Berlin Sparks Review of CD Preparedness
The Berlin crisis spurs a major review of civil defense readiness as the United States plans a nationwide shelter system. President Kennedy shifts authority to the Pentagon, with plans like Plan C and Plan D minus to address potential nuclear threats and mobilization. Public apathy fades as planners stress survival over mass death and a growing share favor fallout shelters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Congress
Civil Defense Administration
Kennedy
Pentagon
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Defense Department
White House
OCDM
U.S
United States
Korea
Kremlin
Frank B. Ellis
Louisiana
Wounded Girl Delivers Alarm After Family Massacre
Louise Kinsey, 15, fled a Kinsey home near Midland Texas after being wounded in the stomach. She ran 2 4 miles through mud to seek help as her father Fred Milton Kinsey and four siblings were found shot to death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Tex
Fred Milton Kinsey
West Texas Oil Center
Kinsey
J.D. Kinsey
Johnny
Jay
Lilly
Jne
Louise
Midland County
Man Dies In Gun Battle With Policeman
In Galax on a Saturday night 52 year old R Palmer Williams a furniture factory worker wounded his estranged wife at a fruit market then died after a gun battle with Police Captain Raymond Burris Williams fired at Burris before being shot by the officer with Burris also wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GALAX
Raymond Burris
R. Palmer Williams
Rt. 2
Woodlawn
Williams
Paper Mill Road News Briefs Reflect Various Local Updates
Mr and Mrs Eugene Tevalt and daughter Shelia and Donald Snapp return home from Jamestown. Jacob Copenhaver improves after illness. Herbert Copenhaver of New Market visits family. Tobis family returns from New Jersey. Judy Henry visits sister Mrs Carrol Smith. Visitors to Copenhaver include several from Ohio and Winchester. A Monday rain and windstorm causes heavy tree limbs to fall with no major damage. P A DeHaven and family are noted residents.
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Paper Mill Road
Eugene Tevalt
Shelia
Donald Snapp
Middle Road
Jamestown
Jacob Copenhaver
Herbert Copenhaver
New Market
William Tobis
Mary
Billy
New Jersey
Judy Henry
Carrol Smith
Paul Copenhaver
Ohio
George Burkey
Norman Cooper
Burkey
Samuel Bowman
Cecil Derflinger
Sarah Fauver
Jimmy
Winchester
Lebanon Church News Briefs Highlight Local Visits
Guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Harry Doman included Mr and Mrs Mary Wilson and daughters Linda and Pat from Winchester. The McDonald family hosted Evelyn and Leafy from Silver Spring Maryland and Dwight has puberned hens on vacation in Florida. Carl McDonald returned from Shenandoah County Memorial Hospital after a week. Bessie Bowers and family from Hillmans Drive Winchester visited Vernon McDonald and children, and Guy McDonald of Rockville Maryland spent the weekend at his pins.
Light Rain Ends Chicago Wade in Demonstration
A brief wade in on a white public beach drew about 30 participants including Negro and white demonstrators under a 200 member police guard. The action lasted about 45 minutes and ended with rain starting to fall. Past protests have seen jeering and sand throwing. Also noted is Jim McHale’s 65 in the 1947 U S Open amateur round at St Louis Country Club.
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Chicago
Jim McHale
St. Louis Country Club
Obstruct and Oppose Terms Summary
A concise listing of synonyms for obstructing actions includes impede hinder delay and resist. The terms cover efforts to block access progress or movement in various contexts.
City Court Fines Totals $260 With Ten Convictions
Municipal court records show ten defendants hit with fines totaling $260 last week. Names include Srnied Baha Bean and May Imogene Drummond, with offenses ranging from assault and battery to unlawful cohabitation and driving under the influence. Several verdicts carried suspensions and costs.
