FDA Witness Links Twist to Supermarket Rows
Washington UPI reports Mrs. Carla Williams of the FDA told a Senate antitrust panel that consumers have been twisting packages in supermarkets for years while noting the clash of boxes brands and sizes. The columnist suggests twists come from shopping chaos not origin in a New York nightclub, but credits Williams with linking supermarkets and night clubs in an evolutionary sense.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Senate Antitrust
Carla Williams
FDA Consumer Programming
New York
Williams
Space Try Called Off Forecasters flag bad weather again
John Glenn's space flight postponed for the ninth time as forecasters warn Friday's outlook is not good. If not launched Friday, officials expect a delay into next week with wind and weather threats around Cape Canaveral. Glenn remained optimistic saying everything is go but the weather.
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Alvin B. Webb Jr
Cape Canaveral
Ernest Amman
Mercury
Amman
Cape
Glenn
John Glenn
Stiles Resigns to Lead Florida Agriculture Marketing
John Stiles the West Virginia agriculture department marketing director will resign to take a similar post in Florida on March 15. Agriculture Commissioner Johnson praised the move saying it shows West Virginia can produce top officials while noting Stiles will earn a higher salary in Florida.
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Charleston
UPI
John Stiles
State Department of Agriculture
Florida
Stiles
Parkersburg
John
West Virginia
Johnson
Empress of Ethiopia dies in Addis Ababa villa at 71
The Empress consort of Haile Selassie I and former Princess Woyzero Menen died peacefully in her Addis Ababa villa near the American Embassy. She was 71, married in 1912 and had seven children, three living. A separate report notes Indonesian student protests in Tokyo at the Dutch Embassy over airline landing rights to West New Guinea, and Teamsters Union invited delegates to a AFL-CIO conference amid tensions with Meany. The U S and allies protested Soviet air corridor maneuvers while Allied planes continued flights. In a separate test, the United States fired a Minuteman ICBM 3,900 miles down the Atlantic range after a prior cancellation to orbit an astronaut.
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Ethiopia
Haile Selassie I
Addis Ababa
Woyzero Menen
Selassie
Indonesia
Tokyo
Royal Dutch Airlines
KLM
West New Guinea
Teamsters Union
Afl-Cio Building Trades Department
George) Meany
Afl-Cio
East Germany
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Berlin
West Germany
Atlantic
Cape Canaveral
Beckley Town Border Route Study Planned
State officials moved toward selecting an interstate 64 route from Beckley to the Virginia line. SRC Burl A. Sawyers disclosed to White Sulphur Springs Chamber of Commerce that a 62 mile reconnaissance study was proposed for Beckley to White Sulphur Springs, with a parallel nine mile segment to the state border approved by the U S Bureau of Public Roads. Construction continues on parts of I 64 from Charleston to Huntington.
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Beckley
Virginia Border
Burl A. Sawyers
Chamber of Commerce
White Sulphur Springs
SRC
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Sawyers
Bureau
Charleston
Huntington
W. Va
U.S. Attache Shot Dead in Congo Case Baffles Authorities
Lt. Col. Helen Dorris Stogner, U.S. Embassy military attache, was found fatally shot in his Kinshasa bed. A Congolese chauffeur was jailed briefly as a suspect. motive remains unclear. Elizabeth Tryng, a Washington embassy secretary, reported seeing a man and a revolver found at the scene as Nigerian police investigated.
