Symingtons Political Life Fans Speculation On 1950s Presidency
Washington reports growing talk that Missouri Senator Stuart Symington could be a Democratic presidential candidate if the party seeks a unifying figure. The Missouri party backs him as a potential nominee, instructing its 38 vote delegation to vote as a unit at the national convention. Symington, though, denies being a candidate while acknowledging he would refuse if asked.
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Stuart Symington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Ewes Kefauver
Tennessee
Missouri State Democratic Committee
Symington
Missouri
Itheless
Stevenson
M Ot
Kefauver
Senate
Truman
Eisenhower
Sallane
CBS Plans Increased Affiliate Payments
CBS announces higher payments to affiliate stations by six percent starting August. The network says advertisers will not incur higher costs. The move restores five points of a previous twenty percent reduction under last year’s agreement, effective after the current season ends in August.
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Halo Network
Ansbingea
Wali
Seven Room Story House For Sale In Excellent Location
Postwar sale notice offers a seven room story house built since the war in a prime residential setting on a $2000 lot. Full basement, complete bath, gas furnace, freshly painted. Owner lives nearby and selling for $5400 with cash or terms. Also a five room frame on Athens road with bath, outbuildings, about one acre, priced at $3950 with terms.
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Penn
Athens Hard Road
Princeton
Princeton Society Methodist Men Meet For Supper
The Methodist Men’s Club gathers at the church Tuesday evening for a supper meeting. The MBane Circle No 2 led by Mrs De Price will serve. Barbara Farmer Circle at First Christian Church led by Mrs Don Jackson holds its last meeting of the year Monday at 6 30 with a covered dish dinner and officers to be installed. Salle Circle meets at the church with Mrs Malcolm Hale hostess at 7 45 in the new Educational Building. Commencement for the Daily Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church is set for Wednesday at 7 05 after the Fellowship Supper at 6 30, followed by Training Union council. Mrs James Snidow is VBS superintendent. First Methodist Church official board holds a special meeting at 7 30 this evening in Park Avenue Chapel.
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M Bane
de Price
Barbara Farmer
First Christian Church
Don Jackson
Harry Osborne
Salle Circle
Malcolm Hale
First Baptist Church
Council of the Training Union
James Snidow
Vacation Bible School
The
First Methodist Church
Park Avenue Chapel
Vacation Church School Week At First Presbyterian Church
The second week of Vacation Church School continues this week at First Presbyterian Church under the direction of Mrs. Charles B Yearout with Mrs. Joseph Shaffer assisting. Worship and classes serve kindergarten to pioneer ages and youth are welcome. NORRIS GUILD Mrs J R Boult and Mrs Owen Griffith host the Marion Lela Norris Guild at 8 pm in A H Boult home 201 Park Avenue.
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First Presbyterian Church
Charles B. Yearout
Joseph Shaffer
Norris Guild
J. R. Boult
Owen Griffith
Marion Lela Norris
A. H. Boult
Park Avenue
Navy to Stay in Minneapolis Amid Air Ops Controversy
The Navy will continue weekend air operations at Wold-Chamberlain Field despite protests after a jet fighter crashed into a residential block, killing five civilians and injuring others. The Naval Air Station and Air Force refused to suspend flights while investigations proceed.
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Minneapolis
Navy Ceeme
Wold-Chamberlain Field
Naval Air Station
Air Force
Twin Cities
Col
David Gould
475Th Air Force
Charleston Strike Idles 300 at Gravely Tractors Plant
A 300 member United Steel workers strike at Gravely Tractors Inc. in Dunbar idle production as contract talks broke off indefinitely at 11 pm. Clerical staff are under contract. plant offices closed with only janitors on fire watch. Pickets are up while union members plan a meeting to consider the company’s final offer.
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Charleston
United Steelworkers
Gravely Tractors Inc
Dunbar
Ralph C. Spindler
Spinder
Charleston Transit Seeks Bus Fare Increases
Charleston Transit Co asks the Public Service Commission to raise city zone fares from 10 to 13 cents or two for a quarter and suburban rates from 15 cents to 15 cents as cars siphon riders. Vice President R F Randolph notes service remains strong but automobile competition erodes bus ridership and cites proposed changes to school fares.
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Charleston
Charleston Transit Co
Public Service Commission
R. F. Randolph
Hearing On Lot Set For Tonight
The Princeton City Council will hear an application to reclassify a lot on Shirley Avenue between the Matney apartment building and the Thornton lot from residential to business. Residents between Park Avenue and Ninth Street petitioned the change. The parking commission recommends leasing the lot as a public parking lot.
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Ite
Sreley Avenue
Matney
Thornton
Princeton City Council
Park Avenue
Ninth Street
Parking Commission
Buchanan Farmers Urged to Apply for Conservation Funds
Mrs. Connie Telcher of the A F C office says Buchanan County farmers have over $8,000 available to support conservation practices. If unused, funds will go to Dickenson County. The program covers more than half the cost for measures such as springs for livestock water, water ponds, open drainage, tile drains, pastures and alfalfa seeding, with technicians approving and distributing funds.
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Hurley
Connie Telcher
Buchanan County
Dickenson County
Belcher
Soil Conservation Technican
Officers Elected At Marion Legion Meeting
At the ninth district American Legion convention in Marion officers were chosen to take office after the Virginia department convention in Newman July 29 to August 1. Commander Frank P. Copenhap s first vice Foy Eghton second vice John Fleenor Jr third vice B C Swope chaplain Rev Richard McKay sergeant at arms Cecil W Ross membership chairman Dr Tom Ely.
