Struggling Debate Over Strauss Nomination Highlights Senate Clash
Senator Schoeppel assails liberals for attacking Strauss as the Commerce nomination opens. He warns against rushing and laments the partisan mood. Senator Magnuson, who opposed recommending confirmation, cites the divided committee vote and the need for calm Senate deliberation.
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Schoeppel
Senate
Strauss
Eisenhower
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Senate Commerce Committee
Magnuson
Cal
Halt Segregation Fight Moves to Atlanta Schools
NT Atlanta court hearings set a timetable for integration after Judge Frank Hooper signaled a plan for ending segregated schooling. He noted possible injunctive relief, while Gov. Vandiver denounced outside interference. The ruling would not immediately integrate but frames terms for a decree. The case involves 27 Negro children and 10 parents challenging segregation with NAACP involvement.
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Atlanta
City Board of Education
Hooper
Frank A.l
Ernest Vandiver
Georgia
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Non-Union Miners Ambushed in Kentucky Ramp Incident
About 20 non-union coal workers were ambushed near la Sassafras ramp in Perry County Kentucky. Joe Romeo, co-owner, said the attack involved hundreds of rifle shots as trucks unloaded. A man identified as Chester Blair was wounded in the leg and hand, and snipers fled. The United Mine Workers strike enters its third month with a wage demand and contract clause.
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Whitesburg
la Sassafras
Ing
Joe Romeo
Lncated
Perry County
Here
Hazard
Chester Blair
Isam
Romeo
Blair
Kentucky
United Mine Workers Union
City Papers Take Lion's Share of Press Awards
West Virginia journalists from Charleston papers dominated the state awards with the Charleston Daily Mail winning six writing firsts and one photography first, the Charleston Gazette securing four photography firsts and another writing first, as 180 editors and photographers gathered at Oglebay Park for the WV Press Association Awards Dinner.
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City Papers
Lion
Wheeling
Harry W. Ball
Tolsociated Press
Charleston
Herery Gould
United Press Interna
Charles
John Weyland
Associated Press
Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston Gazette
West Virginia Press Association
Oglebay Park
Education Writing Awards Highlight National Journalists
The Buckhannon Record and other papers list winners in education writing and feature categories. Names include John son Beckley Post-Herald Thomas Kaib Wheeling Intelligencer Lois Amick Smith Claudette Rashid and more across dailies and weeklies.
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Ed Karrer
Wheeling News Register
John W. Yage
Beckley Post- Herald
Thomas Kaib
Wheeling Intelligencer
Wilma Higginbotham
Daily Mail
Grace Joanou
Jerry Braden Marsh
Gazette
Lois Amick Smith
Claudette Rashid
Anne Howard
Charleston Sunday Gazette Mail
Monroe Worthington
Wheelin News Register
Rusty Marshall
Wheeling, Intelligencer
George Lawless
Richard H. Ralston
Buckhamon Record
Ralph &. Fisher
Moorefield Examiner
Father offers understanding after daughter's murder
The grieving father of a slain 13 year old honor student writes to Philadelphians asking for better child care. He quotes the killer’s confession and requests help to increase mutual understanding following Becky's death, with the body found in a toy closet in Edward Cooney Jr.'s home.
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Philadelphia
Anatol Holt
University of Pennsylvania
Holt
Philadelphia Bulletin
Becky
Edward Cooney Jr
Herter Attacks Soviet Plan For West Berlin
In Geneva Secretary of State Christian Herter denounced Moscow's free city proposal as a disguise for eroding West Berliners freedoms. He called East Berlin a hotbed of subversion and spying and warned the plan could lead to East Germany annexation. He affirmed U S Britain and France will remain in West Berlin and urged Gromyko to seek improved relations with fewer tensions.
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Geneva
U. 8
Christian A. Herter
Russia
West Berlin
Ig Lun Lhe Ag UK
Berlin
East Germany
Herter
East Berlin
Moscow
Palace of Nations
United States
Britain
France
Gromyko
Lothar Bolz
Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
Governor Urges Work to Secure West Virginia Future
Governor Underwood addressed the Lions club banquet, praising West Virginia's resources and urging citizens to sacrifice and work to meet economic changes. He warned automation and technological shifts are driving the current financial hurdles while stressing the need for collective effort.
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John Yage
West
Virginia
Underwood
Lions Clubs
West Virginia
Sunday Preview of Weekend Reading in Gazette Mail
The Sunday Gazette Mail features multiple stories including Our Beans and Blue Jeans Culture about library access in rural West Virginia, a State Magazine piece on mountain labor feuds, an epilepsy discrimination issue, tributes to Rex Pyles and Walter Schiess, and a prize snapshot contest with over $19,000 in cash prizes.
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Sunday Gazette Mail
West Virginia Library Commission
West
State Magazine
Rex Pyles
Alderson-Broaddus College
Philippi
Walter Schiess
Greenbrier
Sunday Gazette
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Kan
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Texas
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B. D. Murphy
The
Board of Education
Wanwawe
Sunday Gazette-Mail
U.S. Supreme Court
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Supreme Court
Charles R. Starkweather
John Greenholtz
Starkweather
Greenholtz
Debra Boggess
Danville
Debra
Mickey
Ralph Boggess
Lion’s Share
Frank Wilkin
Ferrell Friend
Roy Rexrode
Pendleton Times
Franklin
Edward Talbott
Buckhannon Record
Skip Johnson
Charles Hodel
C. J. McQuade
Raleigh Register of Beckley
Wheeling News - Register
Kitty Thompson
Ralph EF. Fisher
William McCoy Jr
Pendleton
Richard J. Pendergast
Fairmont
West Virginian
Daily Athenaeum of
Morgantown
Don Freeman
Weirton Daily Times
Ralph FE
Fish‘er
Adam Keller
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Dead Girl
Anaid Holt
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