West Virginia liquor by the drink on ballot urged
West Virginia politics center on liquor by the drink. Republican Harold Neely says a referendum should be held if he wins the governor race, arguing public debate would enlighten voters. Democrat Barron says he will be bound by his party platform. Republicans avoid an immediate referendum. Democratic leaders prepare a platform outlining plans for a better West Virginia.
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Charleston
Harold Neely
West Virginia
Harry E. Moats
Barron
Neely
Bluefield
Ise
Patform
Capitol
Hulett Smith
Three Violators Nabbed and Fined in Fayette County
Conservation Officer Ray mond Eye reports three violators. Rebecca Van Meter, 22, of Jodie Fayette County, fined ten dollars plus costs after fishing without a license. Elmer Lee Gilliam, 21, Beckwith Fayette County, fined twenty dollars plus costs for carrying an uncased gun during closed season. Cecil Cline, fishing without license, fined ten dollars plus costs. All were processed by local officers and magistrates.
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Conservation Office
Raymond Eye
Rebecca van Meter
Jodie
Fayette County
A. L. Payne
W. B. Mullens
Ansted
Elmer Lee Gilliam
Beckwith
R. C. Godsey
Fayetteville
Cecil Cline
Ivan P. Pizzano
Cecil Kennedy
Shotgun Victim Remains In Critical Condition
Mrs. Tsetta Jewell Little, 33, of Stanaford, remains in critical condition at Beckley Memorial Hospital after shotgun wounds to her abdomen sustained Wednesday. Police report the shooter was her 15 year old stepdaughter Sandra Kay Little.
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Tsetta Jewell Little
Stanaford
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Sandra Kay Little
Miss Crotty Resigns Secretarial Post Abroad
Miss Barbara Crotty secretary to John J. Flanagan area manager of the USDA Rural Development Program has resigned to take a similar post with the Beckley store of the Southern States Cooperative. She will assume new duties Wednesday and had previously been employed by Southern States.
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Barbara Crotty
John J. Flanagan
Usda Rural Development Program
Beckley
Southern States Cooperative
Crotty
Southern States
Princess Suite Seizure Sparks Diplomatic Friction
At the 6th Precinct police station Brazilian trader Pignatari denied romancing the princess and said he acts as her minor’s attorney. A raid followed a complaint by Prince Hohenlohe that the couple shared quarters in a hotel. Pignatari claimed diplomatic immunity and said he was in Mexico on an official mission.
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Pignatari
6Th Precinct
Prince Hohenlohe
Mexico
High School Principals Begin Working Today Raleigh County
School calendar dates for Raleigh County are repeated by the superintendent’s office with the opening day set for the Wednesday after Labor Day. First graders must be six by October 31. Principals at high, junior high, and elementary levels begin duties on varied August dates, with lunch program supervisor and guidance staff returning August 16.
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Raleigh County
Mary. M. Scott
Mary Louise Klaus
Edythe Clay
Boots Dilley
Mary Abbott
Shortening The News at Hoo Sick Falls and Other Items
A collage of brief items: Fatsett’s painting given to Sat urday’s primitive artist. Gene Kelly and Jeanne Coyne wed in Tonopah. food poisoning hospitalizes about 100 of 250 at Our Lady of Lourdes outing. a light plane crash near Chester Illinois leaves six dead. Bataan death march survivors set reunion in Fort Myers. U S News reports Soviet cargoes to Havana. Nehru notes Tibetan refugees into India. Dalton Walker dies at Cape Cod Hospital. coal truck crash near Mountainside hospitalizes 23. ICJ accuses Red China of Tibet atrocities. 16 day WVU conservation workshop. Langdale to speak at WV Chamber of Commerce. Jol in McDowell County teen dies from accident injuries.
