B&O finances debated amid merger bid with C&O and Central
Washington AP reports B&O officials argue the railroad is not in dire straits as C&O and Central push for a massive eastern consolidation. Attorneys cite recent dividend and stock purchases while opposing a C&O led control plan as unsound and outline a merger including Central and other lines.
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Washington
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Chesapeake & Ohio-New York Central
Central
Robert D. Brooks
Interstate Commerce Commission
B&o
C&o
Brooks
Edwin K. Wheeler
Wheeler
C&o- B&o
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
Chicago & Eastern Ilinois
Rome
William Wyer
New York
Wyer
Oper
Charlies E. Bertrand
Republicans continue push on housing and education programs
A Senate bill outlines major funding for urban renewal and slum clearance, college dorm loans, veteran home loans, support for moderate income housing, and urban mass transit. House actions thwart higher postal rates, while education and highway bills move through conferees and await final action.
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Senate
Federal National Mortgage Association
House Post Office
Senate Education
Congress
Senate House
House
White House
Funeral for William G Starling in Bluefield Va
William G Starling of Bluefield Virginia is to be funeralized Friday at 11 a.m. in Memorial Chapel Dudley Bluefield with Reverend Glenn Lippie officiating. Burial will follow at Maple Hill Cemetery with pallbearers Paul Starling Hubert Gundell Ivan Dove Lawrence Grass Kitts and Clyde Owens participating.
Deaths and Funerals in Princeton and Surrounding Areas
Obituary notices list Walter H. Akers and others with services in Princeton and surrounding towns. Cases include Mary Wasco Hill and Irene Canterbury with memorials planned in local churches and Roselawn Gardens. Surviving relatives span multiple states, with detailed offspring and siblings noted.
New Standard of Length Used at U S Bureau of Standards
A new world length standard is announced by the U S Bureau of Standards claiming measurements five to ten times more accurate. The krypton wavelength serves as the old standard while mercury beam methods offer higher precision though Doppler and related effects complicate comparisons. Three techniques using mercury lines are described to improve measurement accuracy.
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Washington
U. S. Bureau of Standards
Mrs Josephine Brown Spraker Dies at Home in Austinville
Mrs Josephine Brown Spraker wife of G W Sparker of Austinville Virginia died of a heart attack at her home late Thursday. She was sister to Mrs Guy French of Bluefield and survived by two sisters Mrs FE G Hillenberg of Somerset Kentucky and Mrs Lottie Payne of Lexington Kentucky and two brothers William Brown of Miami Florida and Jesse Brown of Hagerstown. Funeral and burial rites will be held in Austinville. arrangements are incomplete.
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Walter H. Akers
Frederick Court
Princeton
George W
James H
Elvira Newman Akers
Osie Leonard Akers
Virginia Partridge
Charleston
C. M. Hatter
Salem
Earl Akers
Roanoke
Wilsie
Harry Akers
Christiansburg
Ott Akers
Welch
Ora Wilson
Route 2
Cleveland
Lebanon
Buchanan County
John
Nancy Tiller Ball
Jake Wilson
Myrtle Toskas
Beauty Sykes
Bessie “Tiller
Davenport
Edith Compton
Burlington
N. C
Grover
Homer
Leonard
Willard Wilson
Earl
Dewey Wilson
Honaker
George Wilson
Ee Nome Totes
Winnie Horton
Morristown
Tenn
Sandy Ridge Freewill Baptist
Mary Wasco Hill
Douglas Tabor
Weisenbaden
Germany
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Bramwell
Jake Wasco
Bellaire
Ohio
Annie Tabor
Oregon
Bramwell Church of God
William Quesenberry
A. L. Sypolt
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Robert Cook Jr
Roy Cook
Garnet Riddie
Donald Allen
Arthur Goins
James Smith
Wiley Simon
Harmon White
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Buckner
Homer Lewis Canterbury
