Tie-In of School Funds Segregation Appears Shelved
The senate narrowly defeated a higher rigid price support for wheat by 46 to 45 after Vice President Nixon broke the tie. The vote followed a clerical error and a switch by Senator Green, shifting the balance and keeping wheat supports at about 1.81 dollars per bushel versus a higher figure.
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Washington
Nixon
Sen. Robertson
D-Va
Sen
Byrd
Lyndon Johnson
Sen. Gore
D-Tenn
Senate
Green
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Sen. Green
D-Ri
House
Gore
Knowland
California
Five Die in Salt Lake City Auto Crash at Service Station
Five persons were killed and four others seriously injured when a speeding station wagon crashed into the rear of a car, then plowed into a service station in Salt Lake City. The wreck sheared off a gasoline pump as the two cars collided and exploded. Sheriff George Beckstead said three young occupants of the passenger car and the station wagon’s driver were among the injured.
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Salt Lake City
George Beckstead
Annual Memorial Service of the Friendship Fire Co
The Friendship Fire Co holds its annual memorial service Sunday March 11 at 7 30 p m at Centenary Reformed Church. Members and the community attend to remember fallen comrades and honor service history.
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The
Friendship Fire Co
Centenary Reformed Church
Legislature Moves Through Final Hours
In Richmond the Virginia Legislature neared adjournment as a last minute plan to tie school funds to local segregation policies appeared shelved. Senators Wyatt and Gray pressed for a policy statement. the Moore Resolution to continue segregation was killed 4-1. The budget includes a proposed atomic reactor cut at UVA and a battle over naming Hampton Roads for the merged city.
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Richmond
Virginia
Landon Wyatt
Danville
House
Senate
Wyatt
Garland Gray
Sussex
Moore
Gray Commission
Gov
Stanley
University of Virginia
Hampton Roads
Hampton
Warwick
Newport News
Railroad Engineer Fined for Speeding in Ocala
A Seaboard Air Line engineer from Tampa, G. W. Haven, was fined 35 for speeding to 40 mph in a 20 mph zone at a crossing where a collision killed a woman and four children. Judge Wallace E. Sturgis Jr. found him guilty after he pleaded no defense.
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Ocala
Fla
G. W. Haven
Tampa
Seaboard Air Line
Silver Meteor
Wallace E. Sturgis Jr
Haven
House of Good Food Shirkey’s
Sunnyside
Autherine Lucy Seeks Court Order To Continue Studies
Autherine Lucy asks Federal District Court in Birmingham to overrule her February expulsion from the University of Alabama. Her attorney seeks reinstatement while Lucy contemplates attending Texas or other colleges after receiving multiple scholarship offers. The case comes amid broader regional clashes over school integration and segregation at universities nationwide.
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Autherine Lucy
University of Alabama
H. Hobart Grooms
Federal District Court
Birmingham
Ala
University
Grooms
Miss Lucy
New York City
Texas
University of Texas
Hugh L. Foster
Powell
Tex
Alabama
South
White Citizens Council
James F. Folsom
Asa E. Carter
North Alabama Citizens Council
Carter
Folsom
Supreme Court
Pages Selected For Queen's Court At Shenandoah Apple Blossom
Ronald Lee Clevenger seven and Gregory William Fauver eight chosen as Pages in Queen Shenandoah XXIX at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival on April 26 27. Director Mrs. E W Lacy Jr announced selections. Both boys attend Virginia Avenue School and have family ties in Clevenger Fauver and Martinsburg. They join the three Little Maids plus Crown Bearer and Jester as the Queen's young retinue for tours parades and the April 26 coronation.
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Ronald Lee Clevenger
Gregory William Fauver
Shenandoah
E. W. Lacy, Jr
Department of the Queen
Ronnie
James Thurston Clevenger
Woodland Avenue
E. B. Clevenger
C. C. Curry
Clearbrook
Virginia Avenue School
Greg Fauver
William E. Fauver
Frederick Ave
Mamie Parkinson Whitacre
Martinsburg
Sarah Fauver
West Piccadilly St
Greg
Virginia Highway Death Toll Climbs to 134
A 21 year old Tazewell County man, Clifford Duty of North Tazewell, died after his car crashed on Route 16 near North Tazewell at 2 am. The single vehicle accident sent his car into an embankment and junkyard, leaving Duty dead on arrival at a Richlands hospital. Duty’s wife and three stepchildren were killed in an earlier Ohio crash in 1954. he survived that crash but was hospitalized six months.
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Virginia
Tazewell
Clifford Duty
North Tazewell
Richlands
Duty
Ohio
Country Ham and Oyster Supper at Round Hill Center
Country Ham and Oyster Supper planned for Wednesday March 14 at 5 p m at Round Hill Community Center. Tickets are 1 00 per plate. Proceeds support community projects.
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Round Hill Community Center
Four Priests and Brother Feared Dead in Lenox Fire
Shadowbrook novitiate of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus burned in Lenox Massachusetts an 85 room three story building. Four missing clergy including Rev Henry Muelle 54 Rev Arthur Tribble Malden Rev Stephen Mulcahy Hyde Park and Brother Henry Perry 72 Benedict Maine. Six injured were taken to St Luke’s Hospital Pittsfield. Master of novices Rev John Post injured leaping from a third floor window. Most of the 136 in the community escaped by bedsheets ladders and escapes.
