Two Teens Die As Shirley Fire Kills Five
In Shirley West Virginia Tyler County a predawn blaze in the Ferrebee home killed a teen age girl and four children including Walter Ferrebee 9 Dor ma Dotson 4 Billie Dotson 1 and Marybelle Wadsworth 19 Also two mothers Daisy Dotson and Miss Wadsworth were injured and remain hospitalized The fire is blamed on suspected faulty wiring and the two mothers escaped after breaking a window as neighbors tried to reach the victims.
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Middlebourne
Shirley
Tyler County
Bert Ferrebee
Ferrebee
Walter
Dorma
Janet Dotson
Billie Dotson
Marybelle Wadsworth
Dotson
Miss Wadsworth
West Union
Daisy Dotson
East Liverpool
Ohio
Martinsville
Ohio River
West Virginia
Edwin Spencer
Archie Merritt
Man bets with friend over six tons of concrete
In Denver, Joseph Nelson faced a sticky wager when a friend delivered six tons of concrete to his car after a bet. Nelson ordered concrete, then canceled for later delivery, but the truck already arrived. Porter, the driver and friend, unloaded the wet concrete into Nelson’s back seat before returning to the company garage.
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Denver
Colo
Joseph Nelson
Nelson
Robert O. Porter
Porter
Company
Death Strikes Autoist Triggers Train Pileup
In South Charleston a 57 year old man from Country Club Acres died of a heart attack before a Chesapeake and Ohio freight halted 300 feet from his stalled car near a railroad crossing. His wife Thelma suffered a concussion. Eight telegraph lines were torn down as a derailment of 25 coal cars caused cars to derail and jump the track. Police blame the emergency stop by engineer Zene Falk. (Continued On Page 2)
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Charleston
Burl Lloyd
Country Club
Acres
Chesapeake and Ohio
Lloyd
South Charleston
Arnold Williams
Roger Crawford
Russell
West Virginia Second in Bus Students Transport
Almost 250000 students were carried 16 million miles at a cost of over 5 million dollars to and from state schools last year. West Virginia ranks second in the nation for student bus transportation, behind Missouri, with 232849 riders on 2049 buses costing 5673777 dollars. Kanawha County leads with 21500 students transported or aided. One in three U.S. students is bused through county systems.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Missouri
Overview
Kanawha
Board of Education
West Virginia Weather Turns Humid With Showers Likely
The forecast notes considerable cloudiness and warm humid conditions across West Virginia with scattered thundershowers today, highs around 84 to 88, cooler overnight in the 60s. Saturday remains mostly cloudy and a bit cooler with extended outlook through Wednesday near normal highs and lows, slight cooling over the weekend, and a chance of showers by Monday or Tuesday totaling half an inch or less. Beckley reports a high of 88 yesterday and 68 by 7 am today, with Oak Hill at 88 yesterday and 68 at 7 am today. Greenbrier River conditions are normal and clear, Lake is normal and clear with a 2.3 gate reading, gauge at 2.1 ft.
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W. Va
Oak Hill
Miece
News Briefs Tie to Castro Nixon and Space Plans
A Cuban exile predicts Castro will not last six months while U S space efforts press ahead with a 100 foot satellite. Nixon ends Hawaii campaign swing and JFK appoints a farm belt coordinator. Goddard patents payoff to Guggenheim Foundation marks 15 years since his death. Crown Prince Akihito and Michiko tour the United States as Eisenhower wraps a New England vacation. South Korea grants a ten million won award to a MIG13 defector pilot. State politics cover Judd speech and fire tower hiring in West Virginia and Houston school integration ruling. Khrushchev critiques Britain in a Moscow radio broadcast.
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Raul Chibas
Fidel Castro
United States
Miami
Castro
Richard M. Nixon
Hawaii
Honolulu
Boys Town
Neb
Sarasota, Fla
Sarah W. Hunter
Omaha
Ringling Brothers and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
John F. Kennedy
William Rivkin
Chicago
Minnesota
Iowa
Robert H. Goddard
Guggenheim Foundation
New York
Japan
Akihito
Michiko
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Washington
Eisenhower
New England
U. S
Arthur Meighen
Canada
Toronto
U.S. Aid Tops 12 Billion in Six Years, Free World Pours Aid
Washington reports that the United States has supplied 12.025 billion dollars in economic aid to underdeveloped nations over six years, out of 18 billion by 15 industrialized countries. The State Department urges larger overall aid while noting no U.S. reduction. The Soviet bloc credits and grants to 20 less-developed nations have risen to about three point eight billion.
