Democratic Chairman Drafts Foes
The Democratic Chairman drafts foes and reconstitutes the state committee with new officers including Miss Anne Hearst as associate chairman and Mrs Hazel Starcher as recording secretary. Otey and Trent stay on as treasurer and parliamentarian as Gov Barron era loyalties loom. The party plans a Huntington convention Aug 8 to nominate presidential electors and prepare a platform.
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Pape
Mary Hart Davisson
Weston
Anne Hearst
Morgantown
Thelma Hall
Madison
Hazel Starcher
Ripley
Charles R. McKiwee
Charleston
Clara Lincoln
Institute
Clara Boyd
Milton J. Ferguson
Wayne
Robert D. Batley Jr
Pineville
Ernest Otey
Blaefield
Curtis B. Trent
Otey
Trent
Barron
Tomine
Hage
Mrs. Hall
McDonough
West Virgin's
Richmond
Abilene
Washington
West Virginia
Sprouse
Huntington
Cecil H. Underwood
Howard Myers
Stewart A. Calhoun
Keystone
Emma Lou Kincaid
Walter Mitchell
D Day commemorations move across Normandy beaches
An invasion veteran recalls the two day ceremonies from Bouvres to Lion Sur Mer with a parade in Hermanville Sur Mer and a fireworks display. Maj Gen William J Wilte watches at Vierville Sur Mer as German 88mm gun pins Allied troops and a brush fire provides cover for a movement.
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Normandy
Sonw Point
William J. Wilte
Baltimore
20Th National Guard
Vierville-Sur-Mer
Nominee seeks a cooperative new party chairman
A reliable source says SOP nominee for governor and party head is searching among groups to select a chairman who will work with congressional candidates and youth and women groups without a personal power play. The session included candidates for the Board of Public Works and party leaders. Also reported, Seth A Boone County resident Okey Gittenwater, 42, of Babcine was hospitalized after a motorcycle wreck with fractured ribs.
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Fram
SOP
Underwood
Nan
Young Republican Club
Women's Federation
Board of Public Works
Executive Committee
Seth
Boone County
Charleston Memorial
Okey Gittenwater
Senate Chiefs Approve Cloture Delay Proposal
Senate leaders endorsed a Republican plan to delay cloture on the civil rights bill allowing limited debate and three amendments. Senator Richard B. Russell urged study overnight while Senator Mansfield sought to resolve the issue Friday night. a single objection could block the move. If blocked Mansfield would push his stop the filibuster stance leading to a closure vote at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday.
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Washington
Senate
Richard B. Hassell
D-Ga
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Sen
Bourke B
Welen
Looper
R-Jowa
Mansfield
Mystery Woman Accused in Fraud Case Tied to Curse Backed by Priest Story
Nunley reports a distant town case where a woman seeks a lawyer and travel funds after claiming a curse linked to a missing girl. Detectives seek a victim willing to prosecute, naming a possible identity and location for arrest warrants. The tale echoes a prior Wheeling incident involving a priest and cash offered to a mother claiming her ill daughter.
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Nunley
Prat
Insurance Company
Wheeling
He Schoo
Democrats Pick Oak Hill Man as Chief
Fayet teville Fayette County Democratic Executive Committee elects Pat Hamilton of Oak Hill chairman replacing Carl B. Vickns. Others include AW. Orndorff Gruley Bridge vice chairman Ethel L. Crandall Gouley Bridge associate vice chairman J. W. Haleher Edmond treasurer. A planning committee of Belly Blazard Oak Hill Shirley Love Oak Hill and Orndorff to arrange a dinner for state and county candidates. A campaign director for the November election will be named at the session.
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Fayetteville
Pat Hamlton
Oak Hill
Fayette
Orndorff
Uncooperative Pigeons Feast Then Skip Trap
City hall pigeon trap built by Mayor Shanklin yields little capture as four days pass. Two birds remain inside the wire cage trap while others feed then slip back through the supposed one way door after feasting on free seed.
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Shanklin
Four Kanawha Boys State Delegates Missed From List
Dozens of Kanawha County high school juniors depart Sunday by chartered bus to attend the Armival Boys State at Jacksons Mill. A South Charleston High School group travels by private car and was omitted from earlier listings, naming Joi Stansbury David Schultz Roy Dunlap and Phillip Taylor.
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Kanawha County
Armival
Jacksons Mill
South Charleston High School
South Charleston
Joi Stansbury
David Schultz
Roy Dunlap
Phillip Taylor
McKim Family Ties Highlight Dry Goods Leadership
The McKim brothers led Associated Dry Goods with Robert J. McKim becoming Charleston president in 1956 after a stock exchange with Diamond. He served as a community leader at the Chamber of Commerce and Towntown Merchants Assn. Surviving family includes widow Carolyn, daughters Judith and Waverly, son William II, sisters Rico and Mary Turner. Funeral arrangements at Barlow-Bonsall Funeral Home.
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Associated Dry Goods
Diamond
Stock Exchange
Mr. McKim
Charleston
W. B. Geary
City Chamber of Commerce
Towntown Merchants Assn
Christ Church Methodist
Merry Hills Country Club
Myrtle Rd
South Mills
Carolyn
Judith
Waverly
William Itt
Rico McKim
Sanford, Fla
Mary Turner
Ocala
Birly
Barlow-Bonsalt Faneral
D Day plus 20 years with Eisenhower
Gen Eisenhower recalls weighing there were penalties for rash action and for delaying. He notes hundreds of thousands of troops near Portsmouth and ships in cages awaiting the invasion. Weather, tides, and refueling limits shaped the decision to proceed on a narrow window. He details checks with commanders, visits to beaches and airborne units, and the emotional toll of leading a high‑stakes operation.
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Eisenhower
Portsmouth
England
MR. Cronkite
Gen. Eisenhower
Cronkite
Gen
Waller
Normandy
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Tennessee
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Sven
Pennsylvania
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