Senate Wage Bill Battle Intensifies As Campaigning Persists
The Senate resumes after a long weekend clash over a minimum wage increase and extended coverage while Kennedy pushes an aged care bill from Hyde Park with Eleanor Roosevelt backing him. Nixon campaigns in the South after Maine and North trips, urging test ban talks as House plans a light week with no major action.
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Associated Press
Congress
North
Richard M. Nixon
South
John F. Kennedy
Senate
Hyde Park
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kennedy
Eleanor Roosevelt
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sen
Thruston B. Morton
Nixon
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Virginia
Greensboro
N. C
Portland
Maine
United States
Washington
Henry M. Jackson
Cumberland County
J. William Fulbright
Henry Cabot Lodge
U. N
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Tenn
Ramsey Pollard
Southern Baptist Convention
B. C. Goodpasture
Church of Christ
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Roy Wilkins
The
National Assn
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Senate House
Rules Committee
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Senate Finance Committee
Doctor Amory Named WVU Radiology Chairman
Harold Irwin Amory, chief radiologist at Beckley Memorial Hospital and consultant for 10 Memorial hospitals, was named chairman of the Department of Radiology at West Virginia University Medical Center. He will assume duties by Oct 1 and has a long Army medical career including Walter Reed and a World War II command.
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Harold Irwin Amory
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Miners Memorial Hospitals
West Virginia University Medical Center
Dr. Amory
Elvis J. Stahr
Hampton, Va
Randolph Macon College
The
Medical College of Virginia
Letterman General Hospital
San Francisco
Calif
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Washington, D.C
Surgeon General of the Army
Georgetown University Medical School
Beckley Hospital
Chain of Memorial Hospitals
Medical Corps
78Th General Hospital
Wrong Persons Shot Jailed In Sand Lick Road Shooting
State police described the incident as the result of an old grudge after a shotgun blast hit a car on Sand Lick Road injuring Alice Jane Blaylock and Ernest Cantley who were not the intended targets. John Henry Phipps and a 15 year old were jailed for felonious shooting while two suspects, a man and a boy, were arrested. Cantley was treated and released. Blaylock discharged after hospital stay.
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Sand Lick Road
John Henry Phipps
Sand Lick
Alice Jane Blaylock
Eccles
Ernest Cantley
Harper
Miss Blaylock
Cantley
West Virginia Weather Forecast Today Through Saturday
Variable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoon and evening. Highs 82 to 85 today, cooler by weekend, with temperatures 4-6 degrees above normal in north and south regions, rainfall 0.3 to 0.67 inch. River and lake levels normal. Greenbrier River clear, Greenbrier gauge 1.9 ft.
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Chetter
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Oak Hill
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Admiral's Widow Robbed In Northwest Washington
The 70 year old widow of a Navy admiral was assaulted and robbed in her sixth floor apartment in northwest Washington early Monday. She awoke to a choking attack, was raped, bound, and gagged before the intruder fled with a $20 purse after indicating where money was kept. The victim, unnamed, said the assailant had a foreign accent. her husband once commanded a major naval facility in the area.
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Washington
Robert W. Haun
Fluoridation Ruling Expected From AG Office
Raleigh County awaits an opinion from the State Attorney General on fluoridation. Prosecutor Anthony Sparacino met with Assistant Attorney General Virginia Brown to discuss legal issues and county health department details. The court approved fluoridation earlier this year, and an Anti Fluoridation Committee urged the AG opinion, due August 24.
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Raleigh County
Anthony J. Sparacino
Virginia Brown
Sparacino
Convict Held Seven Hostages Then Slain in Gun Battle
In Jenner California AP report, George F. Winn a 33 year old escaped prisoner from San Quentin invaded the Larry von Arx home, held seven people hostage for two hours, demanded food and threatened violence. He seized a deer rifle and ammunition, fled in the family car, announcing he would not be stopped. Deputies pursued across Sonoma County until a gun battle ended his life.
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Jenner
Calif
Sheriff's Deputies
George F. Winn
San Quentin
Larry von Arx
von Arx
Winn
Sonoma County
U.N. Looks Other Way Tear Gas Breaks Up Katanga Mob
In Elisabethville Congo AP reports police used tear gas to scatter street demonstrations against Katanga Premier Moise Tshombe. U.N. forces remained neutral as Belgian troops handed over control. Moroccans Ethiopians Mali and Swedes join to form about three battalions to replace 4000 Belgian troops amid Katanga tensions and Lumumba’s push for central government authority.
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Katanga
Moise Tshombe
U.N
Elisabethville
Tshombe
Patrice Lumumba
Leopoldville
Cartel
United Nations
Kamina
Addis Ababa
Mali
Dag Hammarskjold
Ethiopia
Lumumba
Ghana
Guinea
Kwame Nkrumah
Sekou Boure
12-ounce premature girl survives at Caledonian Hospital
A 12-ounce girl remained alive in an incubator two days after a premature birth at Caledonian Hospital in Brooklyn. Dorothy Dispensa, 35, delivered the baby on Saturday. her husband Joseph, 28, and their older daughter Carel Ann, 12, were present.
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New York
Brookyn
Dorothy Dispensa
Caledonian Hospital
Lumumba asks UN to pull white troops from Congo
Premier Patrice Lumumba requests the United Nations withdraw all white troops from the Congo in a letter to Dag Hammarskjold. He also seeks control of all airports, disarmament of local forces in Katanga, and UN transport means for the central government, risking further tension with the UN Congo operation.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Patrice Lumumba
United Nations
Congo
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Lumumba
Katanga
U. N. Congo
Five Generations In Two Families Across the States
A Morriston Arkansas baby Penny Sue Hatfield born August first becomes the sixth living generation in her family. Her parents are Jack Hatfield Jr and partner, with grandparents, great grandparents, and great great ancestors listed from Perryville Little Rock and Paris. In California Point Arena, Chris Iversen's birth creates another six generation line, with relatives in Sacramento Oakland and San Francisco.
