Braddock Street Church Plans Loyalty Sunday Drive for 250000 Building
Braddock Street Methodist Church will observe Loyalty Sunday to launch a $250,000 fundraising drive for a new two story colonial brick Educational Building of about 20 000 square feet. Dr Alton E Lowe will preach Building Gods House. About 300 volunteers will canvass 1600 members to secure gifts.
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Braddock Street
Dudley Lichliter
Hoye Riley
General Visitation Committee
Washington Street
Barton
Church
Shell Gas Plant Burns at Grundy Virginia
A Shell Oil Co 30,000 gallon storage facility caught fire and spread to a nearby Pure Oil plant in Grundy Buchanan County Southwest Virginia. Firefighters from five towns fought the blaze, which was brought under control around noon. there were no injuries and cause was undetermined. Nearby Gulf storage escaped damage and telephone service was knocked out.
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Grundy
Shell Oil Co
Shell
Gulf
Levisa Oil Co
Buchanan County
Virginia
Armed Might Seen as Deterrent This Year
Air Force chief Gen. Nathan F. Twining told a Senate panel that U S armed power is so strong this year that no nation would dare attack. Secretary Quarles said 80 more B 52 bombers will join the force as tests aim to prove air defenses, with a 137 wing goal by June 30 1957 amid a $33.6 billion defense bill.
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U.S
Twining
Washington
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
U. S
Sen. Saltonstall
Saltonstall
Chavez
D-Nm
Quarles
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Rep
Flood
D-Pa
Firing Squads Execute Two Men For 1949 Murder
At Utah State Prison dawn execution by firing squad ends a 1949 Beaver service station murder case. Verne Braasch and Melvin Sullivan, both 25 to 30, were convicted of killing Howard Manzione. The pair, once hitchhiking for work, robbed stores in Pomona and Mesquite before traveling to Beaver where Manzione was shot. Their deaths conclude a lengthy legal ordeal.
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Point OF the Mountain
Utah
Verne Alfred Braasch
Melvin Leroy Sullivan
Braasch
Reinbeck
Iowa
Sullivan
Kansas City
Utah State Prison
Salt Lake City
Charles Wells
Iron County
Wells
Joseph Manzione
Los Angeles
Midwest
Pomona
Calif
Mesquite
Nev
Beaver
Howard Manzione
Manzione
Las Vegas
Midwest Storm Lashes Several States With Tornadoes
A string of tornadic winds and severe storms hit Nebraska Minnesota Iowa and Kansas with tornadoes near three towns in southern Nebraska and damage to homes farms and businesses in Rushmore Minnesota and Lyons Kansas. No injuries reported as storms sweep from central Iowa into Minnesota.
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Mid-Continent
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
Kansas
Rushmore
Lyons
Cassady
Kan
Juniata
Doniphan
Arlington
Sioux City
Cooper Charged With Manslaughter In Dennison Death
Howard Cooper of Dennison received a warrant based charge of involuntary manslaughter in the May 2 traffic crash that killed Frank E. Dennison 36 of Ithaca New York. Dennison died after severe head lacerations and leg fracture. his wife three children and father were hospitalized.
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Howard Cooper
Rt. 1
Stephenson
Frank E. Dennison
Ithaca
N. Y
Dennison
Memorial Hospital
Cooper
C. D. Taylor
Used Tires and Local Goods Advertised in Market Paper
Southern Tire Service at 916 S Braddock St sells used tires while Market Paper Mill Road features tomatoes and a range of grocery items. Advertised prices include 3 pounds of tomatoes for 59 cents and home cured hams at 85 cents per pound, with beer specials and discounted gasoline for all customers.
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Southern Tire Service
S. Braddock St
Paper Mill Road
O.ivciaacee
John W. Hockman
TV to Carry Debate Between Adlai and Estes Kefauver
New York report says the May 21 Miami debate between Adlai E. Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefauver will be carried live on ABC radio and television from 10 to 11 p.m. EDT. The network confirms the time and coverage.
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New York
Miami
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sen. Estes Kefau
ABC
French Kill 22 Rebels in Bloody Running Battle
In western Algeria near Oran French Foreign Legionnaires supported by colonial infantry attacked a rebel unit after three farms burned. Twenty two Algerian nationalists were killed in a running battle as rebels intensified raids on French settlements.
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Algiers
Algeria
French Foreign Legionnaires
Dispatches
Legionnaires
Oran
Constantine
General Motors Orders One Day Plant Shutdown
General Motors ordered a one day shutdown of automotive assembly operations across its 119 plants in 64 US cities to balance production with current demand. The exact number of idle hourly workers was not determined, with plant managers to decide closures today or Monday. Chrysler also shut down two days, affecting similar uncertain numbers.
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Detroit
General Motors
Chrysler Corp. Auto Assembly
Chrysler
United States
Ford
Studebaker-Packard
American Motors
Ninth District HDC Groups Meet at JWHS
Women from six counties attend the Ninth District meeting of the Virginia Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs at James Wood High School. Rev. Albert G. Edwards of Harrisonburg is featured speaker and will also address Clarke County High School commencement June 6.
