Dual Personality Simple Weaver Goddess Of Amami Island
Natsuko Tatsuki, 20, is viewed as a living goddess or Noro in Daikuma village Amami Oshima. She weaves by day and wields sacred power during the fire water and rice festivals three days a year. The matriarchal role began when she was nine after village fortune tellers chose her to succeed a late great-aunt. She has attendants but refuses photos for sacred reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Ishii
Amami-Oshima
Japan
Natsuko Tatsuki
Natsuko
Daikuma
Nord
John F Kennedy rises as leading 1960 Democrat candidate
Sen. John F. Kennedy, 42, tours the nation seeking support for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. A war veteran and Harvard author, he combines plain speaking with charm, while facing Catholicism scrutiny and a track record of cautious labor reform. He aims to replicate his Massachusetts campaign style on a national stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelius F. Hurley
Associated Press
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Los Angeles
Usu
Harvard
England
Pacific
al Smith
United States
St. Lawrence Seaway
Joseph P. Kennedy
Senate
Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Eisenhower
Those Quizmasters Where Are They Now
Cynthia Lowry surveys former quiz show hosts. Jack Barry pursues scented advertising ventures and non TV projects while hoping for a TV return. Jack Narz faces stigma but seeks new shows. Hal March tours in Two For the See-Saw, Ralph Story pursues West Coast work, Randy Merriman returns to TV radio in Minneapolis, Bob Paige moves to California film work, Bert Parks hosts Masquerade Party after Big Payoff ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jack Barry
Isiate
TwentyOne
Barry
Jack Narz
Narz
Dotto
Ralph Story
West Coast
Randy Merriman
Minneapolis
Bob Paige
California
Bert Parks
Polygamy Probe In Utah Urged
Farmington Utah AP a six month probe by the Davis County Grand Jury urges an extensive investigation of polygamy. The nine indictments report notes welfare costs as a burden on taxpayers and calls for harsher penalties. It also suggests prosecuting women involved in plural marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmington
Church
Utah
Charleston Road Bids Sought for Spicewood Bridge Project
State Road Commissioner Patrick C. Graney announces bids due February 18 1960 at 10 00 a m EST for a Federal aid Interstate project in Jackson County. The Spice wood Pedestrian Bridge over Left Fork Pocatalico River near Goldtown will use a 120 foot suspended span pending Bureau of Public Roads approval. The note adds San Bernardino California as the largest U.S. county at over 20 000 square miles, larger than eight states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Patrick C. Graney
Jackson County
Spicewood
Pocatalico River
Goldtown
Bureau of Public Roads
United States
San Bernardino
Calif
Dirksen seeks limit on wide ranging Senate investigations
Senator Everett M. Dirksen proposes to require Judiciary Committee approval before the Senate Antimonopoly subcommittee can launch new probes. He argues many inquiries into insurance steel motors and baking wasted taxpayer money while Kefauver defends the investigations as exposing monoploistic power. Dirksen notes costs like GM’s half million dollars, and says he won’t block the drug price inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Senate
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Dirksen
Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee
Dirksen Sai
Orone
Kefauver
General Motors
Johnson's Mid-Road Position Strengthened
Washington AP reports Americans for Democratic Action bolstered Senator Lyndon B. Johnson mid-road presidential standing by labeling him a symbol of compromise and political opportunism. ADA argued the party must avoid a Johnson-Nixon choice, while Johnson aides push a responsible record in Congress and a broad education bill. Dirksen blasted ADA, calling its view bankruptcy for the nation and intrusion into public affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Americans For Democratic Action
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dtex
ADA
Johnson
Senate
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Hubert Humphrey
Dso
Stuart Symington
D- Lo
Los Angeles
Congress
House
Richard M. Nixon
Everett M. Dirksen
Ilinois
Nixon
GOP
Dirksen
Capital Street Cars Vanishing From Washington
Washington shifts away from historic streetcars as buses replace trolleys along Pennsylvan ia avenue. The switch began January 3 with the last cars due out of service in 1963, while a new Senate office subway opens this week replacing a half century of old lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iap
White House
Abraham Lincoln
Pennsylvania Avenue
Supreme Court
Capitol Hill
Senate
Capitol
Senators
Whouse
Equal Radio TV Equal Time Debate Splits FCC NAB
Washington AP reports a clash over the equal time rule in the Communications Act as FCC Chair Doerfer broadens its reach beyond candidates. NAB counsel Anelle disputes the expansion, noting Congress exempted newscasts yet added a public issues discussion clause, predicting case by case interpretation and increased airtime battles. Also included are local probate settlement notices for Raleigh County, Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Communications Commission
National Assn
Congress
FCC
John C. Doer
NAB
Douglas A. Anelle
Anelle
Chicago
Doerfer
Funeral Notices From Beckley Area Roster
