OAS Seeks Sanctions On Trujillo Regime Over Caribbean Crisis
At the Inter-American conference in San Jose the ministers debated sanctions against Rafael Trujillo's Dominican regime. Proposals included prompt sanctions, an observation mission, or a staged approach with a six month grace period for elections, backed by a potential U.N. appeal. The U.S. plan urged clear condemnation while Cuba defended the regime and clashed with the United States.
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Western Hemisphere
Cuba
United States
Venezuela
Dominican Republic
Caribbean
Rafael L. Trujillo
Trujillo
Inter-American Observation Committee
U.N. Security Council
U.S
Woman Pilot poised for space flight role
Miss Cobb, Oklahoma born pilot and four time award winner, passed 12 of 20 physiological tests for space flight. She has set altitude and speed records, holds a Federation Aeronautique Internationale gold medal, and is one of eight American women with a multi engine rating. Her mentor predicts astronauts could suit her talents.
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Air Force
W. Harvey Cobb
Ponca City
Okla
Aero Design and Engineering
Tom Harris
Women
National Aeronautic Assn
Washington
Prisoner Reunited With Family After Court Visit
In a Moscow court scene a wife and mother wiped brows with a damp handkerchief then steadied themselves as Barbara and her husband, long separated since Sunday, were reunited after sentencing. His mother, father, and sister were briefly permitted to see him for an hour.
Par ker named deputy director of Strategic Target Office
REAR ADM. Edward N. Parker, a decorated World War II destroyer commander, assumed today the post of deputy director of the Strategic Target Office, which will select targets behind the iron curtain and decide weapons use in a nuclear war. Monsoon floods threaten Vientiane as politics fade from the scene. Maj. Gen. Charles W. Ryder, 68, a World War II veteran and former West Point commandant, dies in Vineyard Haven, Mass. Greta Thyssen pays a 25 dollar fine in Los Angeles for a traffic offense. Stafford Castle crumbles, crushing an 18 year old youth. State Health Director N. H. Dyer orders 18 still unlicensed nursing homes to comply with fire safety rules or face action. A Kingsford Charcoal meeting with a union is canceled and sent to the NLRB. Charleston businessman James Ayward Cox, 42, dies of a heart attack at his Kanawha City home. Alva H. Thompson of Welch injured in a state fall at Pocahontas Fuel Co. Bishop mine. Raymond Johnson, 47, of North Tazewell, Va., dead.
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Edward N. Parker
Strategic
Vientiane
Laos
Charles W. Ryder
West Point
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Greta Thyssen
Los Angeles
Stafford Castle
N. H. Dyer
Kingsford Charcoal Co
Parsons
National Labor Relations Board
Charleston
James Ayward Cox
A. W. Cox
Kanawha
Alva H. Thompson
Welch
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Bishop
Animal Bite Report Issued by Raleigh County Health
Raleigh County Health Department files weekly disease control report noting one dog bite in Raleigh. State health secretary Mildred Miller confirms the incident and reporting to the West Virginia Department of Health.
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West Virginia
Statepartment of Health Disease Control
Raleigh
Eisenhower nominating Gen Decker as Army chief of staff
President Eisenhower announced the selection of Gen George Henry Decker as chief of staff of the Army. Decker, 58, currently Army vice chief of staff, would succeed Gen Lyman Lemnitzer and later follow Gen Nathan Twining as chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Decker’s career spans budget and comptroller roles, field commands, and Korea service, with awards including the Distinguished Service Medal and Silver Star. He was born February 16 1902 in Catskills New York and is married with two children Jane and James I.
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Washington
George Henry Decker
Army
Eisenhower
Decker
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Air Force
Nathan F. Twining
Lemnitzer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lafayette College
Easton
West Point
Army Command
George C. Marshall
United States
Hawaii
New Guinea
6Th Army
Walter Krueger
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Philippines
U.S
U.N
Korea
Catskills
N.Y
Jane
James I. Decker
Congo Airport Siege Marks U N Control Return
United Nations troops regained control of Leopoldville airport as Congolese soldiers were notably absent on the streets. Lumumba defended his state of emergency as a measure to curb foreign infiltration and to screen passengers arriving at the airport.
