World News Briefs: Togliatti Ill, Ties to Galapagos Visit
Italian Communist Party chief Palmiro Togliatti remains seriously ill in the Soviet Union where he had gone for vacation. Prince Philip plans a November trip to the Galapagos Islands, about 600 miles west of the Ecuador mainland. A Vancouver killer whale named Moby Doll started feeding in public after four weeks in a special pen. Chile to attend the Cairo nonaligned nations conference in October per Santiago Foreign Ministry. Formosa colleges to require compulsory physical education next term per Nationalist Chinese Education Ministry. Villagers report a snake seven yards long with a head as large as a dog in Felechosa Spain. President Adolfo Lopez Mateos pursues 14 more official trips abroad before December 1.
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Prince Philip
Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
Vancouver
British Columbia
Chile
Cairo
Foreign Ministry
Santiago
Formosa
Felechosa
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Italian President In Coma Second Day
Italian President Antonio Segni remains in a coma for a second day with no change in condition. Maestro Italo Podesta, renowned conductor, dies in Parma at 79. Raymond Goedecke, 18, a divinity student in Chula Vista, booked on suspicion of murder after confessing to killing his family. A bus carrying children plunges into a ravine near Bourg St. Maurice. at least 14 dead. Rep. Samuel Stratton announces candidacy for New York Senate seat amid expectations Kennedy contender. Johnson hopes nations unite to keep space peaceful and off-limits to earthly aggressors.
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Antonio Segni
Italo Podesta
Parma
Italy
Raymond Goedecke
Chula Vista
Calif
Bourg St. Maurice
France
Samuel Stratton
D-N.y
New York
Robert F. Kennedy
Johnson
All Nations
Earth
Richard N Dunkle Taken By Death At 51
CHARLESTON AP Richard N Dunkle veteran state government official died in a Charleston hospital Saturday after a long illness He was 51 Dunkle served as assistant legislative auditor for eight years and earlier worked for the Veterans Administration and the old budget office.
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Charleston
Richard N. Dunkle
Dunkle
Veterans Administration
Old Budget Office
Grivas Watches Map Amid Turkish Air Attacks at Kokkina
General George Grivas, head of the Greek Cypriot National Guard, studies a map with an aide at Kokkina as Turkish planes attack the town.
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George Grivas
Cyrpsot National Guard
Kokkina
West Virginia GOP Convention Ends with Anti-Corruption Tone
State Republicans wrapped up their Clarksburg convention with a vow to wage a long campaign. Former Gov Cecil Underwood warned of naming Democrats in every county to expose alleged corruption, while Arch Moore urged reform and Ford urged party unity. Delegates nominated presidential electors and backed George Beneke for the State Supreme Court.
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Clarksburg
West Virginia
Cecil H. Underwood
Goff Armory
Nderwood
Underwood
Arch A. Moore
R-W.va
Gerald R. Ford
R-Mich
John A. Jones
Weirton
Fred O. Blue
Bluefield
Lawrence B. Pearson
Fairmont
B. S. Mitchell
Petersburg
Floyd Sayre
Beckley
Ned H. Tanner
Parkersburg
Col. W. H. Ballard II
Welch
George F. Beneke
Wheeling
State Supreme Court
Herman Rollins
Charleston
Rollins
Underwood and Smith Speak on Blind Issues in WV Governor Race
Republican Cecil H. Underwood and Democrat Hulett Smith, rivals for West Virginia governor, pledged top priority to problems of the blind. Smith urged sympathy and understanding while Underwood highlighted 1957 61 care projects and outlined more, including education, rehabilitation, medical care, and blindness prevention.
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Huntington
Cecil H. Underwood
Hulett Smith
Smith
Thw
Virginia Federation of the Lind
State Health Department
Republicans Set Campaign School Pittsburgh
AP report says a two day campaign school for Republican gubernatorial candidates east of the Mississippi begins in Pittsburgh. Hosted by the Republican National Committee with Gov. Robert Smylie chairing the event, attendees cover own expenses and receive guidance on financing scheduling press relations pools and advertising. West coast session to follow in Denver. Participants include Smylie Bellman Scranton, all incumbent governors.
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Pittsburgh
Republican National Committee
Robert Smylie
Idaho
Republican Governors Association
Mississippi River
Denver
Smylie
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Weather forecast for Beckley and West Virginia region
Partly cloudy and warmer today with a high near 72 and a low in the low 60s. Tuesday looks mostly sunny and pleasant. In West Virginia the west will see highs in the 80s and the east in the 70s. Monday will be mostly cloudy to partly sunny with a similar warmth. Tuesday remains mostly sunny and pleasant.
