Khrushchev Meets Albanian Leaders in Albania
Khrushchev and Enver Hoxha sign a communique after talks that produced no explanation for Khrushchev's Albania visit. The document calls for nuclear test bans and disarmament, a nonaggression pact with NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and a central Europe zone free of nuclear and rocket weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enver Hoxha
Tirana
Khrushchev
Albania
Germany
NATO
Radio Moscow
Europe
Tass
Lee
Defense
Rodion Malinovsky
Geneva
Japan Votes on Parliament Campaign Ends in Polls
In Tokyo a heated campaign for the upper house concludes with voters set to decide. Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's Liberal Democrats seek more seats to back continued U S military cooperation, while a two thirds majority remains elusive. The debate centers on scrapping the security pact and neutrality versus alliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Nobusuke Kishi
Liberal-Democrats
United States
House of Councillors
House of Representatives
Charleston Sweeps Two With Ft Worth
Charleston Senators sweep Fort Worth in a Sunday doubleheader. In the first game Charleston rallied from a 4 1 deficit with six singles to win 6 4. Steve Demeter homered in the seventh and Paul Smith stood on base to drive in two in the second game as Charleston won 2 0. Chuck Daniel pitched well, limiting Fort Worth to three singles.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Charleston Senators
Charleston
Steve Demeter
Paul Smith
Senators
Chuck Daniel
Lee
Spencer
Yewcic
Johnson
Ridzik
Martin
Thacker
W—Lee
L—Ridzik
Daniel
Gerard
Fanning
Lake Selma closure follows racial incident at fishing lake
In Selma Alabama a public lake was closed after white men seized fishing permits from three Black airmen and ordered them off the county reservation. Staff Lt John E Gray and two others were forced to leave by six to eight white men in an incident marking heightened racial tension.
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Selma
Ala
Carlisle Fiuithe
John E. Gray
Birmingham
Christopher Byrd
Monticello
Fla
Roscoe Smith
Squire Soldier Drowns Near Ft Campbell Kentucky
Arthur Howard Dye, 22, of Squire Kentucky, a member of Company A 70th Engineers Battalion, drowned in Ringcold Creek near Ft Campbell while swimming with three companions during a holiday. Survivors include his wife Helen Justice of Cleveland Virginia and his parents Russell and Thelma Dye. Funeral set for Tuesday at 11 AM at Assembly of God Church Squire with burial in Russell Memorial Cemetery Lebanon Virginia.
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Squire
U. S. Army
Ft. Campbell
Ringcold Creek
Arthur Howard Dye
Company A
70Th Engineers Battalion
Tennessee Line
Dye
Welch
Russell
Thelma Rasnake Dye
McDowell County
Helen Justice
Cleveland
Lola Robinette
Jaeger
Dorothy
Ruby
Bonnie Dye
Roger
Lonnie
Randell Dye
Assembly of God
Russell Memorial
Lebanon
Hurst-Scott
Richlands
Jet Drops JATO Bottle Near Kanawha River
A State Air National Guard SA-16 practicing landings dropped an unexploded JATO bottle about half a mile northeast of West Virginia 2 and U.S. 35 near Point Pleasant. The 28 inch bottle may be buried in a wooded area and is not dangerous unless fire nears it.
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Point Pleasant
State
Air National Guard
Kanawha River
W. Va. 2
U.S. 35
Kanawha
Charleston
Rea State Police
Soviets split over theory on Martian moons
In Moscow AP report, Soviet scientists clash over the idea that Mars has two moons created by Martians. The originator says he is gaining support from Western scientists while Prof. I S Shklovsky notes American researchers show interest without irony.
