Salling Buried With Impressive Ceremony
Last rites were held for Civil War veteran John Salling 112, the last-but-one surviving veteran in the region, as hundreds gathered in Slant, Virginia. A wind swept hillside service featured a band, Confederate banners, and Army honors. Salling’s great granddaughter Linda Hawkins readied tears as taps sounded over his flag-draped casket.
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Slant
John Salling
Salling
Walter W. Williams
Houston
Tex
Williams
Gate City
Scott County
William T. Manson
Abingdon
Manson
Virginia
O. A. Quillen
John
Linda
Kingsport
Tenn
Paw Paw
Confederacy
Macmillan Confident Soviet Wants No War
Washington AP Harold Macmillan, arriving for talks with Eisenhower, said he is confident Soviet leaders prefer negotiation over war over Berlin and urged firmness tempered by reason. Khrushchev indicated willingness to a May 11 foreign ministers conference as a step toward a heads of government meeting.
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Macmillan
Washington
Britain
Harold Macmillan
Berlin
Eisenhower
U.S.S.R
State Department
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Lincoln White
Selwyn Lloyd
Princeton business leader Joe Tomchin dies at 65
Joe Tomchin prominent Princeton businessman and founder of Tomchin Furniture Co. died of a heart attack at St. Luke s Hospital aged 65 after a stay since Monday. He lived in Princeton before moving to Bluefield and was known for civic contributions including a large gift to Princeton City Park. He survived by his wife two sons and four daughters. Funeral Sunday at 2 30 p m in Bratton with Rabbi Amos Schauss officiating burial Monte Vista Park Cemetery flowers omitted.
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Joe Tomchin
Princeton
St. Luke’s Hospital
Tomchin
Tomchin Furniture Co
Bluefield
Clovis St
United States
Russia
Mullens
Northfork
Congregation Ahavath Sholem
Ethel Judelson Tomchin
Harold Tomchin
Abe S. Tomchin
Irene Tomehin
Vineland
N. J
Charles Julian
St. Paul
Coytesville
Bratton
Amos Schauss
Monte Vista Park
Mercer Funeral Home
Outer Space A-Blasts Aid U.S. Defense
The Defense Department announced that three high altitude nuclear blasts last summer advanced knowledge for Nike Zeus antimissile development. Officials said the tests, about 300 miles up, aided radar and communication research while signaling safety and political context amid a looming nuclear test moratorium.
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Washington
U. S
Defense Department
Donald Quarles
Pentagon
Soviet Union
New York
Abductor Of South Charleston Mother and Three Tots Captured
Mrs. Elma Baldwin recalls the night and day as she and her three children were held by an ex convict turned kidnapper. She describes fear during the escape attempt with a hammer attack and the kidnapper’s intent to release them after hiding in Lincoln County.
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South Charleston
Elma Baldwin
Baldwin
Don Marsh
The
Charleston Gazette
Davis Creek
Ruth
Lincoln County
Moundsville
Virginian Has Four Coal Cars Derailed
Detrail ment of four loaded Virginian railway coal cars early Thursday afternoon was expected to block the main line until late last night. No one was hurt when the cars, the 24th through the 27th, overturned about 1 p.m. The eastbound coal train had about 60 cars.
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Roanoke
Virginian Railway
Atlas missile fails in test launch at Cape Canaveral
The Atlas rocket rose from Cape Canaveral and went far short of its 4500 mile target after developing propulsion and control problems. The Air Force stated no cause for the failure and announced details from Washington.
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Cape Canaveral File
Air Force
Washington
Teamsters Officials Accused Of Million Dollar Misuse
Senate investigators accuse four Chicago Teamsters Local 710 leaders of siphoning 1.136 million dollars from 1952 to 1958. Key figures include John T. O'Brien and others who allegedly took commissions from dues, while O'Brien invoked the Fifth Amendment as details emerged in Washington.
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Washington
Chicago Teamsters
James Mundie
Senate Labor Management Committee
Mundie
Frank Church
Idaho
John T
Sandy) O’brien
Local 710
The
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
O'Brien
O’brien
Charles Schmitt
Michael Joseph Healy
Frank T. Brown
Remove Pickets At Pike Mines
United Mine Workers agree to remove pickets from Pike County coal mines until a Monday injunction hearing. The operators ask for a restraining order alleging violence and intimidation. Judge Stephenson sets a trial on the injunction. The strike seeks a $2 daily wage raise to $24.25, slowing production and idling about 7000 miners across six counties.
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Pikeville, Ky
United Mine Workers
Pike County
UMW
Pike County Coal Operators Assn
James D. Stephenson
Eisenhower
Kentucky
A. B. Chandler
Family Not Harmed By Ex-Convict After 19 Hour Search
Logan Richard Arlen Payne a riot gun trained felon kidnapped Mrs Elma Baldwin and her three children Susan Danny and Kenneth from South Charleston. After a 19 hour hunt across Southern West Virginia Payne surrendered near Crawley Creek ending the chase with police. Mrs Baldwin described how she struck Payne and threatened to kill him while Payne fired at a pursuing trooper and the car.
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South Charleston
Kenneth
Susan
Danny
Elma Baldwin
Richard Arlen Payne
Logan
West Virginia
Charleston
Baldwin
Payne
R. C. Stover
J. E. Asbury
Asbury
Mrs. Baldwin
Crawley Creek
Lagan
United States Britain and Soviet Union Agree on Bomb Test Suspension
In Geneva the United States Britain and the Soviet Union agreed on an indefinite suspension of atomic and hydrogen weapons tests as part of a treaty under negotiation.
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Geneva
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Florida Floods Stall Sun N Fun as Rain Lingers
The Sun n Fun Festival in Clearwater awaits sunshine as Florida endures days of rain. Tampa Bay area spring training teams are stalled, rivers rise, and evacuation orders extend across counties. Inland flooding hits Suwannee and Oklawaha rivers while Lakeland and Miami report record or near record rainfall.
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Miami
Fla
Clearwater
Sunshine Park
Tampa
Tampa Bay Area
Florida
Los Angeles Dodgers
Cincinnati Redlegs
Havana
Weather Bureau
Sunshine State
Alafia
Suwannee
White Springs
Jacksonville
Lakeland
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White House
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Hartford
Conn
Outer Space
U.S. Defense
Yates McDaniel
Quarles
South Atlantic
U.S
Project Argus
Spring Hill
Virginian
Atlas
Teamsters
Sheriff's Office
Cpl
M. S. Hofstetter
Triangle
Stover
Hofstetter
Sun ‘N
Sebring
St. Petersburg
Sun
Oklawaha
Northcentral
Ocala
Callahan
Jackson
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