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/ rm l I I the waynesville mountaineer ==: I jVKIRF. in Congress brought quick arrests. Here capital police lid three of the four assassins who wounded five congressmen. y f0ur got prison sentences. SYMBOLS ? Released Korean prisoners carry Statue of Lib erty picture, U.N. flag. COLOR LINE BROKEN?White and Negro girls attend the same high school in Oklahoma for the first time although court im plementation of the segregation ban is delayed. SURVIVORS ? These French soldiers lived through the defeat at Dien Bien Phu and a 41-day death march to a Yietminh pris on camp. The picture was taken at Hanoi. BATTLE DRESS?West Ger man police wear military uni forms. presage future army. lenator McCarthy Made Year's Biggest Headlines According To AP Poll 4 By PAUL R. MICKELSON ^ Associated Press General News Editor The biggest news story of 1954 had all the elements of a Broad f smasn nit. it had two big acts ana a wondenui supporting cast. iaa a record run and a record auaience. Senator josepn it. Mccariny: s icua with the United States Army bis conaeninauon oy tne united states Senate was the Dig head r of the year, a real meto na of pontics with dramatic es off the main stage wings, as topped near year s end with Wisconsin senator s open break President Eisenhower. He Supreme Court's decision racial segregation in public ols was unconstitutional was led the second biggest story he year by editors in the an 1 Associated Press poll, but idn't come close to harvesting emotions and headlines devot to McCarthy and his battles. i Army hearings starred Mc thy and Joseph Welch, attor This Week's Best Sellers FICTION ke Is F.ternal, Irving Stone, iatherine, Anya Seton. He View from Pompey's Head. lilton Basso. Mdier of Fortune, Ernest K. u. lo Time for Sergeants, Mac Hy k NONFICTION ke Power of Positive Tliink , Norman Vincent Peale. Ibraham Lincoln, Carl Sand [ le Tumult and the Shouting, wtland Rice, H Cr> Tomorrow, Lillian Roth, fie Saturday Evening Post iwiry, Roger P. Butterfield. KAISER'S [BOOK STORE NGL 6-3691 Main St TIIE YEAR S BEST 1. McCarthy - Army hearings ana censure case. 2. Supreme court bans school segregation. 3. five congressmen shot by Puerto Mean .xauonalisls. 4. Democrats win nouse and Senate. 5. Signing of pacts to arm Germany. 6. Eall of Dien Bien Phu. 7. Geneva conference and In dochina settlement. 8. East Coast hurricanes. 9. Korean war prisoner ex j change completed. 10. Atoms for peace plan. j ney for the Army, and millions saw | and heard it over TV and radio. Together with the censure hear ings, which brought condemnation by a 67 to 22 vote against Mc Carthy for abusing congressional committees, the McCarthy feuds required 61 days of official testi mony. No other story, except for past wars and daily weather forecasts, ever achieved such records for sustained page one play in Ameri can newspapers. At the finish, the Republican party, like the Com munist - hunting senator, had one arm in a sling with the 1956 presi dential elections not very far away. 2. The Supreme Court's deci sion in May was unanimous. It held states do not have the right to separate Negro and white peo ple in different public schools. The ruling did not end segregation at once, but set further hearings, now held up due to the death of Jus tice Robert H. Jackson, to decide how and when to end the practice. Except for some strong state ments, quick agreements in some HEADLINES are made as Sen. Joseph McCarthy gestures. southern legislatures and sporadic 1 disturbances when the fall school i term opened, there was surprising i though uneasy calm over the trou- < bled areas of the South and border j states. The coming year, when ] implementation of the decision ( may be worked out. may tell one ^ of the great stories Of the century. 1 | 3. On March 1, an almost un believable thing happened. Four fanatics seated in the House of Representatives gallery in Wash ington, suddenly shouted, "Free Puerto Rico!", waved their flag | and began shooting. When the wild fusillade of some 20 shots had ended, blood was spilled in the honored legislative chamber. Five i congressmen were w ounded. All recovered and the nationalistic fan atics. led by a woman, received prison sentences. New methods of protection were thrown tc?.