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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1957
Page
11
Capon Bridge Raritan Club set a June 29 yard party on Capon Bridge High School grounds starting at 5 p.m. Harold Henderson named general chairperson. A June 6 family picnic at Mervin Wolford's Capon River was also scheduled along with a committee to provide outdoor tables for club and community use.
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to stay with the House total of 3,192,000,000 for the Post Office Department in fiscal 1958, rejecting adds of 32, million and more funds urged by Postmaster General Summerfield. The panel kept overall appropriations at 3,884,927,000, with 691,467,000 for the Treasury and 1,460,000 for the Tax Court, preventing extra postal subsidies and threatening potential service cuts.
A passenger plane crashed in flames near Barajas Airport killing 37 aboard. Only one foreigner, Erik Bengtsson, 41, survived among the passengers. The aircraft plume ignited fuel that sprayed houses. a girl in a yard was burned and another sustained a knee injury.
The Institute of Life Insurance reports about 0 percent of employees in civilian non agricultural establishments have some pension plan in addition to Social Security. About 25 million people are covered by old age pension plans, private or governmental.
A dense listing details programs by channel with times and show titles from 5:00 p.m. through 4:00 a.m. including news, dramas, westerns, boxing, and late-night features across Channels 4 5 28 7 and 9. Names like Gaspar Ortega Isaac Logart Lassie Rin Tin Tin and Randolph Scott appear among the lineup.
Mid- Appalachian fruit growers defer a cloud seeding project intended to control hail for this year citing insufficient underwriting commitments and a June 1 operational deadline. The approach would have used ground generators and planes to seed clouds with silver oxide, with Weather Modification Co. of San Jose led by president Charles A O'Hanlon.
She recalls the town's first policeman known as Boss Enders and the construction of the fence around National Bank, along with wagons and horses used by the army in earlier days. The account reflects the city’s formative years and key local figures.
Miss Haines says her mother, who married George Henry Haines of Winchester on August 15 1888, is the church’s oldest living member. He died in 1902 and she has lived with her daughter most of the time since.
The article cites remarks about vulnerabilities in Middle East defenses to possible aggression by international communism and notes economic considerations discussed alongside military concerns.
Richards reported limited aid sums drew disappointment though one prime minister praised U S cooperation to build regional strength. He returned from March 12 mission noting recognition of the United States decision to station forces against communism and a new sense of security in Middle Eastern militaries.
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