Two Die After Truck Hit By Express Train In Ritchie County
Two men died when a light truck was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad express train near Ellenboro West Virginia. Luther Clay Keys 63 of Wilbur Tyler County and Lonnie Francis Orr 60 of Alma Tyler County were killed. The crash occurred after leaving a stock sale at Laberion on a private road crossing. The train carried the truck about 1600 feet.
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Ellenboro
W. Va
Ritchie County
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
J. H. Parsons
Luther Clay Keys
Wilbur
Tyler County
Lonnie Francis Orr
Alma
Tyler
Middlebourne
Keys
Tyler County Court
Orr
Parsons
Laberion
Raleigh Dealers Reject GM Plan in Beckley Area
Five General Motors dealers in Raleigh County rejected GM’s five year contract proposal. They telegrammed N A A executive vice president Fred J ll demanding an equitable selling agreement. Dealers cited a 90 day cancel clause as unfair favoring the company and sought mutual terms.
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Beckley
General Motors Automobile
Raleigh County
Fred J.ll
National Automobile Lers Assn
Edward J Sharp
Wilbur Mays
C. S Lewis Jdr
Harry Comer
Paul Drencan
Washington
Harlow J. Curlice
Senate
Sharp
Tech President Blasts Experts Over Engineering Courses
West Virginia Tech President W B Axtell said concentrating degree-length engineering programs at WVU is unreal istic and short sighted. He argued demand for engineers is huge and Tech serves southern West Virginia with 80 percent of its students from within a three mile radius of Montgomery.
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Montgomery
W. Va
W. B. Axtell
West Virginia Tech
West Virginia University
WVU
Stewart H Smith
Marshall
Axtell
West Virginia
Grateful US Dedicates Pearl Harbor Memorial
A 10-foot lava rock memorial honoring those who died in the Pearl Harbor attack was dedicated at Pearl Harbor in a quiet ceremony. Navy Club national commander Charles R. Topp of Davenport Iowa called for not forgetting heroes and the principles they died for. The rock overlooks the sunken Arizona near the gangplank to the battleship.
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Perarl Harbor
Charles R. Topp
Davenport
Iowa
Navy Club of the
United States
Navy
Navy Club
Arizona
Meany Seeks Live and Let Live Labor Industry Pact
George Meany said NAM may pursue a live and let live labor industry agreement though NAM denied contact. Sligh said no NAM rep spoke with Meany beyond inviting him to speak at the Dec. 9 meeting. Meany noted staff level talks and open room for an agreement amid shared interest in a functioning American system. AFL CIO convention heard Folsom vow a school aid program and the IUD formed with 31 former CIO and 35 former AFL unions, with Reuther and Carey elected to IUD posts.
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New York
APL Cio
George Meany
National Assn. of Manufacturers
NAM
Meany
New York Times
Charles R. Sligh Jr
Association
Sligh
Congress of American Industry
Organized Labor
Afl-Cio
Marion B. Folsom
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Eisenhower
Congress
Industrial Union Department
CIO
AFL
IUD
APL
Walter Reuther
James Carey
Weather Across Mid-Atlantic and Midwest Forecast
Maryland and Virginia see Mostly cloudy skies with high in the 40s on Thursday and fair but cooler conditions Friday. Ohio and Pennsylvania expect partly to mostly cloudy skies with wind and snow flurries near Lake Erie and chilly Friday. Kentucky and Tennessee forecast milder to turning colder with scattered rain or snow and continued fair spells. Western Pennsylvania faces light snow in the north and rain or snow south Thursday with a colder Friday.
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Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
Lake Erie
Kentucky
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Hubby Kills Wife For Refusal To Give Kiss
An elderly retired baker killed his wife with a hatchet after she refused a kiss in their Carrick home. Eugene Cromer, 75, said they had been fighting for years and called police after striking Anna Cromer, 64, from behind.
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Pittsburgh
Anna Cramer
Carrick
Eugene
Cromer
Abingdon Salesman Robbed While Showing Car
A car salesman Seton Lilly of Abingdon Motor Co reported a $30 to $40 holdup at gunpoint by a prospective buyer near Glade Spring. The thief, about 21, drove away in the 1955 model he was showing. Lilly said the man lured him to the area to view the car for his father. In a separate note, Census Bureau data show U S farms declined by about 600 000 from 1950 to 1954 while average farm size rose to 242.2 acres in 1954.
