Symphony Eyes Beckley Area for Summer Workshop Site
A nine member party spent eight hours touring 200 acres east of Shady Spring near Route 1921 exploring a potential summer encampment site for the American Symphony Orchestra League. The inspection included a jeep ride walk and a plane flight over the land, with Grand view State Park and Turkey Spur viewed. If chosen the site could host the League’s summer workshop and possibly relocate its national headquarters from Charleston.
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Beckley Plateau
American Symphony Orchestra
League
Shady Spring
Little Beaver Creek
Herbert Alley
Raleigh County Memorial Airport
Raleigh County Flight School
Grandview State Park
Turkey Spur
Beckley
Beckley Hotel
John S. Edwards
American Sumaic Orchestra League
Pittsburgh Symphony
Charleston
Helen M. Thompson
Carl Thompson
Odessa Lewis
Virgil Matherly
Daniels
Harry Headley
John W. Eye
Emile J. Hodel
Charles Hodel
Beckley Ra leigh County Day at State Fair
Beckley and Raleigh County Day at the State Fair will assemble at Woodrow Wilson High School at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday for an automobile caravan. Harry Anderson of the Chamber of Commerce urges attendees to contact the Chamber office to join. Parking and grand stand space will be reserved for the Raleigh County delegation.
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Beckley
Raleigh
Harry Anderson
Chamber of Commerce
Woodrow Wilson High School
Chamber
Raleigh County
East Gulf Mine Picketing Halted Third Time
Pickets from Keith and Red Parrot were ordered away from the East Gulf mine for the third time. About 1861 miners who refused to cross the lines were told to return to work. North American Coal and Dock Co. owns the mines, with District 29 and District 17 officials enforcing cease picketing orders as workers stayed off shift.
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Keith
Red Parrot
East Gulf Mine
District 29
United Mine Workers of America
District 17
North American Coal and Dock Co
Prenter
East Gulf
Legion Hall Damaged Fire Near Capitol in Charleston
An early morning fire at the American Legion state headquarters near the State Capitol caused about $5,000 in damage, according to unofficial estimates. The blaze damaged the Legion Hall one block west of the Capitol in Charleston.
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Charleston
American Legion
West Virginia Weather Outlook and River Report
Cloudy conditions prevail in the far east this morning with fair weather elsewhere. Highs reach 90s in the west and 80s in the east, with tonight’s lows around 65 to 75 and showers possible. Tuesday will be hot and humid, extended warmth into Thursday, slight cool down Friday or Saturday, rainfall around 1 to 4 inches in scattered thundershowers. Beckley highs yesterday near 90s, Becket Oak Hill records show mid 90s, Greenbrier River low and clear, Bluestone Reservoir normal and clear with gates open and gauge at 1.5 feet.
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W. Va
Beckley High
Bluestone
Beckley Sky Gazette Sunrise Times and Visible Planets
Beckley skies show sunrise at 5:48 a.m. with a moonrise at 10:38 p.m. Last Quarter on Aug 26. Saturn appears due south at 8:17 p.m. Jupiter sits low in the southwest at 8:39 a.m. Mercury is visible only for the next few mornings before sunrise in the east, with a next appearance as an ore planet in November.
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Gunset
Saturn
Jupiter
Mercury
Charles Coroum Dies At Lanark
Charles Lee Coroum 69 of Lanark died at 11 30 p m Sunday after months of illness. A retired coal miner and Church of Christ member, he was born August 10 1890 in Floyd County Virginia. Surviving are his wife Augusta Blake Coroum a son Earl Bassett Va. six daughters Kathryn Farley Mullens Mary Repass Bangor Mo Virginia Marshall College Park Md Annie Sarrell Williamson Alberta Coroum Cleveland Ohio Milton Dunkley Piney View Melburn Stanaford Melvin Sprague and Fred Moundsville. five stepdaughters Mildred Bodo Glen Rogers Kathryn Mock Calloway Heights Violet Arthur Sprague Madeline Bednarski Lanark and Evelyn Graham Lanark. 46 grandchildren 15 great grandchildren. Funeral 2 pm Wednesday at Stanaford Church of Christ Rev Fred Cline officiating burial in Stanaford Cemetery Pallbearers Bill Welch Police Towers Roy Bailey Roy Hilbert Joe Woicehovich Clifton McMillan. Body to be moved from Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home to stepdaughter Mrs Frank Bednarski Lanark at 3 pm.
