VPI Visitors Discuss Loss of Campus Building and Funds
The Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute convened to weigh the condemnation of the old business administration building at Blacksburg and explore funding avenues to replace it. No action was taken. a further report is expected at the August meeting.
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Board of Visitors
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Business Administration
Blacksburg
Institute
School of Business Administration
Stuart Cassell
VPI
George Washington Hotel
Paul Mellon
Upperville
Middleburg
Mellon
Turner A. Gilmer
Lebanon
S. D. Preston
Granville M. Read
Wilmington
Del
Mary Fred Claytor
Bedford
R. L. McConnell
Radf
Portsmouth
Louis A. Pardue
Charles K. Martin, Jr
Radford College
S. L. McConnell
Radford
W.P.I
John R. Hutcheson
John M. Devine
L. B. Dietrick
Agricultural Experimental Station
H. N. Young
NATO calls for cease fire in Formosa Strait
The North Atlantic Alliance urged a cease fire in the Formosa Strait and pledged to restraint from force. The NATO council endorsed Western Big Three talks with the Soviet Union and urged negotiations for German unification. Pearson noted most members favor surrender of Quemoy and Matsu in exchange for security guarantees.
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NATO Council
Formosa Strait
Paris
North Atlantic Alliance
NATO Council of Foreign Ministers
Far East
Lester Pearson
Formosa
United Nations
Pearson
Britain
Nikolai Bulganin
Steelworkers to set wage hike for 600000 in steel
CIO United Steelworkers policy meetings convene to decide the exact raise sought for 600000 workers as industry booms with record production and higher first quarter income. The union’s Executive Board and Wage Policy Committee meet while talks on wages proceed under a two year contract.
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Pittsburgh
CIO United Steelworkers
USW
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
General Motors
U S Missionary Describes Japanese Ferry Disaster
Mrs Bernardine Adams a 33 year old missionary from Junction City Wisconsin recounts the sinking of the Shiun Maru in Japan s inland sea after a collision with the Udaka Maru She and her husband Willis Adams 34 of Pleasanton Kansas were aboard the ferry and survived by clinging to a lifeline and rope ladder while 71 bodies were recovered and 16 are missing 692 passengers were rescued many with injuries
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Takamatsu
Japan
Bernardine Adams
Junction City
Wis
Willis
Pleasanton
Kas
Adams
Evangelical Alliance Mission
Dulles and Faure Near Agreement on Policy Toward Diem
Dulles and Faure near a joint policy toward Ngo Dinh Diem with both governments backing Diem but pressuring him to modify his anti French stance. Diem forms a nationalist 14 member government and warns Paris leaders to consider nationalism democracy and social progress. No final agreement after 22 hours of talks with another session planned.
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Paris
U. S
Dulles
Edgar Faure
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
United States
Faure
NATO Council of Ministers
Eisenhower Backs Big Four Summit to Test Russia
President Eisenhower signaled willingness to a top level Big Four meeting with Eden Faure and Bulganin to clarify the international atmosphere and assess Russia's sincerity. He noted no firm plan yet and suggested a neutral venue, with July Switzerland mentioned in Paris reports. He favored a summit over a ministerial meeting to probe potential for world peace.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Eden
Britain
Premier Faure
France
Marshal Bulganin
Paris
Switzerland
Soviet World Peace Plan Calls For German Troop Pullout
Moscow unveils an eight point peace plan seeking immediate evacuation of foreign troops from Germany, major arms cuts, and a ban on atomic weapons. The proposal calls for a UN disarmament conference in 1956 and a phase two in 1957 to halt weapons production and reduce armed forces.
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NATO Council
France
United Kingdom
United States
Soviet Union
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
United Nations
Moscow
East
Warsaw
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Eden
Faure
U. N
Air Force says no Sabres hit in Yellow Sea dogfight
The U S Air Force reports that eight Sabre jets faced eight to 12 Red China MIGs over the Yellow Sea and sustained no bullet hits or damage. Peiping radio claimed a Sabre down and two damaged, while U S sources said two MIGs were shot down and a third possibly destroyed.
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Tokyo
Peiping
U.S
Yellow Sea
U. S
Manchurian
Antung
Yalu River
Air Force
Democrats Set All Out Fight to Defeat Dalton in Senate Race
In Richmond Democrats plan an aggressive bid to block Dalton from the 21st District State Senate seat after his 1953 gubernatorial near miss. R. Douglas Nininger emerges as likely nominee with party backing and funds from the state central committee. Democrats warn Dalton could threaten future campaigns and aim to curb his power before 1957.
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Dalton
Richmond
Virginia
Ted Dalton
Senate
R. Douglas Nininger
Roanoke County
Gov
Stanley
Stuart B. Carter
Carter
Democratic
Thomas H. Blanton
Nininger
Eisenhower backs Salk vaccine to wipe polio
President Eisenhower said he absolutely believes the Salk vaccine can eliminate polio in the United States within a reasonable time. He noted 62 confirmed cases among vaccinated individuals as doctors review vaccine safety and production. A Parke-Davis team and other firms face inspections, with a resumption of mass inoculations likely after favorable reports.
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Washington
Hisenhower
Eisenhower
The
Public Health Service
U. S
Leonard A. Scheele
Scheele
Winchester to Halt Bus Service After Six P.M
The Winchester Common Council unanimously approved ending bus service after 6 p.m. on weekdays and after 9 p.m. Saturdays starting in June. City Manager Lee Grant reported the change would cut daily losses from 17.78 to about 5.98, saving the city roughly 11.80 per day while extending bus life.
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Common Council
Finance Committee
J. M. Steck, Jr
Hoye L. Riley
Lee Grant
Polio Cases Reported in Virginia Counties
Two children in Brunswick and Fairfax Counties were diagnosed with polio, neither had Salk vaccine shots. A Pulaski County case, in a child who had received Salk, was diagnosed as nonparalytic and linked to illness nine days after vaccination on April 27.
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Richmond
State Health Department
Mason Romaine
Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
Brunswick
Fairfax Counties
Pulaski County
Romaine
Budget shows large tax hike for 1955 56 in city
The Common Council approved a tentative $1,541,585 budget with a 35.1 percent real estate and 21.6 percent personal property tax rise. Public hearing June 7. The plan funds school operations and police remodeling amid a 10 year high increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doug O’connell
Common Council
Police Department
Handley Grounds
Winchester Council Backs Site for Shenandoah College Move
The Winchester Common Council unanimously supports making a 25 to 30 acre city site available for Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music now in Dayton. Chamber of Commerce President James R. Wilkins urged council action as a Board of Trustees vote looms, with approval likely to attract the college to Winchester despite some regional opposition.
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Winchester-Frederick County
Wilkins
Shenandoah College
Chamber
Rockingham County
Troy Brady
Winchester
Council
Hoye Riley
Water and Sewer Committee
Fred I. Brumback
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Southern Bell Telephone System
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Texas
William Kern
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Owise
South End Fire Company
Kenneth Carl
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Harry Patterson
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