Grandview State Park to Expand with $211000 ARA Grant
The Area Redevelopment Administration awarded West Virginia a $211,000 grant to expand Grandview State Park facilities. The plan covers 18 improvements including land purchase, parking, road paving, lighting, and expanded picnic and recreation amenities to boost tourism and the Raleigh County economy.
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West Virginia
Grandview State Park
John Slack
ARA
Warden M. Lane
Department of Natural Resources
W. W. Barron
Grandview
Irving Bowman and Associates
Charleston
Neaf
Turkey
Piano tuners urge 440 Hz standard amid tuning dispute
Washington reports that piano technicians seek to keep A above middle C at 440 vibrations per second to avoid dangerous extra tension. The dispute pits tuners against orchestral players favoring higher 442 Hz and involves the National Bureau of Standards and the National Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Howard Mitchell supports 440 Hz as a compromise.
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UPI
Piano Technicians Guild
Guild
National Bureau of Standards
Bureau
National Symphony Orchestra
Howard Mitchell
Strike Talks Recessed Amid City Newspaper Strike
Mayor Robert F. Wagner halted marathon peace talks as a 66 day long New York newspaper strike continued. Both sides admitted substantial differences persist and negotiators expressed discouragement over progress.
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New York
UPID
Robert F. Wagner
West Virginia Weather Turns Colder With Snow Flurries
Weather across West Virginia will grow colder with rain turning to snow as conditions shift. Windy, with snow flurries tonight and Tuesday, and lows around 15 to 20 degrees. Temperatures average 5 to 6 degrees below normal. river and lake gauges show normal to clear conditions with one new gauge at Hinton.
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Greenbrier
Hinton
House Tax Fight Probable On Food and Drug Exemptions
Republican delegates lead a likely House battle to exempt groceries and prescription drugs from the 3 percent sales tax. Debate centers on extending the tax and public hearings on pre-paid medical care as bills to create non profit pre paid health care providers face scrutiny by West Virginians for Improved Health Care and the WV Medical Association.
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UPI
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GOP
del. George H. Seibert
Wheeling
House Finance Committee
Senate
Finance Committee
House
W. W. Barron
William A. Moreland
D-Monongalia
Dels
Callie Tsapis
D-Hancock
Elizabeth Drewry
D-Mcdowell
West Virginia ‘Medical Association
Watson Sees Redistricting Bills Momentum Across Legislature
Watson, House majority whip, says a reapportionment bill will likely pass this session. The Senate committee reviews a House bill expanding delegates from 100 to 104 to ensure every county gets at least one seat, despite opposition from Watson and other leaders.
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W. T. Brotherton
O-Kanawha
Watson
Fairmont Times- West Virginia
Soft Drink Tax Repeal Sought in West Virginia Legislature
West Virginia lawmakers consider repealing the 1951 soft drinks tax that financed the $31 million West Virginia University Medical Center. Del. Harry R. Pauley notes plant count dropped from 168 to under 60 since enactment as he introduces a bill among about two dozen measures. The tax raised about $3.7 million in 1961-62. $3.3 million projected for the current year.
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UPI
West Virginia University Medical Center
Del
Harry R. Pauley
D-Mcdowell
State Board of Public Works
Sen. Smith
D-Cabell
Sen. McCourt
D-Webster
Diefenbaker names three to key posts in cabinet shakeup
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker reshuffles his caretaker cabinet naming Gordon Churchill and M. Wallace McCutcheon to defense and trade posts. Marcel Lambert becomes veterans affairs minister replacing Churchill, while Lambert's Alberta seat gains representation in the federal ministry.
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UPI
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Veterans Affairs
Gordon Churchill
M. Wallace McCutcheon
Marcel Lambert
House of Commons
Churchill
Douglas Harkness
George Hee
Pierre Sevigny
Diefenbaker
Winnipeg
Man
Lambert
Edmonton
Harkness
Alberta
Soviets Offer Talks Seek to Ease Sino Soviet Rift
Western observers saw Moscow aiming to keep the Sino Soviet dispute cool. Pravda urged unity and invited China to a meeting at any level to resolve differences while Beijing signaled possible talks but rejected reversing its verdict on Tito.
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UPI
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Communist Party
Pravda
Peking People’s Daily
Yugoslavia
Tito
Communist New China News Agency
Prmier
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Mao Tse-tung
Kremlin
Red China
Khrushchev
Peking
Red
Tandem Balloon Launch Delayed Over Martian Photos
Cloudy skies forced postponement of the tandem balloon launch aims to lift two 600 foot balloons with a 36 inch telescope above the atmosphere to photograph Mars and probe life possibilities. Princeton University scientists reported readiness for inflation before weather halted events. The launch, moved to Tuesday afternoon, was originally set for today in Palestine, Texas.
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Palestine, Tex
UPI
Mars
Ltry
Princeton University
New Jersey
Palestine
Unwritten Code Broken as Moonshine Raids Ignite Firefight
In Cocke County near Cosby Tennessee Revenue agents John McGinnis and J D Markus destroyed six 500 gallon moonshine stills halting the operation. Their car was later shot at eight bullets fired but no one injured. ATU chief William Watkins recalls no shooting in 15 years of raids here.
