Ivy Bluff Prison Break By Twenty Felons
Twenty inmates overpowered guards at Ivy Bluff Prison in North Carolina and fled in a truck armed with a sub machine gun rifles and pistols. Police across the region were alerted as the escape stretched from the segregation unit to dormitories and nearby towns.
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Ivy Bluff
N. C
North Carolina
Alcatraz
North Carolina Highway Patrol
R. A. Allen
Raleigh
Allen
Yanceyville
Virginia State Line
William F. Bailey
State system criticized for disjointed natural resource protection
Harold Powers of West Virginia Sportsmen Unlimited told the Joint Committee on Natural Resources that protection of land water and air is fragmented across state agencies. He urged consolidating duties into a Department of Natural Resources to reduce duplication and improve efficiency while highlighting funding and personnel gaps.
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U. Charleston
West Virginia Sportsmen Unlimited
Joint Committee On Natural Resources
Harold Powers
Charleston
Sportsmen’s Organization
Department of Natural Resources
Water Resources Commission
Snow Closes Schools Across Two West Virginia Counties
Heavy snow led to widespread school closures in Barbour and Randolph counties with buses stalled and 10 to 12 inch drifts. Pickens High School and seven elementary schools in Randolph were shut, while roads became hazardous and travel slowed statewide.
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Associated Press
Barbour
Randolph
Stark A. Wilmoth
Pickens
Bluefield
Bramwell
Mercer County
West Virginia
West Virginia Turnpike
Democratic Executive Committee Meets to Plan Delegates
West Virginia Democratic Chairman Hulett C. Smith announced a meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee for Monday at 1 30 p m at the Press Club in Charleston. The session will decide how West Virginia’s delegates to the May 1960 Democratic National Convention are chosen and discuss routine matters and the proposed Democratic Women’s Council from the previous Democratic Women’s Day Program. Luncheon for committee members and guests follows at 12 30 at the Press Club on Kanawha Boulevard.
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Democratic
Hulett C. Smith
Beckley
West Virginia
Democratic Executive Committee
Press Club
Charleston
Smith
Democratic Women's Council
Kanawha Boulevard
Neighbor Believes In Beckley Future
In Wyoming County, T. T. Acord of Oceana sent a $10 check to purchase stock in the Beckley Business Development Corporation. Stock is not yet sold, but the payment is filed for when stock certificates are ready, and Acord favours using the full name rather than an abbreviation.
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Wyoming County
Beckley
T. T. Acord
Oceana
Beckley Business Development Corporation
Acord
BBDC
Death Toll Nears Sixty in Savage Atlantic Storm
London reports hurricane winds and severe weather across Europe for a third day. The storm brings blizzards floods and deep freezes from Scandinavia to central Europe with a rising Reyran River threatening Frejus Plage and 2500 residents as more than 300 deaths were attributed to the Maplepasset Dam break last week. Rescue crews evacuate and shipping faces massive disruptions as ships struggle and vessels are lost across the Atlantic and North Sea.
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London
Europe
Scandinavia
French Riviera
Reyran
Maplepasset
Frejus-Plage
Atlantic
Second Raleigh County Pilot Sets Altitude Record
Navy Cmdr. Lawrence E. Flint Jr. became the second Raleigh County man to blaze a skyward path, soaring from Edwards Air Force Base to an unofficial altitude record of 98,560 feet aboard a McDonnell F4H Phantom II. He described weightless flight and the top’s darkness, with the 40 minute run ending in a controlled descent.
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Raleigh County
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Navy
Lawrence E. Flint Jr
Rosetta Flint
Park St
Beckley
Howard Clifton
Tick’’ Lilly, Beaver
Tick
Flint
Edwards Base
Soviet Union
Maj. V. S. Ilyshin
Dog head transplant claims by Chinese Communists
The Chinese Communists said they succeeded in transplanting a dog's head onto a different body twice. In the Nov. 11 experiment the head lived 32 hours, and in the Nov. 26 case it survived 5 days and 4 hours, the report said.
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Hong Kong
All County Roads Open For Travel
Main roads throughout Raleigh County are open for travel with chains advised for mountain routes. State Road Commission crews cleared heavy snow as three flights landed at Raleigh County Memorial Airport and Bald Knob Ski Slopes reported excellent conditions for skiers.
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Raleigh County
Man
Sun
Raleigh County Division
State Road Commission
Herb Alloy
Raleigh County Memorial Airport
Bald Knob
West Virginia Weather Warming Expectation and River Update
Variable cloudiness today with a bit warmer temperatures. mountains in the 30s and lower elevations in the 40s. Fair tonight with lows 15 to 25, Wednesday partly cloudy and slightly colder. Beckley high 22, low 0. Greenbrier river normal but cloudy, Bluestone normal to slightly cloudy, 4.6 gates open, gauge 2.7 ft. Bald Knob reports good skiing conditions and will open from noon to 10 pm.
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Beckley
Ee Obindaetinew
Cece
Ovcecces
Vicnsess
Greenbrier
Bald Knob
Would-Be Robber Killed By Attendant
In Bowie Maryland an attendant Gilbert Gertz 27 shot and killed a would be robber who demanded money. The man identified by the FBI as Paul N Marshall of Lanham Maryland attempted to take the attendant’s pistol and was killed.