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Gene Kelly
Jeanne Coyne
Tonopah
Nev
Our Lady of Lourdes
Bataan
Fort Myers
Fila
U.S
U.S. News & World Report
Havana
Nehru
Tibet
India
Dalton Walker
New York Daily News
Cape Cod Hospital
Somerset Bus Co
Mountainside
N. J
International Commission of Jurists
Geneva
West Virginia University
Noah Langdale Jr
Georgia State College of Business Administration
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Charleston
Carol Sue Thorns-berry
Jol
McDowell County
Ashtabula
Ohio
General Hospital
Florida mother hurt in wreck on West Virginia Turnpike
A one car crash on the West Virginia Turnpike at 7:30 a.m. today injured Mrs. Radoninski and fractured ribs were reported. Her two children were treated and released at Raleigh General Hospital. Driver Stan Radoninski was identified in the incident. Cattle, sheep, and hogs are noted in a closing, unrelated line.
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Miami
Springs
Fla
Raleigh General Hospital
West Virginia Turnpike
Stan Radoninski
Radoninski
Lamps Stolen At Lillybrook Coal Co Mine
Twelve lamps were stolen from the lamphouse at the Lillybrook Coal Co mine in Affinity. Beckley State Police are investigating the break in. Mrs Mable Meadows of Pemberton reported two tires and wheels stolen from her 190 model car on Friday night.
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Lillybrook Coal Co
Affinity
Beckley
Mable Meadows
Pemberton
Congo Crisis Deepens Amid UN Tensions and Katanga Stand
United Nations and Lumumba loyalists clash with Katanga factions as two proposals seek UN force under Lumumba. Ghana offers troops, while Jabako denounces Lumumba and Kasavubu eyes a loose federation. Congo's Belgian troop withdrawals proceed, with 7,750 remaining.
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U.N
Lumumba
Katanga
Ghana
Kuznetsov
Hammarskjold
Congo
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States
General Assembly
Soviet Union
Joseph Kasavubu
Jabako
Kasavubu
Abako
Tshombe
Leopoldville
Elisabethville
Brussels
Republic
Mercury Project Up To Schedule
NASA official Abe Silverstein says Project Mercury remains essentially on the original timetable with no major problems. He notes that systems in the July 29 Cape Canaveral capsule test operated, despite the Atlas booster failure, and targets suborbital flights this year and orbital flights next year.
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Washington
Space Agency
Abe Silverstein
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Silverstein
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Mercury
Earth
Firemen to Demonstrate Civil Defense Gear at Trap Hill
Beckley Fire Department will demonstrate Raleigh County Civil Defense equipment at Trap Hill High School tonight at 7 p.m. The event closes the last night of a first aid class conducted at the school, Fire Chief Cecil P. Connor says.
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Beckley Fire Department
Raleigh County Civil Defense
Trap Hill High School
Cecil P. Connor
Silent screen star Annette De Foe dies at 71
Hollywood AP reports Annette De Foe aged 71, known for Timber Wolf and One Clear Call, died Saturday after a long illness. Real name Gertrude Marie Aucoin. In New York Sammy Stewart, 70, jazz musician and early orchestra leader, died Friday. among first African Americans admitted to the American Guild of Organists and a pioneer of symphonic jazz in the Whiteman era.
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Associated Press Hollywood
Annette de Foe
Timber Wolf
Gertrude Marie Aucoin
New York
Sammy Stewart
American Guild of Pipe Organists
Paul Whiteman
Fire Marshal E Wade Thomas Dies in Washington at 51
Washington AP A P reports West Virginia fire marshal E Wade Thomas aged 51 died in a Washington hospital after brain tumor surgery. A Keyser native, he led fire prevention education for 12 years and gave thousands of talks to students. Survivors include his widow and two children. funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Washington
West Virginia
E. Wade Thomas
Thomas
Keyser
Obituary notices for Deck E Deck and Price in Huntington area
Deck E Deck of Danville died in a Huntington hospital at 1 a m Sunday from lung cancer. Survivors include his wife and six children, three sisters Mable Persinger Pleasant Hills Mildred Jones Huntington and Tom Conley Hopewell Va and two brothers Selbert Spradling Durham NC and James Spradling Lexington Va. Funeral at Madison. body at Hunter and Hunter Funeral Home. burial Gardens of Memory Madison. Price died at 2 30 a m today in a Huntington hospital after a three year illness. Born May 1 1884 at Spring Creek, son of Daniel and Hanette Clem Price. Member of Freewill Baptist Church Sophia and retired coal miner from Gulf Smokless Coal Co. of Tams. Survivors include his wife Laura, daughter Lena Zimmerman Sophia, six sons Herbert and Richard Chicago Ill Clifton Columbus Ohio Curtiss Westover Field Air Base Chicopee Falls Miss Rev Wilford Price Perkins ton Miss Robert Corpus Christi Texas, three brothers Chapel Midway Daniel Allen Junction Berg en Hot Springs NC, a sister in North Carolina, 14 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Body taken from Williams Funeral Home Sophia to church one hour before services.
