Grayson Youth Tilton Convicted of Carroll County Murder
Grayson Tilton, tried for the Carroll County merchant slaying, is found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to 99 years. He faces potential parole in 12 years, after a second trial ended in a hung jury amid prior death penalty considerations.
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Hillsville
Lanveen Tilton
Aes
Grayson
Carroll County
Tilton
Grover Willie Newman
Bunn
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Carroll County Court House
J. G. Cox
Bill Newman
C. S. Jackson
Tage
Jack Matthews
Carroll County Circuit Court
Newman
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Surrounding States
West Virginia and nearby states show mostly cloudy skies and cool conditions with scattered showers or thunderstorms likely on Friday, highs 66 to 76. Saturday brings continued cloudiness, cool temps, and occasional rain across West Virginia Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Virginia Maryland and Delaware.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Deaths and Funerals in Grundy and area
William M. Miller 60 of Home Creek Va died in a Grundy hospital. He organized the Buchanan County VFW and served as chaplain of Virginia VFW. Surviving wife Maude Looney and a daughter Mildred Pierce. Funeral at Grundy Baptist Church with burial in Clinton Tenn. Other notices list Mona Evelyn Snapp Milton S Bowman and Robert H Harold with service details and burial plans.
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William M. Miller
Home Creek
Grundy
Home Creek ‘Coal Corp
Miller
Buchanan County
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
Virginia
Joan
Memphis
Tenn
Elbert
Linch, Ky
Kathrine Mounts
Paul Covington
Bowling Green
Rachel Miller
Lexington
Grundy Baptist Church
Jim Pickens
Charlie Sublet
Clinton, Tenn
Mildred Pierce
Grundy Funeral Home
Mona ‘Evelyn Snapp
Stoney Ridge
Bluefield
Hawkins Funeral Chapel
Earl Clark
Monte Vista
Snapp
Clarence
Tommy Stalze
Jacksonville
Fla
Hawkins Funeral Home
Bowman
Zenith McNew
Duhring
Mary Elizabeth Taylor Bowran
Hillery
Del
Lowell
New Cumber Lf
Charles
Stuart
Irene Ad‘ne
Virgie Taylor
Wilmington
Duhling
Dannie
Sophia
Nelson Shutt
Laura Pigg
Montcalm
Caleb Heath
Spurat
Clayton Miller
Charles Davis
Zackie Stowers
Roy Lacy
Charlie Sadler
B. B. Hurst
Robert H. Harold
Hall Ridge
Princeton
Johnson's Chapel
Johnny Jones
Oakwood Cemetery
Memorial
St. Luke's Hospital
Corporate Charters For Four Businesses Issued In Charleston
The secretary of state issued corporate charters for four Charleston area businesses including Eppard Coal Co of Shady Spring with $25,000 capital, Protection Inc of Weirton to deal in lightning rods, Corwin Auto Sales Inc of Morgantown with $10,000 capital, and Trout Run Sportsmen's Club a Mason County non profit with New Haven incorporators.
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Charleston
Eppard Coal Co
Shady Spring
Raleigh
Richmond
Cc. A. Eppard
O. M.ard
C. Berkley Lilly
Beckley
Protection, Inc
C. Blake Williamson
Marie Maxine Williamson
Jean Costalas
Weirton
Corwin Auto Sales, Inc
Morgantown
Charles A. Corwin, Jr
Clayton Corwin
Thomas Corwin
Fairmont
Trout Run Sportsmen's Club
New Haven
Mason County
Edwin H. Clarke
O. Ray Cook
Presley W. Clarke
Moorefield
PSC To Hear Area Cases On Monday
The Public Service Commission will hear Appalachian Electric Power Co and Pennsylvania Railroad Monday. Appalachian seeks authority to buy facilities from Red Jacket Coal Corp at Coal Mountain Wyoming County for 3376 dollars. Pennsylvania Railroad seeks to discontinue two trains between Weirton Junction and Wheeling, Nos 701 and 702.
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Charleston
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Pennsylvania Railroad
Public Service Commission
Appalachian
Red Jacket Coal Corp
Coal Mountain
Wyoming County
Weirton Junction
Wheeling
Pennsylvania
New York
Follanspee
Wellsburg
Warwood
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Raleigh
Surveyor
Edwight
Raleigh County
Scarbro
Fayette County
Spring Creek
Greenbrier
Decota
Kanawha County
Railway Express Agency
Molotov Opens Door to Big Four Talks in Geneva
Russian Foreign Minister Molotov said Moscow has no objection to a July 18 Big Four top level meeting in Geneva. Prime Minister Eden reported the same to Britain’s House of Commons. Molotov relayed the stance to French leaders Edgar Faure and Antoine Pinay in Paris before continuing to San Francisco for the UN anniversary session.
