Plan to Rent Farm Land to Curb Output
The Agriculture Department considers a multimillion plan to lease privately held land to limit farm output. About 40 million acres would be rented at over $10 an acre for soil-building crops, diverting land from six basics Wheat corn cotton rice peanuts tobacco to reduce surpluses and stabilize prices.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
Agriculture Department
Washington Dispatch
Herald Tribune
Slayer Caught In Second Crime
Rockaway Ore. Frederick Camell a 30 year old man admitted to murder in a second shooting after being linked to a previous slaying five months earlier. District Attorney John Hathaway said Camell confessed to killing Clyde Lewis 55 and hinted at knowledge of Mrs. Lewis death last May. Preliminary murder hearing set for today. An auction notice and local ads follow.
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Rockaway
Ore
Huber
Frederick Camell
John Hathaway
Camell
Clyde Lewis
Lewis
Camel
Delbert H. Walpole
Mrs. Lewis
Hathaway
Carnell
Camnell
Republican Leaders Seek Ike’s Decision On Labor Attacks
GOP state chairmen plan to ask President Eisenhower to decide the party’s reply to labor attack rhetoric. John Feikens of Michigan says only Ike can chart the course, as Nixon tests party unity and optimism grows about a possible second presidential run.
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Ike
Washington
Eisenhower
GOP
John Feikens
Michigan
Feikens
Denver
Nixon
Truman
James B. Carey
CIO
Carey
Republican Party
French Hopes For Moroccan Peace By Monday
Paris officials said a Morocco settlement is near and an announcement would come soon. A U N source said Sultan Moulay Arafa will name Si Bekkar to head a regency council to rule until France and Moroccans resolve the throne dispute.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
U. N
New York
Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Si Bekkar
Sultain Mohammed Ben Youssef
Morocco
Si Bekkai
Pasha
Sefrou
Moulay Arafa
Tangiers
France
Ben Youssef
Madagascar
Faure
Road Seen Toll Free In 20 Years
New York engineers and bankers project the 69 million dollar Richmond Petersburg Turnpike in Virginia will be toll free by 1978, twenty years after its 1958 opening. The 35 mile toll road will pass through Richmond and Petersburg with bonds financed by a banker group led by Lehman Brothers and including Smith Barney Blyth Co. F W Craigie Anderson Strudwick Mason Hagan Scott Stringfellow.
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New York
Richmond — Petersburg
Virginia
Lehman Bros
Smith Barney & Co
Blyth & Co
F. W. Craigie and Co
Anderson & Strudwick
Mason-Hagan, Inc
Scott and Stringfellow
Watch For New Cape Verde Storm Developments
Hurricane Hilda has not appeared yet a watch is kept in the distant Atlantic after a strong low pressure system moved off the African coast a transatlantic air liner reported rain and shifting winds near the Cape Verde Islands forecasters expect to know in the next three or four days whether a storm has formed.
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Miami
Fila
Hilda
Atlantic
Cape Verde Island
Africa
Author Stuart Engstrand Drowns at MacArthur Park Lake
Author Stuart Engstrand 51 of Beverly Hills drowned after walking into MacArthur Park lake LA. Coroner identified him via brother in law Melvin Simon. Described by police as in mental crisis. two boathouse workers pulled him out but efforts to revive failed. Survived by wife Sophia, a son Stephen and daughter Stephanie. His best selling novels include The Sling and the Arrow and Beyond the Forest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Stuart Engstrand
MacArthur Park
Engstrand
Melvin H. Simon
van Nuys
Beverly Hill
Sophia
Donald Barnes
MacArthur Park Lake
Bill Sherman
Harvey Weaver
Stephen
Stephanie
Dog Bites Back Fourteen Month Old in Cincinnati
A fifteen month old girl Dorothy Hartman was bitten by a collie on the nose and received treatment at St Francis Hospital for bites to the right cheek and left ear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Dorothy Hartman
Dorothy
St. Francis Hospital
Rain wrecks jail in Guerrero state Mexico
A storm stormed southern Mexico's Pacific coast wrecking the Coyuca jail in Guerrero killing five prisoners trapped inside the adobe structure.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Pacific
Coyuca
Guerrero
State Mental Hospitals Get 1956 58 Budget Boost
Virginia State Hospital Board approves 25 to 30 percent increase for operation of mental institutions in the 1956 58 biennium. Central State Hospital at Petersburg would gain 405 new staff, including 19 doctors, to care for about 4600 patients. Drug funding rises per patient from 15 to 25 dollars and funds cover moving Eastern State Hospital to the Dunbar site, with total project cost estimated at 21 to 23 million dollars. A new 11 million dollar criminal insane building at Southwestern State Hospital is under construction for 240 patients and slated to be ready in about a year.
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Marion
State Hospital Board
Joseph Barrett
State Commission of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals
Central State
Southwestern State Hospital
Eastern State Hospital
Williamsburg
Dunbar
Barrett
Southwestern State
Adults May Enter Frederick County Fair This Year
Frederick County Agricultural Fair broadens access opening to adults for the September 22 and 23 event at Winchester Armory. Organizers crown Ronald Miller superintendent with a team from 4-H FFA and FHA divisions and coordinate with Stonewall Round Hill Ruritan Clubs and Extension, Vocational and Home Economics services.
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Frederick County
Ronald Miller
Kenneth McDonald
Betty Hammock
Robert Lockhart
FFA
Margaret Ramey
Mary Lou Lintz
FHA
Stonewall
Round Hill
Ruritan
County Extension Service
D. K. Russell
Harold Cooper
Richard Goode
Two Ports Idle As New York Waterfront Strike Spreads
The New York harbor strike enters its third day with Norfolk and Boston also idled while Philadelphia and Baltimore workers return. Some 70 ships sit at anchor as $20 million daily in trade is disrupted. ILA accuses Waterfront Commission of bias. the commission cites lawlessness.