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Charles Lee Coroum
Lanark
Stanford Church of Christ
Floyd County
Thomas and
Nancy Jackson Coroum
Augusta Blake Coroum
Earl
Bassett
Kathryn Farley
Mary Repass
Bangor
Virginia Marshall
College Park
Annie Sarrell
Williamson
Alberta Coroum
Cleveland
Ohio
Milton Dunkley
Piney View
Melburn
Stanaford
Melvin
Sprague
Fred
Moundsville
Mildred Bodo
Glen
Madeline Bednarski
Evelyn Graham
Stanaford Church of Christ
Fred Cline
Bill Welch
Police Towers
Roy Bailey
Roy Hilbert
Joe Woicehovich
Clifton McMillan
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Frank Bednarski
Teen-Age Truce Ends Violently in New York Streets
In Manhattan’s lower East Side a church sponsored teen truce collapsed Sunday night, leaving 15 year old Theresa Gee dead and six other teenagers injured when a passing car opened fire. Police say the conflict began after the Sportsmen gang entered territory claimed by the Forsyth gang.
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New York
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Theresa Gee
Sportsmen
Forsyth
Fire, riots, and crimes in brief from several states
Authorities probe crowding caused fatal fire at Ocean County Jail New Jersey eight inmates killed twelve injured including a 90 day disorderly conduct prisoner A prison riot preceded the blaze Guards fought to quell it Government troops report two Laotian rebel gains near Vientiane Firestone to sponsor Eisenhower Khrushchev TV series Truman plans two books Rockefeller romance travels to New York Damone and Angeli reconciliation failures West Virginia medical meeting and a rockslide disrupts U S 60 Huntington Charleston transit strike talks polio outbreak in Pike County Kentucky Dalai Lama Tibet conflict toll Look Magazine banned in Pell City Alabama prison art show draws thousands
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Ocean County
N. J
Vientiane
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Harry S. Truman
White House
United States
Steven Rockefeller
New York
Norway
Vie Damone
Pier Angeli
Pike County
Dalai Lama
New Delhi
India
Tibet
Red China
San Quentin
Calif
Pell City
Ala
Look Magazine
St. Clair County
South
Underwood Speaks To West Virginia Photographers
Gov Cecil H. Underwood addressed more than 80 members of the West Virginia Professional Photographers Association at Beckley Hotel during the 26th annual state convention. He urged locals to promote their state’s natural assets and beauty, calling West Virginians too modest and noting virgin timberland and scenic hills. Other speakers included Frank Mauritz and Carlton O Neil with a later address by Robert L. Perry on Studio Management. The gathering marked the convention’s first Beckley meeting in its 26 year history.
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West Virginia State Medical Assn
White Sulphur Springs
Jacob C. Huffman
Buckhannon
Greenbrier
Underwood
West Virginia
Morgantown
West Virginia University
U. S. 60
Huntington
John A. Shanklin
Charleston
Charleston Transit Co
Rose Marie Pennington
Point Pleasant
Marietta
Ohio
Beckley
West Virginia Professional Photographers Association
Cecil H. Underwood
West
United States
Frank Mauritz
Oak Hill
Carlton O'Neil
Portsmouth
Robert L. Perry
New Haven
Coal Miner Held In Mingo Deaths
WILLIAMSON AP An unemployed Kentucky coal miner was held without charge in Mingo County jail after a hotel lounge shooting spree left two dead and one wounded. May, 29, of McAndrews, was captured near the Tug River after firing nine shots at his estranged wife and others, then fleeing. the gun was knocked from his hand during the escape.
