Eisenhower urges progress at Geneva talks with Gromyko
President Eisenhower told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko that a measure of progress must be made at the Geneva discussions if a summit meeting is to be justified. The talk with Gromyko and the foreign ministers was described as pleasant and useful by the Soviet envoy.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Andrei A. Gromyko
Geneva
Russia
White House
Gromyko
Maurice Couve de Murville
Selwyn Lloyd
Nikita S. Khrushchev
House Appropriations Panel Targets Pentagon Rivalries
The House Appropriations Committee approves 339000 new Defense Department funds and orders Army and Air Force to stop bickering over missiles. It calls for tighter defense operations, cites growing Soviet threat, supports SAC expansion, and speeds work on atomic aircraft. The panel rejects Navy 260 million for a new carrier and endorses round-the-clock bomber readiness.
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Washington
Pentagon
House Appropriations Committee
Defense Department
Eisenhower
Air Force
Air Forest
Strategic Air Ccouair
Navy
National Guard
House
George Mahon
D-Tex
Unusual Load Escorts Through Town On Route North
A truck driver hauling a huge metal tank over 20 feet long and 10 to 11 feet wide received a police escort through town after meeting Officer Warren Fogle on Rt. 11. The vehicle squeezed under wires and navigated detours via N Loudoun St Wyck St Braddock St Valley Ave.
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Rt. 11
Warren Fogle
N. Loudoun St
Wyck St
Braddock St
West Berlin crisis seen in 1961 by some officials
Western officials say the real Berlin crisis could occur in 1961. They expect a stopgap at the Big Four foreign ministers conference to extend Allied occupation of West Berlin while Khrushchev tests Allied unity. Changes in Britain West Germany or U.S. administrations could shift policy.
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Geneva
Berlin
Foreign Ministers
West Viet
Nikita Khrushchev
Britain
United States
West Germany
Washington
U.S
Khrushchev
West Berlin
Viscose Workers Vote on New Contract Friday
Local 371 of the Textile Workers Union of America will vote Friday on a proposed contract. Charles E. Leachman, manager, will preside as workers from 3:30 p.m. onward participate in the meeting at 7 p.m.
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T.W.U.A
American Viscose Corp
Cr. E. Leadman
Front Royal
Textile Workers Union of America
Charles E. Leachman
Britain weighs Soviet wife’s asylum plea in London case
Mrs Nina Dmitriev, 35, wife of Soviet naval attache Captain Aleksander Dmitriev, asks for asylum for herself and 5-year-old Lena to escape Soviet security men. They hid with White Russian friends in London under Scotland Yard protection as officials review the merits while the husband is flown to Moscow.
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London
Moscow
Nina Dmitriev
Lena
Scotland Yard
Aleksander Dmitriev
Dmitriev
British
Home Office
Britain
Hawkhurst
Kent
Foreign Office
Convict Killed in Escape Attempt at Goochland Prison
In Goochland County three prisoners attempted to flee the State Farm. Welton W. Smith was killed and Elgin Perkins wounded when guards fired. Richard Junior Brown was captured later about a mile from the farm in a culvert. Smith had a five year burglary sentence, Brown twenty years for rape, Perkins thirteen years for burglary.
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Goochland
State Farm
Goochland County
M. L. Royster
Welton W. Smith
Richard Junior Brown
Elgin Perkins
Smith
Perkins
Jesse Johnson
G.T. Ayres
Royster
Farm Hospital
Norfolk
Brown
Danville
Richmond
Veterans groups plan Memorial Day rites at National Cemetery
Dudley Reynolds of VFW Post 2123 Gerald Goodman of American Legion Post 21 and George Middleton of Major Mosby Barracks 1526 lead planning for Saturday’s Memorial Day Service at 10 30 a m in National Cemetery. Holmes Bucher of DAV assists as State Senator Harry Byrd Jr will speak honoring all war dead. Veterans groups decorate graves Friday at 9 30 am before the ceremony.
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Dudley G. Reynolds
VFW
Gerald Goodman
Conrad Hoover
American Legion
George W. Middleton
Mosby
National Cemetery
Holmes Bucher
Stonewall Jackson
Harry F. Byrd
Escaped Convict Surrenders After Slaying Sheriff
Gray haired 50 year old John Butler, sought since the sheriff slaying, emerged from a wooded hideout at dawn and surrendered to police with cuffs on. A 150 strong posse surrounded the scene as reporters photographed the surrender.
