Beckley Primary Ballots Cast Lightly in Levy and Mayoral Races
By noon in Beckley about 300 of 18 174 registered voters had cast ballots. Levy supporters trailed 192 to 115 against. Mayoral races showed A K Minter leading over Elgin Hall, with Curley Allen ahead of Pete Ashworth. Precincts reported a notably light turnout, with several counts pending and Stratton, East Beckley, East Park, Sylvia, and Johnstown as polling focuses. Unofficial tallies from 11 of 17 precincts listed Hall 78, Elgin Hall 20, Minter 164, Curley Allen 81, Ashworth 62. Counts varied by precinct with levy results mixed.
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Johnstown
A. K. Minter
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Evan Hall
A. C. “Curley” Allen
H. B
Pete” Ashworth
Chief Hall
Minter
Allen
Whitestick
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A. C. ‘‘Curley” Allen
Pete
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the Register
Courthouse
Levy
North Kanawha
Central
Johnstown Road
Lincoln
Armory
Woodrow Wilson
Institute
City Hall
Harper Road
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Elkins
Brief News Roundup From Washington to Saigon
IRS reportedly clears Senator McCarthy’s tax record after review. Southern governors meet in Nashville to address railroad and telephone strikes challenging mediators. Harry Gossard to die in electric chair for six year old Karen Mauk’s murder. Dulles says Carl W. McCardle released Yalta papers early. Binh Xuyen shell Vietnamese National Army HQ in Saigon. Soviet notes delivered on Austrian state treaty. Million dollar fire in Yokosuka destroys block. two dance hall girls die.
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Atlanta
Nashville
Tenn
Washington
Ebensburg
Harry Gossard
Karen Mauk
Gossard
Yokosuka
Japan
Woman slips car out of garage and wrecks home
A 33 year old housewife took the family car while her husband worked and drove recklessly. She lost control, demolished the vehicle, damaged a five room house, and narrowly missed a woman napping. She was jailed for reckless driving and charged with lacking a state driver’s license. Husband said he didn’t know she could drive.
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Oklahoma City
West Virginia Weather Forecast and Hydrology Update
Partly cloudy and mild with a low near 60. Wednesday mostly cloudy and windy with possible thundershowers in the northwest by evening. Temperatures through April 24 average 4-8 degrees above normal, turning cooler later in the week. Showers late Wednesday or Wednesday night and Sunday, total 0.5 to 1 inch. Normals: 54 north, 56 south. Rivers at Bellepoint and Greenbrier show two feet above normal, Bluestone Reservoir three feet above normal. conditions muddy.
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West Virginia
Oak Hill
Besafae
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Winding Gulf Mines On Full-Time Basis
A shift to higher output in the Winding Gulf coal market is shown for the week ending April 16 with 20 mines operating 99 percent of the time, up from 17 mines at 52 percent last year. Weekly load reached 135 190 tons, 64.1 percent higher than the prior year. Winding Gulf total to date is 1 782 025 tons, up 22.8 percent versus 1954. Pocahontas field also rose 34.1 percent to 528 061 tons for the week ending April 9, and Pocahontas year to date up 15.1 percent.
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Winding Gulf
Hal M. Scott
Winding Gulf Operators Association
Pocahontas
Writer Freed of McCarthy Charge
Hank Greenspun, Las Vegas Sun publisher, was acquitted of mailing material inciting murder against Senator Joseph McCarthy after a 2 hour 45 minute jury deliberation. The defense highlighted Greenspun's 1954 column calling McCarthy a disreputable pervert and argued the piece did not threaten violence.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Hank Greenspun
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Las Vegas Sun
Gail Andres
Greenspun
McCarthy
Edward P. Morgan
Washington, D.C
Morgan
Joe
Hade
Michigan Firm Given Ravenswood Contract
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp awarded Darin and Armstrong Inc of Detroit the contract for the 358,200 square foot main building of the Ravenswood rolling mill project along the Onto River in West Virginia. The deal includes nearly 400,000 square feet of paving for roads parking areas sidewalks and a pedestrian underpass.