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Virginia Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs
The
James Wood High School
Albert G. Edwards
First Presbyterian Church
Harrisonburg
Edwards
Clarke County High School
Braden Miller
Mt. Jackson
Morris Cather
Hebron Baptist Church
Gore
John Whitacre
George Wire
Loudoun County
Paul D. Beable
James Wood School
Roy Wisecarver
Stephens City
Frederick County
HDC
Ray Heskett
Warren County
Olen Grove
Clarke County
J. Blaine Gwin
Fairfax
Charles Town to Begin Work on Harness Track
Charles Town Raceway will start within 30 days on a 2.5 million harness racing track after approval won by 411 in a county referendum. Ed L. Blake said plans must be completed and site surveying finished before construction and that local hiring will be publicized locally as promised.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Ed L. Blake
Raceway
Topeka Tornado Alarm Ends In False Alert
Air raid sirens warned Topeka residents of a tornado sighting from the southwest. Police and weather officials tracked two funnels 150 miles out, then the storm weakened and the all clear was sounded with only light rain and wind observed downtown.
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Topeka
Kan
Richard Garrett
Topeka Daily Capital
Weather Bureau
Cyprus Rebels Claim Hanging of Two British Soldiers
Leaflets in Nicosia claimed Corporals Gordon Hill and Ronnie Shilton were hanged in reprisal for the execution of Cypriot rebels Michael Karaolis and Andreas Demetriou. The missives, signed by Eoka leader Dighenis, warned of further retaliation as Nicosia faced strikes and shuttered shops amid ongoing violence.
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Nicosia
Cyrus
Britain
Dighenis
Eoka
Union of
Michael Karaolis
Andreas Demetriou
Cyprus
Karaolis
Demetriou
Crash Kills Two Near Woodstock
Virginia reports a double fatality 10 miles south of Woodstock on U S 11 as Alabama trucker Boyd Brooks and Baltimore resident Donald Rookstool die in a head on crash. Rookstool's wife and two children were injured or treated, with other relatives present.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Alabama
Baltimore, Md
Coles Point
Boyd Brooks
Henagar
Ala
Malone Freight Lines Inc
Birmingham
Donald Rookstool
Baltimore St
Baltimore
Rookstool
Catherine Rookstool
Joel
Verl
Brooks
Rookstools
Woodstock
U.S. 11
Shenandoah County
William Reid Wright
U. S. 360
King William County
Manquin
Richmond City
Westmoreland County
Westmore
U N Security Council urged to avoid drastic Middle East action
U N Secretary GeneralDag Hammarskjold warned the Security Council against imposing a peace settlement on Israel and Arab neighbors He urged restraint and said progress depends on Middle East leaders initiating steps while the UN and others support peaceful efforts The report highlights cease fire pledges with Israel Egypt Syria Lebanon and Jordan and suggests cautious international involvement only as encouragement
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Security Council
Israel
Middle East
Hammarskjold
New York
Egypt
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
U. N
London
Palestine
City Maps Undergo Field Control Work By Pafford Firm
S. L. Grant announces H M White of Pafford Jones and White surveyors from Los Angeles arrived in Winchester last week to begin field control for photogrammetric maps of the city and surrounding area. City officials approved the project with funds in the current and next year budgets after Planning Commission recommendation. The project includes aerial photographs with stereoscopic coverage extending a mile beyond the city and three miles south, tied to the State Coordinate System.
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S. L. Grant
H. M. White
Pafford
Norton, Bird and Whitman
Baltimore
Special Gifts Drive for College Will Open Tonight
Fred Glaize chairs Shenandoah College Building Fund drive launching at 8 p m tonight at the George Washington Hotel. Team captains and members listed with memorials for Administrative Academic Building and Auditorium Music Building. Donors of 500 or more join The Society of Founders. plaques will honor contributions in Memorial Lobby and various construction units.
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Fred Glaize
Shenandoah College Building Fund
George Washington Hotel
Mr. Glaize
John Anderson
Stewart Bell, Jr
Garland Canter
Carlisle Fisher
Ralph Hardy
W. W. Hunt
Percy Miller
Wayne B. Omps
Hoye Riley
Jake Yost
J. P. Arthur
Andy Bowen
W. E. Edwards
Philip Glaize
Clyde Hershman
Joe McDaniel
Ed Molden
Harold Pateton
Donald Stewart
Ben Belchie
Douglas Butler
Wilbur Feltner
Marvin &. Gore, Jr
Joseph Holinger
Robert Manuel
Ralph Mulvey
Kenneth Patton
Charles Toan
Glaize
Society of Founders of
Shenandoah College
Conservatory of Music
Winchester
Virginia
College
Virginia Weather Outlook Five Day Forecast May 12 18
Virginia forecast calls for considerable cloudiness tonight with low temperatures 54 to 60. Saturday will be partly cloudy and warmer in the east and north. Temperatures average 5 to 8 degrees above normal across the period with a warming trend into Saturday and a return to cooler conditions by Tuesday or Wednesday. Showers expected Monday or Tuesday totaling a third of an inch or less.
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Virginia
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Shell Gas
Schewel Furniture Co
Worth’s
Loudoun St
Frederick Clarke
City
Prederick
Clarke
Peter Pan Children’s Shop
N. Loudoun St
Adlai. Estes
Winchester Star
Albert Edwards
JWHS
Shilton
Hollywood
U.N. Security Council
Day
the Hobby Center
Ward
Coha Ae
Vedbessis Orb
Woolens Virginia Woolen Mill
E. Piccadilly
Price
Margaret L. Hodgson
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