Athenians weigh fishing prospects amid fair week forecast
In Athens a calm fishing week is forecast with generally fair conditions. Across the globe, reports touch on Moscow inviting scientists to an atoms for peace conference and GM plant closures due to strikes. A deadly commuter train crash in Rio de Janeiro area leaves several dead and many injured. In Hawaii, Steven Son’s son John hints father may seek the presidency again in 1956.
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Athens
Greece
Russia
Moscow
Special Funds May Give More Projects
A special City Council meeting was set for 7 30 p m at City Hall to discuss the budget and transfer funds for street improvements. City Manager L J Loar said paving more streets and a prior $6 500 transfer April delays may influence the year end finances. Front and Market streets resurfacing totaled about 2 4 thousand and 2 112 dollars respectively. Bluemont resurfacing of 1 363 was planned but not started. An audit of Grafton’s books by the State Tax Commissioner was requested for the 1954 fiscal year ending June 30 with a forthcoming visit anticipated. Three newly elected councilmen sworn July 1 will form a majority. Also noted was a planned atomic attack drill in West Virginia and a Gulf of Mexico tug Delilah incident with 43 men rescued after a drilling barge capsized near Grand Isle Louisiana.
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L. J. Loar, Sr
Loar
Ocala
Fla
Enon
Bluemont Street
Grafton
Aud
Ltter
Eston (P
State Civ
R. D. Stout
Ense
Edgar M. Sites
A. T. Moscar
William Gatrell
Virginia
Mananger
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Grand Isle
Molotov Tours U S Steel Mill Amid Argentine Revolt News
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov toured the United States Steel Corp south works as officials claim five and a half million tons of annual output. In Buenos Aires fires destroyed churches and the Cardinal Capello home after an abortive coup. At least 156 killed, 26 critical, 800 wounded as violence spread across Argentina and rebels fled toward Uruguay.
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Chicago
V. M. Molotov
U.S. Steel Corp
Montevideo
Uruguay
Buenos Aires
Santiago Luis Cardinal Capello
Juan D. Peron
Peron
Hertt
Lesses
Velees Tlons
Ics
United Press
Santiago
Chile
Santiago Cardinal Capello
Guerrilla Threat Alleges Laos Instability Frayed by Viet Minh
A 10,000 strong Communist guerrilla army trained by Viet Minh threatens Laos as the Laotian government warns of an imminent crisis. In New York, four juveniles were arrested for the assault of a 16 year old in Brooklyn. Washington reports the Senate committee pressed for ratification of the Austrian treaty despite mixed party wishes.
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Saigon
Indochina
Kingdom of
Laos
New York
Brooklyn
Euclid teens tied to Avania-robbery probe, state police say
Two 15-year-old boys from Euclid are accused of stealing an automobile from a motorist at gunpoint and may be linked to an Avania-robbery investigation, according to state police in Clarksburg West Virginia.
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Clarksburg
W.va
Euclid
Airline unions and industry face a tightening hold in US transit
The Air Transport Association today denied charges that major airlines, aided by government aid, have a stranglehold on the US industry. In Singapore hundreds of workers returned to their jobs as a general strike by Communist dominated unions appeared to fizzle. In London wildcat strikes deepened the impact on Britain’s dollar tourist trade, cancelling another sailing and threatening to disrupt the Queen Mary.
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Washington
Air ‘Transport Association
Singapore
London
Britain
Elizabeth
Drive Em Away Used Car Bargains
Local used car dealers advertise a wide selection with low down payments and easy terms. Sample offerings include a 1953 DeSoto Firedome 8 four door sedan and a 1950 Oldsmobile 882 four door, with emphasis on large inventory and bargain prices.
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DeSoto Firedome
June Sparks Warmth Across Nation Despite West Storms
United Press reports warm June weather spreading across the eastern third led by a high pressure system over Indiana. New York City endured its warmest day of the year with a high of 87 as the nation experiences muggy conditions after cooler spells.
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United Press
Indiana
New York City
Pleasant weekend forecast for Tri-County area
The forecast calls for fair and warm weather with a high near 85 and a low between 48 and 56. The region's temperatures reached 79 yesterday and this noon, rising from a low of 49 last night, as the weekend approach.
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Tri-County
Mercury
Yale Trees Morgantown Meeting Opens at WVU
The West Virginia Christmas Tree Growers Association began a two day gathering at West Virginia University after a tour of the State Conservation Commission nursery in Parsons.
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Morgantown
West Virginia Christmas Tree, Growers Association
West Virginia University
State Conservation Commission
Parsons
Four youths charged with defacing state highway property
Grafton state police arrested Lloyd Alonso Don Cameron Harrold Charles Ray Harold and Harlan Leroy Strawser for running vehicles over freshly painted white lines on U S Route 50 The three named defendants face hearings by June 21 before Justice C P Lucas Strawser failed to appear and a warrant was issued for him Police warned the lines mark road safety features and will leave tire marks for days if crossed Wet paint may stick to tires and bring consequences The report also notes youths with air rifles shooting highway signs on Walnut Street
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Grafton
Lloyd Alonso
Anymore
Don Cameron Harrold
Clarksburg
Charles Ray Harold
Harlan Leroy Strawser
U. S
Alonso
Harrold
Harold IE
Walnut Street
Buckhannon Hospital Aid Approved by Board
Charleston reports the West Virginia Board of Health approved federal HillBurton funds to finance hospital building projects in Wheeling Buckhannon and Charleston. Stanley Turk was named board chairman succeeding Dr. D A MacGregor. Federal funds cover up to 61 percent of project costs with counties or cities paying the rest.