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Congo
U. N
Leopoldville
Lumumba
Brooke County Deputy Returns Desertion Suspect for Hearing
Phyllis Jean Parrish was booked at Raleigh County Jail on deserting her child and returned to Brooke County today for a hearing. A Brooke County deputy sheriff arrested her and arrived at the county jail to pick up Parrish this morning.
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Phyllis Jean Parrish
Raleigh
Brooke County
Deaths and Funerals, Margaret Walsh Yates
Funeral services for Margaret Walsh Yates 61 of Brentwood Estates Fort Lauderdale Fla will be held at Altermeyer Funeral Home Wheeling at 830 am Saturday High mass at 900 am in St Joseph Cathedral Burial in Wheeling She is survived by her husband Edward C Yates of Fort Lauderdale a brother John C Walsh Wheeling and a sister Mrs Heman Krueger Wheel ing Also funeral services for Jenny Lucille Shiplett 71 Whitesville were at 2 pm today at Valley Funeral Home Chapel Whitesville Rev E L Morrison in charge Burial Mordue Cemetery She died Wednesday night in a Charleston hospital after a long illness She is survived by a son David A Shiplett Bradenton Fla a daughter Mrs Gernie Mersmer Saulsberry NC four grandchildren and four great grandchildren
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Margaret Walsh Yates
Brentwood Estates
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Altermeyer
Wheeling
St. Joseph's Cathedral
Benwood
Beckley
Edward C. Yates
Fort, Lauderdale
John C. Walsh
Heman Krueger
Jenny Lucille Shiplett
Whitesville
Valley Funeral Home
E. L. Morrison
Mordue
Shiplett
Charleston
David A. Shiplett
Bradenton
Gernie Messmer
Saulsberry
N. C
Funeral services for Mrs Emma Jane Oliver Gauley Bridge
Funeral services for Mrs Emma Jane Oliver of Gauley Bridge were held at 2 p.m. in Gauley Bridge Baptist Church with Rev Pelton Vandercoy officiating. She died after a long illness in a Fayetteville nursing home. A Virginia native, she lived most of her life in Gauley Bridge and joined the church in 1891. Survivors include son Maynard of Oak Hill, daughter Mrs Alice Webb of Gauley Bridge, 10 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and eight great great grandchildren.
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Emma Jane Oliver
Gauley
Gauley Bridge Baptist Church
Pelton FE. Vandercoy
Maynard
Oak Hill
Alice Webb
Gauley Bridge
Solicitor Denounced for Unauthorized VFW DAV Solicitation
Beckley VFW Post 4469 Commander John Taylor says an unidentified man is soliciting money in the city falsely using the VFW name as sponsor and also posing as a DAV representative. One report says the man may use crutches. at another home he did not. An officer of the local DAV confirms the solicitation is unauthorized.
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John Taylor
Beckley
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Taylor
DAV
Cuba Seizes U S Cement Plant Amid Reforms
HAVANA AP A government interventor seized properties of the American owned Cuban Portland Cement Co a Lone Star Cement Co subsidiary. The plant at Mariel near Havana has operated since 1918 and the action concerns a second mill site and an estimated replacement value of 27 million dollars.
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Havana
Eight Die in Colo Car Truck Crash Near Alamosa
Eight people are dead after a crash involving a car and a truck near Alamosa Colorado just before midnight. Six of the victims are children. Authorities report the accident occurred on a rural road and are investigating the cause.
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Alamosa
Colo. Iap
Colorado
Just Beginning To Fight Say South West Virginia Trade Council
A union spokesman for the Southern West Virginia Building and Construction Trade Council of the AFL CIO declared they have not lost the dispute with local contractors and will stay to fight. Bob Edwards of Princeton, speaking after a union meeting at the Plumbers and Pipefitters hall, said pickets will return to duty soon and the council intends to stay through spring. The Register reported only three city projects are picketed, amid contractor refusal to sign a contract with the council and a dispute over wages and union labor.
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Register
Southern
West Virginia
Raleigh County Bank
Basile N. Meadows
Pike Driver Executes Bond Before Magistrate Burke
Robert N. King of Washington D C posted a 10850 bond to appear at 10 am Monday after being arrested by Turnpike State Police at 8 30 pm Thursday for driving while drunk. Beckley teen Dempsey Lee Meador 17 was arrested at 2 30 am today for driving with no city operator's license and ordered to appear in Police Court. A 16 year old Dayton juvenile jailed at 3 30 am today for breaking and entering. Clarence Blevins of Helen released from jail after an assault and battery warrant was withdrawn before Magistrate Burke. He was jailed at 7 35 pm Thursday by a constable.