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Free World
Washington
United States
State Department
Asia
Africa
Senate Foreign Relations
House Foreign Affairs Committees
Britain
France
Canada
Australia
Japan
West Germany
Congress
U.S
Soviet Union
Advance Guard Turned Back: Bunche Returns
In Elisabethville Congo an advance guard of U.N. troops was blocked from entering Katanga and flew back to Leopoldville with U.N. Under Secretary Ralph J. Bunche. Katanga Premier Tshombe, denying U.N. patrols, warned intervention would be considered aggression while Bunche reported to Hammarskjold.
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Elisabethville, the Congo
U.N
Katanga
Leopoldville
U. N
Ralph J. Bunche
Moise Tshombe
Congo Republic
United Nations
Bunche
Congo
Dag Hammarskjold
Tshombe
Hammarskjold
Ghana
Morocco
Godefroid Munongo
Munongo
Elisabethville
Pilot hits 2150 mph in X15 flight watched by family
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Calif AP A schoolteacher wife and three sons watched as Joe Walker flew the X15 to 2150 mph the fastest human speed yet and higher than 1956 record holder Milburn Apt who died in a prior attempt. Walker climbed to 78000 feet then dived 10 degrees with rockets full on. The flight lasted about four minutes and he landed safely on the desert saltbed.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Joe Walker
Air Force
Milburn
Walker
Apt
Grace Walker
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Tom
Jim
Joe Jr
Lake's Way Cleared for $56,500 Mingo County Project
Charleston AP reports a state STEP lake project to create a 25 acre lake on Laurel Creek near the Kentucky border. Conservation Director M. Lane will sign a 9 year lease with Couga Development Co for a 75 acre tract. State pays $1 annually. $41,000 set for contracts. rest for labor at $1 per hour.
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Charleston
Mingo County
M. Lane
Couga Development Co
Philadelphia
Laurel Creek
Kentucky
Lane
Cotga
R. D. Wood
Recluse Leaves Fortunes to U S Public Health Service
Edward L. Shepard an 82 year old New Orleans recluse who died May 19 left 349797 dollars in stocks and bonds to the U S Public Health Service hospital for research wholly in care and prevention of chronic spastic constipation. He described himself as a sergeant in Company G of the Missouri Infantry in the Spanish American War and lived alone in a single room for over 25 years.
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New Orleans
U.S. Public Health Service Hospital
Edward L. Shepard
Shepard
Missouri Infantry
Spain
Bull That Survived Shots, Is Killed Near Cambridge
Fred Henry’s bull, shot at by a Cambridge butcher and then by pursuers, eluded death for days. It was finally brought down by Larry Larrick near the Larrick Farm four miles east of Cambridge. four accompanying heifers remain at large.
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Cambridge
Ohio
Fred Henry
Henry
Terrace Heights
Larrick
Larry Larrick
Inflation and prices joke from Sherwood Glutz column
Sherwood Glutz laments Nixon and Kennedy era diplomacy while noting inflation and cost pressures. He mocks the idea of price controls, saying money has little buying power and advise giving what you have and taking what you get.
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Nixon
Kennedy
School Addition All For Naught At Pleasant Valley
In Huntington the Pleasant Valley Elementary School receives a $16 000 addition before it will be razed for Interstate 64. State Road Commission and Cabell County Board of Education failed to communicate about the highway plan. The board says it was not told the route would affect the property, and construction began after two years of waiting for SRC guidance. Bob Boaz of the Road Commission says SRC was not informed the addition would be built this year.
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Road Commission
Bob Boaz
SRC
Four youths accused in Ridge Park attack in Chattanooga
A 17-year-old white girl and her teenage boyfriend reported being assaulted by four Black youths in an isolated ridge area near Chattanooga. Officers said the boy was held while the girl was injured. one suspect was described as about six feet tall with a knotted bandana.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Here
Clergyman's Wife Assault Man Sentenced
New York AP report states Anthony Durant a 21 year old machinist pleaded guilty to raping and robbing Doris Hostetter on a deserted subway station platform in Midtown Manhattan. He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison, the maximum under law.
