Light early voting favors Ste phen's Lake levy proposal
Figures from nine precincts show a broadly favorable trend for the Ste phen's Lake facilities levy with many small margins in early tallies. Polls stay open until 7 30 p m as Sunrise precinct reports only 91 of 700 voters casting ballots and other precincts show modest turnout yet strong support for the measure to provide 400 000 to match 1 2 million in federal funds.
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Stephen’s Lake
Sunrise
Harper Road
Woodrow Wilson
Institute
Stratton
East Beckley
Temple Street
Johnstown Road
Central
Ban The Bomb Marchers Clash With Police In London
London police clashed with an estimated 35 000 ban the bomb marchers who surged through central London near Buckingham Palace Whitehall and Parliament. The mob was met by mounted officers at Hyde Park Corner as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ordered an investigation into security leaks linked to anti nuclear demonstrators.
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London
UPI
Buckingham
Whitehall
Harold Macmillan
Hyde Park Corner
Britain
Henry Booke
Britai
RSG
Highway Mishaps Kill During Easter Weekend in West Virginia
West Virginia roads claimed four lives over Easter weekend including Hershel B. Berg 46 of Maysville Grant County Marie Looman 48 of Falls Church Va Joe Ray Wines 17 of Clarksburg and James Jarrell 61 of Winifrede Kanawha County Authorities note a total of 80 road deaths in the state this year up from 112 for the same period in 1962 An autopsy showed Jarrell died of a heart attack but a man charged with leaving the scene of an accident for failing to stop was reported in Fayette County
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United Press International
West Virginia
Grant County
Virginia
Hershel B. Berg
Maysville
W. Va
Petersburg
Marie Looman
Falls Church
Ellamore
Randolph County
Joe Ray Wines
Clarksburg
Baltimore & Ohio
Wines
James Jarrell
Winifrede
Kanawha County
Fayetteville
Jarrell
Joe Sweet
Ames Camp
Fayette County
West Virginia Five Day Weather Forecast Becomes Warmer
The Beckley and Oak Hill areas expect sunny to partly sunny skies with highs in the mid to upper sixties and nightly lows in the thirties. Frost possible in northeastern valleys tonight with a few showers midweek. Temperatures trend 4 to 6 degrees above normal, warming through Saturday with limited precipitation.
Beckley Breaks Ground for New City Hall on South Kanawha
Mayor Cecil L. Miller led a ground breaking ceremony at 10 a m for Beckley s new City Hall on South Kanawha Street. City council members contractors engineers and designers Chamber of Commerce officials and state and local officials attended. Work on the $237 500 municipal building is set to start this week with completion expected by year end.
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Cecil L. Miller
Beckley
Kanawha Street
Chamber of Commerce
John Wesley Smith
Can
Beckley-Raleigh
James Wilder
Beckley City Sanitary Board
Truman L. Sayre
Collis Amon
Frank Lemon
Protests in Birmingham as 1500 marchers clash Easter Sunday
Police broke up an anti segregation march by about 1500 Black demonstrators in Birmingham on Easter Sunday. 30 marchers were arrested and a black man hurled a rock at a motorcycle windshield during the disturbance. Some groups attended services at white churches while others were denied entry. Reverend Andrew Young accompanied a five person group to First Baptist for a peaceful visit.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
Steel City
Martin Luther King
First Baptist
First Presbyterian
Sixth Avenue Presbyterian
Central Church of Christ
First Christian Church
Church of the Advent
Bigger Tragedy Averted By Pilot
Oslo based report says an Icelandair crash killed 12 aboard including Danish actress Anna Borg Reumert. Authorities credit quick pilot actions with possibly steering the plane away from villagers, saving lives on the ground. The remaining victims were unnamed Icelanders and six additional passengers with five crew members perished.
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Oslo
Norway
UPI
Icelandair
Anna Borg Reumert
Royal Theater
Copenhagen
Waits Word On Selectivity Of Lukens Boost
President Kennedy weighed the Lukens Steel price increase to see if it fits his selective boosting stance. He ordered the Council of Economic Advisers to report on impacts while avoiding a general across the board rise. The White House emphasized overall price stability and cited Wheeling Steel as guiding the approach. Kennedy hopes Lukens follows supply and demand, not broad acts.
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Palm Beach, Fla
UPI
Kennedy
Lukens Steel Co
Falls
Council of Economic Advisers
Lukens
White House
Wheeling Steel Corp
Wheeling
Pierre Salinger
U S Steel May Disclose Its Position Today
UPI reports on U S Steel Corp possibly stating its stance on industry price hikes as Lukens Steel and Wheeling Steel announce raises. Wall Street shows early gains with steelmakers leading, while Lukens jumps over two points after its increase.
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U.S. Steel
Pittsburgh
UPI
U.S. Steel Corp
Lukens Steel Co
Coatesville
Kennedy
Wheeling Steel Corp
Wall Street
Steels
Wheeling
Republic
Bethlehem
Youngstown
Lukens
Toy Plant Hopeful in Talks to Reopen at Glen Dale
Marx Toy Co and union representatives met in Pittsburgh after closing the Glen Dale plant last December over pay-cut disputes. Officials said more sessions would follow this week, and no machinery has been moved from the site.
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Wheeling
UPI
Marx Toy Co
Big Marx
Glen Dale
Ane
Pittsburgh
Gramma’s spring fever cure and heat of summer visits
Sherwood Glutz recalls a grandmotherly spring remedy of sulfur and molasses for spring fever. He notes the best plan is to do nothing and hopes spring lasts, since summer brings heat and endless relatives who visit but rarely dinner.
