Red Vietminh paratroops threaten Lao government base
In Laos near Vientiane, Soviet paratroops dropped north of Vang Vieng and 20 miles behind Royal forces. Gen. Phoumi Nosavan says 360 troops, six miles from Vang Vieng, threaten the northward advance and risk ending cease-fire hopes as reinforcements rush to defend Muong Kassy and the Plain of Jars region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael T. Malloy
Vientiane, Laos
UPI
Vang Vieng
Vientiane
Phoumi Nosavan
Tha Thom
Plain of Jars
Phoumi
Russia
Laos
Luang Prabang
Muong Kassy
The
Royal
Viet Nam
Raleigh Real Estate Co. acquires Homeseekers stakes
Raleigh Real Estate Co. Inc. bought 100 percent of Homeseekers Land and Building Co. in a rumored half million dollar deal. Assets include Bus Terminal Beckley Supermarket properties on Prince Street Beckley Lincoln Mercury on South Oakwood Ave Sunset Cemetery and other holdings. Final negotiations completed this morning with stock largely acquired from O F Cook R L Trump estate Nellie Trump and Mrs J E Craft. Real estate in Fayette County transferred to two Bowling Halstead owned firms. Homeseekers Oak Hill Inc and Bowlin gs Inc operate Fayette County properties as of April 1. Cook and Dennis Terry will stay with the organization Songer named president and GM Cook VP Mason treasurer and Ashworth secretary. Songer will run his independent insurance business not part of Raleigh Real Estate. Mason a CPA has offices in the Raleigh County Bank Building. Sunset Mausoleum Inc a new venture by Mason Sanger and others plans a mausoleum in Sunset Cemetery with construction expected within a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh Real Estate Co., Inc
H. Wayne Mason
James E. Sanger
Homeseekers Land and Building Co
Beckley Supermarket
Prince Street
Beckley
Lincoln - Mercury
South Oakwood Avenue
Sunset Cemetery
O. F. Cook
R. L. Trump
Nellie Trump
J. E. Craft
Fayette County
Homeseekers
J. I. Bowling
Aubrey Halstead
Homeseekers of
Oak Hill
Cook
Mason
Robert J. Ashworth
Songer
Raleigh County Bank
Sunset Mausoleum, Inc
Mason and Sanger
JFK Returns to Capital for Crisis Talks
President Kennedy ends a Palm Beach vacation and heads to Washington for Laotian crisis discussions with Harold Macmillan. The trip includes a 2:15 p.m. departure, 4 p.m. Andrews arrival, White House shuttle by helicopter, and an off the record briefing for radio and TV editors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palm Beach
Fla
UPI
Kennedy
Washington
Harold Macmillan
Andrews Air Force Base
White House
State Department
Weather summary and temp extremes from UPI report
Cloudy with rain and possible wet snow tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures range from a low about 32 to 38 degrees with no major change expected. Oak Hill and Greenbrier river conditions noted with 8 gates open and a new gauge at 3.8 ft. Thermal, California led highs at 106 degrees and Ironwood, Michigan posted a 48 degree low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
HI LO
New York
UPI
U.S. Weather Bureau
Thermal
Calif
Ironwood
Ich
State Department urges Cuba to sever ties with communism
The United States published a 36 page pamphlet urging Fidel Castro to sever links with the international communist movement. It expressed confidence the Cuban people will seek a free Cuba, while avoiding commitment to backing a democratic movement before it becomes government. The document frames Cuba as being steered toward becoming a Soviet satellite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
United States
Cuba
Fidel Castro
State Department
Castro
International Communist Movement
Department
Postal Clerk Held For Embezzlement
Huntington area report says Kenova postal clerk Jack W. Honacher 34 faces grand jury action on embezzlement charges involving contributions mailed to the Wayne County Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Bond set at 500 dollars. he also faced a drunk driving charge after arrest by Huntington police, with two society envelopes found in his possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
UPI
Kenova
Wayne County Society For
Jack W. Honacher
U. S. District Court
Grand
Honacher
Wayne County Society
Cuba Plans Protest Over U S Seizure Attempt On Western Union
The Cuban government planned to protest the U S Navy action blocking its attempt to seize the cable schooner Western Union off Baracoa claiming a flagrant breach of international treaties. The ship was reportedly 7 or 8 miles offshore beyond the 3 mile limit. The Swiss embassy said Castro asked it to deliver a note to Washington. The destroyer John W Weeks was involved in the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
UPS
Castro
U.S. Navy
Western Union
U.S
Fidel Castro
Washington
Cuban
Casto
Baracoa
Navy
Sherwood Glutz on Depression and Privilege
Sherwood Glutz argues that wealth and technological toys mask depression claiming people still have plenty while others lack basic needs. He dismisses the notion of a Depression as hardship and frames it as a life of consumption rather than deprivation.