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Slater
May
Dolly Dorton
Williamson
Willis Blankenship
Pikeville
Dorton
Blankenship
Williamson Memorial Hospital
Five Accidental Deaths Listed Over Weekend
Five accidental deaths reported in West Virginia over the weekend include three traffic fatalities, a drowning, and a bulldozer incident. Audrey Kay Ellis, 10 months, drowned after falling into a tub at Madison Creek near Logan. Ronald Waybright, 18, of Clendenin, died on U.S. 119 while allegedly racing with three cars. Ethel Pauline Baker, 41, of Gassaway, drowned after skidding her car on U.S. 19 near Summersville into Middle Ty Creek. Sharon Lynn Middleton, 4, of Deepwater, Fayette County, fell from a truck when brakes failed on a secondary Kimberly road. James A. Weeks, 48, of Grand Cane, Louisiana, crushed under a bulldozer on a pipeline job near U.S. 52 south of Huntington in Wayne County.
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Audrey Kay Ellis
Madison Creek
Logan
Ronald Waybright
Clendenin
U. S. 119
Kanawha County
Waybright
Ethel Pauline Baker
Gassaway
U. S. 19
Summersville
Middlety Creek
Sharon Lynn Middleton
Fayette County
Allen Middleton
Kimberly
Middletons
Deepwater
James A. Weeks
Grand Cane
U. S. 52
Huntington
Wayne County
Weeks
Bartlesville
Snake Bitten Girl Improves At Beckley Hospital
Sandra Kay Light seven years old of Winston is improving at Beckley Memorial Hospital after a snake bite on the left foot. The injury occurred on a Winston path Sunday at 7 30 p m when she stepped on a snake. Her mother and two brothers were with her as they visited Cecil Settles. Her mother split the wound and applied a tourniquet, while Joe Conner used a snake bite kit. She was transferred from Oak Hill to Beckley because Fayette Hospital had no antivenom serum.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Sandra Kay Light
Winston
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Leonard Light
Wrnston
Cecil Settles
Joe Conner
Oak Hill Hospital
Beckley Hospital
Fayette Hospital
Kills Infant Son With Safety Pin
Police charged Betty Joe Ellis 18 with murder after she said she beat the infant son Robert Jessie Ellis and stabbed him repeatedly with a safety pin during a diaper change. Autopsy showed ruptures of the stomach and pan areas and four broken ribs. She said the infant had cried since birth June 5 and she stabbed him Thursday while changing his diaper. husband Robert Ellis was away on a fishing trip. The couple has a 14 month old daughter Linda.
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Houston
Tex
Betty Joe Ellis
Robert Jessie Ellis
Robert Ellis
Linda
Sherwood Glutz Praises First Aid Teams at Safety Meet
In a colorful speech Sherwood Glutz extolled the quick action of first aid teams at a Saturday safety meeting. He joked they work so fast they could outpace a busy bee and noted the coal mine as a place to seek care for injuries. He said if wounded again he would seek one of these teams.
Miners Day First Aid Champions Triumph at Safety Meet
The Itmann mine's first aid team won first honors at the 4th annual Raleigh Fayette Wyoming County safety meet held at Woodrow Wilson High School Stadium Saturday night. Henry Carter of Mines Safety Appliances Co. presented the trophy. Participants included John Salters, James Cook, Howard Cox, Captain Carl Parks, Harold Carte, William Mc Coy, Ralph Greer, and H. H. Moorefield.
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Itmann
Raleigh - Fayette - Wyoming
Woodrow Wilson High School
United States
Henry Carter
Mines Safety Appliances Co
Bluefield
John Salters
James Cook
Howard Cox
Carl Parks
Harold Carte
William McCoy
Ralph Greer
H. H. Moorefield
Woman Admits Smothering Husband in Gary
In McDowell County jail, 36 year old Mrs Koszena Murrell admitted to killing her husband Murrell, 45, a coal miner, by smothering him with a pillow and pushing him down stairs after a night of heavy drinking and quarrels. Authorities indicated death likely occurred at the stairs.
