U S Scores Coup With 2 In Satellite Launch
U S Navy scientists hailed a two in one satellite launch from Cape Canaveral giving the United States an operating navigation satellite system by 1962. The Thor Able Star rocket carried an experimental navigation vehicle and a radiation measurement sphere into orbit.
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Washington
United States
Navy
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Officialis
Earth
Cmdr
R. F. Freitag
Astronautic Group
ORBIT
Transit
Death Claims Dr. Connell Bluefield Pediatrician Dies at 63
Dr Richard Connell, 63, longtime Bluefield pediatrician, died Wednesday at Bluefield Sanitarium after brief illness. He lived at 1005 Edgewood Road and practiced in the Commercial Bank Building. Born July 7 1692 in Spencer ville Ontario he was son of William and Mary Connell. Survived by wife Louise White Connell a son R Connell Jr of Rome Ga and a brother Dr W W S T Connell of Hamilton Ontario. Hawkins Funeral Home in charge.
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Edgewood Road
Commercial Bank
Dr. Connell
Spencervil
Ontario
William and
Mary Brevard Connell
Westminster Presbyterian Church of
Bluefield
Mercer County Medical Society
West Virginia Medical Society
American Medical Association
Eckman
Louise White Connell
R. Connell, Jr
Rome
W.W. S. T. Connell
Hamilton
Hawkins Funeral Home
Heavy Showers Predicted in West Virginia
The weather bureau warned heavy showers and thunderstorms, locally intense, are in the forecast for West Virginia over the next several days, with a potential for strong storms and rainfall amounts varying by area.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Committee Jobs School Aid Bill Stalls in House
The House Rules Committee voted 7 to 5 to block a conference on federal school aid, effectively ending chances for final passage this session. Key vote came as Rep. B Carroll Reece led GOP and Southern Democrats in preventing further action.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Congress
House
Senate
B. Carroll Reece
R-Tenn
Reece
Senate backs 200 million rise for federal road bill
Senate Public Works Committee approved Jennings Randolph amendment raising the federal aid highway bill by 200 million dollars for 1962 and 1963. The move adds 100 million annually to the D fund, with a 2 to 1 federal to state match and a one third state cost share, prioritizing labor surplus areas.
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Washington
Senate Public Works Committee
Jennings Randolph
D-Wva
House
ABC
Dolph
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Stolen Art Returns in Part from Concord College Heist
Two of fourteen paintings stolen during May and June at Concord College were mailed back to the art exhibit in Beckley with an unsigned note. Troopers say there may have been no intent to steal and hope the remaining works will follow. The works by Jerry W. Jones are valued higher than the $900 Jones estimated, with the artist planning to attend graduate art school next fall.
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Concord College
Princeton
R. L. Mozingo
Beckley
Jones
Concord
J. Arthur Butcher
Morgantown Woman Killed by Lightning
Mrs Sereppa Ann Eddy aged 26 was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning near an outbuilding at her home north of Morgantown. She leaves husband Donald and is mother to three children aged 20 months to four years. The incident occurred near the Pennsylvania line, according to Chief Deputy Hugh Brand.
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Morgantown
Sereppa Ann Eddy
Monongalia County
Hugh Brand
Japan Japan Pact Quickly Put Into Effect
The United States moved swiftly to ratify and bring into force the US Japanese security pact after Senate approval 90 to 2. Riots in Tokyo opposed the agreement while Washington reported the instrument of ratification had been signed by President Eisenhower and sent to Tokyo.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Tokyo
Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur Lf
Aiichira Fujiyama
Nobusuke Kishi
State Department
U.S
Far East
Japan
Russell B. Long
D-La
Richard B. Russell
Sen
Olin D. Johnston
DSC
Long
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
theft at state motor vehicles dept prompts probe
Charleston police report a high value robbery at the State Motor Vehicles Department with $353 plus seized while late weekend timing uncertain. Entry used by prying ceilings and vault walls. 300 employees investigated, one juvenile arrest record noted. Inventory and checks may total about $12,000 in damaged cash.
