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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1956
Page
1
Washington report follows Rep. Walter F E Rogers of Pampa Texas as he spends Memorial Day at home. He cooks breakfast, shops, fixes a screen, breaks paint, injures a son, visits a doctor, deals with a basement flood, and ends the day in bed. He plans future holidays at the office.
California Democrats showed only moderate interest in the presidential preference primary with Adlai Stevenson or Estes Kefauver as voters in major cities turned out in strength while turnout outside cities was slow. The contest was the last major preconvention test in the 1098 primary sequence.
Report shows President Kennedy leading in 4,455 of 24,160 precincts with 163,442 votes while Kefauver polls 89.17 percent in California. Republican Eisenhower has 148,492 votes across 3,686 precincts of 24,160.
California chose 68 Democratic delegates in yesterday's winner take all result as Stevenson and Kefauver repose near the lead in pledged votes. New York's delegation, led by Gov. Averell Harriman, could shape future contests while Montana and South Dakota added 24 votes to Kefauver. The AP tabulation shows Stevenson 1914, Kefauver 142, Others 226, Uncommitted 3704, total 960.
The Maryland Delaware Seventh Day Adventists begin a 10 day conference at the convention grounds in Catonsville on Thursday night. Delegates from Maryland Delaware portions of Virginia and West Virginia are expected to attend.
Gen. Earle Partridge, head of Continental Defense and Air Defense Commands, warns the ICBM threat is so great that defense efforts must match offense. He describes the need for hardware, locations, communications, and antimissiles, noting a counter weapon exists only in principle and not yet in usable form.
A nine man delegation will depart Mercer County Airport at 9 51 a m today to Roanoke to meet Norfolk and Western general manager Harry C Wyatt. They will protest the proposed discontinuance of pullman service from Williamson to New York and press for the through overnight connection to Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia. The group includes B B Houseman William Beary Wade Walker Reno F Howard Welch Bluefield city officials Jerome Katz and others. An appointment with Wyatt is set for 10 a m tomorrow at the railroad head quarters in Roanoke. the party will fly in the morning and return on the Powhatan Arrow. The last Pullman run is set for June 24 under the proposal.
John E. Kulchar 22 of War, West Virginia, was found hanging from an upturned bed in his U S Medical Center cell in Springfield Missouri Warden Edwin Lloyd said the inmate tied a sheet to the bed and neck and stepped off a chair He was brought from Lewisburg Pennsylvania last Wednesday to serve a 10 year bank robbery sentence He had been in the Lewes prison since June.
Mrs Rhonda Belle Martin a 49 year old Auburn waitress was convicted by a 12 man jury of arsenic killing her fourth husband Claude Martin and faces electrocution under Alabama law. Prosecutors said she poisoned relatives for insurance and to marry her stepson within weeks of the fourth husband’s death. She had admitted poisoning three children her mother and two husbands in the past.
Hong Kong dispatch notes that at the end of 1955 Red China claimed 16 767 miles of railways and 93 150 miles of highways in its transport network.
House leaders and President Eisenhower clash over a $1,109,000,000 foreign aid reduction. Eisenhower warns cuts threaten national security and NATO, while White House talks hint at possible restoration. Leaders debate how much of the committee cut to restore as the House schedules debate, amid election-year pressure.
A Norfolk and Western Railway coal train derailed after colliding with a shifter engine three miles east of Grundy Virginia. The engine and three cars left the track but no injuries were reported and the single track was expected to be blocked until about 9 am tomorrow.
New York June 5 Middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson lost a decision today to a traffic cop. Robinson parked his flamingo pink convertible in Harlem and returned to find the patrolman writing a ticket. He protested saying he was about to deposit a dime. The sergeant at the 123rd Street station upheld the cop.
President Eisenhower’s nominee Fred A. Seaton won unanimous bipartisan support from the Senate Interior Committee for secretary of the interior. Chairman Murray said he would report the action to the full Senate, with Seaton defending the administration’s partnership policy for water power and stressing local control.
A three judge panel ruled 2-1 that racial segregation on Montgomery city buses violates the 14th Amendment. The decision signals a possible Supreme Court review and may affect only Montgomery buses until a formal order is issued. The Alabama Public Service Commission and Birmingham officials pledge appeals or no immediate changes. The Montgomery bus boycott and King’s leadership context the decision amid ongoing legal action.
A Henrico County housewife escaped injury when a would be holdup man’s revolver misfired twice during a struggle in her kitchen. Mrs. E. D. Lotsey wrestled the heavier intruder to the floor before he fled empty handed, after he asked for water and brandished a small gun. Police and neighbors responded as she and her husband recalled a separate Wakefield Grill shooting from January 28.
Federal grand jury indicts 35 year old Mrs. Victoria A. Johnson for murder in the May 14 shooting of her husband 1st Lt. Eugene C. Johnson at the Army Chemical Center Edgewood. Johnson of Princeton West Virginia was shot five times as he sat in his car behind a wall. She was taken into military police custody at the scene. The couple had a four year old daughter and she was mother to two other daughters by a prior marriage.
Governor Stanley remains silent on whether and when Virginia will call a special legislative session to address school desegregation. Speculation points to a July to November window with an aide saying no comment for now. The public reaction and statements from lawmakers lay out arguments for or against a session and potential anti integration measures.
Movie star Kim Novak returns from a two month European tour with pale lavender hair. She chats with photographers about her new shade and says she enjoyed her five day liner crossing. She denies engagement rumors with Italian Count Mario Bondi and notes Italian customs like hand kissing intrigue her.
Atlanta police say Johnnie Don Mitchell, 17, confessed to the four day old bludgeon murder of Mrs. Inex Johnson, 30, in the Mantel and Tile Co. office during a payroll robbery. Cleveland police recovered $470 in a pillowcase and state Mitchell left Atlanta Friday night for Cleveland before his arrest.
In New York on June 5 the American office of the World Council of Churches said interchurch relief and refugee aid totaled 46 million dollars in 1955, more than four times the 10 million dollars given in 1950.
New York report outlines Eisenhower's Six Great Decisions with Normandy at its core. Smith argues over Berlin's strategic value and highlights Churchill's persistence versus Allied military aims, emphasizing weather, German tactics, and postwar borders shaping victory.
Voters turnout was light with seven ballots cast in Welch where the incumbent Republican ticket won unopposed. Mayor B. F. Howard was reelected to his sixth two year term as city manager. In Northfork the People’s Party swept to victory with Mayor J Robert Anderson defeating Winford H Dillard 262 107 and five council seats going to party candidates. Other towns Narrows Oak and Oceana reported similar party wins and new council members.
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. approves almost two million dollars for WV expansion. Major item is 773,500 to complete outside plant in Lewisburg-Ronceverte. Also funding for a new Lewisburg central office, dial conversion in 1957, and various exchanges and facilities across Charleston, Rainelle, Beckley, Clarksburg, Moundsville, Wheeling, and more.
President Eisenhower played a round of golf this afternoon at Burning Tree Club in Maryland near Washington. The outing comes amid a busy schedule as he moves through a June day with the usual public and press attention surrounding his activities.
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