Final Merger Hearing Draws Two Dissenters
ICC hearing on the Norfolk and Western and Virginian rail merger ended with two lone witnesses from Princeton and Bluefield opposing the deal. Mrs. Kyle McCormick denounced jail and union intimidation while a Bluefield resident warned the merger should be temporary and not harm residents, citing biblical references. Mayors supported the merger as part of the broader proceedings.
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Norfolk & Western
Virginian Railways
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Paul C. Albus
Princeton
West Virginia
Virginia
Bluefield
Kyle McCormick
Rescue Workers Probe For Victims After 19 Die
In Meldrim Georgia a freight train wreck and butane tank car blast killed 19 and injured about 24. Rescue crews searched the Ogeechee River area but found no more victims. Four more injured died and several remained in grave condition at a Savannah hospital. Names of victims include Terry Lane 9 Wayne Smith 4 Barbara Hales 14 and Michael Bland 12. The Seaboard Airline Railway and interstate investigators Probe cause while crews comb the riverbank for additional casualties.
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Meldrim
Ogeechee
Frank Rahn
Nareaimtad
Savannah
Seaboard Airline Railway
Sma
Seaboard
Kh.Iiterstate
M N. Broetman
Richmond
Montgomery
Ala
Ira L. Hines
Terry Lane
Bloomingdale
Wayne Smith
Barbara Hales
Michael Bland
Memorial Hospital
Judge frees man who feigned insanity in murder case
Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz released William Dunn, 47, after ruling 27 years in Matteawan State Hospital for the murder case counted toward his sentence. Dunn claimed he deceived psychiatrists while in the hospital for the 1932 killing of Patrolman Peter DeCarlo during a Brooklyn pawnshop holdup.
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New York
Kings County
Samuel Leibowitz
Leibowit
William Dunn
Glendale
Queens
Dunn
Matteawan State Hospital
Leibowitz
Solon Wolff
Matteawan
Wolff
Peter DeCarlo
Brooklyn
Court voids defense screening program and other rulings
The Supreme Court ruled the military style civilian worker screening program unauthorized. It also decided stations have libel immunity in political broadcasts, blocked Lady Chatterleys Lover in New York, extended federal official immunity, overturned a Honolulu lawyer’s suspension, and deferred on the Smith Act membership clause with Justice Clark urging prompt decision. It also noted cases involving Junius Scales awaiting appeal.
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Karl R. Bauman
Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Tom C. Clark
Clark
Earl Warren
New York
Lady Chatterley
D. H. Lawrence
Honolulu
Harriet B. Sawyer
William J. Brennan Jr
Junius Irving Scales
North Carolina
Communist Party
Carolinas
Year s Hottest Day Hits State 97 At Martinsburg
Huntington reports an official 94 while Martinsburg reaches 97 the hottest reading of the year in West Virginia with Charleston Parkersburg Morgantown Wheeling also in the 90s. Meteorologist Leroy Stone says little relief is in sight with a possible cold front brushing Northern West Virginia Tuesday, then heat returns soon after.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Martinsburg
Charleston
Parkersburg
Morgantown
Wheeling
Elkins
Leroy Stone
Weather Bureau
Stone
North Dakota
Mississippi
Canada
Ohio
Indiana
Justice Department Files Purge Suit In Louisiana
The Justice Department filed a New Orleans suit to halt large scale purging of Negro voters in southeast Louisiana. It names the White Citizens Council of Washington Parish and four members plus registrar Curtis M. Thomas as defendants. The action, third under the 1957 Civil Rights Act, targets removal of about 1377 Negro voters since January for registration form inaccuracies.
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Bogalusa
Justice Department
Louisiana
New Orleans
William P. Rogers
Washington
Georgia
Alabama
Supreme Court
Parish Citizens Council
Washington Parish
Eisenhower Tours Soviet Exhibit Amid Rowdy New York Fracas
President Eisenhower visited the Soviet cultural and scientific exhibit at the New York Coliseum with Vice President Nixon. A massive crowd, police and guides collided around him as Kozlov led the tour and touted a Sputnik model.
