 to 61, allowing up to 200 million dollars for military and economic aid and early U S troop use approval.
Secretary of Defense Wilson faces tough questions in Congress over his charge that some National Guard enlistees during the Korean War dodged the draft. President Eisenhower criticized the statement as very unwise while backing six months of active basic training for Guard recruits. Wilson is invited to testify Monday at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing on reserve programs and National Guard roles.
Rain this afternoon heavy at times over the south. Cloudy tonight with periods of rain and likely Friday. Temperatures today high 37 low 32. A milder Friday. Also note sunrise and sunset times and a local fire company meeting upcoming with banquet tickets to be distributed.
U S officials hope King Saud can influence Arab leaders to advance a durable settlement of key Middle East questions. They expect talks cover Egypt Suez Canal issues and shipping arrangements once reopened in March. President Eisenhower hosted Saud and discussed wider regional security and Cold War concerns.
Four children aged seven months to twelve die in a rural flash fire in East Candia New Hampshire. Parents and three other children escape through a window after failed rescue attempts. Surviving children are Michael 5, Reginald Jr 8, and Dolores 11. The family grieves as neighbors and authorities respond.
President Eisenhower asked Congress to overhaul immigration laws to allow about 65,000 more entrants annually and base quotas on the 1950 census. He proposed redistributing quotas by actual immigration since 1924, pooling unused European numbers, eliminating quotas mortgages, admitting orphans yearly, and other admin and technical reforms.
The 1956 building activity in Winchester and Frederick County reached 495 permits with a total cost of 4 071 925 dollars surpassing 1955 by 54 020 dollars. Home construction led spending at 319 permits for 2 679 700 dollars while commercial and industrial work formed the rest. City county breakdowns show Winchester 239 permits 2 129 524 dollars and Frederick County 256 permits 1 943 201 dollars. Home permits totaled 200 in 1954 and 278 in 1955 with 113 in Winchester and 165 in the county for 1955.
Edward Bedwell a Skid Row dishwasher testified that a 14 page confession to the Grimes sisters murders was coerced and false. He denied seeing the victims and said sheriffs beat and kicked him during questioning. The hearing on a habeas corpus writ recessed with Bedwell still in custody.
Emergency aid floods into the Appalachian mining region as Kentucky and West Virginia report eight and three deaths respectively. Towns like Prestonsburg and Hazard flood barriers, with thousands homeless and millions in damages. Army, Red Cross, and Civil Defense mobilize for relief while forecasts warn of more rain.
FBI and police investigated the disappearance of a brief case owned by physicist Fletcher C. Paddison from Bethesda Maryland. He said it contained government secrets and vanished yesterday at an Illinois Central Railroad station while en route from Washington to Bendix Corp missile plant South Bend Indiana. Police noted he called the contents dynamite but gave no details.
President Eisenhower accepted Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed's resignation effective February 25. Reed, 72, retiring after 19 years on the bench, takes advantage of full pay and optional future service. A successor has not been named, and Reed’s departure marks the President's fourth Supreme Court appointment.
In a Budapest radio broadcast Premier Janos Kadar declared the Soviet backed regime had won the struggle for power against the bourgeoisie. He warned of purges as he called for reorganization to enforce Marxist Leninist ideals and criticized spiritual influence on children as the revolution era winds down.
Governor Stanley seeks federal disaster aid for Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Scott, Tazewell, and Wise counties as new rainfall worsens floods. SBA designates Wise, Smyth, Russell, Washington, Tazewell, Scott, Dickenson, and Bland counties for disaster loans to damaged residents and businesses.
Virginia Beach speech outlines a "sane conservatism" platform by Atty. Gen. J Lindsay Almond Jr at a 450-person Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. He vows to defend Virginia sovereignty and reject Supreme Court desegregation concepts while noting Howard C. Gilmer as his chosen successor.
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