Funeral notices list the deaths of Paul J. Smith 94 of Garten and George Robert Miller 27 of Cleveland with services at Second Baptist Fayetteville and St Matthew's East Beckley. Burial at Pierce Cemetery and Greenwood Memorial Park. Also includes Cheryl Bowling 2, Joseph C. Farley 87, Virginia Ruth McBride 64 and Virginia Ruth McBride’s service details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller Miller
George Robert
Cleveland
Ohio
East Beckley
St. Matthew's A. M
R. A. Lewis
Greenwood Memorial Park
Ritchie and Johnson
Johnnie Mae Miller
Mills Street
Arrangements By Webb & Neal Funeral Home
Obituary notices list Webb and Neal Funeral Home arranging for Charles SIOK 67 Poland who died January 30 in a local hospital with services at Arlington National Cemetery February 8. Also Pennington Thomas G 68 Ghent died February 2, Calfee Funeral Home handling with burial Mt Tabor. HOUTZ Harry Gilbert 73 Parkwood Drive died February 2 from a heart attack with services February 5 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and burial Sunset Memorial Park. Pallbearers named. contributions urged to Cancer Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowling Bowling
Cheryl
Vernon Bowling
Coal City
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
South
Kanawha Street
Farley Farley
Joseph C
Hedrick Street
South Kanawha Street
Rose & Quesenberry Peace Chapel
A. G. Nichols
McBRIDE \McBRIDE
Virginia Ruth
Flat Top
Freewill Baptist Church
Les Lilly
Camp Creek
McBride
Webb and Neal
Vance Drive
Norman Lilly
Billy Lilly
Woodrow Lilly
Hubert Ay Darrell Shrewsbury
Tom Keen
Siok Siok
Charles
Poland
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington
Virginia
Rose & Quesenberry Funeral Home
Pennington Pennington
Thomas G
Ghent
Calfee Funeral Home
Cleve Young
Calfee
Mt. Tabor
Houtz Houtz
Harry Gilbert
Parkwood Drive
St. Stephen's Episcopal ‘Church
E. S. Halan
Princeton
Sunset Memorial Park
South Charleston
Albert Tieche
Alex Breckinridge
William Watts
Fred Meyer
Cecil Graham
Lester Galer
Frank Burtner
Eugene Foster
Conscience Pricked by Payola Claims of Cajun DJ
Alden Sonnier a KSIG Evangeline Parish radio host in Crowley says he accepted gifts from listeners for playing music and reports to the FCC that these included grapefruit sausages ducks cane syrup and many other items over the years. He insists his conscience is clear now that he has divulged the details and says he has it off his chest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crowley
Alden Sonnier
Evangeline Land
Lagniappe
Sonnier
Federal Communications Commission
Washington
Alex Broussard
Dyson
KSIG
Friends
Yearly Physical Checkup Urged
Philadelphia AP report cites University of Pennsylvania doctors in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Among 1,513 business executives studied over nine years, 40 percent had diseases they were unaware of, and in 53 percent of cases these could have caused death or disability if unchecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Diagnostic Clinic
Journal of the American Medical Assn
Sai
Glassy Eyed Defendant Gets Dismissal in Tacoma Drunk Driving Case
Rich Mond Whitlock, 40, was charged with drunken driving. Police testified his eyes were dilated. He handed a glass eye to Judge Le Veque and the case was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
Richmond
Whitlock
William le Veque
Dennis Hopper signs five year film contract at age two
Hollywood AP reports the young actor Dennis Hopper, aged two, has signed a five year deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to star in Key Witness. Hopper discusses loneliness and his motive to act as a way to seek love and recognition, saying he is no longer afraid of rejection. British playwright Noel Coward, born in 1899, is noted for Private Lives and Design for Living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Dennis Hopper
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
Hopper
Noel Coward
McKown Seeks Renomination in District 5 race
Charleston report lists candidate C. H. Jackie McKown of Wayne filing for Democratic renomination in the 5th District. The notice also details filings for various state senate seats, delegates and party committee positions across multiple districts and counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
C. H
Jackie) McKown
Wayne
del. Louis G. Craig
Weston
State Senate
Randell A. Taylor
Point Pleasant
M. Eddie Hersman
Spencer
Frank J. Maxwell
Clarksburg
Floyd S. Taylor
Huntington
Wiley Perdue
Ceredo
Senate
Roy A. Chambers
Williamson
U. S
Robert C. Byrd
Crab Orchard
James M. Mason II
Charles Town
Ralph W. Haines
Romney
J. Dowell Jennings
Buckhannon
Forrest H. Spade
Rainelle
Maude I. Harvey
Moundsville
Edgar S. White
Emile J. Hodel
Beckley
Paul
Democratic
Richard L. Schanck
Bethany
Earl C. Hahn
St. Marys
Harry V. Maze
Beatrice
Ritchie County
Thelma Hall
Madison
Thelma P. Philpp Williamson
Do. A. Blanken
Pineville
Frances Elie Phillips
Maurice Chevalier Embraces Television and New Show
AP notes Maurice Chevalier, 72, discovers television through CBS's Person to Person and previews his upcoming Bouquet from Maurice Chevalier. He argues TV favors talk and interviews, allows a direct rapport, and reflects on his bachelor lifestyle as a source of happiness for others.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
Maurice Chevalier
CBS
Paris
Chevalier
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Noro
AP TV
Cereg TT
Aoe
Leo Birci
John Kenneth Allen, Jr
Bank of Raleigh
H. D. Irwin
Irene Lester
Shuford C. Lester
Mary H. Pugh
Arthur James Pugh
Raleigh County Bank
Judith Darlene Robertson
Paulette Robertson
Enos E. Williams
Ollie Mae Williams
Ned H
Ragland
Raleigh County
W. Va
Pierce
Fayetteville
Ritchie & Johnson Funeral Parlor
Webb & Neal Funeral Home
Caffee Funeral Home Funeral Directors
Amos E. Quesenberry
Rose
McKown
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