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Bowie, Md
Gilbert Gertz
Gertz
FBI
Paul N. Marshall
Lanham
Senate probes seek cartel evidence in drug price markups
Senate Antitrust subcommittee pressed Schering Corp while examining alleged price markups from cents to dollars on drugs like progestin and estinyl. Chairman Kefauver demanded foreign licensing agreements, and Brown challenged staff figures as incomplete without costs for research, development, and promotion.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Schering Corp
Bloomfield
N. J
Estes Kefauver
Dtenn
Francis C. Brown
Kefauver
Schering
Brown
Subcommittee
John Blair
Spectacular Finch Murder Trial Opens in Los Angeles
The Finch murder trial begins in the Hall of Justice with high society intrigue, romance and violence. Prosecutors say Dr. R Bernard Finch killed Barbara Finch amid an affair with Carole Tregoff while both were married. The case unfolds with flashbacks to an estate in West Covina.
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Finch
Hall of Justice
West Covina
Lady Barbara
Barbara Finch
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Barbara
Lyle Daugh
Erty
Jean Finch
Carole Tregoff Pampa
James Pappa
West Virginia Designates Dec 2 and Jan 2 as Legal Holidays
Gov Underwood proclaimed December 2 and January 2 as state legal holidays to provide long weekends for Christmas and New Year. He urged broad cessation of business where possible. The Christmas and New Year holidays fell on a Friday, with the holiday observed on the following Saturday.
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Charleston
Underwood
West Virginia
Dreaming Youth Slays Mother in Redondo Beach
Police say 17 year old Edgar Lee Cox woke from a bad dream and fatally stabbed his mother Edna Fisher 38 and wounded his stepfather Don Fisher 28 in Redondo Beach California. The teen was booked on suspicion of murder after being found with a bloodstained hunting knife. A 12 month old daughter escaped unharmed.
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Redondo Beach
Calif
Don Fisher
Fisher
Edna
Torrance
Lament on humor and growth from Sherwood Glutz
Sherwood Glutz remarks that a person without humor has little stake in life and that growing up comes with laughing at oneself. He urges embracing wit and a cheerful attitude rather than sourpuss behavior, noting everyone must endure life with a grin.
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Hades
Porter Files For Delegate Position At National Convention
Beckley businessman and city councilman George C. Porter has filed his candidacy as delegate-at-large to the National Democratic Convention. He is completing his second council term and leads local service clubs including Shrine Kiwanis Elks and Moose. Porter is state chairman of Democratic Volunteers For Victory in ’60. married to Thelma Burkett with two daughters. His candidacy certificate was mailed to the Secretary of State.
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George C. Porter
Beckley
Porter
Beckley Shrine Club
Kiwanis Club
Masons, Shrine, Elks and Moose
Thelma Burkett
Democratic Volunteers For Victory In
Santa Claus labeled counter-revolutionary in Cuba amid Epiphany call
Cuba declares Santa Claus a foreign counter-revolutionary enemy of Fidel Castro and urges celebration of Epiphany on January 6. In Pittsburgh 1700 transportation workers strike, Guatemala voting favors rightist control with left party gaining seats. Navy tests Polaris missile. Joan Collins suspended. Luana Patten and John Smith announce engagement.
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Cuba
Fidel Castro
Ministry of Social Welfare
Pittsburgh Railways Co
Miggeras Fuentes
Congress
Guatemala
Revolutionary Party
Steelworkers Union
Kaiser Steel Corp
Navy
Twentieth Century-Fox Studio
Joan Collins
London
Luana Patten
John Smith
Cimarron City
Laramie
Confederate veteran Walt er Williams in declining health
Confederate veteran Walt er Williams aged 117, the last surviving Civil War veteran, worsens after a fourth pneumonia bout in Houston Texas. The report notes his fragile condition and extended age as context for his reduced health.
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Walter Williams
Houston
Tex
American Airlines
Communist Party
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
N. J
State Briefs: Bomb scare delays American Airlines flight
An American Airlines flight from Charleston to Chicago was held about 30 minutes Monday after a bomb scare. A search following a telephone warning found no explosives. State Treasurer Orel J. Skeen obtained a filing blank but declined to say which office he may run for. Uncertainty over steel production led the state to open bids on steel and aluminum for next year's license plates, with Wheeling Steel Corp. verbally awarded 126 tons of steel at $7.70 per 100 pounds.
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American Airlines
Charleston
Chicago
Orel J. Skeen
Secretary of State
Wheeling Steel Corp
State Purchases New Plane For Governor
The State Road Commission announced it will buy a new twin engine Aero Commander airplane for the governor and officials. Delivery is expected around December 15 in Charleston. The cost is 138,538 with 55,000 credit for trading in the older executive plane.
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Charleston
State Road Commission
SAC
William C. Marland
Charleston Driver Hurt In Turnpike Wreck
C. E. Ellison of Charleston is hospitalized at Raleigh General after a noon hour single car crash at milepost 41 on the West Virginia Turnpike. He was alone in a late model car and state police investigate. further details unavailable.
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C. E. Ellison
Charleston
Raleigh General Hospital
West Virginia Turnpike
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