Congressmen Slated To Hear Coal Industry Woes Tonight
Washington AP The National Coal Policy Conference will urge Congress to enact a national fuels policy this session and create a bipartisan commission to study energy issues. Led by John L. Lewis and George H. Love, the coalition argues coal needs fair rules and government action to avoid market losses and ensure wartime mobilization capacity.
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Washington
National Coal Policy Conference
Congress
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
UMW
George H. Love
Missing Women After Dinner Hunt Continues Across State
Two women left a Weston restaurant after 9 30 p m and aimed to reach home by 11 p m. Their families reported them missing the next morning, triggering one of the state s largest ongoing hunts with no clues about their whereabouts or the car. Weston authorities lead the search.
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A Weston
Proposal To Drain Reservoir Studied In Hunt For Women
Clarksburg Water Board met to consider draining Buffalo Reservoir eight miles south of Clarksburg to aid the ongoing search for missing women Mrs. Juanita Ferguson and Mrs. Virginia Conley. Divers and multiple agencies conducted a large weekend search with no findings. Reservoir levels were lowered nine feet, leaving about 175 million gallons as officials weighed water shortages and safety.
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Buffalo
Clarksburg
Virginia Conley
Mountaineer Diving Club
Wheeling
National Guard
Garden Club
Beckley
Sutton
C. L. Walker
Walker
Water Board
Randolph Holds Back On Highway Fund Plan
Washington AP Gov Cecil Underwood’s plan for funding the Highway Trust Fund lacks full backing from Sen Jennings Randolph of West Virginia. Randolph warns 1% billion annual highway user taxes may fix one problem while creating others. He cites risk to the Interstate program as funds dwindle, with West Virginia facing sharply reduced allocations for fiscal 1961 and 1962.
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Washington
Cecil Underwood
West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia Road Commission
Randolph
Robert C. Byrd
Underwood
Weather Summary for Beckley and Oak Hill Areas
Cloudy with showers and scattered thundershowers today, tonight, and Tuesday. Warmer and humid Tuesday. Beckley highs around 76 yesterday, slight rainfall. Oak Hill highs near 73 yesterday, low last night 55. Bellepoint river conditions show Greenbrier at normal stage with clearing, Bluestone Reservoir normal stage clearing with five gates open, gauge 3.5.
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Tuesay
Oak Hill
Kagel
Roog FE
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Tickets Available for Democratic Dinner in Welch
Hulett Smith announces tickets for the Democratic rally and dinner at Welch on May 9. U S Senator John F Kennedy, seen as a potential 1960 presidential candidate, will be the main speaker. Tickets are $5 and available from Smith.
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Hulett Smith
Democratic Executive Committee
Welch
U. S
John F. Kennedy
United States
Smith
E Gaujot Bias Dies In Williamson at 49
E Gaujot Bias former state commander of the American Legion and former state liquor commissioner died in a Williamson hospital after a stomach ailment. He was 49 and had entered the hospital yesterday. Bias was an attorney linked with his father Randolph Bias a Tug River Valley developer. He left a widow mother a son Randolph and a daughter Maria Ana.
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Williamson
E. Gaujot Bias
American Legion
Bias
Randolph Bias
Tug River Valley
W. Graham Smith Jr
Underwood
Liquor Control Commission
Threeman
Liquor Control Commissioner
Randolph
Maria Ana
Panama Invasion Plot Crushed On Caribbean Coast
Panamanian government reports rapid assault by 82 Cubans and 4 Panamanians including a nurse, landing near Playa Colorado. Three captives freed by local guards accuse Ro dberto Arias, husband of Margot Fonteyn, of financing. Fidel Castro denies involvement. Authorities fear more rebel activity as cabinet holds emergency session.
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Panama
Caribbean
Jose D. Bazan
National Guard
Playa Colorado
Red Beach
Panama City
Dberto Arias
Margot Fonteyn
Arias
Britain
Pacific
Batabano
Ernesto de la Guardia
Corregidor
Cpl
Ariano Molinar
Havana i
de la Guardia
Senate Hearings Set On Bill To Form Conservation Corps
Senate hearings will be held on a Youth Conservation Corps bill introducing a 150000 member program for ages 17 to 23 with pay around 78 dollars monthly plus training. The plan outlines forestry, trail building, erosion control and recreational area work similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps. Senator Randolph to chair a special subcommittee for hearings on May 1 and May 12 with Hill noting his CCC experience.
