West Virginia House stalls severance tax vote in logjam
In Charleston, Democrats block a move to discharge the House Finance Committee and bring the severance tax bill to a floor vote. Only 24 Democrats back the motion. Republicans unite in opposition as the session nears a passive end with nine absences. The piece highlights party lines, key votes, and lingering tension in the do-nothing Legislature.
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Roy Lee Harmon
Charleston
West Virginia
House Finance Committee
Bud Seibert
Ohio
Warsaw Pact backs Khrushchev at East-West talks
Moscow AP reports Khrushchev wins backing from eight nation communist bloc for a May summit on Germany. The bloc demands a peace treaty with East Germany and a solution to West Berlin, warning delays risk widening conflict. Khrushchev and leaders from East Germany Poland Czechoslovakia Romania Bulgaria Hungary Albania sign the communique. Red China Mongolia North Korea and North Vietnam observed. Western diplomats hint at hidden decisions.
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Nikita Khrushchev
East Germany
West Berlin
Khrushchev
North Atlantic Alliance
Red Alliance
West Germany
East German Democratic Republic
Konrad Adenauer
Europe
Nazi Germany
Poland
Soviet Union
Germany
Communist Party
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Albania
Red China
Outer Mongolia
North Korea
North Viet Nam
Catharine
Kremlin
Heavy Israeli troop movement reported at Egyptian frontier
CAIRO AP reports heavy movement of Israeli troops toward the Egyptian frontier in the Negev. LA PAZ AP confirms a crash near Cochabamba killed 59 aboard a Lloyd Aereo Boliviano airliner.
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Negev
LA Paz
Bolivia
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano
Cochabamba
West Virginia Weather Outlook With Rain Over Weekend
Cloudy spell with occasional rain today tonight and Saturday. Highs mainly in the 40s east and around 50 west. Nighttime lows 40 to 46. Saturday warmer then cooler Sunday with a mild weekend total rainfall near one half inch. Beckley and Oak Hill temperature readings noted with low confirmations. River gauges show Greenbrier and Lake levels normal and clear.
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W. Va
Beckley
Goday
Oak Hill
Asetne
1959 Traffic Toll Tops 90 Thousand Dead in U S
The National Safety Council reports 1959 saw 91,500 Americans killed in accidents, up one percent from 1958, with 9.3 million injured. Traffic crashes led with 37,800 deaths, followed by home and work accidents, while falls and burns also contributed high fatalities. The death rate reached a record low per 100000 population.
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Chicago
The
National Safety Council
Council Clash Over Street Commissioner Firing
City council members and Mayor clash as all motions are ruled out of order and ignored. The dispute centers on whether Street Commissioner Joe Smith should be fired with council demands for written changes and a public hearing, while the mayor cites control of personnel. Both sides claim victory. possible circuit court action discussed.
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Joe Smith
Londeree
Smith
Moonrunes and Military News Across the 1960s
News conference shows a candidate avoiding primaries while US missile teams report mixed Cape Canaveral tests and a Vandenberg failure. Jupiter and Polaris launches succeed at Florida base, while a DoD discussion weighs a space weapon system 100000 miles out. A Hungarian widow dies, a Roman visit stirs Italy, and a Texan sheriff finds stranded children.
Man Wanted for Questioning After Auto Chase Ends in Crash
Uniontown police and state officers searched for William Hatley 32 of Edna West Virginia after he fled Uniontown Hospital before questioning in a high speed pursuit. Hatley led a chase at up to 80 mph through a red light, crashing into a panel truck on Route 40 near Summit Mountain. Also injured were Hatley’s wife Evelyn 26 and passengers James Gibson 34 of Rowlesburg WV and truck driver J F Fayre 46 of Florence PA. all listed in good condition.
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Uniontown
William Hatley
Edna
W. Va
Hatley
Summit Mountain
Here
Evelyn
James Gibson
Rowlesburg
J. F. Fayre
Florence
Kennedy Filing Set At Midnight Charleston AP
Secretary of State Joe F. Burdett said his office would open at midnight to receive Kennedy papers for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kennedy and his party were reported traveling in Indiana and would fly to Charleston for the filing, with expected arrival between 12:30 and 1 am. Humphrey filed in West Virginia's May 10 primary yesterday. deadline is tomorrow.
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Charleston
Joe F. Burdett
John F. Kennedy
Burdett
Indiana
Kennedy
Burdette
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
West Virginia
Five Missing Feared Drowned After Destroyer Sinking
A steep roll of a destroyer in the Atlantic off Virginia left one crewman dead and five missing. Ten men went overboard. five were rescued. Officials at Newport identified the missing as Nicholas Cataluca, Robert Carlson, Charles Ellis, Paul Harvey, and Gerald Nebert. The killed sailor was Daly. Search efforts 200 miles off Cape Henry continued with ships and planes after the 3:40 pm incident.
