Living Costs Hold Steady in October
Washington reports the cost of living remained unchanged in October for the first time in 14 months as the government index held at 121.1 level from September. Food costs fell slightly enough to offset increases in other items, with labor buying power down over one percent from September and more than three percent from a year ago.
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Washington
Labor Department
Ewan Clague
Labor Statistics
Secretary of Labor
Mitchell
Clague
Four Traffic Crashes Cause Nearly $1000 In Damages
Four area traffic crashes over 48 hours caused nearly 1000 dollars in damage. An ammunition truck struck a Buick at routes 340 and 723 near Boyce church, ending in the churchyard with no injuries. Other crashes on N Cameron and EF Boscawen Streets and Loudoun Street caused minor vehicle damage and no noted injuries.
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Boyce Baptist
P. FP. Click
James Harmon Woodyard, Jr
Pulaski
M. C. Gallimore
Huntington
W.va
Isabella Tyson Gilpin
Boyce
Buick
N. Cameron
EF Boscawen St
Jack Shumaker
Norman L. Wine
Rt. 4
Carroll A. Unger
Rt. 2
Winchester
Naomi E. Butler Stout
Clearbrook
Harry Miller
Robert Geanious
Loudoun St
Shooting Match at Denny's Commission Auction
Public sale notice for a shooting match at Denny's Commission Auction mile east of Route 7 with 12 16 and 20 gauge guns listed for November 22 at 7 p.m. Also mentions fall sale of dresses suits coats skirts and cocktail dresses with 25 to 50 percent reductions at Modern Age Shoppe 124 West Boscawen Street plus Colonial Art Craft Shop staying open until 8 p.m. Saturdays until Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denny's Commission
W. Boscawen St
Pentagon pins ICBM launch site near Cheyenne Wyoming
The Pentagon announced start of a multimillion-dollar missile site near Cheyenne Wyoming by mid 1958 as part of a push to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles. The plan includes transforming Warren Air Force Base to support the program with 65 million dollars, signaling priority for an ICBM capability amid Sputnik era tensions.
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Washington
Pentagon
Cheyenne
Wyo
Russia
Mahon
D-Tex
Defense Department
Warren Air Force Base
Wyoming
Air Research and Development Command
Air Force
Texas Senator Ends 20 Hour Filibuster
Sen. Henry B. Gonzalez ended a 20 hour anti segregation filibuster in Austin after opposing a bill to empower the attorney general to aid local school boards in federal integration lawsuits. The measure would create a 50 000 dollar fund and enable school closures and pupil transfers at state expense amid threats of troop occupation.
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Austin
Tex
Henry B. Gonzalez
Texas Attorney General Authority
San Antonio
Gonzalez
Senate
Senate Chamber
Texas Attorney General
Police Arrest Mental Patient Sought in Trooper Slaying
Frank Edward Wetzel, an escapee from a New York asylum, is captured in Bakersfield after a nationwide manhunt for the killing of two North Carolina state troopers. Wetzel, 36, had been in a Mississippi mental institution after an arrest for burglary and was later linked by fingerprints to stolen cars tied to the NC slayings. He denied talking about the case and was jailed for vagrancy before the arrest led to charges and FBI verification.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Wetzel
New York
Finis
Frank Edward Wetzel
FBI
Sev Yeral
North Carolina
Mississippi
National Guard
Parchman
Batavia, NY
Paul Cameron
Los Angeles
Wister Lee Reece
James Thomas Brown
Kentucky
Boxersfhield
Downdraft Hurts 16 on Western Air Lines Flight
A Western Air Lines DC6B carrying 33 people endured violent downdrafts east of Los Angeles after leaving Las Vegas. Fourteen passengers and two stewardesses were injured, two crew members unconscious at landing. Pilot reported seat belt warnings as turbulence and a forest fire near Azusa were visible. No one was in serious condition.
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Los Angeles
Western Air Lines
Here
Ontario
Diane Hallock
Sue Etzel
San Diego
Los Angeles International Airport
Las Vegas
Nev
W. C. Steen
Azusa
Red Leaders Call for Iron Unity of World Communists
World Communist leaders urged iron unity in a Moscow drafted communique calling for antiwar solidarity and rapid progress toward peace democracy and socialism. It cites dangers of war and endorses Soviet style democracy with a Popular Front approach and coordination of Communist and workers parties.