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Senate
Conservation Corps
Washington
Lister Hill
D-Ala
U. S. Senate Committee On Labor and Public Welfare
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
Youth Conservation Corps
Hubert Humphreys
Randolph
Robert C. Byrd
Civilian Conservation Corps
Ried
YCC
Committee On Labor and Public Welfare
Joseph S. Clark
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Clark
Sen
Yarborough
Senate Committee On Labor and Public Welfare
Hill
House of Representatives
W J Donnelly Taken By Death In West Virginia
William John Donnelly 73 of Scarbro died at home Sunday at 11 30 a m after a heart attack He was a retired New River Coal Co employee and a member of St Peter and Paul Catholic Church He was born July 4 1886 in Dunfermline Scotland Survivors include wife Margaret Hughes Donnelly three sons six daughters two sisters and two brothers Funeral services will be at St Peter and Paul Catholic Church Scarbro with burial in Highland Memorial Park Oak Hill Rosary to be recited at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill prior to the service
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Oak Hill
RNS
William John Donnelly
Secardro
New River Coal Co
Whipple
Donnelly
S. Peter and Paul's
Seardro
Dunfermline
Scotland
Margaret Hughes Donnelly
Scarbro
William F
Welch
Robert
Byram
Dan
Joseph Purtrino
Paul F. Peters
John Delridge
William DePra
Greenwich
Charles Mahood
Elizabeth Donnelly
Ann Keating
St. Louis
Margaret Winters
Dunferms
Cancer Crusade reports a $4147 total raised in 1959
The Raleigh County Cancer Society treasurer Mrs. John C Ward reports a total of $4147 02 raised so far in the 1959 Crusade for Cancer. Of this amount 2413 82 came from a house to house canvass by Beckley Women s Club. Ed Canterbury urges continued effort to fund research and expand access to diagnosis and treatment.
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Crusade For Cancer
John C. Ward
Raleigh County Cancer Society
Woman’s Club of
Beckley
Canterbury
Cancer Center
Allie Graley Dies in Hill Top Nursing Home
Allie Graley of Long Branch died at 9:25 a.m. today after an extended illness. The body is at Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hone pending completion of arrangements.
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Pax
ANS
Allie Graley
Long Branch
Hill Top Nursing Home
Tyree
Mount Hone
Morgantown Conference On WV Supervisors Training Program
Sherman C. Trail Raleigh County superintendent and Mason Anderson assistant superintendent attend Morgantown for a two day spring conference for instructional leaders in the West Virginia University Supervisors Training Program. The conference ends Tuesday with an evaluation of projects and research across eight counties.
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Sherman C. Trail
Raleigh County
Mason Anderson
Morgantown
West Virginia University Supervisors
Prince Coal Co Ramp Picketed In Dorothy West Virginia
State police and a Raleigh County deputy sheriff reported peaceful picketing at the Prince Coal Company loading ramp in Dorothy. United Mine Workers of America pickets protested coal from non union mines as two truckloads were moved before drivers halted deliveries. District officials called the event a minor issue with some drivers paid below union scale.
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Prince Coal Company
Dorothy
Raleigh County
United Mine Workers of America
Okey A. Mills
Hubert Burgess
District 21
UMWA
District 17
Stow
Charleston
Raymond Lewis
Power Failure Hits Beckley Across City
About two thirds of Beckley lost electricity from 10 am Sunday until about 1 am when a transformer on Beaver Avenue malfunctioned. A spare transformer was connected to restore service. Affected areas included the 1921 ByPass area East Beckley and Sprague. It was the first failure since the 1941 transformer was installed. Some churches used piano music as the organs could not operate.
