French Envoy Visits Algiers for Talks With Insurgents
French Premier Pierre Pflimlin dispatches deputy Jean-Louis Vigier to Algiers on an unofficial mission to restore normal contacts with the insurgent junta. Vigier travels amid a push to reform institutions and avert national schism as Algeria approach tensions rise.
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Paris
Pierre Pflimlin
Algeria
Jean-Louis Vigier
Charles de Gaulle
Gaullist
Algiers
Pflimlin
Vigier
Pierre Guillain de Benouville
Switzerland
Junta
Clarke County teen wins Winchester Evening Star Leadership Award
An 18 year old Boyce senior William Leonard Shepherd, son of Carroll W Shepherd, is the Winchester Evening Star Leadership Award winner in Clarke County. The Clarke Frederick and Winchester high schools each award 350 dollars as part of a 1050 dollar total. Shepherd plans to start an Aberdeen Angus cattle herd after graduation and has already purchased a registered bull.
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Boyce
Clarke County High School
Winchester Evening Star
William Leonard Shepherd
Carroll W. Shepherd
George D. Jackson
A. J. Novick
Robert ©. Hickman
George Whitacre
C. H. Schutte, Jr
Roland Mitchell
G. Kenneth Levi
Berryville
William
Clarke County
Frederick County
Winchester
FBI Captures Man Who Threatened Train Dynamite Plot
FBI arrested Ira Paul Loux of Compton California aged 35 for extortion threatening to dynamite Southern Pacific Sunset Limited No 2. A package was dropped from the train after an extortion letter, and a signal light was found in Loux’s pickup. Loux faces federal extortion charges.
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Los Angeles
FBI
D. K. Brown
Southern Pacific Co
Ira Paul Loux
Compton
Calif
Brown
J. H. Pruitt Jr
Southern Pacific
Sunset Limited
Loux
U. S
Laughlin E. Waters
Bishop urges Catholics to stop Sabbath abuses in Richmond
In a parishwide message the Most Rev. bishop of the Richmond diocese calls 145 000 Catholics to boycott Sunday shopping to close shops and free workers from Sabbath labor. The notice accompanies other ads for Legion Dance tonight and local business promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Legion
Legion Home
Fred Updike
Man Convicted in Circuit Court Four Cases Set
A Clifton Forge man, Howard Gerland, was found guilty of driving under the influence of intoxicants in Frederick County Circuit Court with a $100 fine plus costs. The court also set trial dates for four additional cases including raping an 11 year old girl and theft of a Ramn water system pump.
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Clifton Forge
Frederick County
Howard Gerland
Bridgeport, Conn
Gerland
A. S. 11
Middletown
Danvers Robinson
Commonwealth
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Robert K. Woltz
Elliott D. Marshall
Sgt.Robinson
Howard Garland
Paul Hammack
T. J. Calkin
Richard Z. Crisman
Ernest Ashwood
Carrol Unger
Carrie Gant
Robert Miller, Jr
Galliday
Fincham
Walk for Peace walkers plan public meetings and march
A public meeting at Centre Friends Meeting House invites the community to join the Walk for Peace Committee opposing nuclear weapons tests. Spokesman John Ingersoll says walkers will proceed from the area toward Washington, aiming to press for a halt to all nuclear testing and world disarmament.
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Walk For Peace Committee
Washington
Wilmington
Del
Frederick
White House
Atomic Energy Commission
Centre Friends Meeting
Piccadilly
Washington Sts
John Ingersoll
Friends Meeting House
Mornday
Rt. 7
Berryville
Ingersoll
Explorer I Transmitters Go Silent in Orbit
The Army and Navy reported two Explorer I transmitters are silent after battery exhaustion. Explorer I, launched January 31, is expected to remain aloft one to five years as Explorer III and Vanguard continue to circle Earth.
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Washington
Army
U. S
Naval Research Laboratory
Navy
Vanguard
Woman's love judged worth 490000 by Illinois jury
Chicago physician Dr. Lester Odell won 490000 in a circuit court verdict against his friend Dr. Emerson McVey for alienation of Odell's wife's affections. Eight women and four men on the panel awarded the sum after less than an hour of deliberation.
