Campaign on Traffic Accidents Credited With Saving 400 Lives
Chicago report credits the National Safe Driving Council Back the Attack on Traffic Accidents campaign with saving 400 lives in the first half of 1957 a 2 percent drop in fatalities from 1956 despite more highway travel. Governors note progress plan to intensify efforts in late 1957 with patrols enforcement and driver licensing improvements across multiple states.
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Chicago
National Lafty Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
Dearborn
Ordinance grants zoning exception for AT&T Virginia site
Frederick County Virginia boards grant AT and T Virginia an exception in Zoned Area B to erect a 12 by 14 foot masonry building on land near U S Highway 11. The structure will house telephonic equipment, not for dwelling or noisy or high voltage gear, with potential future enlargement. Enacted July 8 1957 by the Board of Supervisors.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company of Virginia
Board of Supervisors
Frederck County
Virginia
Planning Commission
Frederick County
American Telephone and Telegraph Company of
J. W. Jolliffe
C. M. Rosenberger
Proposal to end single shot voting in Richmond election
Richmond legislator Fred G. Pollard proposes electing Richmond seven delegates in individual races to prevent field wide contests. Governor Stanley supports the idea if workable but opposes dividing the seven seats by district. Pollard cites Arkansas as precedent and would limit changes to Richmond if bill is introduced next year.
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Richmond
Gov. Stanley
Del
Fred G. Pollard
Pollard
Colston A. Lewis
House of Delegates
Stanley
Arkansas
General Assembly
Quick match definition in fireworks use
A quick match is a cotton wick saturated with a paste of gunpowder and starch or other inflammable material. It is used to light flares or to carry fire from one part of a firework to another in more complex devices.
Television listings for multiple channels and shows
TV schedules for Channel 4 Channel 5 Channel 7 and Channel 5 late night listings. Programs include Milland Show B Rash Life of Riley On Trial Blondie boxing Lulu Perez Harold Gomes Harkness Weather Tonight Brave Eagle Rin Tin Tin Baseball Washington Chicago Baltimore Cleveland News and sports shows. Also readers Digest Destiny Annie Oakley West Point Mr Adams Eve and Playhouse of Stars with various times listed.
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Channel 4
Milland
B. Rash
Gibbons
Sam
Helen O'Connell
NBC News
Blondie
Life of Riley
Lulu Perez
Harold Gomes
Red Barber
Harkness
Ward
Channel 7
Brave Eagle
Allen
John Daly
Baltimore
Cleveland
Saturday Television Schedule Highlights and Films
A daylong lineup lists programs from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. including True Story Detective's Diary Brooke Johns Show Cartoon Circus Circle 4 Ranch Reckless Buckaroo Footlight Then Trail of the Vigilante's Franchot Tone B Crawford Encore Theater The Spiral Staircase D McGuire Geo Brent Range Beyond the Blue Eddie Dean Return of the Lash Lash LaRue TV Reader's Digest Sports Album Dugout Chatter Baseball Washington Tenth Inning Record Hop The Goldbergs Frontier Cavalry Clown Corner 5 Star Popsicle Comedy Party Channel 9 Big Top Lone Ranger Boston Blackie Sat Matinee Dr Renaults Secret J Carroll Naish The Marshal's Daughter Laurie Anders Pick Temple's Ranch Feud in San Filipe My Little Margie G Storm.
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Channel 4
Brooke Johns
Franchot
B. Crawford
D. McGuire
Geo. Brent
Eddie Dean
Lash
Lash LaRue
Washington
Chicago
Channel 9
Dr. Renault
J. Carroll Naish
American in Red China Returns Unimpressed
Donald J. Blackwood 25, returned from 2% months in Red China to Hong Kong. He criticized his trip as irresponsible and said he saw little of value, traveled with his South Korean wife and child, and plans not to return. He was expelled from Macao for illegal entry. passport issues and U.S. regulations noted by the American consulate.
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Hong Kong
Donald J. Blackwood
Red
China
Blackwood
Canton
Macao
James
Red China
U.S
United States
Positive and negative numbers in Algebra
Positive and negative numbers are opposites of each other in direction or character and start opposite zero. When like signs are multiplied, the product is positive. when unlike signs are multiplied, the product is negative.
Road Toll Reaches 415 in State
Reports of four highway deaths yesterday raise Virginia 1957 toll to 415, two fewer than the same period last year. Victims include Wesley Strader and Ray Wadest Neblett, both 20, of Axton, killed in a Henry County crash on State Rt. 647. Also dead are John Henry Johnson, 17, of Suffolk, struck on U.S. 460. and John W. Counts, 85, of Holston, in a Bristol collision. Six others hospitalized with noncritical injuries.
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Virginia
Axton
Henry County
Wesley Strader
Route 2
Ray Wadest Neblett
Rt. 2
John Henry Johnson
Rt. 4
Suffolk
U.S. 460
Nansemond County
John W. Counts
Holston
Washington County
Bristol
U.S
Assembly Warned To Go Slow on Taxes for Roads
The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce board warned the General Assembly to delay endorsing or opposing road tax increases until the need is fully demonstrated. They said to seek support from the U S Council of State Chambers to repeal the federal motor fuels tax and endorsed a general balance of the federal budget and an income tax cut proposal. The fall meeting was set for Oct 17-18 at Norfolk with a Roanoke gathering next April.
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Fredericksburg
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
General Assembly
U.S. Council of State Chambers of Commerce
Richmond
House of Representatives
Norfolk
Roanoke
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Annie Oakley
West Point
Destiny
Mr. Adams
Eve
Ida Lu
Pino
Playhouse of Stars
Mike Stokey
Canhon City
Scott Brady
Jeff Corey
Channel
The
Goldbergs
Frontier
Cavalry
Bob Steele
Winchester Typewriter Co
Piccadilly
Polly
Cammer Tire CO
Braddock
B. F. Goodrich Store
Loudoun St
Motorola
Imm
Goodrich
S. Loudoun St
Bob Kellas
Mgr
Associated Press
Winchester Laundromat
W. Hart St
Shawnee
Corner Valley Ave
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Sylvania
Handley School
Stephens City
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