Demo Council Sets Congress Goals in 24-Point Program
Washington AP reports the Democratic Advisory Council released a 24-point agenda for the 86th Congress aiming to expand Social Security, fight inflation, raise the minimum wage, and reform tax laws while noting that Johnson and Rayburn may shape the final bill. The plan cites liberal trends but faces uncertain sponsorship in a Congress focused on national security.
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Washington
Democratic Advisory Council
House
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Congress
Johnson
Council
Democratic
Paul M. Butler
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Truman says 1960 Democratic nomination race wide open
Washington AP Former President Harry S Truman said the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination contest is wide open with no clear winner. He backs no one, notes good young candidates, and will reveal his choice at the right time. Stevenson denies intent to run. Arvey expects a reluctant third bid.
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Washington
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Averell Harriman
New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Jacob M. Arvey
Milnois
Woman Jailed As Shoplifter In Raleigh County
Catherine N. Thomas Hays of 323 Massey Street was sentenced to 60 days in the Raleigh County Jail and fined $10 plus costs after pleading guilty before Magistrate W A Burke on shoplifting charges. She was arrested by City Police at the Pagoda Shopping Center Harper Road and lodged in jail at 10 55 p m Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine N. Thomas Hays
Massey St
Raleigh
W. A. Burke
Raleigh County
Pagoda
Harper Road
Coulter E. Paugh
Columbus
Immunization Clinic Planned Friday in Montreal Offices
The Raleigh County Health Department will run an immunization clinic on Friday in the offices of Dr. Edward Gliserman in Montreal from 12 30 p m to 2 36 p m. The event targets residents needing vaccines and is open to the public.
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Edward Gliserman
Montroal
Raleigh County Health Department
Final Arguments Today In Auto Accident Case
Final arguments in a cross suit involving Harold D. Evans and Paul Lee Hogan will be presented this afternoon before the Raleigh County Circuit Court jury. The case stems from a February 10 automobile accident on Dittsville Road. The damage suit against Willis Water Works was delayed due to George Willis illness.
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Harold D. Evans
Paul Lee Hogan
Raleigh County
Dittsville Road
Willis Water Works
George Willis
Civil Rights Unit Opens Historic Alabama Inquiry
The Civil Rights Commission began a landmark inquiry in Montgomery into alleged Negro voting discrimination with a pledge of fact finding and no aim to take sides. Subpoenaed county voter records faced resistance, with Barbour and Bullock records impounded by Judge George Wallace who warned he would arrest any agent attempting to seize them.
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Montgomery
Ala
Civil Rights Commission
Congress
John A. Hannah
Robert G. Storey
Alabama
Hannah
Storey
Barbour
Bullock
George Wallace
National Guard Reorganization Schedule Announced for WV
Charleston AP reports Adjt. Gen. William Blake unveiled the final West Virginia National Guard reorganization plan. He denounced a leak in Fairmont and set meetings for January to discuss the plan with guardsmen and civic leaders. The schedule targets January 10 in the south and January 11 in the north, with reorganization starting January 15 and finishing by April 15. The plan preserves 33 units, adds a special forces unit and an ordnance company, while eliminating one artillery battalion, one tank battalion and one engineer company.
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Charleston
Adj
William E. Blake
West Virginia National Guard
Blake
Fairmont
Defense Department
Space Probe Yields Facts On Radiation
Washington AP reports Army scientists plan another space shot after Pioneer III failed to reach the moon yet gathered data on earth radiation. The 13 pound probe rose 66,654 miles, burned in North Africa, and logged 38 hours 6 minutes in flight. Pioneer I by the Air Force reached 71,300 miles. two Air Force launches failed at Cape Canaveral.
