Do Die Phase Marks Cease Fire Talks
Taylor County board hired ten probationary teachers for continuing contracts at a July meeting. One new teacher Hobart Beeghley was added to English at the high school. Emergency-certified teachers Ida Lake and Ferena Mayle were rehired. The board deferred integration plans pending a state program.
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Taylor County
Board of Education
Patty Armstrong
Eugene Weese
Thornton
Naomi R. Lawson
Grafton
Jewel Crislip
Ray H. Gray
Haymond
LaDonna M. Jenkins Frost
Robert Lee Shields
Flemington
Francis W. Nestor
Alma Robinson
Jennie W. Findley
Hobart Beeghley
Jane Lew
Clear Fork High School
Raleigh
Ida Lake
Ferena Mayle
West Hill
R. Virgil Rohrbough
W. W. Trent
Trent
Rohrbough
Athena Andrews to Represent Grafton in North South Game
Athena Alexis Andrews age 17 known as Bo Bo is named Miss Grafton Sentinel to represent the newspaper at the 21st North South football game August 14 in Charleston. A 1954 Grafton High graduate and band majorette she has held multiple school roles and plans to become an elementary teacher at Fairfield State College in September.
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Athena Alexis
Andrews
Miss Grafton Sentinel
Charleston
Grafton High School
Grafton
Miss Andrews
Camera Club
Speec Club
Dancing Club
Future Teachers of America
Girl's Athletic Association
Bearvat
Tri-Hip
Athena
Fairmont State College
Parakeet Resigns To Study For The Stage In South Africa
A parakeet named Peter has quit his job in a Johannesburg store to devote full time to performing on stage. He now spends his days practicing God Save The Queen and Hickory Dickory Dock for stage appearances, leaving his former greeting duties behind.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Peter
Steel parley resumes at Pittsburgh with USW talks
Negotiations between U S Steel Corp and the CIO United Steelworkers resume at 10 a m Thursday. Big Steel expected to present answers to USW demands for higher pay guaranteed annual wage and other contract concessions.
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Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
USW
City Appeals Decision It Must Pay Retired Police Delinquent Pensions
The City of Grafton appeals a Justice of the Peace ruling that it owes three retired police officers $230.23 each in delinquent pensions. The officers claim $110 monthly was due, with payments since December 1983 as low as $26.63. Justice Ona L. Jefferys handed down the May 27 decision, in a suit led by Francis L. Warder for Clarence Siman, Hugh Woodford, and Joseph Mask. City Attorney John Burnett says the city will appeal to Taylor County Circuit Court and will file the transcript before the September term.
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Grafton
Justice of
Ona
C. Jefferys
Jefferys
Francis L. Warder
Clarence Si+man
Hugh Woodford
Joseph Mask
Sion
John Burnette
Taylor County
Heat and storms sweep region as heat rises and showers loom
The region faced hot humid conditions with noon temperature around 77 rising to mid 80s by afternoon. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are forecast tonight and tomorrow. Across the nation strong storms spawned tornadoes and 90 mph winds from Oklahoma to Minnesota, causing damage from Farmington Missouri to Fergus Falls Minnesota where an airplane hangar was demolished.
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Tri-County
Oklahoma
Minnesota
Minot
N. D
Farmington
Fergus Falls
Minn
West Virginia 5 Day Forecast With Warm Humid Conditions
Temperatures will average 2 to 6 degrees above normal and remain hot and humid through Thursday. Cooler conditions are expected Friday and Saturday with a warming trend Sunday. Scattered showers or thundershowers through Thursday and possible again Sunday, totaling one-quarter to one half inch.
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West Virginia
Saltonstall Probes Navy Delay in Academy Graduates
Senator Leverett Saltonstall, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced a personal review into the Navy’s failure to commission three Naval Academy graduates awaiting security checks. He said no formal committee investigation is planned but will demand a Navy report on the unsettling delay.
