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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1961
Page
1
The Bluefield city vote approaches with a primary trimming 23 candidates to ten across districts and a July 5 final selecting five directors. The paper offered free space for candidates to explain their platforms and voters are urged to educate themselves to govern effectively.
Six men compete in the First District Southwest race. Warden, Yeager, Tanner, Tucker lead the field with Peery and Tolbert less active. Tanner is current mayor with a mixed record. Warden and Yeager praised for leadership, Tucker tagged as not our candidate, Tolbert a taxi operator new to politics.
Leading candidate Paul Hudgins a lawyer and Bluefielder with legislative and city governance experience. Allen Coppinger Jr. heads Coppinger Machinery and leads local civic groups including the baseball club. Dr. J. E. Martin an NAACP officer enjoys cross racial support and white patients. Lester Carper seeks reelection but is criticized for a do nothing record and ties to Ossie Perdue.
Atty general Kennedy told the American Communist party it cannot win by defying the high court which ruled the party must register as a foreign dominated and financed group and disclose membership. He outlined steps to compel compliance or face criminal charges and $10,000 daily fines.
President Kennedy shows further improvement in his back injury. He remains on crutches, swims in a heated pool, and continues gentle exercises in Palm Beach. Doctors say his condition is improving and he postpones his Washington return to Monday, awaiting further rest.
William Hyter Covington, a two year employee at the National Security Agency, disappeared last week from Laurel Maryland after a medical leave. Officials note past NSA vanishings by code clerks who defected to Moscow. Covington, last seen Tuesday, may have cashed a $120 check and left behind his olive green 1958 Plymouth bearing Maryland plates FF 1347. He has two young children.
Mrs Gracie Fields 39 of McCarr Kentucky is in serious condition at Williamson Memorial Hospital after being shot in the chest by a caliber pistol. Kentucky State Police are investigating.
A Standard Oil of Ohio gasoline tanker rolled over and exploded on Vinton Street in Toledo injuring at least 65 people, including 10 firemen and two policemen. Fires destroyed two homes and set nine more ablaze as eight city hospitals treated victims and driver Edward Baum of Swanton was hospitalized in serious condition. Fire Chief Arnold Popenhagen said firefighters fought the blaze before the blast, which sent flames across the 600 block. Witnesses described a city block in flames with victims on the grass as responders worked amid chaos.
Six more Freedom Riders joined 98 already jailed for breach of peace in Jackson terminals. The arrests followed refusals to move on at bus and restaurant counters amid protests sponsored by the Student Nonviolent Movement in Nashville.
A Maryland twister touched down near Glen Burnie causing extensive damage in Suburbia 500 homes area. Nine homes destroyed and 48 damaged with 11 injured mild and 50 homeless placed with relatives. No deaths reported.
Ravenna Kentucky reels after a Friday tornado that injures more than 50 and leaves 30 or more families homeless. National Guard and Red Cross assist as debris is cleared and stores are guarded. One child is reported dead nearby in Bellepoint.
Soviet premier Khrushchev branded as dictatorship a Western plan for a neutral director of nuclear test control. Tass published memorandums from Vienna and Berlin detailing proposals and the troika idea with three equal representatives. The West rejected any plan granting the Soviet veto and urged a conference to fix Germany's borders and West Berlin status.
Two 18 and 19 year old suspects, George York and James Douglas, were arrested at a Grantsville roadblock on a stolen truck warrant. They face questioning for five killings in four days across Tennessee, Illinois, Kansas, and Colorado, with a .38 pistol and .22 revolver found in the car.
Police hunted a man with receding grey hair for questioning after the nude body of Jose Vasquez, 7, was found on a tenement roof. Autopsy showed sexual assault and seven stab wounds, five to the back and two to the chest, with the killing occurring Friday after the boy vanished from a coin operated laundry.
A Czech Embassy spokesman said Cuba will admit only the Tractors for Freedom delegation to Havana for negotiations, excluding American newspaper reporters who seek to accompany the group. The Foreign Affairs Ministry in Havana reportedly conveyed the restriction Saturday.
Wreckage and life rafts believed from a C133 Cargomaster were sighted 135 to 180 miles east of Tokyo after takeoff from Tachikawa. Eight crewmen are missing. U S Air Force confirms ongoing search. Crew names and home towns listed: Ceretti, Willman, Holmes, Patterson, Otero, Edwards.
In Rio de Janeiro Brazil army troops fired tear gas at student strikers amid a Communist led protest in Recife. Two navy destroyers steamed toward the port with marines aboard and the Tamandare cruiser was ordered to begin a 1000 mile voyage to Recife.
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