Annual Coal Show Opens Here Today in Bluefield
The 15th Southern Appalachian Industrial Exhibit known as the Bluefield Coal Show starts at 9 a.m. at the Norfolk and Western freight station. Miss Janice Taylor of Carella will crown Queen Bituminous XV, with officials including Bluefield mayors Tanner and Huffard presiding. Exhibitors from over 18 states present mine machinery and equipment, signaling a shift toward attendee benefit over attendance figures.
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Jack L
Adams
Peter P. Ferretti
Pocahontas Fuel. Co
Bluefield
T. Courtney Tanner
J. Hudson Huffard
West Virginia
Jamesb. Wooldridge Jr
Albert §. Kemper Jr
Virginia
Kennedy Calls For New Leadership To Preserve US Stature
Senator John F Kennedy in a nationwide TV speech warned of sacrifices needed to keep the United States as a world leader against Communist efforts. He challenged Khrushchev over peace, space, and abuses from Paris to Tokyo, urging mobilization under new leadership amid Republican neglect.
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Washington
John J . Kennedy
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Massachusetts
Nikita Khrushchev
New York
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Orbit
Siberia
Tam
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Tokyo
Latin America
Russell County Woman Killed On Route 460
A Russell County woman, Mary Bowman, died after being struck on Route 460 near Doran, Virginia. Wanda Justine Cling, 19, was the driver of the death vehicle, with no charges filed as investigation continued. The incident occurred around 7:45 p.m. as Bowman lay in the roadway. details of why she was in the center of the road were not determined.
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Russell County
Tazewell
Uck Bi
Uto
Doran
Richlands
Honaker
Vai
Sai
Wanda Justine Cling
Wounded Bland County boy in hunting accident investigation
A 14 year old Bland County boy Wayne Billings was critically wounded by a 16 gauge shotgun blast fired from about 50 feet by a hunting companion Butch Thompson. He was taken to Bluefield Sanitarium for treatment after the incident near Bastian.
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Bland County
Bland
Wayne Billings
Mary Billings
Bastian
Bluefield Sanitarium
C. A. Ratliff
Butch Thompson
Thompson
Young Billings
Newberry Funeral Home
Nixon Urges Unity as Reds Visit for Crucial Votes
Vice President Nixon campaigned in Pennsylvania and Michigan urging unbroken unity behind Eisenhower and warning of Communists in the United Nations. He pressed for a political moratorium on weakness talk, defended U2 spy flights, and pledged to continue intelligence efforts to protect the United States.
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Michigan
Nixon
Kennedy
Aews
Scranton
Plang
Mount Clemens
Flint
Saginaw
Bay City
Mich
Llight
Russia
Richard M. Nixon
All America
Eisenhower
United Nations
John F.lang
House
United States
U.N
America
Heated Bluefield Board Meeting Turns Verbal
Two Bluefield directors clashed during a Tuesday board session in the Municipal Building. Mayor Tanner and Director Carper exchanged sharp remarks after Carper questioned why the Amateur Athletic Association led by W. L. Currence had not paid city gross sales tax. The meeting devolved as Carper urged legal action against Currence, but the motion failed after other directors abstained.
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Jim Dalton
Bluefield Board of Directors
T. Courtney Tanner
L. M. Carper
Carper
Tanner
Jon Eaton
Eaton
Henry Goforth
L. C. Fowlkes
Carpter
Amateur Athletic Association
Bluefield
Soviet Defeat in First Gambit for Red Bloc U.N. President
Havana broadcasts amplify Fidel Castro anti-American tirades as Maj. Raul Castro leads a massive rally condemning New York treatment of the Cuban delegation. The regime warns of counteraction while criticizing U.S. actions and pressuring for military political shifts near Guantanamo.
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Red Bloc
U.N
Havana
Fidel Castro
New York
Raul Castro
Fidel
United States
Guantanamo Oval
Cuba
Raul
Castro
Osvaldo Corticos
U. S
Philip Bonsal
3Onsal
Washington
Caba 1As
Washngton
Congo's Mobutu Sets Up Technical Commission to Govern
Col Joseph Mobutu forms a Congolese technical commission to supersede Lumumba and Kasavubu rival authorities, to operate the government until January first. Justin Bomboko chairs, formerly Lumumba’s foreign minister, and the body vows to expel foreign reporters printing rival communiques.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Joseph Ileo
Morbutu
Lumumba
Joseph Kasavubu
Justin Bomboko
Kasavubu
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New York
Kasayubu
Trea 5Son
Col. Mobutu
Khrushchev Meets Castro in Harlem on Historic Visit
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met Cuba’s Fidel Castro in Harlem for about forty minutes at the Hotel Teresa. The first known encounter between the two leaders drew about 5,000 onlookers as Castro joked with interpreters and Khrushchev praised the discussion. Security around the United Nations sessions in Manhattan remained tight with endorsements and mixed reactions from locals and officials, including police and dignitaries arriving for the day’s events.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Harlem
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Tandawaf
Umeld Nammuniem
Moscow
Khrushchev
Theresa
Castro
Seventh Avenue
Kheushchev
United Nations
Park Avenue
Manhattan
Riots Outside UN Assembly Mark Opening Day
Rioting on 47th Street near the UN Plaza erupted as police restored order after three hours of clashes involving about 20 demonstrators, a patrolman, and mounted officers. In separate skirmishes, anti Castro and Albanian demonstrators clashed, with arrests reported. A bystander shouted threats as police dispersed groups, while protesters carried flags and placards denouncing communist rule in Eastern Europe and Albania.
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United Na
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Flong General Assembly
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Oni
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Europe
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Khrushchev
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Two Teary Women Kiss Khrushchev at Park Avenue Departure
Two women from New York, speaking Russian and Ukrainian, pushed through police as Khrushchev left his Park Avenue home. Maria Pietryts, 48, of Brooklyn, sobbed and hugged the premier, asking him to aid her daughter Anna, now 28, in reuniting with the family. Khrushchev replied with a kiss for each woman and promised to help.
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Khrushchev
Park Avenue
Maria Pietryts
Brooklyn
Ukraine
Mali Zolishchiki
Germany
Mia
Pletryk
United States
Zhurnov
Stalingrad
Ir Anna
Atmosphere Of Tension Pervades Hall
The United Nations opening session saw the Soviet candidate fail to become president as Frederick A. Boland of Ireland won 46 to 25 with Iceland’s Thor Thors broadening the slate. Khrushchev met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Harlem before the tally as Gromyko led a Western criticism while decrying colonial economic domination. The Congo action drew broad U.N. support, signaling a diplomatic setback for Soviet aims.
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Soviet Union
General Assembly
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Frederick A. Boland
Ireland
Harlem
Khrushchev
New York
Boland
Jiri Nosek
Czechoslovakia
Nosek
Thor Thors
Iceland
Eisenhower
Avandrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Africa
Republic of Cyprus
U.N
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Christian A. Herter
Congo
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Republic of
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