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Moscow
Mars
I. S. Shklovsky
Underwood To Speak At Bluefield State College
Governor Cecil H. Underwood will deliver the sixty second Commencement Address to 50 graduates of Bluefield State College at 10 30 p m today in Arter Hall. Dean Scrafford will designate degree candidates and Dr L B Allen will confer degrees. E W Browne will present diplomas. A H Spangler will greet the class. Rev Alexander Gregory will close with the Benediction. Bishop Edgar A Love addressed 50 graduates at the Baccalaureate Service yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil H. Underwood
Bluefield State College
Arter Hall
E. J. Scrafford
L. B. Allen
E. W. Browne
C. D. Reece
A. H. Spangler
West Virginia Board of Education
Alexander Gregory
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Edgar A. Love
Attendance Drops for Memorial Day Baseball
Memorial Day turnout across major leagues fell 59 270 from the previous year. Four American League double headers drew 91 805 and NL single games 78 2 thousand, totaling 170 337 against 229 607 in 1958. The Dodgers Cardinals night game in Los Angeles attracted 28 904 fans.
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Los Angeles
UC scientists measure Van Allen Belt protons per space test
Berkeley, Calif. Two UC physicists report cosmic rays form the high energy protons in the Van Allen radiation belt and have measured its intensity. At 770 miles altitude the radiation equals a month's safe exposure. at 2000 miles it could kill a man in four hours without shielding.
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Berkeley, Calif
University of California
Outer Space
R. Stephen White
Stanley C. Freden
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Livermore
Calif
van Allen Belt
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Space
Atlantic Range
Earth
32 Algerian Senators Elected in French Senate Vote
About 6,000 appointed voters in eight Algerian districts chose 32 senators, boosting Algerian representation over French in the Senate. Liberals and far right were defeated amid a two round vote among municipal councillors and officials in a revolt-torn region.
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Algiers
Gerians
Algeria
Soviets Build Hate Campaign At Geneva Talks
At the Geneva conference Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and East German delegates target West Germany to sow anti West Germany sentiment. Western officials see Moscow aiming to isolate Bonn and curb West Germany’s rising power within NATO.
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Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
West Germany
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Palace of Nations
Gromyko
Ruhr
West
Europe
NATO
African Farmer Fights Leopard to Save Crops
Windhoek reports Koos Coetzee, a South West Africa farmer, fought off two leopard attacks using only his bare hands. He choked the animal on a third strike and then rammed it with his truck to kill it, though he suffered injuries in the ordeal.
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Windhoek
South West Africa
Koos Coetzee
Marshall College Graduation Sermon Delivered by Rev Coburn
Marshall College held its graduation with the Baccalaureate sermon delivered Sunday morning by the Rev John Bowen Coburn dean of the Episcopal Theological School Cambridge Massachusetts The service reflected the college’s traditions and commemorated the graduation season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Om Sacco
John Bowen Coburn
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Mass
Deaths and Funerals of Bluefield area residents
Funeral services for Lucy McClintock Greever 76 of Bluefield will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Clyde Hensley officiating. Burial is in Maple Wood Cemetery in Tazewell Virginia. Survivors include her son Bill Greever of Huntsville Alabama a sister Mrs C E Mays of Bluefield and one grandchild. Pallbearers are Herman Baldwin Tate Baldwin Dan Kinder John Frank and Jack Pyott. The body remains at Greever Funeral Home of Tazewell until the funeral. Phyllis Jean Hess two year old daughter of Clarence and Mrs Hess of Lebanon Va will have services at 11 a.m. today at the family home with interment in the family cemetery. Surviving are five sisters Mary Joyce Margaret Bernice Carol and Betty Lou Hess and one brother William Hess all at home. Honaker Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Funeral services for Della Hart Sr 81 of Cleveland Va who died at the home of his son Saturday evening will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Independence Church with interment in the family cemetery. He is survived by two daughters Mrs Marvin Musick of Honaker Va and Mrs Carl Smith of Cleveland seven sons Ross Hart Man Hart and Della Jr all of Coulwood Va one brother Frank Hart of Coulwood Honaker.
