Civil Rights Feud Splits Supporters
Washington June 7. Rep Wayne Hays Ohio denounces Rep Adam Clayton Powell New York in a bitter split over tactics for the civil rights bill. Hays accuses Powell of a scurrilous letter aimed at swaying votes against a jury trial amendment. Powell, recovering from heart attack in Bethesda Naval Hospital, defends his stance as the controversy broadens within the Negro and Democratic ranks.
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Washington
Wayne Hays
Ohio
Adam Clayton .Powell
New York
Hays
Powell
The
Ohioan
Congress
Bethesda, Md
Naval Hospital
Rep. Celler
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Eisenhower observes air-sea rescue off Florida coast
President Eisenhower returned from an overnight seagoing inspection of U S naval power off Florida's East Coast. He witnessed a dramatic air-sea rescue that interrupted maneuvers around the 6,000 ton carrier Saratoga. One downed jet pilot was found dead, the other rescued in very good condition.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Florida
Mayport Naval Base
Fla
Two Yanks Freed From Red Prison
Two South Carolina students held in Communist Hungary since May 2% were released today and arrived here shortly before midnight. Mike A. Gilbert of Walterboro and Warren Hair of North Augusta, S.C., said they were freed from a Budapest prison at 6:30 p.m. Escorted by Hungarian police, they were brought to the border and turned over to Austrian authorities in good spirits.
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Nickelsdorf
Australa
South Carolina
Hungary
Mike A. Gilbert
Walterboro
Warren Hair
North Augusta
S.C
Budapest
Wright gets Baghdad project gift from King of Iraq
ARCHITECT FRANK LLOYD Wright, 86, says a birthday gift is a commission to build a 45 million dollar cultural center in Baghdad. Three Japanese welders died and one injured in a gas explosion aboard the British tanker Stanvas Japan now in Nagasaki drydock. An American Medical Assn report to its New York convention notes drinking one ounce of alcohol raises crash risk by over 1000 percent. Attorneys seek release for Alvin Horn's 14 year old bride, Barbara Ellice Richardson Horn, pregnant per doctor's statement. she is jailed as a juvenile delinquent out of parental control. Major Gen. Leonard D. Heaton to receive the Distinguished Service Medal for operating on Eisenhower and Dulles. Rep. Moore urges Wheeling College's 1.1 million federal loan for dorms approval by HFA.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
King Feisa
Iraq
Baghdad
Stanvas
Japan
Nagasaki
American Medical Assn
New York
Alvin Horn
Talladega
Ala
Barbara Ellice Richardson Horn
Horn
Army
Leonard D. Heaton
Eisenhower
Dulles
Rep. Moore
R-Wva
Wheeling College
Housing and Home Finance Agency
EwartS man dies after bee sting hobby in Kentucky
Grant Shockley, 75, of Ewarts Kentucky, died shortly after receiving 18 bee stings on his face and neck while tending his hobby. The incident occurred Friday, with coworkers noting the unusual hobby.
Athletics top Red Sox 6 3 in opener of four game series
Catcher Hal Smith hit a home run and two doubles as the Kansas City Athletics defeated the Boston Red Sox 6-3 tonight. The win puts fifth place in the American League at stake as the series opens.
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Kansas City
Hal Smith
Kansas City Athletics
Boston Red Sox
Atomic Medicine Expert Supports Nuclear Tests
Dr Shields Warren an atomic medicine expert said it would be inexcusable for the United States to jeopardize free world safety by halting nuclear weapons tests. He testified before a Senate House Atomic subcommittee supporting the need to test for weapon reliability.
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Washington
Shields Warren
United States
Free World
Senate
House Atomic Subcommittee
O Willard F. Libby
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Libby
Warren
Job Offered To Underwood Aide Sparks Board Contention
Gov. Cecil H. Underwood and Theo dore T. Dorman, president of the Board of Control, are photographed as a $20,000 job offer triggers criticism and signals discord among potential candidates. The Post-Herald caption notes the political clash surrounding the appointment.
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Cecil H. Underwood
Center
Theodore T. Dorman
Board of Control
Post-Herald
Beckley Area Papers Shine In West Virginia Press Contest
Beckley Post-Herald and area papers received multiple honors at the West Virginia Press Assn annual Better Newspaper Contest awards dinner at Cacapon State Park. Local editors and reporters from the Raleigh Register and Charleston Gazet te earned top placements in page one make-up, editorial writing, women's page photography, and tourism stories, with citations awarded to 130 winners overall.
