Reapportionment Donnybrook Clouds Legislature
Charleston report details a heated House fight over reapportionment pitting small counties against larger ones led by Kanawha with 11 delegates. Speaker Julius Singleton warns the battle risks harming passage of other items including a Sunday Blue Law reform and sales tax plans.
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Roy Lee Harmon
Charleston
House of Delegates
Kanawha
Hous
Julius Singleton
Singleton
House
Senate
Delegate District Realignment Feud Intensifies Weekend Push
Charleston supporters of the delegate district reapportionment plan gear up for a renewed push this weekend to gain support for a realignment proposal, as opposition grows. Proponents aim to regroup and rally allies amid ongoing debate in the district.
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Carlo J. Salzano
Charleston
UPI
Legislature considers alcohol tax to fund treatment programs
Charleston lawmakers debated a liquor price hike of 1.5 million dollars yearly to fund alcoholism and mental illness treatment. Bills also reorganize state Purchasing, revise mining laws, and broaden loan cost disclosures. Senate, House passed a poll tax repeal extension and continued realignment discussions.
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Charleston
UPI
Dels
Kelly L. Castleberry
Okanawha
W. W. Withrow
D-Raleigh
State Purchasing Department
State Department of Finance and Administration
Lyle Smith
Cabell
Senate
House
Julius W. Singleton
Monongalia
George Seibert
Ohio
House of Delegates
Jack R. Nuzum
Randolph
West Virginia
U.S
Groundhog Day Warning Amid Snowbound Winter
Street Commissioner Elmer Warden warns residents to stay indoors and use chains while groundhog traditions spark superstition about six more weeks of winter. State Road crews, led by SRC Supervisor Robert Sweeney, salt and sand city streets through treacherous ice and deep snow. An early Raleigh County Memorial Airport flight failed to land due to drifts, with a later attempt anticipated after runway clearance. Turnpike motorists may travel without chains according to officials.
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Elmer Warden
SRC
Robert
Sweeney
Raleigh County Memorial Airport
West Virginia Weather Forecast Slippery Roads and Snow Likely
The forecast calls for cloudy conditions today with some light snow totaling 1 to 3 inches and slippery roads especially in the east. Highs reach upper 20s to upper 30s with colder readings in the northeast, light rain or drizzle tonight and Saturday, and a warmup by Saturday followed by a possible drop Sunday or Monday. The five day outlook shows temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below normal, with regional highs 47 and lows 27 in the south and 42 and 21 in the north. Precipitation expected over the weekend and mid next week, and a new gauge reads 2.6 feet at Hinton.
Canadian Premier Accuses U S of Interference in Policy
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker charged the United States State Department with unwarranted interference as a new Western Alliance split on nuclear weapons policy threatens a general election. The report notes heavy snow and floods across the western third of the nation closing highways and isolating Reno Nevada. President Kennedy names Franklin D Roosevelt Jr to the No 2 post in the Commerce Department amid denials of a planned ascent to secretary. Harold Macmillan travels to Italy for talks on Britain's Eu relations after France bars entry to the Common Market. Multiple regional labor actions surface in transit strikes and a major U S Steel Robena mine walkout vote follows a fatal blast.
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John Diefenbaker
U. S. State Department
Diefenbaker
Western Alliance
Reno
Nev
U. S
California
Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Commerce Department
White House
Luther H. Hodges
Harold Macmillan
Italy
Britain
France
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Florida East Coast Railway
Politician Harsh Take on House Reapportionment Votes
Sherwood Glutz asserts that many House members swapped votes on reapportionment bills Thursday showing no independence left in politics. He argues lawmakers treat new laws as jokes rather than serious measures.
Airliners Collide Over Ankara Killing Dozens
A Middle East Airlines Viscount with 15 aboard collided in mid air with a Turkish military C15 over Ankara. The crash set fires in the city center, at least 60 bodies found, 70 injured, both planes destroyed and many rushed to hospitals. Authorities report all 11 on the Viscount killed. Turkish plane numbers unknown.
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Ankara
Turkey
UPI
Middle East Airlines
Istanbul Bank
Guaranty Bank
Christmas Seal drive in Raleigh County faces cuts
The Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association warns that its Christmas Seal drive failed to meet goals. With a $12 000 budget and only 8568 85 collected, programs such as X ray and case finding may be curtailed. A letter campaign has raised 83 dollars.
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Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association
C. C. Lewis
Tuberculosis Germ Is Getting Tougher
The governor's TB advisory committee led by Dr. David T. Smith reports drug resistant TB germs increasing among 700 studied cases in North Carolina. It urges cultures for all new and recurring TB cases, targeted screening in prisons and nursing homes, and chest X rays for hospital entrants and frequent respiratory patients.
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Raleigh, N. C
UPI
David T. Smith
Duke University
Smith
Astronaut Plans Orbit With Flashing Sphere Experiment
NASA says Gordon Cooper will eject a 10 pound sphere the size of a basketball from his April space flight. He will photograph the flashing sphere with a movie camera to study a pilot's ability to observe objects in space from orbit.