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Narrows
Richard McKay
Marion
Cecil W. Ross
Bishop
Tom Ely
Jonesville
Area Men Qualify For Insurance Licenses
CHARLESTON June 10 MH The State Insurance Department has issued licenses to agents including aevee H Friend Jr Blue Ridge Auto James G Kelly Jr Princeton and Sidney Fred Taylor Princeton for insurance agent credentials.
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State Insurance Department
Aevee H. Friend Jr
Blueie Auto
James G. Kelly Jr
Princeton
Sidney Fred Taylor
Russian ham operators make chink in curtain
Kiel Germany June 10 four German amateur radio operators have reported contact with Russians in recent weeks managers at the German Amateur Radio Club say the exchanges show the curtain between East and West Europe is thinning and radio links are reopening
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Kiel
Germany
Hans Hansen
June 30 Tax Deadline Warns Tazewell Residents
TAZEWELL VA All taxes in the town become delinquent on June 30 and taxpayers are urged to meet their assessment before that date or risk their property being listed on the delinquent record at the courthouse.
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Tazewell
Ritchie Assessor Dies At Smithfield
Harrisville West Virginia June Burns Cunningham aged 64 died at his home near Smithfield. He left a widow and two children, a son and a daughter.
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Smithfield
Harrisville
W. Va
June Burns Cunningham
Debates Forecast at AFL CIO Executive Meeting
Deep split within AFL-CIO over Meany policy sparks anticipated clashes at Washington executive council session. Rumors of a Beck walkout and factional battles loom as Meany Reuther feud resurfaces over U.S. policy and presidential endorsement.
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Dave Beck
Peperk
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Parachute Riggers Keep Jumpers Safe at Bad Tolz Detachment
In Bad Tolz near Munich the 10th Special Forces Group rigger detachment of 31 men packs and inspects chutes for every jump. First Lieutenant James M. Grossman leads expert riggers who perform checks, folding, repairs, and log the parachute history ensuring each jumper’s safety and readiness for takeoff.
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Lowell
Mass
Baxter
Labor leaders to form united front under Meany and Dubinsky
The effort will be led by Dave Beck with most Building Trades heads on the committee. President Meany will have the deciding voice, joined by Dubinsky and the Machinists' red Hayes in guiding the new alliance.
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Nehru
Asia
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AL Cio
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Livingston
Ades
APL
CIO
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CTO
Tion
Dave Beck
Building Trades Unions
Dubinsky
Red Hayes
Rotary group seeks hearing on Grundy mails to Pikeville
At a Grundy Rotary Club meeting a resolution was adopted asking Congressman Pat Jennings to arrange a public hearing on Grundy mail service. The group seeks a direct route from Grundy to Pikeville and expects other local organizations to join in the effort for better mail service.
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Grundy
Soviet Curfew and Crime Under Curbs in Kiev
An Izvestia report from Kiev exposes widespread disregard for a curfew for underage youths and the sale of liquor to minors. It quotes a liquor store clerk pressured by quotas and notes police corruption and unreported crimes, arguing Marxist claims may be undermined by such failures, with attribution to Stalin.
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Kiev
Izvestia
Stalin
McDowell Court Opens With 32 Cases Docketed
McDowell County Circuit Court’s June term begins with Judge Thornton presiding and jurors reporting at 9 a.m. A varied docket lists appeals such as Cartwright Motors vs. Turner and Lincoln-Mercury Sales vs. Tolley, along with notices and attachment orders and several bastardy and law actions.
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McDowell County
Thornton
Marie Cartwright Motors, Inc
Alonzo Turner, Jr
Wisler
Coney Island
Elmer Carpenter
Tony Safolla
Theodore Boyeas
Father
Harry Ve Wrias
Paid Pocahontas Coal Company
J. A. Stevenson
Hubert E. Stevenson
H. C. Henderson
Chester Long
G. C. Thompson, Jr
G. C. Thompson, Sr
Vivian Scarbro
Joe Leftwich
Ward Duncan Motor Company
Marvin McCormick
United States Steel Corp
Blue
Lessie Mae Gray
Bennyne Harris, Jr
Elizabeth Bennett
Vernon Ramey
Twenty Three People Booked At County Jail
Twenty three persons were booked at the county jail by county and city officers Saturday and early Sunday. Princeton police booked four drunks and one drunk driver, and state and county officers booked 11 on Saturday and 6 on Sunday on misdemeanor charges. Included in that list were two drunks and one drunk driver arrested on the turnpike. One man, Glen Davis, charged with wounding his daughter in law, Virginia Davis, on the Littlesburg Road, Bluefield Route 1, gave up to Bluefield city police, and was turned over to the county.
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Princeton
Glen Davis
Virginia Davis
Littlesburg
Bluefield Rt. 1
Bluefield
Princeton Firemen Respond to False Alarm Saturday
Princeton firemen answered a call to the state road commission garage at Scott Street and Princeton Avenue Saturday afternoon but found no fire. Smoke from burning trash led a bystander to think the garage was burning.
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Princeton
State Road Commission
Scott Street
Princeton Avenue
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