Kefauver Weighs 1956 Presidential Bid and Funding Needs
Senator Kefauver stated he would decide on a 1956 Democratic run before early primary filing. He indicated a possible need of at least 200000 dollars for an active campaign and said he has limited information on potential organizational support. Senator Douglas predicted Kefauver would not receive support next year, backing Adlai Stevenson instead. Kefauver praised Stevenson and Averell Harriman as forward looking Democratic leaders and signaled his confidence in liberal leadership for the party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Sen. Douglas
D-Ill
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Averell Harriman
New York
Pickets Bar Supervisors at Westinghouse Plant
Westinghouse Electric Corp plant in East Pittsburgh barred supervisory personnel and nonstriking office staff from entry as CIO International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers leads a strike at 30 plants affecting 44 000 workers. A union spokesman denied a concerted action, saying it varies by local, while company negotiators prepared to return to bargaining.
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Pittsburgh
Big East
Westinghouse Electric Corp
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
Westinghouse
Mass Test Planned for TB Preventive Drug Isoniazid
The National Tuberculosis Association and the U S Public Health Service plan a mass test to assess isoniazid as a preventive against tuberculosis. Dr Caroll E Palmer said the trial will resemble Salk polio tests with within a year start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Tuberculosis Asssn
U .S. Public Health Service
Caroll E. Palmer
Public Health Service
Palmer
Connecticut Floods Hit Northeastern States Hard Again
Floods across six states caused widespread destruction with 42 dead and missing, heavy damage in Connecticut and New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania reporting fatalities. Red Cross reports 6900 families homeless as emergency repairs continue and highway closures persist.
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Connecticut
Diane
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New England
Boston Weather Bureau
Sherman Adams
Red Cross
Army
Merritt Parkway
Ramapo River
Pate to Head U S Marine Corps as 21st Commandant
Lt Gen Randolph McCall Pate, 57, will take over January 1 as commandant of the Marine Corps succeeding Gen Lemuel Shepherd who retires. A Port Royal native and 1921 Virginia Military Institute graduate, Pate planned Pacific amphibious operations in World War II and led the 1st Marine Division in Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Randolph McCall Pate
Marine Corps
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Shepherd
Pate
Defense Wilson
Eisenhower
Denver
Port Royal
S. c
Virginia Military Institute
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Peleliu
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
1St Marine
President Eisenhower Takes 14 Hour Recess From Conferences
President Eisenhower, resting at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, took a 14 hour recess from cabinet level talks amid assurances there will be no deep military cuts without a radical shift in world conditions. Dulles and Wilson outlined a budget near 3444 billion with potential slight increases, while the president plans to meet Attorney General Brownell and possibly Dillon Anderson before Geneva ministers talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Eisenhower
Defence
Wilson
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dulles
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphreys
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
Washington
MIT
Brownell
Dillon Anderson
Radford
Winchester Golf Club Debenture Vote At Annual Meeting
Members will vote Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the clubhouse on a proposal to raise the debenture issue from 80000 to 160000 to enlarge the clubhouse and facilities. The meeting also considers amending Article III Section I to elect three or four new directors and other business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golf Club
Winchester Golf Club
Skyhawk sets world speed record at 695 mph
The Douglas A4D Skyhawk carrier bomber set a new world speed record of 695.163 mph at Edwards Air Force Base California. Flown by Lt Gordon Gray of La Jolla the record notes that the circular course limits reflect maximum speed. The previous record of 649.46 mph was held by Maj John L Armstrong in a Sabrejet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Gordon Gray
la Jolla
John L. Armstrong
Air Force
Cement Cushions Nine Story Fall in Memphis
In Memphis Tennessee a construction elevator plunged nine stories. Worker R L Reid 32 escaped injury by falling into soft wet cement. He carried a wheelbarrow of cement to the top when the cable snapped and he landed safely on the cement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
R. L. Reid
Reid
Queen Returns as Uproar Grows Over Margaret Townsend Romance
Queen Elizabeth II returns to London with Prince Charles and Princess Anne as a government cabinet meeting and family confab loom. Princess Margaret faces pressure over her romance with Peter Townsend amid a duty fight and possible changes to royal plans. Townsend, the divorced air attache, leaves reporters with terse comments after a five hour dinner at Mark Bonham Carter’s flat.
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London
Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Peter Townsend
Euston Station
Balmoral Castle
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
Buckingham Palace
Clarence House
Duke of Edinburgh
Margaret
Townsend
Eden
Townsend-Margaret
Cabinet
No. 10
Downing St
Royal Air Force
Mark Bonham Carter
Bonham Carters
Bonham Carter
Marquis of
Faure Sees Brighter Outlook Before Confidence Vote
Paris The day of decision on Edgar Faure's Algeria policy looms as last minute party shifts and a high stakes confidence vote shape his fate. Debate and post recess mood hint at a fragile majority while reforms in Morocco may influence defections and permits a possible government squeak through.
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Faure
Paris
Edgar Faure
National Assembly
Algeria
France
French
Morocco
Assembly
Navy Asks Valley Men On Cruise of USS Shenandoah
A group of Valley men will depart Norfolk on Friday aboard the USS Shenandoah for a cruise to San Juan Puerto Rico returning November 7. Notables include F Grove White H Delmer Robinson J Lewis Maphis Frank Wissler and Maj Paxton. The invitation notes the trip aims to acquaint the public with the Navy and sea power. The ship will conduct individual exercises en route and guests pay their own meals and laundry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
USS
Norfolk
San Juan
Puerto Rico
F. Grove White
H. Delmer Robinson
This City
J. Lewis Maphis
Washington
Frank Wissler
Mt. Jackson
Maj Paxton
Lexington
Hiram Cassaday
Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah
United States
Mrs FDR to Back Stevenson Again
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt favors Adlai Stevenson for the 1956 Democratic nomination saying he is the best trained qualified and prepared. She believes a Stevenson defeat in 1952 would not ruin his chances if nominated again and she is willing to work for his nomination and election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adlai Stevenson
Newsday
Stevenson
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
FOR SALE GUARANTEED USED TIRES AT SOUTHERN TIRE SERVICE
Used tires in all sizes and prices offered by Southern Tire Service opposite Handley High Campus. Sale advertised for Tuesday and Thursday with limited days noted.
