Public Be Damned Philosophy Faces Steel Controversy
The Kennedy administration and U S Steel clash over free enterprise limits and government role as steel prices rise then fall, prompting questions about public versus private interests. The dispute spurs a broader debate on government restraints, labor, capital, and impending legislation shaping business policy.
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William Henry Vanderbilt
New York Central
Ence
Inland
Kaiser Steel
Kennedy
Congress
Unveiling at Hodges Lunch Provokes Saints & Sinners
Washington gossip notes report at a Wednesday Saints & Sinners lunch honoring Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges a striptease performed by local members. Host Walter Kiernan mocked Hodges background from a log cabin tale to his rise from North Carolina governor to commerce chief and praised department gains including weather satellite advances.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
Hodges
Saints & Sinners Club
Hodges Club
Walter Kiernan
Kiernan
Commerce Department
Saints & Sinners
Steel
Roger Blough
Woodrum's Abandons Beckley Store Plans
Plans for Woodrum's of Charleston to open a Beckley branch were abandoned temporarily. Sales Manager L. E. Warden disclosed that a Neville Street site vacated by Universal Corp was considered, but a Board meeting to decide the matter was canceled and Beckley store plans are not in the immediate agenda.
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Woodrum’s
Charleston
Beckley
L. E. Warden
Neville Street
Universal Corp
Warden
West Virginia Weather Summary and Local Readings
Partly cloudy with scattered showers this afternoon, high 58 to 64. Tonight turns colder with possible showers or snow flurries in northern mountains. Low around 30s. Beckley highs near 54 with mixed readings. Oak Hill 58, Greenbrier River and Lake levels normal. gauge at Hinton 3.5 ft. Lowest report was 18 at Greenville Maine.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Hinton
Hi-Lo
Yuma
Ariz
Greenville
Maine
Kennedy to push aerospace wage talks as next target
President Kennedy, after rallying steel price line support, will likely turn to aerospace industry wage negotiations. With over 300,000 workers covered, aerospace contracts expire by year end. Public interest is acknowledged but not enforceable by the government, as unions and manufacturers anticipate a tougher bargaining phase.
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William J. Eaton
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Nehru Reports New Chinese Penetrations in Ladakh
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told Parliament that Chinese Communists have made new penetrations into northern Ladakh on the Sino Indian border. He said India has protested to Peiping and asked for withdrawal of troops, while hinting at defensive measures and pursuing peaceful avenues to regain occupied territory.
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New Delhi
UPI
Jawaharlal Nehru
Ladakh
Peiping
State Coal Production Up 3.5 Million Tons
West Virginia coal output for the first two months of 1962 rose to over 19.1 million tons from 15.6 million a year earlier, per State Mines Director Leonard J. Timms. The two‑month average mining employment also increased from 30,805 in 1961 to 32,533 in 1962. Ten miners were killed in January–February 1962, down from 14 in the same period in 1961.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Leonard J. Timms
Timms
Lent prayer invite from Jack R. Gage
On a Lent weekday, Jack R. Gage invites readers to join in prayer. He asks for guidance as they seek to choose right over wrong, making the decision clear to themselves and others, and ends with Amen.
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Jack R
Gage
Centennial Fund Drive Pact Eyed
The West Virginia Centennial Commission in Charleston considered hiring Pittsburgh firm Ketchum Inc. to run a statewide fundraising drive for the 1963 centennial. The plan would add about 600000 to the 400000 already allocated, with drive starting around April 30. County chairs are being named, and counties without leaders include Fayette Lincoln Marshall Mason Wayne and Webster.
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West Virginia
Ketchum Inc
Legae
Ketchum
Carl Sullivan
Sullivan
Fayette
Lincoln
Marshall
Mason
Wayne and
Webster
Commission
Charles Hodel
New River Gorge Survey Under Way
A Raleigh County led survey of New River Gorge progresses with a $25,000 ARA funded contract awarded to ae and Co. of Washington DC. Harry Clement and Al Koehl tour the Gorge by air with Herbert Alley and James Kee, meeting regional officials and planning visits to Grand View, New River Park, the Ghost Town at Stotesbury and Summers and Blonday counties as the study aims to develop the area as a tourist destination.
