Atomic Gadgets Will Do About Everything Then Easy Living
In a May 2 1975 INS dispatch James Lee describes a Chamber of Commerce exhibit predicting life in 1995 to be dominated by atomic power for trains ships and autos. Visionary drawings show tiny city cars air conditioned long highway cruisers and portable TV recorders among other conveniences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Lee Washington
Junior
Yankee Stadium
Mom
Pop
Paris
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S.A
Food Chains, Home Builders
Electronica
Chamber
Lester L. Colbert
Chrysler Corp
U. S
Automa
Tion
Savanny of Commerce
Two City Vice Cops Charged with Break Enter
Charlestons R L Crouse and Warren Warwick, both veteran vice officers, faced warrants for breaking and entering a hunting lodge on Elk River near Ivydale. James McClure, a glass plant worker, accused them of entering the cabin Sunday night and removing a plywood fishing boat. The officers were later found absent as warrants were issued by Clay County Magistrate Arnold Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utes Gant A
Clay County
R. L
Bob) Crouse
Warren Warwick
Charleston
James McClure
Washington Ave. S. E
Justice of the Peace
Arnold Williams
Clay
McClure
Crouse
Elk River
Ivydale
Williams
Warwick
Arne
Adrian McGinnis
Eisenhower urges states' central role in democracy
President Eisenhower told governors that honest political differences sustain the democratic system and warned that ceding local responsibility would weaken the United States. Defense and civil defense issues dominated talks with Defense Secretary Wilson and Gen Chidlaw urging guard air unit integration and civil defense reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Eisenhower
America
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Benjamin W. Chidlaw
Continental Air Defense Command
National Guard
Frank Bane
Governors Organization
Civil Defense
Wat ‘Peterson
Fov
Ernars
Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and Reporting Awards
The article notes Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire won the Pulitzer for drama and mentions a separate drama A Fable. It also lists Anthony Lewis of the Washington Daily News for national reporting and Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times for international reporting for their work on Navy security and Russia coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee Williams
Anthony Lewis
Washington
D. C
Daily News
Abraham Chasanow
Navy Department
Harrison £. Salisbury
New York Times
Russia
Bragg Pleads Guilty Here for Life Term
Malcolm C. Bratte a 23 year old Charleston man once sentenced to death in the electric chair for slaying a Logan cab driver entered a guilty plea to the crime and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Judge Willian Thompson presided and ordered no parole. Bragg admitted shooting Robert Gullett in a 1953 Logan killing and the plea followed a 3 2 Supreme Court ruling granting a new trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malcolm C. Bratte
Charleston
Logan
Irime
Bragg
Kanawha County
Robert Gullett
Willian Thompson
Supreme Court
J. Blackburn Watts
Thompson
Ft. Myers
Fla
Gullett
Navy
State Rt.14
What His Friends Think of Him Retiring Judge Gets Car
Judge Thomas on his final day as Municipal Court judge received a 1955 Oldsmobile convertible as a gift from a committee of friends. He praised Charleston’s supporters as the finest people, saying he loves them all despite politics. A.K. Frashier and others noted the gift shows their regard for his public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Thomas
Eliseatt
Meritorious Public service—Co
Jambus
Ledger-Enquirer
Tiveseseeee Reesers
I Ple
Charleston
Willard Brown
City
Ala
Caro
Sibetter
Otaran Erawa Moana Oun Ari
Thomas
Oldsmobile
Harry Frashier
Junior Holley
Larry Asisbury
S. O. Fisher
Frashier
John Shanklin
Council Gives Job to Mayor's Campaign Aide
Charleston's 22nd City Council approved creating a second assistant city solicitor to be filled by mayor Copenhaver's campaign manager. The move, voted 18-4 amid dissent, sets the salary not to exceed 5,600 dollars annually and follows settling a disputed 8,000 dollar legal bill for the city’s 3.5 million dollar improvement program by Meador and Butts. A June 11 bond issue vote to fund the Charleston Civic Center was also finalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Copenhaver
Clico 5
Jones
Cross Lanes
Twelfth Ward
Willard Brown
Brown
Copenhayer
P. G. Meador
Henry P. Butts
Counsell
Council
Mob Trial Figures Disappear
Charles Ferri a New Jersey contractor and his wife vanish under mysterious circumstances near Miami. Bloodstains and evidence of a violent struggle at their suburban home raise fears of homicide as Ferri testified in the Anastasia income tax evasion case pending in Newark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Charles’Ferri
New Jersey
Albert Anastasia
Ferris
Floyd Alsbury
Ferri
Anastasia
Fairless resigns as U S Steel board chairman after 18 years
Benjamin F. Fairless steps down as board chairman of U S Steel Corp at the May stockholders meeting in Hoboken New Jersey. He will remain a director and finance committee member and a successor will be chosen by the board tomorrow. He has led the company since 1953 and previously served as president from 1937 to 1953.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoboken
N. J
Benjamin F. Fairless
U.S. Steel Corp
Fairless
U.S. Steel
Docker Gazette Want Ads Dial 60611
Classified items from the Docker Gazette include listings for job offers, services, and items for sale with contact numbers. The page preserves a busy marketplace feel and direct transactions typical of urban newspapers.
