Wyoming Child Killed in Head-On Crash Near Pineville
A Navy recruit, Acord 19 of Glen Fork, faces reckless driving and negligent homicide charges after a head-on collision on W Va 10 near Pineville killed Shirley Ann Spears 5. Her mother and father survived with injuries. two other children unhurt. Acord and Perry Sanders were treated for minor injuries. Magistrate Preston Wilson will hear the case Monday morning.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
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Pineville
W.va
Navy
Oceana
Wiley Hershman
Acord
Glen Fork
Preston Wilson
Shirley Ann Spears
W. Va
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Hershman
Perry Sanders
Wyoming General Hospital
Regional Forecast: Warmer Start Across States
West Virginia and Ohio see fair, warm Monday with highs around 77 to 84. Tuesday brings more cloudiness and a chance of scattered showers in northern and northeastern areas. Kentucky and Tennessee stay fair and warmer through Tuesday with highs near 80 to 85. Virginia mostly sunny Monday then partly cloudy Tuesday. Maryland eases from 80s toward cooler air Monday night with possible showers Tuesday. Western Pennsylvania remains partly cloudy and cool Monday, turning sunny and warmer Tuesday.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Newsmen Say Information Withheld By Government Debate
Washington reports clash as officials defend secrecy while correspondents accuse broad withholding of data. Key issues include Pentagon blackout, executive order limits on security disclosures, the McCarthy Army episode, Marshall Islands nuclear test fallout, and congressional probes into transparency.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Executive Branch
Pentagon
United States
Marshall Islands
Frank E. Smith
D-Miss
House
Moss
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Funeral Notices from Bluefield Area Victims
Obituaries and funeral notices for Sarah Josephine Minich Nick Honaker J Frank Wright Bessie Brown Austin and others detail services, burial plans, relatives, and cemeteries across Bluefield Marsh Fork Richlands and surrounding towns. Recipients include Vera Carver Ethel Minich Gene Tibbs and several nieces nephews and siblings.
Lathe Akers 44 to be laid to rest in Raven service
Lathe Akers of Red Ash Virginia will receive last rites at 2 p.m. in the Assembly of God Church at Raven. The Rev. Dale Holmes will officiate. Akers died Saturday in a Richlands hospital from injuries in a mine accident. His body is returned to his mother's home in Red Ash.
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Nick Honaker
Honaker
Bratton Memorial
Mercer Funeral Home
T. F. Herndon
Mount Clark Cemetery
St. Luke's Hospital
Bluefield
Gene Tibbs
East River Mountain
Ula Wilson
Grace Bartock
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Bessie Combs
Newark
Walter
Arthur Franklin
Alexandria
Bud Honaker
Matewan
J. Frank Wright
John W. Johnson
Stewartsville
Mays Memorial Methodist Church
Arthur Wingfield
Oakey
Roanoke
Fannie Wright
Joseph F. Wright Jr
Chester P. Wright
Lynchburg, Va
Jasper Wright
David R. Saunders
Princeton, N. J
Bessie Brown Austin
Ford Austin
Jewell Ridge
Richlands Presbyterian Church
A. B. Williford
Paul Gess
Jewell Ridge Presbyterian Church
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
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Richlands
Tinea
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Nannie Anderson Lunsford
Princeton
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Teresa Lansford
Leonard Auxier
Barstown
Jack Bailey
New London
H. Powell Richardson
Mountain City
Tenn
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Fountain City
Riffe Funeral Home
Fairview
Marion
Robert H. Duncan
Knoxville
Dorothy Byrum
Raleegh
N. C
Carolyn
Eddie
Joseph Powell
Lathe Akers
Red Ash
Assembly of God
Raven, Va
Dale Holmes
Not Bce
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemete
Abees
Myrtle Akers
Richmond Police Nab Four With Stolen Safe
A Richmond patrolman spotted the getaway car and alerted others leading to four Richmond men being halted on a Goochland County road. They surrendered without a struggle and were charged with burglary tools and stolen automobile after a pharmacy safe containing cash and narcotics was recovered. The suspects were Thomas Eugene Palmer Herman Losse Charles Alexander Tomes and Berkeley Leon Wright.
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Richmond
H. Brock
Presbyterians Convene Week-Long Youth Leader Training
Hundreds of high school Presbyterians from Virginia Maryland West Virginia and the District of Columbia gather at Massanetta Springs for a week long youth leader training camp. The event is sponsored by Christian education committees from the Presbyterian Synods of Virginia and West Virginia. Participants aged 15 to 17 travel from Virginia West Virginia Maryland and DC. The camp begins with a supper tomorrow evening and ends with a breakfast on Friday.
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Seaman Bodies Recovered From Sidon Submarine Disaster
In Portland England salvage workers recovered the bodies of all 13 seamen from the submarine Sidon, which sank after an explosion in Portland harbour ten days earlier. The wreckage filled the sub’s fore part as the Ay was raised and towed ashore while investigators probe the blast cause.
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Portland
England
Navy
Otey to Speak on Thayer Plant at Kiwanis Luncheon
Ernest G. Otey president of the Bluefield Area Development Corporation will address Bluefield Kiwanis at the West Virginian Hotel luncheon on the ADCs work and plans. He will discuss talks with the Thayer Company about relocating one of its large plants to Bluefield and non Kiwanian guests may attend.
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Bluefield Area Development Corporation
ADC
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
West Virginian
Thayer Company
Bluefield
Otey
Officer B M Brothers Found Dead Near Williamson
P Lt Col B M Brothers 41 was found dead in his automobile at Buffalo Creek near Williamson. Coroner says he shot himself with an Army .45 pistol. He served at Fort Chaffee Arkansas. The widow Mrs Genevieve Brothers traveled from Paris Kentucky for funeral services Wednesday.
