Cameron Stricken After Audrey Rages In Louisiana
In Cameron Louisiana a devastated town endures the wake of Hurricane Audrey with corpses under debris near the courthouse. Sheriff O B Carter greets Val Peterson and Gen Alfred Gruenther as relief promises include tent cities water and corn for starving cattle. Authorities fear up to hundreds may be dead.
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Bob Considine
Cameron
Audrey
O. B. Carter
Shepherd
Eisenhower
Val Peterson
The
Red Cross
Gen
Alfred M. Gruenther
Carter
Peterson
Denmark
Gruenther
NATO
Bruner Convicted of First Degree Murder in Slaying
Elmer David Bruner was found guilty of first degree murder for the clawhammer slaying of Mrs. Ruby H. Miller in Huntington. The all male jury deliberated about four hours after a four day trial. A death sentence is mandatory under West Virginia law. Bruner's attorneys moved to set aside the verdict but no hearing date was set.
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Clyde C. Ball Huntington
Elmer David Bruner
Ruby H. Miller
Huntington
West Virginia
Bruner
John W. Daniel
James M. Scites
Juror questions delay Bruner murder verdict in high tension trial
In a four day trial prosecutors described Roy Bruner as beating Mrs. Miller until her head was crushed. The jury paused to review a confession and photographs before resuming deliberations while security kept order in the packed courtroom.
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Russell L. Daugherty
WV Economy Seen Improving Through 1958
West Virginia business conditions looked upbeat with 17 of 20 divisions above 1956 levels for five months ended May 31. Coal output expected to exceed 1956 in 1957 and rise gradually next year, though growth may be modest due to slow markets and weaker industrial production. Employment up 0.6 percent, wages up 3.6 percent, cash farm income down 7.8 percent, coal miners' wages up 7 percent, manufacturing wages up 4 percent, retail sales up about 7.9 percent despite unemployment benefits rising 1 million dollars in early 1937. bank transactions, contracts, and life insurance sales also up.
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West Virginia
EBE
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Plane Downed by Toothpick Triggers Airline Trouble
Henry Moore aboard an American Airlines nonstop from Chicago to Tucson choked after swallowing a toothpick in an olive over Sioux City Iowa. The pilot diverted to Omaha due to fuel issues and dumped 1500 gallons of gasoline before landing. Moore treated at Doctors Hospital for removal of the toothpick.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Tucson
Ariz
Henry Moore
American Airlines
Moore
Chicago
Omaha
Doctors Hospital
Train wreck near Guthrie leaves many dead and injured
A freight train rammed the Louisville & Nashville Dixieland passenger train near the Tennessee Kentucky border, derailing five cars and overturning a dining car. Authorities report uncertain death toll with 10 or more feared while more than 200 aboard were injured and rushed to Clarksville hospitals. Ambulances from a 75 mile radius responded as scene crews battled chaos.
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C. H. Swallows
L&n
Nashville
Swallows
Guthrie
Cook-Webb Funeral Home
Louisville
YHE L&N’s Dixieland
Memphis
Henry Webb
Webb
Clarksville
Tenn
Here
Clarksville Memorial Hospital
Clarksville Hospital
Joe Stibwerk
Chicago
Bias and Dorman Named to Replace State Posts
Gov. Underwood appoints E. Gaujot Bias as liquor control commissioner and Theo dore T. Dorman as commissioner of public institutions to replace three-member boards. Effective Monday they take over pending cabinet reorganization. Bias is former Liquor Control chair. Dorman leads the Board of Control.
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Underwood
E. Gaujot Bias
Theodore T. Dorman
Bias
Dorman
Williamson
Liquor Control Commission
Parsons
Board of Control
Department of Mental Health
Benjamin W. Venable
Charleston
Douglas L. Freutel
Huntington
Liquor Commission
Union Carbide to Build Major Plant Near Winfield
Union Carbide Corp. announced plans for a multi million dollar chemical plant near Winfield, Patriark County. The facility will employ 500 workers at start, with construction hiring nearly 1,000 and paying about 100000 dollars weekly. The plant will supply ethylene and propylene, produce ethanol ethylene oxide and isopropanol, and connect to water transport on the Kanawha River.
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Union Carbide Corp
Winfield
Patriark County
Kanawha Valley
St.Albans
Nitro
Pocataligo
Charleston
Benedict
Carbide
South Charleston
Institute
Pve Carbide
Putnam County
Colonel Nickerson Sentenced by Court Martial
Col John C Nickerson, 41, West Pointer, received an official reprimand a $100 monthly fine for 15 months and a one year suspension of pay after pleading guilty to 15 counts involving a document critical of Defense Secretary Wilson and leaking it to journalists. The case focused on his actions to aid the Army’s guided missile program amid military leadership changes. The five day trial concluded with a five member board sentencing him after dismissing more serious charges.
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Huntsville
Als
INS
John C. Nickerson
Frank
West Pointer
Nickersed
Newsines
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
Nickerson
Army
Poesita
Thomas F. Hickey
Third Army
Iive
Two youths in jail after U S 21 wreck and theft
Juan Eduardo Vasquez and Daniel Esparza, both 21, were jailed after stealing a car owned by Margaret Thornhill and wrecking on U S 21 near Ripley. The pair fled the scene but were unharmed, choosing to hide on a creek bank as detectives investigated.
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James B. Dickson
the Gazette
Ripey
Margaret Thornhill
Daddy-o
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Curley Vincent
Grand Chenier
Louisiana
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Daniel
Daugherty
Anee
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Tedee
New Gazette
Lake ‘Charles
Cameron, la
C. L. Clark
Eunice Richard
Graves
City Scene
D. B. Benedict
Union Carbide Chemicals Co
Crump Garvin
John B. Medaris
Col
John Nickersae
U.S
U. S. 21
U. S. 22
Juan Eduardo Vasquez
Daniel Esparanza
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