Missing Bluefield engineer Jack Stringham feared harmed
The 39 year old General Telephone Company division plant engineer Jack F Stringham of Clovis Street Bluefield has been missing since Wednesday afternoon after leaving the telephone building. Police report he was seen acting strangely and memory loss is suspected while Boy Scouts and volunteers prepare to search nearby woods and mountains.
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Stringham
General Telephone Company of the
Southeast
Bluefield
Clovis Street
Khrushchev Attacks Eisenhower In Bitter News Conference
Khrushchev denounces Eisenhower as weak and lacking will power and says Adenauer belongs in a mental asylum. He mocks Nixon while predicting no improvement in U.S.-Soviet ties and cites U.S. fear of German reunification. The attack comes as Moscow considers the November election and public reaction remains unsettled.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Konrad Adenauer
United States
Moscow Conservatory
van Cliburn
Richard M. Nixon
Dulles
Khrushche
Norton vice mayor plans trip with Powers to Russia
Norton official Sol Cury says he will accompany Francis Powers father if he travels to Russia to seek the release of U 2 pilot Francis Powers. A firm will pay trip costs and support the Powers family during the absence as the father eyes when negotiations could begin in five to six weeks.
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Norton
Oliver Powers
Russia
Sol W. Cury
Cury
Powers
Shome
Pound
Lightning Hits Diefenbaker Says Balloon Attack Biggest Yet
Lightning downed the world’s largest balloon during a stratosphere flight near Darien Georgia. The balloon fell four miles northwest of Darien after reaching 17 500 feet due to a helium load error. No injuries were reported. A separate Wear coal train derailment near Jaeger blocked Norfolk and Western main line with 191 cars overturned and heavy damage. The cause remains undetermined and the line expected to clear late Friday night.
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Brunswick, Ga
Darien
Glynco Naval Air Station
Norfolk & Western
Wear
Jaeger
N&w
McDowell County
Diefenbaker Seeks East West Summit As Khrushchev Clash Backs Off
Canadian Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker told reporters after a 2½ hour White House visit that Khrushchev's attack on President Eisenhower is no harsher than prior onslaughts. He urged possible future East West summit talks to ease tensions and strengthen unity against ballistic missile threats, noting discussions followed Paris conference talk that failed.
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Washington
Canada
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
John G. Diefenbaker
Diefenbaker
White House
Ottawa
Winnipeg
Natonal
Long Theater Strike Looms
Broadway braces for a possible lengthy stage blackout as a pension deadlock between Actors Equity and producers threatens autumn closure. Peace talks reopen with a two way pension plan, but union leaders and league officials warn the situation looks dismal and could cost jobs and raise ticket prices. About 800 actors have already lost work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Actors Equity
Manhattan
League of New York Theaters
Equity
Arthur Cantor
League
Burton A. Zorn
Zorn
White House denies Khrushchev Germany reunification claim
The White House dismissed Khrushchev's charge that Eisenhower warned of a reunified Germany as absolutely untrue. Anne Wheaton said no comment would be made on the renewed attack while Democrats urged unity and criticized the Soviet leader as facing trouble at home and with Red China.
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Washington
Sorviet
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
United States
Germany
White House
Anne Wheaton
Khrushchev
East
West Germany
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Senate
Adolf Hitler
Johnson
Soviet Union
Red China
U2 Pilot Sacrificed In Spy Plane Crisis Over China
The Montreal Star reports a UC spy plane pilot blew himself and the craft after Communist fighters forced a landing over Red China two years ago. A US source says the pilot was from a Nationalist Chinese group trained to fly the U2. The incident was initially attributed to a bomber loaned to Nationalist China.
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Montreal
Montreal Star
Washington
Red China
Armed Services
A Wan
United Sates
China
Boy Survives 15 Day Plane Crash Ordeal
Walter Sedor, 9, survived 15 days beside a crashed plane near Flin Flon Manitoba after living on roots leaves and rain water. He was found by a helicopter crew that also recovered his father Steve Sedor 39 and pilot Ken Harrison 22 who died. Walter remains on a liquid diet in hospital as rescuers recount the grisly stake and the boy’s plea to his mother.
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Flin Flon
Man
Walter Sedor
Winnipeg
Steve Sedor
Ken Harrison
Walter
Evans
Waller
Sim
Oua
Tartan Lake
Flin Flom
Harrison
United States studies Khrushchev disarmament plan
The United States promised close study of Khrushchev revised disarmament plan and urged Moscow to reciprocate with Western proposals. The State Department said meaningful progress toward general and complete disarmament under international control should occur when the disarmament conference resumes next week.
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Washington
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
U. S
State Department
Lincoln White
Khrushchev
Gasoline Fumes Trigger Multiple Flash Fires in Orleans County
A state of emergency was declared in Priday Orleans County after gasoline was found in storm and sanitation sewers. Five flash fires erupted in two hours, all in basements, caused by ignited fumes. Civil defense crews flushed the sewers as officials searched for the source of the seepage.
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Mamonny
Orleans County
James Robinson
Murray
Lion Delegate Succumbs Here
A 70 year old Martineturg man, a delegate to the Late Lions Club Convention, died about 1 pm Friday in his eighth floor room at the West Virginian Hotel. The deceased had complained of his wife going to their room earlier.
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Martineturg
Lions Club
West Virginian
Monroe Man Guilty Of Fraud By Wire
Charles ton based jury convicted Perry A Cromer of fraud by wire for telegraphing Mountain Trust Co of Roanoke Va from Gassee Way last November in the name of Albert Blackwell to obtain 77 dollars. Cromer, a carpenter, had formerly worked for Blackwell.
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Charleston
Perry
Lions Convention Opens In West Virginia City
The annual State Lions Convention began Friday at the West Virginian Hotel with business sessions and a banquet at the Bluefield Auditorium. Walter J Pan of Ravenswood was highlighted as a candidate for a future directorship. Elvis J Stabr of West Virginia University gave the main address at the Friday banquet. Clarence L Sturm of Manawa Wisconsin, president of the International Association of Lions Clubs, is set as speaker for tonight’s district governors banquet and ball at Bluefield Auditorium.
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Purdy
Ravenswood Lion
Lions International
Wo KR
Pete Cooke
Rinefield
West Virginian
Phote
West Virginia
Huefield Auditorium
Nature
Phil Lily
T. Courtney Tanner
Whle
Poral Ts
Walter J Pan
Ravenswood
Ravenswood Lions Club
4Ana International
Elvis J. Stabr
West Virginia University
Clarence L. Sturm
International Association of Lions Clube
Bluefield Auditorium
Sturm
Manwwa
Wisconsin
Parier Mmn & Wholesale Foods
Manwra, An
Cooler Trend Over Weekend Predicted
Huntington AP reports West Virginia will see near normal temperatures through midweek with a cooling trend on Saturday and Sunday. Showers are forecast Sunday through Tuesday totaling an inch or more according to the weather bureau.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Heat Kills 160000 Chickens in Sonoma County
More than 160000 chickens valued at 150000 dollars were killed by 16 degree heat on Thursday in Sonoma County Virgil Station. County farm adviser provided the figures.
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Petaluma
Calif
Sonoma County
Virgil Station
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