Marshall College Bill Won't Lose Status Over Number
West Virginia parliamentarian Oschel Parsons says House Bill 159 elevating Marshall College to university status is valid despite numbering quirks in the code. Attorney General Robertson reviews the matter after a Charleston writer suggested misnumbering could threaten the university designation. Parsons notes such numbering slips are common in late-session code and unlikely to invalidate the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oschel Parsons
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Roy Lee Harmon
Raleigh
Tennyson Bias
D-Cabell
Marshall College
Huntington
Marshall University
Marshall
Charleston
F. Donald Robertson
Congress of
United States
Harry Hoffman
Tshombe orders Katanga mobilization after UN action
Katanga President Moise Tshombe ordered mobilization of the province after UN troops arrested a Katangese unit at Luano Air Field and barred Katanga traffic. A decree warned residents against aiding the UN with fines up to 2000 dollars and up to five years' imprisonment. UN and Katanga agreed on a joint guard over the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elisabethville
Katanga
The
Congo
UPI
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Luano
Tshombe
Godefroid Munongo
Cowboy Crooner Cooley Under Suspicion in Wife Death
Don Spade Cooley, 50, famed cowboy singer, faces murder suspicion after police allege his wife Ella Mae Cooley, 37, was beaten to death at their Willow Springs home. He was to be booked in Bakersfield after two hours of questioning. Ella Mae, mother of two, died near Tehachapi Hospital. coroner said death occurred four to five hours earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mojave
Calif
UPI
Don (Spade) Cooley
Kern County
Leroy F. Galyen
Galyen
Cooley
Ella Mae Cooley
Galven
Los Angeles
Kern County Sheriff's Office
Bakersfield
Tehachapi Valley Hospital
Willow Springs
Stanley A. Newman
17 Year Old Jailed After Death by Own Action
A 17 year old Glen Morgan girl back in Raleigh County Jail after a suicide attempt Monday night. She drank from a paint thinner jar during a jail visit and was treated at Raleigh General Hospital before returning to custody. Previously arrested in mid March for auto theft, she waived preliminary hearing and was placed on probation with a plan to move to Ohio with her mother. Judge McCreery may reassign jurisdiction to Criminal Court after the latest incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Morgan
Raleigh
Raleigh General Hospital
Cleveland
Ohio
McCreery
Maumee Room Diet Options Offer Dull and Spirited
UPI reports at the Commodore Perry Hotel in Maumee Ohio customers can choose a dull diet or a spirited one with diet formula priced at 75 cents and a rum option for one dollar. In Terre Haute Indiana a Vigo County judge ordered Virgil Lewis to pay attorney fees as he argued with Judge Albert Owen during contempt proceedings, the exchange stalling at a set number of days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo, Ohio
UPI
Maumee
Commodore Perry Hotel
Terre Haute, Ind
Vigo County
Beating Four Yanks In Frankfurt Involved Soviet Colonel
Four American soldiers aged 18 to 20 from the 8th Armored Division were said to have pulled a Soviet lieutenant colonel from his Soviet mission car in Frankfurt Easter Sunday night and punched him several times. Military police detained the youths for questioning as U.S. and Soviet authorities prepared a joint statement on the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Germany
UPI
U. S
8Th Armored
Frankfurt
U.S
Heidelberg
Birch Society Labeled Fascist by Senator Young
Sen Stephen M Young of Ohio labeled the John Birch Society a fascist group and described leaders as dangerous and viciously extremist while saying he saw no need for a congressional probe of the semi secret anti Communist organization. The remarks came during a Senate session on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
