Tragic Giles County Crash Claims 16 Year Old Boy
Jessie Dewayne Montgomery of Newport in Giles County died after a single vehicle crash on State Route 700 near Newport. Stanford Lewis Stump, the driver, was jailed on charges including driving while intoxicated. Montgomery was pinned in a creek after the pickup went off the road. Funeral services are set for Friday at Sherry Memorial Christian Church in Newport.
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Giles County
Giles Memorial Hospital
Pearisburg
Newport
Wytheville
Jessie Dewayne Montgomery
Charles W. Montgomery
Stanford Lewis Stump
Young Montgomery
D. W. Orfield
Montgomery
William Montgomery
J. C. Porterfield
Sherry Memorial Christian Church
Williams-Jamiston Funeral Home
Pembroke
Kennedy Visits Ailing Newborn Son In Boston Hospital
President Kennedy visited his premature newborn Patrick Bouvier Kennedy at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston after the infant, born by Caesarean at Otis Air Force Base, developed idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome. The baby, baptised that day, remains in an incubator with doctors monitoring his condition. Mrs. Kennedy is staying at Otis and will visit as advised.
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Boston
Kennedy
Otis Air Force Base
James E. Drorbaugh
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Salinger
Otis
John Scahill
Otis Afb
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Patrick J
Joseph Patrick Kennedy
John Bouvier
Massachusetts
Missing Man Found In River Near Raven Virginia
Raymond Newberry, 44, of Raven, Virginia, who disappeared Tuesday afternoon, was found dead in Clinch River near Raven at the Dicken son Hole. Rescue divers ruled accidental drowning likely from an epileptic seizure as his knife and hat were found on the bank. He leaves a wife Arlene and two sons Danny and Ronnie. Farmer's Funeral Home of Richlands handles arrangements.
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Raymond Newberry
Raven
Dickenson Hole
Clinch River
James Mullins
Richlands
Mullins
Newberry
Arlene Newberry
Danny
Ronnie Newberry
West Virginia Week Forecast Expect Near Normal Temperatures
The Weather Bureau predicts near normal temperatures in West Virginia from Wednesday night through Monday. Normal lows run 57 to 62 degrees and highs about 81 to 86. Showers totaling a quarter to a half inch expected over the weekend.
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the Weather Bureau
West Virginia
Key Firemen Get Summons From Wirtz
Washington AP The 156 chairmen of the AFL CIO firemen and enginemen meet next week to press for a possible agreement in the four year feud over work rules. Secretary Wirtz notes this group must be present if talks yield a settlement as Congress weighs intervention to avoid a nationwide rail strike.
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Washington (Ap
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Congress
J. L. Shattuck
Afl-Cio Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Shattuck
Kennedy
Senate
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Farland to Decide on Politics After Panama Posting
Retiring U S ambassador Joseph Farland said he will move to Morgantown West Virginia at month end and then decide whether to enter politics. He cited differences with Edward Martin and Teodoro Moscoso but denied a row, and said the dispute was not over aid suspensions for Panama. He resigned to avoid a desk job in Washington.
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Panama City
U.S
Joseph Farland
Morgantown
W. Va
Farland
Edward Martin
Inter - American Affairs
Teodoro Moscoso
Alliance For Progress
Panama
Foreign Service
Washington
Nations Sign Test Ban Pact Opens Worldwide
The nuclear test ban treaty opens to all states with Australia leading signings in Washington as President Kennedy sends ratification to the Senate. Envisioned universal participation includes Britain and the Soviet Union, with France and Red China remaining outside.
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Washington
Australia
Kennedy
Senate
White House
Andrew Hatcher
U.S
France
Red China
Britain
Soviet Union
United States
London
Moscow
U.S. Senate
Russia
Mississippi runoff looms as Johnson and Coleman clash
In Mississippi the runoff race for governor pits Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson against former Gov. J P Coleman. With most precincts reporting Johnson leads Coleman by about 20,000 votes amid predicted emphasis on race. Both men previously resisted Negro enrollment at the University of Mississippi and are seen shaping strategy around segregation issues.
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Johnson
Coleman
Charles Sullivan
Robert Mason
University of Mississippi
Hattiesburg
James Meredith
Ackerman
Clenon King
King
Meredith
Fourth Final Report By SEC Due Today
The SEC releases the third of four installments to conclude a two year study. It examines the mid 1962 stock market break, credit use in buying securities, mutual funds, and self regulating mechanisms in the industry.
