Whitehall High School - Whitehall Yearbook (Whitehall, PA)

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0 'f plagued with such false warnings over a two-month SPY KIT - This photo, supplied by Tass, Russian news agency, shows items which period. Whitehall was one of the few schools to were allegedly found in the United States iet plane shot down by the Russians on escape the bomb scares. May Day. The pilot was charged with spying by Premier Khrushchev. 7it472w7 af? ' ' truly Cinderella romance. In Great Britain, Princess Margaret and court photographer Antony Arm- strong-Jones were ioined in holy matrimony at West- minster Abbey by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Also in the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth gave birth to a baby boy much to the pride of the entire realm. This is the third child for the Queen and her husband, Prince Phillip. Trouble and international distress crept into Presi- dent Dwight D. Eisenhower's final year. For the first time, Congress overrode his veto and passed a Sl-35,000,000 Public Works Appropriation Act. Fidel Castro, Cuban premier, attacked the U.S. bitterly in speeches heard throughout the world. Waging a relentless economic aggression, Castro seized several American sugar plantations and oil refineries. After Congress granted him the power to regulate imports, the President ceased all importa- tion of Cuban sugar. HOPE - At Muhlenberg College Candlelight Service humbleness shows on faces of people as they pray and sing for a tension-free world.

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MUSICAL CLOSED - Sign on marquee of Broadhurst theater in New York calls BOMB SCARE - State police patrol ABE Airport as the blackout on Broadway an Equity strike in the dispute between actors and TWA plane is inspected in Allentown after a bomb producers that closed Broadway shows for the first time in 41 years. warning. Schools in the Lehigh Valley were also KENNEDY IN DENVER - Denverites clamor around Senator John F, Kennedy, center foreground, before he departs for Salt Lake City. L0 A 41112 '56 New York's Broadway was blacked out for the first time in 4l years, While numerous signs throughout New York called it an Equity strike, members of the Actors Equity called closing a lockout by producers. Rock 'n' Roll remained popular throughout the year. Its strength was boosted with the return of its king, Elvis Presley, who served three years in the army. Elvis and Connie Francis were chosen top vocalists of the year. Fashion designers returned belts to waistlines and the fashion world returned to normal, except for the lift in hemlines. These were placed two or less inches below the top of the knee. The old reliable shirtwaist dress became the popular silhouette of the year, and perky derby hats adorned stylish heads, Wedding bells rang, announcing ioy for many couples. Steven Rockefeller, son of Nelson Rockefeller who is governor of New York, married Swedish Anna Rasmussen, former maid of the Rockefellers, in a

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POLITICAL SCENE - In Washington, D.C., Senator Hubert Humphrey faces presidential nomination. Seniors on their three-day class trip were for- a group of newsmen busily taking notes at a Capitol Hill press conference tunate in hearing the Minnesota Senator expound his democratic principles as he announces his official entrance in the race for the l96O Democratic when they visited a session of the United States Senate. 0 4 o 0 : 7 o 'WT Q- 1 . HAPPY FACES - Whitehall High School students are delighted with food served in the newly opened cafeteria. Previous to the opening, which was in January, the entire student body carried packed lunches to eatr Con- fusion reigned for a few days until the system of serving and returning trcys was perfected, but after a few tries everything ran smoothly. 16 Relations with Russia seemed to be off to a good start when Premier Nikita Khrushchev made his first visit to the United States, touring various sections of the country. But, later in the year, a U.S. high- altitude jet plane, piloted by Frances G. Powers, was shot down in Russia. The plane was a spy plane sent out by the Central Intelligence Agency. Acrimonious remarks by Khrushchev on the incident caused dis- sension in the international conferences in Europe un- til the conference had to be disbanded. Nationwide, the fiftieth state, Hawaii, posted its first state elections. Republicans won the governor- ship and a seat in the Senate. The Democrats claimed seats in both the Senate and the House of Repre- sentatives in the election. Sl' SECRET SESSION - Posing before a closed-door session of the Senate Space Subcommittee are Allen Dulles, director of Central lnfelligence Agency, and chairman Lynden Johnson.