UMW Welfare Fund Returns to Surplus After Deficit
The United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund reports a 11.5 million surplus for the year ending June 30, boosting reserves to 931 million. Gains came from ending two emergency aid programs and a royalty increase from 30 to 40 cents per ton, with broader benefit payments and pensions detailed for the year.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund
UMW
John L. Lewis
Allies Reds Begin Swap of Prisoners at Panmunjom
In a historic exchange at Panmunjom the Allies and Communists begin a prisoner dead swap. On day one the Reds will return 193 American war dead and seven unidentified Allied soldiers while Allies deliver 500 Korean and 100 Chinese dead.
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Panmunjom
U.N. Command
United States
Hawaii
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu
Dulles Pushes NATO Emergency Meet Over France Edict
Secretary of State Dulles urged an emergency North Atlantic Pact Council session to decide how to bolster defenses after France blocked the European army plan. He warned the move endangered Europe and vowed U S sovereignty restoration for West Germany while avoiding a German national army.
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Washington
Dulles
North Atlantic Pact Council
France
United States
America
Manila
Southeast Asia
Paris
Far East
United Nations Assembly
Pierre Mendes - France
French Assembly
Europe
Free Europe
Brussels
West Germany
Federal Republic of Germany
Germany
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Italy
Sen. H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Virginia Firm Submits Low Bid for WVU Medical School Building
The Virginia Engineering Co. Inc of Newport News submitted the lowest bid of 10.675 million dollars for WVU's main medical school building unit, a 1,000-student basic sciences structure with 500-seat auditorium and 91 dental chairs. The West Virginia University Board of Governors has 30 days to act, with bids open crowd present including architect C E Silling.
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Morgantown
Virginia Engineering Co. Inc
Newport News
West Virginia
West Virginia University Board of Overnors
Virginia Engineering
State University
Consolidated Engineering
C. E. Silling and Associates
Thief With Sweet Tooth Sought By Mercer Authorities
Mercer County law enforcement seeks a thief who took two beehives from Fred Williams postmaster of Princeton. Williams valued the loss at about 40 dollars and reported the theft occurred overnight between Monday and Tuesday near New Hope Road. Police urge anyone with information to come forward.
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Mercer County
Fred Williams
Princeton
Williams
New Hope Road
GOP Leaders Chart Campaign Drive For a Republican Congress
Cincinnati dispatch reports GOP leaders outline a national drive titled Peace Progress and Prosperity under Eisenhower to win a Republican-controlled Congress. Leonard Hall says the effort will be the largest off year campaign, with Dulles and Wilson limiting partisan speeches while top aides push farm and independent voters toward Eisenhower. The plan centers on contrasting the 83rd Congress record.
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Cincinnati
Congress
Eisenhower
GOP
Leonard Hall
Richard Nixon
Hall
Dulles
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
High Command
National Committee
West Virginian Held For Charge Of Rape
John Vernon Hagan a 38 year old farmhand was held without bail in Frederick Maryland on a rape charge by a 39 year old Charles Town West Virginia woman. The alleged attack occurred August 21 on St Marks Lane near Petersville Maryland. Hagan was held for the September grand jury.
Scandinavian nations back Red China seat at UN
Denmark Iceland Norway and Sweden agreed at Reykjavik to support Peiping's entry as China's UN representative. The pledge was announced by the Swedish Foreign Office in Stockholm after a Scandinavian foreign ministers' meeting.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Denmark
Iceland
Norway
China
United Nations
Peiping
Reykjavik
Ofce
Eisenhower Signs Bill For Railway Pensions
President Eisenhower signed legislation increasing railroad workers retirement pay under the Railroad Retirement Act. The new law sets a maximum pension of 350 dollars a month, up from 300, with liberalized benefits and higher contributions from workers and employers. effective tomorrow.
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Fraser
Colo
Eisenhower
Legionnaires Parade Draws Massive Washington Crowd
Washington observed the American Legion parade on Pennsylvania Avenue drawing an estimated 700000 spectators local officials said. The march included about 115000 Legion members and 10000 active troops with bands, flags and color as crowds pressed along reviewing stands by the White House and Capitol.
