Security Council Debates Rival Egyptian Israeli Charges
United Nations diplomats report the Security Council focusing on Egyptian accusations and Israel countercharges over Gaza border fighting. The clashes left 38 Egyptians and eight Israelis dead, with Egypt denouncing Israeli attacks near Gaza and Israel accusing Egypt of continuous armistice violations and war actions. A new Arab defense pact was announced by Egypt and Syria as others may join, aiming to replace the Arab League treaty.
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United Nations, N. Y
U.N. Security Council
Gaza
Israel
Council
Egypt
Israel-U. N. Mixed Armistice Commission
Palestine
Egypt-Israel
Jerusalem
Damascus
Syria
Sabri Assali
Stormy Weather Sweep Across The U S
A national weather pattern brought a clash of cold Canadian air and warm Gulf air. Reports of freezing rain in Utica New York and four inches of snow in Seattle Washington. Dayton Ohio saw 60 above at night while Cut Bank Montana recorded 12 below as arctic air spread from the Northern Plains to the Northwest.
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Canada
Gulf of Mexico
Utica
N. Y
Dayton
Ohio
Plains
Seattle
Wash
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Rockies
Washington
Cut Bank
Mont
Byrd predicts at least ten Dems oppose $20 tax cut
Senator Byrd of Virginia said a minimum of 10 Democratic senators will vote against the House backed plan to cut everyone’s income tax by $20. With 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans, party lines may doom the measure unless Republicans break. Byrd and Finance Committee backed by majority leader Clements push to remove the cut. administration favors keeping corporate and excise tax rates as scheduled.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
House
Senate
Sen
Clements
D-Ky
Rayburn
D-Tex
Senate Finance Committee
Exchange Founders Banquet Saturdaynight
The Winchester Exchange Club hosts its annual Founders Day banquet this Saturday at the George Washington Hotel. Social hour starts at 6 p m dinner at 7 30 p m and dancing at 9 p m with Fred Updike's Orchestra providing music.
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Winchester Exchange Club
Geoge Washington Hotel
Fred Updike
Reds Accused Of Plot To Debauch The Free World
Washington officials accuse the Chinese Communist regime of a global narcotics plot to fund arms for war and spread drug addiction among free nations. Narcotics chief H J Anslinger testified before the House Appropriations Committee detailing supplies from Chinese sources and arrests of 2,400 alleged peddlers in Korea.
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Washington
H. J. Anslinger
House Appropriations Committee
the Treasury
United States
Anslinger
China
South Korea
Far East
Stolen Cash From Berryville Service Station
Edgar Jackson reports $680 stolen from his Sunoco station at 415 E Main St Wednesday night about 9 30. He locked the door then returned to find a sack of cash missing. police and state police are investigating with no clues or arrests yet.
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Berryville
Edgar Jackson
Jackson
Sunoco
E. Main St
Robert Willingham
Weather Outlook for Virginia March 5 to 9
Five day Virginia outlook shows temperatures 3 to 6 degrees above normal. Warm Saturday followed by a cooler Sunday and a return to warmer conditions by Tuesday. Wednesday turns slightly cooler. Rain expected Saturday and again by Monday or Tuesday, with total precipitation around one to two inches.
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Richmond
Virginia
Students Prefer H-Bomb Era To Caveman Life
Two Reading University students aged 22 and 23 retreat to a cave to test a debate motion. They endure three days, eat pigeons and bread, and lose weight, concluding life in the primitive state would be worse and happiness elusive.
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London
Tearlach MacLean
Arthur Shepherd
Reading University
Reading
Shepherd
C P Telephone seeks rate boosts in 15 localities
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. asks the State Corporation Commission for permission to raise rates in 15 localities where gross receipts license taxes exist or will begin. Localized increases would total about $80,000 yearly, based on a new method tied to basic service charges. Public hearing planned if objections arise.
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Chesapeakeo and Potomac Telephone Co
State Corporation Commission
Charles P. Marks
C&p
Marks
State Supreme Court
Newport News
Henrico County
Henrico
Alexandria
Arlington
Christiansburg
Danville
Falls Church
Hampton
Poquoson
South Norfolk
Staunton
Suffolk
Warwick
Soviet Reveals Long Missing Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo
The Soviet Union presented Bruno Pontecorvo, the Italian born atomic scientist who vanished in 1950, at a Moscow news conference sponsored by the Academy of Sciences. He said he has lived in Moscow for four years and attends to peaceful atomic work while criticizing Britain and the United States.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Bruno Pontecorvo
Pontecorvo
England
Harwell
Pravda
U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
Russia
United States
Europe
Britain
Miss Seal Named Honorary Fire Chief for Shenandoah Parade
Miss Barbara Ann Seal of Stephens City has been chosen as Honorary Fire Chief for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Firemen's parade on April 28. She is a Stephens City Fire Company Auxiliary member and James Wood High School graduate. The contest to select the In Town Honorary Fire Chief from city and county candidates will be held March 18 at 8 p.m. at the Capitol theatre, with Miss Seal competing. The winner and her sponsoring company will lead the first night parade respective units.
