Western ministers frame Berlin package deal talks
Western foreign ministers from Britain France and West Germany, meeting at the State Department with Acting Secretary Herter, press to decide German policy by night for NATO ministers meeting. They seek progress toward Berlin settlement and German reunification while warning the Soviets against a summer summit.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Berlin
Britain
France
West Germany
State Department
Christian A. Herter
Ciple
West Berlin
United States
Geneva
Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Mexico Expels Two Soviet Attaches Over Rail Strike
Mexico City AP reports two Soviet embassy attaches expelled for alleged involvement in the Easter rail strike. The second secretary Nicolai M Remisov and military attache Nicolai V Asenov were ordered out by Friday, with others from a Soviet satellite also declared unwelcome. The strike, deemed a Communist plot by officials, fizzled after mass arrests and mobilization.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Nicolai M. Remisov
Nicolai V. Asenov
Toronto
Demetrio Vallejo
Vallejo
Mexicano
Veracruz
Pacifico
Guadalajara
Nogales
U.S
West Virginia Weather Forecast and River Conditions
Warm with showers and thunderstorms tonight, locally severe storms possible in the west, low in the 50s. Thursday mainly cloudy and colder after morning east showers. Extended forecast shows temperatures 3 to 6 degrees above normals then cooling into Friday and Monday with showers again Sunday. River readings at Bellepoint show Greenbrier normal and Bluestone Reservoir clearing with six gates open.
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W. Va
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Slaying of Non-Union Mine Operator in Knox County
Fred L. Gregory of Bell County surrendered to police and was charged with murder in the slaying of Woodrow Smith at a Knox County coal mine. Police seek a United Mine Workers official and five others for questioning. Pickets harassed Smith over a contract dispute as tenets of the strike continued in seven counties.
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Barbourville
Knox County
Fred L. Gregory
Four Mile
Bell County
Woodrow Smith
Gregory
United Mine Workers
Public Safety
Don Sturgill
UMW
Ashle Coal Co
Jakes Fork Coal Co
UMIW
Smith's
Paul Stamper
Smith
Coal Men, Railroads Act To Cut Prices
Coal producers and railroads agreed to lower coal prices for eastern utilities to counter oil competition. Negotiated per contract, cuts vary by utility, with Con Edison seeing mine price cuts of 25 cents per ton and rail freight down 5 cents per ton. Despite wage hikes totaling 2 per day this year, productivity gains through mechanization allow continued price stability.
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Washington
Eastern Seaboard
Eisenhower
United Mine Workers Union
Consolidated Edison Co
New York
Writer To Get Award NEW YORK Award of Merit for the Novel
Aldous Huxley is chosen by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for its Award of Merit for the Novel. He will receive a gold medal and $1,000 prize at ceremonies in May. No specific work is cited.
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New York
Aldous Huxley
American Academy of Arts and Letters
County Cancer Drive To Feature Movies
Two women only movies will be shown Saturday at the Beckley Theatre as part of the Raleigh County Crusade for Cancer. The drive begins today with material distribution at the Raleigh County Cancer Center on Prince Street. A 10 a.m. screening of Self Breast Examination and Time and Two Women will be followed by a Q A with Dr. Harry F. Cooper and Dr. Harold S. Amory. The Cancer Society urges Raleigh County women to attend, noting cancer as a leading cause of death for women aged 30 to 44.
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U. S. Air Force
Germany
Berlin
U. S
State Department
Beckley Theatre
Raleigh County Crusade For Cancer
Raleigh County Cancer Center
Prince Street
Harry F. Cooper
Harold S. Amory
American Cancer Society
Cancer Society
Raleigh County
Shadrick Sentenced In Robbery Attempt Case
Leroy Shadrick of Skelton West Virginia received a 5 to 7 year state prison term after conviction for an attempted armed robbery at the Home Builders Association in Albemarle North Carolina. He claimed plans to kill former President Truman and avenge his brother Pvt Kenneth Shadrick killed in Korea.
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Albemarle
N. C
West
Shadrick
Ower
Endrick
Truman
Pvt
Kenneth Shadrick
Korea
Court To Hear $50 000 Lawsuit
Raleigh County Circuit Court will resume Thursday with a $50,000 damage suit on the docket. The action stems from a highway accident on the Shady Spring Pluto road November 21, 1958, involving an auto and a coal truck. Chester Wesley Reeves, an 18 year old infant suing by his father, claims bodily injuries while riding as a passenger in a car owned by Davy Carlos Bennett and driven by James Lilly. Attorneys for the plaintiff are David D. Ashworth and Thomas W. Turner.