Thug Prefers Death to Jail in New York Shootout
Utica criminal Frank Talarico known as The Hook dies after a standoff with state police in a sunlit clearing near Hopkinton. Fellow fugitive Ralph LaShomb of Potsdam is injured, as troopers hunt third escapee Patrick Brooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
N. Y
Desperado Frank
Talarico
Utica
Ralph LaShomb
Potsdam
LaShomb
Potsdam General Hospital
Patrick
Brooks
Gabriels
Here
Porce
Les
Four Children Die In South Philadelphia Fire
Four young children perished in a fire that destroyed their small frame home in the Neck section of South Philadelphia. The blaze, investigated by local authorities, left the cause undetermined as neighbors recalled their family life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Neck
Salk Control Considered by Health Secretary in Vaccine Debate
Health Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby said she would recommend federal controls on Salk polio vaccine if needed, while a special advisory committee favored a voluntary plan with allocations and priorities. Dr. Chester Keefer said 10 to 12 recommendations were made based on age group susceptibility and regional population. Hobby plans to discuss the vaccine situation with 45 governors in Washington. administration opponents had resisted government control of distribution and use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Chester F. Keefer
Keefer
Hobby
Bao Dai Faces Ax as French Support Diem
The United States hints at dropping recognition of Bao Dai as chief of state of Free Vietnam while backing Ngo Dinh Diem. amid US France tension over Indochina policy. Fighting in Saigon against Binh Xuyen continues as Diem's government seeks stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bao Dai
Diem
Washington
INS
United States
Iplayboy Bao Dai
Free Vietnam
State Department
Henry Suydam
U. S
France
Indochina
Paris
Ngo Dihn Diem J
South Vietnam
Edgar Faure
Saigon
Vietnam
Binh Xuyen
Cholon
Son Kui
Ngo Dinh Diem
John Foster Dulles
Maurice Couve de Murville
Dulles
Premier Diem
Suydam
Bonding capacity drives West Virginia education funding debate
Fifty two counties hold unused bonding capacity totaling about 55 million dollars that could fund modernization and new classrooms. Only Mingo, Morgan and Webster counties are at the bonding limit, while most counties remain financially strong to issue bonds if voters approve a constitutional amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Mingo
Morgan
Webster
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tio Key
Annanine
Colum
William Faulkner
Fistinn Fae
Williams Play
Averell Starriman
New York
News
Harriman
Franen
Copenthaver
James A. Haught
the Gazette
Page
City Scene
Capitol St
Hollywood
Rikre
Ginl
Brosley Deep Freeze
Gazette Docker
Salk
Wayne Marie
Tha Ibitson
Love
Bath
Deborah
Nancy
Congress
Richard
Nguyen van Vy
UP Telephata
Crisis In Education
Thomas F. Stafford
Tleston Gazette
State Department of Education
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!