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Lucy McClintock Greever
Bluefield
Bluefield Sanitarium
Hawkins Funeral Home
Clyde Hensley
Maple Wood Cemetery
Tazewell
Herman
Tate Baldwin
Dan Kinder
John
Frank
Jack Pyott
Greev‘er Funeral
Phyllis Jean Hess
Phyllis’ Jean Hess
Clarence Hess
Lebanon
Mary Joyce
Margaret
Bernice
Carol
Betty Lou Hess
William Hess
Honaker Funeral Home
Della Hart Sr
Cleveland
Independence Church
Marvin Musick
Honaker
Carl Smith
Ross Hart
Man Hart
Della Jr
Coulwood
Frank Hart
Frankie Carbo Still Footloose
Frankie Carbo, 54, a New York fugitive sought since last July on income tax evasion charges, was arrested in Camden New Jersey. Bail was set at 25 000 by County Court Judge Czick, with extradition to New York arranged, while Carbo awaits further proceedings.
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Camden
N. J
Frankie
Carbo
New York
New Jersey
Haddon Township
William E. Strouse
Berlin
Czick
New York State
Virgil Akins
Akins
Isaac Logart
Madison Square Garden
Multiple Obituaries From Bluefield to Bland
Maude Shepard 71 of Bluefield graveside today at 3 in Monte Vista Cemetery Clara E SHORT 76 of Premier 1 pm today Pentecostal Holiness Church Payne Cemetery Bradshaw John Henry Belcher 78 of Haysi 10 am today home interment in family Burnett William V 56 of Crab Orchard today 2 pm Seaver Recelles Chapel Princeton Monte Vista Sateen Charlie O Carver 78 of Bland today 2 30 pm
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Shepard
Miss Maude
Bluefield
Monte Vista
Short
Clara E
Premier
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Payne Cemetery
Bradshaw
Belcher
John Henry
Haysi
Carver
Charlie
Bland
Izvestia Publishes Nazi Document On Grewe Shield
Izvestia in Moscow published a facsimile claiming an official Nazi note promised "the Fuehrer s special protection" for West German ambassador Wilhelm Grewe. Dated October 27, 1941 the document cites the Education Ministry and notes Grewe then led West German propaganda at the Geneva East West talks. He declined comment in Geneva.
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Moscow
Izvestia
West Germany
Washington
Wilhelm Grewe
Fuehrer
Grewe
Geneva East-West
Education Ministry
Combs Syndicate Buys Tudor Minstrel from Tudor Minstrel
London AP Leslie Combs II announced the completion of a 300000 dollar purchase by an American syndicate of Tudor Minstrel, sire of Kentucky Derby winner Tomy Lee. Tudor Minstrel, age 15, had previously claimed the English 2000 Guineas in 1947. Combs previously led the Nashua purchase for 1,251,200 dollars from William Woodward Jr. estate.
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London
Leslie Combs
Tudor Minstrel
Tomy Lee
Combs
Nashua
William Woodward Jr
Rogers Opinion Sows Sighs Over Labor Attacks
Atty Gen William P Rogers advised the International Ladies Garment Workers Union that internal investigations of assaults on union officials are for state authorities. He offered to have Labor Department aides discuss cases with union leaders as he seeks broader authority from Congress for labor violence testimony.
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Washington
William P. Rogers
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Rogers
David Dubinsky
Congress
Dubinsky
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Record Attendance Set By Bible Class At Westminster
A record 177 attendees joined the Men's Bible Class at Westminster Presbyterian Church. George Richardson Jr. led the session with Jack Whitenack as president. A summer payoff event will feature an old fashioned southern barbecue hosted by Whitenack at the Richardson home on Cumberland Road with class guests.
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Bible
Westminster Presbyterian Church
George Richardson Jr
Bluefield
Jack) Whitenack
Whitenack
Richardson
Cumberland Road
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Gulf
New England
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Squire Soldier
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Tampa
Winnipeg
van Allen
U. S
Christian A. Herter
Herter
Bolz
THE
Intermont Express, Inc
Motor Transportation
Bluefield Ave
West Virginia
Daily Express
Clinch Valley Area
Marshall College
Mrs
Lucy Greever
Frankie Carbo
Combs’ Syndicate
Troy
McCoy
Flat Top Insurance Agency
Sol Green
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Charles S. i
Dress Joint Council
Miami Beach
Prapery Lomcoulon
Morey Seldin Machinery
Ichmon
Bluefield, W. Va
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