Hollywood
Monroe County
Henry and
Clarinda Shires Canterbury
Irene McDowell Canterbury
Emory Canterbury
Coal City
Kenneth Canterbury
Evelyn Canterbury
Washington, D. C
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Florence Cook
Links Grove
Annie Wickline
Gap Mills
Grace Young
Connersville
Ind
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Nellie Baker
Covington
Broyles
Union
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Buyan
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Grundy
Nell Woodrum
Irene Hoel
Fern Duty
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Cheyenne
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Billie Duty
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San Leandro
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Caudle McClanahan
McClanahan
D. C. Fuller
Tockland
Clinch Valley Clinic
Richlands
Ida Stiltner Fuller
Elizabeth Jeffee
Phyllis Keen
Mavisdale
Clyde Fuller
Keen Mountain
Jerry Fuller
Hattie Blanton
Illinois
Henderson
Holland Fuller
Oak
Jessie Cordell
Bramwell Road
Alexandria
Virginia Gainer
Walter E. Cordell
Lexie Semones
Excelsior
Katherine Hall
Tucson
Ariz
Lois Filliken
Juanita Cox
Bluefield
Alvin Cordell
Columbus
W. E. Cordell Jr
Wagner Funeral Home
Josephine Brown Spraker
G. W. Sparker
Austinville
Spraker
Guy French
Oak Grove
FE. G. Hillenberg
Somerset
Lottie Payne
Lexington
William Brown
Miami
Fla
Jesse Brown
Hagerstown
Weird new disease described as mind malady in children
Dr James Anthony of Washington University describes a strange disorder named mi cropsia seen mainly in children. Victims feel others and objects shrink and move away and recall fades during episodes. The condition may have two forms: a prelude to epileptic attacks or a non epileptic brain condition linked to the temporal lobe.
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Wasington
Nana
James Anthony
Washington University
Anthony
Flat Top District Ushers Convention at Mt Zion
The Flat Top District Ushers' Union will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Theme Willingness To Serve. Speakers include Mrs. Edras Miller Miss Brenda Dehart Miss Loretta Clemons Miss Yolander Bumgardner Rev J J Howard who will preach the annual sermon. Music by Mt Olive Chorus Milk Creek Choir New Morning Star Choir. William Miller president.
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Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Edras Miller
Brenda Dehart
Loretta Clemons
Yolander Bumgardner
J. J. Howard
E. B. Miller
William Miller
Mt. Olive Chorus
Milk Creek Choir
New Morning Star Choir
Virginians Vote On Housing Bill Substitution
In Washington, Virginians backed a Republican substitute to the administration housing bill, with 215 voting against and 197 for. Named lawmakers Abitt, Gary Harrison, Smith, Tuckee supported, while Downing Hardy Jennings opposed.
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Washington
House
Abbitt
Gary
Harrison
Smith
Tuckee
Brayhill
Downing
Hardy
Jennings
Bids Sought for Multiple Virginia Road and Bridge Projects
The State Department advertised bids Thursday for road and bridge projects in Russell Washington Scott and Wythe Counties. The list includes 2.39 miles of reconstruction near Belfast Mills in Russell, I 81 landscaping near Bristol, 8.39 miles of grading and a culvert in Scott, and small approach roads and bridges west of Cripple Creek in Wythe.
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Richmond
State Department
Russell
Washington
Scott and Wythe
Russell County
Tazewell
Virginia
Belfast Mills
Washington County
Bristol
Scott County
Lee County
Jennings Store
Fairview
Clinchport
Wythe County
Simmerman
Cripple Creek
Tourist Center To Be Studied In West Virginia
A committee will visit the Sugar Grove Radio Astronomy Installation to study sites for a proposed tourist center. Rep. John M Slack Jr says one or more locations will be recommended and state funds may be sought for land and building. Navy exhibits and sound equipment will be provided.
