06 Dec 1955
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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1955
Page
1
The Army announced it is investigating the slaying of a Korean man suspected near the Kapfun hydroelectric plant in Austria close to Salzburg. Other items note Peruvians, anti-government demonstrations in Cuba, and political shifts in Argentina.
Canadian and American forces activated a wartime defense drill across North America. CONAD declared an alert over the continent with interceptor aircraft in the air within minutes. SAC aircraft probed defenses as civilian spotters joined emergency duties amid a secret timing for Crackjack exercises.
The Hong Kong Tiger Standard editorially objects to giving typhoons girls names and argues winds should bear strong Western or official names instead. It warns against naming storms after Bulganin Khrushchev or other officials and politicians both local and international.
The Grafton area enjoyed bright sun most of the morning and early afternoon with a fair night forecast. Yesterday’s high reached 41 and the low 24 with 11 am temperature at 31.
Kevin Sheehan a former Irish Guards trooper in Dartford says he spoke for 133 hours nonstop to crowds in a local hall. Attended by a doctor nurse and voice coach he surpassed the 131 hour Russian claim with a marathon discourse on sex cricket and other topics.
Pittsburgh Howard R Hague won the CIO United Steelworkers International Vice President post with 400017 votes to 184542 for Joseph P Molony of Buffalo NY. Hague 52 campaigned on long ties to USW President David J McDonald and had broad support. Molony backed by few board members. The post became vacant after James G Thimmel's death in January.
Henryetta Oklahoma report says March Wind of Okemah admitted drunken driving. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and a $100 fine after Highway Trooper O L Rauch arrested him.
A Charleston reader shares a child's note to Santa demanding rapid delivery if the letter does not arrive within 30 days. The message scolds the mailman to walk faster and emphasizes urgency for Yuletide wishes.
ATLANTA reports students from Emory University and the University of Georgia burned Gov. Marvin Griffin in effigy in response to a new segregation policy. Regents adopted a compromise that allows Tech to play in the Sugar Bowl on January 2, but limits future integration in state-supported schools’ Southern football games.
The West Virginia Supreme Court granted Thelma Poindexter an appeal from a Cabell County Circuit Court judgment requiring her to pay $657 for alleged water leak damage to the Barker Dress Shop of Huntington.
Attorney General John Fox announced on Monday the appointment of Robert E. Magnuson as first assistant Attorney General, replacing Cletus Hanley. Magnuson will assist in legal matters and oversee senior counsel as part of the state’s AG office restructuring.
Harold Peterson, a ranger, was moved from a park near Hell to a park near Paradise in a Michigan transfer. The change shifts his post to another region within the state.
Sen Hubert Humphrey urged Monday night that excessive government secrecy stifles ideas and hinders informed decisions. He cited lack of coordination among security officials and the delayed public explanation of fallout, noting American secrecy harms long term national interests.
Charleston Mayor John T. Copenhaver announced his bid for the Republican nomination next year. He framed a progressive, honorable program covering schools funds government reorganization agriculture and conservation and called for an end to misrule. He noted his current term ends after a second four year term begun last spring. In Raleigh a downtown shop offered stuffed alligators at 1.97 to attract Chinese shoppers.
Paris reports the powerful Socialist Party weighing alliances that could reshape the French parliament. With 104 seats, they may back Mendes-France, link with Radical-Socialists, or seek Communist ties as provinces lean differing. Decisions by parties and local groups set a tight deadline for candidacies.
West Virginia State School Supt W W Trent praised a White House Conference on Education proposal to fund federal aid for school building construction. He said if Congress adopts it it will aid West Virginia and help relieve overcrowded classrooms. He spoke after returning to Charleston from the meeting.
WASHINGTON business and tax experts urged a 3 to 4 billion tax cut next year centering on income taxes while six economists warned against cutting taxes in the 1956 election year. Eisenhower defense plans dominate Gettysburg conference as officials discuss a 1957 budget.
New York Governor Averell Harriman accused President Eisenhower’s appointees of using the Taft-Hartley act to bust unions. He named Vice President Nixon, Defense Secretary Wilson, Interior Secretary McKay, and former Assistant Secretary Teeter as unfriendly to labor at a speech to the CIO AFL merger organization.
Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden confirmed Britain will proceed with hydrogen bomb development and reject a ban as Socialist calls for talks on nuclear testing were rejected. He noted the decision to manufacture the hydrogen bomb was announced on February 17 this year ahead of meetings with President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Bulganin.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles charged that the Soviet Union pressed India to use force in its dispute with Portugal over Goa. He urged restraint and cited Moscow’s covert influence in the issue.
The Electrical Workers union accuses Westinghouse Electric Corp in Pittsburgh of attacking the president and refuses a suggested panel of strike arbitrators. The article notes the union demanded the appointment of a panel to arbitrate the dispute.
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