Turnpike land deeds show big sums in Raleigh County
A Raleigh County list details land conveyances tied to the turnpike. The New River Company received the largest amount at 24000 dollars due to extensive acreage along the route. Other high figures include Nina Hughes 23000, Lana Walker 22000, and families like Crawford 19500. Smallest payment noted is 35 dollars to G F Wiseman and M H Wiseman. The James L Billups case is cited with 1500 dollars for a land parcel. See Raleigh County list on Page 12.
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Turnpike Commission
Raleigh
New River Company
NBC
Lana FE. Walker
Nina Hughes
Earl R. Crawford
Ruth A. Crawford
P. H. Jones
8S. W. Jones
Raleigh County
G. F. Wiseman
M. H. Wiseman
Kate Foster Long Stone
Robert
Ruth Speery
E. C
Hila Stover
Oscar G. Richardson
Ruth K. Richardson
C. E
Beulah Stroud
H. O
Eva Coleman
R. L
F. L
Margaret Gillespie
J. A. Arnold
Ross Arnold
Mahlon Walker
Jewel Walker
Duff Spangler
James L. Billups
Billups
Soviet Union agrees to join talks on atomic pool plan
The White House said Soviet Russia agreed to secret negotiations with the United States over President Eisenhower’s proposal for an international atomic pool. Murray Snyder said Moscow asked for more details on the Dec. 8 plan and the note was handed to Ambassador Bohlen in Moscow. The plan envisions an international atomic energy agency for peaceful development with Russia and other nations possessing atomic materials.
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Washington
White House
Russia
United States
Eisenhower
Murray Snyder
U.S
Snyder
Moscow
Charles E
Chip) Bohlen
United Nations General Assembly
International Atomic Energy Agency For
Reds Salute American Left Wing Novelist Howard Fast Wins Stalin Prize
Soviet Pravda names Howard Fast a recipient of the 1953 Stalin Peace Prize worth $5,000 with a gold medal, awarded on Stalin’s birth anniversary. Fast, known for The Last Frontier and other novels, previously helped award the prize to Paul Robeson in Harlem. The list of other winners includes Pierre Cot and Pablo Neruda, with Fast’s case cited as a sign of international peace efforts amid McCarthy era tensions.
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Moscow
Howard Fast
Fast
Paul Robeson
New York
Harlem
Communist Party
Pravda
Joseph Stalin
Pierre Cot
John Bernal
The
University of London
Britain
Soviet Union
Andrea Gaggero
Pablo Neruda
Andrea Andreen
Stockholm Clinical Laboratory
Isabelle Blume
Singh Sokhey
World Health Organization
Leon Kruchkowski
Nina Vasilyevna Popova
Central Council of Trade Unions
Assault Charged By Amigo Woman
Amigo man Everett Akers about 35 is jailed after being charged with felonious assault for burning his wife on the legs with a hot poker. State Police and Constable W A Stump arrested him shortly after midnight. The injured woman was treated at Wyoming General Hospital Mullens and sent to relatives near her home. Akers faces a magistrate hearing early this week.
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Everett Akers
Amigo Hollow
W. A. Stump
Akers
Wyoming General Hospital
Mullens
Millikan Dies at 85 in California Private Rites Planned
Dr. Robert Millikan world renowned scientist and Nobel Prize winner dies at 85 in Pasadena. He had been bedridden for months. His body will lie in state at Forest Lawn Glendale with private services planned for Wednesday.
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Pasadena
Calif
Robert Millikar
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
Early Trial Planned For Carolina Killer
In Columbia South Carolina authorities said scar-faced Raymond Carney 38 faces an early murder trial for the lovers lane killings of Betty Clair 15 a Pamplico High School student and Henry Allen 22 of Latta two weeks earlier. Deputies quoted Carney saying he planned only to rob the couple but panicked and began shooting when the girl screamed. The victims were killed December 6.
