Showdown On Defense Bill Set For Today
The Senate agreed to limit debate and vote on adding over a billion dollars to the Air Force budget as part of the defense bill. Democratic leaders push the increase to ensure air superiority over Russia, while Republicans seek to cap at about $500 million above the president's request. The House approved a $33.635 billion outlay for defense.
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Russia
Eisenhower
Lyndon John
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Sen
Robertson
D-Va
Air Force
Bor
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Sense
Johnson
Wilson
Senate Appropriations Committee
Three Men Die As Car Crashes Into Bridge Near Wytheville
A single car non collision crash on Route 21 south of Wytheville Virginia at 2 15 p m yesterday killed three men and critically injured two others. The dead are Harold Vaught 33 Baltimore MD William Henley 24 Speedwell VA and Davis Vaught 41 Speedwell VA. The two injured are Paul Stuart 22 and Patrick Stuart 21 both of Speedwell with critical injuries.
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Wythe County
Wytheville
Harold Everett Vaught
Baltimore
William Clifton Henley
Speedwell
Davis William Vaught
Paul Junior Stuart
Patrick Eugene Stuart
Harold Vaught
Ralph Webb
Sugar Run Bridge
Paul Stuart
Patrick Stuart
Ila Louise Carrico Henley
Elmer Clifton Henley
Nora Ann
Ella Mae
Elmer Bane
William Davis Vaught
Mildred Cline Vaught
Linda
David
Sally Cline
Blanche Huddle
Adeline Henley
Salem
Eva Jackson
Comers Rock
Cecil
Richard
Elk Creek
Harold Edward Vaught
Shirley Ann
Missouri Vaught
Betty Ann Brown
Kathlene Brown
Wayne
Galax
Franklin
Candidates To Attend Boone County Meeting At Homecoming Day
All candidates for governor and senator will appear at Boone County Homecoming Day on August 5 in Madison. Nominees Robert H. Mollohan and Cecil H. Underwood for governor and Gov. Marland with Chapman Revercomb for senator are set to speak, marking Madison's 50th anniversary of incorporation.
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Madison
W. Va
Boone County
K. K. Hall
Robert H. Mollohan
Cecil H. Underwood
Gov
Marland
Chapman Revercomb
More Rain Expected Over This Weekend
West Virginia forecasts show near normal highs around 74 in the south and about three degrees below average in the north. The Weather Bureau predicts cooler conditions tomorrow, a mix of warmer and cooler days Thursday, then warmer again Saturday with showers and about half an inch of rainfall.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Union and firms brace for possible steel strike
In Pittsburgh, five days remain before the Saturday contract deadline as unions and steel companies prepare for a potential walkout. Foremen hold shutdown planning meetings to protect furnaces and gear. unions set logistics for pickets, signs, and food distribution while awaiting a deal in New York before a nationwide stoppage.
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Pittsburgh
Admiral Ernest J. King dies at 77 in New Hampshire
Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, 77, longtime wartime naval chief, died at Portsmouth Naval Hospital from heart failure induced by high blood pressure. He had suffered a brain hemorrhage in 1947 but remained on the Navy list. King led U S seas in World War II and was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
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Portsmouth
N.H
Ernest J. King
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Naval Operations
King
Navy
Naval Hospital
Washington
Navy Medical Center
Bethesda
Ernest J. King Jr
Omdr. King
Wash
Martha Ranka Egerton
Baltimore
Fleet Adm
U.S
Pearl Harbor
Roanoke Man Faces Death Penalty In Child Assault Case
In Roanoke a 12 jurors weigh a possible electric chair sentence for Frank J. Snider Jr. after a 10 year old girl testified he forced her into his car and performed an act while driving. The case also includes another rape indictment from the same day near the Salem turnpike.
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Roanoke
Commonwealth
Frank J. Snider Jr
Hastings Court
Snider
Gadsden
Atty. C. E. Cuddy
Salem
Dirk A
Sniders
Roanoke County
Kermit Allman
Roanoke City
Eisenhower Plans Panama City Conference While Convalescing
President Eisenhower decided to attend a July 21-22 Panamanian conference of the American republics in Panama City after convalescing at Gettysburg and delays to talks with Nehru. He aims to travel by late July, postponing the Nehru meeting as doctors report improving health and officials announce the White House plan. Hagerty said the trip is contingent on recovery, with the Eisenhowers set to mark their 40th wedding anniversary during convalescence in Gettysburg.
