Military Manpower Cuts Studied and Likely Start Next Year
Washington reports Pentagon leaders are studying possible manpower reductions that could begin next year. Adm. Radford denies a decision to cut 800,000 by 1969, while Army Navy and Air Force chiefs reportedly clash over the proposal.
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Washington
Pentagon
Adm
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
New York Times
Army
Navy
Air Force
Radford
United Nations
United States
Soviet Union
China
U. S
Wilson
B 47 Bomber Crash Kills Four Near Salina Kansas
A B47 jet bomber crashed just after takeoff from Smoky Hill Air Force Base near Salina Kansas. The plane exploded in a plowed field a quarter mile from the runway end, killing all four crew members aboard.
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Salina
Kan
Smoky Hill Air Force Base
Lancaster Calls Special Session Over Segregation Fight
Virginia political figures urge an extra legislative session to extend the Gray Commission's anti integration program. Dr. Lancaster backs continuing public school segregation and a student assignment plan while urging swift action amid Charlottesville desegregation rulings.
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Richmond
Dabney
Lancaster
Gray Commission
John Paul
Charlottesville
Longwood College
Virginia
National Assn
Gov
Stanley
Paul
Assembly
Eisenhower Aide Outlines Atoms for Peace Plan
The Eisenhower administration is studying a proposal to convert war time atomic materials to peaceful uses. The idea aims to involve Russia in withdrawing nuclear stocks from weapons arsenals under safeguards and diverting them to civilian ends. Harold Stassen described it as a possible main point in a letter to Soviet Premier Bulganin and in UN disarmament talks.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Eisenhower Administration
Russia
Eisenhower
Nikolai Bulganin
National Security Council
United States
United Nations
United Nations Disarmament Subcommittee. Harold E. Stassen
Gettysburg
Bulganin
Stassen
Middletown Firemen Carnival Opens Week Long Event
Middletown hosts a week long carnival on school grounds starting Monday and ending Saturday at midnight. The Firemen Parade Thursday at 7 pm features 40 entered units including bands and parade chairs say it will be the biggest yet with $150 in prizes. Rides stands and food line the attractions run by the Firemen's Women's Auxiliary led by Mrs Hollis Colfelt. Carnival chairman is John W Legge Jr president of the Middletown Volunteer Fire Company.
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Middletown
G. Wilson Borden
Timberville
Amissville
Borden
Firemen’s Women's Auxiliary
Hollis Colfelt
Carnival
John W. Legge, Jr
Middletown Volunteer Fire Company
Nixon
GOP
Leonard W. Hall
Eisenhower
San Francisco
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Community Chest adopts record budget for eight agencies
The Winchester-Frederick Community Chest approved a record 48111 budget for eight agencies at a George Washington Hotel meeting led by President Frank Armstrong. The 1957 plan surpasses prior totals, with allocations to Boy Scouts, Children’s Home Society of Virginia, Winchester Day Nursery, Girl Scouts, Negro Day Nursery, Salvation Army, U S C, Northwestern Guidance Center, and campaign expenses. A supplementary package was folded into the final 48111 total.
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George Washington Hotel
Winchester-Frederick
Frank Armstrong
Winchester- Frederick
Girl Scouts
Negro Day Nursery
Salvation Army
Northwestern Guidance Center
George Nixon
Northwestern Child Guidance Center
Children’s Home Society of Virginia
Thomas Kremer
Charles Toan
George Jackson
Monford Custer
Stewart Bell, Jr
Armstead Lowry Edward Molden
Garland A. Quarles
J. V. Arthur
H. P. Maccubbin
V. K. Sirbaugh
Harry Lovett
Armstrong
Care Winchester Star
Winchester Star
Florence Nightingale
Glenn Garber
Strasburg
Winchester
Claude Smalts, Jr
Anti-Communists Seize Airliner In Europe Flight to West Germany
Seven anti Communist plotters hijacked a Hungarian airliner during a Budapest to Szombathely flight. They fought with passengers and crew, hijacked the craft, and forced the pilot to fly loops before landing at a U S airfield near Ingolstadt in West Germany seeking asylum. The plane was to be returned to Hungarian authorities after safety checks.