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WELCH
McDowell County
Harry Camper
Koszena
Murrell
Gary
Camper
Juvenile Jailed On Auto Charge
A 16 year old Mabscott juvenile was lodged in Raleigh County Jail at 7 30 p.m. Sunday by City Police on a charge of tampering with an automobile. A 14 year old Beckley juvenile faces juvenile court action on the same charge for tampering with a car Sunday at Ward Evans Motor Co S Oakwood Ave A Pennsylvania juvenile released from Whitesville after arrest with a boy from Aspers Adams County for automobile theft.
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Mabscott
Raleigh County
Beckley
Ward-Evans Motor Co
S. Oakwood Ave
Roy French
Artie
Rosetta Whitehead
Howard L. Mitchell
Columbus
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Whitesville
Aspers
Adams County
Dorsey W. Mann Dies In Hospital
Dorsey William Mann 74 of Daniels died in a local hospital at about 6 a m after four months illness. Born in Ghent June 4 1885 he was a painter and decorator and a Daniels Christian Church member. Surviving are five sons Rex Fray Harry B Herbert Harlan two daughters and a stepson, two brothers, two sisters and many grandchildren. Services were at 2 p m Wednesday at Daniels Community Church with burial at the family cemetery.
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Dorsey William Mann
Daniels
Ghent
Gilbert Ballard
Nancy Elizabeth Lilly Mann
Daniels Christian Church
Oca Rainwater Mann
Wallace W
Wheeling
Rex Fray
Tulsa
Okla
Harry B
Baltimore, Md
Herbert
Harlan
Guy Chalmas West
Farmington
Mich
Donzy Lilly
Roy Lester
Shady Spring
Fred Mann
John Mann
Minnie Phillips
Huntington
Davy Hall
Mesa
Ariz
Daniels Community Church
Leslie A. Garten
Oscar Lilly
Rose and Quesenberry
State Man To Head Legion Finance Body
Charles E. Polley of West Virginia was elected chairman of the American Legion national convention finance committee. Polley works in the engineering department at Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in Charleston.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Charles E. Polley
West Virginia
American Legion
Polley
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Charleston
W. Va
McDowell Woman Held In Husband's Death
Oscar Collins aged 34 was fatally shot at his Litwar home. His wife Virginia Collins aged 28 has been held in McDowell County jail for questioning in the case.
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Welch
Oscar Collins
Litwar
Virginia Collins
McDowell County
Youth Confesses to Fatal Shooting in Lower East Side
A 15 year old boy confessed to firing a volley of bullets that killed a Negro girl and wounded two companions. The shooting occurred amid a wave of street gang violence in Manhattan's lower East Side on Sunday night.
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New York
Manhattan
Street violence erupts as rival gangs clash on East Side
A stretch of fights ends in a fatal shooting and multiple injuries as youths from the Forsyth Street Boys Sportsmen and two neighborhoods clash. A teenager is killed, others wounded, and police detain about 20 youths while a truce brokered by an Episcopal minister seeks to calm the lower East Side after years of peace.
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Julio Rosario
Manuel Cintron
Ernestine Singleton
Robert Combs
Luis Santos
Luis Morales
Forsyth Street Boys
Lower East Side
Assailant Stabs Coed To Death At USC Apartment
Unidentified attacker stabbed Linda Edna Martin 21 in an apartment near the University of Southern California. The music major collapsed from a chest wound as police arrived after a neighbor reported screams. Suspect G Robert Kinzie 27, a graduate art student, told police they planned to marry. he was questioned and released.
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Los Angeles
University of Southern California
Linda Edna Martin
Robert Kinzie
Kinzie
Tom Reddin
Miss Martin
William Tomanovich
Hollywood
Tomanovich
Open Nixon Khrushchev auto claim sparks abstract debate
Washington notes show 1958 U S automobile registrations reach 56 871 000 and 49 390 000 of 51 100 000 homes have electricity. Abstract lists many household ownership figures including vacuums refrigerators and washing machines. Russian life expectancy figures contrast U S and Soviet data.
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Nixon
U. S
Khrushchev
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Shirley
Lewisburg
Danny
Mrs. Crase Pack
Raleigh Register
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Dorsey W. Mann
Legion Finance
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Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
Richard M. Nixon
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