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Chicago
Lester Odell
Odell
Emerson McVey
Illinois
McVey
Sol Friedman
Eisenhower Urges Geneva Meeting on Nuclear Test Policing
President Eisenhower proposed immediate Geneva talks with Soviet and Western experts to study detection of nuclear tests. He suggested a 30 day progress report and an 60 day final report with participation from Britain France and possibly other nations. Three U.S. scientists were named to join Soviet experts and a Japanese specialist may be invited.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
United States
Russia
Geneva
Britain
France
Poland
Czechoslovakia
White House
Eisenhowerer
State Department
U.S
Soviet Union
Ernest O. Lawrence
University of California Radiation Laboratory
James Brown Fisk
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Robert F. Bacher
Atomic Energy Commission
California Institute of Technology
Khruhchev
U.N
U.N. Diarmament Commission
Dag Hammarskjold
Virginia 4-H selects Wolfe and Miller for national conference
Ann Wolfe daughter of Mr and Mrs Sloane Wolfe of Frederick County is the only 4 H girl from Virginia chosen to attend the annual conference for older 4 H members at Jacksons Mills West Virginia June 16 22 Warren Miller of Prince William County is the only 4 H boy to receive this honor They will represent about 70000 Virginia 4 H Club members Miss Wolfe a home economics major senior at Madison College will join discussions on music leadership and recreation training The site is Stonewall Jacksons home between Clarksburg and Weston West Virginia
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Ann Wolfe
Sloane Wolfe
Frederick County
Virginia
Jackson's Mills
W. Va
Warren Miller
Prince William County
United States
Wolfe
Agnes Shirley
Woofe
Madison College
Stonewall Jackson
Clarksburg
Weston, W. Va
Starkweather Sentenced to Death in Nebraska Killings
Charles R. Starkweather, 19, found guilty of murder in one of 11 killings and sentenced to death in the electric chair. The jury rejected insanity, with automatic Supreme Court review. He admitted robberies and a spree from December 1 to January 27, linking to Caril Fugate, 14, as his accomplice in several slayings.
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Fore
Starkweather
Merle Karnopp
Lincoln, Neb
Charlies R. Starkweather
Midwest
Nebraska
Guy
Tria
Charles
Charlie
T. Clement Gaughan
Gaughan
State Supreme Court
Robert Jensen
Bennet
Neb
Carl Ann Fugate
Charges Against UAR May Not Reach UN, Diplomats Believe
Lebanon accuses the United Arab Republic of moving men and arms into Lebanon to stir a guerilla war against the pro West Beirut government. Diplomats say a Security Council debate may not occur as Russia could veto any condemnation.
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United Nations
N. Y
Lebanon
United Arab Republic
U. N. Security Council
Charles Malik
Beirut
Nasser
U.A.R
U. N
Karim Azkoul
Security Council
Azkoul
U. S
United States
Soviet Union
Council
Russia
Camille Chamoun
Britain
Rhee gains as Independents join Liberal party bloc
Eleven Independents elected May 2 joined President Syngman Rhee's Liberal Party, boosting the Liberal strength in the National Assembly to 136 of 233 seats. The current split is Liberals 136, Opposition Democrats 79, Independents 17, and the Unity Party 1.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Liberal Party
National Assembly
Democrats
Unity Party
Newton Cather Reappointed to Frederick County School Board
The Frederick County School Trustee Electoral Board reappointed T. Newton Cather from Shawnee District to a four year term. The board faced a delegation endorsing three other candidates but chose to retain Cather after deliberation. Cather has served ten years.
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Frederick County
T. Newton Cather
Shawnee
Cathey
Henry Brumback
Charles A. Campbell, Jr
Robert Hockman
Oren Snapp
Cather
Flames Rage Across Oil Fire At Hancock Refinery
In Signal Hill California flames from an 80 000 gallon tank explosion at Hancock Oil Co spread to 13 tanks. Two men died and two injured as six firefighters sustained serious chemical burns while cooling another endangered tank. Smoke reached 40 miles across Los Angeles County with eight of 21 tanks saved.
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Long Beach
Calif
Signal Hill
Hancock Oil Co
Los Angeles County
UP and INS Plan Merger to Form United Press International
NEW YORK United Press Associations and International News Service announced a merger to create United Press International. Frank H Bartholomew will be president and Kingsbury Smith will be vice president and associate general manager. Consolidation agreements were signed May 16 with a delayed public announcement.
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New York
United Press Associations
International News Service Today
United Press International
Frank H. Bartholomew
Kingsbury Smith
INS
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Friedman
Ike
Charles R. Starkweather
Lincoln
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Miss Fpugate
Caril
Jenson
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