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Washington
American Legion
Pennsylvania Avenue
Robert V. Murray
City
Legion
Caanneie Bo Bay
Merica
Tta
Capitol Building
White House
Washington Monument
Gas Company Merger Planned By Companies
State Utilities Commission said groundwork for a merger between Ohio Fuel Gas Co and the Natural Gas Co of West Virginia. Pittsburgh’s Manufacturers Light and Heat Co. also involved to expand gas service to nine eastern Ohio counties. report stated Ohio Fuel would absorb the Ohio portion of Manufacturers.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Utilities Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
The
Natural Gas Co
West Virginia
Manufacturers Light & Heat Co
Pittsburgh
Ohio Fuel and Natural Gas
Ohio Fuel
Paul Deaton
Commission
McCarthy Hearing Session Ends In Clash Over Statements
Senate inquiry into Joe McCarthy resumes as Chairman Watkins clashes with McCarthy accusing side lines of diversions. McCarthy seeks clarity on Edwin Johnson's reported Democratic leaders loathe claim while Williams questions Johnson’s quotes, prompting procedural exchange.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
McCarthy
Watkins
Utah
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Congress
Edward Bennett Williams
Denver Post
Johnson
Joe McCarthy
Williams
Virginia Governor urges early hearings on education plan
Gov. Stanley asks the School Study Commission to hold early hearings to gather proposals for a new educational policy and to assist Attorney General J. Lindsay Almond in preparing Virginia's brief for the Supreme Court school desegregation case. The commission meets Sept 13 in Richmond.
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Richmond
Stanley
Special School Study Commission
Virginia
J. Lindsay Almond
Supreme Court
General Assembly
Supree Court
Goveror
Almond
T. Justin Moore
Prince Edward County
No Immunity For POWs Says Judge
SAN ANTONIO Aug 31 The Army in Korea did not promise immunity to Americans who initially remained with or cooperated with enemy forces a general court martial ruled today. Cpl Claude Batchelor 22 of Kermit Texas faced charges for collaborating with the enemy and informing on fellow prisoners of war.
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Cpl
Claude Batchelor
The
Reds
San Antonio
Tex
Korea
Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
America
Fort Sam Houston
Army
Panmunjom
Donald L. Manes Jr
Edward
Dickenson
Big Stone Gap
Reds Claim Nationalists Shelled Merchant Ships
Peiping radio broadcast claimed four Shanghai merchant ships were fired on by two Nationalist Chinese naval vessels as they left Wenchow harbor last Thursday. The ships reportedly took more than 30 shells but suffered no damage.
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London
Red China
Semen
China
Peiping
Shanghai
Wenchow Harbor
GOP and Dems Clash Over McCarthy Army Hearings
The Senate Investigations panel split along party lines over Senator McCarthy's conduct and his aide Roy Cohn. Democrats say both McCarthy and Cohn pursued improper favors for Pvt. G. David Schine, while Republicans argue no improper influence by McCarthy was proven and fault lies with Secretary of the Army Stevens. Cohn resigned after the hearings and issued a statement defending anti-Communist work.
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Washington
McCarthy Army Earings
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Roy M. Cohn
Cohn
McCarthy Investigations Subcommittee
The
Army
Stevens
John G. Adams
McCarthy
Ft. “Monmouth
Pvt. G. David Schine
New York
Carol Storm Devastates New England with Loss of Life
Hurricane Carol battered the Northeast delivering up to 105 mph winds and massive flooding. The storm killed at least 34 people across six states, wrecked the Newport casino, toppled Boston’s Old North Church steeple, crippled power grids, stranded train riders, and declared disaster areas across Rhode Island Massachusetts and Connecticut. rescue and relief crews flew in from Pittsburgh and federal aid mobilized to shore up food shelter and supplies.
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Boston
Carol
Middle Atlantic
New England
Red Cross
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Maine
New Jersey
Vermont
New York
Newport
R. 1
Old North Church
Kingston
Canadian
Weather Bureau
Long Island Sound
New London
Conn
New Haven Railroad
Westerly
R.I
New York City
Narragansett Electric Co
Pittsburgh
North End
Paul Revere
Middlesex
Boston Common
Coast Guard
Rosary
Bremen
Germany
West Virginians To Get Cooler Weather
West Virginians can expect cooler weather the next two days before temperatures rise again. The US Weather Bureau said today that temperatures will average well below normal tomorrow and Thursday, warming to a little above normal Saturday and Sunday. Normal for the period is 70 degrees in the north and 71 in the south.
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Huntington
West
Pike firings to go before Supreme Court
Charleston August 31 The Turnpike Commission firings reach the Supreme Court on opening day of the September term. Gov Marland dismissed Chairman D Holmes Morton of Charleston and member Hugh Hutchinson of Lewisburg and named appointees. Morton and Hutchinson seek to protect their offices while Atty Gen John G Fox represents the governor’s appointees in consolidated suits.
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Charleston
Turnpike Commission
Supreme Court
Marland
Commission
D. Holmes Morton
Hugh Hutchinson
Lewisburg
Morton
Hutchinson
James A. Donahoe
Huntington
John G. Fox
Thompson
Donahoe
Pike Commission
William G Stathers
Clarksburg
E. J .Occus
Wheeling
H. K. Griffith
Morton and
Okey Pattes
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NATO
Pledges Action
Konrad Adenauer
W.V.U. Medical School
Mercer
Ihe
Legionnaires
O. L. Batchelor
Portia Howe
Alden, Minn
Richard Tenneson
Red
Monmouth
Wisconsin
Shrine Falls
Pike
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