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London
Peiping Radio
Moscow
Germany
Middle East
Asia
Tito
Communist Party
Belgrade
Borba
Pulitika
Poland
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Warsaw
Africa
14 year old confesses to fatal north side shooting
A 14-year-old boy admitted to police and AS Atty Anthony Manno that he fatally shot a 16-year-old after being bullied over bicycle fenders. He claimed he took a .22 pistol from home, met the victim on a street, and fired when threatened with further beating. The incident occurred on Chicago’s north side last night.
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Chicago
North Side
Asst. State
Anthony Manno
Thomas Kato
Henry Doban
Doban
Kato
Monstrous Forest Fire Fanned by Destructive Winds Near Los Angeles
Devastating desert winds fueled a major forest fire in the Angeles National Forest northeast of Los Angeles. The blaze, started by a camping campfire near Crystal Lake, had scorched about 18 000 acres and threatened Monrovia and surrounding towns as gusts reached 100 miles per hour.
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Los Angeles
The
Forest Service
Angeles National Forest
California
Crystal Lake
Azusa
Dave Waite
Angeles Forest Fire
Monrovia
San Gabriel Mountain
Keith Klinger
Duarte
East Pasadena
Sierra Madre
Klinger
Forty Camel Corps Deserters Reported Slain in Sahara Battle
In Algiers French parachute troops encircled camel corps deserters and killed 40 in a Sahara clash near Timimoun. Six deserters were captured with French losses put at six dead and twelve wounded, with the fight continuing. FLN activity noted in Tunis.
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Algiers
Camel Corps
Sahara
Timimoun
Hassi-Rhambou d Wells
Local Hunter Injured In Early Doe Season Incident
A 22 year old Lawrence Zebroski of Kern Street was injured by a self inflicted gun discharge while hunting in Frederick County. He was treated at Memorial Hospital and released. Deer kills rose with 330 in Frederick County by mid morning and totals across counties nearing 1100. The season runs to tomorrow evening with bucks opened Monday and does opening today.
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Winchester
Lawrence Zebroski
Kern St
Memorial Hospital
Zebroski
U.S. Air Force
Frederick County
Does
Bucks
Clarke County
Frederick
Clarke
Shenandoah
Warren County
Shenandoah County
Warres County
Rain or Snow Forecast Presses Regional Weather
A weather forecast warns of rain or snow and cold conditions. Clouds persist with near freezing temperatures tonight and tomorrow. The southwestern and southeastern areas are expected to see precipitation as a five day outlook predicts temperatures 3 to 5 degrees below normal with a cold weekend ahead.
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Associated Press
Missionary Appeals for Life From Jungle Savages
A radio broadcast from Kansas City aired a plea to the Auca Indians in Ecuador to spare English missionary Dr. Winifred Tidmarsh. The recording, made with help from Rachel Saint, Nate Saint’s sister, was picked up in Quito and could be delivered by plane or broadcast to reach Tidmarsh amid threats from the Auca community.
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Kansas City
Ecuador
Winifred Tidmarsh
Dr. Tidmarsh
Christian Missions
Oglan River
Auca
Rachel Saint
Summer Institute of Linguistics
Arkansas
Miss Saint
Nate Saint
Paul Carpenter
Quito
Everett Beall
Army Mission
Robert G. Schneider
Linguistics Institute
Fellows
Don Burns
Kansas City Assn
Burns
Schneider
Tidmarsh
Poison mix up ends in patient’s death at Houston hospital
A 46 year old laboratory technician says she mistakenly gave two ounces of deadly sodium cyanide to patient Mrs. Margaret Van Alstine 67 during a diabetes test. The toxin was mislabeled as dextrose. Detective H W Rodgers said no charges yet but the case will go to a grand jury.
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Houston
Tex
Emily Nash
Margaret van Alstine
van Alstine
Rodgers
Mrs. Nash
Mrs van Alstine
Mrs. van Alstine
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Capon Bridge Christian Church
Colonial Art & Craft Shop
San Fernando
House Defense Appropriations
United States
Secretary of Defense
Ne! McElroy
Army
Texas
Howard Johnson
George Washington
Stoller’s
Coats
Margaret L. Hodgson
Peiping
Mikhail Suslov
Soviet Union
Middletown
Robert Kline
Kline
Boy
Berryville
W.F.W Post
Willow Lawn Farm Market Valley Avenue
WARD
Tunis
Algerian National Liberation Front
FLN
Doe
Harry Patterson
Round Hill Fire Co
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