Station Attendant Slain Near City in Armed Robbery
Gussie Lee Neal, 47, of Bluefield, was shot twice through the heart and beaten in a Hi Lo Oil Co. station robbery on the Bluefield Princeton road about 10 45 Tuesday night. A motorist alerted police. a floor safe opened but no weapon found. Police pursue fingerprints and await autopsy results at Bluefield Sanitarium.
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Bluefield
Princeton
Fied
Gussie Lee Neal
Franklin St
Hi Lo Oil Co
W. A. Johnson
R. L. Sturms
Bluefield Sanitarium
Johnson
C. W. Andrick
J. M. White
West Virginia
Negro Muslim Center Burns in Harlem After Malcolm X Slaying
A Black mosque in Harlem was wrecked by explosion and fire in what police called a reprisal for Malcolm X’s assassination. Fear spread through Negro communities as threats and unrest followed the Sunday killing of the 39 year old leader.
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New York
Harlem
Malcolm X
New York Times
James Farmer
The
Congress of Racial Equality
Johnson
Malcolm
U.S. State Department
Farmer
Organization of Afro-American Unity
San Francisco
Chicago
Elijah Muhammed
Muhammed
Boston
Aubrey Barnette
Cassius Clay
Big Barnette
Audrey Hepburn Shunned In Oscar Nominations
Hollywood reports Audrey Hepburn failed to secure a best actress nomination for My Fair Lady while Julie Andrews won for Mary Poppins. Becket and Mary Poppins led with 12 and 13 nominations respectively, as Becket tied My Fair Lady for nominations.
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Audrey Hepburn
Julie Andrews
Miss Andrews
Poppins
Debbie Reynolds
Molly = Brown
Anne Bancroft
Grand Dames of
English Theater
Gladys Cooper
Edith Evans
Grayson Hall
Lila Kedrova
Zorba
Agnes Moorehead
Miss Hepburn
George Cukor
Ex Tax Man on Probation Sale m, Va
Former Roanoke County tax collector C D Chapman was sentenced to three years in prison on embezzlement charges but placed on five years active probation. The 41 year old testified that mismanagement and faulty staff caused record juggling and shortages, which he covered with about 1500 dollars of his own funds.
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Salem
C. D Chapman
Roanoke County
Chapman
Fred L. Hoback
Hoback
Appy Power Plans Project In Cabell
Appalachian Power Co announced a $6.5 million project to reinforce the electric power supply in the Huntington area. The plan, disclosed Tuesday, aims to improve reliability and capacity for local customers in Cabell County.
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Appy Power Plans
Cabell
Huntington (Ap
Appalachian Power Co
Huntington
Life Prison Bill Revised By Senators
West Virginia Senate trimmed the House plan to abolish the death penalty by deleting life without parole provisions. The bill is readied for debate Thursday after amendments, with potential House return if passed. Meanwhile a medical corporate practice bill cleared the House and heads to the Senate.
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Charleston
Senate
West Virginia
House
John E. Carrigan
R-Marshall
W. T. Brotherton Jr
D-Kanakha
Brotherton
Carrigan
West Virginia State Medical Association
Dels
J. Douglas Ayers
D-Wood
John L. Seabright
Ohio
Khanh Named UN Observer in Quiet South Viet Nam Exile
Lt Gen Nguyen Khanh, shifted from military to diplomatic duty by decree, becomes South Vietnam’s observer at the United Nations. He will depart for New York soon as Chief of State Phan Khac Suu names him roving ambassador in the wake of the coup and countercoup that ousted Khanh.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Khanh
United Nations
New York
Phan Khac Suu
Khanh
Nguyen Phu Duc
North Viet Nam
Tran van Minh
Duong van Minh
Viet Nam
Binh Dinh
Red
Diem
Dalat
Associated Press
Laurel and Hardy star Stan Laurel dies at 74
San ta Mon i ca Calif AP Stan Laurel surviving member of Laurel and Hardy duo died of a heart attack at 74 in his ocean view apartment. His fourth wife Ida Kitaeva Raphael was at his side. Born in England as Arthur Stanley Jefferon, he rose to fame with Oliver Hardy in vaudeville and film, starring in about 300 titles.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Stan Laurel
Laurel and Hardy
Ocean-View
Ida Kitaeva Raphael
Laurel
Hollywood
Oliver Hardy
Wheeler and Woolsey
Beery and Hatton
Lloyd Hamilton
Ben Turpin
Charlie Chaplin
Hardy
Laure
Arthur Stanley Jefferon
Ulverston
England
London
Europe
Fred ‘Arno
New York
Matewan Post Office Destroyed By Blaze
Fire caused by a faulty furnace flue razed the one story federal post office near North Matewan. No injuries or mail loss reported and damage estimates were not available.
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Matewan
W. Va
Federal Post Office
North Matewan
Four Ohio students test liquid diet in space study
Dayton AP report details four Ohio State University students who spent six weeks in an isolation tank at Wright Patterson Air Force Base testing a high calorie liquid diet. They adapted slowly, none suffered lasting effects, and all emerged in top condition. results may influence two-man Project Gemini provisions.
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Ohio State
Dayton
Ohio
Norman H. Gary
Delaware
Ohio State University
Wright- Patterson Air Force Base
Gerald P. Peterson
Euclid
Gary
Brooks L. Harrop
Amlin
John T. Kelley
Willoughby
Keith Smith
Jackie Mason Sues Sullivan TV Show
Comedian Jackie Mason files a 3 million libel and slander suit in New York Supreme Court against Ed Sullivan and producer Robert Precht. He says Sullivan claimed Mason made obscene gestures on the October 18 show and threatened to destroy him in show business. No immediate reply from Sullivan or Precht.
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New York
Jackie Mason
Ed Sullivan
Robert Precht
Sullivan
Supreme Court
Mason
Precht
Japanese Clock Gains In Test
Tokyo's astronomical observatory announced a six day precision time test found Japan's standard clock 0.00135 seconds faster than the U.S. clock. The result highlights tiny drift between national time standards in a controlled comparison.
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Tokyo
Japan
U.S
Savings Stolen From 1938 Car Rumble Seat in Ohio
Robert Bridges of Steubenville reported his life savings of 35500 stolen from the rumble seat of his 1938 model car. The money, saved over 20 years from Weirton Steel pay, was rolled in a bag and kept in the car despite daily checks. The report was filed Feb. 6 and withheld from publication to aid the police investigation.
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Steubenville Ohio
Robert Bridges
Steubenville
Weirton Steel Co
Weirton, W
Bridges
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Britannia
John Gielgud
Becket
Stanley Holloway
My Fair Lady
Peter Ustinov
Topkapi
Lee Tracy
Edmond O’brien
South
Florida
Air View
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Ayers
Princeton Classified Society
Eae
Paneer
Eetee
Goren Paneer
U.N
Space Laboratory
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Brooks Harrop
Gerald Peterson
John Kelley
Norman Gary
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