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Army
North Africa
Air Force
Air
John P. Medaris
Army Missile Command
Peregoy To Address Lincoln School PTA
G. C. Peregoy Woodrow Wilson High School principal will speak to the Lincoln Elementary PTA Tuesday at 7 30 p m about the proposed school legislation program to come before the Legislature when it convenes in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Peregoy
Woodrow Wilson High School
Lincoln Elementary School
Parent-Teachers Association
Peregoy
Street Scene at Neville Street Salvation Booth
Beckley Optimist Club member at the Salvation Army booth on Neville Street leaves to accept a donation from a motorist. Traffic forms a line near the booth as donations are collected.
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Beckley Optimist Club
Salvation Army
Neville Street
Public Works Board warned against cutting WVU budget
The West Virginia Board of Public Works faced cautions that reducing WVU operating funds would harm the university as Gov. Underwood discussed a 5 percent reserve against lower revenues. WVU President-elect Elvis J. Stahr outlined a prioritized budget request of about 8.17 million, with capital outlays of 12.16 million and detailed salary plans.
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Elvis J. Stahr
WVU
George B. Vieweg Jr
Stahr
Morgantown
West Virginia
Vieweg
Potomac State College
WVU Board of Governors
Potomac
Stahl
Edgar B. Sims
Actu
Heavy Snowfall Hits Wide Area Of Nation
The Associated Press reports a sweeping blizzard blanketed the nation from plains to New York, with Oswego New York recording a record 33 inches in 24 hours and 44 inches in the city. Snow and subzero cold paralyzed upstate New York as schools closed and roads drifted shut. High winds off the great lakes created deep drifts and ice impeded shipping on the St Lawrence Seaway. Across eight states heavy snow fell 4 to 7 inches while Chicago O Hare and Midway airports faced delays and reduced ceilings. Temperatures plunged to minus 32 at International Falls while Miami stayed mild at 77. The Southwest warmed into the 60s and 70s with 80s inland, and light rain spread to the Northwest.
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Associated Press
New York
Mississippi Valley
Oswego
N.Y
Upstate New York
Pulaski
Lakes Erie
Ontario
Massena
N. Y
St. Lawrence Seaway
Iowa - Nebraska
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Midway Airport
Chicago
O'Hare
Montana
Wyoming
Iowa
Miles City
Mont
International Falls
Minn
Cut Bank
Mont. Lemmon
M.D
Tennessee
Carolina Mountains
Gulf States
Miami
Fla
Northwest
Washington
Oregon
Salt Lake City
Idaho Mountains
Mabscott Man's Rites Incomplete
Funeral arrangements remain incomplete for Hubert Ray Walters 53 of Mabscott who died at 11 45 a m Sunday in a local hospital He was born March 2 1905 in Monroe County and was a member of Mabscott Methodist Church and Local Union 5771 of the United Mine Workers of America Survivors include his wife Virginia Walters two sons Hubert Jr Freddy two daughters Ellen Jane Alma Lou and Caroline Jean two brothers Estil and Woodrow two sisters Virginia Layne and Myrtle Lamb and two grandchildren The body is at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
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Hubert Ray Walters
Mabscott
Walters
Fletcher Walters
Monroe County
Mabscott Methodist Church
United Mine Workers of America
Stotesbury
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
New Judges Sworn In By West Virginia Court
CHARLESTON AP Thorn ton G Berry Jr of Welch and Harlan M Calhoun of Moorefield, both Democrats, were sworn in today as new judges on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
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Charleston
Thornton G. Berry Jr
Welch
Harlan M. Calhoun
Moorefield
West Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals
Accused Kaifer Waives To Jury
Claude Dalton Beckley waived preliminary hearing before Magistrate Cotton White and will face Raleigh County Grand Jury on felonious assault charges. Dalton was arrested by State Police and lodged in Raleigh County Jail at 10 30 p m Sunday. He allegedly stabbed Clyde Montgomery Raleigh affecting Montgomery’s condition listed as satisfactory at Beckley VA Hospital. Dalton remanded to jail in lieu of a 1000 dollar bond after proceedings before the magistrate.