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Post-Herald
West Virginia Press Assn
Association
Cacapon State Park
Berkeley Springs
Kathy Springer
C. J. McQuade
Raleigh Register
Register
Lina McFarland
Mel Verost
West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission
West Virginia
Parkersburg News
Charleston Gazette
Lois Amick
Nancy Brady
The
Gazette
Mary Chilton Chapman
Paul L. Crabtree
Chester Hawes
Earl Benton
Charleston Daily Mail
Tom Cummings
Daily Mail
Monroe Worthington
Oak Hill Fayette Tribune
War
City Psychiatrist Declines State Mental Health Post
Beckley psychiatrist Dr. William E. Wilkinson refused a $20,000 a year state mental health post citing commitments to current patients. Gov. Underwood met Wilkinson in Beckley with Theodore Dorman to discuss the department rollout and potential successors, noting the head must be a state citizen and board-certified. The governor will delay director appointment until July 1, keeping six institutions under the Board of Control for now.
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Department of Mental Health
W. E. Wilkinson
Beckley
William E. Wilkinson
Cecil H. Underwood
Wilkinson
Theodore T. Dorman
Board of Control
Department of Public Safety
Dorman
St. Albans
Radford
Charleston
American Board of Psychiatry
Eisenhower Urges GOP to Back Election Promises
President Eisenhower told a national Republican rally that Senate and House leaders have a special responsibility to translate 1956 platform pledges into laws. He warned that without broad party support for his program, party responsibility and representative government could fail. He likened the plea to a football huddle urging unity and execution of the chosen play.
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Eisenhower
Washington
Congress
GOP
Senate
House
Ballard Stricken in Fair Condition at Raleigh General
George W. Ballard former Pine Crest Santarium business manager was reported in fair condition at Raleigh General Hospital after fainting in a Main Street store yesterday. He was taken by ambulance from Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home around 2 p.m. Ballard was conscious upon arrival and remains under observation.
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George W. Ballard
Pinecrest Santarium
Raleigh General Hospital
Ballard
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Lias' Woes Mount
Additional personal claims totaling more than $100000 filed against William G Lias bring total claims with Lias' personal receiver to about $366009 Receiver Frank Keefer says the list is now complete as the filing deadline passed Keefer prepares a priority list for payment to be submitted to U S District Court for approval.
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Wheeling
William G. Lias
Lias
Frank Keefer
Keefer
U. S. District Court
U S Stores Corn Loans Share Dated June 7
Washington reports from the Agriculture Department that growers had stored nearly 13 percent of last year’s corn crop under price support loans through May 15.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Best-Of-Show Flower Exhibit Winner Named
Mrs M M Ralston wins best-of-show in artistic arrangements at the Raleigh County Garden Council flower show Color in Flowers held in Beckley Hotel ballroom. She created a Nubian head centerpiece with red hot poker tritoma croton leaves orange lilies limes and plums with miniature elephant tusks as accents.
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Raleigh County Garden Council
Beckley Hotel
M. M. Ralston
Azalea Garden Club
Robert L. Amick
Beckley Garden Club
Amick
Ralston
Post-Herald
National Spelling Bee crowns co winners Sandra and Dana
Sandra Owen of Navarre Ohio and Dana Bennett of Denver Colorado were declared co champions after a stalemate in the national spelling bee. The event featured 14 year old Sandra and 13 year old Dana sharing the top honor. Fred Souk of the Azores was a strong contestant finishing in the later rounds and his family has roots in Oak Hill West Virginia.
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Raleigh County
Brenda Green
Sophia
Fred Souk
Azores
Washington
Sandra Owen
Fred
Lajes
Oak Hill
W. Va
U.S
the Stars and Stripes
Trailways Seeks To Revise Fares In Southern West Virginia
Virginia State Lines operator of Trailways buses asks the Public Service Commission to approve fare adjustments in Southern West Virginia to create more uniform rates. Some fares rise July 1 while others fall and unchanged charges remain. Increases include Beckley to Mullens from 9 to 9 that is a transcription error. kept as written? and Bluefield to Huntington from 3.95 to 4.50 and Bluefield to Welch from 80 cents to 1. Reductions include Bluefield to Pineville from 1.85 to 1.80 and decreases on Northfork to Pineville Oceana Man Logan and Chapmanville routes.