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Columbia, S. C
Raymond Carney
Lane
Carney
North Carolina
John Hanna
Pretty Betty Clair
Pamplico High School
Henry Allen
Latta
Christmas doll kindness at the store in Memphis
A Memphis mother with three young daughters wants to buy three dolls costing 1.98 each with a five dollar bill. A bystander finds a dollar and returns it, insisting the mother must have dropped it. The clerk then wraps the three dolls, and the mother quietly thanks the stranger.
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Memphis
Tenn
Last-Chance Air Appeal For Yank POWs
The U N Command prepared a last minute broadcast to 22 American war prisoners allied with the Communists. Hope fades that any will return home as the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission approves the broadcast and a 12 page letter to each man before the Wednesday deadline. The Communists resumed explanation programs and sought extensions for interviews, while Gen John Hull says Americans in neutral custody have had time to reconsider.
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Panmunjom
U.N. Command
Far East
Neutral Nations
Red
Military Armistice Commission
John E. Hull
U.S. Far East
Seoul
Chief Says Yanks Pack Air Punch
Gen Nathan F Twining Air Force chief of staff said the United States still holds a stronger air punch than the Soviet Union but warned Moscow is making a tremendous effort to close the gap. He added the U S is better positioned to strike in the air than to defend against air attack and that American air superiority would blunt any advantage from large land armies. If war came and the US launched an offensive the Soviet army could not be effectively supported for long.
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Washington
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
America
Russia
Soviet Union
U. S. News and World Report
United States
Drought Relief Fund Expanded in Five West Virginia Counties
The State Agriculture Department announced a new $23,000 drought relief allocation for Marshall Mason Taylor Wetzel and Ohio counties after federal approval. Funds cover freight rates for hay ordered by eligible farmers, following the initial approval for 37 counties. Distribution includes Marshall 6400 Mason 7900 Taylor 3000 Wetzel 3200 Ohio 2500.
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Charleston
State Agriculture Department
West Virginia
Asst
Russell V. Hardman
Marshall County
Mason
Taylor
Wetzel
Ohio
West Virginia Weather Update With Snow Turning Warmer
West Virginia forecast calls for rain tonight with a low around 35 to 40 degrees. Tuesday will be windy and colder as rain shifts to snow, with frequent temperature readings noted for Beckley Oak Hill and Glade Creek. River levels at Belpoint, Bluestone Reservoir and Greenbrier show normal stages as conditions clear later.
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Beliepoint
Bluestone Reservoir
Greenbrier
Lewis Eyes Waterfront Bid In New York Labor War
John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers seen backing the old International Longshoremen's Association as organizers press for a cleanup. Brother Denny Lewis runs District 50 and has sought New York organizing roles. a loan and visits hint at a possible takeover of the city waterfront labor leadership amid AFL CIO tensions.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
New York
Bradley
National Labor Relations Board
ILA
AFL
Num
John L. Lewist
International Longshoremen’s Assn
New York Waterfront
Lewis
A. D
Denny) Lewis
Denny Lewis
District 50
UMW
New York City
Brother Denny
CIO
Ex-Register Writer Promoted Norton Joins Observer Editorial Staff
Norton, former editor of The Raleigh Register, has been promoted to associate editor of The Charlotte Observer effective Dec. 17. He will write editorials, syndicate columns, edit open forum letters, and represent the paper at meetings while continuing a Sunday political column and the Sunday book review page. Norton has a long career in journalism and education in North Carolina, with ties to Beckley and Oak Hill.
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W. Randolph Norton
Raleigh Register
Charlotte
N. C
Observer
Norton
Register
North Carolina
Open Forum
Office Managers Association
Raleigh County
Lynchburg Christian College
Duke University
Marshall and Concord Colleges
Shady Spring High School
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Monroe County
Martha Hood
Alderson
Oak Hill
Fayette County
Beckley
The
J. Raiford Watkins
Middlesex County
Bride Turns Out to Be Man After Hong Kong Wedding
Hong Kong judge weighs a case in which Leong Chih Hung married Ma Kwong Hsi on December 9 and learned on December 19 his spouse was a man. The suit claims 26 Hong Kong dollars as fraud amid questions if any law was broken under local custom rules. The magistrate adjourned to clarify legality of the marriage under Hong Kong practice.