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Ravenswood
W.va
Michigan
Kaiser Aluminum
Onto River
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Darin and Armstrong Inc
Detroit
Auto Mishap Leaves Walker Injured At Raleigh General
Alvin Walker of Mabscott was described in "pretty bad" condition at Raleigh General Hospital at 1 p.m. after a truck hauling a bulldozer lost control on the 1921 By-Pass near Black Knight Country Club. The vehicle swerved right, struck signs, and stopped on the road berm. The driver was thrown from the truck and an unidentified passenger fled before the crash site.
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Alvin Walker
Mabscott
Raleigh General Hospital
Black Knight Country Club
Walker
Raleigh
South Kanawha St
502 Wyoming Pupils Receive Polio Vaccine
The Mul lens Grade School hosts a mass polio vaccination for first and second graders from eleven Wyoming County schools. 502 children receive their first Salk injections in a one hour forty five minute session with doctors nurses and volunteers, followed by lollipop treats.
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Mullens
RNS
Wyoming
Mullens Chamber of Commerce
Jonas Salk
George Nolley
Ethel Clowers
B. W. Steele
George Fordham
Mario Cardenas
Raleigh
S. A. Ford
Higgins Grocery
Amere Hearing Continued Again Amere Gas Utility
Newly reopened hearings on Amere Gas Utilities Co rate increase were continued indefinitely to allow company lawyers to study submitted exhibits. Amere sought rates expected to raise about 334000 in added revenue, while the PSC granted 108000 last February. The case reopened to present evidence on West Virginia gas purchases and production for about 16000 customers in Beck ley Mullens Athens Princeton White Sulphur Springs Lewisburg and nearby rural areas. The PSC indicated it may require United Fuel Gas Co like Amere a Columbia Gas System affiliate to provide gas through Atlantic Seaboard Corp lines.
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Amere Gas Utilities Co
Public Service Commission
Amere
PSC
West Virginia
Beckley
Mullens
Athens
Princeton
White Sulphur Springs
Lewisburg
United Fuel Gas Co
Columbia Gas System
Atlantic Seaboard Corp
Copenhaver Wins Re election as West Virginia Capital Mayor
In Charleston voters re elected Republican Mayor John T. Copenhaver by 704 votes as Democrats gained ground on city council. Unofficial totals show Copenhaver 18,247 over Robert A. Robertson 12,543. Treasurer Donald C. Shonk narrowly retained his post by 27 votes. Republican James A. McWhorter won the municipal judgeship by a wide margin.
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Charleston
West Virginia
John T. Copenhaver
Copenhaver
GOP
Rush D. Holt
Weston
Marland
Robert A. Robertson
Robertson
Shonk
James A. McWhorter
Larry Andrews
Dr Salk Returns To Laboratory
Dr Jonas E Salk is back at the University of Pittsburgh lab to push a more efficient antipolio vaccine. He avoided timing guesses and emphasized urgent work. President Eisenhower invited him to the White House for a personal well done message and urged a civilian award.
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Pittsburgh
Jonas E. Salk
University of Pittsburgh
Salk
Ann Arbor
Mich
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Augusta
Dr. Salk
White House
Congress
McKay to Open Morgantown Mining Station Ceremonies
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay will be principal speaker at the opening ceremonies for the U S Bureau of Mines Appalachian Experiment Station in Morgantown on May 14.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Douglas McKay
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Appalachian Experiment Station
Morgantown
Memorial services set for Albert Einstein in New York and Princeton
World leaders, diplomats and scientists mourn Albert Einstein who died at 76 from a ruptured aorta. His brain and organs were donated for research. A public memorial is planned for Carnegie Hall in New York, and a memorial at Princeton Whig Hall. Nehru had recently received Einstein's five year truce proposal.
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Princeton
N.J. W
Albert Einstein
Einstein
New York
Carnegie Hall
Hillel Foundation
Princeton University
Whig Hall
Harry Zimmerman
Montefiore Hospital
Columbia University
Zimmerman
Nehru
India
Bandung
Indonesia
Moscow
Tass
Loyalty Legality Studied by Court
The Supreme Court weighs if the government can fire an employee for loyalty grounds while keeping accusers secret. Dr. John Punnett Peters of Yale, fired in May 1953 after a three member panel found reasonable doubt, denies being a Communist and asserts loyalty. Attorney General Brownell warns disclosure could dry up information in loyalty cases.
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Washington
Supreme Court
John Punnett Peters
Yale University
Peters
U. S. Public Health Service
United States
Atty
Gen
Brownell
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