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Beckley
Beaver Avenue
East Beckley
Sprague
Sophia Woman Succumbs At 50
Mildred One Mills age 50 died in a local hospital at 8 45 am after an illness of several months. Born in Lilly in 1909 she was a daughter of Mrs. Co surviving are two sons J D Mills Sophia and R D Mills Jacksonville Fla one daughter Mrs Jack Meadows Detroit Mich four brothers Earl Cox Rhodell P A Cox Mountain View Okey Cox Sophia and Herman Cox Sophia four sisters W R Gouldin Prosperity Mrs J T Yeary Randy Va Mrs Laverne Bleiving Sophia and Mrs Leonard Foley Rhodell Williams and Craven Funeral Home in Sophia. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Mildred One Mills
Sophia
Mills
Lilly
J. D. Mills
R. D. Mills
Jacksonville
Fla
Jack Meadows
Detroit
Mich
Earl Cox
Rhodell
P. A. Cox
Mountain View
Okey Cox
Herman Cox
W. R. Gouldin
Prosperity
J. T. Yeary
Randy
Laverne Bleving
Leonard Foley
Raleigh Driver Freed On Bond
Walter Hoskins of Raleigh was released from Raleigh County Jail on a $500 property bond to appear in City Police Court for a reckless driving charge. He was jailed at 4:25 a.m. Sunday after arrest by City Police. Ronald Howard Scott, 16, of Sunrise Avenue, posted a $20 bond for his appearance after a 10:45 p.m. Sunday speeding citation.
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Walter Hoskins
Raleigh
Hoskins
Ronald Howard Scott
Sunrise Avenue
Nepalese Royal Match Reported to Be Off
The mother of King Mahendra influenced a refusal to the engagement. Basundhara’s mother was the king’s second wife and the palace has not allowed communication. Lynn writes daily, but few letters reach the prince who remains incommunicado in the palace.
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Mahendra
Basundhara
Lynn
Rama
Nepal
Basundhara Bir Bikram Shah
Lynn Waldron
Pepper Pike
Cleveland
Tibet
Katmandu
Use of Video Tape Causes NBC Strike
NBC resumed normal programming after a national strike by engineers disrupted operations. The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians claimed a complete national walkout in major cities, citing foreign prerecorded programming and overseas staffing at substandard rates as the root cause.
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NBC
New York
National Broadcasting Co
Sydney Biges
Eiges
National Assn. of
Washington
Chicago
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Tyler Byrne
The
Union
Afl-Cio
Byrne
Lillybrook No. 3 Mine to reopen with 100 workers
Lillybrook No. 3 Mine will reopen May 4, employing about 100 of the 300 cut when it closed April 1. No reason given for the reopening. R. B. Williamson, president, said all old workers will be recalled by seniority under the union contract as one section resumes operations. He expressed hope conditions remain favorable.
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Lillybrook No. 3
R. B. Williamson
Williamson
New Policeman To Start Work In Beckley
Beckley welcomes its 18th police officer John Earl Miller 28 arrives to begin duty this Friday. A former telegraph operator with Chesapeake and Ohio Miller attended Woodrow Wilson High School and belongs to the Beckley Archery Club. He is married to Anne Springer whose family resides at 216 Edgewood Drive. Miller’s mother is Lula Miller and the late W H Miller.
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Beckley
John Earl Miller
Murray St
Millard E. Tyree
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Miller
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley Archery Club
Anne Springer
George W. Springer
Edgewood Drive
State Police Captain Relieved Of Command
CHARLESTON (RP) State Police Capt. W. W. Murphy was relieved of command of Co. C with headquarters at Elkins as of last Saturday for insubordination. Supt. Hazen Fair disclosed he would be on leave of absence until May 25 when he will be retired.
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Charleston
W. W. Murphy
Co. C
Elkins
Hazen Fair
Fair
Murphy
Mississippi Judge Denounces Kidnapping of Negro Prisoner
In Poplarville Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Sebe Dale denounced the kidnapping of Mack Charles Parker a 23 year old Black prisoner accused of raping a white woman saying it has opened the flood gates of hate and hell. Parker and his abductors were the focus of a two state manhunt led by FBI agents as Parker’s trial was set to proceed with no defendant in custody and with spectators and reporters filling the courthouse amid tense regional reaction.
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Poplardville
Miss
Mississippi
Sebe Dale
Mack Charles Parker
Pearl River
William Stewart
Parker
FBI
Dale
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Consolidation Coal Co
Pittsburgh
Coal Industry Ag
Tennessee Valley Authority
Laurel Court
U. S. Route 19
Earl Marple
Juanita Ferguson
West Fork River
Westen
Eisenhower
Randolp Th
W. Va
E. Gaujot
W. J. Donnelly
Cancer Crusade
Prince Coal Co
Theo Bilbo
Bilbo
Poplarville
Louisiana
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