Romney Vote Exceeds Demo Fee By 100000 In Michigan Primary
United Press International reports Michigan's Republican Romney led incumbent Democrat Swainson by more than 100000 votes as precincts from Detroit-area to statewide tallies shifted. Romney, former head of American Motors, seeks governor in November to end 14 years of Democratic control and potentially position as a presidential compromise. Also noted: Kansas Republicans renominated Pearson, Carlson, Anderson win in Missouri and Long reelected Democrat renomination.
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United Press International
George Romney
Michigan
John B. Swianson
Swainson
Romney
Detroit
Kansas
Missouri
American Motors Corp
National Party
U.S
James B. Pearson
Ed Arn
GOP
Old Guard
Pearson
Paul Aylward
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Frank Carlson
Joe Corpstein
U.S. Senate
Edward Long
Funeral rites set for Mrs. Daisey Alberta Weaver Darnell
Funeral services for Mrs. Daisey Alberta Weaver Darnell 76 will be held at 2 PM at First Baptist Church with Rev. Dewey Wilson and Rev. Wade Webb officiating. Burial follows at Hot Coal Cemetery. She died early Tuesday after a brief illness. Body remains at Williams Funeral Home in Sophia until one hour before services. Pallbearers listed as James L. Denny Marion Yancey Elbert Hartson Cecil Mahone Sherman Akers Douglas Lovell.
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Daisy Alberta Weaver Darnell
Sophia
First Baptist Church
Dewey Wilson
Wade Webb
Hot Coal
Williams Funeral Home
James L. Denny
Marion Yancey
Elbert Hartson
Cecil Mahone
Sherman Akers
Douglas Lovell
Final rites for Eddie T. Gill in Richmond Virginia
Eddie T. Gill of Richmond died August 1 in a Richmond hospital. Final rites were held Saturday at Bridge tt. Survivors include two sons Jeff and Tinley, a daughter Nellie Benigar, a stepdaughter Audrey Lester Danese, two sisters Sadie Bowler and Edith Allen, three brothers Juliden Clinton and Cornellis, fourteen grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and multiple other relatives. Burial will be in Tucker Cemetery at Marting.
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Eddie T. Gill
Richmond
Bridgett
Jeff
U. S. Army
Colorado
Tinley
Stamford
Nellie Benigar
Bridgeport
Audrey Lester Danese
Sadie Bowler
Covington
Edith Allen
Wolford
Juliden
Hinton
Clinton
Cavendish Rites Set for John W Cavendish in East Rainelle
Funeral services for John Wat son Cavendish will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home Chapel East Rainelle with Rev Tally Hanna presiding. He died Monday at home after a short illness. Graveside rites by Midland Trail Lodge No 166 and burial at End of the Trail Cemetery near Clintonville. Body remains at the funeral home.
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John Watson Cavendish
Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home
East Rainelle
Tally Hanna
Cavendish
Midland Trail Lodge No. 166
Final rites for Lawrence Huddleston in Montgomery chapel
Lawrence Alonzo Huddleston aged 41 died after a short illness in a Montgomery hospital. Final rites were to be held at 2 p.m. today at B. C. Hooper Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Charles Webb officiating. A former coal miner born in Montgomery he lived at Cannelton and was a Victor Baptist Church member. Survivors include his wife.
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Lawrence Alonzo Huddleston
B. C. Hooper Funeral Home
Montgomery
Charles Webb
Huddleston
Victor
Cannelton
Victor Baptist Church
Soblen Spying Case Weighs Clemency and Deportation
Soblen, jailed for spying for Russia during World War II, faces potential action against EIA I officers for defying Home Office orders. His lawyers said only a presidential pardon could avert death in a prison hospital if he is returned to the United States to serve a life term. One lawyer noted opinions on Kennedy clemency but no formal appeal has been sent. Rep. Walter proposed revoking landing rights for Israeli airlines if Soblen is not returned.
