Earl Brown Emerges as Harlem Choice Against Powell
Harlem Democratic leaders favor Councilman Earl Brown to run against Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the 16th District primary. Brown, 52, sponsor of a local housing nondiscrimination law, was elected to the council in 1950 and has Harvard training. Powell, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, faces federal income tax charges amid party tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Earl Browne
Harlem
Adam Clayton Powell Jr
Brown
Averell Harriman
Harriman
Thurgood Marshall
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
James H. Robinson
16Th
Powell
Tammany Hall
Eisenhower
Harvard
Charlottesville
Eisenhower to help dedicate Shippingport atomic plant
President Eisenhower prepared to dedicate Shippingport the first large scale commercial atomic power plant. Duquesne Light Co. and the Atomic Energy Commission own the 110 million dollar facility. The plant has produced over 32 million kilowatt hours since December 18 and at full power can supply a community of 250000.
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Shippingport
Eisenhower
Shippingport Atomic Power Plant
Washington
Duquesne Light Co
Pittsburgh
Atomic Energy Commission
America
Duquesne Light
Allegheny
Beaver
Rescue Squad Attends Field Day in Fredericksburg
Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad joined Know Your Rescue Squad Day in Fredericksburg with nine members and the new station wagon ambulance. As the state's newest unit, it earned a featured parade spot and earned commendation for its first aid display during contests. Attendees included acting captain Win Becker and nine squad members.
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Winchester
Fredericksburg
Dne
Activites
Win Becker
George Merriam
Don Pless
Victor Ridgeway
William Sandy
Moody Slonaker
William Pitcock
Ray Santimire
Julian Feffcoat
April Birthrate at Memorial Hospital Shows Averages
Memorial Hospital recorded 108 births in April, 48 boys and 60 girls, with a ten year average of 98.8 births. March had 113, February 99, January 114. Twins occurred once this April, with three sets in April of 1957 and two in March this year.
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Memorial Hospital
Lions Club Plans Business Meeting
The Winchester Lions Club will hold a business session after its weekly luncheon tomorrow at 12 15 pm at the George Washington Hotel.
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Lions Club
Winchester Lions Club
George Washingon
Course Planned For Water Safety Instructors Here
Water safety instructors will be qualified here in June under Eugene Hush director of Red Cross Safety Services. A special instructor course runs June 23 to 27 at Willow Lawn Pool taught by Hush. James A. Sprint Jr offered the pool free for this course and for three weeks in July and three weeks in August for the Learn to Swim program. Last year about 850 participated. Open to 18 plus with Senior Life Saving Certificate. Call Red Cross Office MO 2 5412 to enroll. A spokesman urged clerical volunteers and trainer help for July and August Learn-to-Swim efforts.
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Eugene Hush
Red Cross Safety Services
Willow Lawn Pool
James A. Sprint, Jr
Red Crose
Red Cross
Education Group Meets Tomorrow
The Frederick County Citizens for Better Education will meet tomorrow at 8 pm in the Sunday School room of Centenary Reform Church at 204 S. Cameron St. Fred Bame, publicity chairman, said the session is open to all interested persons.
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Frederick County
Citizens For Better Education
Centenary Reformed Church
S. Cameron St
Fred Bame
Winchester adopts rate ordinance amendments for 1955 sewer charges
The Winchester Common Council amends Sections 8 and 9 and adds Section 17 to the Water and Sewer Rate Ordinance effective July 1 1955. The changes list annual special sewer rentals for multiple businesses including George Washington Hotel Coca Cola Bottling Works and various restaurants and shops. Additional industrial waste treatment charges follow Wrights Formula with specific figures for many facilities.
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Common Council
Winchester
Virginia
George Washington Hotel
Robinson Cold Storage
Winchester Cold Storage
Winchester Knitting Company
Coca-Cola Bottling Works
Nehi Bottling Company
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
Dr. Pepper Bottling Company
Jail
Apple Blossomestaurant
Crystal Cafe
Fort Loudoun
Howard Johnson
Martha Washington
Metropolitan
Shawnee
Silver Grill
Skyway Grill
Snow White Grill Star
Triangle
White Palace
Virginia Resta. Keller's Restau
Peoples Drug Store
Newberry's
Burge
McGroy’s
Green Palm
Greyhound Grill
Lee-Jackson
Safeway
Valley
Avena
Winchester Steam Laundry
Shenandoah Valley
Apple C Sanitary Laundry
City Abbatoir
H. F. Perry Winchester Creamery Sanitary Dairy
Pilling Star
Wright
Multiple Notable Deaths Reported by Press Services Across Cities
Mrs. Marion A Tallmadge 49 of the Schlitz brewing family died in a house fire in Oconomowoc Wisconsin. William K Hutchinson 62 long time International News Service Washington bureau chief died of a heart attack. H Francis Jr 43 aide secretary of defense manpower collapsed after tennis. Edith Martin Hodges 80 wife of Wall Street Journal executive Col Gilbert T Hodges died in New York.
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Oconomowoc
Wis
Marion A. Tallmadge
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co
Charles E. Albright
Milwaukee
Laura Aihlein
Washington
William K. Hutchinson
Washington Bureau of
International News Service
INS
Reading
William H. Francis Jr
New York
Edith Martin Hodges
Gilbert T. Hodges
The
Wall Street Journal
Morrison
Albert Crisler 85 Dies. Father of UM Athletic Director
Albert Crisler, 85, a retired contractor and father of H O Fritz Crisler the University of Michigan athletic director, died Saturday in Earlville Michigan.
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Earlville, MI
Albert Crisler
H. O
Fritz) Crisler
University of Michigan
Nurse Held in Baby's Death in Trunk for 11 Years
NEW BOSTON Texas AP A former Army nurse Rose Powers 46 is jailed on murder charges after authorities found a partly decomposed baby body kept in a steel foot locker for 11 years. Powers claimed the child was illegitimate and she could not bear to dispose of it. The husband Elburn Powers 42 reported the body to police after discovering it in the trunk.
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New Boston
Tex
W. J. Watlington
Texarkana
Rose Powers
Augusta
Elburn Powers
Watlington
Mountain Climber Survives Fall at Rocky Trail
Albert O. Haulcomb, 19, of Depew Oklahoma, fell from a 150 foot cliff while with six climbers near Longmont Colorado. Bobby W. Scott, 17, of San Diego California, grabbed Haulcomb’s ankles but slipped and both were injured. Scott and Haulcomb, airman students at Lowry AFB, Denver, were hospitalized.
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Longmont
Colo
Albert O. Haulcomb
Depew
Okla
Haulcomb
Bobby W. Scott
San Diego
Calif
Scott
Lowry Air Force Base
Denver
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Earl Brown
Neharant Rant & Vinegar
Lane
National Fruit Products Company
Virginia Woolen Company
Zeropack Company
Rockingham Poultry Corporation
Teste
Robert S. Barbour
Claude B. Smalts
Mrs
Marion Tallmadge
William Hutchinson
William Francis, Jr
Edith Hodges
Schewel
W. Cork St
Ena Ee
Fremont St
Reuss
Sarah Zane
Lois V. Russell
Hill
Inom
Ali
ELNO
A.G. A
Senadod Die Coguny
S. Loudoun St
Channel
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