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E. S. Deck
Danville
Huntington
Mable Persinger
Pleasant Hills
Mildred Jones
Tom Conley
Hopewell
Selbert Spradling
Durham
N. C
James Spradling
Lexington
Madison
Hunter and Hunter Funeral Home
Gardens of Memory
Sunset Memorial Park
Price
Huntington Hospital
Spring Creek
Daniel and
Hanette Clem Price
Freewill Baptist Church
Sophia
Gulf Smokless Coal Co
Tams
Laura Price
Lena Zimmerman
Herbert
Richard
Chicago, Ill
Clifton
Columbus
Ohio
Curtiss
Westover Field Air Base
Chicopee Falls
Miss
Wilford Price
Perkinston
Robert
Corpus Christie
Tex
Chapel
Midway
Daniel
Allen Junction
Bergen
Hot Springs
North Carolina
Williams
Luckerson rites set for 64 year old at Greenwood Park
Graveside services for Charlie L. Luckerson 64 of 721 F Street will be held at 1 p m Tuesday at Greenwood Memorial Park with Rev S A Abram presiding. King Hiram Abiff Lodge No 25 will oversee the rites. He died Wednesday after a brief illness in a local hospital. Survived by a son Charles of Newport News Virginia. Body at Trent Funeral Home.
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Charlie L. Luckerson
F St
Greenwood Memorial Park
S. A. Abram
Hiram Abiff
Final rites for Thomas Holt Covey 66 of Glen Daniel
Funeral services for Thomas H Covey 66 Glen Daniel will be held at 2 p m Tuesday at Coal Marsh Baptist Church with Rev Denny Densmore officiating. Burial follows in the family cemetery. The body will transfer from Melton Mortuary to the residence at 5 p m today and then to the church an hour before the service. Survivors include a brother Dan Covey. Pallbearers named Connie Wyatt Cody Daniel Chlin Davis Dale Covey Sheldon Covey and W C Covey Jr.
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Thomas Holt
Covey
Glen Daniel
Coal Marsh Baptist Church
Denny Densmore
Dan Covey
Ben Covey
Melton
Connie Wyatt
Cody Daniel
Chlin Davis
Dale Covey
Sheldon Covey
W. C. Covey Jr
David Meadows Dies in Camp Creek Auto Crash
Funeral services for David Meadows 23 Camp Creek will be held at Camp Creek Free Will Baptist Church with burial in Camp Creek Cemetery He died at 3 am Sunday in a Beckley hospital from brain injuries after a Thursday crash in which he was a car passenger Harold Lilly was injured Lester Lilly driver of the car Other survivors include five Meadows brothers Born September 28 1936 in Giotto he was a Korean War veteran and worked at a Camp Creek saw mill The accident marked the family’s third tragedy with an earlier 1958 loss of a brother and another brother paralyzed from the same crash
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David Meadows
Camp Creek
Free Will Baptist Church
Meadows
Beckley Hospital
Lester Lilly
Flat Top
Harold Lilly
Giotto
Lacy
Lackie Lilly Meadows
Ralph
James
Carl
Holly Meadows
Eugene Meadows
Lynchburg
Free Will Baptist
Bailey Funeral Home
Danny
Holly
David
Cuba Aims to Suppress Dissent Amid Soviet Ties
A Cuban revolutionary government label notes a shift toward a dictatorial state with power concentrated in the Communist party. It warns that Cuban Soviet ties threaten hemispheric unity as the USSR and Red China seek to use Cuba to raise global tensions. Raul Castro thanks Khrushchev for military aid as Cuba vows to seize nearly all remaining American property.