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Barbara Ann Seal
Stephens City Fire Company
Miss Seal
Carolyn Seal
Stephens City
The
Fire Company Auxiliary
James Wood High School
Capitol Theatre
Seal
Coin Lodged in Childs Throat Causes Fatal Surgery
Detroit story reports a 13 month old Raymond Sherman died during emergency surgery after an X ray showed a quarter stuck in his throat. earlier beliefs of croup were mistaken. Separate notes announce a church sanctuary service postponement and a local benefit shooting match at Stephens City Fire Hall with turkeys and beef prize. A classified ad seeks a female office worker skilled in typing for permanent position with Home Beneficial Life Insurance Co.
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Detroit
Benjamin Sherman
Raymond Sherman
Stephens City Fire Hall
Stephens City Drum & Bugle Corps
Clarke Lions Sponsor County School Shrubbery Plan
Clarke Lions Club voted to sponsor and finance shrubbery planting at Clarke County High School Johnson Williams School and Boyce Elementary School. Estimated cost five thousand dollars outlines a long range beautification program with Walter Flory named to head a steering committee to study landscaping needs.
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Berryville
Lions Club
Clarke County
Johnson-Williams
Boyce
George W. Burton
Clarke County High School
Walter Flory
Rent-A-Car ad and sale notices appear in local paper
Classified items include a weekend travel rental offer from GEO Washington Garage, a 1953 Ford two door sedan for sale by Kern Motor Co at $1395 with radio heater and low mileage, a bake sale by Miller and Anderson’s for James Wood High School junior class on Saturday March 5.
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Kern Motor CO
Bake Sale Miller & Anderson's
James Wood High School
CIO Backing for Liberalized Trade Program Increases Pressure
Washington CIO officials urged Senate approval of President Eisenhower's liberalized trade plan with a companion trade adjustment bill to aid workers harmed by imports. James B. Carey cited a long record of support while warning against injury to distressed industries and calling for job training, benefits, and tax relief. The House-passed measure would allow a five percent annual duty cut during a three year extension.
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CIO
Eisenhower
James B. Carey
Senate Finance Committee
United States
America
Carey
House
Humphrey
D-Minn
Kennedy
D-Mass
Brown Wins Legion Seventh District Oratory Contest
Stephen Brown of Rostel Road and Handley School won the American Legion Seventh District oratorical contest in Harrisonburg sponsored by Conrad Hoover Post 21. Elizabeth Sowers of Front Royal was runner-up. Brown will receive a plaque at the April post meeting.
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Stephen Brown
Lemuel Brown
Rostel Road
Handley School
American Legion
Brown
Conrad Hoover
Harrisonburg
Handley
Elizabeth Sowers
Front Royal
Giles B. Cook
Conrad-Hoover Post
Firestorms destroy 4000 chicks and damage Berryville home
Two area fires killed about four thousand chicks and heavily damaged a Berryville home. Frederick County blaze started in a wood stove destroying a 20 by 110 foot frame brooder house owned by Theodore Cox on Route 680. Chicks valued at over 750 dollars, at 18 cents each, and the Cox home suffered major damage. Fire companies from Round Hill Shawnee Gore and Clearbrook responded to the 8:30 a m alarm.
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Frederick County
Berryville
Round Hill
Shawnee
Gore
Clearbrook
Theodore Cox
Petticoat Gap
Yellow Springs
W. Va
Cox
Hamiltons
Hamilton
John Enders Fire Company
Former Carnival Operator Dies in Prison Gas Chamber
Carl J. Folk, 57, a former New Mexico carnival operator, was executed in the Florence state prison gas chamber for the torture murder of 22-year-old Betty Faye Allen of Wattsburg Pa. The 1953 case involved binding, burning with newspapers, sexual assault, and strangulation in a Holbrook Arizona trailer. Folk maintained his claimed innocence as clergy and his wife attended his final hours.
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Florence
Ariz
Carl J. Folk
Folk
Pennsylvania
Frank Eyman
Falk
New Mexico
Betty Faye Allen
Wattsburg
Holbrook
Allen
Raymond
Winchell Tip Triggers Stock Exchange Turmoil Says Official
Edward T. McCormick of the American Stock Exchange testified before the Senate Banking Committee that a Walter Winchell TV tip about Pontepec Oil caused a surge of 357 000 trades the next morning. He said actions by exchanges and the SEC limited how high the opening price could go, preventing bigger losses for buyers.
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Washington
Stock Exchange
Walter Winchell
Edward T. McCormick
American Stock Exchange
Senate Banking Committee
McCormick
Winchell
Pontepec Oil
Securities and Exchange Commission
Pantepec
President Eisenhower Spends First Night at Gettysburg Farm
President Eisenhower slept at his new Gettysburg farm home for the first time joining contractor Charles H. Tompkins of Washington. The White House sent pillows sheets and blankets and his valet prepared the beds as the president plans to return to Washington for a cabinet meeting after spending the night. The Gettysburg Times noted this milestone as a community moment and tradition.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Gettysburg Times
Eisenhower Place
Abraham Lincoln
Charles H. Tompkins
Washington
White House
John Meoney
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