Civil Rights March in Capital Draws Large Turnout
In downtown Jackson civil rights demonstrators marched in a spaced line bearing slogans and American flags. Police reported arrests for parading without a permit as NAACP, CORE, and SCLC leaders kept conferences. The day featured a large Washington parade with 3,000 in Lafayette Square and 2,000 outside the District Building where Tobriner pledged to pursue housing desegregation. West Virginia group to meet June 21-22 in Huntington with speakers from IRS and law circles.
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National Association For the Advancement
Supreme Court
Chancery
J. C. Stenner
Baye No Tegeons
American Nazi Party
Washington
Walter Tobriner
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
White House
Woman Awarded 3500 in Suit Against Store
Mrs. Goldie Rhodes of Elkview won 3500 damages from Common Pleas Court jurors after a coffee jar fell from a store shelf at O. W. Smith & Sons Big Chimney on March 17 1962 causing permanent injury to her right hand. She sought 25000 in damages.
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Common Pleas
Goldie Rhodes
Elkview
O. W. Smith
Wiliam Smith
James Smith
O. W. Smith & Sons
Big Chimney
Smith
Car Crash Cuts Belle Power After Pole Crash
A Jeep ran off U S 60 at Rand and struck a utility pole, knocking out electric service in Belle. Driver Doyle Martin of 303 24th St Belle was taken to McMillan Hospital with non serious injuries per a Fidler and Frame ambulance crew and the funeral home.
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Belle Area
U. S. 60
Rand
Doyle Martin
24Th St
Belle
McMillan Hospital
Four Car Crash Leaves Debris and Delayed Traffic
A four vehicle crash near South Charleston left two drivers uninjured and caused traffic delays of over an hour. Vehicles damaged include the Evans and Haynes cars, both late models, with total losses on the older cars. Authorities continue the investigation with Purkey noting Mrs. Evans was sedated and cannot be questioned. Police, sheriffs, and multiple tow trucks and ambulances responded, hauling injured to hospitals.
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Bob Chapman
Ivydale
Haynes
Daniel Jones
Coopers Creek
Chapman
Jones
Evans
Gassaway
Purkey
Hessam
South Charleston
St. Timothy Lutheran Church
Order of Eastern Star
John Molle
Clarksburg
Dorothy Koester
Leesburg
Fla
Walter Evans
John Richman
Khrushchev presses for test ban talks impasse grows
Nikita Khrushchev warned that the West risks derailing a nuclear test ban as Moscow signals a tougher stance. He urged a three power Moscow meeting to reach agreement but questioned U S and British willingness. He accused the United States of stalling on German issues and proposed a United Nations supervised West Berlin role.
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Khrushchev
Communist Party
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
West Berlin
United Nations
Moore Draws Plant To Bring 450 Jobs In Braxton County
Cratbree notes an ARA financed plant in Wheeling and a hospital in Moundsville plus a job training program in Ohio and Marshall counties with seventy percent of trainees finding new jobs. Roosevelt claims Barron’s rejection hurts the Cass Recreation Complex in Pocahontas County and the Marshall Industrial Research Center while Barron hopes other projects may still be funded from unaffected reserves. Roosevelt questions Moore’s remarks about Kennedy administration consultation and says a fair hearing will be provided after a tour of Appalachian states.
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Crabtree
Wheeling
Moundsville
Ohio
Marshall Counties
Roosevelt
Barron
Cass Recreation
Pocahontas County
Marshall Industrial Research Center
Moore
Kennedy
ARA
Kentucky
West Virginia
Rate
Appalachian States
Betancourt backtracks on mass roundup in Caracas
Caracas reports say President Betancourt's government will target only active terrorists among 40 000 suspected Communists, while ongoing protests in Cambridge Maryland turn violent with fires, arson, and arrests as Negroes push for desegregation and equal rights amid martial law talk.
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Caracas
Romulo Betancourt
Food Taken At Church
A thief broke into Trinity Lutheran Church at Lee and Elizabeth, unlocked window, stealing cookies and orange juice from the kitchen and overturning rear garbage cans. In another case, a clock and canvas awning were stolen from Greenbrier Swimming Pool, with debris dumped into the pool. Juvenile suspects were considered. Also noted were a break in at George Turley American Service Station and thefts from a car glove compartment. Additional auto tire and wheel thefts were reported.
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Trinity
George Turley
Bigley Ave
Pete Lopez
Thompson St
The Last Supper Display Slated in Charleston
A life size wax copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper will be on display next week beside the old federal building in a trailer. It will run 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday with free admission and optional donations for maintenance, sponsored by the Jaycees.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Charleston
Federal Building
The
Jaycees
Jury Rules Muslims Are Guilty
An all white jury in Los Angeles found nine members of the Black Muslim sect guilty of assault in one of the city's longest trials. The riot last year left one Muslim dead and several police wounded. Two sect members were acquitted and verdicts were not reached for two others.
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Los Angeles
John
Henry Morris
Raymond B. Willey
Soviets Protest F055 in Japan over nuclear weapon claim
TOKYO Japan protests the stationing of F105 fighter bombers in Japan as a grave shift in Far East balance. Shinsaku Hagen of the foreign ministry regrets the Soviet stance on F105s and nuclear weapons under the U.S. Japan treaty. In contrast, a Moscow report notes Siberian Torfs, a small reindeer herding group, rising from 417 in 1926 to 650 living near Irkutsk in a Soviet village.
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Tokyo
Soviet Union
U. S
Pacific
Moscow
Irkutsk
Production hits record production in May rise
Washington reports May industrial production up to a record high, 4 percent above January levels, with materials leading gains as iron and steel output climbs 5 percent. New construction activity also rises 4 percent, with residential rebuilding regaining the peak seen last June.
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Washington
Indus
Federal Reserve Board
Boy, 11, Injures Head in Plunge
Michael Sweeney, 11, son of Mr and Mrs Elvin D Sweeney of 260 Rutledge Rd, was injured Friday when he fell about 10 feet from a small bridge near his home. Charleston General Hospital reported him unconscious at noon, later listed in satisfactory condition. An ambulance driver said he fell off the bridge into a rocky creek below after leaving the bridge.
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Michael Sweeney
Elvin D. Sweeney
Rutledge Rd
Charleston General Hospital
Cunningham Funeral Home
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