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J . Rice
Srnied Baha. Bean
N. Kent St
Josephine Dutton Eubank
Woodstock Lane
May Imogene Drummond
N. Kent
LeRoy Ford
Douglas Malcolm Morrison
S. Kent
Russell Eugene Brill
Conway St
Delmas Lee Strawderman
Ross St
William Leroy Carter
Roy Frederick Arnold
Mt. Falls
Virginia road toll reaches 418 with five weekend deaths
The 1961 highway fatality count rose to 418 in Virginia after five weekend deaths. Victims include Harold Weisel Brooks, 26, of Saint Paul in a single vehicle crash near U.S. 19 in Washington boone. Ruben Junior Mosley, 20, and Thomas Edd Mosley, 19, of Salem and Alcoma in a crash east of Buckingham on U.S. 60. Jessie Froster, 54, of Drivers in Nansemond County struck near Virginia 337. and John Henry Dees, 26, of Lincoln, Del., ejected when a truck left U.S. 13 near Eastville in Northampton County.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Saint Paul
Harold Weisel Brooks
Washington
Boone
Brooks
U.S
Ruben Junior Mosley
Salem
Thomas Edd Mosley
Alcoma
Buckingham
Ruben Mosley
U.S. 60
Nansemond County
Jessie Froster
Suffolk
Froster
John Henry Dees
Lincoln
Del
Dees
Eastville
Northampton County
Filipino Actor Killed in Gun Battle
Manila AP reports Privito Santa Romana a 25 year old Filipino movie actor known for tough guy roles was killed Friday night in a gun battle with police. He reportedly had been drinking heavily.
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Manila
Privitivo
Realty transfers list numerous property deeds in local towns
A long list of real estate transfers records deeds in multiple additions and streets. Names include Bartlett Branch Carter Barb Nelson Crim Hartman Bowles Lewin Hawthorne Glaize Smithfield Forest Hills Franklin Loudoun Pike and others with properties on N Cameron St National Ave Shawnee Ave East Street Valley Pike S Loudoun St Bellview Ave Kern St Stewart St and Washington St. Cuban exodus note reports 300 clergy sailed home aboard the Marques de Comillas as part of a larger church mission departure in Havana.
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Forest Hills
Wilson L. Bowles
H. C. Wewin Construction Co
Handley Heights
Mildred S. Bowles
H. C. Lewin Construction Co
Dorothy G. Allen
Allen T. Hawthrone
East Street
Glaize Developments, Inc
Zuckerman Co., Inc
Harris Addifies and Son, Inc
Harry R. Farmer, Jr
Smithfield Farms
Sims and Son, Inc
Joseph C. Smith
W. J. Leonard
John F. Himes
Fred L. Himes
S. Loudoun St
Justa P. McDonald
William W. Wilkinson
Valley Pike
Schaefer Homes, Inc
Leonard C. Burton
J. Pinckney Arthur
Kathleen C. Goode
Franklin St
J. H. Henry
Dawson W. Riggelman
Nancy W. Glover
Moss Brooks
Mildred R. Strain
Samuel F. Rhodes
E. Stewart St
Havana
Marques de Comillas
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Testimony Begins in Suit Challenging School Closing
In Richmond AP report, Negro lawyers press that private white schools funded by state tuition grants function as public schools to evade desegregation. Witnesses include 24 officials. aim to block use of public funds for private schools and protect free public education amid a desegregation order. Justice Department observer Lt. John Barrett to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Prince Edward
South
Prince Edward School Foundation
Oren R. Lewis
County School Board
T. J. McIlwaine
County Board of Supervisors
J. W. Wilson Jr
State Board of Education
Woodrow W. Wailkerson
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
District Court
Justice Department
John Barrett
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Berlin Sparks
By Sterling F. Green
Fort Worth
Paper Mill Road News
Mr. and
Mrs
P. A. DeHaven
Lebanon
E. W. Armstrong CO
James W. Bartlett
Shirley D. Branch
N. Cameron St
Robert Eugene Carter
Ivan Wesley Barb
Shawnee Heights
Fred P. Nelson
Charles T. Crim
National Ave
Harris Addition
Beulah M. Hartman
Shawnee Ave
Call Smalts, Florists, Inc
Grider & Shockey
Irl
Ad Good Fellowship
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ture
First Commercial Corporation
Virginia Corporation
Culpeper Finance Corporation
North Main Street Valley
Culpeper
First Commercial Corp
North Main Street
Culpeper, Va
Esse Vali
Retail Merchants Association
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