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Raleigh County
George Willis
Willis Water Company
Walter Snyder
Shady Spring Pluto Road
Chester Wesley Reeves
Lacy H. Griffith
Lillian Coal Company
Cabot Gas Firm Seeks Rate Increase in West Virginia
Godfrey L. Cabot Inc asks the Public Service Commission for a rate hike affecting 19 856 customers across Calhoun Fayette Kanawha Raleigh Summers Wirt and Wyoming counties and towns Cedar Grove Charlton Heights East Bank Elizabeth Fayetteville Gauley Bridge Glass Hinton Mount Hope Oak. Hearing set May 11. proposed yearly revenue increase about 550000 with a six step monthly rate scale from 1.75 per 1000 cu ft for the first 1000 to 0.39 per 1000 for over six million.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Godfrey L. Cabot Inc
Public Service Commission
Cabot
Calhoun
Fayette
Kanawha
Raleigh
Summers
Wirt
Wyoming
Cedar Grove
Charlton Heights
East Bank
Elizabeth
Fayetteville
Gauley Bridge
Glass Hinton
Mount Hope
Oak
Beckleyan Jailed In Lieu Of Bond
Beckley resident James E. Meadows was remanded to Raleigh County Jail in lieu of $2,000 bond after arraignment before Magistrate W A Burke. He waived a preliminary hearing and awaits Raleigh County Grand Jury action on four bad check counts with $500 bond per count. Also James H. Boggs of Widen jailed 11:2 pm Monday on non support.
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James E. Meadows
Beckley
Raleigh County
W. A. Burke
Meadows
Burke
James H. Boggs
Widen
Bank Building still Available To City and County
Elmer Davis of Beckley National Bank says the mid town Beckley building remains on the market. No price has been set and no buyers yet, though offers were made to both city and county weeks ago. If not purchased, the bank will negotiate with other parties and may sell as a tax collection hub or future city hall.
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Raleigh County Court
Beckley
Beckley National Bank
Elmer Davis
Whiteside Rites Set Saturday
Funeral services for Flemming Whiteside, 51, of East Park at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home Chapel with Elder W. A. Tresenwriter officiating. Burial in Stanaford Cemetery. Survived by wife Eleanor, a stepdaughter Mary Saunders, four brothers, two sisters, and two grandchildren. The body will lie in state at the funeral home until the services.
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Flemming Whiteside
7Th St
East Park
Ritchie and Johnson
W. A. Tresenwriter
Stanaford
Whiteside
Beckley Junction
Eleanor Whiteside
Mary Saunders
Birdie
Harper Heights
Aaron
Henry J
Columbus
Ohio
Jesse Lee
Alabama
Mercy Mae Vines
Dayton
Darnel Gilbert
Tornadoes Kill Six In Texas
Tornadoes killed at least six people in Vaughan and Bynum Texas and injured dozens in Vaughan Bynum and other small towns. A KC135 from Bergstrom Base crashed near Killeen during a storm, killing unspecified crew.
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Associated Press
Texas
Oklahoma
Air Force
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Tex
Killeen
Texand Feltleas
Sep
Iorturast
Cathoma
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
Vaughan
Bynum
Gainesville
Silver City
Tulsa
Kingston
Texoma
Kansas City
Iowa
Ilinois
Alcorn Reported Ready To Resign As GOP Chairman
Meade Alcorn expected to resign as Republican national chairman in 1960. Hartford Courant and Eiisenhower sources say he plans to return to Hartford law practice and possibly seek Connecticut governor in 1962. The GOP committee will meet to pick a replacement and set the convention site and date. Senator Thruston Morton tipped as likely successor.
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Washington
Meade Alcorn
Alcorn
GOP National Committee
New York Times Today
Sen
Thruston B. Morton
Former Beckley Man Succumbs In New York
James Powell aged 40 formerly of Beckley died Monday night in a New York hospital after a brief illness. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Henry Powell of 654 South Fayette Street Beckley and is survived by a sister Georgiana Brown of Beckley and a brother Booker T Powell of Brooklyn New York. The body will be returned to the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor. funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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James Powell
Brooklyn
N. Y
Beckley
New York
Henry Powell
South Fayette St
Georgiana Brown
Booker T
Ritchie and Johnson
Auto Crash Puts Three In Hospital
Three people were admitted to Beckley Memorial Hospital shortly before noon today after a three car accident on Stanaford Road. Christian Chambers, 73, Maggie Chambers, 38, both of Stanaford, and Charles Midkiff of Prosperity remained in the emergency room at noon. The crash occurred when a truck driven by Nelson Eddie Allen, 16, Beckley, hit the back of the Chambers car, then skidded into a jeep driven by Verne Pack of Beaver. Midkiff was a passenger in the jeep. The jeep was in a funeral procession when the Chambers car traveling in the opposite direction stopped to allow the procession to pass.
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Beckley Memorial Hospital
Stanaford
Christian Chambers
Maggie Chambers
Charles Midkif
Prosperity
Nelson Eddie Allen
Rt. 3
Beckley
Attendance Workers To Hear Head Of Institution For Girls
Miss Emma S. Houchins, superintendent of the West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls, will speak at the Southern Regional Attendance Workers Conference in Beckley on Thursday. The all day meeting starts at 10 a.m. in the Memorial Building on South Kanawha Street. Other speakers include Richard Young and Richard Malcolm, with Judge K. K. Hall and H. Cliff Hamilton among the observers. Houchins, a native West Virginian, attended Concord College and spent 26 years with federal correctional institutions before becoming head of the girls home in 1957.
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Emma S. Houchins
West Virginia
Hartsog
Richard Young
West Virginia Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Richard Malcolm
The
West Virginia Attendance Directors Association
K. K. Hall
Boone County Circuit Court
H. Cliff Hamilton
Miss Houchins
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