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Washington
Duvalier claims rebels crushed in Haiti invasion
Port au Prince reports say President Duvalier's regime forced the rebel force across the border into the Dominican Republic after hours of fighting in north Haiti. Government and exile sources dispute the outcome, with Cantave reportedly still active in Haiti and Cap Haitien area contested.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Dominican Republic
Leon Cantave
Duvalier
Santo Domingo
Cap Haitien
Gonaives
George J. Figaro
Figaro
Meillac
Ft. Liberte
Dominican
Fort Liberte
Cap , Haitien
Artibonite Plain
Torrential rain floods Buffalo and suburbs. thousands evacuated
Torrential rainfall swamped Buffalo and eastern Cheektowaga forcing evacuation by boat of about 300 people. Four inches in 52 hours caused extensive damage to viaducts, schools, and streets with power outages and halted buses. Federal aid possible as emergency declared by Mayor Kowal and Governor Rockefeller.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Puffalo
Chester Kowal
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Delegates Seek Unity At Hiroshima Nuclear Conference
Delegates from China and the Soviet Union momentarily set aside clashes to keep the Hiroshima ban the bomb conference from collapsing. They halted a heated debate on the Big Three partial nuclear test ban after a show of unity, while internal drafting committees faced friction and the conference faced possible dissolution.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Red
Virginia GOP Faces Hurdles for Presidential Primary
Virginia Republican state chairman Horace E. Henderson said legal hurdles must be overcome for a state presidential preferential primary next year. He noted Virginia law does not authorize such primaries and a committee will study changes needed, likely requiring General Assembly revision.
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Richmond
Virginia
Bodies Found In Wreckage Near Elkhurst West Virginia
The missing private plane with two Ohio men aboard was found wed night near Elkhurst seven miles southwest of Clay West Virginia. Victims tentatively identified as Ernest Pelizzari 51 of Sebring Ohio and Edward Beltrami 50 of Alliance Ohio. Civil Air Patrol had searched central West Virginia after bad weather halted a Florida to Alliance flight. The pilot radioed Charleston airport for heading then was not heard from again.
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Clay
W.va
Elkhurst
Here
Federal Aviation Agency
Ernest Pelizzari
Sebring
Ohio
Edward Beltrami
Alliance
West Virginia Civil Air Patrol
West Virginia
Florida
Charleston
Negro Leaders Report Mixed Reactions To Civil Rights Lobbying
NAACP delegates in Washington found Capitol Hill receptions cordial yet the lobbying outcome unclear. Thomas Cobbs of Portsmouth NH reported Senator Norris Cotton’s responses as noncommittal and pages of words with little action on civil rights.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Thomas P. Cobbs
Portsmouth
N.H
Norris Cotton
Officials In On State Insurance
Charleston AP reports two state officials confirm Beckley National Guard Armory insurance with a company tied to them. Secretary Burdett and Commissioner Nuckols said about 98 percent of 880 420 coverage was reinsured with other firms. DFC in Beckley awarded the contract.
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Charleston
Beckley National Guard Armory
Joe F. Burdett
Jack A. Nuckols
Diversified Fire and Casualty Co
DFC
Beckley
Royal Indemnity Co
Burdett
Diversified Mountaineer Corp
State Armory Board
Armory
Nuckols
Raleigh Insurance Agency, Inc
Royal
Special election quip from Virginia governor on dog Ricky
Gov Albertis S Harrison Jr joked at the Federal Court Clerks Association that a special gubernatorial race would have seen a dog win if Ricky the German Shepherd, accused of killing sheep, had run. He noted pardons do not extend to dogs and the case was remanded for mercy.
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Norfolk
Virginia
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Harrison
Federal Court Clerks Association
Ricky
Robert Y. Button
Court of Origin
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Jessie D. Montgomery
Pierre Salinger
Farmer's Funeral Home of
Wirtz
Mississippi
SEC
Claude Raymond
Foreign Affairs
Leon Can‘tave
Cheeklowaga
Canada
Meyer Memorial Hospital
Cheektowaga
N. Y
Abby
Princeton
Eee A
Goren Graham
Hiroshima Trace
Communist Party
Peking
Uri Zhukyovy
American Reinsurance Co
New York City
American Employers Co
Boston, Mass
Commerce and Industry Insur
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