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Russia
EIAI
Home Office
Soblen
United States
Kennedy
Washington
Francis E. Walter
D-Pa
Kennedy Moves Peace Corps to State Department
President Kennedy issued an executive order making the Peace Corps part of the State Department. The action centralizes leadership of the service within the executive branch. The order formalizes the integration amid ongoing post‑inaugural governance changes.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Peace Corps
State Department
School for Leaders Slated for Beckley
A School for Leaders will be conducted in Beckley as part of five such schools statewide. The West Virginia Education Association announced the event with details to follow.
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School For
Beckley
West Virginia Education Association
Notable Obituaries From UPI Dispatches Across Cities
A series of brief obituaries reports the deaths of Emily Jane Todd at 79 in Kin caid Ohio, William F. Cronin 84 former Terre Haute Tribune editor, Florence Lucius Davidson 75 artist widow of Jo Davidson, Walter H. Brown 86 Stanford University Professor Emeritus, Josephine Ray Paul 61 Wall Street firm president, Harry Posner 81 immigrant and founder of Worcester Paper Box Co., Edith Helm 88 social secretary to three presidents, Calvin Reed 61 Chicago meat-packing figure, Edmund Leamy 72 former travel editor for the New York World Telegram Sun. Deaths occurred in Fayette County, Terre Haute, Paris, Stanford, New York, Boston, Washington, Buenos Aires, and East Stroudsburg.
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Stanford
Calif
UPI
Stanford University
Walter H. Brown
Division of Hygiene
New York
Josephine Ray Paul
Wall Street
A. M. Kidder & Co., Inc
Boston
Harry Posner
Posner
New York City
Worcester Paper Box Co
Medford
East Stroudsburg, Pa
Edmund Leamy
New York World Telegram and Sun
Child baker wins cake contest beating 11 entrants
Charles Freville-Heggat aged 12 wins a cake baking contest in England defeating 10 other competitors including his mother. In Des Moines ice cream vendors may mute music to calm nerves amid complaints. London classifieds joke landlord undemanding yet rent noted. A British Railways guard misses train due to a slight error of judgment. Lester Thompson Jr. 18 faces multiple charges after challenging a patrolman and receiving tickets for jaywalking and related offenses.
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Bowen
England
UPI
Charles Freville - Heggat
Des Moines, Iowa
London
British Railways
McNamara Asked FBI Probe Hit on NYT Writer Sources
The Defense Department refused to confirm a report that Robert S. McNamara asked the FBI to investigate Hanson Baldwin’s information sources. Assistant Secretary Arthur Sylvester denied any order to shadow newsmen, in or out of the Pentagon.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Robert S. McNamara
FBI
Hanson Baldwin
New York Times
Defense
Arthur Sylvester
McNamara
Pentagon
FAA Grounding Planned for Sky Shield I Exercise
The Federal Aviation Agency announced that all civilian aircraft in the continental United States will be grounded for five and a half hours on September 2 for the North American Air Defense Command Sky Shield I exercise.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Aviation Agency
Continental United States
North American Air Defense Command
Itmann Idled By Unauthorized Work Stoppage
The Itmann mine of the Pocahontas Fuel Co was idled today by an unauthorized work stoppage by workers after last week 50 were cut off. District 29 UMWA president George J Titler said he knows of the stoppage but not its cause as a union committee was to meet. Pickets lined the road and blocked the 12:01 a.m. shift. the mine had averaged four days of operation weekly this summer.
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Itmann
RNS
Pocahontas Fuel Co
George J. Titler
United Mine Workers of America
Beckley
18 Year Old Charged With Burning Boy
An 18-year-old Beckley man, David Joe Fernandez, was jailed on a malicious wounding warrant after allegedly burning Thomas Allen with a cigarette at Beckley Junior High School. The incident prompted police action and a doctor said the arm wounds were infected but healing.
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Beckleyan
David Joe Fernandez
Arnold E. Allen
Scott Ave
Thomas
W. A. Burke
Allen
Fernandez
Beckley Junior High
Harold Adkins
Cranberry
Beckley
James Edgar Kiser
Daniels
Virgie Kiser
Kiser
Harold Daniels
Saxon
Edgar Jarrell
Edward L. Cochran
Mabscott
N KIC John Daly Reviews Edgewood Tube Tests
John Daly, head of rocket container tube production under VP Glenn G. Mc Carroll, said preproduction testing at Edgewood Maryland Chemical Center is complete and satisfactory. Formal approval is expected within a week after evaluation by the Chemical Procurement District, with production needing 20 to 50 employees.