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B. M. Brothers
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M. T. Ball
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S. S. Fleck
Genevieve Brothers
Paris
Ball
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Eac
Fort 7Te
Southeast Asian Decisions Loom Over Hanoi Beijing Moscow
Washington officials weigh a three week window for pivotal moves in the Southeast Asia conflict as Ho Chi Minh travels to Peiping and Moscow and Moscow and Peiping guide strategy while U Nu visits Washington for talks with Eisenhower and Dulles.
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Russia
China
Ho Chi-minh
Viet Nam
Formosa
Europe
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Eisenhower
Dulles
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Cam
Geneva
Baranet
World Sees Small Global Harm from U S Recession
The United Nations reported that the 1953-54 U S recession caused limited international effects and warned against over-optimism about the improvement. The world economic report said the downturn had smaller repercussions than feared and reduced anxiety about future depressions.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
U. N
Inland's Offer Rejected By CIO United Steel Workers
Pittsburgh June 2 Inland Steel Co offered the CIO United Steel Workers an average 10 percent hourly wage increase. The union rejected it quickly. Inland's offer matched an earlier US Steel Corp. figure and applied across job classes from 1 to 35, with a top 23 1/2 cents. David J McDonald called the proposal virtually the same as US Steel's. Inland president Joseph L Block said the offer was the highest this year by any major employer and the seventh largest steel producer employing 27,000. W G Caples said union reply was not a breakoff and talks may resume anytime.
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Inland Steel Co
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Inland
US. Steel Corp
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Joseph L. Block
David J. McDonald
Big Union
US Steel Corp
McDonald
W. G. Caples
Inland Steel
Negro Fugitive Shot In Chase
In Richmond Virginia Patrolman F J Brauer fired on Leon Griffin 21 of Richmond ending a high speed chase Griffin and a lone passenger fled on foot Griffin was wounded and treated at a local hospital before booking on grand larceny of an automobile and resisting arrest The other suspect escaped
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F. J. Brauer
Leon Griffin
Brauer
Griffin
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Bluefield Woman Wounded In Accidental Knife Incident
Hattie Simmons aged 30 a Black resident of Bluefield Virginia was hospitalized last night with a deep upper stomach knife wound she says was caused accidentally by a friend. Dr at Bluefield Sanitarium reported extensive blood loss but non critical condition. Police identified the friend as Robert Webb of Bluefield who was with Simmons at the time. Both say the wound was accidental.
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Hattie Simmons
Bluefield
Revival Underway At Bluewell's New Church
A revival meeting is in progress at the Evangelistic Center in Bluewell. It is the first revival in the new brick church with Pastor Rev. Irvin Smith sharing the pulpit with evangelist Rev. Walter Smith. Special healing services are nightly at 7 45 with Sunday school at 10 a m and worship at 11 a m. Special music is planned.
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Evangelistic Center
Bluewell
New Brick Church
Irvin Smith
Walter Smith
Elements Take Toll As Wind Ravages Crops and Land
A damaged report notes about a fifth of the crop and fertile land seriously damaged by wind. The article references the Twentieth Century Fund and describes broad agricultural losses.
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Ineo
East German Women Embrace Equal Rights and Labor Shifts
East Berlin reforms grant legal equality, pushing women into full production roles from mining pits to street cleaning. The regime, led by Otto Grotewohl, touts emancipation while a new family code redefines marriage as a business contract with shared property rules and divorce ease.
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Virginia Chamber Plans Conference
Norfolk scene hosts Virginia World Trade Conference subcommittee meeting to map the seventh annual event set for Virginia Beach in October. Attendees include Paxton and Hampton Roads members from Newport News, Norfolk, and Hampton with Richmond and Roanoke representatives.
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Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Monticello
Schedulse Virginia Beach
Hampton Roads
William Paxton
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Paxton
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William H. Curtis
Allen R. Hoffman
E C. McDougle
Harry Reyner
J. Fran Shaffer
L. R. Sorenson
Col
William T. Watkins
B. G. Roy
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Curtis T. Brooks
James N. Crumbley
Norman R. Hamilton
James Murray
J. C. Cutler
William 8. Meacham
Vernon T. Myers
Maurice W. Nordlinger
Crawford S. Rogers
Charles E. Hastings
Hampton
Hampton Roads Area
J. Dewey Dane
Richard Maxwell
William L. Pierce
Richmond
F. S. Baird
Roanoke
Old Argument Cited As Cause In Shooting Of State Man
Wetzel Adkins, 42, of Ranger was wounded in a daylight ambush in Lincoln County. Alfred Lambert, 17, admitted firing from 40 feet behind Road Fork School, saying he did not intend to kill but to burn him up. Adkins remained in satisfactory condition at Huntington hospital. Lambert was jailed pending preliminary hearing.
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W. Va
Wetzel Adkins
Ranger
Lincoln County
John Flowers
Alfred Lambert
Adkins
Flowers
Road Fork
Huntington
Lambert
Charleston Man Receives Promotion at Viscose Plant
Richard I. Groening was promoted to assistant to the manufacturing superintendent at American Viscose Corp. rayon plant in Nitro West Virginia. A Landington Michigan native, he joined in 1946 and has held posts in Meadville Pennsylvania and industrial relations staff prior to this advancement. He is married with three children and resides near Charleston West Virginia.
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Richard I. Groening
American Viscose Corp
Nitro
W. Va
Groening
Landington, Mich
Corporation
Meadville
Charleston
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