Cubans Split Over Castro and Communist Ties
Reports in Havana and Washington clash over Fidel Castro's role in a Communist influence debate. Maj Diaz Sanz accuses Castro of leading a Red dictatorship while Castro denies major Communist control and argues the revolution is Cuban and not Communist.
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Havana
Cuba
Senate
Washington
Fidel Castro
Castro
Pedro Luis Diaz Sanz
Fulgencio Batista
Diaz Sanz
Senate Committee
Reds
Maj
Ernesto
Che) Guevara
Kremlin
Special Commission
Communist Party
Re Am
Borror Wins Grand Prize at Sandy's Woods Yard Party
Earl Borror of Route 1 White Post won the grand prize a Shetland Pony at the Stephens City VFW Post 9646 yard party Saturday evening. Rodney Levi took second prize a power mower and Guy Surratt earned third prize an electric skillet. String music accompanied the event.
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Earl Borror
Route 1
White Post
Sandy’s Woods
Stephens City
V.F.W. Post
Rodney Levi
Guy Surratt
Valley Ave
Haile Selassie Receives 400 Million Ruble Credit
In Moscow Premier Khrushchev granted Emperor Haile Selassie a 400 million ruble loan to aid Ethiopia. The Emperor returned home after a two week visit to the Soviet Union to discuss industrialization and economic aid.
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Moscow
Pemier Khrushchev
Haile Selassie Winging
Ethiopia
Russia
Sullen Convicts Granted Chance to Air Grievances
PETROL Tenn AP Sullen convicts after 32 hours in Brushy Mountain Prison mine were offered to air complaints to Pat Patterson assistant corrections commissioner who stayed overnight to hear grievances. Eight ring leaders were shipped to Nashville max but three foremen were freed. They quit after an ultimatum with two minor concessions including preserving good conduct time. State troopers with heavy arms met departing convicts at the mine entrance.
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Pat Patterson
Brushy Mountain Prison
Patterson
State Penitentiary
Nashville
Shirley Bunch
Ben Davis
Earl Hensley
Cumberland Mountains
Keith Hampton
Florida
Confusing Lincoln Park Streets Create Navigation Mixup
In Newark New Jersey directions to Lincoln Park clash with four separate streets all named Lincoln Park, a situation that has persisted for about 66 years and confuses visitors unfamiliar with local geography.
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Newark
N. J
Lincoln Park
Record rainfall drenches Atlantic seaboard as storms persist
Heavy rain and fog blanket the Eastern seaboard with more wet weather seen across the country. Salisbury Maryland and Block Island Rhode Island logged deep hourly totals while Philadelphia and Richmond reported significant rainfall and warm, humid conditions continued from Virginia to Florida. A lingering rain record was washed away on the Middle Atlantic coast.
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Associated Press
Salisbury
Block Island
Rhode Island
Philadelphia
Richmond
Re Corl
Middle Atlantic
Atlantic City
N.J
Blackstone
Savannah
Virginia
Florida
Democrats Balk At Ike's New Housing Bill
Senator Sparkman said a banking subcommittee will begin hearings on President Eisenhower's veto of a Democratic housing bill. He promised a housing measure after full hearings and rejected accepting the President's version as given, labeling him wrong and signaling legislative battle ahead.
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Ike
Washington
Eisenhower
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Sparkman
Berryville Votes Five Dollar Vehicle Tax Plan
Berryville Town Council unanimously approved a $5 tax on licenseable vehicles, projecting $2,500 annual revenue. The town will issue its own tags, separate from the county design, and Boyce officials plan similar action. In other business, the council invited Northern Virginia Power Co to draft a 25 year franchise, and voted to remove an alley bisecting the Cameron property from the zoning map at the suggestion of the Zoning and Planning Commission.
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Berryville
Roy E. Potts
County Board of Supervisors
Boyce
Phil Hunter
Caufmann Brubaker
The
Northern Virginia Power Co
Leland Broadstater
Power Company
Wilbur French
Barbara MacEdwards
Heflin
Silco Stores, Inc
Stuart Brown
Cameron
J. O. Cain
Potts
Zoning and Planning Commission
Perfect Gift Damaged in Transit Spurs Minor Injury
Charles A. Roeder in Baltimore received a first aid kit damaged in shipment. He opened it to inspect a mangled lid and cut his finger using the tape and antiseptic inside.
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Baltimore
Charles A. Roeder
Nationwide steel strike tests will and economy take a hit
Union and management stand firm as a steel strike shuts down mills with no violence. Elmer Getty and Joe Liptak of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp in Pittsburgh voice mixed hopes and fears. Eisenhower urges quick settlement after New York talks fail, while production and wages face heavy losses across coal rail ore mining and Great Lakes shipping.
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Elmer Getty
Pittsburgh Works
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Joe Liptak
Eisenhower
New York
Great Lakes
McDonald
Guardsmen in Connecticut to direct weekend highway traffic
Hartford Connecticut AP reports 40 to 60 National Guard volunteers in Army uniforms will assist state police this weekend. They will operate without pay and have arrest powers, aiding traffic control on major Connecticut highways.
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Hartford
Conn
National Guard
Army Uni
Connecticut
Leo J. Mulcahy
Booklet Helps Argue Virtues Of Capitalism
Washington AP reports the Senate Internal Security subcommittee published a booklet "Contradictors of Communism" to aid arguments for capitalism over communism. The booklet is available through the Government Printing Office.
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Washington
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Government Printing Office
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