Canada Election Eyed As Conservatives Seek Majority
Conservatives eye new election after ending Liberal 22 year rule but lacking a clear majority. Prime Minister Louis St Laurent expected to resign. John Diefenbaker could form a government or trigger another vote. Conservatives won 110 seats to Liberal 103. majority requires 134. Observers cite desire for change and Liberal power image as key factors.
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Ada
Liberal Party
Louis St. Laurent
Col
John Diefenbaker
House of Commons
Diefenbaker
Ike's Recovery Brings President Back to Work
President Eisenhower returned to the White House office smiling after a mild stomach upset. He canceled appointments yesterday and today but resumed a regular schedule today with a medical bulletin noting near complete recovery.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Assault Charged To West Side Boy
An 11 year old West Side youth was charged with assault in connection with a serial attack on a six year old girl. Detective Hammack and Warwick withheld names. The youth admitted the girl but denied sexual attack and was released to his parents pending juvenile hearings.
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West Side
Bill Hammack
Warren Warwick
County Woman Escapes From Prison
A Kanawha County woman serving a term for the slaying of her husband jumped through a prison window last night and fled. Mrs Woods of Mount Sterling near Charles Town had been sentenced to one to five years by Judge William J. Thompson after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter for shooting her husband at their home during an evening of beer drinking over a year ago.
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Pence Springs
Kanawha County
Tyn Smithson
May Woods
Mountsin
Charles
Woods
Wiliam J. Thompson
Three Road Jobs Up for Bids in Two Counties
Three repair projects in Fayette and Kanawha counties will be bid on June 25. Road Commissioner Patrick C. Graney announced. Kanawha project: clean and paint the Lee Street Bridge on U S 21 60. Fayette projects: Thurmond Bridge over the New River on Secondary 25 2 and resurfacing about 9.7 miles of West No 61 between Oak Hill and Kincaid.
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Fayette
Kanawha
Patrick C. Graney
Lee St
Fayette County
Thurmond
New River
Oak Hill
Kincaid
Marsupial Lifts Shelf Message Bottled in Blues
Ventura California on June 11 John Ashburn liquor store owner found a possum asleep on a shelf after an overnight intruder shattered a bottle of champagne. He carried the animal outside and nudged it toward the foothills as it staggered away.
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Ventura
Calif
John Ashburn
Ashburn
Road Shovel crushes man to death near Leon Mountain
State Police report a 44 year old contractor William E. Erwin of Catlettsburg Kentucky died when a road shovel toppled off a 15 foot embankment. He was trapped under the machine east of Pleasant and died from a broken neck and back. The shovel halted an approaching freight at the New York Central tracks before removal.
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PT. Pleasant
Here
U. S. 35
A. A. Galford
William E. Erwin
Catlettsburg
Erwin
Anderson, Inc
Charleston
Leon Mountain
New York Central Railroad
Raynes Mortuary
Buffalo
Lewisburg Girl Is Nominated for Governor
Patti Paige Porter of Lewisburg will run for the Nationalists while Carol Lynn Craig of Elkins seeks the Federalists in tomorrow's gubernatorial election at Rhododendron Girls State. The 3 percent high school juniors at the citizenship training camp named seven other office candidates as the general election set for 1 p.m. EST tomorrow. The offices include Secretary of State Attorney General State Treasurer State Auditor Superintendent of Schools Commissioner of Agriculture and five Supreme Court judges.
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Jackson's Mill
Lewisburg
Patti Paige Porterfield
Carol Lynn Craig
Elkins
Rhododemon Girls
Supreme Court
Greek Court to Try Benwood CI in Fatal Automobile Accident
An Athens magistrate court orders Marine Marion Musil Ueguil for trial on a fatal traffic crash that killed Gen. Stephanos Saraphis on May 31. Peni Walle sel faces similar charges for injuring Saraphis’ wife. The Benwood, West Virginia airman remains in custody at security police headquarters with a U.S. Air Force guard present.
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Benwood CI
Athens
Greece
Ue Eee
Marion Musil Ueguil
Peni Walle
Christos Pouros
Constantine Christopoulos
Benwood
W. Va
Security
Ran
Stephanos Saraphis
Saraphis
U.S. Air Force
Supreme Court Seeks Appeal in Telephone Switching Case
A Pendleton County man appeals after Circleville Mutual Tele phone Co relocated his line amid complaints from 19 customers. The case hinges on West Virginia Mutual rules requiring a two thirds director vote for division transfers. A separate challenge targets a road permit allowing a 10 foot by 42 foot mobile home trailer move between routes.
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Supreme Court
Pendleton County
C. A. VenDevander
Circleville
Circleville Mutual Telephone Co
van Devander
Circleville Mutual
West Virginia Mutual Telephone Assn
West Virginia Mutual
Tember
Patrick C. Graney Sr
American M Homes Corp
Nation
Road Commission
Piotestant
W. Va
Charleston
M. L. O'Neale
Mobile Homes
Widow Fails to Identify Frogman Crabb Body
London reports Mrs. Margaret Crabb could not identify the headless, handless corpse found near Chichester as her former husband Lionel Crabb the famed undersea expert. Police noted the body’s feet were distorted from long immersion, undermining the lead.
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London
INS
Margaret Crabb
Lionel
Buster) Crabb
Crabb
Navy
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