Laos Cease Fire Collapse Clouds Laos Talks
U S and Western powers push for a renewed Laos cease fire as rebels press toward Vientiane and Luang Prabang, with Khrushchev and Kennedy showing cautious support. British and Canadian truce teams face restrictions. Padong and Xieng Khouang sees fighting as pro Communist rebels push back government forces. Prince Souvasna Phouma claims 80 percent of Laos under his side.
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Pathet Lao
Vientiane
Geneva
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Andrei A. Gromyko
Laos
Washington
Kennedy
Growyko
Soviet Union
Padong
Xieng Khouang
Luang Prabang
India
Poland
Canada
International Control Commission
Padang
Gromyko
Khrushchev
Vienna
Harriman
United States
Moscow
Elmer Dodson
Shanklin
Dodson Zee
Dodson
Souvasna Phouma
Incinerator Fee Action Promised For Property Owners
Dodson outlined a proposed incinerator fee of 13 dollars per year per living unit with examples: a one house at 15 dollars and a five unit building at 75 dollars. He noted many delinquents rely on tenants to pay, while others are absent or economically unable to pay. the owners’ list with addresses and amounts due appears on Page 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodson
Gas Refund To Average About $30
About 117000 United Fuel Gas Co customers in Southern West Virginia will split a $4 million refund. The average residential customer will get back about $30. The refund covers Aug 30, 1959 to mid last week, and checks will mail between mid July and mid August.
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United Fuel Gas Co
West Virginia
Public Service
UFG
Public Service Commission
State Supreme Court
PSC
Commission
James S. Philips
State Tax Dept to sue hundreds firms for back taxes
West Virginia faces civil suits to collect more than 300000 in overdue taxes from several hundred firms. Tax Commissioner C Howard Hardesty Jr says average debt is about 2000 with some as high as 75000. Delinquencies date back four to five years and 91 percent of businesses pay taxes.
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State Tax Department
West Virginia
C. Howard Hardesty Jr
Hardesty
Frank M. Ellison
Stax Department
Tornado Ravages Ravenna Kentucky Injures Dozens
A tornado struck Ravenna Kentucky injuring about fifty people and killing a girl forty miles southeast near Newport. The church collapse at Ravenna Christian Church trapped children, with rescue efforts under way as authorities estimated town damage at around one million dollars. Eight to ten homes were destroyed and many more damaged in the surrounding area, with several children among the injured and missing.
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Ravenna
AL Beupuing
Ancey
Valerie Hope Collins
Newport
Daniel Collings
Collins
Ravenna Christian Church
Estill County
W. M. Noland
Baltimore
Hiames
Balimore
Betsy
Floyd Bush
Bush
Danny Hardy
Columbia
Kentucky
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Main St
U.S. Allies Split in U.N. Angola Vote
The United States and the Soviet Union backed a U.N. Security Council resolution urging Portugal to ease repressive actions in Angola. Britain and France abstained as Portugal criticized the move. The 9-0 vote with two abstentions called on Portugal to cooperate with a subcommittee investigating Angola, amid reports of thousands killed in clashes with Portuguese troops.
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United Nations
United States
North Atlantic
U. N. Security Council
Portugal
Angola
Soviet Union
Britain
France
NATO
Chile
China
Ecuador
Tur
Key
Ceylon
Liberia
United Arab Republic
General Assembly
Vasco Vieira Garia
Garin
Kennedy Swims in Heated Palm Beach Pool On Crutches
President Kennedy, aided by wooden crutches, walked and swam in a heated outdoor pool in Palm Beach. His back strain from a Canada trip showed improvement per Dr. Janet Travell and assistant press secretary Andrew Hatcher. He spent the day reading, resting, and swimming, with plans to maintain the weekend pattern. Messages of well wishes poured in from the White House as Mrs. Kennedy vacationed in Greece.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Andrew T. Hatcher
White House
Janet Travell
Canada
Hatcher
Washington
Wanda Quarter
Greece
Evelyn Macob
Reader wins Great Books question to Adler
A Gazette reader awarded a set of The Great Books after submitting a question to Mortimer J. Adler. The reader Mrs Ralph Bean of Rt 60 West Ralhelle asked Adler about what great thinkers say on the reliability of sense experience.
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Gazette
Mortimer J. Adler
Ralph Bean
West
Ralhelle
Aid Eligible Areas Listed West Virginia towns named among 114
Fifteen West Virginia areas were designated as eligible for federal aid under a new program to assist pockets of heavy and persistent unemployment. Beckley Bluefield Charleston Clarksburg Fairmont Huntington Ashland Logan Morgantown New Martinsville Oak Hill Montgomery Pt. Pleasant Gallipolis Ronceverte White Sulphur Springs Welch Wheeling Pikeville Williamson. Boundaries of several areas may be revised.
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Washington
West Virginia
Beckley
Bluefield
Charleston
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Huntington- Ashland
Logan
Morgantown
New Martinsville
Oak Hill - Montgomery
Pt. Pleasant-Gallipolis
Ronceverte-White Sulphur Springs
Welch
Wheeling
Pikeville- Williamson
Logos
New Martineville
Willian L. Batt Jr
The
Area Redevelopment Administration
Tractors for Freedom Mission Leaves Monday
Detroit AP reports the Freedom Committee plans to send a team of agricultural and tractor experts to Cuba to negotiate a deal for 500 tractors and related gear for 1,200 prisoners. The plan includes transportation from Miami on Pan American Flight 2421 and a possible reply to Fidel Castro.
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Detroit
Freedom
Mavana
Freedom Technical Commission
Cuba
Fidel Castro
P.o.box Freedom
Castro
Citizens’ Committee
New Jersey Tower Commander Faces Court Martial
Col. William M. Banks of the Boston Air Defense Center will be tried by court martial on charges that he was derelict in duty after a Texas radar tower collapsed into the Atlantic off the New Jersey coast on January 15. All 28 crew aboard the tower died. The Air Force said Lt. Gen. Robert M. Lee ordered the trial, while charges against Majors Sheppard and Stark were dismissed.
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Washington
William M. Banks
Texas Tower
New Jersey
Atlantic Ocean
Banks
Boston
Air Force
Robert M. Lee
William R.sheppard
Reginald L. Stark
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Kalamazoo, Mich
Stanley Hiner
Kalamazoo
Hiner
Met
Maryland
Betsy Bush
Eloise
Jean Dudley
St. Paul, Minn
U.N
N.J
Pean
Lee
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