-ther I for the nation's lawmakers. 4. When the votes were count ed, the nation discovered it had held one of the closest ?ff-season elections in history. The Demo crats won control of the House and Senate, but by nothing like lie average margins run up against ;he party in power in non-presiden :ial year voting. The Democrats tvon the House, 282 to 203 and the Senate with 48 Democrats, 47 lie publicans and one pro-Democrat in dependent. Several veteran Sen ators and Representatives lost out. The Democrats picked up several governorships, All but one of the remaining Big Ten news stories of the year were concerned with the cAld war that grew hotter in many places. 5. This was the West's biggest diplomatic triumph of the year ?^ the historic agreement reached by nine anti - Communist allies Oct 21 on formation of the Western European Union. The pact to bring the Bonn Republic into the West ern European Union followed agreement by American, British. French and West German minis ters on terms to end nearly 10 years of occupation of Germany. It provides Complete sovereignty to West Germany with some excep tions. Ratification is pending but the road ahead is not smooth. 6. There was defeat as well as triumph. The greatest defeat for the West was the fall of Dien Bien Phu to the Communists, ft ended an heroic defense that stirred the western world and wrote finis to the seven-year war for Indochina. It struck a blow to France's mor ale. 7. The loss of Dien Bien Phu pulled the last cork of French and West resistance in Indochina and brought the peace settlement, the seventh biggest story. It also brought with it the rise to power ind world iniluence ot a new star ior iiojicc ? t* i'v 11111* r iucnueis i ? aiice. ; d. nurricanes set a record ior lea (tl ana uai nugc to me nasi ?oasi. Hurricane carol ana tuna caused neariy luu ueauis ana Houu.uuo aamage to hew York ina hew niigiand, dui Deiore me aeons eouiu * oe eieaiitu up an ouier ana more aisasirous one named Hazel suuek. nazei kiaed more tnan iuu persons lroin houin Carolina, wnerc It tirst hit the mainiana, to Canada. Damage irom it atone was estimated at more than a hall billion dollars. 9. In January, tne ivorean war prisoner exchange finally was completed. The story, rated ninth, had many tragic consequences as 21 American prisoners ot *ar re nounced their homeland while in Red captivity. Some did return and others, too. were prosecuted for fraternizing with the Reds , against the welfare of their fellow prisoners. Another tragic conse quence developed in December when the Chinese Reds announced ^ they had convicted 11 uniformed U. S. fliers for espionage. The ration appealed to the United Na- wi tions for action and found it hard to keep its temper. 10. The 10th biggest story was one of hope. It was President Eis enhower's plan to share the atoms Former Resident's Grandson Named To West Point Curtis Grant "Hint" Logan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Logan, of Lakeland. Kla., lias been named Congressman James A, Haley's \ principal appointee to West Point The telegram of the appoint ment came Christmas eve, Mrs. Logan said. Curtis is spending his Christmas vacation from the Mar ion Military Institute, Marion. Ala. He is studying a pre-engin eeiing course in the junior col lege and military school. He is the grandson of Mrs Mary S. Logan, and the late G. C , Logan of WaynesvlUe, and alsc the grandson of the late Mr. anc Mrs. S. C. Liner. Logan is a 1954 graduate o! Lakeland High School where h played football and' won a letter j for his play with the Marie team. He is also co-editor of "Th Skirmisher", the Marion schoo newspaper. If he completes successfully tin entrance examinations to be gi\ , en later, he will enter the U. S i Military Academy at West Poin i in June 1955. WRECKAGE was widespread wiien hurrs-anes swept over the East Coast. Here is the scene in Pawtuxet, R. I. when small boats were swept up onto people's lawns. r peace instead of hoarding them 1 r war. There were pitfalls ahead I! th many pessimists predicting' hat the plan never could succeed. 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