Resolution Asks Out Of Welfare Royalty UMW Aid Sought For STEP Program
West Virginia legislators seek UMW cooperation to fund the STEP program. D P Given introduces a concurrent resolution urging the United Mine Workers to donate 10 percent of coal royalty income to relieve unemployment, especially in the state's coal regions. The plan follows passage of the state income tax amid lively county opposition and public debate.
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Charleston
United Line Workers Union
D. P
Given
Webster
UMW
West Virginia
W. W. Barron
Senate
Moscow Demonstrates Over Lumumba Slaying at Belgian Embassy
Hundreds of students from Russia and Asia surged on the Belgian Embassy in Moscow in two waves protesting Patrice Lumumba's murder in the Congo. Police clashed with demonstrators who smashed a glass door and windows before being driven back, then returned with Russian crowds carrying placards denouncing Belgian colonizers and calling for justice in the Congo.
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Henry Shapiro
Moscow
UPI
Patrice Lumumba
Congo
U.S
Lebanon
Moscow Radio
Lumumba
Communist
Pravda
Friendship University
Pollice
Joseph Kasavubu
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
UN fears Congo reprisals after Lumumba death
In Leopoldville United Nations troops are alerted against potential mass reprisals by left wing supporters following Patrice Lumumba’s slaying announced in Elisabethville. Europeans fear a night of the long knives amid Congo crisis as eight Belgian businessmen are held in Stanleyville by Gizenga and allied leftists.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Stanleyville
Oriental Province
Antoine Gizenga
Congo
Africa
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Prague Radio
Lumumba
Moscow Radio
Hammarskjold
Moscow
Two Moves Planned To Help Jobless
Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg announced two steps to aid areas with critical unemployment. The Bureau of Employment Security will report monthly instead of bi monthly to fast track federal aid. A new Labor Department division will address automation and job displacement blamed for unemployment.
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Washington
UPI
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Kennedy
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Employment Security
Labor Department
Kennedy cabinet breakfast on plans for legislation
President Kennedy met with cabinet and Democratic leaders to push proposals through Congress. Social Security health insurance bill for the aged has been referred to Ways and Means. Senators see hope for progress on a nuclear test ban as Khrushchev seeks tempo and economic focus. Massachusetts drops Cordiner from honorary degree consideration amid price fixing fallout. Henry Baker of the Brinks robbery dies in prison. seven missing after a fishing boat foundering near Vancouver. John S. Rice, Pennsylvania.
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Kennedy
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Llewellyn E. Thompson
U.S
Moscow
Khrushchev
Russia
University of Massachusetts
Ralph W. Cordiner
General Electric Co
Henry Baker
Morfolk
Mass
Texada Island
Georgia Strait
Vancouver
B. C
County Fire Unit Measure Passed
The House of Delegates approved a bill to create county fire protection funds and mandatory levies. Levy rates would be 1 to 7 cents per $100 of property outside municipalities with fire units, funds to be distributed to municipal and volunteer departments to maintain equipment and personnel.
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Charleston
UPI
House of Delegates
Senate
Del
Thomas Black
D-Kanawha
House
Tom Myles
D-Fayette
Myles
Fayette County
West Virginia Weather Summary and River Conditions
West Virginia forecast calls for fair and cooler conditions tonight with lows 27 to 33 degrees. Wednesday remains fair and mild, with Beckley showing a high around mid 50s yesterday and temperatures across Oak Hill dipping to the upper 40s. River readings at Greenbrier are normal and milky, lake is normal and frozen with 10 gates open. new gauge reads 36 feet.
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Beckley High
Cceeseers
OAK Hill High
Greenbrier
Terrifying Possibility Of Soviet Space Breakthrough
Washington June 1962 UPI Chairman Overton Brooks of the House Space Committee warned of terrifying possibilities as the Soviet Venus satellite signal suggests a major step toward a manned moon mission. Rep James Fulton called it a big step for a manned expedition on the moon, with potential strategic uses for space platforms and missiles.
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Washington
UPI
Overton Brooks
D-La
House Space Committee
Russia
Venus
Brooks
Soviet Union
Who
Space
Earth
James G. Fulton
Moon
Bucks-Only Deer Season Set for December 1961
The Conservation Commission decided the 1961 deer season will be bucks-only next December after nine meetings with sportsmen statewide. Conservation Director M. Lane said the herd is in good shape and a bucks-only gun season will run from December 4, with an expected drop in the kill from 1960’s 15,848 when both sexes were legal.
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Charleston
UPS
Conservation Commission
M. Lane
Lane
More Venus Rocket Missions Planned by Soviet Union
Moscow reports Dr Alexander Markov of Komsomolskaya Pravda says the three quarter ton space lab now heading to Venus ushers an era of interplanetary flights. He predicts subsequent rockets carrying automatic instruments will follow after the first launch. The communique notes the 4 ton rocket ship has traveled 263,118 miles from Earth.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
Venus
Alexander Markov
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Earth
Space station rocket marks first in orbit mission
Brooks questions security implications of an instrument-loaded satellite fired from a space station in Earth orbit. He calls for a full discussion of the Venus mission at a Wednesday hearing and notes his long-standing concerns about weaponized space capabilities.
