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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1956
Page
11
The report outlines plans for October actions and future drafts. It forecasts 100,000 to 200,000 inducted next spring and a million youths registered for later draft calls within a year. By 1957 end, armed forces could reach 270,000 with 32,000 in training now and 96,000 volunteers to wear uniforms by year end.
Jessie Garrison Stump, 77, died at her Berryville home. Born April 13, 1879 in Clarke County to J. Frank and Emma Jackson, she was a Burnt Factory Methodist Church member. She married George W. Stump in 1908. Survived by three Jackson sisters, Mrs. Travers, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Saturday at Omps Funeral Home with Rev. J. S. Peebles. burial Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
An expanded National Security Council backs a theoretical surprise nuclear attack drill against Hawaii Puerto Rico and 73 U S locations with 25 Canadian targets. Eisenhower to review action programs with 34 officials and later meet department executives to assess exercise effectiveness as Defense Department joins for first time with offsite headquarters.
The AEC last year reported that private industry cannot competently and safely operate atomic reactors. It noted no reactors have been built by private electric companies and warned the dangers of an atomic plant getting out of control make private operation unlikely.
Sir Harold Caccia, a leading British diplomat and ally of President Eisenhower, is appointed Britain's new ambassador to Washington and will represent the United Kingdom in the capital.
Federal Judge Sterling Hutcheson set August 2 to determine a hearing date for the Prince Edward County school desegregation case. The timing suggests no merits hearing before late September due to August vacations and other scheduled duties. NAACP lawyers pressed for an early September start on desegregation, while Prince Edward officials argued against emergency scheduling.
Five men endured a 15 minute terror when a heavy thunderstorm snapped a high voltage wire and fell across a convertible in suburban Chiller Park. The canvas top caught fire and driver William Carahan, 23, of Wauconda Illinois, rolled the top down, then the men jumped to ground as their feet burned the tires and car paint blistered.
Rudolph Kendziorra and his family sail to New York aboard the General Langfitt to begin life as immigrants. Sponsored by Dr. William E. Eisenberg, they will settle with aid from the Lutheran Refugee Service. Kendziorra, a 50 year old former German POW, will work as a mason for Howard Shockey and Son.
A pontoon boat carrying 31 members of a Swiss boating club broke in two against a pylon of an upper Rhine bridge. Ten excursionists are missing and a search is underway.
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