Capitol police a parody of Keystone Cops at work
S I D E by Dick West describes the Capitol police as an odd force shaped by patronage. He cites cases from dainty bust swaps to a nonuniform captain promoted for chauffeuring a senator, noting the department mirrors TV comedy Car 54 not serious law enforcement.
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Dick West
United Press International
Washington
UPI
U.S. Capitol
Capitol
Congress
Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Senate
James Viscount Brice
Rice
Emphram Harris
Capt
Harris
Keystone Cops
Mack Sennett
Snow blankets Flat Top area as plows clear roads
Residents woke to a light snow that melted quickly in the Flat Top and White Oak area. Two State Road Commission cinder trucks were sent to clear slick highways and the SRC said roads were clear soon after with no accidents reported.
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Flat Top
White Oak
Mother Nature
State Road Commission
SRC
Uprising Reported in Syria by Pro-Nasser Officers
UPI reports Syrian radio broadcasts say pro-Nasser officers seized control in a northern and eastern uprising against the new military government. A Damascus communique imposes a curfew and closes borders and harbors. Aleppo Radio claims insurgents control its station while Damascus remains under other officers. Five military men are reported killed in demonstrations near Homs.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Syria
United Arab Republic
Damascus
Aleppo Radio
Aleppo Free
U.A.R
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Aleppo
Homs
Nas
Prisoners Escape From San Quentin in Bold Breakout
Five minimum security inmates at San Quentin broke out by scaling a 40 foot wall using a stolen ladder and screwdrivers. Officials said the men, three serving light sentences, hid in a locked room before exiting the textile mill area. The escape is the largest at the 4461 inmate prison since the 1940s, prompting a multi agency search.
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San Quentin
Calif
San Quentin Prison
State
California
Marin County
Multi-Death Accidents Mar Weekend In U S
A string of weekend multi death accidents across the United States left numerous youths dead and several families devastated. A pair of light plane crashes in snow storms killed nine people. A Modesto California collision claimed six youths. a Duke coed group of five nurses died in Florida bound trip. Other crashes in Texas North Carolina Wyoming New Jersey Tennessee Illinois and Michigan produced additional fatalities amid rain snow and slick roads.
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Modesto
Calif
Duke University
Jacksonville
Rainelle Family Deegans Rites Set Wednesday
Three members of the Deegans family William E. Deegans Jr Pat and Michael were found suffocated after a fire at their Rainelle home. William E Deegans Sr had ties to local business and banking. Funeral services are planned for Wednesday at Ridge Cemetery Huntington with burial there.
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UPS
Greenbrier County
William E. Deegans Jr
Pat
Michael
Deegans
Clarence Koontz
Charleston
Ridge Cemetery
Huntington
Wedco Hardware and Supply Co
East Rainelle
First National Bank of
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Herbert May
May
William E. Deegans III
Woodbury Forest School
Orange
SUCO Plans To Replace Strikers
Huntington based Standard Ultramarine & Color Co announced it will replace about 400 workers who have been on strike since November 10. Negotiations with the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers union ended without agreement as issues remained. the company advertised for permanent hires across skilled, semi skilled, and unskilled classes and said its last offer included full vacation pay for returning strikers.
Floods raise damage in ten states and storms ease
Weekend weather drenched ten states from South Dakota to the Atlantic Coast with rain and snow. Flooding struck: the Big Sioux River surpassed banks at Sioux City and a dam failure flooded Middletown, while a derailment occurred on a Delaware and Hudson line near Gamefort Fort Edward. A tornado in Milton, Florida killed 15, left 25 injured and 600 homeless, with debris cleanup in Georgia and Minnesota noting heavy snow in Caledonia and Waukon.
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Atlantic Coast
Big Sioux
Sioux City
Iowa
Middletown
Conn
Delaware and Hudson
Gamefort
Fort Edward
N.Y
Milton
Fla
Tifton
Doran
Caledonia
Minn
Waukon
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Ohio
Man of drive named to lift bowling team from last place
A coach urges a determined driver to energize the factory bowling squad, aiming to pull them up from the bottom of the league standings with fire and persistence.
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Comera
Youth Lie Detector Test Conducted in Fayette County
In Fayette County Jail two teenage suspects in a double murder were interviewed by Dr. Charles A. Zeller, with one undergoing the lie detector test Sunday night. Suspects Arnold Vance and Roger Belcher accused each other while recalling details of the May 20 crime against Dr. Wingrove and Mrs. Broyles. both say they are innocent though they have signed statements admitting guilt. Vance, 15, hailed from Oak Hill. Belcher, 17, from Scarbro, with Warrick noting their joint interview marked their first meeting since arrest.
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Scarbro
Arnold Lee Vance
Center
Roger Lee Belcher
Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette County
Charles A. Zeller
Register
Oak Hill
Mop Warrick
Warrick
Georgia Broyles
Vance
Dothan
Huntington
Elizabeth Vance
Roger
Kingston
Enoch Belcher
Hoffa denounces steel settlement as wage freeze
Teamsters President James R. Hoffa blasted the weekend steel settlement as a government wage freeze and said the union will not accept the contract. He charged the government used pressure and called the move a political maneuver setting a bad precedent of intervention.
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Detroit
UPI
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
West Virginia science academy gets NSF grant
Washington UPI reports the West Virginia Academy of Science received a 5850 dollar grant from the National Science Foundation for its visiting scientist program announced today.