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Charleston
State Board of Health
Wheeling
Buckhannon
Stanley Turk
Wheeling’s
Ohio’ Valley General Hospital
Turk
D. A. MacGregor
One-Armed Man, Former Stockyard Worker, Survives Boxcar Ordeal
Ken neth M Townsend a 43 year old ex jail inmate facing a drunk charge is re arrested after stealing a police patrol car and driving 87 miles with siren and lights. Re Manuel Irén a 26 year old former Chicen stockyard worker endured six days in a refrigerated boxcar with no food or water before plans to return to Laredo Texas Ramirez a hospital patient recovering from malnutrition and dehydration is expected to be released in about 10 days after treatment and Ramirez says he climbed into a Chicago loaded boxcar of sheepskins to return home from a lost stockyard job but the car cooled to 50 degrees during the trip to Philadelphia.
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Denver
Kenneth M. Townsend
Manuel Irén
Chicen
Laredo
Tex
Joseph T. Reddy
Villanova
Ramirez
Chicago
Texas
Philadelphia
Three Teen-Agers Die In Fast Car Crash
In Louisville Kentucky five teenagers were pulled from a wrecked late-model car after it struck a concrete abutment at high speed. Police reported about 95 mph on a curving road. Three died at the scene and two were serious.
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Louisville
Leonard Jones
Slaying Suspect Demands Liberty
Washington police hold an 18 year old suspect in protective custody for the double murder of Nancy Shomette 16 and Michael Ryan 14. Investigators question over 200 witnesses as they pursue leads in the picnic grave case near the University of Maryland.
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Washington
George Pansgoulis
Prince Georges County
Maryland
Blair Smith
Nancy Marie Shomette
Michael Ann Ryan
University of Maryland
John Golden Dies in Sleep at Bayside Home
John Golden a famed American play producer died in his sleep at his Bayside Long Island residence late last night or early today. Golden led a 45 year career yielding many hits and would have turned 81 on June 27.
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New York i
Joan Golden
Bayside
Long Island
Golden
Soviet Attaches Expelled From Russia Reported in London
London reports three U S military attaches were expelled from the Soviet Union two weeks ago. Identified as Lt Col John S Benson Capt Walter Mule and Capt William R Stroud all said to be assigned to the U S Army. Home addresses not available in London.
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London
U.S
Russia
Ana
Soviet Capial
John S. Benson
Walter Mule
Willian R. Stroud
Benson
Fort Jay
U. S. State Department
Moscow
Molotov Rolls Westward To U N Meeting
Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov traveled through the Midwest in a Pullman as Chicago faced a tense scene and demonstrators gathered in Omaha and along the route. His train aimed for San Francisco for a United Nations gathering, with security guards peering from darkened cars as the procession moved on.
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V. M. ‘Molotov
New York
Chicago
V. M. Molotov
Midwest
Charleston
Walter
Omaha
Hallowan
Ationa
Molotov
West Virginia
Pis
Omatia
Neb
Aero A
Raleigh
Lithuania
Latvia
Schall
Wn Eee
Business Administration
Molomanda
San
Francisco
United Nations
Parnell Listed as Former Mining Engineer and Defense Official
Marshall enrolls 896 students at Morris Harvey College for the first six weeks of summer session, a record high. Admissions office reports the total amid the Korean era service background of Parnell, previously a mining engineer with West Virginia coal interests and a Defense Solid Fuels Administration veteran.
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Parnell
West Virginia Coal Interests
Defense Solid Fuels Administration
Marshall
Charleston
Morris Harvey College
Riordan Confesses Drowning Boy in Brockton Bath
A 43 year old Brockton mother Mrs Gertrude Riordan reportedly confessed to police that she drowned Michael Baldwin a three year old boy who came to her apartment to play in the bathtub with toys including a toy boat and Davy Crockett reel. The incident occurred in the downstairs neighbor’s apartment where the child visited. Riordan reportedly stated I dont know why.
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Brockton
Mass
Gertrude Riordan
Sop
Michael Baldwin
Cme
Davy Crockett
Democrats Lose Inning On Power
Democrats hit a setback as the House rejected a bid to divert funds from the Dixon Yates private power project to TVA. The vote gives President Eisenhower a clear legislative victory, with Senate opponents planning to press the fight though odds are slim.
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United Press
Congress
House
Tennessee Valley Authority
Eisenhower
Senate
Dixon-Yates
Dope Ring Bust Near Pittsburgh Nets 21 Arrests
Authorities say a Western Pennsylvania drug ring selling marijuana and heroin to Pittsburgh high school students was disrupted as 21 suspects were rounded up. Edward Todd, 55, jailed in Bellaire, Ohio, is named as the chief pusher in a $50,000-a-week operation stretching into Northern West Virginia and Eastern Ohio. The probe suggests the syndicate’s reach may extend beyond the Tri State area.
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Pittsburgh
Bellaire
Ohio
Edward Todd
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Tri State
Pontiff Receives Ousted Prelates In Vatican City
Two Argentine prelates exiled over church state tensions were admitted to Pope Pius XII in the Vatican. Monsignors Manuel Tato and Roman Novoa, auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, arrived from Buenos Aires and met the Pontiff in his private library.
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Vatican City
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Pius XII
Manuel Tato
Buenos Aires
Roman Novoa
Moler Reappointed to Workmen's Compensation Board
Gov William C. Marland announced the reappointment of D Grove Moler of Mullens to the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board for a term ending June 14, 1961.
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Charleston
William C. Marland
D. Grove Moler
Mullens
Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board
Press Meet Sep Spencer West Virginia meeting dates
The West Virginia Press Association will hold its annual business meeting and conference from October 27 to 29 in Huntington, announced by association president C. Woodyard.
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Spencer
West Virginia Press Association
Huntington
C. Woodyard
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