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Paris
Russia
Geneva
V. M. Molotov
Eden
House of Commons
London
Molotov
Edgar Faure
Antoine Pinay
San Francisco
U. N
Ultra modern trains being built for show
General Motors Corp. is constructing two ultra modern steel and aluminum passenger trains of ten cars each. The trains will be shown to the public at GM Ponerama opening in Chicago on August 31.
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New York
T Iron Age
General Motors Corp
Chicago
13 More Married Women See Rise in U S Population
The United States reports a 33 percent rise in married women aged 15 to 44 since 1933, reflecting a significant demographic shift with more women forming marriages in the current period.
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United States
Civitans Sponsor Youths To Parley In North Carolina
Gerald Looney and Robert Kinser head to the Wildacres estate in N C from June 13 to 18 for a seven day interfaith youth conference focused on human relations and democracy. They join 21 other sponsored youths from Beaver High School and Bluefield Civitan efforts.
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Gerald Looney
Robert Kinser
North Carolina Human Relations Conference
Wildacres
N. C
D. Baldwin
Bluefield Civ
North Carolina Vitan
Bluefield Civitan
Looney
N. W. Looney
Route 1
Bluefield
Kinser
Anne Kinser
Tazewell St
Beaver High School
I. D. Blumenthal
Little Switzerland
N.C
North Carolina
Civitan
Virginia
West Virginia
South Carolina
Kinser and Looney
Bluefield Civitans
Robert Eaton
Jackson Mill
Salvation Army
Cay Joy
Worning
Beckley
Escapees Nabbed For Auto Theft
Two Ohio men Alfred Lee Tucker and Donald Nell Dishen faced federal auto theft charges after multiple jail breaks in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They were held without bail in Wheeling and transferred to Ohio County Jail on $2,000 bonds each. Tucker, 20, from East Liverpool, and Dishen, 23, from Findlay, had escaped from Sandusky prison camp and Erie County Jail, fleeing to Chester where they were recaptured twice in three weeks. An attempted escape from Hancock County Jail was thwarted May 28 when a hack saw blade was found.
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Wheeling
U. S
Nell Moran
Alfred Lee Tucker
East Liverpool
Donald Nell Dishon
Findlay
U. S. District Court
Ohio
Sandusky
Erie County
Chester
Hancock County
Tucker
Dishen
Pennsylvania
Erie
Hancock Coun
Delaware
Girl Undergoes Surgery With Monkey Lung Aid
A 19 month old Peterborough girl named Lucinda Rowe underwent a heart operation in Toronto with blood circulated through a monkey lung. Surgeon Dr. W. T. Mustard led the procedure, the first of its kind in Canada, previously tested at Minnesota university on a boy.
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Toronto
Peterborough
Lucinda Rowe
W. T. Mustard
Canada
University of Minnesota
Returns From Hospital
DULUTH Minn June 9 Albert Woolson 109 last Union army veteran of the Civil War returned home today after a 10 day hospital stay with lung congestion He sat in a rocking chair and said he felt just as fine as ever.
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Duluth
Minn
Albert Woolson
Attlee Attacks Eden Over Handling of Railway Strike
British labor leader Clement Attlee accused Prime Minister Eden of mishandling the nationwide railway strike and warned his policy could worsen Britain's industrial crisis. The clash opened the Commons as ASLEF and the British Transport Commission held talks to avert escalation while strikers seek a 1.12 dollar weekly pay increase for a 44 hour week.
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London
Clement Attlee
Eden Today
Tain
Whan
Uli Buf
House of 4 Commons
Ake
Labor Party
Eden
Attlee
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
British Transport Commission
The
Transport Commission
ASLEF
Bitish
Virginia Panel Hints At Nonracial Segregation Plan
A three member subcommittee of the Virginia Education Commission met to craft a report on school segregation after the Supreme Court decree. The full 32 member panel planned to review recommendations and considered a nonracial criteria approach such as attainment and welfare factors. No member confirmed details, while leaders avoided commenting on any subcommittee naming or a possible special session.