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Washington
Sugar Grove
West Virginia
John M. Slack Jr
Dwva
W. W. Barron
Slack
Navy
L. D. Coates Jr
Naval Research
Warden Lane
Natural
William McCoy Jr
Walter Darwin Jr
New York
Irving Bowman
Charleston
Alfred Stern
Cenwe Commission
Will Brotherton Jr
West Wiedisle Home of Delegates
Submarine Hunley Model Display By UDC
A scale Hunley submarine model will be shown at the UDC Memorial Building in Richmond Virginia presented to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Floyd D. Houston of New Suffolk New York built the model and also crafted pieces for the U S Navy Museum at Groton Connecticut. Nine men died aboard the Hunley before it became the first submarine to sink a ship when it attacked the USS Housatonic off Charleston South Carolina in 1864.
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Hyman G. Rickover
Hunley
United Daughters of the Confederacy
UDC
Rickover
Joint Atomic Energy Subcommittee
America
Floyd D. Houston
New Suffolk
N. Y
U. S. Navy Museum
Groton
Conn
Charleston
S. C
West Virginia and Virginia Weather Forecast Brief
The Associated Press reports West Virginia will be partly cloudy with Friday highs 76 to 84 and little temperature change Saturday. Virginia expects partly cloudy conditions Friday with scattered showers and highs 80 to 86 in the south and east, with cooler readings elsewhere.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Eichmann Named Chief of Gestapo Jewish Affairs Section
The record notes Eichmann’s appointment to head the Gestapo Jewish Affairs Section and mentions his West German lawyer Dr. Robert Servatius presenting Jewish citizenship, signaling steps toward confiscation of property. Eichmann was not listed as present at the meeting, and Servatius questioned Eichmann about involvement in 1941 special penal laws against Jews. Adenauer has defended Globke amid related accusations.
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Gestapo
Eichmann
Robert Servatius
Servatius
Adenauer
Globke
Tax Returns Up In State
West Virginians filed about 8 000 estimated income tax returns by the first deadline, exceed ing expectations versus the 5 000 anticipated. Total first filing period remitted about 300 000 dollars. 2 000 returns lacked proper names and some credits. One bad check reported among 6 000 returns.
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Charleston
Clifford Lantz
West
Lantz
Australians Launch Carrot Poison War on Rabbits
In New South Wales a 1000 mile carrot trail treated with 1080 laid by authorities destroyed thousands of rabbits luring them with carrots in the Western Districts. Experts say hundreds of millions killed since 1950 while some oppose 1080 use due to fox and dingo pest control concerns.
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Sydney
Australia
New South Wales
Bathurst
N. D. Bruce
Nuclear President Slams Kennedy Policy On Nuclear Aircraft
Miles C. Leverett of the American Nuclear Society criticized the Kennedy era stance and budget cuts that delayed the 15 year old aircraft nuclear propulsion program at the North Carolina Virginia section meeting in Lynchburg. He cited General Electric's Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Dept. and argued a nuclear powered plane could have flown sooner.
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Lynchburg
American Nuclear Society
Sone “Penny Wise
Ae Ie
North Carolina-Virginia
Miles C. Leverett
General Electric
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Department
Nuclear Society
Women Injured In Auto Crash Remain “Still Serious”
Mrs Elsie Graham of 201 Park Way and her sister Mrs Jo Ann Waddell of Washington DC stayed about the same in condition after a wreck near High Field Virginia. Mrs Graham, wife of W R Graham VP, suffered head and body injuries plus fractured bones and internal injuries, hospital staff said.
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Elsie Graham
Parkway
Jo Ann Waddell
Washington, D. C
Highfield
Graham
W. R. Graham
Sener Bluefield
Cecil Pee © See Sr
Bob
Senate confirms Admiral Anderson for Joint Chiefs role
The Senate confirms Admiral Anderson a naval aviator by profession with extensive Mediterranean and southern Europe command to join the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A Brooklyn native who has listed Washington as home for many years, he brings experience as a semidiplomat in official and social contacts with foreign governments.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mediterranean
Europe
Anderson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Washington
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