Valleys construction halted as unions walk off sites
Pickets line the Kanawha Valley as three building trades unions walk off dozens of projects including FMC Naval Ordnance work, the Kanawha Valley Building renovation, Holiday Inn on Kanawha Boulevard, and several county school building jobs. Negotiations with the Charleston Building and Construction Trades Council are not set to resume until Monday with a 2 pm session planned.
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Kanawha Valley
Building Trades
Charleston Building and Construction Trades Council
Carpenters Local 1207
Charleston
Walter Browder
Council
FMC Corporation
Naval Ordnance
Holiday Inn
Kanawha Boulevard
Berserk Patient Kills Doctor Wounds Cop at VA Hospital
A mental patient at the Veterans Administration hospital in Pittsburgh shot and killed Dr. Daniel Thaw, wounded Patrolman Horace McDaniel, and held off about 60 officers for two hours before tear gas subdued him. The suspect Wilmare Dale Pola, 99, a former Marine corporal, was captured unconscious.
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Pittsburgh
Veterans’ Administration
Eowuse
Vente Ding
Leech Farm Hospital
Daniel Thaw
Browder
Pola
Horace McDaniel
Charleston
Nuet
Trades Council
Bricklayers
Bailey Bill Favored to Fund General Education Extension
Washington reports Bailey Bailey Bailey Bailey measure to fund general education extension courses at four years campuses with 9.82 million dollars yearly. West Virginia allocations include West Virginia University and Marshall University eligible for funds. Refunds for United Fuel customers may follow new rate rulings.
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Washington
Cleveland M. Bailey
D-W. Va
House Committee On Education and Labor
West Virginia
West Virginia University
West Virginia State College
Marshall University
Power Commission Examiner
House
Tennes Committee On
Virginia
United Fuellsee Gas Transmission Co
Tennessee
Westlaike
United Fuel
Bailey
Robert
Normal
Kastenmeier
D-Wis
James Ly
van Zandt
R-Pa
James
Fulton
E. B. McCue
Miles Stanley
AFL
FPC
CIO
Reno
V. Zabeau
House of Delegates
Clarksburg
Stewart
Zwerdling
Josephs
Photographer Camera Smashes at Juvenile Court Sentencing
In a chaotic scene outside the juvenile court, George Hixon's camera was smashed by Vincent Fratantonio as reporters chased the aftermath of Lillian Fratantonio's sentencing. The center figures include Mrs. Lillian Fratantonio, sentenced to 15 weekends in a workhouse for administering barbiturates to two young daughters in the high profile "sleeping beauty" case.
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Raphe
Dan Wienait
TV Ice
George Hixon
Vincent Fratantonio
Hixon
Lillian Fratantonio
LaRiche
Vincent
Mary Greene
Cleveland Plain
Stone
Fallout Risks From Soviet Tests Measured By U.S. Panel
Federal Radiation Council officials presented a long report assessing potential health and genetic risks from fallout over the next seven decades. They warned that thousands could be affected worldwide, with congenital, neurological and other hereditary harms possible, while noting risk per person remains low.
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Council
Federal Radiation Council
Audiment Agency
U.S
Eisenhower denounces stockpile probes amid defense contract row
Former President Eisenhower rejected GOP fears over stockpile operations saying the government should not use stockpiles to influence prices. Senate investigators target Calumet & Hecla and other firms over copper diversions while John Morgan Jr. is ousted from an emergency planning post amid conflicts of interest questions.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
T Treasury
Eisenhower
Tuart Symington
D-Mo
Symington
Senate
Defense
Mickel Mining
Secretary of the Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Humphrey
Armed Services
Humphrey Companies
KR. C. Coburn
Eisenhower Cabinet
Office of Emergency Planning
John D. Morgan Jr
Justice Department
Calumet & Hecla Co
Chicago
Calumet & Hecla, Inc
Calumet & Hecla
Morgan
Climax Molybdenum Co
Climax
Cancellalon
Clair Engle
D— Calif
Edward A. McDermott
Emergency Planning Office
Coburn
Daytona Beach
Fla
Florida
Morjpan
Daytona Beach Junior College
Sunday Gazette-Mail Prize Crossword Sees No Winners
In a Puzzle Contest with 15 001 entries there were no winners from the Sunday Gazette Mail puzzle. A new contest offers a prize up to 2375 dollars in upcoming Sunday editions.
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Sunday Gazette-Mail
Hoffmann Seeks U S Aid for British Guiana Development
Hoffmann head of a visiting U S aid mission says he will recommend American financial assistance for British Guiana development projects. The team arrived April 19 to study economic and social conditions. Kennedy asked for aid in a modern appraisal of the program. no dollar amount was named.
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P Obigaaag
Uiana
Hoffmann
U. S
British Guiana
Kennedy
Cheddi Jagan
Alvin Mayne
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
United Kingdom
Sunday preview highlights Appalachians’ scars and fraud risks
The Sunday preview in the Gazette discusses strip mining’s impact in West Virginia Virginia Kentucky and North Carolina with ugly scars on mountains. It also profiles Billie Sol Estes a controversial national figure and warns readers about sharp operators exploiting West Virginians with fraudulent schemes.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
North Carolina
The
Sunday Gazetteais
Billie Sol Estes
Billie Sol
Pecos
Tex
Sunday Gazette Mail
Sunday Gazette War
Estes Threat Claimed In Cotton Allotment Case
A Agriculture Department report quotes Billie Sol Estes stating he would go to Secretary Freeman or President Kennedy if cotton allotment rules were changed midgame. It notes Estes relied on attorney Jon Dennis and associates to keep transfers within law and that ASCS officials advised them. Copies of the 140 page report were released to the AP, Justice Department, and congressional committees.
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Washington
Billie Sol Estes
Texas
Orville L. Freeman
Kennesdy
Bates
Jon P. Dennison
Estes
ASCS
Neces
Associated Press
Justice Department
Congressional
Ketes
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Ed Bhan
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Mary Chilton Abbot
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Union
Mariney
Radiation Council
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Earth
BIS
William Pola
Wilmerding
Ike
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