John Birch Society
Stephen M. Young
Ohio
Senate
Young
Vice President Johnson in Dakar Unites With Senegal
Lyndon B. Johnson visited Dakar as President Kennedy's representative for Senegal's independence anniversary. He praised independence as a path to better life for all, urged friendly U.S. ties with Senegal and other new African nations, and voiced shared hopes with Senegalese people. Senator Goldwater noted Kennedy’s 1964 re-election odds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dakar
Kennedy
Senegal
Ivan Lenin
Johnson
Barry M. Goldwater
R-Ariz. J
Frances A. O’neill Jr
National Mediation Board
New York
Kelly Says State Auditing Outdated and Inefficient
State Treasurer John H. Kelly called for broad modernization of auditing and accounting systems in state government. He criticized overlapping procedures, noted that the auditor’s office has never been audited, and said coordination with State Auditor Denzil Gainer could improve efficiency. He warned of crowded space and proposed eliminating old canceled checks and bonds stored in basement rooms to free room for the growing income tax administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlo J. Salzano
Charleston
UPI
John H. Kelly
Kelly
State Tax Department
Legislative Auditor's Office
Zil
State Board of Public Works
C. Howard Hardesty
Kel
Lantz To Be Named State Tax Director
Clif ford G. Lantz a 29 year old Fairmont attorney will be named permanent director of the new State Income Tax Division replacing acting director Philip K. Sanders of Warrenton Va Commissioner C Howard Hardesty Jr said Sanders was brought in to organize the division Sanders has long experience enforcing federal income tax laws Lantz a 1960 WVU Law School graduate had been with the Fairmont firm Amos Amos and Webb before joining the tax department He will work with Sanders starting next week and take over around mid month
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
Clifford G. Lantz
Fairmont
Lantz
Tax Department
Philip K. Sanders
Warrenton
C. Howard Hardesty Jr
Sanders
Virginia
Washington
North Carolina
West Virginia University Law School
Amos, Amos and Webb
Two Injured In Pike Collision
A head on collision on the West Virginia Turnpike near milepost 61 at 1 55 a m left two men in Beckley hospitals one in serious condition Trooper L W Snead said Max Raymond Bircher 23 Charleston fell asleep at the wheel Norman Charles Cummings 23 Clarksville Ind is in serious at the Veterans Hospital Cummings a Fort Bragg soldier drove a 1960 model car toward his base home on leave Bircher was returning from Virginia in a 1961 Hertz Bent Car Both drivers were alone in their cars and were admitted about 3 30 a m Bircher suffered facial and leg cuts and said I think I fell asleep Cummings faces facial injuries a dislocated hip and possible fractured jaw with both cars listed as probable total losses and 5500 in damages
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia Turnpike
Beckley
Turnpike
L. W. Snead
Max ‘Raymond Bircher
Charleston
Bircher
Norman Charles Cummings
Clarksville
Ind
Cummings
Veterans Hospital
Beckley Hospital
Fort Bragg
N.C
Virginia
Snead
C and O Recalls 870 Furloughed Men
C and O Railway recalls 870 maintenance workers including nearly 300 in the Tri State area of West Virginia Kentucky and Ohio. twenty divisions affected with 120 Huntington 91 Ashland 64 Russell Ky and 21 Barboursville W V. Net income for March reported at 1 351 000 vs 3 661 000 a year earlier with expected gains from auto chemical and steel hauling in the next quarter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
UPI
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Tri-State
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohoi
Ashland
Russell, Ky
Bar‘boursville
W. Va
C&o
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Henry Raymont
Sherwood Glutz
Allus
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Ishombe
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