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New River Gorge
Ae and Co
Washington, D. C
Harry Clement
Clement
al Koehl
New York City
Koehl, Landis and Landon Hotel and Motel Consulting Co
Herbert Alley
Raleigh County Memorial
Gorge
James Kee
Elizabeth Kee
Beckley-Winn
Raleigh
Fayette
Summers
Mercer Counties
Fayette County
J. Duval Schultz
Grandview State Park
New River Park
Stotesbury
Stephens Lake
Summers County
Blonday
The
Area Development Administration
ARA
Jobs Lost After 6 Year Strike Sues Parent Union for 7 Million
Winchester residents of Local 511 sue United Rubber Workers AFL-CIO for 6.875 million in two Frederick County Circuit Court suits. Fifty-five members claim 125000 each after a May 14 1956 strike ended with 400 workers job losses as O Sullivan Rubber Corp hired new staff. The local alleges the parent union failed to support strikers and promised aid.
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Winchester
UPI
Frederick County
United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastics Workers of America
Afl-Cio
Akron
Ohio
O'Sullivan Rubber Corp
O'Sullivan
Hormone Treatments Cut Heart Fatalities
Dr. Jeremiah Stamler reports that treating male heart attack patients with Premarin, a female hormone, cut five year mortality from 17 to 7 percent in a study of men with uncomplicated and complicated heart attacks. He cautioned against high initial doses due to side effects.
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Philadelpida
UPI
Chicago
Jeremiah Stamler
Chicago Board of Health
Hahnemann Medical College
Stamler
Easter Chicks For Children Denounced
The Roanoke Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals denounces giving chicks to children as Easter presents. President Hubert L. Wright says chicks are a one day toy likely to die from rough handling and are not suitable pets.
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Roanoke, Va
UPI
Roanoke
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Hubert L. Wright
Shooting Victim Still Critical in Montcalm Case
Police report Mrs Pauline Hubbard of Montcalm remains in critical condition after being shot four times by her husband Dewey Hubbard who then died from a single wound in a possible self inflicted act. State Police confirm the husband shot her twice in the head and twice in the chest.
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Bluefield
VPI
Pauline Hubbard
Montcalm
Walter Pike
Miner Dies at Riffe's Branch Mine in West Virginia
A driller for Winding Gulf Coals Co. at Riffe's Branch mine, Crab Orchard, died about 9:15 a.m. today after an apparent heart attack. Details were unavailable at press time. Body at Williams Funeral Home in Sophia.
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Charles . Crab Orchard
Viet Cong Parade of Captured GI Shocks South Viet Nam
Reports from Da Nang say two U.S. Army enlisted men, Sgt. C. Francis Quinn and Sgt. George E. Groom, alive and being paraded to prove U.S. intervention. The tale, unconfirmed by U.S. or Saigon officials, contrasts with a government line that the captives are moved toward the Lao border through central highlands.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
UPI
United States
da Nang
U.S
South China Seacoast
17Th Parallel
C. Francis Quinn
Niagara Falls
N.Y
George E. Groom
Stewartsville
Quinn
Groom
An Chau
Wayne E. Marchand
Plattsmouth, Neb
Spec. James Gabriel
Honolulu
Purdue DC3 crash kills two pilots in Dallas
A blue and white two engine DC3 owned by Purdue University crashed and burned in Dallas late Wednesday, killing two crewmen instantly. The third crewman died today from injuries. President Kennedy arrived in Palm Beach for Easter weekend and Interior Secretary Udall backed a Maine to Florida coastal buffer zone. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah fired Industries Minister Krobo Edusei over a London bed purchase. The United States opened diplomatic relations with Argentina. John Glenn’s Friendship 7 circles Earth again without Glenn while the spacecraft tours 20 cities through August. Scotland Yard says Burgess and Maclean may have left the Soviet Union. no arrest.