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Gramma
Cracked doors mark first female dorm visits at Columbia
Columbia University undergraduates allow women into male dorms for the first time in 209 years with Sunday visits from 2 to 5 pm. Doors must open to a width of a book as a privacy rule. About 100 men and dates checked in, some bringing small books to symbolize the change. A fraternity banner across the street teased the historic policy.
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NEW York
UPI
Columbia University
Lenin
Brothers of One
Phi Sigma Delta
Charleston Vote Slated Today in Local Races
More than 50,000 Charleston residents could vote today for mayor treasurer municipal judge and 24 council seats five at large Incumbent Mayor John Shanklin 71 Republican and challenger James B McIntyre 33 vie for the post Shanklin seeks his first full four year term He has 16 years as a councilman and succeeded John T Copenhaver after his death Democrats hold an 8048 voter edge though the city usually leans Republican and have won the mayoralty only once in 20 years
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Charleston
UPI
Larg
John Shanklin
James B. McIntyre
Shanklin
John T. Copenhaver
Copenhaver
Flooding City Hall Mutiny by Red Haired Mailman
Noel Volz aged 31 entered City Hall through a revolving door and flooded offices with four inches of water by turning on fire hoses on all floors. He tore air raid shelter signs and toppled an urban renewal model. Four officers wrestled him to the ground as he dangled 30 feet above the rotunda. He was booked on burglary resisting arrest assaulting an officer and malicious mischief.
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San Francisco
UPI
Manual of Political Dissent
City Hall
Noel Volz
City Prison
Volz
Youth Confesses Strangling Skier in Reno Case
Thomas Lee Bean an 18 year old teen confessed to strangling and dismembering Sonja McCaskie, a British Olympic skier, after a pawned camera linked to him. He described entering through an unlocked door, strangling her in her apartment, and spending hours there before authorities found her dismembered body on April 5.
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Reno, Nev
UPS
Thomas Lee Bean
Sonja McCaskie
Bean
Reno
Miss MecCaskie
Beckley Man Eddie Eastman Waived to Grand Jury in Murder
Edward Junior Evans also known as Eddie Eastman, 21, of Beckley, waived to the grand jury at a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Joe Rodriguez on a murder charge. The stabbing killed Homer Lee Jones, 34, at about 5 15 p m Saturday in Beckley after an argument at a billiard parlor. Bond will be set by Criminal Court Judge Harry McCreery. The judge was out because of the Lake Stephens levy election.
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Edward Junior Evans
Eddie Eastman
Beckley
Joe Rodriguez
Homer Lee Jones
Antonio Ave
Beckley City
Criminal Court
Harry McCreery
Evans
Lake Stephens
Precarious Laos Accord Reached
VIENTIANE Laos UPI leaders of the pro Communist Pathet Lao and neutralist forces signed an accord to permit sending of food to neutralists trapped between the Plain of Jars and Chan Dong. Diplomats from five nations pressed for mediation as a temporary ceasefire held, with more talks planned to settle disputes. The ICC and British and Soviet ambassadors disclosed the accord after accompanying Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma to the Plain Sunday. The ceasefire, arranged by Souvanna, remained precarious as rival factions showed little willingness for permanent reconciliation.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPI
Pathet Lao
Plain of Jars
Chan Dong
International Control Commission
Souvanna Phouma
F of Jars
Souvanna
Donald Hobson
Britain
Serge Afanassiev
Russia
ICC
Sergeant York in Critical Condition in Nashville
In Nashville Tennessee Sgt Alvin York WWI hero lies in critical condition at St Thomas Hospital with heart and lung trouble. The 75 year old Medal of Honor recipient from Pall Mall is paralyzed from the waist down and underwent tests to assess permanent heart damage. Mrs York and two daughters Betsy Lowrey and Mary Alice Franklin remain at his bedside along with five other children.
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Nashville, Tenn
UPI
Alvin York
America
St. Thomas Hospital
Pall Mall
Tenn
York
St. Thomas
Argonne Forest
Betsy Lowrey
Mary Alice Franklin
Yorks
Diefenbaker and Pearson Plan Post-Election Power Switch
In Ottawa Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson agreed to meet at 3 p.m. EST to discuss the date for government transfer after Liberals gained 119 seats to 94 for Conservatives in the 265 seat House. Pearson expected to become prime minister as Diefenbaker resigns to Governor General George Vanier.
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Ottawa
UPI
John Diefenbaker
Lester B. Pearson
Diefenbaker
Pearson
House of Commons
Liberals
George Vanier
Canada
Armed Forces
Conservative
Trial Set May 13 for Two Men in Parkersburg Death
In Parkersburg two Vienna men, Harold L. Riffle and Michael D. Shaffer, both 23, face murder charges over Clarence H. Lemley 50 whose body was found Jan 10 in a ball park mud. Lemley from Quarryville Jackson County. Bluefield Queen Bituminous XVI Lou Ronda Meade 19 to reign May 22-24 at the Bluefield Coal Show with attendants Rebecca Gaines Bearden Welch and Donna Mae Hendrick Bluefield.
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Parkerburg
UPI
Harold L. Riffle
Michael D. Shaffer
Vienna
Clarence H. Lemley
Qurrysville
Jackson County
Lemley
Parkersburg
Bluefield
Tazewell
Louronda Meade
Rebecca Gaines Bearden
Welch
Donna Mae Hendrick
Escort Skipper Feared Sub Might Hit His Ship
Lt Cmdr Stanley Hecker skipper of the Skylark testified at a naval court of inquiry about the Thresher sinking. Hecker related the Thresher's last minutes from log notes and said the submarine may have come up beneath his ship. He described the 9 12 a m log message and noted the word minor appeared in the report.
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Portsmouth
N.H
UPS
Thresher
Naval Court of Inquiry
Cmdr
Stanley Hecker
Brooklyn
N.Y
Skylark
Atlantic
Hecker
Cape Cod
Navy
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