Weirton Mother of the Year Flor Johnston Honored
Flor ence Hanlin Johnston of Weirton, 93, reared seven children after her husband died in a railroad accident, named West Virginia Mother of the Year by the Golden Rule Foundation. She served on Hollidays Cove town council, is active in civic life, and enjoys high school sports.
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Huntington
Florence Hanlin Johnston
Weirton
West Virginia
Samuel Johnston
Johnston
Upper
Ohio Valley
Johnson
State Golden Rule Foundation Committee
T. E. Millsop
Weirton Steel Co
Hollidays Cove
Golden Rule Foundation
Appalachian Appeal Before Supreme Court
Appalachian Electric Power Co. seeks 4.90 percent rate of return versus 6 percent PSC figure in a West Virginia case before the Supreme Court. The utility argues the PSC erred in base value calculations denying a 9.75 percent rate increase, while the PSC cites past rate reductions and Virginia adjustments. Attorney Charles C. Wise contends the commission excluded $29 million in value, misapplying legal principles and omitting investment in rate base.
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Charleston
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Public Service Commission
Supreme Court
West Virginia
PSC
Appalachian
State Corporation Commission of
Virginia
Charles C. Wise
Petitioner
Prosperity Plans Fire Protection Meeting Friday Night
Prosperity residents plan a public meeting at 7 p.m. Friday in the Prosperity school house to discuss fire protection after recent fires. Mrs. Steve Suptic notes the town lacks hydrants and seeks funds to install at least one hydrant and cover neighboring departments’ services. Beckley Fire Chief Bernard Martin will attend.
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Prosperity
Steve Suptic
Bernard Martin
Beckley
Weather Forecast For West Virginia District
Frost tonight with fair conditions and a low near 30 in Beckley. Tuesday through Sunday showers, milder midweek then cooler late week, with normal temperatures around 54 to 56 in the north and south regions. Precipitation totals around a quarter to a half inch, and river stages listed for Bellepoint Greenbrier and Bluestone Reservoir.
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West Virginia
Beckley High
Ceeseeennvers
Seccssveeres
Glade Creek
Touoy
Cays
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Encyclopedia Sought By Roanoke Reader
A Roanoke Va reader requests the World Wide Encyclopedia offered by Beckley Newspapers Corp. Other letters come from Oak Hill Pineville and Crab Orchard. The 10 volume set will be mailed postpaid anywhere in the U S.
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Beckley
Roanoke
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Oak Hill
Pineville
Crab Orchard
U.S
Planes Guarding Prisoner Route
Allied planes patrolled the prisoner convoy route from North Korea to Panmunjom as 600 POWs prepare to swap for 5,800 Chinese and Communists. Convoys head to Panmunjom while negotiations stall. South Korea vows indoctrination for returning civilians.
Facts Figures On Operation Little Switch
Facts and figures on Operation Little Switch the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of the Korean War starts next Monday at Panmunjom. The United Nations will return 5800 Communists including 5100 North Koreans and 700 Chinese while 600 Allied prisoners are handed back. Exchange runs 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily and should finish in 12 days though 20 days are allowed.
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Panmunjom
North Korea
VA. N
Pv An
Munsan
South Korea Defense Ministry
U. N
Mark Clark
Pyungung Tai
National Assembly
South
Korea
Yalu River
Manchurian
Kaesong
Red
United Nations
Reds
Coal Operators Sue Mine Union in Virginia Lawsuit
Two former independent coal mine operators filed suit in Federal District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, alleging the United Mine Workers maliciously forced them from business and seeking 315,852 dollars in damages. It is the fourteenth such case in recent months, tied to labor disputes. nine prior suits over mine work stoppages have been settled out of court. Plaintiffs are F. L. Cantrell and J. M. Dotson of Wise County, Virginia.
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Abingdon
United Mine Workers
F. L. Cantrell
J. M. Dotson
Wise County
Secrecy Follows Wilson Air Policy Shift and Production Cuts
Washington reports a Pentagon secrecy shield surrounds Secretary of Defense Wilson on air policy. Opponents urge caution, warning that cutting B47 and B52 production and focusing on fighters and missiles may delay wartime readiness and broad plant conversion. Boeing Wichita and Lockheed Marietta would be major beneficiaries of reduced output.