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Abingdon
Seton Lilly
Abingdon Motor Co
Glade Spring
Lilly
Washington
Census Bureau
Bureau
Air Force Deputy to Speak in Welch at 8 PM
Assistant Deputy to Air Force Secretary Bradley D Nash and Col John McDougle arrive Mercer Airport at 2 30 today en route to Welch where Nash will speak at the American Legion home at 8 p m He will discuss the Air Force Reserve Training Program and reserve personnel from Welch and Bluefield area will greet the incoming Piedmont light and escort the motorcade through Welch
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Air Force
Bradley D. Nash
Mercer
Welch
Nash
John McDougle
Air Force Reserve Affairs
Washington, D. C
Piedmont ‘Light
W. H. Ballard
Ashley Belmont
Roanoke
American Legion
Air Force Reserve
Bluefield
Man 54 Convicted In Federal Marijuana Case
Joseph Torquato, 54, of Pittsburgh, convicted by a federal jury on possession of marijuana. Judge John L. Miller handed a four year prison term after police found nearly 200 pounds of marijuana on the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Irwin on May 5, 1953. He had earlier been convicted on a state charge in Greensburg and appealed to the U S Supreme Court.
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Pittsburgh
Joseph Torquato
John L. Miller
Torquato
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the United States
Virginia Man Reports Lost Pocketbook in Local Stores
Richard Buchanan of Bluefield Virginia told City Police he lost a pocketbook yesterday in either the Kresge Store or Montgomery Ward. The item listed $24 in cash and included both his and his wife's driver licenses and various identification cards.
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Richard Buchanan
Bluefield
Kresge
Montgomery Ward
Fear of Educational Aristocracy Looms Over College Seats
Dr. Charles L. Harman, president of Bluefield College, warned in Richmond that rapid enrollment growth may force colleges to admit only top grade high school graduates. He cited risks of an aristocracy and urged solutions like double shifts and larger class sizes to expand capacity. He noted state-supported colleges may cope better than church-affiliated schools.
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Richmond
Southern Assn. of
Charles L. Harman
Bluefield College
Bluefield
Harman
Miami
Board of Missions and Education
Virginia Assn
Elven
America
Virginia
Panny
Virginia Baptist Assn
Police See Hoax as Boy Burns Self in Park
Cleveland reports say 17 year old Earl R Fryman a parochial student who wished to be a priest was badly burned after claiming kidnapers chained him to a tree in Fair view Park Hospital. Police deem the tale a hoax while Fryman’s father stands by him amid missing details of the incident.
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Cleveland
Earl R. Fryman
Fairview Park
Alene
David E. Kerr
Police Homicide Bureau
Kerr
Fryman
S.e
Earl E. Fryman
Ten State Psychiatric Patients Try New Chlorpromazine
Ten Huntington State Hospital patients and 15 others received chlorpromazine to ease tensions. Officials and reporters will observe the month-long treatment results after an earlier November interview graded patient behavior. Early state data show about 15 percent discharged and 65 percent helped, with the drug noted for quieting patients and aiding therapy.
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Huntington
Huntington State Hospital
Bland Street Church to Host Yale Concert
The eighty voice Concord College Choir directed by Professor Edward Steiner will present a Christmas music service at Bland Street Methodist Church Sunday at 7 30 p m. Selections span from medieval to modern Christmas songs as the first in Bland Street’s Christmas program series.
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Concord College
Edward Steiner
Bland Street Methodist Church
Community Christmas Fund Drive Sponsors Programs
Bluefield’s Bluefield Community Christmas Tree Association seeks 3.50 from each wealthy resident to fund gifts and toys for local children. Local talent hosts nightly WHIS radio shows aiming to raise 4 000 for the project. Princeton High School Band led by Billy Lilly performed a standout set on the Christmas Tree Show.
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Bluefield
Princeton
Billy Lilly
Viola Clark
Henry Fortune
Anna Mae Foresman
Santa Claus
Whis Radio
P. O
Community Christmas Tree Association
Last rites and funeral details across multiple obituaries
Funeral notices for Mrs Bessie Rider of Wytheville and Lionel Karnes of Monroeton are listed with service times, officiants, and burial places. Additional rites cover Rev. Jennings Hobson of Bluefield, Theodore Bailey of Wyoming County, Frank Griffin of Bluefield, and Mrs Georgia Belcher of Boissevain.
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J. W. Hobson
Jennings Wise Hobson
Bluefield
Christ Episcopal Church
Hobson
Wilburn C. Campbell
West Virginia
Frank Rowley
Christ Church
Jennings Wise Hobson Jr
Hanover
Griffin C. Callahan
Pittsburgh, Pa
Ralph W. Smith Jr
Wrightsville Beach
N. C
Parson Hobson
Paul L. Roger
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Funeral services for Roby Blevins in New Richmond
Roby Blevins, 73, of New Richmond, will have funeral services at 3 p.m. today at New Richmond Chapel with interment at Jackson Cemetery. The obituary notes a local service for the community.