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Robert N. King
Washington
D. C
W. A. Burke
Turnpike
Beckley
Dempsey Lee Meador
Dayton
Ohio
Clarence Blevins
Helen
Burke
Gambling and liquor at Greenbrier County clubs reviewed
Testimony at a crime commission hearing detailed operators at the Clover Club Pines Colonial Club and other White Sulphur Springs venues. Witnesses cited gambling devices liquor by the drink and attempts to shield raids, with former officers and local figures named in records and past offenses.
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George Francis Ziehms
Clover Club
White Sphur Springs
Greenbrier Hotel
Ziehms
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Florida
White Sulphur Springs
The
Crime Commission
F. Dean Nichols
Kautz
Charleston
Pines
the Pines
White Sulphur
Colonial Club
Las Vegas
Marion W. Skaggs
Lonial
Skaggs
W.W. Murphy
William Gerhart
Harbor Springs
Mich
Charles McNamara
Berkley
William H. Swarts
Cleveland
Leslie J. Alfred
Murphy
Greenbrier
Gerhart
MacNamara
Swarts
State Senate
Ralph J. Bean
Underwood
Bean
Mineral County
Moorefield
Col. Fair
Greenbrier County
Sat Otto Will Join Company
State Police Superintendent Hazen Fair announced personnel changes including the transfer of Sgt. C. N. Otto from Philippi to Beckley based Co. D, a demotion of Cpl. S. S. Fleck to trooper at Shinnston, and a promotion of Trooper W. F. Dove to corporal. Additional transfers moved Sgt. H. C. Fullmer from Logan to Co. A, Sgt. R. K. Price from South Charleston Co. B to Elkins Co. C, and Sgt. W. K. McMorrow from Morgantown Co. A to Co. B.
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Office of State Police
Hazen Fair
Sgt
C. N. Otto
Philippi
Co. C
Co. D
Beckley
Cpl
S. S. Fleck
Shinnston
W. F. Dove
New Martinsville
H.C. Fullmer
Logan
Co. A
R. K. Price
South Charleston
Co. B
Elkins
W. K. McMorrow
Morgantown
Bed Clothing Requested for Athens Scout Session
Raleigh County Boy Scout executive Wallace Noble asks adult scouters attending Saturday's session at Concord College in Athens to bring bed clothing as overnight stays are planned on campus. For more information call CL 3-8153. A social period and swimming facilities will be available. certificates will be awarded to scouters completing the course.
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Raleigh County
Wallace Noble
Concord College
Athens
Noble
Driver Arrested After Failure To Appear
John Steelman 107 Ninth St was arrested by City Police at 10 30 a m on a warrant after failing to appear in Police Court on driving with no city driver s license He paid 5 for warrant costs and 10 for the license charge before being released.
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John Steelman
Ninth St
Wage Bill Faces Senate Split and House Hurdle
The Kennedy wage bill encounters Senate Republican resistance with two conferees poised to oppose the House version. Senator Barry Goldwater doubts passage, while Senate Republican Leader Dirksen warns of a veto if in the presidency. A Monroney amendment to limit coverage to multi state outlets failed 50-48, prompting Kennedy to drop about 900,000 workers from the bill including hotels and restaurants.
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House
House Rules Committee
Senate
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Kennedy
Massachusetts
A. S
Mike Monroney
D-Okla
Governor names four offcers in political activity probe
Gov Abeys said discredited state police officers include former Beckley captain A J Walker. Hazen Fair dismissed Walker for appearing on campaign cards linked to Slim Thompson for sheriff in the May primary. He called it a violation of state police political rules. The hearing then shifted to campaign talk the senate candidate said he expected the largest campaign yet. He noted two main contenders for the presidency will draw interest, and vowed new leadership in the legislature regardless of outcome.
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A. J. Walker
Beckley
Hazen Fair
Walker
C. A. “Slim” Thompson
Explosive Crime Commission
Jennings Randolph
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Stan Musial
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Ronceverte
Virginia
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Jack Kochman
Hell Drivers
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