Little Maids and Pages Named for Coronation Event
Coronation ceremonies for Queen Shenandoah XXXI at the Apple Blossom Festival May 1 will include six child participants. The roster includes Jill Adams, Ann Schenck, Martha Robinson, Scott Butler, and two more listed with family details.
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Shenandoah XXXI
Daphne Fairbanks
Handley Bowl
John E. Pennypacker
Janet Adams
Jill
John McLauchlin Adams
Merriman’s Lane
John Kerr School
Ann Schenck
William F. Schenck
Tennyson Ave
Ann
Robert R. Butler
W. Cork St
Thurman Pierce
Bond St
Scott
Virginia Ave
Bond Issue Proposed To Fight Recession In Massachusetts
Governor Fos ter Furcolo urged a 50 million dollar state bond issue to fund employment and development programs. The plan targets highway forestry stream projects and state institution repairs while housing 47 elderly projects. He cited 140000 unemployment benefits recipients and a six point federal aid program.
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Boston
Mass
Foster Furcolo
State Housing Board
Massachusetts
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Gasoline Tax Boost Proposed In Virginia
Virginia considers a one cent per gallon gasoline tax increase for one year to raise over 12 million dollars and help fund highway construction if federal funds change. Sen. Armistead Boothe urges the move in a letter to Gov. Almond, while former Gov. Thomas B. Stanley calls it a must in the not too distant future. The plan could require a special session of the General Assembly to pass the measure.
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Armistead L. Boothe
Alexandria
Almond
Boothe
Virginia
Congress
Thomas B. Stanley
Stanleytown
Stanley
General Assembly
State Highway Department
Boother
Five Killed In One Crash Weekend In Virginia Toll Rises
A weekend of deadly crashes in Virginia raised the annual road fatality toll to 175 with 12 deaths. Saturday saw a five‑person wreck near Martinsville on US 58. Sunday added three more deaths including Mrs. Wilbur Wallace near Fredericksburg and Ernest L. Gowens near Lynchburg.
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Virginia
Martinsville
Wilbur Wallace
Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors
Fredericksburg
Wallace
Lynchburg
Richard H. Bryant
Vansant
Buchanan County
Levisa
Grundy
Bryant
Khrushchev Retains Cabinet as Bulganin Heads State Bank
In Moscow Premier Khrushchev names Nikolai Bulganin head of the Soviet State Bank a post he held years earlier. Mikoyan Serov and Gromyko keep top posts as most of Bulganin's old cabinet stays in place. Gromyko warns of growing hydrogen and atomic weapon dangers.
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Russia
Bulganin
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Soviet State Bank
Anastas Mikoyan
Ivan Serov
Andrei Gromyko
Supreme Soviet
Khrushchev
Mikoyan
F. A. Kozlov
Alexei N. Kosygin
Demitri F. Ustinov
Josef Kuzmin
Bulgarin
Economic Plan
Alexander Zasyadko
Zasyadko
Georgi Malenkov
Malenkov
Kozlov
Leningrad
Communist Party
Russian Federation
Gromyko
Soviet Union Halts All Nuclear Tests
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko announced to the Supreme Soviet that the Soviet Union will suspend all thermonuclear tests. The timing and duration of the ban were not immediately clear as leaders hoped the United States and Britain would join. He criticized U S claims of clean bombs and warned that ending tests does not eliminate the risk of war.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko
Supreme Soviet
Khrushchev
Gromyko
United States
Britain
U. S
Truman
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
NATO
Winchester Man Arrested After Local Firm Break In
Marcus Eugene Stottlemyer, 25, of 573 North Cameron Street, was arrested about 11 p.m. Saturday at Grocers Wholesale Inc. on breaking and entering charges. He was jailed on a $5,000 bond awaiting a preliminary hearing. He entered through a west loading door, offered no resistance, and hid among sugar sacks after eluding officers briefly. Police, Sheriff DeHaven, School Guard Orndorff, with firm manager Charles Lanahan assisting, conducted the search and recovered three cases of cigarettes.