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Claude Dalton
Beckley
Cotton White
Raleigh
Grand Jury
Dalton
Clyde Montogomery
Montogomery
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Beckleyan Posts Bond on Assault Warrant
Dennis Willis aged 50 of Beckley posted a 15.50 bond to appear before Magistrate W. A. Burke to answer an assault charge. The arrest warrant was issued by Jess Worrell Jr., also of Beckley. Worrell had earlier been fined 10 dollars and costs by the same magistrate on a similar warrant against Willis. Both men were arrested by Beckley Police and held at Raleigh County Jail.
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Dennis Willis
Beckley
W. A. Burke
Willis
Jess Worrell Jr
Worrell
Burke
Raleigh
Tax Sale List At Raleigh County Courthouse
Delinquent property tax sale proceeds with few parcels offered. Spokesman Tracy Riffe, office deputy, states only a small portion of properties are being sold at the Raleigh County Courthouse hall.
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Raleigh County
Tracy Riffe
Kidnap Charge Filed Against Baby-Sitter
A 20 year old woman Dolly Zirk was charged with kidnaping after taking 10 month old Victoria DeLosh from the DeLosh home and then appearing with the child at a second employer in Mount Rainier Maryland. The baby was unharmed and the second employer knew nothing of the disappearance.
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Washington
FBI
Dolly Zirk
Mount Rainier
Victoria DeLosh
Mrs. Zirk
Victoria
DeLosh
Tragic death of three week old Ellen Holland
Ellen Teresa Holland, three week old daughter of Mr and Mrs Roland Sylvester Holland of Stanford, died at home today at 9 a m. The body was taken to the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor pending arrangements.
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Ellen Teresa Holland
Roland Sylvester Holland
Stanaford
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Messiah Draws Crowd At Beckley Church
A capacity crowd filled Beckley Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon for the Beckley singers’ Handel Messiah. William Cruser, church minister of music, directed the performance with Mrs. Julia Secrest as organist.
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Beckley Presbyterian Church
Beckley Singers
William Cruser
Julia Secrest
Berlin Vote Routs Communists in West Berlin Parliament
West Berlin residents rejected Soviet plans to end four power occupation as Socialists led by Willy Brandt won a strong majority. Brandt 44 rose as leader amid anti communist stance while Communists drew 1.9 percent. Soviet proposal to pull Allied troops and form a demilitarized free city persists.
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West Berlin
Red
Willy Brandt
Khrushchev
Brandt
Christian Democrats
Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Union
West Germany
East Germany
Deadlock in Little Rock School Board Remains
In Little Rock Arkansas the desegregation deadlock persisted after an election that left three anti Faubus businessmen on the school board. Faubus labeled them integrationists while five others supported by his Citizens Council won or lost in tight races. The new board faces a federal order for affirmative steps toward racially integrated classes.
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Little Rock, Ark
Orval E. Faubus
Little Rock
Faubus
Ted L .Lamb
Amis Guthridge
Capital Citizens Council
Lamb
Billy) Rector
Everett Tucker Jr
Russell Matson Jr
Charles W. Stephens
Central High School
Assn
Tucker
Matson
Stephens
pro-Faubus
Citizens Council
Ren. D. Rowland Sr
Robert W. Laster
Atty. Ed 1. McKiiney Jr
Undp
Cse .T
Midway Store Break-In Probed By Deputies
Raleigh County sheriff's deputies investigate a break-in at the Midway General Store Midway. Intruders smashed a door lock and took about $1500 in merchandise including clothing groceries and shotgun shells. The store had been entered previously about two weeks earlier by thieves.
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Raleigh County Sheriff's Deputies
Midway General Store
Midway
Market To Discontinue Use Of Hulling Machine
The Beckley Farmers Market in Cranberry Heights will discontinue the walnut hulIing machine operation on Wednesday. O C Hutchison market manager says a Stockton Missouri company supplied the machine and buys hulled walnuts. A weekend shipment of 8000 pounds was sent to the firm, while the market will continue to buy walnuts that are hulled and dried.
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Beckley
Cranberry Heights
O. C. Hutchison
Stockton
Hutchison
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