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New York
Norfolk
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York Harbor
New York-New Jersey
Independent
International Longshoremen’s Assn
New York Shipping Assn
ILA
Bistate
Virginia Parks To Be Segregated Next Year
Virginia plans to operate state parks on a segregated basis next year. State Conservation Director Raymond V. Long said the decision was made at a meeting of the State Board of Conservation and Development and will stand unless a court orders otherwise.
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Richmond
Virginia
Raymond V. Long
State Board of Conservation and Development
Long
VA. Ave
Martin’s Drug Store
Magazine Barred From U S Mails
Washington reports confidential magazine barred from the mails after Post Office allegedly ordered samples sent for examination and denied mailability. Edward Bennett Williams represents the publication which claims a 42 million copy weekly circulation. The Post Office confirms a withhold order and must answer within five days.
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Washington
U. S. District Court
Post Office Department
Summerfield
Mount Morris
Ill
Edward Bennett Williams
Dispatch
Weather Outlook for Richmond Five Day Forecast
Extended outlook Sept 10 to Sept 14 shows temperatures near or slightly above normal with warmer weekend followed by cooler early next week. Little or no precipitation expected.
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Richmond
Truman Urges U S Guard and Strong Military
Former President Harry S. Truman told Chicago executives that Communist powers show signs of easing yet America must stay on guard. He criticized Eisenhower era military cuts and credited his own administration with building a strong armed force. He urged peaceful talks with the Russians but warned against sacrificing justice and freedom.
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Chicago
Harry S. Truman
America
Eisenhower
Executives’ Club of
Free World
County Jury Finds For Virgil Miller
A Frederick County jury ruled in favor of Virgil Miller in three concurrent damage suits filed by Orville Lee Lind James Henry Renner and Eugene Bryan Renner related to a three car Route 50 collision near town on April 2 1954 Trials occurred in Circuit Court before Judge Elliott Marshall with J Edward Thoma for Miller and J Sloan Kuykendall for plaintiffs The jurors included T S Cooper foreman I H Miller J F Luttrell E W Adams Jr Franklin M Barley Henry Carbaugh and T V Dixon
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Frederick County
Virgil Miller
Elliott Marshall
Miller
Orville Lee Lind
James Henry Renner
Eugene Bryan Renner
J. Edward Thoma
J. Sloan Kuykendall
West German Leader Bids for Release Of War Prisoners
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer urged Soviet leaders to release German war prisoners in Russia as a step toward normalizing ties. He pressed Bulganin Khrushchev and Molotov for a swift deal on reunification, while Bulganin cited NATO as a major obstacle. Adenauer argued that relations cannot normalize while prisoners remain unresolved.
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Moscow
Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Union
Russia
Kremlin
Adenauer
Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Molotov
Germany
NATO
East Germany
Spiridonovka Palace
Kiwanis Sponsors Kid's Day On September 24 Here
Kiwanis International sponsors Kid's Day observed in Winchester and nationwide on September 24. J Douglas Butler, president of the local Kiwanis club, heads a committee including George R. Dixon Charles Bass Eugene Cooper and Father Robert O Hickman. The event plans call for elections of student officials ages six to fourteen a parade and a free movie show with all club members participating.
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J. Douglas Butler
George R. Dixon
Charles Bass
Eugene Cooper
Robert O. Hickman
Winchester
Butler
Kiwanis International
Dixon
Kiwanis
Children in Sumter weather race dispute pull from school
In Sumter South Carolina six Ard children were kept home as officials weighed whether they are considered white or Negro. About 100 white parents gathered at Lemira Elementary to organize resistance to integration after two Ard children enrolled in Lemira first grade.
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Sumter, S. C
Sumter
William Ard
Williamsburg County
Lemira
John L. Southwell
Ard
Douglas Wallace
Eddie Arnold
Lemira School
Central Elementary
Near Agreement on Release of Americans Held in China
Washington reports say the United States and Red China are close to finalizing terms for the release of Americans detained in Chinese Communist areas. About 25 jailed and 3 under house arrest may soon be allowed to depart with court actions and parole terms to fit Chinese procedures. Geneva talks to proceed between U.S. and Chinese diplomats.
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Washington
U. S
Red China
Geneva
Switzerland
U. Alexis Jobson
Wang Ping-nan
Red
China
Aitedites
United States
Red Mainland
Red Tape Ensnarls Narcotics Case in Virginia
A Southwest Virginia narcotics case against Dr. Maurice Santurian was delayed as two Dickenson County grand juries disagreed on indictment. A Tuesday panel voted 3 to 2 to indict, while a seven member panel sworn in Wednesday did not indict. Santurian, a Wise and Dickenson counties physician, was arrested July 15 after allegedly selling narcotics to a woman linked to Dr. E. L. Sikes of Pound.
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Clintwood
Southwest Virginia
Dickenson County
Maurice Santurian
Wise
Dickenson
M. M. Long
Santurian
France
E. L Sikes
Pound
Moon Phases and Star Regions Visible This Week
Sky notes show perigee on Friday September 9 with the Moon rising after sunset and a new moon on September 16. The Square of Pegasus rises in the east and Altair appears high in the south after 8:45 p.m. A local business notice lists a Saturday noon closing for a company event at Baker & Anderson.
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Kernstown
Route 11
Washington Ave
Pegasus
Moonrise
Altair
Stair
Mississippi
Duff’s
Baker & Anderson
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Commission
GEO
Washington Garage
Loudoun
U.S
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Pingley & Carper
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