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John Daly
Glenn G. McCarroll
Edgewood
Chemical Procurement District
Student Teachers Observe Opening of September Experience
Seven Concord College students will observe for about two weeks at Central Elementary Hollywood Grade School Shady Spring High School Trap Hill High School and Sophia Elementary School. The program backs improved teacher certification and strict National Council on Accreditation of Teacher Education standards. Frances Ann McVey Carol Bailey Alice Mae Holden Stephen Koziak John E Pontanko Kay Frances Summers and Nancy Carol Worley comprise the participant group.
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State Board of Education
National Council On Accreditation of Teacher Education
Central Elementary
Hollywood
Shady Spring
Trap Hill
Sophia
Concord College
Frances Ann McVey
Carol Bailey
Alice Mae Holden
Stephen Koziak
John E. Pontanko
Kay Frances Summers
Nancy Carol Worley
Romney Bicentennial Celebration Under Way
Romney a small Hampshire County town with 2200 residents began a four day celebration of its 200th anniversary featuring a public ox roast and the crowning of a Bicentennial Queen. The town, incorporated in 1762 by Virginia’s House of Burgesses, is the Mountain State’s oldest municipality. The main events run through Saturday with a year long observance planned.
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Romney
UPI
Hampshire County
House of Burgesses of
Virginia
Mountain
July fatalities rise in West Virginia coal mines analysis
The State Workmen's Compensation Department reports 10 industrial deaths and 3,228 injuries in West Virginia during July, up slightly from 11 deaths and 3,112 injuries the prior July. Coal mining caused five deaths in both months.
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Charleston
UPI
State Workmen's Compensation Department
West Virginia
Speeding Charge Against Jay Moore Cited in Beckley
Jay R. R. Moore a 19 year old from Beckley was cited for speeding by Beckley City Police at 10 17 p m Tuesday He is ordered to appear in City Police Court on Monday in a brief police report style record
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Jay Roderick Moore
Beckley
City Police
Marilyn Monroe's star fades in end of rainbow tale
UPI recounts Marilyn Monroe's rise as Hollywood's sex symbol and the unraveling of her career and personal life. From faked glamour to failed marriages, psychiatric treatment, and misfires in film, she searches for identity amid mounting disillusionment and a long, lonely decline after 1960.
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Marilyn Monroe
UPI
Hollywood
Vernon Scott
Star
Marilyn
DiMaggio
Berlin welcomes Soviet general with military parade
Jakubovski visits Berlin for a courtesy call amid a Soviet American dispute talks. An Army spokesman says no military subjects will be discussed while hundreds of military police seal the area and 250 combat armed paratroopers march by. Jakubovski praises mutual meetings to foster understanding and friendly relations.
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Jakubovski
Freeman
U.S
United States
Tragic Leicester Car Crash Claims Nurse's Son
Two seriously injured victims were brought to Leicester hospital on Tuesday. Nurse Mrs. Ethel Pennington cared for one patient while others aided a second, an 18 year old boy. Hours later she learned the patient was her son John, who had died from his injuries.
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Leicester
England
UPI
Tuesay
Ethel Pennington
Motorist Pays Fine for Expired Temporary Tags
Harold L. Hanisen of 1340 Prince Sr. paid a $5 fine and costs before Magistrate W. A. Burke on a charge of driving with expired temporary registration tags. He was arrested by State Police.
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Harold L. Hanisen
Prince Sr
W. A. Burke
Now you know East River’s true nature as a tidal strait
An observation explains the East River in New York City is not a river but a navigable tidal strait linking Upper New York Bay with Long Island Sound, altering common geographic understanding.
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United Press International
New York
East River
Upper
New York Bay
Long Island Sound
Beckley Expected to Host City Historical Museum Meeting
Robert R. Bowers of the West Virginia Department of Commerce is slated to attend a 10 a.m. Friday meeting at Beckley Newspapers library to discuss transforming the Raleigh County Armory on Park Avenue into a museum for preserving local history. Collis Amon will report remodeling proposals after preliminary study.
