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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1962
Page
1
On the first anniversary of the Berlin wall Berlin police clashed with East German authorities. West Berliners marked the day with three minutes of silence and noisy protests near Checkpoint Charlie as East German troops reinforced the border.
S I D E By Dick West notes that the Washington baseball team has fallen into a no-win stance, muzzling hitters and failing to finish in the top division. The column links national frustration with a Capital City club that hasn’t won a pennant since Franklin Pierce’s era.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk pressed Russia for four power talks on reducing Berlin tensions after a 23 minute session with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin at the State Department. The talk produced no significant change in the Berlin situation and Western powers urged discussions to ease violence at the wall and barriers to movement.
UPI reports the 100 year old National Training School for delinquent male youths with about 500 inmates and 200 staff will relocate from Washington to Morgantown West Virginia. Senator Byrd announced Kennedy approved the transfer to a Monongalia County site with new facilities for up to 500 delinquents ages 13 to 19 at an estimated cost of 8.5 million dollars and 175 to 200 jobs. Half the staff will come from Washington. others will be hired locally. The school emphasizes academics and vocational training to instill citizenship. The Logan County site was considered but Morgantown was chosen for proximity to West Virginia University Medical Center.
Severe thunderstorms struck portions of Pennsylvania and Oklahoma Sunday night as a heat wave continued in the lower Mississippi Valley. Lightning disabled a 23 000 volt power line near Pittsburgh cutting electricity for about three hours. Golf-ball sized hail hit Guymon Oklahoma and a six hour rainfall totaled 1.75 inches. Traverse City Michigan and Tavernier Florida recorded notable rainfalls while San Antonio Texas endured a fourth week of 100 degree days. Velva North Dakota faced flood cleanup after a weekend disaster that killed three people.
The nations railroads plan to ask a U S circuit court of appeals for permission to invoke anti feather bedding work rules that would eliminate 65 000 jobs. Five on train unions representing 210 000 engineers firemen switchmen conductors trainmen and enginemen threaten a nationwide strike if rules take effect. PREMIER BEN GUR IONS government reverses stance on 1964 New York World’s Fair. The Congo lese parliament draws up boundaries for 17 states in a proposed federal Congo. Rep Craig Hosmer asks President Kennedy See Shortening Page 2.
Soviet Maj Adrian Nikolayev and Lt Col Pavel Popovich orbited Earth at high speed in Vostok III and IV, logging 37 and 21 orbits respectively and covering about a million miles as they continued space tests. Khrushchev offered encouragement but offered no landing timeline. Observers noted the two ships flying in formation signaling a sustained mission beyond two days.
Dr Robert Soblen's lawyers say they will petition Britain's high court for a second writ of habeas corpus to prevent his return to the United States for a life prison term. They pledge a determined, tooth and nail battle as Soblen, 61, seeks relief after fleeing to Israel and amid El Al's refusals to fly him home.
MOSCOW UPS two Soviet astronauts carried on in space, exchanging coded calls as their ships circled Earth. Popovich and Nikolayev confirmed temperatures around 18 and 15 degrees Celsius, humidity 65 percent, and both reported feeling fine and rested. The Tass correspondent noted the cosmodrome station launch occurred the prior weekend.
Nikolayev and Popovich reported full appetite and normal equipment operation as they circled the globe about every 88 minutes. In 35 orbits Nikolayev covered over 875000 miles and Popovich over 475000 miles. Radio Moscow announced further live space TV at 6 p.m. local time, suggesting at least another night aloft.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co will lease .11 acres behind the City Garage for storage and .15 acre at the Beckley Exhibition Mine access from Ewart Avenue extension to the mine. Leases cost $1 per year and will be presented to the City Council Tuesday. Signed by H R Ketcham. Mayor Cecil L. Miller praised the parcels as valuable to the city.
A brief reflection on honesty as a guiding principle versus the perception that truthfulness comes with a high personal cost, highlighting the tension between ethics and budget concerns in everyday choices.
A UPI summary notes the USSR's space milestones highlighting Sputnik I in 1957, Gagarin's orbital flight in 1961, and Titov's longer stay, with the United States lagging by roughly a year in duration and by several months in firsts. Project Mercury aims for a US flight by late 1962 or early 1963 as the gap widens.
Three congressional experts say there is no need to rethink the U S space program after the Soviet twin orbital shot. They expect U S progress to accelerate with new booster rockets, and see space as a field with military and diplomatic implications.
J Howard Phillips 60 a Beckley resident and contractor died at 204 Temple Street at 11 30 am after a long illness He co led Phillips Williams Construction then Phillips Construction Co with his son Howard Lee Phillips Born July 9 1902 at Shady Spring he was survived by his wife a daughter a son two sisters four brothers and five grandchildren Funeral arrangements are pending at Keyser Bryant Funeral Home
Dow Jones industrials gain 2.05 to 59.37, rails at 119.56 up 0.02, utilities slip 0.16 to 116.90, 65 stocks up 0.34 to 205.70. Volume hits 1,000,000 shares by noon as market activity increases.
Akron man C R Swain landed his private plane safely in Charleston after getting lost in the southern West Virginia mountains while flying from Middlesboro Kentucky to Akron Ohio. Radar guidance from Kanawha Airport aided the arrival about 9 pm EST with direction finding radios helping the final approach. Swain said he had no trouble earlier, but lost his way on the return leg.
West Virginia truck and trailer tags will be illegal after midnight Tuesday if displayed with the 1961 62 green and white plates. The state motor vehicles commission extended expiration to August 14 to ease June rush. Over 110000 truck tags already sold for 1962 63, with about 20000 more expected.
More than 60 people died in weekend incidents including plane crashes, water accidents, fires, and fatal traffic collisions. Eleven traffic crashes in seven states claimed 47 lives, ten in California. Seven killed in three plane crashes and a New York fire took three lives. Seven drowned across three separate accidents.
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