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Hong Kong
Leong Chih - Hung
Ma Kwong
Hsi
U. S
Leong
Planes Trigger Seoul Air Alert After North Crossing
Two unidentified planes crossed the neutral zone from North Korea and flew south into the area near Seoul causing the city to sound its first air raid alert since the armistice. An Air Force spokesman said the aircraft then headed north again a few minutes after crossing the line.
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Seoul
Neutral Zone
North Korea
Air Force
Air Strike Alters GI Holiday Plans
A Paris airport strike by 2,000 air traffic workers halted U S military flights in and out of Paris disrupting Christmas plans for American servicemen in Europe. Many were stranded at the MAT terminal or crowded onto crowded trains while Pan American and Trans World diverted aircraft to Brussels.
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Paris
U. S
Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Austria
Pan American
Trans World Airlines
Brussels
Air France
British European Airways
Beckley Post Office breaks stamp sale records
Acting Postmaster A Fray Lilly reports a single employee sold 8000 two cent stamps in just over two hours while the machine cancelled 16061 envelopes in that span. The Beckley facility operates eight windows plus lobby sales and extended hours to 8 PM this week with early parcel post deliveries.
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Beckley Post Office
A. Fray Lilly
Lilly
Ninth Inning No French President
In Versailles France the French Parliament failed again to elect a President of the Republic on the ninth ballot since last Thursday. Premier Joseph Laniel top contender received 413 votes down 17. Marcel Edmond Naegelen socialist opponent with communist support got 365 down 16. Pierre Montel, 57, a late contender, won 103 votes. Montel is in Laniel’s independent party from Lyon.
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Versailles
France
Joseph Laniel
Marcel- Edmond Naegelen
Pierre Montel
Montel
Laniel
Independent
Lyon
Peoples’ Assembly
National Assembly
Trade With Red China Declines
Washington reports free world shipments to Communist China are easing in the second half of 1953. Foreign Air Commerce data show exports to Red China from non-Communist nations at 184 million dollars in July and 19.3 million in August, down from an average of 27.1 million in the first half. Officials anticipate continued decline for the remainder of the year as iron and steel shipments from France and West Germany cease.
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Washington
U.S
China
West Germany
Commerce Department
Five Detroit fugitives still at large after Jackson prison break
In Michigan, five of 13 fugitives from Jackson State Penitentiary are believed hid ing in Detroit awaiting a renewed manhunt. The escapees used an acetylene torch to cut sewer grates and several hundred officers comb the city while eight others were captured or surrendered nearby.
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Detroit
Michigan
Jackson
Edward J. Emrick
Roman Usiondek
David B. Bousha
Crawford County
Virgil Lane
Robert Dowling
Harold Rosa
Saginaw
Milner
Lindell Miller
Jackson City
William H. Bannan
Driver Of Death Car Faces Negligent Charge
Harold Thomas Matherly fifteen of Flat Top must appear before Magistrate J E Mays at Beaver at four this afternoon on a negligent homicide charge. He is held in county jail since 12 10 a m Sunday after the car he drove struck and killed Paul Daniel Shuck fifteen of Fireco while sled riding near Jonben at 9 15 p m Saturday. He is also charged with driving a vehicle without an operator s license.
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Harold Thomas Matherly
Flat Top
J. E. Mays
Beaver
Matherly
Paul Daniel Shuck
Fireco
Jonben
Three Christmas Gift Days in Italy Show Poverty’s Toll
Italian children receive presents three times from St Nicholas Day on December 6 to Christmas Day and Epiphany on January 6. Bari claims St Nicholas bones in a basilica by the sea. Befana the kindly witch also leaves gifts on Epiphany, while St Nicholas is the patron saint of pawn brokers.
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Lilly
Mullens
Return
Prince
Charleston
Highway Post Office
Rome
Italy
Adriatic
Bari
Fuerope
Befana
St. Nicholas
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