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Morriston, Ark
Penny Sue Hatfield
Jack Hatfield Jr
Bigelow
E. Jones Jr
Perryville
Monroe Johnson
Sweet Home
W. E. Jones Sr
Little
Point Arena
Calif
California
Chris Iversen
Chic Iversen
Boyd Holler
Sacramento
Verona Via
San Francisco
Car Killed Its Owner At Salt Lake Drive In
An empty car rolled 33 feet from its parking spot at a Salt Lake City drive in theater, crashed through a snack bar wall and pinned a teenager against a second wall, killing him. The victim was Charles White Jr. 19, of Murray, Utah, owner of the car.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Charles White Jr
Murray
Utah
NLRB Seeks to Withdraw Union Recognition at Garden Fresh
A trial examiner for the National Labor Relations Board urged Garden Fresh Markets in Clarksburg to withdraw recognition from District 50 of the United Mine Workers after finding unfair labor practices. The case cites aiding bers and discouraging AMWU membership, with two employees allegedly transferred for preferring another union. The filing requests withdrawal of recognition until a Board election proves exclusive majority status.
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Clarksburg
National Labor Relations Board Today
Garden Fresh Markets Inc. of
United Mine Workers
Thomas A. Ricci
District 50
The
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
North America
Garden Fresh Markets
Ricci
OAS Faces Crisis As Cuba Ties To Soviet Orbit Loom
At a Tuesday meeting in San Jose Costa Rica Western Hemisphere foreign ministers confront Cuba moving toward the Soviet bloc and the Dominican Republic dispute. The debate tests the 21 nation Organization of American States and may reshape regional unity amid Cold War tensions.
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Washington
Costa Rica
Caribbean
United States
Fidel Castro
Cuba
San Jose
Dominican
Republc
Organization of American States
OAS
Panama
Simon Bolivar
Cosmopolitan headlines mix U2 case and space talks in one day
Reports from Moscow note Barbara Powers defending her husband amid espionage charges and planning Khrushchev appeal. Echo I satellite links Newark to California as scientists test voice communication via space relay. Eisenhower returns to Cabinet briefing after Camp David. Nautilus resumes Atlantic Fleet service after dry dock. Kennedy matriarch Mrs Fitzgerald hospitalized in Hyannis. Sit ins at White House press for civil rights bill. Roosevelt granddaughter Sara buried at Hyde Park after camp injury death. Alan Paton wins Freedom Award for Cry the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope. Congo Republic begins with midnight 101 gun salute as schools prepare to enroll nationwide.
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Barbara Powers
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
New Jersey
California
Eisenhower
Camp David Md
Portsmouth
N. H
John F. Fitzerald
John F. Kennedy
Cape Cod Hospital
Hyannis
Mass
White House
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
John Roosevelt
Alan Paton
Union of South Africa
Congo Republic
Congo
Belgian Congo
Five Accidental Deaths Recorded in West Virginia
West Virginia weekend deaths include three traffic fatalities and two other accidents. Victims: Denver Wayne Thax ton 23 of Charleston and Ethel Heighton 69 of Huntington. Walton Lewis Hickman 21 of Powellton died in a Montgomery area crash. William Sharpe Jr. 17 drowned near Wheeling Island. Harold Bishop 32 of Pineville electrocuted in a Wyoming County coal mine.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Denver Wayne Thaxton
Ethel Heighton
Huntington
Fayette County
Armstrong Creek
Montogomery
Walton Lewis Hickman
Powellton
William Sharpe Jr
Wheeling Island
Ohio River
Harold Bishop
Pineville
Wyoming County
Four Year Old Found in Dark Cubicle. Father Charged
JOLIET AP A 29 year old father Rudolph Escamillia faces child neglect charges after police found his four year old son Anthony in a dark 5 by 10 foot cell like stairwell prison in their home. Neighbors reported hearing crying and authorities said the boy had multiple cuts and head bumps and was taken to a hospital. The family including three daughters had lived in the home 18 months and neighbors were unaware of the son. The mother Paula Escamillia, 27, apologized saying we ashamed.
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Anthony
Cleveland, Ohio
Lillian Frantantonio
Bernadette Fratantonio
Venita
Norman Ferris
Bernadette
Samuel R. Gerber
Earl E. Smith
Richard R. Wagner
Makarios Faces Cabinet Strife Ahead of Cyprus Republic
Cyprus president-elect Makarios confronts cabinet resignations and a power struggle with former EOKA guerrilla advisers as Nicosia awaits independence. Foreign Minister designate Nicos Kranidiotis declines appointment, after Paschalis Pashalides resigns from commerce and industry. Andreas Azinas remains in post despite earlier threats to quit.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Makarios
Britain
Nicos Kranidiotis
Kranidiotis
Greece
Paschalis Pashalides
Commerce and Industry
Andreas Azinas
EOKA
Woman in coma bears son at Massachusetts hospital
Marilyn Tagen, 27, who has been comatose for four months, gave birth to a healthy son at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital on August 6. doctors cite a rare brain pressure condition. Tagen’s husband Francis, 34, balances job search with daily vigils as life changes since the illness began six years ago.
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Boston
Massachusetts Memorial Hospital
Marilyn Tagen
Francis Tagen
Funeral Today for Lonzo Good in High Speed Road Case
Sherwood Glutz voices concern over reckless driving on the road. Funeral scheduled for today at three as families mourn weekend tragedies from hot rodders flying too fast.
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Lonzo Good
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