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Charleston
State Motor Vehicles Department
Brooke County Tragedy: Husband Kills Family Then Himself
In Wellsburg West Virginia a 23 year old Robert Blake shot and killed his estranged wife's parents Edward and Juanita Eliott then wounded his wife before killing himself with a shotgun. The spree occurred at the Eliott home as Blake's wife lay critically wounded in a Wheeling hospital. Police say two young Blakes died earlier in the upstairs of the Eliott house.
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Wellsburg
Edward Eliott
Panhandle
Brooke County
Dave Fees
Robert Blake
Elliotts
Edward
Juanita
Blake
Wheeling
Reese
Weissburg
Blakes
Eliott House
Eliott
Sill
Elliott
Ellctt Hamne
Elliott Blake
Mex Elliott
Brinks Robbery Bandit Freed After Custody Release
Joseph J. O'Keefe known as Specs, who testified against eight accomplices in the Brink's robbery, was released after pleading guilty to his role in the January crime. He spent more than four years awaiting sentencing before the court, Felix Forte noting the proceedings.
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Boston
Joseph J
Specs
Oaline Paane
eSee
Felix Forte
Governor mourns big robbery as vaults mused in Capitol building
Governor disclosed at a news conference that a major burglary affected the state office complex. He cited reinforced concrete vaults on the first floor near the Capitol, with losses totaling about 368000 dollars in cash and 12000 dollars in checks, as well as receipts from lockers awaiting transfer. The incident raises questions about money handling at the Motor Vehicles Department, though the governor cautioned against blaming officials and noted ongoing audits.
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Istate
Washington St
Capitol
Adeps
Sewamen
Treasury
Underwood
Motor Vehicles Department
J. Marshall Hobcomb
Hobornty
McGuire Sworn In as West Virginia State Auditor
McGuire a longtime Logan mayor and Republican took the oath as state auditor before Gov. Underwood and officials, promising to serve to the best of his ability. He resigned as Logan mayor effective Wednesday as council to choose a successor.
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Charleston
McGuire
Logan
West Virginia
Underwood
Edgar B. Sims
Logan County
Joe F. Burdett
Jury Disagrees In Dotson Trial
The Williamson AP report covers the George Dotson Jr case as the jury returns a verdict related to a Galary affair with Marmon years earlier. Harmon was found dead in a car on a snowbound road after a dispute during World War II service.
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Marmon
Harreen
God
June Harmen
Willy
Cripple Man in Wheelchair Rescues Niece From Blaze
In Oakland California a wheelchair bound man Buddy Reed 37 rescued his 1 year old niece Margaret from a blazing bedroom. The father carried both in the chair downstairs to safety while neighbors aided. Fire damage estimated at $15,000.
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Oakland
Calif
Ruby Chatmans
Margaret
Buddy Reed
Reed
Chatman
Governor to Outline State Economic Program
Governor Underwood will outline general details of a state temporary economic program funded by 1960 appropriations. The address will be carried by eight state television stations via special video tape reproductions, in what his office calls the largest coverage for such a report.
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Charleston
Underwood Tha
Underwood
Underground Nike Zeus test ends with rocket explosion
An experimental firing of a Nike Zeus anti missile from an underground launch site failed when the rocket blew up in the hole at White Sands New Mexico. There were no injuries to the launching crew, the Army reported.
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Washington
White Sands
N.M
Army
Ritual killings shock Chilean earthquake area
Police in Puerto Saavedra near Temuco report that an Indian Machi medicine man and another tribal member beat to death a six year old boy and an eight year old girl used in rites to appease disasters. The children's parents died in a May tidal wave that killed 62. The murder followed belief in ancient Araucanian customs still practiced by a small tribal group in Cautin and Malleco provinces.
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Temuco
Chile
Coy
Squaw Io
Gode
South Chile
Pacific Ocean
Puerto Saavedra
Dian
Cautin
Malleco
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Astronautic Department
Able
UPI Telephoto
Harlow Richard Connell
Bluefield Sanitarium
Kishi
MOD
Nesly
Spt
Ed Guthrie
State Police
Bieke
Mrs. Elliott
Sia
Cid
Ira
Eliotts
Brinks
Joseph J. O'Keefe
O'Keefe
East Cambridge
New State Auditor
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Cripple Man
Niece
Blaze
Ed Jacobs
Nike-Zeuus
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