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Eisenhower
Panama City
Gettysburg
Walter Reed Army Hospital
India
Nehru
Thurmont
Panama
James C. Hagerty
White House
United States
London
Europe
Middle East
Big Three steel firms lock in wage talks as strike looms
United Steelworkers and the Big Three aim to resolve a wage dispute with a five year contract on the table. 650,000 steelworkers threaten a first strike since 1952 if no deal is reached by Saturday midnight. Bethlehem Steel and other majors push for pattern-setting agreement amid public campaigns and ads.
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New York
Dent
Thomas Patton
United Steelworkers of America
USW
David McDonald
Philip Murray
Murray
Bethlehemeel
Cedar Bluff Miner Dies In Mine Accident
Melvin Patterson Baker 41 of Cedar Bluff Virginia died in a Pocahontas Fuel Mines accident near Amanota around 11 30 am. A mine car chain broke loose from its motor and rolled over him while he worked as a trackman. He was taken to Richlands hospital with severe lacerations and loss of both legs. He was born in Harraget Tennessee a son of Arch and Katharine Baker and worked for Pocahontas Fuel Mines since 1943. He left a wife Luda Keith and four children plus extended family. Funeral plans were set for Lick Branch Cedar Bluff with interment pending.
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Melvin Patterson Baker
Cedar Bluff
Pocahontas
Amanota
Funeral Home
Richlands
Adamns
Harraget
Tenn
Arch
Katherine Williams Baker
Nora Crawford
Kingsport
Pearl McCosley
Ind
Rita Dregger
Arthur
Lone Rock
Iowa
Ruben
Wellsey
Portsmouth
Jesse
Miami
Fla
Emmett Lee Meade
Hubert Meade
William Meade
Pickaway
Ohio
Agnes Jenkins
David Meade
Dunford Meade
Beatrice Meade
Tramwell
William Fred Meade
Hamlin
Lick Branch
Lee McGlothlin
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Kitten On Keys Stirs Service At Village Church
A cat wandered into Hallock Presbyterian Church during Sunday services, jumped on the organ keyboard and produced odd noises before crawling under a choir seat and sleeping through the remaining sermon and prayers.
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Hallock, Minn
Hallock Presbyterian Church
Two Miners Killed as Coal Chute Slips in Buchanan County
A 60 ton coal slip at a Buchanan County Va. mine crushed two miners, Quentin Shortridge 34 of Looney Creek and Julius Rowe 31 of Royal City, both of the Jake C Holler Coal Co. Families mourn their deaths as officials investigate the door slippage at 11 15 a m yesterday. Funeral arrangements are set for Shortridge in Grundy and for Rowe in Royal City.
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Buchanan County
Quentin Shortridge
Looney Creek
Julius Rowe
Royal City
Jake C. Holler Coal Co
John Shortridge
Grundy
Shortridge
Clarence Greenleaf
E Family
Grundy Funeral
Rowe
Virginia
Danny Ray
John Wayne
Wayne
Earl
Virginia Yates
Audry Matney
Mainsville
Plump Spinster Sentenced for Embezzling Over a Million
Minnie Mangum, 59, convicted of embezzling 1 082 968.25 and falsifying reports, received 20 years with parole possible after five. Court noted a life of family duty after leaving school in seventh grade and warned of financial ruin caused by her actions.
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Minnie Mangum
Curtis Mangum
Norfolk
State Corporation Commission
H. Lawrence Bullock
Woman Driver’s Dog Bites Hand Of Copper
A New York patrolman was bitten when the dog of a woman driver, Ida Pickett, attacked his finger after he issued a ticket for driving the wrong way on a one way street. The incident followed a summons given to Mrs. Pickett by Patrolman Marion De Lauro.
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New York
Marion de Lauro
Ida Pickett
British judge shot by Cypriot rebels in Nicosia
British Judge Bernard V. Shaw, 65, critically wounded by two gunmen in Nicosia as he sat in a car after passing six death sentences on pro Greek rebels. Turkish police pursued the assailants as the vehicle paused on Victoria Street.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Bernard V. Shaw
Victoria Street
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