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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1959
Page
1
Three exhausted coal miners emerged from a 41 hour entrapment at a Kentucky mine near Beaver Dam. They stayed connected by telephone, received water and milk through a hose, and described missing sunshine while noting air was sufficient.
London reporters revisit the water spray incident at Chelsea Flower Show. The Observer says Prince Philip is blameless yet should avoid similar pranks, noting palace denial and a reflexive royal family double standard.
Two brothers Franklin Pugh 11 and Gilbert Pugh 8 died after climbing a fence to swim at a Charleston pool opened for summer by Memorial Day. Both wards of the state lived at a foster home. Their companions age 8 and 9 watched as the brothers struggled in the deep end and were aided by bystanders before responders arrived.
On the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee a panty raid failed after football players blocked dormitory doors. Law enforcement used tear gas as officers dispersed about 2 000 people outside Jennie Murphree Hall with two youths arrested.
The Soviet Union honored American author Ethel Lillian Voynich on her 95th birthday May 11. Voynich wrote The Gadfly, published 1897 in New York and London, with the novel selling well in the Soviet Union and over three million copies printed there.
President Eisenhower reportedly told the Big Four he could attend a first summit if a first step toward German unification or Berlin understandings is agreed. Western ministers discuss a late July Geneva date as Khrushchev’s stance hardens Moscow’s bargaining.
West Virginia Illinois Michigan Minnesota and Pennsylvania mines led six divisions in the 1958 National Safety contest announced by the Bureau of Mines Director Marling J Ankeny. A record 67 mineral operations in 44 states entered the event, with 272 mines reporting no disabling injuries and 25 million pitons of work time.
The 54 hour Memorial Day period saw traffic fatalities exceed 241, surpassing the 1953 postwar record as millions travel homeward. The National Safety Council had forecast up to 260 deaths from 6 p m Friday to midnight Sunday, May 31, but actual toll surpassed its preholiday estimate.
At midnight the Associated Press count listed 407 dead nationwide as the Memorial Day weekend neared a close. The breakdown cites 287 killed in traffic incidents, 80 by drowning, and 40 in miscellaneous causes.
The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed an agreement to construct a 500 mile road through the Hindu Kush mountain barrier, a path that historically shaped invasions toward the Indian subcontinent.
Louisiana Governor Earl Long is reported resting in a private Texas psychiatric clinic, not under therapy yet, with a diagnostic survey to continue for several days. Senator Russell Long promised more information as the governor’s health and status are updated after recent legislative tensions and a lengthy Capitol outburst.
Ex convict held 18 year old Nancy Guaredses at gunpoint in a car for nearly eight hours in a lovers lane. Arcadia officers later found and arrested 32 year old Robert A Smith at a gas station. Smith admitted the incident and was booked on charges of holding against will and robbery. The girl said John Ulrich, a 20 year old marine, was in the car during the abduction.
AP report from Oakland recalls a Saturday night six car crash on a city freeway sparked by a 90 mile per hour race. A 15 year old girl Barbara Ruby of San Leandro died as the latest victim in the final collision. Fourteen others were seriously hurt. The other three deceased were Donald Rodrigues 27 George Anderson 45 and Gerald Anderson 19 all of Oakland.
A Saltville fatal crash claimed 32 year old Helen Venable as five year old Rickey Monk from Princeton was critically injured after wandering into a oncoming car near Bluefield. Other minor injuries occurred in Roderfield and Giles County incidents with no charges filed.
In Wuppertal Germany a European village for displaced persons was named Anne Frank during ground breaking ceremonies. Otto Frank attended his daughter’s memorial event, amid tributes calling her death murder and assassination.
In Memphis Tennessee a white youth, 17 year old Tommy Darnell, was stabbed to death in a Saturday night fight with a Negro boy in front of a drive in restaurant. Ernest Smith, 16, is held by police. No charges were filed.
State Police concluded an automobile crash caused the deaths of Clarksburg women Juanita Ferguson and Virginia Conley whose submerged car was found in Elk Creek six miles south of Clarksburg. Autopsies showed no signs of foul play and no broken bones.
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