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Washington
Wilson
Pentagon
Air Force
Defense
Lockheed
Marietta, Ga
Douglas Tulsa
Italian Drafts American Boy During Honeymoon
In Florence Italy an American citizen Alfonso Mazzarella age 11 was drafted into the Italian army then given an honorable discharge and his United States passport returned all within twenty minutes. The incident arose from a diplomatic dilemma as two nations drafts hovered over his Italian honeymoon and his naturalized American status.
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Florence
Italy
United States
Alfonso Mazzarella
New York City
Red Cross Fund Reaches $9599 In Raleigh County Drive
The Raleigh County Chapter American Red Cross reports two week extend fund drive totals of 9599 with 98 percent reported. Executive secretary Mrs T C Moorefield says volunteers who have not reported should contact headquarters. Recanvassing of residential and business districts began Monday. In Italy a man named Alfonso faces induction as a U S GI in 13 days after arrest for compulsory military service evasion. His bride Graziella plans to join him in New York. Police in Rome arrested the youth under a 1912 law claiming dual citizenship still subjects him to Italian service. The law is rarely enforced postwar.
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Raleigh County
American Red Cross
T. C. Moorefield
New York
U.S
Alfonso
Italy
Sicily
Alfonson
Graziella
U. S
Mazzarella
Rome
Career Day at Woodrow Wilson High School Named Participants
Principal C G Peregoy announced a partial list of men and women in professional life set to participate in Wednesday Career Day at Woodrow Wilson High School. The lineup includes E D Armstrong E C A Hitchcock Miss Thelma Pettry Archie Ellenbogan Mrs Dorothy Barker Miss Ann Louise File Miss Edythe Lay Miss Athelene Rogers T R Wilson Jr Larue Norris H B Thomas Carl Lucas Robert L Davis Mrs A H Wilson Miss Florence Farris James Hereford Miss Dorothy Crawford Miss Eleanor Webb and Sgt Gordon Bolin. Most participants will meet with students in their areas of interest with journalism and radio excluded from this plan. The event will be held on school premises with future journalism students visiting uptown installations and several colleges and universities scheduled to speak during the day.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
C. G.peregoy
E. D. Armstrong
E. C A. Hitchcock
Thelma Pettry
Archie Ellenbogan
Dorothy Barker
Ann Louise File
Edythe “Lay
Athelene Rogers
T. R. Wilson Jr
Larue Norris
H. 8. Thomas
Carl Lucas
Robert L. Davis
A. H. Wilson
Florence Farris
James Hereford
Dorothy Crawford
Eleanor Webb
Gordon Bolin
Depression Talk Sparks Senate Bond Rate Fight
Senators spar over higher U S bond rates with Capehart arguing no recession ahead while Sparkman Morse and nine others warn tighter credit may curb farming and small business. Humphrey defends the 314 percent 30 year bond rate as market oversubscription signals strength.
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Sparkman
Treasury
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
West Virginia Woman Named to Federal Health Post
Jane Morrow Spaulding of Charles ton West Virginia was appointed assistant to the Secretary of Health Education and Welfare. Spaulding, longtime social welfare worker and officer of the National Association of Colored Women, has directed Negro relief in West Virginia and helped establish child care institutions. She will replace Anna Arnold Hodgman who stays a month to help transfer duties.
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Washington
Jane Morrow Spaulding
Charleston
W. Va
National
Citizens For Eisenhower-Nixon
Spaulding
Kentucky
Fisk University
Anna Arnold Hodgman
Taft Urges Major Cuts in Armed Forces Spending
Sen. Taft of Ohio advocates cutting military expenditures by about four billion dollars in the coming fiscal year and another ten billion in 1954 55 proposing a budget around 47 billion and later 37 billion with a commission to reevaluate military thought He argued for defense focus over all out war and questioned the inevitability of war with Russia predicting wages of balance in the current year while calling it a good job
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Sen
Sparkman
D. Ala
Morse
Oregon
Humphrey
Treasury
Schenectady
N. Y
Taft
Ohio
GOP
Freedom Forum
Russia
Sale of Government Synthetic Rubber Plants Favored
President Eisenhower urged Congress to authorize sale of 550 million dollars worth of government owned synthetic rubber plants to private industry. He argued national security requires a competitive private synthetic rubber sector with adequate natural rubber stockpiles and that private firms can efficiently meet future demand. The facilities in question currently cost about 550 million dollars and supply most of the nation’s synthetic rubber.
