Congress adjourns after Cuba sugar bill passes
Congress ended its session after an all night push to approve a Cuba sugar bill to curb dollars flowing to Fidel Castro. The Senate and House adjourned for August with remaining major items like medical care for the aged and education funding left for next month.
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House Rules Committee
Riot and evacuation follow Newport Jazz Festival disturbance
National Guard Marines and police patrolled Newport after 12 000 youths stormed the festival. Tear gas and fire hoses quelled the riot as 90 injured and 200 arrested. 170 held overnight while the city revoked the festival license for 1980 except for the current matinee.
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Newport
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Mercer Bay Lake tragedy claims Bluefield boy
A ten year old Mercer County boy Kenneth Eugene Bailey drowned at Little Beaver Lake Park near Beckley while swimming with friends. He disappeared underwater around 1 3 p m and rescue attempts failed. The body was recovered and funeral services are set for Bailey at Bailey Funeral Home Princeton with Rev N W Looney officiating.
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Beckley
Glenwood Park
Earl
Eva Bailey
Park
Ernie Bailey
Linda
Ruby
Patricia Bailey
Lyndale Avenue
Bluefield
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
N. W. Looney
Donnie
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Leon Snead
Lucky Moore
James Lambert
Tasnwell
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WG Bettmore
Royal Arch
Graham Conemandery
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Mra Elna Greever Fink
Clarence Greever
Wade HO Frazier
Awit A Sleterteiew
Hertha Kwever
Bigefiedt
Warryjee Punera
Graham Christian Chervi
Clarence Smanet
Maple Hills Cemetery
Dodley Memorial Mortuary
J. Johnigen
Joseph Ho Barnes
W L. Sorador
Rue McNeer
M. Moeris
Pr F. Genthan
Moc
Hughes Jr
Kenneth Eugene Bailey
Tom Yearold
Merce C County
Little Beaver Lake
Soviet cruiser joins search for missing RB-47 bomber
A Soviet cruiser reached the Barents Sea area to assist the U S and Norwegian search for the RB 47 eight engine reconnaissance bomber missing two days north of the Soviet Union. The hunt centered 275 miles north of the Kola Peninsula as nine U S Air Force C 54s joined in shifts and other planes operated from bases including the Azores.
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Norway
U.S
Arctic
Soviet Union
Varda
Kapitan Afanasiev
Barents Sea
Kola Peninsula
Novaya Zemlya
Air Force
Washington
U.S. Air Force
Great Britain
Azores
New Fifty Star Flag Flies First Time Today
The United States marks Hawaii’s admission as the 50th state with the first display of the 50 star flag. Alaska became the 49th last year, and the Capitol grounds host early dawn ceremonies. President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower spend the holiday at their Gettysburg farm.
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Hawaii
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Alaska
Arizona
New
Ft. McHenry
Keee Te Colehea Seaton
Seaton
Lolami Palace
Castro Sways Havana Press in Anti America Drive
Castro propaganda organs attack United States while Cuba vows to solve sugar and oil problems with help from friends. Progovernment radio hints at seizing all American island investments as Eisenhower considers cutting 1960 Cuba sugar imports. Soviet oil deliveries loom as Cuba faces 17 day crude stock with reliance on Soviet shipments.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Union
Carlos Olivares
Subsecte- America
Maine
Spain
Esso Standard
Texaco
British- Dutch Shell
National Petroleum Institute
Black Sea
Johnson Says Convention Set By The Associated Press
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson charges the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles is prearranged to help Sen. John F. Kennedy. Johnson accuses Democratic Chairman Paul M. Butler of bias and says Truman plans to comment after a New York news conference Monday. DiSalle of Ohio calls Truman's remarks a disservice to the party.
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Massachusetts
Tion
New York
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Paul M. Butler
Los Angeles
Sen. Kennedy
Fenn Butler
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Meet the Press
Collins
Michael V. DiSalle
Ohio
Truman
Kennedy
DiSalle
Bluefield Man Suffocates in Fire Destroys Building
A Bluefield Virginia man Walter Jacob Fink suffocated early Sunday as flames swept a building where he lived alone on 30 Virginia Avenue. Firemen reported intense heat and smoke prevented immediate entry before rescuing Fink, a retired postal employee and long time resident.