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Communist Party
Americas
Cuba
Soviet Union
Red China
Castro
Raul Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Noah Price Funeral Services Planned in Sophia
Funeral services for Noah Price, 76, of Sophia, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Sophia Freewill Baptist Church with Rev. Wade Webb and Rev. Lee Richardson presiding. Burial details follow.
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Noah Price
Sophia
Sophia Freewill Baptist Church
Wade Webb
Lee Richardson
Bluefield Girl Crowned Miss West Virginia
Mary Elizabeth Hoback, an 18-year-old Clarksburg native, was crowned Miss West Virginia Saturday night. She returns home amid a quiet welcome and plans to begin Miss America pageant preparations in Atlantic City this September. A larger celebration is set for August 19 during the Virginia West Virginia football All Star game, with about 8,000 attendees expected.
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Bluefield
Atlantic City
Clarksburg
Cuba Seizes American Property in 300 Million Worth Package
Castro signaled further nationalizations of American holdings totaling about 300 million, including the Moa Bay Mining and Nicaro Nickel firms. Expropriation will be paid with 50 year bonds at 2 percent, though payments are doubtful. He hinted at ousting U S from Guantanamo and warned Cuba not bound by U S commitments. The church reacted cautiously to a wartime pastoral letter praising reforms but urging compensation for seized property.
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Moa Bay Mining Co
Nicaro Nickel Processing Corporation
Castro
United States
Eisenhower
U.S
Cuba
Naval
Guantanamo
Havana Baseball Stadium
Manuel Cardinal Arteaga
10 Per Cent Mark Reached In Survey
The Shopping Habit Survey reached a 10 percent return as 928 of 8,432 questionnaires were received. The largest group is 56 responses from rural Beckley routes, bringing the total to 97. Crab Orchard follows.
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Beckley
Cohabitation Arrests Reported in Raleigh County
A series of arrests were reported in Raleigh County and nearby areas. George Edwards of Odd was booked for cohabitation at Raleigh County Jail after a warrant served by Mabscott Police. Donald Boyd of Clear Creek jailed for non support. Eugene A. Staples of 410 S Fayette St faces a Beckley Police Court appearance for running a red light. Maxie Letcher of Ethel charged with speeding and making unnecessary noise and ordered to appear August 15. Nowell Lee Maynard of Crab Orchard jailed for reckless driving and illegal muffler with a $500 bond. Benjamin Franklin Bailey of Charleston jailed for DUI on West Virginia Turnpike with a $108.50 bond. appearance set for 10 a.m. today. Dunreath Lee West of Artie nabbed for breaking and entering. Richard C. Ponton of New Castle, Va charged with drunk driving and no license.
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George Edwards
Odd
Raleigh
Mabscott
Boyd Hutchinson
Raleigh County
Donald Boyd
Clear Creek
Eugene A. Staples
S. Fayette St
Beckley
Maxie Letcher
Ethel
Nowell Lee Maynard
Crab Orchard
Maynard
W. A. Burke
Benjamin Franklin Bailey
Charleston
West Virginia
Burke
Bailey
Dunreath Lee West
Artie
Richard C. Ponton
New Castle
Eisenhower urges action on farm aid and area programs
President Eisenhower criticized Congress for rejecting his May recommendations on farm policy and low income area aid. He urged prompt passage of constructive agriculture remedies and a new area assistance bill backed by his administration. He warned against delaying relief and signaled readiness to veto deficit-spending measures. He urged Congress to stay on the job until the public interest is served.
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Congress
Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
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Hoosick Falls
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Lillybrook
Mercury Project
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G. M. Powers
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Thomas H. Covey
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