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Knoxville
Free
Franklin
Hills
State
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
ATU
Tennessee-North Carolina
Cocke County
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
William Cocke
Congress
John McGinnis
J.D. Markus
Cosby
McGinnis
Markus
William Watkins
Ence
Watkins
Baghdad quiet as new Iraqi regime consolidates power
Travelers report dead quiet in Baghdad after the rebels execute two generals and other officers. West German parliament member Rudolph Werner describes empty streets and little public reaction to Kassem's fall. Shipping resumes on the Shatt el Arab and curfew hours relaxed as recognition spreads. About 1500 killed in the revolt day, according to an eyewitness.
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Lebanon
UPI
Iraq
Baghdad
Parliiament
Rudolph Werner
Shatt-el-Arab
Britain
West Germany
Baghdad Radio
Crim
Paymaster's House Restoration Funded at Harpers Ferry
The National Park Service to receive a 50 000 dollar donation from Corina Higginson to restore the Paymaster's House on former Storer College campus in Harpers Ferry West Virginia. The building is memorial to Col Thomas Wentworth Higginson Civil War era commander of the first Negro regiment. Storer College buildings were purchased by the Interior Department and added to the Harpers Ferry site last year.
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Interior Department
Harpers Ferry
Theys a few things I reckon he never understand
SHERWOOD GLUTZ-SAYS Theys a few things i reckon he never understand an one ov them is why none ov the men who wood make a perfect hus band is married. Ive noticed that when the averidge married man says he aint made up his mind yet it means he aint asked his wife.
Freed Ukrainian Archbishop describes Red torture and release
Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi, released after 18 years of Soviet imprisonment, met Pope John XXIII in the Vatican. A Vatican source said the pope greeted him warmly and they prayed together. Slipyi, 70, was tortured and forced to perform hard labor in Siberia after arrest in 1945 for hosting German officers. He arrived in Rome after a sudden release by the Russians last Christmas, with no Kremlin Holy See negotiations involved.
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UPI
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Soviet Union
John XXIII
Vatican
Msgr. Slipyi
Siberia
Msgr
Slipyi
Rome
Kremlin
Holy See
Lwow
Adlai Stevenson Becomes Grandfather Again
A 10 pound 6 ounce boy was born Saturday to John Fell Stevenson and Natalie Stevenson in San Francisco. The infant, named John Fell Stevenson Jr., is the fifth grandchild of United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.
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UPI
United Nations
Adlai Stevenson
John Fell Stevenson
Natalie
John Fell Stevenson Jr
Byrd Seeks Study on West Virginia Institute of Industrial Technology
Senator Byrd announces a Commerce Department feasibility study on a proposed Institute of Industrial Technology in West Virginia. Secretary Hodges supports long term redevelopment goals and notes potential nationwide guidance for similar institutes.
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Washington, D.C
Institute of Industrial Technology
West Virginia
U.S. Department of Commerce
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
Byrd
Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
Hodges
Four Little Sisters Die In Pond Ice Break
In Babylon New York four young sisters Mary Ann Coolidan five Kathleen ten Patti seven and Louise three drown after thin ice breaks on a pond near their home. Lorraine eleven survives hospitalization for exposure. Patrolman Paul Barnard recalls hearing Lorraine scream but cannot aid. Father away on a fishing trip unaware of tragedy.
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Babylon
N.Y
Lorraine
Kennedy Hiking Challenge Spurs Nation to Hit the Roads
United Press International reports President Kennedy urged military and civilian participants to hike 50 miles in three days, citing Theodore Roosevelt's 1908 order. Marines led the effort with many completing the trek in under 20 hours, including a 50 mile route by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and several scouts joining from Iowa to Virginia.
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United Press International
Kennedy
Air Force
Marine Corps
David M. Shoup
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert F. Kennedy
Great Falls
Harper's Ferry
Administration Calls End to Public Cuba Debate
A senior State Department official urged stopping public debate on Cuba after weekend clashes over policy. U.S. Undersecretary George W. Ball said the administration had been candid with the public and suggested monitoring developments day by day while awaiting new evidence for any military or offensive buildup.
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Washington
UPI
Udersecretary
George W. Ball
Ball
Congress
Castro
United States
America
State Department
Kennedy
Defense Department
East German appoints new agricultural chief after Nazi past exposed
East German Communist leaders move to replace Karl Heinz Bartsch as head of the new agricultural council after Western intelligence disclosed his Nazi background. Bartsch was fired Sunday and removed from the Politburo and Central Committee, with the party accusing him of concealing his past and causing great damage. Ulbricht remains party leader.
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Berlin
UPI
Karl Heinz Bartsch
Bartsch
Communist Party
Party
East Germany
Walter Ulbricht
Kennedy appeals for progress at disarmament talks
President Kennedy sends a personal appeal to the 17 nation disarmament conference in Geneva urging progress on a nuclear test ban and broader disarmament efforts, according to authoritative sources.
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Geneva
UPI
Kennedy
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