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Lenox. Mass
Shadowbrook
New England
Society of Jesus
Henry Muelle
Boston
Arthur Tribble
Malden
Stephen Mulcahy
Hyde Park
Henry Perry
Benedict
Maine
St. Luke’s Hospital
Pittsfield
John Post
Violence in North Africa Roils Paris and Tunis
Paris braces for emergency measures as violence spills from Tunisia and Algeria. Riot police ready as mobs attack the U S consulate in Tunis and French settlements in Algiers report fresh attacks. In Paris the premier seeks emergency powers and a confidence vote as unrest grows.
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Paris
North Africa
Tunisia
Algeria
Tunis
U. S
Algiers
Guy Mollet
National Assembly
Mollet
France
Major Storm Develops in Western Plains
A major storm developed in the Western plains Saturday with up to 20 inches of new snow in the Dakotas. Strong winds hit the Dakotas Nebraska and toward Iowa as the Weather Bureau cautioned blizzard conditions could form in the plains region.
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Western Plains
Dakotas
Nebraska
Towa
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Plains
Hotrodders Fail To Take Over Town
About 20 carloads of teenage hotrodders roared into Cleveland Tennessee to seize the town but police broke up the demonstration and jailed eight youths. Officials said the group came from nearby Chattanooga.
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Cleveland
Tenn
Bradley County
Paul Jones
Chattanooga
Missouri Mule Dropped From Competition at Royal Livestock Show
The Missouri mule, a 57 year staple of the American Royal Livestock and Horse Show in Kansas City, will be dropped from competition next fall to free staff space for show horses. The decision came from space constraints as demand for horse stalls exceeded supply. Verdun the Army mule, famed WWI mascot, is cited as part of the breed’s storied history.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Army
Verdun
15Th U.S. Field Artillery
United States
Three Mayoral Candidates Speak At Winchester Fashion Forum
The Winchester Women's Civic League hosted a March meeting at the George Washington Hotel with mayoral hopefuls H. W. Butler Jr., William Battaile and Claude B. Smalts Jr. Each presented on Why I Want to Be Mayor. Mrs. Clarence Hill announced a 926.75 check from a fashion show net, to be matched by the state for the Northwestern Guidance Center, via Dr. H. P. Maccubbin.
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Clarence Lamp
J. A. Hotinger
Women’s Civic League
Pierce McCubbin
Northwestern Guidance Center
Mark McHale
Clarence Hill
Winchester
H. W. Butler, Jr
William Battaile
Claude B. Smalts, Jr
Women's Civic League
George Washington Hotel
League
H. P. Maccubbin
Middletown honors Miss Hammack as Honorary Fire Chief
Betty Brock Hammack daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles B Hammack of Middletown has been named Honorary Fire Chief for the Middletown Fire Company in the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival parade on April 26 She is a senior at James Wood High School and active in cheerleading the Annual Future Homemakers of America Tri-Hi-Y 4-H clubs and Stephens City Drum and Bugle Corps She serves as 4-H president and 4-H County Council president and won sweepstakes in 4-H and FHA divisions at Frederick County Fair The city county beauty contest for Honorary Fire Chiefs will be held March 21 at the Palace theatre }
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Middletown Fire Company
Miss Hammack
James Wood High School
Future Homemakers of America
Tri-Hi-Y
Middletown
Thousands quit jobs to protest Makarios deportation
Thousands of Cypriots walked off their jobs in a general strike to protest Britain's deportation of Archbishop Makarios III. Paratroopers patrolled Nicosia as shops closed and laborers, clerks, printers, and shopkeepers joined the stoppage. Greece recalled its ambassador and Athens universitystudents burned a British flag near the embassy.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Britain
Makarios III
Athens
Greece
London
United Nations
Makarios
Anthony Eden
Thornton May Replace McKay in Interior
Washington reports former Colorado governor Dan Thornton is under White House consideration to replace Secretary of Interior McKay who plans to leave the Cabinet around June 1 to run for Oregon Senate. Other Westerners and Wesley A. D Ewart are mentioned as possible candidates amid McKay's push toward the Oregon race.
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Washington
Dan Thornton
Colorado
White House
McKay
Oregon Senate
Sen
Morse
Thornton
Eisenhower
Oregon
Senate
Allott
Rcolp
Secretary of the Interior
Wesley A. D’ewart
Virginia forecast and notices from Winchester
Generally fair tonight with a low around 38 to 45. Sunday will be cloudy and windy with scattered showers. Also listed are barbershop note and sale ad for a 1949 1 2 ton Ford pickup with details and contact numbers.
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Virginia
Stephens City
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U. of Alabama
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Gregory Falver
Queen's Court
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Hughes
John Carr
Butler
Common Coucil
Public Safety Committee
Macy
Battaile Speaks
Battaile
Betty Brock Hammack
Charles B. Hammack
Jim
Piccadilly St
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