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Augusta
Ga.p
Eisenhower
Congress
United States
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Transport Plane Vanishes Over Cascade Mountains
A twin-engine transport plane missing near Seattle with an unknown number aboard vanished before dawn in the Cascade Mountain region east of here. Officials cited an engine failure and loss of contact. Reports on aboard count ranged from 13 to 27 as searches began.
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Seattle
Florida
Cascade Mountain
Here
Miami
Washington State Aeronautics
Steel Assured For New Plant In Beckley Area
Steel delivery guaranteed by June 15 for a new $150,000 electronics factory to be built on 17.94 acres near Beckley Mount Hope Airport by a large eastern electronics parts producer. The plant, to employ about 300 workers with a possible $700,000 yearly payroll, is funded by a deed filed from New River Company to the eastern concern. Estimated 100 tons of steel to arrive by June 15, with completion expected late September or early October.
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Skelton
United States
Beckley-Mt. Hope
Collis Amon
Ex Sheriff Named Liquor Field Chief
Former Mercer County Sheriff Clarence C. Elmore will become general field supervisor for the State Liquor Control Commission. He will oversee about 635 employees in 127 stores and 16 agencies statewide. Elmore, a Princeton resident and WWII naval veteran, was sheriff from 1948 to 1952 and later equipment superintendent for the State Road Commission in District 10.
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Charleston
Mercer County
Clarence C. Elmore
State Liquor Control Commission
Elmore
Princeton
Ben B. Stout
Clarksburg
Stout
State Road Commission
District 10
State Sheriffs’ Organization
Demo Renegade In Congress Race
William M. Tuck, former Virginia governor, began a bid for Congress in Virginia's Fifth District. Opponent Lorne Ross Campbell, a 43-year-old independent-minded Republican from Independence, Grayson County, faced a district that shifted toward Republicans in the last presidential race. Polls opened at 6 am and closed at 6 pm as voters weighed Tuck's repudiation of the Democratic ticket and Campbell's appeal to disaffected Dems.
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Danville
William M
Big Bill) Tuck
Congress
Virginia
Lorne Ross Campbell
Independence
Grayson County
Tuck
Campbell
Tobacco Town
South
Boston
Halifax County
Adlai Stevenson
John Sparkman
Eisenhower
Fifth District
Disabled DAV seeks VA policy change for nonservice medical aid
Members of Chapter 18 Disabled American Veterans in Clear Creek advocate for aid to a veteran family. The father of five cannot work due to arthritis and is not eligible for out patient treatment at Beckley VA Hospital because his disability is not service connected. The issue, presented to the DAV, hinges on VA rules and local funding limits. national approval is needed to move forward. The group voted to donate 25 dollars to the Raleigh County Red Cross to assist the Oatins family after a Cranberry fire, and plans a May 11 officer election in Memorial Building Room 10.
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Clear Creek
Beckle Veterans Administation Hospital
DAV
Jim
Richard Cooper
Huntington VA
Beckley
Cooper
Memorial Building
Raleigh County
Stock Market Steady With Muted Trading In New York
The New York stock market opened steady as trading remained quiet. Prices moved within about a point, with Pepsi-Cola up 1/4 to 14 3/4 on 2,000 and 1,000 shares and Twentieth Century Fox up a fraction to 17 1/8 after yesterday's gain. Higher movers included Goodrich, Caterpillar Tractor, Allied Chemical, Eastman Kodak, American Tobacco, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Paramount Pictures, while Kennecott Copper, International Paper, Sinclair Oil, and United Air Lines slipped.
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New York
Pepsi-Cola
Twentieth Century- Fox
Goodrich
Caterpillar Tractor
Allied Chemical
Eastman Kodak
American Tobacco
Pennsylvania Railroad
Paramount Pictures
Kennecott Copper
International Paper
Sinclair Oil
United Air Lines
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Roanoke Reader
Paris
France
Maurice Thorez
Moscow
Robert B. Tuckman
Air
Mine Union
Red Cross Fund
Jack Bell
Capehart
R-Ind
Senate Banking Committee
New River Company
Eastern
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