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Earth
Brooks
Sian
Venus
Prof's Pay Hike Bill Introduced in State Senate
In Charleston Sen. Jackie McKown of Wayne introduced a bill to raise college instructor salaries and set a minimum wage scale. The measure would start instructors at 4000 dollars plus 200 dollars per year of experience up to five years, with details continuing for assistant professors.
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Charleston
UPI
State Senate
Jackie McKown
D-Wayne
Gunman Nabbed After Shooting State Trooper
A Pennsylvania state trooper was critically wounded when stopping a speeding station wagon on Route 422. Trooper Leonard Straple radioed a description, leading to the arrest of Thomas Ferriman of Ohio at a roadblock. Ferriman admitted the shooting. his revolver was found with him. Ferriman rode with his wife Betty Jo and Ruth, plus two young children, in a stolen Georgia vehicle halted near Route 18.
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New Castle
UPI
Pennsylvania
Leonard Straple
Nanty Glo
Route 422
Here
Straple
New Castle Hospital
Hickory Township
Thomas Ferriman
Chippewa Lake
Ohio
Ferriman
Betty Jo
Max Parson
Tampa
Fla
Ruth
Debra Sue
Michael
Georgia
Route 18
Curtain Callers May Rent Palace Theater
Beckley drama group The Curtain Callers may lease the Palace Theater on North Kanawha Street from Investment Securities Inc. A two year lease with a minimum rental of 10 percent of yearly gross, first refusal if the building is sold, and reimbursement of remodeling costs if the lease ends. Enthusiasm runs high as volunteers offer to handle cleanup and repairs to minimize costs.
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Beckley
Curtain Callers
Palace Theater
North
Kanawha Street
Investment Securities, Inc
W. W. McKinney
Drama Group
John H. McCulloch
Investment Securities
McKinney
Wood Officials Ousted In Wood County Case
CHArLESTON UP I Four Parkersburg officials including Mayor Clarence W Hulbert and three city council members must resign after the State Supreme Court refused to reconsider its December ruling upholding an ouster order issued by Wood County Circuit Judge Donald F Black. Hulbert expected to depart first.
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Charleston
UPI
Parkersburg
Clarence W. Hulbert
State Supreme Court
Wood County
Donald F. Black
Hulbert
R. R. Nuzum
James M. Beckett Jr
Cecil C. Coffield
Met Museum Confesses Three Etruscan Forgeries
New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art admits three major Etruscan terra cotta warrior figures, displayed since 1933, are modern forgeries. Directed by James J. Rorimer, the works were found to be manganese glazed and deliberately broken to fake antiquity. They will remain on display with a notice of their forgeries.
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New York
UPI
Metropolitan Museum of Art
James J. Rorimer
Museum
Joseph V. Noble
Ues
Italy
Quotes and odd quotes from Washington White House
Federal Housing Administrator Weaver says there is no housing problem in Washington despite being Black. Kennedy discusses post presidency plans, saying he is at an awkward age. Austin vice squad raids a stag party with five strippers. detectives say keep your seats. Dagmar explains rushing back to New York after filing for a Mexican divorce due to her mother babysitting her poodle.
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U.S
United Press International
Washington
Robert C. Weaver
Kennedy
White House
Austin
Tex
Man Ordered From Town After Mount Maunganui Theft
Wellington court heard Donald Hawkes steal a newspaper from an honesty box in Mount Maunganui. Magistrate G Doone fined him £7 Australian and placed him on probation for one year, plus a six mile ban from Mount Maunganui unless he notifies police.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Mount Maunganui
G. Doone
Donald Hawkes
Auckland
Hawkes
Death of Lumumba Condemned Across Iron Curtain
News from London by Jay Axelbank reports rapid condemnations from both sides of the Iron Curtain over the killing of former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba. Moscow Radio and Nasser denounced the death as criminal, while demonstrations erupted in London and Rome. Civil war fears rise as Katangan authorities claim Lumumba died at hands of villagers.
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London
UPI
Patrice Lumumba
Congo
Lumumba
Moscow
United Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Times of London
Rome
Belgium
The
New Frontiers In Religion Series By Dr J Carter Swaim
The Raleigh Register will begin a Lent series titled New Frontiers in Religion written by Dr J Carter Swaim executive director of NC Churches. The first Ash Wednesday February 15 with weekly installments through Easter April 2. The articles explore scripture for 20th century life, discussing God of New Frontiers unity of the church and What Is Man. Dr Swaim has a rich background in theology and education.
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Raleigh Register
New Frontiers
J. Carter Swaim
Department of the
The
National Council of Churches
Swaim
God
Western Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Washington and Jefferson College
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Theological Seminary
Dr. Swaim
Selma
Alabama
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