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Richmond
South
Supreme Court
A.S. Harrison Jr
Brunswick
Robert Y. Button
Culpever
Curry Carter
Augusta
David Mays
Henry T. Wickham Jr
John Boatwright Jr
Commission
Garland Gray
Sussex
House Appropriations Committee
Capitol
Gray
General Assembly
New City Solicitor Named For Wheeling
Willam Plummer appoints 41 year old Wheeling attorney Aring Callahan as city solicitor replacing Charles Mead. Mead resigns to focus on private practice for pressing business. Callahan a WVU graduate has practiced in Wheeling since 1934 and takes office June 15.
Nurses Exams Slated July 7 In Charleston
Charleston board announces licensing exams for registered nurses to be held at the Statehouse on July 7 starting at 9 a.m. in Charleston.
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Charleston
Statehouse
Board of Examiners
Adams' Win Confirmed In Wheeling Canvass
Wheeling canvass confirms councilman Jack Adams won by 24 votes over James J. Haranzo after the election. Haranzo filed for recount. Adams followed with a bond posted. City officials plan to set recount start at the council meeting. Adams is a Democratic member of the Ohio County House of Delegates.
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Wheeling
Yates
Jack Adams
James J. Haranzo
Haranzo
Adams
August L. Dailer
House of Delegates
Ohio County
Steel production peaks in May with new record
New York June 9 The American Iron and Steel Institute reports May 1955 steel production reached 10,331,000 net tons, the highest monthly total in U.S. history, surpassing March 1953's 10,168,000 tons. Five month output also rises to 47,462,519 tons versus 36,767,998 a year earlier.
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New York
American Iron and Steel Institute
Institute
Angrist Elected Commander Of Riley West Post No 9
A. A. Abe Angrist was elected commander of Riley West Post No 9 of the American Legion. He is a World War I Marine and former state guard leader, unopposed for the post, and a charter member. The meeting named several officers and noted Bluefield civic ties and local sports teams.
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A. A
Abe) Angrist
Riley- West
American Legion
Angrist
Lilly
Legion
Jack Thompson
Thurman
Fred Blue
Cecil Magruder
A. Harry West
Jack Taylor
Luther Page
Eran
H. Edward Steele
Joseph C. Turley Jr
Robert Coulling
Angrist Men's Shop
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield
Mercer 40 and 8 Society
B'nai B'rith Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Jackson's Mill
Thurman Scruggs
Coal Firms Win In Damage Case
The jury returned for Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co Brown Coal Co and Tyler Bowling in $10 900 damage actions filed by William Cardwell administrator of the estates of William Cardwell Jr and Roland Cardwell. The Cardwells drowned July 21 1953 in a pond 79 feet wide and nine feet deep on Mill Creek Co land where other defendants had strip mined coal. Jury was excused until Monday.
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William Cardwell
William Cardwell Jr
Roland L. Cardwell
Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co
Brown Coal Company
Tyler Bowling
Willian
Roland Cardwell
Mill Creek Company
Kanawha Educator To Take Post In Japan
Charleston reports educator Robert H. Kidd Jr. principal of a Kanawha County junior high for three years will depart for Japan to serve as assistant superintendent of Air Force Japan Dependent Schools. Kidd, born in Burnsville, Braxton County, is a Glenville State Teachers College graduate. his father is a former State Fire Marshal now with the State Auditor's office.
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Charleston
Robert H. Kidd Jr
Quick
Kanawha County
Japan
Air Force Japan
Kidd
Burnsville
Braxton County
Glenville State Teachers College
State Auditor's Co
Charleston Man Fined For Child Labor Law Violation
Charleston State Labor Commissioner Satuler reports Fred Hess of Charleston operator of Boulevard Recreation was fined $20 and costs before Justice of the Peace Guy D. Huff on charges of violating the child labor law.
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Charleston
Satuler
Fred Hess
Boulevard Recreation
Justice of the Peace
Guy D. Huff
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St. Louis
Washington
Taylor's
Dorothy Gray
Beyer
Phillips Milk Magnesia
Jergen
Civitans
Itan Club
H. W. Burnley
District of Civitan
W. M. Miller
C. 8
Milton
Milton Silas Bowman
Godfrey Cat
Chrystal
J Poley
R. E. Quesenbury
Tabernacle Cemetery
Patrick County
Martha Hamm
Peter Bowman
Mercer County
C. W. Boyd Estate
Tazewell
Yazewell
Tazewell Manufacturing Co
Tazewell County
C. W. Boyd
Bowen Land and Auction Company
PSC
Girl
Sam Oh Elly
Subcommittee
Wheeling Canvass
Ares
Lincoln-Mercury Sales, Inc
Cherry St
Stadium Drive
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