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Bilgefield
Walter Jacob Fink
Virginia Avenue
Fink
Virginia Avenus
Road Death Toll Soaring Toward New Record High
Police across Mercer McDowell and Wyoming Counties West Virginia and Giles Tazewell Smyth Wythe Counties Virginia report no fatalties through the holiday weekend start. Bluefield notes a quiet period with few minor incidents and no fatal crashes despite heavy traffic in Princeton and scattered nonfatal wrecks on Oakvale Mountain and Highway 3.
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Mercer County
Mercer
McDowell
Wyoming
West Virginia
Giles
Tasewell
Smyth
Bluefield
Princeton
Oakvale Mountain
Kellysville
Cole's Bakery
Pinnacle Rock
Welch
Pineville
Wytheville
Tazewell
Bland
Demo Delegate Claims Sobriety
Los Angeles AP reports Camile Gravel cochairman of the Democratic National Convention credentials committee said he was sober when he landed after an American Airlines flight from Dallas. Gravel, 45, was briefly jailed after passengers claimed a box of martini spoils. police released him on $21 bail for a Municipal Court hearing Tuesday.
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Los Angeles
Camile Gravel
Cochairman
Venice
Pole
Gravel
Loyal Pen
Diana Berry
Henry Wild
Zurich police arrest 174 male prostitutes in raids
Zurich police say 174 men described as male prostitutes were arrested after all night raids. Spokesmen said the operation targets male prostitution to curb what they call a spread of diseases in homosexual circles and that more raids would follow.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Faulkner Dies at 41 Bluefield Gas Chief
Clyde William Faulkner 41 longtime Bluefield Gas Company general manager died Sunday morning at Bluefield Sanitarium after weeks as a patient. A Mercer County native and Princeton alum, he earned a Bronze Star with five battle stars and the German Occupation Ribbon for WWII service. He led church and civic groups, ran for the House of Delegates, and held multiple business roles. Survived by wife Nell and four children, plus siblings.
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Bill) Faulkner
Bluefield Gas Company
Bluefield
Green Tree
Bicefield
Princeton
Mercer County
Clyde W
Virgie Summers Faulkner
Princeton High School
Concord College
Carr Memorial Methodist Church
Clyde William
Bluefield Sanitarium
Weather and political notes from a turbulent Fourth
A noisy Fourth of July weekend features safety fears after seven drownings and a car crash death, plus tensions as Senator Johnson and Truman push Kennedy backing. A Norfolk Norfolk area weather outlook warns of severe storms ending Sunday night. News mentions a Nazi rally incident in Weet Virginia and a missing American air veteran inquiry.
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Fisenhower Caves Ab
Norway
Lyndon Johnson
Harry Truman
John Kennedy
George Rockwell
Virginia
Chesapeake and Ore
Gem Caxinnati
Kenova
Alarming pace brings warning on July Fourth deaths
National Safety Council warns that road fatalities soared to an all time high for a three day Fourth of July period. In a 78 hour span, 7 people died in traffic accidents averaging alarms as midnight toll reaches 191. Drowning and miscellaneous deaths push total past 4.
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San Francisco
National Safety Downe
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Indiana Storm Toll Rises From Tornado Outbreak
Severe storms and suspected tornadoes lashed the Wabash River Valley in north central Indiana early Sunday killing at least one person and causing state of emergency in Logansport Peru Monticello and surrounding areas. Power outages, debris, and damaged homes left hundreds without electricity as rescue crews and National Guard worked to clear roads and aid residents.
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Int
Wabash River Valley
Indiana
Loganaport
Peru
Monticello
Logansport
Connersville
National Guard
Fred Sellers
Lake Shaler
Lafayette
Ind
Wabash River
Charlies E. McCully
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