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Charleston
Virginia State Lines
Trailways Buses
Public Service Commission
West Virginia
Beckley
Mullens
Bluefield
Huntington
Welch
Pineville
Northfork
Oceana
Man
Logan
Chapmanville
France moves to seat Bourges-Maunoury as premier
Paris June 7 the Socialist party virtually assured Maurice BourgesMaunoury a premier post as defense minister. The Socialist National Committee voted 51 33 to share governance with the 42 year old Radical Socialist member. Bourges Maunoury secured pledges of cooperation from parties including the Popular Republican Movement. The two hour meeting marked progress in a political crisis hampering French administration for over two weeks.
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Paris
Socialist Party
Maurice Bourges-Maunoury
Socialist National Committee
Radical- Socialist Party
Bourges Maunoury
Popular Republican Movement
Escaped Prisoner Returned To Jail
Earl Stanley Brown of Price Hill walked off from a courthouse work detail on October 26. He hitchhiked on U S 19 21 at Flat Top around 10 p.m. and was picked up by a State Trooper. Brown was jailed for breaking guard and faces a six month sentence after an earlier drunken arrest.
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Raleigh
Earl Stanley Brown
Price Hill
Brown
U. S. 19
Oil and Aircraft Trade Drove Mixed Market in New York
June 7 reports show oils and aircrafts trading active as the stock market posted a mixed pattern in New York. Investors watched shifts across energy and aviation shares, with some gains offset by declines in other sectors.
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New York
US Pledges 95 Million for Poland Aid Pact
The United States pledged 95 million dollars in aid to communist Poland to resist Moscow dominance and boost trade with the free world. Of the total, 48.9 million was provided in a signed agreement, 46.1 million to be promised later. First cotton deliveries are expected in about three weeks, timing that coincides with the bread and freedom riots anniversary at Poznan. The signings mark a new era in US Poland trade and relations, with leaders calling for expanded economic ties and reduced tensions.
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Washington
United States
Poland
State Department
Poznan
Soviet Union
U.S
Asst
Thorsten V. Kalijarvi
Henryk Kotlicki
Boulder Tragedy Strikes Bus and Jeep in West Virginia
In MATEWAN West Virginia on Rt 49 rocks tumbled from a mountainside striking a bus and jeep injuring four people One man Andy Bowling 72 of Merrimac was hospitalized with pelvic injuries after a stone weighing over a ton brushed him They also injured passengers Trimble Sisco 35 of Thacker Mines Ida Hamilton 47 of Freeborn Kentucky and driver Fred Estep 40 of Matewan All injuries described as minor or slight and the man was taken to Williamson hospital.
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Matewan
W. Va
Rt. 49
Here
Andy Bowling
Merrimac
Williamson
Trimble Sisco
Thacker Mines
Ida Hamilton
Freeborn
Fred Estep
Coal Tonnage Up in West Virginia Production
Charleston June 7 The State Department of Mines reported that coal production in West Virginia for the first four months of this year totaled nearly two million tons more than the same period in 1956.
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Charleston
State Department of Mines
West Virginia
Hodel Reaches Finalists for Conservationist Award
Charles Hodel, Beckley publisher, is one of five finalists for Conservationist of the Year by the West Virginia Forest Council. The Charleston ceremony on June 29 will crown the winner. ballots were sent to 1,200+ media and organizations.
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Charles Hodel
Beckley
West Virginia Forest Council, Inc
Councils
Charleston
West Virginia
Ed Johnson
Charleston Daily Mail
C. H. Archer
Princeton
Carl Radford
United Fuel Gas Co
John Anderson
Forest Products Industries
Huntington
Skip’’ Johnson
Charleston Gazette
Don Cuppett
Carbide and Carbon Chansons .Co
Weather forecast notes cooler trend with scattered showers
The region rides a mostly cloudy, cooler day with showers to the south. Extended outlook calls for near normal temperatures through Wednesday with a cooler Sunday and warmer Tuesday. Scattered showers today and general showers Wednesday may total an inch or more. temperatures run around 69 in the north and 70 in the south. River levels at Bellepoint show Greenbrier River muddy and slightly above normal, with New River and Bluestone Reservoir similarly above normal.
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Weather Bureau
Atlanta
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