Wyoming Child Killed In Head-On Crash Near Pineville
A Navy recruit is charged with reckless driving and negligent homicide over a pre collision near Pineville West Virginia that killed Shirley Ann Spears, 5, and injured her mother, Howard Spears, and two other children. The driver faces two counts and remains in custody pending hearing.
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Wyoming
Pineville
W.va
Navy
Oceana
Wilson
Shirley Ann Spears
W. Va
West Virginia Weather Turns Warmer With Sunshine
West Virginia foresees fair and warmer conditions Monday with highs near 77 to 82. Tuesday brings some cloudiness and a chance of scattered showers mainly in the north, as temperatures edge higher.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Newsmen vs Officials Over News Withholding Tensions Rise
Washington notes a public clash as officials claim only security data are suppressed while press sources allege broad withholding. The debate reflects Eisenhower era secrecy, Pentagon blackout concerns, and congressional scrutiny led by Rep Moss and Rep Smith amid a probe into information flow and government pressure.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Marshall Islands
Frank E. Smith
D-Miss
House
Rep
Moss
D-Calif
Obituary notices from Bluefield area Tennessee Prince to Clinton
Funeral services planned for Mrs. Sarah Josephine Minich 74 of Bluefield Route 3 at Pine Grove Church of Christ with burial at Bailey Cemetery near Goodwill. Surviving children 5 sons and 2 daughters. services include pallbearers and a removal from Craven Funeral Home. Also funeral plans for Nick Honaker 51 of Honaker with services at Bratton Memorial Mercer Funeral Home and burial at Mount Clark Cemetery following a stroke in St Luke's Hospital Bluefield. Additional notices for J T Lunsford 16 of Princeton died at University in Charlottesville and Clifford E Medley 45 of Rockford died in Rockford Hospital with roanoke-bound remains. Rev H Powell Richardson 41 death in Fountain City Tennessee with services in Fountain City and graveside in Marion Virginia. J Prankie 71 death near Stewartsville funeral at Mays & Meats Methodist Church. Mrs Bessie Brown Austin 44 of Jewell Ridge with interment in Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery.
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Sarah Josephine Minich
Bluefield
Pine Grove Church of Christ
Don Sha
Jim Scott
Burtai
Bailey Cemetery
Goodwill
Vera Carver
Ethel Minich
Hubert Belcher
Coaldale
Richard Minich
Pocahontas
Wallace
Thurman
Montcalm
Charles
Cleveland
Ohio
Bale Miller
Lamar
Black Bailey
Craven Funeral Home
Paul Pursell
Eugene Austin
Paris Sanders
Charles Sutphin
Albert Munsey
Dwight French
Nick Honaker
Honaker
Bratton
Mercer Funeral Home
T. F. Herndon
Mount Clark Cemetery
St. Luke's Hospital
Abdoeen
Mercer Pine
J. T. Lunsford
Nannie Anderson Lunsford
Princeton
University Inate
Charlottes
Bright
Princeton High
William Lunsford
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Woodlawn Cemetery
Clifford Medley
Clifford E. Medley
Rockford
Medley
L. C. Owen
Walton Ave
Roanoke
H. Powell Richardson
Fountain City
Tenn
St. Paul Methodist Church
Fountain
Riffe Funeral Home
Fairview
Marion
Robert H. Duncan
Knoxville
Miss Byrum
Raleegh
N. C
Joseph Fowell
Stevan
J. Prankie
John W. Johnson
Stewartsville
Fannie Wright
Joseph FP. Wright Jr
Chester P. P. Wright
Pope Va
Jasper Wright
Es R. Saunders
Princeton, N. J
Bessie Brown Austin
Ford
Jewell Ridge
Paul Gess
Jewell Ridge Presbyterian Church
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
Austin
Clinch Raeales
Fiala Ath Bea
Last rites for Lathe Akers in Raven church
Lathe Akers aged 44 of Red Ash Virginia will receive last rites at 2 PM tomorrow in the Assembly of God Church Raven Virginia. Funeral arrangements follow local customs and church rites as announced by family and church representatives.
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Akers
Red Ash
Assembly of God
Raven
Richmond Police Nab Four With Stolen Safe
A Richmond patrolman spotted a getaway car and alarmed police leading to the arrest of four men fleeing with a stolen safe. The safe contained 124 in cash and 200 in narcotics value. The suspects Thomas Eugene Palmer Herman Losse Charles Alexander Tomes and Berkeley Leon Wright were charged with burglary tools and stolen auto possession.
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Richmond
H. Brock
Presbyterian Youths Open One Week School
Hundreds of high school age Presbyterians from Virginia West Virginia Maryland and the District of Columbia gather at Massanetta Springs Virginia for a week long youth leader training camp sponsored by committees on Christian education of the Presbyterian synods. Leaders from three states attend with a youth training camp opening tomorrow with breakfast and sessions.
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Massanetta Springs
States
District of Columbia
Presbyterian Synods of
Vir
Vears Seace
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Submarine Sidon Disaster Seamen Recovered in Portland Harbor
Salvage workers recovered the bodies of all 13 seamen from the Sidon wreck ten days after an explosion in Portland harbor. The submarine was raised and towed ashore, with navy engineers stating the craft could be repaired, while investigators pursue the cause of the sinking.
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Portland
England
Otey to tell Kiwanis of Thayer plant move plans
Ernest G. Otey will address the Bluefield Kiwanis Club at the West Virginian Hotel luncheon about negotiations between the ADC and the Thayer Company. The talk will invite non Kiwanian guests to hear the report and discuss plans to move one of the companys largest plants to Bluefield.