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Germany
Ingolstadt
West Germany
Tron Curtain
Hungary
U. S
Bonn
Adenauer
Melay Airlines
Budapest
Szombathely
Joseph Jakaby
Jakaby
Gyor
U. S. Air Force
Eisenhower Nixon Meet On Far East Policy At Farm
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon discussed Far East policy during a Gettysburg meeting. Nixon had just completed a 111 day round-the-world trip visiting the Philippines Viet Nam Formosa Thailand Pakistan and Turkey. The visit also touched on campaign plans and pending congressional business as the session closes.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Nixon
Washington
Eisenhower Farm
Congress
Wilton B. Persons
Philippines
Viet Nam
Formosa
Thailand
Pakistan
Turkey
State Dulles
Dulles
White House
James C. Hagerty
Plane crash at Ft. Dix kills 43. 21 injured in swamp wreck
A military Douglas Liftmaster with 50 military and six civilian passengers crashed in a pine swamp at Ft. Dix New Jersey after takeoff for Burtonwood England. Forty three aboard died, twenty one injured, many seriously. A survivor reported an air pocket. The wreckage stretched across 300 yards as rescuers cleared a path through floodwater and undergrowth.
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FT. DIX. N. J
Mccgilire Air Force Base
Burtonwood
England
Air Force
McGuire
John Williams
1611Th Air Transport Group
Special Air Force Board
Air Force Public Information
Co. Williams
Horace W. Doty
Albert J. Buck
Buck
Pvt
Thomas F., Kiley
Lawrence
Mass
Lloyd Moses
Ft. Dix
Pedro M. Souza
Fiery Crosses Placed Before Home of Top U.S. Officials
Crosses were planted and burned in front of residences linked to Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter Solicitor General Simon Sobeloff and the NAACP Prince Georges County chair. A burn marked property at Sobeloff’s apartment and Frankfurter’s home. Witnesses saw a car with Virginia plates.
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U.S
Washington
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Earl Warren
Pex Frankfurter
Simon E. Sobeloff
George Washington University
Sobelofff
Sobeloff
Frankfurter
NAACP
Beltsville
Sherton Park
Virginia
Warren
Sen
Lehman
D-Ny
William Clark
Douglas King
Prince Georges County
Clark
King
Supreme Court
City Man Convicted Of Petty Larceny Four Cars
Bev erly Ellis, 33, Negro, convicted in Municipal Court on four counts of petty larceny for entering four unlocked cars on the Plaza last night. Sentenced to 12 months in a state road camp plus $4.75 costs. Police recovered a box camera, portable radio, leather airline case, cards and a flashlight from the four vehicles. Cars entered between 8:45 and 11 p m. Victims include Duke Murray, Robert Koon, Ray Boswell and Jimmy Keller.
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Beverly Ellis
Ellis
Joseph C. Ritter
John Hoover
Jack Shumaker
Duke Murray
Main St
Berryville
Robert Koon
Berryville Ave
Ray M. Boswell
Jimmy Keller
Kent St
Swiss Airlines to start Zurich Tokyo service via India
Calcutta reports Swissair plans to launch a Far East route from Zurich and Geneva to Tokyo via India starting in July 1957. The service will operate twice weekly.
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Calcutta
Swiss _ airlines
Zurich
Geneva
Tokyo
India
Senate Appropriations Okays Foreign Aid Despite Rift
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved 4.105 billion dollars for foreign aid this year by a 13-8 vote, surpassing the House figure by 680 million and near the authorized maximum. Senator Thye warned of a hard floor fight next week to avoid drastic cuts and to resist cutting Yugoslavia aid. Chairman Hayden will bring the bill to the floor, with Yugoslavia aid largely maintained despite Republican efforts to limit it.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Eisenhower
Sen. Thye
R-Minn
Yugoslavia
Hayden
D-Ariz
Sens
Knowland
Calif
Bridges
McCarthy
Wis
Leo Mates
Committee
Russia
Virginia Weather and Local Notices Split Across Page
The Virginia forecast lists fair cooler conditions with cooler nights and low 60s to 68. Winchester Saturday conditions noted with sunrise and sunset times and a First Quarter Moon. Also advertised are half season tickets at Willow Lawn Pool and Willow Lawn Farm Market open 24 hours seven days with ice cold watermelons guaranteed for picnics.
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Winchester
Willow Lawn Pool Valley Avenue
Willow Lawn Farm Market
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By C. Yates McDanitel
West Va
Beyond
W. Va
Bath County
Dr. Lancaster
Luther Hodges
North Carolina
South
Hodges
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Community Chest
Mohawk
Earl E. Whetzel
Willam H. Schaeffer
Montmorency Cherries
T. Orchard
Middle Road
By Wolf Heyen
A.K.C
Fairmont Kennels
Fairmont Ave
Southern Tire Service
S. Braddock St
House of Good Food Shirkey’s
Sunnyside
New Jersey
FAR East Service
Ernest B. Vaccaro
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