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UPI
West Virginia Academy of Science
National Science Foundation
Carol A. Bruce
Apollo
West Virginia University
Welfare Chief Stricken at Raleigh County Courthouse
Mrs. Hattie M. Gregory 110 Tolbert Sr, director of the Raleigh County Department of Welfare, was stricken near the Heber Street entrance of the Raleigh County Courthouse about 1 15 p.m. Rescue Squad administered oxygen before she was transported by ambulance to a hospital.
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Tolbert Sr
Raleigh County Department of Welfare
Heber Street
Raleigh County
Solon Raps Army Use of 'Unusable' Tanks
Washington D C Republican flood blasts Army on GAO findings that 67 of 72 M 48 tanks at Fort Bragg were unfit for training or battle. He cited dereliction of duty and urged accountability as officials testified before a House subcommittee amid Berlin crisis concerns.
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Washington
UPI
Daniel J. Flood
D-Pa
Berlin
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House Defense Appropriations
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GAO
Goa
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John D. McElheny
Department of Defense
Honolulu
Flood
Church threats excommunication over desegregation order
In New Orleans Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel warned a segregationist leader of excommunication in a registered letter over desegregating southeast Louisiana parochial schools. Mrs. J. B. Gaillot Jr. of Save Our Nation said the threat was made, while a diocese spokesman confirmed a confidential letter to her and denied other letters were sent.
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UPI
Joseph Francis Rummel
Louisiana
J. B. Gaillot Jr
Save Our Nation (Son) Inc
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Gaillot
Ross Buckley
Leander H. Perez Sr
OAS Robs 3 Algiers Banks In Bombarded City
OAS commandos rob three Algiers banks and flee with about $50,000 while clashes erupt in Algiers and Oran. A European man is killed after street violence, moslems struck by machine gun fire, and a plastic device injures none in Oran. Security forces face gunfire as toll climbs with 3,364 dead and 7,214 injured since January.
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UPI
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RITES FOR BOY CHARLESTON SHOOTING VICTIM
Funeral services were held in Charleston today for Ray C. Goluchowski subject to an accidental shooting by his eight year old brother Ricky. The brothers were at a Dunbar home spending the weekend when the accident occurred.
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UPI
Ray C. Goluchowski
G. Charleston
Ricky
Dunbar
Faubus retires from politics after 52 years in Arkansas
The Arkansas governor Orval E Faubus retires from politics for health reasons ending his 52 year career and declining a fifth term. Other items cover Senate tax revision hearings led by Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, President Kennedy's White House return, Vice President Johnson receiving a democracy medal, and state brief items including a Las Vegas multiple killer capture and a West Virginia flag program in South American cities.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Stephen S. Wise
American Jewish Congress
New Mexico
John Randall Wooldridge
Las Vegas State Mental Hospital
Barsing
Edward K. Foster
Bendix Corp
Baltimore
Foster
Cuba mass trial of 1,179 war prisoners resumes in Havana
The 1179 defendants in the Pig Bay invasion case appear as the government’s case resumes before a five man military tribunal in Principe Prison Havana. Captain Pedro Luis Rodriguez testifies as prosecutors plan to press witnesses. Prisoners reportedly refuse further statements without personally chosen counsel. Soldiers keep the prisoners under constant surveillance as the justice process unfolds. President Kennedy and former President Eisenhower are accused of war criminal moral guilt by Cuban press.
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UPI
Cuba
Pedro Luis Rodriguez
Pig’s Bay
Pig's Bay
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Principe
Amnestied Overdue Book Returned By Crab Orchard Resident
A Crab Orchard resident returned an overdue 1950 volume to the Raleigh County Library during National Library Week amnesty, clearing a 12 year debt after the book “Dr. Faustus, Vol. 19, Harvard Classics” by Christopher Marlowe. Librarian Mrs C H Graham noted the pardon would erase fines if all such returns are made by April 14. The amnesty applies to any books due before March.
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Raleigh
C. H. Graham
Graham
Librry
Dr. Faustus
Harvard Classics
Christopher Marlowe
State Toll Reaches 101 in West Virginia Roads
Thurl G Fullman 40 of Pullman Ritchie County was found dead in a wrecked car on a rural road. Police say he killed when his car ran off the road into a tree. body found by a passing motorist. The death brings state highway fatalities to 101 for the year, up from 72 this date last year. One weekend fatality involved Loretta McComas and her four children in Cabell County.
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Harrisville
UPI
West Virginia
Cabell County
Loretta McComas
Huntington
Cabell Elks Raid Leads to Multiple Gambler Arrests
In Huntington a Saturday night raid on the Elks Club resulted in twelve arrests. Ten were charged with gambling and Albert T. Sickinger faced a separate charge as a doorkeeper. Bonds were set at $500 for most, $1,000 for Sickinger, with hearings set in Municipal Court today. The raid was led by Acting Police Chief Earl Duff and eight officers.
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UPI
Huntington Elks Club
Albert T. Sickinger
Sickinger
Earl Duff
Jurors Reminded Of Jury System In Raleigh County Court
Judge Norman Knapp addressed jurors before dismissing them for the term. He stressed the jury system as the sole fair trial avenue and cited The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich to warn against dictatorship. Only Mrs. Louise Elizabeth Parke and others remain for the final Mabes case.
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Norman Knapp
Knapp
Louise Elizabeth Parke
Bobby Joe Mabes
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