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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1956
Page
10
A 29 year old sailor from the USS Coral Sea was killed in a traffic crash on Lewellyn Avenue in Norfolk. The Virginia toll for 1956 reached 404, up from 397 at this time last year, police said.
Reading Pa reporters were locked out of the City Hall press room and one was arrested for creating a nuisance. The Reading Times and Eagle accuse Mayor McDevitt and the police of large scale harassment over recent pinball raid stories, noting mass ticketing of newspaper trucks as part of the action.
In Tokyo the Japan Socialist Party won enough upper house seats to thwart Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama's push for rapid rearmament. With 164 of 250 seats, the Conservatives hold a solid majority, while leftists gain 12 seats preventing a two thirds coalition to overturn the antiwar clause. The result dents U.S. hopes for constitutional revision and greater Japan military expansion.
Lt. Lynn Wiseman head of Salvation Army here was honored at Camp Whip-Poor-Will dinner. Tributes from the Advisory Board and Baltimore officials followed a proclamation naming Lt. Wiseman Day. The Winchester Auxiliary presented a contour chair to Wiseman as 84 resident campers and 34 board guests attended.
Federal mediators fixed Thursday as the probable start date for joint meetings in Pittsburgh between industry and union representatives to end the steel strike. Finnegan and Mills will attend the preliminary sessions with David J. McDonald Arthur G. Goldberg and John A. Stephens to outline issues before formal talks. The 10 day strike has idled about 730000 workers.
Charlene Virginia Grimm, a Madison College sophomore and daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Grimm of 1438 Greystone Terrace, wins the Lenox Creative Table Setting Contest national prize. She receives six place settings of Lenox china and six pieces of Heirloom Sterling silver with Rizart crystal goblets, plus table linen. Her teacher, Elizabeth M Patterson associate professor of Home Economics at Madison College, also receives six place settings of Lenox China.
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