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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1962
Page
2
Congress sent to the White House a wartime era emergency tax bill with temporary levies on beer wine cigars and automobiles and a 10 percent travel tax cut to 5 percent on domestic flights. President Kennedy is expected to sign before the Saturday deadline as the Senate and House approved the compromise without debate.
Phillipple Howard England age 33 of St George Tucker County died in a local hospital Wednesday after being kicked by a horse while spraying the animal. Authorities said the mishap occurred as England worked with the horse.
A group of six went to a beach at four in the morning and two men, Jay Young of Charleston and another companion, drowned. Rescue squads from St Athans and Nitra joined the search, locating the bodies about an hour later.
Appalachian Power Company announces three promotions in its Charleston division effective after July 1. Ronald H. Hively is named system supervisor for commercials and industrial sales and transfers to Roanoke headquarters. Hutcheson becomes division commercial sales supervisor and succeeds Taylor. Shabdue continues in Charleston with a new post, while Taylor moves from Point Pleasant to Charleston with a long service record.
Air Force X15 rocket plane achieved a speed of 4.495 miles per hour over Edwards Base during a high altitude test. Pilot Joseph A. Walker surpassed the previous 4.093 mph record while reaching about 96,000 feet en route to planned 120,000 feet. The faster-than-expected burst aimed to study flight stability for future return maneuvers.
Pickets protested the imprisonment of three youths involved in an attempted interference with a submarine launch near the Fed Correctional Institution in Ashland. Deputy Warden Reichale watched as 15 demonstrators including eight adults and seven children marched peacefully carrying signs urging Donald Martin, 21, of Wellesley Massachusetts, be released.
Mayureiet HL Fletcher of Belle will appoint M. M. Swearingen as police chief with Patrolman Jarre Jerry Johnson to assist. Departing are Chief Bert George Sgt. Robert Marfin and Patrolman Virgil Scrages as Fletcher’s Free Citizens Party takes office. Thornbury defeated for mayor. six year sentence noted for protest actions in 1960s.
The Senate approved the administration sugar bill boosting domestic producers share and subsidizing foreign producers. It rejected most House foreign allocation provisions setting up a likely Senate House conference fight.
The American Vet erans of World War II and Korea display the Ariel Samael Care Van on Canto Street side of the Daniel Boone Hotel through Saturday. Rowin P Fifwiski leads the caravan visiting Gov. Barron Mayor Shanklin and Civil Defense Director Mathews to urge civil defense training. The exhibit includes a model family fallout shelter and tours run daily, with Fifwiski planning to fly to Michigan then return Sunday to resume the caravan.
Testimony from Rep Ken Hechler VictoR Gonzalez and Mary Switzer supported the Randolph-Sheppard Act. The case involved the West Virginia Federation of the Blind and a licensing dispute over a Chesterfield Swim Club pool project in Kana wha Cay. The judge ruled no arbitrary or capricious action by the zoning board and affirmed the permit denial.
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