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Purdue University
Dallas
Tex
Kennedy
Palm Beach
Fla
Stewart Udall
Maine
Florida
New Jersey
Delaware
Massachusetts
Maryland
Virginia
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
Krobo Edusei
London
United States
Argentina
John H. Glenn
Glenn
National Space Agency
U. S. Information Agency
Scotland Yard
Guy. Burgess
Donald Maclean
Soviet Union
Centaur Leads Four-Shot US Space Spectacular
Cape Canaveral reports a four-rocket and satellite sequence starting Friday with Centaur launching the first liquid hydrogen fueled rocket. The high energy program aims to outpace Soviet space plans possibly timed for May 1.
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Cape Canaveral
UPS
U. S
Free World
United States
Soviet Union
U.S
Russia
Earth
Centaur
Funeral Home Ruling Delayed By State Board Action
The State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors delayed action against Wilson Funeral Home of Charleston for ads exceeding four column inches and showing a price for services. Board chairman Douglas T. Bryant said an attorney general opinion, sought Feb. 22, is due within 10 days, after which a special meeting will be held to decide the case.
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State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors
Charleston
State Attorney General's Office
Douglas T. Bryant
Beckley
Wilson Funeral Home
Bryant
Funeral Home
Harlan Wilson
European gunmen kill Muslims in Algiers market attack
In Algiers nine Muslims were killed and eight wounded as European gunmen opened fire at the Clauzel market, the last remaining Muslim market in the European part of the city. By midday the toll for similar attacks reached 11, with nine dead and eight injured.
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Algiers
Algeria
UPI
Clauzel
Equitable Hiring Pact Legal, Sparacino Says
Prosecutor A J Sparacino issued an opinion that contract specifications may require that workers on the Stephens Branch Lake project be hired on an equitable basis. The view was requested by Raleigh County Park Board members Lawrence Pruett and W H Nelson after a local Negro group urged such language in bid contracts.
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A. J. Sparacino
Stephans Branch Lake
Raleigh County Park Board
Lawrence Pruett
W. H. Nelson
Stephens Branch
Russia Seeks Neutral Plan For Nuclear Test Ban
In Geneva, Russia offered to negotiate a nuclear test ban on a neutral plan requiring the United States to cancel Pacific nuclear explosions. The United States rejected a looser moratorium and called for a treaty banning tests before any cessation. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin urged rescheduling the Easter recess to address the issue, pushing for an Anglo American Soviet subcommittee meeting on Nuclear testing.
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Geneva
API
Russia
United States
Pacific
Valerian Zorin
Zorin
Soviet recalls Marshal Koniev from Berlin
Soviet Union recalls Marshal Ivan Koniev, 64, commander in East Germany who backed the Communists during Berlin wall events. He returns to Moscow to resume duties in the defense ministry. Colonel General Ivan Yakubovsky replaces him as commander in chief of Soviet troops in Germany.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Ivan Koniev
East Germany
Berlin Wall
Berlin
Kremlin
Koniev
Lucius Clay
Kennedy
United States
Dean Rusk
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Washington
Defense Ministry
Germany
Tass
Ivan Yakubovsky
U.N. Airlift Rescues Katanga Leader Tshombe
UPI reports United Nations forces, defying Congo central government orders, helped Katanga President Moise Tshombe flee from Leopoldville to Elizabethville in a pre-dawn operation. The rescue raises questions about talks with Premier Cyrille Adoula and possible new Congo crisis.
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Leopoldville
UPI
United Nations
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Elizabethville
U.N
Tshombe
U.N. Congo
Robert Gardiner
Cyrille Adoula
Congo
Beckley Considered As Site For Metals Plant
L A Cook president of Ravens Metals of Parkersburg said Beckley is among several West Virginia cities under review for one of two new plants each of about 30,000 square feet. A Beckley Raleigh County Chamber committee met Cook on April 5 to push for Wes County site.
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L. A. Cook
Ravens Metals
Parkersburg
Beckley
West Virginia
Beckley-Raleigh County
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Enterprise Assn
John F. Kennedy
U.S. Steel Corp. Board
Roger M. Blough
Pennsylvania
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Parent Union
O’sullivan
Viet Cong
Alvin B. Webb JR
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sparacino
Marshal Koniev
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