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Richard Nixon
Eisenhower
Fral A. Kozlov
New York Col
Marvin L.arrowsmith
NEW York
White House
New York Coliseum
Frol R. Kozlov
Newark
Coliseum
Richard M. Nixon
Washington
Columbine III
Kozlov
Kremlin
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Lisenhower
Tax Extension Measure Sent To President
Congress sent President Eisenhower a bill to extend Korean War taxes and prevent a 3 billion dollar revenue shortfall. The compromise keeps in place the 52 percent corporate tax and certain excise taxes for a year with targeted reductions possible after June 30 1960.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Eugene J. McCarthy
Dminn
Senate House
Maben Boy Drowns In New River
Paul Altice 16 of Maben Wyoming County drowned in the New River near Hinton after swimming in deep water at Sandstone with his father. The rescue squad recovered his body soon after he disappeared, and the father said he tried to save him and got him to the boat but could not pull him from the water.
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Hinton
Paul Altice
Maben
Wyoming County
Here
New River
Sandstone
Altice
Judge Edward Carrington Marshall Dies at 90 in Welch
Judge Marshall who presided over McDowell County Criminal Court retired in 1942 died at age 90 after a long illness. A Fauquier County native born February 28, 1869, he practiced law in Virginia and Welch, served as presiding judge for one six year term, and was related to John Marshall and Gen. George Marshall. Survived by wife Kathleen McClenaghan Marshall, his funeral is set at St. Luke's Episcopal Welch with burial at Monte Vista Park Cemetery.
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Marshall
Welch
John Marshall
United States
Robert Morris
George Marshall
U. S. Army
Fauquier County
Thomas and
Courtenay N. Marshall
Virginia
Rucker, Keller and Hamil
Princeton
T. L. Henritze
Criminal Court
Kathleen McClenaghan Marshall
Break In Hot Spell Expected By Friday
Huntington forecast indicates the current heat will ease by Friday with cooler air arriving by Friday and Saturday. Scattered showers are likely Tuesday through Thursday, totaling about half an inch, while daily temperatures hover near seasonal normals around 73 degrees in the north and 74 in the south.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Canadians Faint Waiting to See Queen at City Hall
At Toronto City Hall crowds waiting to glimpse the Queen collapsed in the humid heat as at least 26 spectators fainted. Four soldiers and a commissionaire assisting crowd control also fell ill in the 89 degree conditions.
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Toronto
City Hall
Steelworkers approve two week strike delay in push for talks
United Steelworkers leader David J. McDonald announced formal endorsement of postponing the strike deadline from Tuesday night to July 14. The delay, urged by President Eisenhower, aims to allow more time for wage talks and ongoing negotiations between industry and union representatives resume Wednesday.
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New York
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
Eisenhower
Doctors Say Governor Earl Long Suffered Nervous Breakdown
In Covington Louisiana three doctors declared on Monday night that Gov Earl K Long is a victim of a nervous breakdown not a mental disease.
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Covington, la
Earl K. Long
State Lads Cited For Hero Medal
Charleston AP reports William Thomas Deskins ten and Edward Lee Sowell seventeen were nominated for the Young American Medal of Bravery for saving a baby from oncoming train and preventing a bus crash by steering a driverless bus into a ditch. Deskins and Sewell were forwarded by Don Crislip to J Edgar Hoover.
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Charleston
West Virginia
William Thomas Deskins
Winco Block
Mingo County
Edward Lee Sowell
Morgantown
Deskins
Russell
Sewell
Don Crislip
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Crislip
Hoover
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R. D. Bailey
Pineville
N&w-Virginian Railway
Bailey
Judge
Jean Lawrence
Princeton Road
Falls Mills
Bluefield Sanitarium
Fields
Red
Iseum
Soviet Union
UPI
William Rainach
Thomas
Bill
Levy
Thomas B. Curtis
R-Mo
Clare E. Hoffman
R-Mich
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means
Marshall of
C. J. Douglas
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Rev. C. Oran Zaebst
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
Norfolk and Western Railway
William
C. E. Ramsey
Lowell
Alpheus Tennant
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