Solons Pleased At Likely End Of Foreign Tours
Washington congressmen reacted with cautious optimism as President Eisenhower signaled a likely end to his foreign tours. The President said another trip in his final months was unlikely but would not hesitate if needed to promote free world unity. He hailed Japan's ratification of a new security pact as a major victory for the free world despite Tokyo riots that halted his planned visit.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Japan
Tokyo
United States
Free World
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Foreign Relations Committee
John Sparkman
Dala
Orndorff reel lost to river as niece recovers gear
Earl Orndorff left his rod and a new $25 reel on Shenandoah shore while cleaning fish. The gear vanished into the river but his niece Linda Lutz recovered the reel rod and a sinker after a swim to fetch them. A sunlit scene and bee activity at a nearby A and P appear in town notes.
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Earl Orndorff
Shenandoah River
Linda Lutz
Mr. Orndorff
Residents flee homes near Cy press area after disaster
Area residents south of Cy press and about 25 miles northwest of Houston evacuated as they took what they could and left.
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Cypress
Houston
Win $500 Essay Contest For Local Teens
The Winchester Star invites under 20s to submit 300 words or less on What’s Right About American Youth. First prize 20 dollars, second 10, third 5 locally, with national prizes of 500 and ten 25s. Entries due by midnight July 15, mailed to What Young People Think Contest.
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Winchester Star
EU- Essamet
Teads
Star
Gilbert
Rockefeller urges bigger defense budget and alert system
Gov Nelson Rockefeller urges a three billion dollar defense budget increase to meet 1960s danger. He criticizes Eisenhower policies while backing stronger missile action, airborne SAC alert, and greater Army Marine and air lift capacity amid rising Cold War tensions.
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Mont
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Feller
Rockefeller
SAC
Survey Shows 25 000 Steel Workers Idle
A Associated Press survey finds about 25 000 steelworkers laid off and thousands more on short weeks as orders fall. Production is expected at 1 560 000 tons or 54.8 percent capacity, the lowest since 1959. Regional idling hits Pittsburgh Detroit and Indiana plants with closures and holiday layups.
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American Iron and Steel Institute
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Edgar Thomson
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
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Chicago
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U. S. Steel Ohio
Youngstown
Sparrows Point
Bethlehem Steel Corp
J. EK
Merriman’s Lane
House Unit OKs Bill Permitting Sugar Quota Cuts
The U S House Agriculture Committee approved a bill authorizing the president to cut Cuba sugar quota amid Castro's threats to seize American properties. The measure would shift quotas, boosting some nations and easing others, with Cuba calling the move an economic attack.
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Fidel Castro
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Brazil
Tornadoes Ravage Three States Killing Two In Northern Plains
Tornadoes churned through parts of three states with cars hurled, farm buildings destroyed, and two men killed when their vehicles were tossed during a storm system that spread from northeastern Colorado to North Dakota. Severe hail hit seven Gurley area farms and damage extended near Venturia, North Dakota. Two Colorado injuries reported.
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Holyoke
Colorado
North Dakota
Nebraska
Gurley
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Bismarck
Federal grand jury urged to indict Melvin D Rees Jr
AP reports federal prosecutors planned to indict Melvin D Rees Jr., 31, a dance band musician, on kidnapping and murder charges in connection with the Virginia family slayings. Rees was held in Memphis and faces charges tied to cross state lines for the abduction of Mrs Carroll V. Jackson Jr. and daughter Susan Ann.
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Melvin Davis Rees Jr
Virginia
U.5
Leon H. Pierson
Pierson
Robert J. Lally
Melvin D. Rees Jr
Shelby County
Memphis
Tenn
FBI
Rees
Carroll V. Jackson Jr
Apple Grove
Susan Ann
Gambrills
Janet
Fredericksburg
Commonwealth
W. Earle Crank
Public Hearing Set On Health Care Bill
Senate Finance Committee approves two days of public hearings on the House medical care bill for the aged. Secretary Flemming to open, 10 minute witness limits, doctors and others invited, ongoing debate on broader coverage for seniors.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Senate
Arthur S. Flemming
Safety Council Warns Death Toll May Reach 370
The National Safety Council estimated weekend traffic deaths could total 13 000 across a three day period starting 6 p.m. Friday and ending midnight Monday. With most of the 73 million vehicles on the roads travelers would cover about 7.2 billion miles. The council urged safe driving: no speeding, no drinking, no fussing.
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National Safety Council
Western powers end collapsed disarmament conference
In Geneva the five Western delegations held a rump session after boycotting the Soviet bloc, sent conference records to the UN, and adjourned as Polish chairman Naszkowski left. The Soviet side accused the move of illegality while the West defended it and urged UN action on disarmament reporting.
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Geneva
U. N. Security Council
General Assembly
Encion Aerie
Marian Naszkowski
Ma Olga
Rescue May Take Hours Or Take Days
At least 11 men were killed and 44 others were trapped 1,000 feet underground after an explosion at the Six Bells coal mine in Abertillery Wales. Rescue teams rushed in as hundreds of tons of roof rock collapsed, sealing off the workers’ escape.
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Wales
Six Bells
British National Coal Board
Sullivan receives suspended sentence for theft
A former medical receptionist, Jane Miller Sullivan of Woodstock, was given a two year suspended penitentiary sentence and six years probation for stealing about five thousand dollars from Dr. Q Hill’s Winchester practice. She must pay three thousand in restitution now and the balance in twenty five dollar monthly installments. A pre sentence report aided the case.
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Jane Miller Jennings Sullivan
Woodstock
Corporation Court
Q. Hill
Sullivan
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