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Atlantic
Virginia
Aactnnw
Daly
Cape
Henry
Hope
Newport Naval Base
Nicholas A. Cataluca
Beacon
N. Y
Robert A. Carlson
Holcomb St
West Haven
Conn
Charles E. Ellis
Montclair St
North Madison Station
Madison
Ind
Paul J. Harvey
McKinley Ave
Lodi
N. J
Gerral J. Nebert
E. Broadway
Crystal Lake
Ill
Navy
Tragedy on Sea Trials Near Newport Involving Young and the Cotton
Stroyers based at Newport Rhode Island the Young and the Cotton were near the end of sea trials en route to Hampton Roads. Their launch into the reserve fleet at Norfolk Navy Shipyard was interrupted by a disaster at sea. Three of the ten crew members who fell overboard were rescued by the Daly the other two by the merchant ship Alabama one of whom suffered serious injuries.
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Stroyers
Newport
R. I
Young
Cotton
Hampton Roads
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Daly
Alabama
CAB Hearing To End Today
Washington AP reports final arguments in the Civil Aeronautics Board Great Lakes local air service case conclude today with about 20 spokesmen from West Virginia and Ohio communities. The examiner’s recommendations, given last September, will be upheld, rejected, or amended later this year. The route area spans from Sault Ste. Marie to Buffalo and from Pittsburgh to Washington with southern bounds at Louisville and Charleston. Ohio aviation official John A. Hoskins backs Lake Central for most routes and urges stronger ties with Kentucky and West Virginia.
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Washington
Great Lakes
Civil Aeronautics Board
West Virginia
Ohio
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Buffalo
N. Y
Pittsburgh
Joint Session Set For Wartime Talk
West Virginia senators and delegates plan a joint session Monday to hear how to keep government functioning in war. John L. Sullivan, regional director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization in Olney, Maryland, will speak. The state last year decided to prepare a continuity of government program.
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Charleston
West Virginia
John L. Sullivan
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Olney
Politician Hints at Return to Raleigh County Legislature Session
Sherwood Glutz predicts it will be good to return to Raleigh county when the legislature adjourns next week. He vows to oppose fat lob byists for big business and urges action against perceived corruption.
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Charleston
Speshial Deespatch
Raleigh
House Debates Longer Unemployment Benefits
Huntington AP reports Roul Tunley invited to speak to the Huntington Advertising Club with expenses and an honorarium. Charleston AP covers a WV House bill to extend unemployment benefits from 24 to 36 weeks, a Senate amended education program bill, and a separate Senate passage mandating the State Road Commission hire unemployed for local road projects.
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Roul Tunley
West Virginia
Saturday Evening Post
Huntington Advertising Club
Virginia Pitt
Tunley
Charleston
House of Delegates
Senate
De Gaulle overhauls cabinet purge follows Algeria crisis
Paris AP Charles de Gaulle reshuffles his government promoting loyalists to key posts while ousting Soustelle and Cornut-Gentille. Pierre Messmer becomes defense minister, Louis Terrenoire and Jean Foyer gain communications and community relations roles, Maurice Couve de Murville remains foreign minister. Cabinet changes bypass National Assembly approval under the new constitution.
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Charles de Gaulle
Jacques Soustelle
Algeria
Soustelle
de Gaulle
Sahara
Atomic Energy
Overseas
Algiers
Robert Lecourt
Lecourt
Pierre Messmer
French West Africa
Louis Terrenoire
Gaullist
Union For the New Republic
Jean Foyer
UNR
National Assembly
Maurice Couve de Murville
Senate introduces bills on tax liabilities outside agenda
Charleston AP reports President Ralph J. Bean and Sen. Lyle A. Smith introduced two resolutions in the Senate to consider bills outside the legislative agenda. One targets the ultimate liability for the state excise tax on cigarette sales, the other concerns final liability for the tax or service charge set by a sanitary district trustees board.
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Charleston
Senate
Ralph J. Bean
D-Hardy
Lyle A. Smith
D Cabell
Byrd Reveals WV Water Projects Budget Requests
Senator Byrd released 1961 budget requests from the Corps of Engineers for West Virginia water projects. They include flood surveys on the Big Sandy Cheat and Decker's Creek Morgantown, maintenance for Bluestone and Sutton reservoirs, Tygart Valley and Dam operations, Kanawha navigational work, and Twelvepole Creek flood control, totaling about 6.7 million dollars for the state with general investigations and maintenance additional.
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Washington
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Corps of Engineers
West Virginia
Big Sandy River
Bluestone Reservoir
Cheat River
Tygart Valley
Tygart River
Kanawha River
Sutton Reservoir
Twelvepole Creek
Byrd
Senate Appropriations Committee
Picture Of Innocence on a Navy Ship Divorce Filing
In Long Beach California two sailors aboard the destroyer USS Benner laughed over a coincidence when they found their wives shared the same name Peggy Lucille. The pair used a shipboard joke to seek divorces with Carlyle Stanley 23 filing first and Marvin Fritchel 30 obtaining an annulment in December. Stanley followed with a divorce Thursday after revealing the episode in Superior Court.
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Long Beach
Calif
Benner
Carlyle Stanley
Marvin Fritchel
Peggy Lucille
Fritcher
Stanley
Superior Court
Senate approves 1.83B school aid bill in Senate vote
The Senate passes a 1.83 billion school aid bill funding classroom construction and teacher salaries but House Democrats expect to limit funds to construction. President Eisenhower would veto the measure in present form. The vote was 51 to 34, short of a veto override two thirds. The bill uses a per child amount with state matching phased in later.
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Senate
House
Eisenhower
Congress
National Education Assn
Everett M.dirksen
Ill
New York
Mississippi
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
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