Senators To Probe Finances
Senator Byrd announced the Senate Finance Committee will launch a comprehensive probe of the nation's financial condition, starting Tuesday with Secretary Humphrey as witness. The inquiry targets debt growth, rising interest rates, and the impact of government finances on taxpayers and the economy.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Finance Committee
Aldrich
Nelson Aldrich
R-Ri
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Eisenhower
Virginian
Senate
Lyn Johnson
Amusements and Columns Highlight Daily Gazette
The Gazette offers Amusements with Bob Considine Comic Pages Crossword Puzzle and Editorials along with Sports Pages and Medicine Television content. Women’s Activities, Want Ads, and an Obituary section appear on page 1 through 8. Runerats Radio occupies page 16.
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Bob Considine
Gazette
Runerats
Gun smuggling thwarted as guard nabbed with pistol
June 16 reports a thwarted escape plot at the State Penitentiary in Moundsville. Guard Ver nal Thompson, 56, was found with a .38 pistol in a paper case after delivering shells to five dangerous inmates. Warden E H Tucker and Marshall County Sheriff Herman Laas detained him at the prison gate. Thompson faces arraignment tomorrow. authorities suspect an outside accomplice via a woman whose identity was not released.
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Moundsville
State Penitentiary
E. H. Tucker
Tucker
Marshall County
Herman ‘C. Laas
Vernal Thompson
Thompson
Marshall
Everett'g. Cox
Poe
Keating Sees No Jury Rule on Rights Bill
Rep. Keating predicts the Senate will follow the House in rejecting jury trial amendments to Eisenhower’s civil rights bill. The House vote is set for tomorrow with leaders optimistic the bill passes largely unaltered.
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Keating
Washington
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Repel Bes
Celler
Nixon
Knowland
California
Enet
I Gal Wields Gun Terrorizes Newton Police
A 20 year old girl wearing dungarees armed with a 12 gauge shotgun held Newton police at headquarters. She threatened to kill Officer Charlie Young and the cops until Patrolman Knoll, Dyda, and Friedlan restrained her after a ten minute standoff.
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Newton
N. J
INS
Vivian Manters
William U. Knoll
Charlie Young
Young
Knoll
Anthony
Dyda
Vivian J
Clarence Friedlan
Vivian
Controversy Rages Over Firemen Discontent in Charleston
Mayor Copenhaver accused Charleston newspapers of stoking a strike by publishing stories on firemen’s discontent. Four alarm blaze at City Hall drew public attention as the mayor and firemen’s opposition faced off on WCHS-TV. He defended Fire Chief C. E. Boggess, saying he would not dismiss him and would keep working to resolve the department’s issues.
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Copenhaver
Charleston
Wchs-Tv
C. E. ‘Boggess
Boggess
Chief Bogess
Chief Boggess
U.S
Gerald Drew
Antonio Rebreau
Dante
Perfume Defined as Fragrant Liquid Used by Women
A concise note explains perfume as a fragrant liquid used by women to enhance scent. It frames fragrance as a social cue and notes its appeal to men via the nose, reflecting early 20th century attitudes toward scent and gender.
Riots Raze Port au Prince After Fignole Ouster
Provisional Haitian President Daniel Fignole’s ouster sparked violent protests in Port au Prince. Mobs looted burned and stoned areas while police and troops fired on Fignole supporters, producing heavy casualties and mass arrests. The army claims control and U.S. officials report no foreign-evacuation needs.
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Larry Allen
Port AU Prince
Haiti
Daniel Fignole
Fignole
Lebanon election sparks deadly feud in Miziara clash
Eighteen people died and twenty three were injured in a Pavlovian family feud flare in northern Lebanon amid elections. The fighting between the Frangesh and Duwehi clans used machine guns and rifles at a funeral near Tripoli. Haide Frangieh seeks a parliamentary seat for the National Front while Rev. Samaan Duwehi is the pro government candidate.
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Beirut
INS
Lebanon
Mount Lebanon
Chamber of Deputies
Yussef Hitti
Frangesh
Duwehi
Miziara
Tripoli
Haide Frangieh
National Front
Samaan Duwehi
Chamber
Fisherman Adrift Five Days Rescued Off California Coast
Monterey California reporter describes the rescue of Jack Coates a 22 year old salmon fisher who drifted five days in a foot boat along the California coast after signaling with a flaming shirt. He survived on raw fish water wrung from a shirt mouldy bread and vitamin pills until a Coast Guard boat towed him in at 4 am twenty miles southwest of the coast.
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Monterey
Calif
U.S
Pacific Ocean
Jack Coates
California
Coast Guard
Boy Dies After Park Ride Accident on Sunday
Seven year old boy is killed when a vehicle on a park ride knocks into another car on Charleston's eastern outskirts. Witnesses recall a chaotic sequence as bystanders try to help and officials investigate the fatal incident at the fairground.
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U.S. 60
Daniel Boone Park
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