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William Anderson
Leopoldville
the Congo
UPN
Helen Dorris Stogner
U. S
Stogner
el Paso
Tex
Miss Tryng
Col
Dan Matlick
Rites set Saturday for West Virginia governor Kump
Funeral services will be held here Saturday for H Guy Kump West Virginia s 19th governor who guided the state through the worst years of the Great Depression He died of cancer at his home Wednesday aged 84 His long career included Randolph County prosecutor Elkins mayor and Randolph Upshur County circuit judge His administration saw the sales tax and gross receipts tax enacted popular unemployment and public assistance programs and the shift to a county unit school system He twice sought the U S Senate and remained active in politics into 1960 Barron Hodges Holt and Dawson all praised his leadership and integrity He was born in Capon Springs Hampshire County and earned a law degree at the University of Virginia in 1905 moving later to Elkins to practice law He died after illness that began last fall and included surgery on December 29
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Elkins
UPS
H. Guy Kump
West Virginia
Kump
Randolph County
Randolph-Upshur County
Jor
State Department of Public Assistance
Senate
U. S
Harley M. Kilgore
M. M. Neely
W. W. Barron
Barron
Charleston
D. Boone Dawson
Charles Hodges
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Homer A. Holt
Capon Springs
Hampshire County
America
Holland
Monongah Coal Co
Fairmont
University of Virginia
T.R
Wilson
Willie Lincoln
Lincoln
Red
Jefferson
Factory Hand Identified As Missing College Professor
A Rockford laborer earning $1.90 an hour at a paint plant was identified as Dr. Carl Vernon Holmberg, Syracuse University research chemist who vanished from his home in May 1955. He arrived in 1956 hitchhiking from Elgin under the alias Verne Hansen, worked as a laborer and shipping clerk, then a pigment grinder, and married Mrs. Mabel Ostling. FBI records revealed his true identity. Holmberg held degrees from Michigan State Idaho and Syracuse. He described a troubled life and a mind blank on memory upon realization. The story notes his disappearance years earlier and his wife’s hardship.
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Rockford, Til
UPI
Carl Vernon Holmberg
Syracuse University
Rockford
Elgin
Til
Verne Hansen
W. H
Mabel Ostling
Sand Point
Idaho
Carl Gunnard Hansen
Hansens
Hansen
Federal
Bueau of Investigation
FBI
Syracuse University College of Forestry
Michigan State
Syracuse
New York
Holmberg
Weather Outlook With Snow Flurries And Unseasonal Cold
Mostly cloudy today with scattered snow flurries in northern mountains. Highs 35 to 40 in north and east, 38 to 46 in southwest. Friday looks cloudy and cool with snow and rain northeast and east, rain southwest. Beckley yesterday high, low 30s. Oak Hill highs around 50, lows near 29. River gauges: Greenbrier normal clear, Lake normal clear, 8 gates open, new gauge 3.5 ft at Hinton. UPI reports record low 8 below at Pellston, Michigan and high 85 at Tallahassee, Florida. South Pole range 36 to 42 below.
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Oak Hill
Greenbrier
Hinton
HI LO
New York
UPI
U.S. Weather Bureau
Pellston
Mich
Tallahassee
Fla
U.S. South Pole
Cardinal Muench in Final Sacraments as Illness Deepens
Cardinal Aloysius Joseph Muench, 72, the only U S member of the Roman Curia, was placed on oxygen and given the Last Sacraments today. He is Milwaukee born and suffers from Parkinsons disease with complications.
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Rome
UPI
Aloysius Joseph Cardinal Muench
U.S
Roman Curia
Boulder Hits Auto, Kills Weirton Woman
Mrs. James I. Simmons, 38, of Weirton was killed when a large boulder rolled onto West Virginia 4 in front of her car. Her husband was injured and a second car crashed into the Simmons vehicle, which was demolished. No occupants of the other car were hurt.
Powers Grilled At CIA's Old Naylor Place
East of Easton Maryland a seven mile lane leads to a gated mansion known as Naylor Place or Ashford Farms owned by the U.S. government and used by the CIA for questioning exiles informers and defectors. Francis Gary Powers reportedly visited the site over the weekend as a reporter observed through a window the interior furniture matching a government release photo.
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Easton
UPI
Tre Avon
Chesapeake Bay
Naylor Place
Francis Gary Powers
Ashford Farms
U.S
Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Tred Aven
Choptank
Quotes From United Nations and Space To White House
United Nations NY Adlai Stevenson condemns an unprincipled attack on the United States and Western nations over Cuba. Cape Canaveral John Glenn notes weather delays threaten his orbital flight. Washington DC Jacqueline Kennedy says the White House should grow with its past. New York horseplayer Seymour Franklin shrugs stolen winnings saying he will regain the money soon.