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Bluefield Kiwanis Club
West Virginian
ADC
Thayer Company
Bluefield
Otey
Officer dies by self destruction near Williamson
Lt. Col. B. M. Brothers 41 was found dead in his car at Buffalo Creek five miles east of Williamson on U S Rt 52. State Police report illness noted. Brothers had served from Private and was stationed at Fort Chaffee Ark. Funeral plans listed for Fort Thomas with widow and mother to attend.
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Fort Thomas
Southeast Asian Decisions Prompted by Hanoi Mission
Washington reports crucial Southeast Asia decisions expected from Red leaders in Russia and China within three weeks. President Ho Chi Minh travels to Peiping to confer with officials, signaling possible moves on Formosa and Southeast Asia while Geneva peace efforts unfold.
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Southeast Asia
Russia
China
Ho Chi-minh
Viet Nam
Peiping
Moscow
Asada
Formosa
Asia
U.S
Cam
Geneva
Batials
Lee
Te Hee
Red
South Viet Nam
World Sees Light Hit From U S Recession
The United Nations reported the world suffered little harm from the 1953 54 U S recession but warned against over optimism. The two year world economic report said the recession had smaller international repercussions than expected though fear of future depressions remained.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
U. N
Inland's wage offer rejected by United Steel Workers
Inland Steel Co offers an average 10 percent hourly wage increase to the CIO United Steel Workers, matching a parallel US Steel proposal. Joseph L. Block says it’s the year's highest by a major employer, while UMW president McDonald calls it unsatisfactory and insists on a fair settlement. Inland negotiator says no breakoff, talks may resume anytime.
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Pittsburgh
Inland Steel Co
CIO
United Steel Workers
Inland
US. Steel Corp
US. Steel
Joseph L. Block
Ea Eee
McDonald
Gutlatore
W. G
Vice
Ase H
Negro Fugitive Shot In Chase in Richmond
In Richmond Virginia on June 26 patrolman F J Brauer fired a pistol at Leon Griffin after a long pursuit through several blocks. Griffin fled on foot and was shot at from about 100 feet away before being captured and booked for grand larceny of an automobile.
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Richmond
F. J. Brauer
Leon Griffin
Brauer
Griffin
Woman Hattie Simmons Wounded Accidentally in Bluefield
Hattie Simmons a 30 year old Black resident of Bluefield Virginia was hospitalized with a deep upper stomach wound today she said a friend accidentally caused the injury. Doctor at Bluefield Sanatorium reported extensive blood loss but not critical condition. Simmons identified the friend as Robert accident both she and the friend claiming the wound was accidental.
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Hattie Simmons
Bluefield
Bluefield Sanitarium
Robert Accident
Webb
Revival Begins at Bluewell's New Church
A revival meeting opens at the Evangelistic center in Bluewell the first in the new brick church. Pastor Rev. Irvin Smith shares the pulpit with evangelist Rev. Walter Smith. Special healing services are planned nightly at 7 45 with morning worship at 11.00 and special music.
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Evangelistic Cent
Bluewell
New Brick Church
Irvin Smith
Walter Smith
Elements Take Toll on U.S. Crop and Range Land
A Century Fund report says about one fifth of U.S. crop and range land have suffered serious water or wind damage. The study highlights erosion and soil degradation across multiple states and calls for soil conservation measures.
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U.S
The
Entieth Century Fund
East Germanwomen rise as equal workers and spouses
The article argues East Germany enshrined gender equality in law, placing women in production roles and redefining marriage as a business relation. It cites Katrin Hildebrandt as justice minister and officials like Otto Grotewohl praising female emancipation, while noting new divorce and alimony rules and a push to remove bourgeois marriage constraints.
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Volksrat
Soviet Zone
East Germany
Berlin
Potas
East Berlin
Muecheln
Frau Paschau
Otto
Grotewohl
Stalin
Macy
Virginia World Trade Conference Planning Session Held
The Virginia Chamber subcommittee on the Seventh Annual World Trade Conference meets Tuesday at the Monticello Hotel with a luncheon at noon. The event, set for Virginia Beach in October, marks a Hamp ton Roads hosting return after years. Members from Newport News Norfolk Hampton and Richmond areas join the planning panel led by William Paxton.
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Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Monticello
Virginia Beach
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
William Paxton
Chamber
Paxton
W. Ward Anderson
William H. Curtis
Allen R. Hoffman
E . McDougle
Harry Reyner
J. Fran Shaffer
L. R. Sorenson
Col
William T. Watkins
B. G. Roy
Newport News
Curtis T. Brooks
James N. Crumbley
Norman R. Hamilton
James Murray
J. C. Cutler
Williams. Meacham
Vernon T. Myers
Maurice W. Nordlinger
Crawford
Rogers
Charles E.hastings
Hampton
Hampton Roads Area
J. Dewey Dane
Richard Maxwell
William L. Pierce
Richmond
F. 8. Baird
Roanoke
Old Argument Cited As Cause In Shooting Of State Man By Teenager
Wounded in a daylight ambush in Lincoln County Ranger resident Alfred Lambert, 17, admitted shooting Wetzel Adkins 42. Trooper John Flowers said the youth stood behind a coal house at Road Fork School and fired from about 40 feet, saying he wanted to “burn him up” rather than kill.
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Hamlin
W. Va
B. P— Wetzel Adkins
Ranger
Lincoln County
John Flowers
Alfred Lambert
Adkins
Flowers
Road Fork
Charleston Man Receives Promotion at Viscose Plant
PHILADELPHIA June 3 Richard I Groening was promoted to assistant to the manufacturing superintendent at the American Viscose Corp rayon plant in Nitro West Virginia He is a Landington Michigan native who joined the firm in 1946 and previously served as assistant net manager at St Meadvile Pa and in Charleston area posts
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Philadelphia
Richard I. Groening
American Viscose Corp
Nitro
W. Va
Groening
Landington, Mich
Corporation
St the Meadvile
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