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Robert R. Bowers
West Virginia Department of Commerce
Beckley
Raleigh County
Park Avenue
Collis Amon
Parking Area Renovation At Beckley Facilities
Preliminary work started today on the parking area behind Beckley Junior High School and beside the Recreational Building. The project is a joint effort of Central Elementary, Beckley Junior High, the City of Beckley, and the Raleigh County Board of Education. Blacktopping is planned later.
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Beckley Junior High School
John Saunders
Raleigh County Schools
Saunders
Central Elementary School
Beckey Junior High School
City of
First Aid Call Aids Prosperity Woman in Heart Attack
The Beckley Rescue Squad responded to the home of Mrs. Annie Bare, 72, Prosperity, at 5 a.m. today. After emergency treatment she was taken to Beckley Hospital where she is in fair condition.
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Beckley
Annie Bare
Prosperity
Dyer Criticizes WV Efforts Against Heart Disease
Charleston WV March 1962 State Health Director N H Dyer says West Virginia is failing to attack heart disease due to insufficient state funds and notes that federal and state spending on cancer totals 133 796 but falls short of need He cites hospital construction and Hill Burton funds as major public health costs while tuberculosis venereal and maternal child health programs proceed with limited funds He warns public health gains depend on adequate state funding and matching federal money.
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Charleston
API
West Virginia
N. H. Dyer
Dyer
Mountain State
Hill-Burton
Department
Testimony on West Point hotel funds prompts air conditioning debate
A subcommittee heard Col. W. J. Woolwine of the U S Military Academy defend funds to modernize a government hotel at West Point claiming the hotel’s mission is to provide rooms. The hearing suggested cooling the rooms was not a priority as Army HQ reportedly rejected air conditioning to curb spending.
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Col. W. J. Woolwine
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
Woolwine
Army Headquarters
Economy Held Own Tax Cut Unlikely Now
July business indicators show the economy held steady with small unemployment dips and slight retail gains. Analysts debate a 1963 tax cut as Treasury and White House officials signal no immediate action, while Congress shows limited enthusiasm and readiness to wait for July data.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
House
Ways & Means Committee
Dillon
David E. Bell
Arthur J. Goldberg
Walter W. Heller
Council of Economic Advisers
Tno
Labor Management Advisory Committee
Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
Duncan's Mother Faces Execution as Appeals Fail
Mrs Duncan, 11 times married, remained composed after two failed appeals as her son Ma Duncan faced execution. Father Mullen reported her calmness, while pickets gathered outside the prison and accomplices Moya and Baldonado prepared final appeals in San Francisco. Attorney Ed Cragen described the defendants as simple-minded, swayed by others. Supreme Court Justice Douglas had earlier granted a stay but did not intervene this time.
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John Mullen
Achuff
Luis Moya
Augustine Baldonado
Caryl Chessman
Duncan
U.S. Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Baldonado
Moya
State Supreme Court
Ed Cragen
Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Monroe Vacation in Hyannis Port and Los Angeles Flight
Marilyn Monroe vacationed at Hyannis Port and was reported flying to Los Angeles Tuesday night. The Rev. A. J. Soldan of Village Lutheran Church Westwood to officiate a 30 minute service. Monroe wore a green Florence purchased dress and no jewelry amid death mystery. County coroner cites barbiturate overdose and unknown intent as suicide investigators pursue.
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Hyannis Port
Los Angeles
A. J. Soldan
Village Lutheran Church
Westwood
Miss Monroe
Florence
Italy
WVU Medical School Receives Strong ERF Support
Morgantown UPI WVU Medical School ranks high among four year schools for ERF funding from the American Medical Association. A spokesman said 30 of 86 schools received more, with WVU surgeons and physicians in West Virginia contributing $14,374 through the ERF. Since 1951 donors have given over $11.5 million to medical schools via the fund.
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Morgantown
UPI
West Virginia University Medical School
Education and Research Foundation
American Medical Association
United States
ERF
WVU
AMA
Mhsticians
West Virginia
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