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Pittsburgh
John Butler
James R. Lauer
Northumberland County
Butler
Indiana County Loses a Bridge
Pike County sheriff says a 30 foot bridge was cut into three tons of steel with a torch and hauled away. A coal miner found the missing structure Wednesday before a vehicle could cross the unbridged stream.
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Petersburg
Ind
Pike County
Wilmer Whitehead
Killian Resigns As Adviser to the President
The White House reports Dr. James R. Killian Jr. will resign as special assistant for science and technology and return to MIT where he was on leave. President Eisenhower selects Dr. George Bogdan Kistiakowsky of Harvard to succeed him.
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Washington
White House
James R. Killian Jr
Science and Technology
Killian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
George Bogdan Kistiakowsky
Harvard University
Eisenhower
Harrison Opinion Leaves School Operation Unsettled
Virginia Attorney General A S Harrison Jr states that whether a locality halting public schools to resist integration must still operate schools depends on circumstances. He reserved judgment on whether a locality may close high schools while keeping elementary schools or vice versa.
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Richmond
Apt
A. S. Harrison Jr
Virginia
Harrison
Garland Gray
Waverly
Gray
Special General Assembly
Constitution of
Bly
Virginia allocates 33.5 million for secondary roads
The State Highway Commission announced 33.5 million dollars for Virginia’s secondary road system for the fiscal year starting July 1, up about 100 thousand from the current year. District allocations include Bristol 4.64 million, Salem 4.50 million, Lynchburg 4.02 million, Richmond 3.74 million, Suffolk 3.82 million, among others. A rotating bridge fund of 150 thousand goes to the Suffolk district. Total allocations also include 4.06 million in federal aid, 1.96 million for storm and winter damage, and 23.07 million from state funds.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Highway Commission
Suffolk
Bristol
Salem
Lynchburg
Fredericksburg
Culpeper
Staunton
Arlington
Henrico
The
Highway Commission
East Side dog comfort station dismantled after year
A dog comfort station on Manhattan's East Side, built a year ago to curb sidewalk nuisances, is being dismantled. Officials say the concrete base and sand filled enclosure did not satisfy the dogs.
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New York
Manhattan
East Si
Wanted Lady in Pressing Department Ad
Wanted in the pressing department of Pingley and Carper Cleaners. Apply in person to the firm.
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Pingley & Carper, Cleaners
Monkeys Reach Space in Jupiter Nose Cone Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla two monkeys Able and Baker return alive from a Jupiter missile nose cone after a 300 mile high suborbital flight at speeds up to 10000 mph. Army officials say the pair showed little ill effects and telemetry aided checks.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Army
Able
Baker
U.S
Antigua
Hiser to Open Community Chest Meeting Tonight
Dr. Carl W. Hiser will give the invocation at the Winchester Frederick Community Chest appreciation assembly and annual meeting at 7 30 in the George Washington Hotel ballroom. Officers for the coming year will be elected. The sessions are open to the public and donors may vote.
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Carl W. Hiser
First Evangelical United Brethern Church
Winchester - Frederick
Chest
Charles S. Toan
Treasuer
Godfrey Prelip
Robert
Rites for Dulles Seldom Matched In This Country
The body of John Foster Dulles was laid to final rest in a grand ceremony at Arlington with officials from the United States and abroad in attendance. A 21/2 hour program featured rifle volleys and taps, followed by a flag presentation to Mrs. Dulles. President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon observed, as dignitaries including Selwyn Lloyd and Andrei Gromyko attended Geneva talks before returning for the funeral. The service moved from the National Cathedral to the cemetery with a 100 carriage procession and military honors at the grave site under a yellow poplar. The event drew leaders from Germany, 86 countries, and Washington’s elite. Dulles was a World War I major and Presbyterian lay leader.
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Geneva
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Washington
Ton
Congress
Supreme Court
National Cathedral
Washington High Point
Russell P. Barnes
World Council of Churches
Dulles
Dulle
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
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Moehower
W. Boscawen St
James Wood
Frances Pingley
Hedgesville
W. Va
Shepherd College
Daughters of the American Revolution
Dr. Thomas Harris
Indiana
Bryarly School
Care
Winchester
Boyd’s Drug
Rhodes Drug Store
Herbert Bryant, Inc
Ward’s
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