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United Press International
United Nations
N.Y
U.S
Adlai Stevenson
United States
Western Hemisphere
Cuba
Soviet Union
Washington
Jacqueline Kennedy
White House
New York
Seymour Franklin
July Hearing Probable On NAACP Allegations
Federal Judge John A Field expected a July hearing in Beckley on charges that the Raleigh County Board of Education evaded court orders to end school segregation. The NAACP filed a bill of particulars detailing discrimination and lack of a comprehensive desegregation plan since 1956.
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Charleston
John A. Field
Beckley
Raleigh County
Field
NAACP
Willard Brown
Brown
Fletcher W. Mann
Rodriguez Gains Importance In Communist Cuba
Carlos Rodriguez named president of Cuba’s Land Reform Institute INRA, signaling a push to collective leadership. The Havana Communist May publisher already Soviet style Politburo member, and last year replaced Ernesto Guevara as regime economic czar, increasing Rodriguez’s economic powers. Castro and Nunez Jimenez not mentioned in the brief notice.
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Doug Anderson
United Press International
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Land Reform Institute
INRA
Castro
Carlos R. Rodriguez
Havana
May
Antonio Nunez Jimenez
Nunez
Rodriguez
Eduardo Santos Rios
Russia
Presidium
Politburo
Ernesto
Che) Guevara
Institute
Diplomats Wary of Summit Fever and Disarmament Hopes
Veteran American diplomats warn that public fixation on a potential Khrushchev meeting risks disillusionment. They note Kennedy’s cautious stance on a March 14 disarmament summit and insist on stressing real differences over progress. Berlin pressures, Laos cease fire fragility, and insistence on inspection terms shape cautious diplomacy amid mounting public expectation.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Geneva
Moscow
Berlin
Russia
Laos
Judge offers Labahn deal to end dancing career
UPI report: Superior Court Judge David A. Canel told Marvin Labahn aged 49 he would dismiss Mrs Lillian Labahn's separate maintenance suit if he ends his square dance calling career. The remark links personal life with professional exit in a domestic case. The story shows a courtroom bargaining angle and a colorful court exchange.
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Chicago
UPI
Superior Court
David A. Canel
Marvin Labahn
Lillian Labahn
Labahn
Soviet Mig Fighters Fly Within 20 Feet of U S Globemaster
Soviet MIG fighters flew within 20 feet of a U S Globemaster transport bound for Berlin in a new harassment of Western Allied air traffic. Four Soviet fighters were within this close distance for several minutes, according to informed sources.
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Berlin
UPI
U. S
SRC Advisors Back Sawyers On N-5 Route
Charleston UPI The seven member SRC advisory board unanimously endorsed Road Commissioner Burl Sawyers for accepting a revised I 79 routing. The change, opposed by some communities, moved the Sutton Beckley segment to run southwest to Charleston and along the Turnpike to Beckley, aligning with Interstate standards for cities over 25,000 and securing eligibility for 90 percent federal aid.
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Charleston
UPI
State Road Commission
Burl Sawyers
SRC
Sawyers
Pennsylvania
Weston
Sutton
Nicholas
Fayette
Beckley
Sutton-Beckley
Formal Steel Talks Began at Industry Summit
Pittsburgh reports negotiations aimed at a quick settlement of the 1962 basic steel contract moved to the summit level. USW president David J. McDonald and U.S. Steel spokesman R Conrad Cooper led four-man teams into a conference room in a downtown hotel shortly after 10 a.m. EST. The group planned a noon break and resumed with two more hours of talks at 2 p.m.
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Pittsburgh
UPS
Basic Steel
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers Union
USW
U.S. Steel
R. Conrad Cooper
White House Tour With Jacqueline Is TV Hit
New York United Press International reports on November 2 1800 Adams first White House letter to Abigail praised blessings on the house. Jacqueline Kennedy's TV tour showcased her restoration plans and charm inviting viewers to see the mansion's evolution.
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White House
Jacqueline
Doc Quigg
New York
UPI
John Adams
Abigail
Abigail Adams
Jacqueline Kennedy
Harry Truman
Walter Cronkite
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