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Winchester
Grocers Wholesale, Inc
Marcus Eugene Stottiemyer
N. Cameron St
Stottlemyer
Robert DeHaven
Thomas Orndorff
Charles D. Lanahan
McNamara Resigns from Senate Rackets Committee
Washington reports Senator McNamara of Michigan resigned from the Senate Rackets Committee claiming anti-labor bias among some colleagues. The move comes amid tensions within the panel and ongoing debates over labor policy.
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Washington
Sen
McNamara D
Mich
Senate
Four Stanford Hikers Rescued in High Sierra Snow
Four Stanford University hikers two girls and two boys were rescued by helicopter in Yosemite National Park after being marooned since last Thursday on a six day sixty mile trek. They were in good condition and taken to a hospital for observation. Chief Ranger Oscar Sedergren announced the rescue.
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Yosemite National Park
Calif
Stanford University
High Sierra
Oscar Sedergren
Khrushchev Seeks Credit Over Free Farm Machinery
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told a joint session of the Supreme Soviet that party and people approve his plan to shift farm machinery from central stations to collective farms. He rejected free machinery for poor farms, proposing three to five year credits instead and stressing manpower and training to boost production. He urged greater corn output to overtake the United States in agricultural and overall production.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Order of Lenin
United States
Israelis and Syrians clash on the Huleh frontier
Israeli army spokesman said Israelis and Syrians fought again on the Syrian border with 120 mm mortars and tanks in the Huleh reclamation area. He noted a 75 minute tank and mortar battle yesterday and no Israeli casualties so far.
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Jerusalem
Huleh Reclamation
Israel
Haim Laskow
Cairo
United Arab Republic
Egypt
Syria
U.A
Middle East
Nasser
U.A.R
Huleh
Sunny Warm Weather Forecast For Winchester Primary
Voters in Winchester will nominate six Common Council candidates in the Democratic Primary tomorrow. Polls open at 6 am and close at 6 pm with temperatures from 45 to 55 degrees. In the first ward incumbents L M Allen H H W Butler Jr and Ralph Cain Eugene F Dearing and Richard A Goode compete. in the second ward Stewart Bell Jr A Lee Cobb incumbents Eugene C Babb and L Marshall Castleman are contenders.
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Winchester
Common Council
L. M. Allen
HH. Ww. Butler
Eisenhower Vetoes Farm Price Support Freeze Bill
President Eisenhower vetoed the farm price support freeze bill calling it ill advised for the nation and farm families. He urged a thaw and outlined a five point program to address farm problems while noting an override would require a two thirds vote in both houses. The measure would set price supports at 1957 levels for a year and raise several economic concerns.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
House
Reliability of Kremlin Test Ban Questioned
The United States questioned the Soviet one country stop order on H-bomb tests and urged Moscow to act in an orderly way under the United Nations. The State Department praised UN disarmament progress while noting Soviet boycott of the Disarmament Commission and calling for prompt studies on supervised testing suspension. The U.S. stance accuses the Kremlin of shifting to vague formulations and insists on concrete compliance.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Kremlin
United Nations
State Department
Moscow
U.N. General Assembly
U.N
March Rainfall Hits 4.38 Inches Above Normal
The March total rainfall reaches 4.38 inches, 1.41 inches above the 46 year monthly average. A rainy weekend has ended with a clearing forecast and sunny, warmer conditions expected tomorrow.
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Tos
Byrd Reports All Time Peak In U S Payroll
Senator Byrd announced the January federal civilian payroll reached a record 1.007 billion dollars including 982.558 million for regular civilian workers and 24.122 million for foreign nationals overseas. He noted this was the highest monthly payroll ever for the federal civilian side.
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Washington
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Joint Committee On
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Martha Gail Robinson
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Winchester Seed CO
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Associated Press
Willie Stafford Coone
Edna B. Coone
Spray
N.C
Robert Lee Hairston
James T. Spencer
Coones
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Smyth County
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