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Beckley
West Virginia
Lilly Released After License Charge in Raleigh County Jail
Willard Lilly Jr. of Coal City was released from Raleigh County Jail at 11 15 a.m. Sunday after paying a fine and costs on a charge of driving without a state operator's license.
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LILLY
Willard Lilly Jr
Coal City
Raleigh
Murder Charge Filed After Vicious Stotesbury Shooting
State Police report Reecie Bryant, 45, of Stotesbury, is jailed on a murder charge after a 5 p.m. shootout with William Lee, 55, of Stotesbury. Lee returned with a .45 revolver. Bryant fired four times through a screen door, killing him instantly. The victim’s body is pending funeral arrangements at Durgan Funeral Home.
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Reecie Bryant
Stotesbury
Raleigh
Bryant
William Lee
Lee
Smith
Durgan Funeral Home
The
Trent and
Rns
Byrd touts pancake antenna for Sugar Grove station
Senator Robert C. Byrd says the Navy seriously considers a pancake wire grid antenna for Sugar Grove, claiming two units could replace 1000 acres of receivers and make the station a global naval radio hub. TRG Inc presents a model. the full system may become the largest and most efficient receiving network.
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Washington
United States
Robert C. Byrd
D. W. Va
Navy
Sugar Grove
Naval Radio
Byrd
Senate Armed Services Committee
Cheltenham
West Virginia
House
Fred W. Kittler
TRG, Inc
Melville
Long Island
TRG, Incc
Federal Aviation Agency
Hawaii
Globe
Soviet offer to help in Cyprus crisis sparks celebration
In Nicosia Greek Cypriots cheer a Soviet proposal to assist in case of invasion, while Makarios faces pressure to travel to Moscow. Tuomioja suffers a mild stroke delaying UN talks in Greece Turkey Cyprus as Khrushchev warns Turkey and Moscow signals possible arms aid. Turkish Cypriots say they doubt Russian intervention will occur.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Makarios
Moscow
U. N
Geneva
U.N
Sakari S. Tuomioja
Finland
Greece
Turkey
Khrushchev
Tass
Frunce
Washington
London
Britain
Saturay
Republic of Cyprus
Russia
Four Hurt In Two Car Prosperity Crash Near Prosperity
A Sunday evening crash near Prosperity injured four people. Edgar Arthur age 25 of Cranberry drove a 1956 car that hit head on with a 1957 car driven by Robert Douglas Jr. 17 of Beckley. Arthur and his wife Anna Mae were treated and released, daughter Patricia Lyons remained listed as satisfactory, and Kathy Gwinn a passenger was treated and released. Douglas was charged with driving left of center. Damage was about 800 dollars.
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Prosperity
Edgar Arthur
Cranberry
Robert Douglas, Jr
Beckley
Arthur
Anna Mae
Appalachian Regional Hospital
Patricia Lyons
Kathy Gwinn
Douglas
Two Killed On State Highways
Two West Virginia traffic deaths during the weekend raise the 1964 highway toll to 274. Warren Fay Harbert, 38, of Youngstown Ohio, died when his car collided with another vehicle near Bluefield and hit a utility pole. Clarissa M Woodard, 57, of Ona Cabell County, died in a two car crash near Barboursville after her car rear ended a vehicle waiting to turn left. In a separate four vehicle wreck near Winchester three Martinsburg residents Ernest Jack Dyche 56 Virginia Dyche 55 and Norma Jean Price 25 died riding in a pickup on US 11 when it collided with others.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Warren Fay Harbert
Youngstown
Ohio
Bluefield
Clarissa M. Woodard
Ona
Cabell County
Barboursville
West
Six Claimed In Kentucky Crash
Six people died in a Kentucky collision near Corbin including a Birmingham doctor Dr Ronald C S Young 63 and his wife Josephine 54. Stanton residents Hargus Dennis Faulkner 37 Virginia 42 and children Ellis 5 Lana 11 died. Two Faulkner children 15 and 7 were hospitalized in serious condition. Three adults died instantly and Mrs Faulkner died in surgery.
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Corbin, Ky
Birmingham
Mich
Stanton
Michigan
Ronald C. S. Young
Josephine
Hargus Dennis Faulkner
Virginia
Ellis
Lana
Faulkner
Dennis
Charles
Barron Orders Recreation Plan Across State
Charleston Gov. W. W. Barron issued an executive directive ordering a statewide recreation plan. He said the plan complies with existing and pending federal legislation.
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Charleston
W. W. Barron
Barron
Minister and wife killed in U S 11 W crash near Mooresburg
Rev Billy Joe Rowland, 38, and his wife June, 36, two former South Charleston residents, died in a five car wreck on U S 11 W near Mooresburg Tennessee. Adolph Radle 26 of Chilton Texas swerved across the rain slick bridge hitting four westbound cars. Rowland family car caught fire. their daughter and son in law Nathan Mulder 20 and Kathryn 19 Plain View Texas were in a following car that also burned. Mrs Mulder suffered a head injury.