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Southern Tire Service
Handley Hich
Thurs
Handley Campus
Winchester
Labor Shortage Seen Problem in Machine Age Ahead
Sylvania Electric chairmen warned that a labor shortage poses a bigger risk than unemployment as automation expands. Don Mitchell cited 1947 to 1954 employment figures and said increased mechanization will raise overall production to meet demand. He urged faster adoption of labor saving devices to prevent shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Don G. Mitchell
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc
Senate House Committee
Mitchell
Southern Tire Service
S. Braddock St
Handley
Winchester
ICC Maintains Freight Rate Increases Indefinitely
The Inter-State Commerce Commission authorized permanent continuation of 1952 rail rate hikes, 12 to 15 percent above pre-1952 levels, effective by folding them into the base rate structure. Expiration was canceled. coal and shipping interests failed to block the action. Nine of eleven commissioners voted, with two not participating.
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Washington
Inter- State Commerce Commission
ICC
National Coal Assn
J. Haden Alldredge
Kenneth H. Tugegle
Newsprint Price Raised Five Dollars a Ton
St Lawrence Corp of Montreal raised newsprint prices by five dollars per ton effective November 1. Harold Smith of Wright Co said notices went to newspapers yesterday. The price to New York delivered customers rises to 131 dollars per ton, up from 126.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Lawrence Corp
Montreal
Harold Smith
Wright Co
St. Lawrence
Forecasters Bid Goodby to Hurricane Katie
Hurricane Katie neared its downgrade to a tropical storm as it moved northeast about 700 miles east of Florida with winds around 75 mph near the center. The storm lashed Hispaniola earlier, causing damage in Anse-a-Pitre Haiti and Pedernales Dominican Republic, with several homes destroyed and many damaged.
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Miami
Fla
Katie
Florida
Hispanioli
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Anse-a-Pitre
Pedernales
Dominican
PlayBoy Joel Thorne Plane Crash Kills Him in North Hollywood
Wealthy playboy Joel W. Thorne dies when his small plane crashes into a two story North Hollywood apartment building. Nine injured include a newborn and the parents. two children are critically burned. Thorne, Las Vegas resident, was returning home from Burbank. Civil Aeronautics investigates.
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North Hollywood
Calif
Joel W. Thorne
Thorne
Lockheed Air Terminal
Burbank
Las Vegas
Nev
John
Patricia
North Hollywood Receiving Hospital
Preston
Mike
Ida Kaner
William Bates
Ben Storch
Los Angeles
Joe Ann Burdick
Anaheim
George Robson
Hollywood
Johnnie
Shirley Powell
Marchia
Miss Presinzano
Local notices and ads from small town papers
Notice of office closure for a death in the family from McPhail Paint and Glass Co. and a missing TV antenna reward call Strasburg 209-1. Also Willow Lawn Farm Market promotes fresh country sausage and Perfection Oil Heaters from Schewel Furniture Co with dated listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Stephens City
Strasburg
Willow Lawn Farm
Schewel Furniture CO
Red China pushes for high level US talks over Far East issues
Secretary of State Dulles said Communist China has formally raised the possibility of a high level meeting with the United States to discuss Far East problems. He noted Beijing pressed this at Geneva along with objections to the Western trade blockade. He favors exhausting Geneva at lower levels before any higher level talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dulles
China
United States
Far East
Red China
Geneva
Russians Free Foster Daughter Of Noel Field
In Moscow the 33 year old German born Germaine Erike Glaser Wallach, Noel Field's foster daughter, has been freed from Vorkuta labor camp and awaits travel documents. She said East Berlin police picked her up in 1950 while seeking foster parents and she endured solitary confinement for two and a half years before a 1953 death sentence as a spy.
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Moscow
Noel Field
Erike Glaser Wallach
Vorkuta
Soviet Union
East Berlin
East
Berlin
Field
State Department
Herta
Hermann
Cleveland
Europe
Switzerland
Hungary
Noel
Budapest
Mrs. Wallach
No Word Today On Outcome Of Strike Talks
Talks between management and Amalgamated Meat Cutters AFL continued past 1:30 a m at Broadway Virginia to resolve a strike affecting four of Rockingham Poultry Marketing Cooperative plants in Winchester and Broadway Virginia and Richmond and Moorefield West Virginia Workers seek higher pay and fringes with no comment on progress or future sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Rockingham Poultry Marketing Cooperative
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
AFL
Winchester
Richmond
Virginia
Moorefield
W. Va
Five Day Forecast Shows Cooler, Light Showers Possible
The forecast calls for cloudy, cool weather into tonight and Wednesday with a few mountain showers. Lows range from 38 to 46 depending on region, with highs near 59 and 45 today. Temperatures for October 19-23 will run about 3 degrees below normal and little precipitation is expected.
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Winchester
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Frederik
Associated Press
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U.S. Marine Corps
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Queen
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Goodby
Mississippi
Duff’s
Schowel Furniture Co
Joel Thorne
Betty Jean Wolf
Sheryll Camille Preston
Michael Preston
Frank Marchica
Anna Presinzano
Lyndhurst
N.J
McPhail Paint & Glass CO
U.S
Wang Pingnan
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