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Lionel O. Karnes
Monroeton
T. D. Dickenson
John Dunn
L. D. Yost
Kee Street Methodist Church
Princeton
Resthaven Cemetery
Gentry
Buck Hatcher
Gay McPherson
Tony Marshall
Johnny Cole
Mike Flanigan
Cousins
Blevins
Roby
New Richmond
New Richmond Chapel
Jackson Cemetery
Henry Ford II Criticizes Fund for the Republic
Henry Ford II said in a private letter that he has criticized some actions of the Fund for the Republic. The Ford Foundation sponsors the fund where Ford chairs the trustees and also leads Ford Motor Co as its president. The fund, created in 1952 with a 15 million dollar grant, has faced leftist criticisms and aims to promote the Bill of Rights and constitutional principles.
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Detroit
Henry Ford II
Fund For
The
Republic
Ford Foundation
Ford
Ford Motor Co
Foundation
Virginia Stage Seeks merger approval for 3.14 million purchase
Virginia Stage Lines of Charlottesville asks the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve its 3.14 million buy of Consolidated Bus Lines of Bluefield. The plan includes a recapitalization issuing two million new shares of 1 par value stock and converting existing 100 par shares at 50 to 1.
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Washington
Virginia Stage Lines, Inc
Charlottesville
Interstate Commerce Commission
Consolidated Bus Lines, Inc
Bluefield
W. Va
Virginia Stage
WHIS-TV Ford Show Bets on Calhoun and Robbins
Rory Calhoun stakes his life in a six gun draw against Gail Robbins on Ford Theatre sure to draw viewers on WHIS-TV and NBC at 9 30 p m tonight. The Queen forces Calhoun to reshuffle his winner take all style and go with six guns rather than pasteboards marking the first meeting of the two rising stars in the same dramatic episode.
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Rory Calhoun
Ford Theatre
Whis-Tv
NBC
Gail Robbins
Calhoun
Iraq plans educational TV with international help
Iraq announced plans to start educational television early next year. The Ministry of Education will prepare a series of programs for education and youth guidance with assistance from British experts.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Ministry of Education
Groups To Hear College Speakers In Bluefield Meeting Tour
Six independent West Virginia colleges will send representatives to Bluefield for meetings on private education. They will speak at the West Virginian Hotel luncheon and on a statewide tour promoting independent higher education.
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West Virginia
Bluefield
Bluefield Lions Duby
West Virginian
West Virginia Foundation Independent Colleges
Bethany
Salem
Alderson-Broaddus
West Virginia Wesleyan
Davis and Elkins
Clifton Forge Soldier Brings Wife’s Body Home
Meredith E Reynolds, 26, of Clifton Forge Virginia, arrived in New York aboard the Stella with the body of his German-born wife Eleonore Reynolds. She died aboard after the liner sailed from Cuxhaven Germany. They wed in April after meeting in Furth near Nuernberg during his station there. Reynolds serves with the 27th engineers battalion at Fort Campbell Kentucky.
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New York
Stella
Meredith E. Reynolds
Clifton Forge
Eleonore. Reynolds
Cuxhaven
Germany
United States
Ft. Campbell, Ky
27Th Engineers Battalion
Auto Accident Kills 2 Sailors Near Route 22
Two 25-year-old sailors stationed at Bainbridge Training Station died in an auto crash on Route 22 when their car passed another vehicle and overturned after hitting trees. The victims were Thomas Gene Thomas of Falls Church Virginia and Carl Eugene Fitzpatrick of Colorado Springs Colorado. Driver Clifford Franklin Salyers, 27, was injured.
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Port Deposit
Bainbridge Training Station
Thomas Gene Thomas
Carl Eugene Fitzpatrick
Clifford Franklin Salyers
R. L. Davis
Route 22
Navy
Thomas
Falls Church
Fitzpatrick
Colorado Springs, Colo
Salyers
Coalgrove
Ohio
Wytheville Moose Club Opens Meeting with Scouts Charters
Wytheville Moose Lodge No. 394 will host an open meeting on Thursday December 8. The Explorer Post No. 394 and Boy Scout Troop No. 394 will receive their new charters. A Navy Recruiter will show a movie, and parents of both groups are invited.
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Wytheville
Wytheville Moose Lodge
Boy Scouts No
Navy
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Herman E. Kirchner
James Shott
Roland C. Luther
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Weather Bureau
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Irby C. Pullins Jr
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Howard Blessing
Edward Blessing
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Ray Miller
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Walter Bridges
Kincer
Kermit Kincer
Pred Cline
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Cloyd Hearn
Vance Hearn
Theodore Bailey
Wyoming County Board of Education
Pineville
Frank Griffin
Calhoun St. Bluefield
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Wiley Belcher
Georgia Belcher
Wiley W. Belcher
Boissevain
William
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Itman
Harry Lee Bledsoe
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Republic Fund
Moose Club
Gaines
Colonial Theater
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