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Mooresburg
Tenn
Ft. Oglethorpe
U.S
Radie
Pamela Rosemary Barry
New York City
Rowland
Rowlands
Nathan Mulder
Kathryn
Plain View
Tex
Trent
New UAW Offer Guarded Secret
DETROIT AP General Motors Ford and Chrysler kept a deeply guarded secret Sunday of the economic counteroffer they will make Monday in an effort to reach nonstrike agreement with the United Auto Workers Union on a new contract. The companies said no disclosures would be made before their offers are laid on the bargaining table probably about 9:30 a.m. Monday's negotiating sessions are slated to open at 9 a.m. at all three.
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Detroit
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
United Auto Workers Union
Weekend racial violence flares with cross burnings and killings
Across Mississippi and Georgia rioting and cross burnings spread fear as a Black man Willie Earl Guynes 18 is shot in Jackson while white suspects face charges. In Greenwood Silas McGhee 20 is wounded. in Albany Willman Jones 30 is slain. SNCC notes voter drive tensions and a cross-burning wave hits Louisiana towns, including Baton Rouge and Monroe, with police and FBI investigating an explosion in McComb.
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Greenwood
Miss
Albany
Louisiana
Mississippi
Jackson
Willie Earl Guynes
Markus Perkins
D.J. Hawkins
Guynes
Council of Federated Organizations
COFO
Jackson Street
Silas McGhee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
Delta
McGhee
Harlem
Laurie Pritchett
Willman Jones
Pritchett
Baton Rouge
Monroe
Lake Charles
Alexandria
FBI
McComb
Mines Talks Scheduled Today in Kanawha County
Union officials from Beckley and Washington, D. C., visit Kanawha County to mediate a dispute causing stoppages at about three dozen coal mines. The friction centers on Carbon Fuel Co. No. 8 mine at Winifrede where two men were not assigned to roof bolting and cutting machines as ruled by an arbitrator in 1958. Local 2236 miners and other operators have sympathy strikes, with hopes for progress at a 2 p.m. meeting.
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Charleston
Beckley
Washington, D.C
Kanawha County
George Titler
United Mine Workers of America District 29
John Kametz
UMW
Washington
Willis Johnston
Winifrede
Titler
Kametz
Johnston
Carbon Fuel Co
Cabin Creek
R. R. Humphreys
District 17
Humphreys
UN fear fuels walkout threat over UN dues
East European sources warn the Soviet Union and 10 Communist allies will walk out of the United Nations if votes are lost in the General Assembly for falling behind in dues. Secretary-General U Thant calls the threat serious as he works to avert a showdown before the 19th annual session opening November 10. The issue centers on refusal to pay special assessments for Congo and Middle East peacekeeping operations.
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United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
General Assembly
U Thant
Assembly
U.N
Congo
Middle East
$108 Stolen In MacArthur Theft
Benny Lee Lilly of Flat Top was arrested by State Police on a grand larceny charge. He allegedly stole $108 from the Kaye Service Station at MacArthur and was jailed in Raleigh County at 8 30 p m.
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Benny Lee Lilly
Flat Top
Lilly
Kaye
MacArthur
Raleigh
Five Arrested In Riots In Gotham
In New York a predominantly Negro crowd of about 500 teens left a dance near Times Square and smashed several storefront windows. Police arrested five youths as the larger crowd dispersed after the incident at Palm Gardens on West 52nd Street. Items were looted from a clothing store following a waste basket throw.
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New York
Broadway
Times Square
Palm Gardens
West 52Nd Street
Russian Defectors Speak Out Life In Soviet Union
Two Russian musicians Boris Medny and Igor Berechtsis defected seeking asylum in the U S Embassy Tokyo. They boarded a Tokyo Copenhagen flight with a CIA escort after saying life in Russia is impossible. They traveled via Anchorage with U S passports but asylum not granted.
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Tokyo
Russia
U.S
Anchorage
Alaska
Copenhagen
West Germany
Central Intelligence Agency
Customs and Immigration
Soviet Union
United States
Boris Midney
Igor Berecshtis
Drunken Driving Charge Is Filed
State Police booked Jimmy Cain of Basin in Raleigh County Jail at 9 30 p m Sunday on a drunken driving charge.
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Jimmy Cain
Basin
Raleigh
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Palmiro Togliatti
Richard Dunkle
Mahi
Kremlin
Kentucky
UAW
South
Philip Hocker
Princeton University
Hocker
Corning
Commie
Gotham
Soviet
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