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Washington
Leverett Saltonstall
R-Mass
Navy
Naval Academy
Senate Armed Services Committee
Saltonstall
Cohn Charges Threats Made During Army Hearings
Roy M. Cohn testified that Army Counselor John G Adams threatened to release an embarrassing report unless Sen. McCarthy's subcommittee halted its Communist infiltration probe. The exchange occurred as hearings entered their second day with recall of telephone records. Australia’s savings surpass two billion dollars for year to Jan 31, deposits total 2,148,194,400, up 41.4 percent from 1949.
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Washington
Roy M. Cohn
Army
John G. Adams
Joseph R. McCarthy
Subcommittee
Cohn
McCarthys
McCarthy
John ©. McCellan
D. Ark
Adams
G. David Lcnine
Sydney
Australia
Ban Voted On Reds As Labor Officers
Washington lawmakers report the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to bar Communists from jobs or office in labor unions. Sponsored by Pat McCarran the measure would allow employers to fire members of subversive groups or workers who refuse to reveal membership to congressional committees.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Eisenhower
Congress
Agriculture Committee
Saministration
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
Senate Judiciary Committee
Pat Mccarran
D-Nev
Congressional Committees
U S Warplanes Used By French To Subdue Reds
U S warplanes aided French forces in Indochina as two large Communist bases near Hanoi were destroyed. Bombs and delayed-action strikes hit a base seven miles from the city and a second near Seno, with French ground troops afterward engaging rebels. The action aimed to blunt Giap’s delta offensive and disrupt Red supply lines amid heavy fighting in the Red River Delta.
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Hanoi
Indochina
United States
Dien Bien Phu
Highway 41
High Command
Lee
Seno
Red
Vo Nguyen Giap
Red River
Ar Hion
Tanh Phu
Ucommand
Huntington Builders Strike Expands in Huntington Area
A spreading walkout by AFL building trades workers reaches about 2000 in Huntington. The strike began Monday in support of new contract demands after the old contract expired May 31 and negotiations with the General Contractors Association broke off.
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Huntington
AFL
Huntington Building and Construction Trades Council
General Contractors Associaion
Dulles Says Communists Dragging Feet at Peace Talks
Secretary of State Joan Foster Dulles charged that Communists drag their feet at the Genov Far East conference while mounting military operations in Indochina. He said Western powers must not rush to Geneva while negotiations stall and stressed responsibility lies with France and Viet Nam. In London, Foreign Secretary Eden warned of Britain joining a Southeast Asia alliance if Geneva fails to halt Indochina War.
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House
Congress
Eisenhower
Foster Dulles
Asis Morning
United States
Tinohina
Washington Post
Times Herald
Indochina
Phe
Hane
Francis EB. Walter
Ueneva
V. M. Molotov
Farvat
Molotov
Conti
French National Assembly
Ain
Indoshina
Sevotov
Tae
Georges Bidault
Smith
Bideult
Geneva
Mapa
Washington
Joan Foster Dulles
Far East
Dulles
France
Viet Nam
London
Janthony Eden
Britain
Eden
Southeast Asia Alliance
Turkeys New Thom lin Soviet's Hide
UNITED PRESS reports Turkey shifts from neutrality to formal ties with the West since World War II. Turkey signed a 1947 military aid pact with the United States and joined NATO in 1952. Now Ankara is moving toward a military alliance with Greece and Yugoslavia as Soviet tensions rise in the Middle East.
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United Press
Turkey
Russia
Middle East
United States
Arctic Norway
Pakistan
Himalaya Mountains
Greece
Jobless Pay Plan Urged to Cover All Workers
Secretary Arthur Larson urged Congress to extend unemployment insurance to all regularly employed workers, calling current limits on small firms discriminatory as the program excludes workers in about half the states.
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Washington
Arthur Larson
House
Wass 2 Means Committee
Bald Town of Fort Jameson Claims Baldness Boom
In Northern Rhodesia a remote town named Fort Jameson boasts no barber and a unique baldness boom says locals. Residents claim bald heads are a local fixture, and the sun here is said to shine on smooth scalps.
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New York
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