Hope Flares Dwindle In 20 Day Vanished Plane Search
Rescue efforts for 44 aboard the Pan American Romance of the Skies continued past 20 days with planes helicopters submarines and Coast Guard ships deployed over 172 440 square miles as faint flares and markers yielded no solid trace of the lost airliner.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Coast Guard
Oahu Island
Philippine Sea
Epperson
Air Force
Romance of the
San Francisco
Pan American
Gruman
Smaller NATO Nations Challenge Atomic Emphasis
A NATO Parliamentary Assembly committee report by Arthur Gilson of Belgium and Lt Gen Michael Calmeyer of the Netherlands criticizes overreliance on atomic weapons and urges renewed emphasis on conventional forces, a common defense plan, and fair shared budgets. The document, seen as a protest by smaller nations, calls for broader NATO defense beyond nuclear deterrence.
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Paris
NATO
Aliince
U. S
Athur Gilson
Belgium
Michael Rudolph Hendrick Calmeyer
Netherlands
Britain
France
United States
Child Strangled By Auto Window in Kansas City
Lucinda Lynn Howell, 22 months, died after her mother rolled up a rear car window without looking. The mother, Vega M Howell, 25, sat in front with a neighbor as three children played in back. A draft from a rear window led to the fatal accident.
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Kansas City
Kan
Lucinda Lynn Howell
Vega M. Howell
Lucinda Lynn
Lynn
Hospital
Salisbury Speaker For Exchange Club Program
Morris Salisbury director of information on Atomic energy will speak at the Exchange Club luncheon tomorrow at 12 30 pm at the George Washington Hotel with Dr Warren Gregory arranging the program The subject is The Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy AUCTION SALE Thursday November 14 7 p m Old Friendship Fire House Furniture Household Goods to benefit the Building Fund at Market Street Methodist Church Donations accepted MO 2 4868
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Morris Salisbury
Exchange Club
George Washington Hotel
Warren Gregory
Salisbuy
Old Friendship Fire House
Market Street Methodist Church
Po River Dikes Break Flooding Vast Farmland in Italy
In Po Delta, the rain swollen Po river bursts dikes flooding thousands of acres of farmland and forcing hundreds from homes. Eleven tugs haul sandbags to plug breaches as an east wind drives a high tide toward the delta.
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Rovigo
Italy
Adriatic
Cairo Newspapers Boom New Attacks Against Hussein
Egyptian and Syrian press condemn Jordan King Hussein as Zionist negotiator. Thousands of Palestinian refugees march in Damascus denouncing peace talks and imperialism. Hussein retorts that Jordan defends against malicious lies.
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Cairo
Hussein
Egypt
Jordan
Israel
Damascus
Palestine
Jordan Legation
Season's coldest weather hits Berryville area
Berryville records a morning low of 15 degrees with nearby Winchester at 28 and 25 at the Fruit Research Laboratory. A killing frost occurred October 12, about a month ago, with forecasts calling for slight warming tomorrow.
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Berryville
W. N. Rutherford
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Winchester
Views on Anti Rabies Ordinance Aired
A 90 minute Frederick County Board of Supervisors hearing debated a proposed dog rabies vaccination ordinance. Proponents cited safety for people and pets. opponents fear vaccine effects and oppose mandating inoculation amid petitions and citizen concerns.
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Frederick County Board of Supervisors
A. L. Lindall
Winchester Council
L. M. Allen
H. W. Butler, Jr
Lindall
Virginia
Marks
Butler
Edwin T. Snider
Frederick County
Lindal
Laika Dies Reported by Italian Communist Paper
The Italian Communist paper L Unita quotes Moscow sources on Laika the dog from Sputnik II with a claim she was put to sleep to spare suffering. Tass notes the Sputnik program ran to seven days and Moscow had no official announcement on Laika. The report remarks on radio silence and cites Lovell calling the end odd.
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Fred
Hofeman
Washington
Earth
Rome
Moscow
Laika
Tass
Moscow Radio
Laika Russia
London
A. C. Lovell
Evening Moscow
Germany
Sput
Ogonyed
Veterans Urged To Preserve Peace At Annual Service
Reverend L Coleman Game urged veterans to safeguard peace at Winchester service attended by about 75 people from veterans groups and Gold Star Mothers. The ceremony at Cork Street Church included taps, a rifle volley, and a dedication for a bronze World War I and Korean War dead plaque.
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L. Coleman Game
Gold Star
Cork Street
Game
Russia
E. E. McIntyre
Stonewall Jackson Post 9
Winchester
Frederick County
America
New Legion
Berryville Pike
Alps Death Toll Rises to 385 Climbing Season
An Associated Press tally shows 385 climbers perished in the Alps this year, with Germany 43 Switzerland 111 France 42 Austria 109 and Italy 0. The total outpaced 1953 by about fifty percent as many amateurs climbed without proper gear or guidance.
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Rome
Europe
Associated Press
Germany
Switzerland
France
Austria
Italy
Alps
NAACP Accused Of Unauthorized Practice Of Law
A Virginia Thomson Committee report claims the NAACP engaged in unauthorized practice of law in school integration cases. It urges creation of a broader Joint Committee with powers to investigate subversive activities and segregation issues, and notes further study of school materials.
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Frank E. Taylor
Alexandria
Thomson Committee On
National
Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Virginia Senate
House of Delegates
Del
James M. Thomson
Virginia State Bar Committee
Leslie Hall
Bar
General Assembly
Thomson Group
Administration of Justice
Virginia
Committee On
The
General Assembly of Virginia
Richmond
Farmville
Norfolk
Arlington
Fourth Circuit orders desegregation deadline for Prince Edward County
The Fourth Circuit in Baltimore ruled the Prince Edward County Virginia school board must initiate prompt and reasonable desegregation in its public schools and remanded to the Eastern Virginia District Court to set a specific entry deadline for Black students. The panel, hearing Oct. 14, included Judges Parker Haynsworth and Watkins.
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Baltimore
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Prince Edward County
4Th Circuit
U. S. District Court of
John J. Parker
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Harry F.F. Watkins
Gunman Holds Singer Prisoner in London Hotel Siege
A crazed gunman held 20 year old singer Shirley Bassey in a hotel room for two hours before surrendering after a siege by 30 police. Bassey was shocked but unharmed. friend Peter Quinton was struck, and two gown fitters were hustled out. The gunman fired five shots and then released the singer. Police transported the unnamed suspect to a hospital.
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London
Shirley Bassey
Peter Quinton
Quinton
Miss Bassey
Doctors Complete Check Up on State Of Ike's Heart
Washington reports President Eisenhower underwent a routine full examination at Walter Reed after a heart attack in 1955. The White House said it was an annual precaution and the public report may follow. Ike plans speeches in Oklahoma City and a return to Washington for Mrs. Eisenhower's 61st birthday with a possible trip to Augusta for golf.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
White House
America
Russia
Oklahoma City
Chiang Watches Fleet Exercises on Bon Homme Richard
President Chiang Kai-shek watched 7th Fleet exercises from the 43 000 ton U S carrier Bon Homme Richard accompanied by Mine Chiang and U S Ambassador Karl Rankin as the carrier cruised off the southeast coast of Formosa in a show of continued U S support for Nationalist China.
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Bon Homme Richard
Chiang Kai-shek
U.S
China
United States
Chiang
U. S
Karl L. Rankin
Formosa
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