Red China Hails U2 Flight Downing as U.S. Aggression
Communist broadcasts in Peiping escalated anti American rhetoric after reporting a downed U2 reconnaissance plane over the mainland. They claimed U.S. control of the mission and warned against imperialist aggression while Gen Maxwell Taylor visited Southeast Asia. Japanese officials and media weighed the incident, with many accepting the U.S. account that the U2 and another plane were sold by Lockheed to the Nationalists in 1960.
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Tokyo
Red China
Asia
Washington
Red
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China
Air
Peiping
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
New China
Lockheed Aircraft Co
America
Study Commission Ends Hearings On Highways
Virginia Highway Study Commission wrapped up public hearings on the state road system needs with proposals echoing earlier sessions in Warrenton Norfolk Abingdon and Roanoke. Farm Bureau leader T T Curtis urged raising the auto license fee to 25 a year to fund road construction claiming it would offset costs from outdated roadways.
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Richmond
Virginia Highway Study Commission
Old Dominion
Warrenton
Norfolk
Abingdon
Roanoke
T. T. Curtis
Virginia Farm Bureau Federation
Curtis
Orange County
Study Commission
General Assembly
Virginia
Europe’s cost of living rises faster than U S
Ohio State University economists say the cost of living increased more in Europe than in the United States over the last 12 months. Denmark Britain Norway and France posted gains between 5 and 5.9 percent while the U S rose 1.2 percent.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Europe
U. S
Denmark
Britain
Norway
France
Garland Cather Named Acting Chief At Round Hill
Garland Cather will take over as chief of the Round Hill Community Fire Company until the November elections. Gerald Hepner will be his assistant. Fire Chief Kenneth Lewis has resigned to become a driver for the Friendship Fire Co. Shooting matches begin the first Saturday in October. A Osborn Miller was voted a member, and a nominating committee was named to choose Board candidates: Albert Boswell, chairman, Clayton Pingley, E. W. Steele, Gerald Hepner and Charles Sake.
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Garland Cather
Round Hill Community Fire Company
Gerald Hepner
Kenneth Lewis
Friendship Fire Co
A. Osborn Miller
Albert Boswell
Clayton Pingley
E. W. Steele
Charles Sake
Brumback Heads Pomona Grange at Frederick County meeting
C Lucian Brumback was named president of the Frederick County Pomona Grange at its meeting with White Hall Grange. Officers elected for two year terms include Oren Snapp lecturer Mrs Alice Snapp steward Jessie B Lewis assistant steward and several others. Five new members joined Pomona and delegates to the state convention in Richmond were named. The Heinz Company elected Vira I Heinz director at a Pittsburgh shareholders meeting noting sales at the best rate in history.
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C. Lucian Brumback
Frederick County
Pomona Grange
White Hall
Oren Snapp
Alice Snapp
Jessie B. Lewis
P. S. Hershman
R. L. Hepner
Herbert S. Jones
Carrie Lee Brumback
Herbert Taylor
Henry Judy
Ceres
Anna Brumback
Pomona
Grace Dye
Flora
Virginia
Vira I. Heinz
H. J. Heinz Company
Pittsburgh
Byrd to donate shelter on Mary's Rock near Appalachian Trail
Senator Harry F Byrd will donate a third campers shelter to be built on Mary's Rock about three miles from Panorama. The location remains to be fixed and a road will lead to the shelter once set. The shelter, near the Appalachian Trail, mirrors Byrds Nest Nos 1 and 2 in construction. The cost was not released and the site sits about 5500 feet high.
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Luray
Harry F. Byrd
Mary’s Rock
Panorama
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