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NEW York
Anthony Durant
Doris Hostetter
Midtown Manhattan
Kefauver wins Tennessee Senate primary in landslide
Estes Kefauver captured a decisive third term in the Tennessee Democratic primary, defeating Judge Andrew Taylor by a two to one margin as civil rights dominated the campaign. Returns across 2,448 precincts showed Kefauver with 448,759 votes to Taylor's 238,820, the largest Senate primary total in state history.
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Nashville
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Andrew T. Taylor
Kefauver
Taylor
Senate
Pat Sutton
John F. Kennedy
Jackson
East
Do It Yourself Project Cuts WV Pool Repair Cost
West Virginia saved about 14000 by self performing a Lost Creek State Park swimming pool repair. Randall Baumgardner said bids last spring totaled 25625, deemed high, and conservation workers finished the job before the swimming season at a total cost of 11787.
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Charleston
Lost Creek State Park
West Virginia
Randall Baumgardner
Baumgardner
Conservation Department
U S Presses Soviets to Free RB47 Crewmen
The United States renewed its demand for the release of two RB47 crewmen Lt Freeman B Olmstead of Elmira New York and Lt John R McKone of Tonganoxie Kansas and an impartial United Nations inquiry into the July 1 downing over international waters. Maj Willard George Palm was buried at Arlington National Cemetery as Soviet actions are challenged.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
United Nations
Barents Sea
U. S
Moscow
State Department
Reds
U. N
Freeman B. Olmstead
Elmira
N. Y
John R. McKone
Tonganoxie
Kan
Willard George Palm
Palm
Arlington National Cemetery
Miss WV pageant opens with three honors awarded
Clarksburg AP Miss Fairmont Miss Bluefield and Miss Charleston won preliminary honors in the Miss West Virginia contest opening session. Carol Esther Johnson Fairmont captured the preliminary talent award with Honey Bun from South Pacific. Nina Lee Hatfield won the first round of evening gown and Mary Elizabeth Hoback Bluefield took the bathing suit lead. Preliminary judging continues tonight as Miss West Virginia is chosen for Atlantic City.
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Clarksburg
Atlantic City
N.J
Navy Plans 10 Day Test Of Ground To Air Rescue System
Navy experts launch a 10 day test of a ground to air rescue system designed to hoist a person from the ground into a speeding plane up to 150 mph. A Neptune patrol bomber equipped for the test heads to Point Barrow Alaska with inventor Robert E Fulton Jr and Cmdr. Daniel Balish aboard.
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South Weymouth
Mass
Navy
Neptune
Point Barrow
Alaska
Arctic
Robert FE. Fulton Jr
Newtown
Edward A. Rogers
Milton
Naval Air Development Unit
Fulton
Project ¢Coordinator
Daniel Balish
Lloyd R. Varney
Burling- Ut
Fifteen Years After Hiroshima Enola Gay Crewmen Remain Active
Washington AP reports that fifteen years after the Hiroshima blast, three of the Enola Gay crew remain on active duty. Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets Jr. commands at MacDill AFB Florida, Lt. Col. Thomas W. Ferebee serves at MacDill, and M. Sergeant Wyatt E. Duzenbury is at Barksdale AFB Louisiana. Navy Captain W. S. Parsons, who directed arming, has died.
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United States
Paul W. Tibbets Jr
Strategic Air Command
6Th Air Division
MacDill Air Force Base
Florida
Thomas W. Ferebee
MacDill
Wyatt E. Duzenbury
Barksdale Air Force Base
Shreveport
Navy
W. S. Parsons
Tinian
Japan
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Underwood
John Shanklin
Kanawha Airport
Walter H. Judd
R-Minn
State Conservation Department
Clendenin
Wood County
Parkersburg
Supreme Court
U. S. District Court
Ben C. Connally
Houston (Tex
Houston
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow Radio Today
Minis
California
Maj
Robert White
Center
Scott Crossfield
Step Lake
U.S. Health Service
Sherwood Glutz
ABA
Hiroshima
Enola Gay
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