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Langley Afb
UPI
Federal Space Agency
Gordon Cooper
Cooper
Daniel Wentz
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Langley Research Center
Wentz
Rusk urges Europe to face Western tasks amid testing talks
Secretary of State Dean Rusk pressed Europe to advance the Western agenda including a multilateral nuclear force and economic unity amid Soviet threats. He indicated Kennedy planned Nevada underground nuclear tests resuming after a break in talks with the USSR while easing strains with Canada over Bomarc missiles. Rusk warned about 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba and discussed the stalled nuclear test ban talks and a leaked French document about NATO and Common Market dynamics.
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Washington
UPI
Dean Rusk
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Nevada
Russia
Canada
State Department
United States
Cuba
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N.y
Rusk
U. S
de Gaulle
Britain
France
NATO
Gaullist
$1200 Salary Returned By Hardesty In Resignation
FAIRMONT. C ard Hardesty resigned as special tax consultant to Gov. Barron and said he had returned the $1200 paid for two months on the job. He was among four legal consultants to the state who resigned after questions about their legal status were raised by the attorney general. The others were Henry C. Bias Jr. Mrs. Jeanne Wake and Robert Crichton.
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Fairmont
UPI
C. Howard Hardesty
W. W. Barron
Hardesty
C. Donald Robertson
State Welfare Department
Henry C. Bias Jr
Jeanne Wake
Robert Crichton
West Virginia Night at Music Educators Conference
Charleston hosts the Southern Division Music Educators National Conference with 1400 attendees planned. West Virginia Night features the All-State Chorus and Orchestra, and Eleanor Steber of Wheeling will sing with the chorus.
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Charleston
UPI
Music Educators National Conference
West Virginia
Eleanor Steber
Wheeling
Metropolitan Opera
West Virginia Moon display eyed by National Gallery
West Virginia officials consider placing the controversial Moon painting by Joe Moss of Morgantown and three other Centennial winners in the National Gallery in Washington D C The move aims to allow the public to judge the works alongside the Mona Lisa and counter stereotypes of the state as traditional.
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Washington
UPI
West Virginia
National Art Gallery
W. W. Barron
Paul Crabtree
Carl Sullivan
National Arthouse
Crabtree and Sullivan
National Gallery
United States
Joe Moss
Morgantown
Sullivan
Crabtree
Woman 52 defies odds with second baby after 50
Long Beach California reports Mrs Clyde C Marsh 52 has two babies after 50. Clyde Marsh Jr born one month premature weighs 4 pounds 12 ounces and is in an incubator. her husband 63 says life may get hectic at home.
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Long Beach
Calif
UPI
Clyde C. Marsh
Marsh
Fumes from New Stove Kill Two in West Virginia Home
NEW MARTINSVILLE UP I was released accidentally by a newly installed heating stove killed two persons and left a third critically ill today. Mrs. Charles Ullom 57 of Malvern Ohio and Junior Thompson 37 found dead by Constable Riley Beegle who broke in after no one answered. Mrs. Harold Britton 47 owner of the home sister of Ullom and aunt of Thompson in critical condition. Officials said the heater installed Thursday overheated and gas escaped.
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New Martinsville
UPI
Charles Ullom
Malvern
Ohio
Junior Thompson
Harold Britton
Allom
Thompson
Riley Beegle
Bethlehem Steel Profits Drop Amid 1962 Earning Lows
New York UPI reports three of the four largest U S steel companies posted their lowest earnings in years for 1962 after Kennedy pressured the industry to roll back a price increase. Bethlehem Steel and Jones & Laughlin announced multi year or recent lows while U S Steel flagged a decade low. Republic Steel had not yet reported.
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New York
UPI
Kennedy
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin
U.S. Steel
Republic Steel
France and Soviet sign three year trade accord
MOSCOW France and the Soviet Union formalized a three year trade agreement increasing trade by 10 to 15 percent officials said. The pact follows France blocking Britain from joining the European Common Market two days earlier. SELMA Alabama A bank official charged with embezzling 427000 dollars over 35 years. FBI linked Hugh Edward Campbell, assistant cashier, to the scheme.
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Moscow
UPI
France
Soviet Union
Britain
Selma Ala
FBI
Hugh Edward Campbell
Selma National Bank
Senators May Visit West Virginia During Centennial Year
Senators from across the United States inform Sen. Jennings Randolph of plans or hopes to visit West Virginia during its Centennial. They express praise for the state's promotion devices, scenic wonders, and hospitality while considering visits in the Centennial year.
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Washington
United States
West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
Randolph
West Virginia Lions Organization
Maurine B. Neuberger
Oregon
Carl T. Curtis
Nebraska
Peter H. Dominick
Colorado
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Russia
William A. Egan
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
Sen
B. Everett Jordan
North Carolina
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