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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 21, 1959

Page

3

Layoffs Mount in Businesses Affected by Steel Strike

Pittsburgh dispatch reports about 45,000 workers across railroads coal mines shipping firms and others furloughed as the steel strike persists. Cleveland sees 1,900 more layoffs bringing total to 3,900. Great Lakes shippers suspend 850 seamen. Norfork and Western trims 852 railroaders. several firms halt production due to unloaded ore and brick shipments. Commerce Dept action considered to direct steel to defense projects. Jones & Laughlin seeks injunction against unions over alleged illegal picketing. stock market falls with steel and auto shares down.

Pittsburgh Cleveland Ing Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Youngstown Niles and Warren Ohio Great Lakes General Refractories Co Philadelphia Delaware & Hudson Railroad New York Colonia Oneonta Roanoke Norfolk and Western Railway Commerce Department Washington Military and Atomic Energy Commission Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp Aliquippa Detroit McLough Steel Corp Department

Navy Wife Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter

Norfolk AP report: 24 year old Navy wife Willie Lee Cottington found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her three year old stepdaughter Patricia Gayle Cottington after her son Ronnie testified she struck Patricia with a coffee pot. Judge Walter A. Page ordered a probation report before sentencing and also found her guilty of neglecting three of five children and assaulting another.

Norfolk Ronnie Willie Lee Cottington Patricia Gayle Cottington Walter A. Page Corporation Court Patricia Gayle Patricia Cottington

Expected To Get to Care Of Alleged Plot In Dyn ami te Trial

In Henderson North Carolina eight Textile Workers Union members including Boyd Payton Carrollinas director face dynamite conspiracy charges. Prosecution seeks tape transcripts from SBI meetings as key evidence. Defendants also include Charles Auslander minor TWUA official Jerence Gore Paytons aide and others. An SBI agent testified Abbott attended Roanoke Rapids meeting where plot was discussed.

Harriet-Henderson Charles Auslander TWUA Rence Gore Payton Johnny Martin Robert Edward Abbott Warren Walker Malcolm Jarrell Calvin Ray Pegram SBI Abbott Roanoke Rapids Claude Davis Pegram Walker Jarrell

American Is Living on Hope In Red Prison

John Downey of New Britain Connecticut, jailed since 1952 in a Red China prison on espionage charges, remains hopeful for release. His brother William Downey, who visited Peiping, says no Chinese official would hear appeals through the Red Cross and Downey shows no despair despite the lack of progress. Downey and Richard G. Fecteau were captured when a USAF plane crashed en route from Japan to Korea.

Hong Kong John Downey New Britin William Richard G. Fecteau Boston Mass John Fecteau Downey Air Force Japan Korea Peiping

Kiwanis Key Club installs new officers at War Memorial

At the regular Junior Civic meeting held at the War Memorial Building new officers of the High School Kiwanis Key Club were elected. Carl Straw becomes president with Wayne Zeigler as vice president, Joe Headley as treasurer, and Douglas Brown as secretary.

Kiwanis War Memorial Carl Straw Wayne Zeigler Joe Headley Douglas Brown Kiwanis Key Club

Brando Seeks UN Film Driven by World Peace Vision

Marlon Brando wants to make a United Nations themed film but lacks a suitable script. He argues for a world federation and bonds wars to internal civil conflicts, warning against mass hostility. Brando cites the atom bomb as a potential peace deterrent while promoting informed audience access to UN information.

New York Marlon Brando United Nations U.N Southeast Asia Peanuts Brando Napoleon Anna Magnani Joanne Woodward Marlon

Atom bomb changes war philosophy says historian

A historian argues that the atomic bomb has altered the logic of warfare. He notes that knowledge of certain death and oblivion would tempt stalemate and restraint, while the bomb’s existence finally forces reconsideration of sacrifice, heroism, and enduring principles.

Elephant Begins Trek Over Alps to Prove Hannibal Route

Jumbo the elephant covered 12 miles on his first Alps trek seeking to show Hannibal used the high road into Italy in 219 B C A brass band hay halo and the mayor welcomed him at Clapier Pass 7300 feet high British historian John Hoyte favors the high pass route while others cite lower coastal routes.

LA Rocheuf France Jumbo Elephant Alps Hannibal Italy B.C Clapier Pass John Hoyte Mediterranean

TV Bible Students Take First College Credit TV Course

More than 200 students completed final examinations in the first Bible course offered via television for college credit. The Saturday morning TV course was sponsored by American University, a Methodist school.

Washington The American University

Chayefsky’s The Tenth Man Sets Broadway Autumn Run

Playwright Sidney Chayefsky returns to Broadway with The Tenth Man in an autumn engagement. Pearl, missing since 1943 appearance in All for All, is noted but not seen in current previews.

Chayefsky the Tenth Man Pearl

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