Security Council Seeks Congo Stabilization and Lumumba Inquiry
The United Nations Security Council urged member states to remove foreign troops from Congo soil and to take immediate, energetic measures. It called for an impartial investigation into Lumumba's death and punishment of those responsible, reaffirmed Congo mandates, urged armed forces reform, and sought full international cooperation and aid under the resolution.
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U.N
Congo
Lumumba
Security In Council
Katanga Mobilizes After UN War Declaration Stance
Katanga President Moise Tshombe ordered general mobilization of all inhabitants to defend lives and property amid a UN call for withdrawal of foreign advisers. He called the UN resolution a declaration of war on Katanga and the Congo, demanding postponement and citing sovereignty concerns. The broadcast came from Elisabethville as UN and Congo tensions rose.
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Katanga, the Congo
UPI
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Tshombe
U.N. Security Council
New York
Congo
Security Council
U.N
Belgian Congo
Dag Hammarskjold
U. N
Elisabeth
Interpretation Of Better Schools Tax Ruling Upheld
The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the 1958 Better Schools Amendment applies only to school district taxing power, not to county courts or municipalities. The decision upholds a Mercer County Circuit Court ruling in a case by Appalachian to Co challenging a county airport bond levy.
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Charleston
UPI
State Supreme Court
Better Schools
Mercer County Circuit Court
Appalachian To Co
Circuit Court
County Boards of Education
Mercer County
F. Morton Wagner
Wagner
Supreme Court
Harlan
Marshall U Approved House Eyes Realignment
In Charleston UPI reports the West Virginia House passed 57 to 43 a measure to realign delegates after ruling out the initial plan as unconstitutional. The Senate has approved a similar bill and will be asked to concur. The debate touched on constitutional questions about county representation and a push to set a 1962 vote on related issues. The day also featured a plan to alter House rules for secret ballots and ongoing redistricting discussions, including a proposed apportionment that would shift delegates among Kanawha, Hancock, Wood, McDowell, Logan, and Fayette counties. A minimum wage bill of 75 cents was also on the House agenda.
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Charleston
UPI
Marshall College
House of Delegates
Delegates
House
Senate
Donald Robertson
Del
John Amick
D-Kanawha
House Rules Committee
D. R. Frazer
Nicholas
Julius Singleton
Frazer
Dels
Callie Tsapis
Hancock
Jack Miller
Wood
Kanawha County
McDowell
Logan
Fayette
West Virginia
Kefauver to Speak at West Virginia Democratic Dinner
State Chairman Hulett C. Smith said Sen Estes Kefauver D Tennessee will be principal speaker for a $25 a plate fund raising dinner in Charleston March 4 at the Civic Center. Kefauver chaired a Senate crime investigation and was the 1956 Democratic vice presidential candidate. Gov W W Barron and other party leaders will attend.
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Charleston
UPI
Hulett C. Smith
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
West Virginia
Kefauver
Senate
W. W. Barron
West Virginia Weather Update Tonight Through Wednesday
West Virginia forecast calls for rain and drizzle tonight with a low of 38 to 45. Wednesday shows clearing skies and warmer temperatures. Oak Hill records a high of 52 and a low of 30 in the 24 hour period. River conditions show Greenbrier river 2 feet above normal and muddy, Lake as normal and muddy, with the New gauge at 5.2 feet.
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OAK Hill High
Greenbrier
Speech By Lilly Helps Beat Bill
Charleston C Berkley Lilly of Raleigh spoke on the House floor opposing a bill to allow probation officers to carry pistols. He argued probation officers are not law enforcement, their job is rehabilitation, and questioned arming those not in uniform. The eight minute speech helped whip the bill.
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Charleston
C. Berkley Lilly
Raleigh
Lilly
Man hospitalized after Mullensville shooting incident
In Mullensville, Donald Byrd aged about 33 was shot in the right chest and hospitalized at General Hospital. Charley Green was arraigned for felonious assault after a late night confrontation. a grand jury action is pending. Sheriff Lelan Phillips said Byrd threatened to shoot the door knob. Hazel Stanley linked to the case as Byrd’s associate.
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Pineville
Rns
Mullensville
Donald Byrd
Skin Fork
Oe General
Mullens
W. P. Wilson
Charley Green
Green
Lelan Phillips
Byrd
Hazel Stanley
Wing County
Phillips
Capsule Survives Most Rugged Test
CAPE CANAVERAL UPS report an unmanned Mercury capsule survived a severe 18 minute 1 400 mile atmospheric reentry test. Recovery ships rushed to retrieve the one ton capsule after a 1 425 mile over ocean flight, as NASA officials aimed to prove Atlas robustness for future manned missions.
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Cape Canaveral
UPS
Atlantic Ocean
Spaceward Turn After World War II in Space Essay
Washington dispatch traces postwar shift by U S and Soviet scientists toward space. It notes Sputnik 1 as the first artificial earth satellite and cites Soviet space firsts while detailing U S advances like the Van Allen belts and Pioneer V as the space race unfolds.
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Joseph L. Myler
Washington
UPI
Defense
James V. Forrestal
Russia
Venus
Earth
U.S
Pioneer V
Three Astronauts Picked For First Space Shot
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida Mercury astronauts selected from candidates for America's first manned flight. Virgil L. Grissom and Alan B. Shepard Jr. were tabbed for the final pool. The remaining four named will be candidates for later space shots.
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Flatman
Mercury
America
Space
Air Force
Virgil L. Grissom
Navy
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Capsule lands in Atlantic after Atlas test flight
A capsule launched by Atlas missile reached 107 miles into space, landed about 400 miles northeast of Puerto Rico after an 18 minute flight. It was recovered on the deck of the U S S Donner by helicopter, hitting a top speed of 12 850 miles per hour. NASA said the landing was on target and the test aimed to assess safety for manned flight.
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Space Administration
NASA
Rico
U.S.S
State To Put 3 500 To Work In Public Works
West Virginia will begin a crash public works program aiming to employ about 3 500 people by Wednesday. Dana M. Hicks said 18 220 applications were filed with 82 617 dependents, with 1 698 certified and 1 100 referred to the State Road and Conservation Commissions. McDowell County led with 1 460 applications followed by Kanawha Raleigh Fayette Marion Clay and others. Barron expects 1 dollar per hour jobs for around 5 000 workers funded by a temporary sales tax increase.
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Charleston
UPI
West
State Road and Conservation Commissions
Statehouse
McDowell County
Kanawha County
Raleigh
Fayette
Marion
Clay
Monongalia
Webster
Logan
Harrison
Navy seeks 36.6 million for Sugar Grove radio center
Washington D C A request for an additional 36.6 million to complete the Navy radio research center at Sugar Grove West Virginia was endorsed by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Vinson. The Sugar Grove request is part of an 870.492 million military construction authorization bill before the committee. Navy witnesses testified the installation would be completed about June 1962 and would monitor space signals with a gigantic radio telescope able to pick up sounds up to 38 billion light years away.
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Washington
UPI
Navy
Sugar Grove
W. Va
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House
Armed Services Committee
Supreme Court allows civil suits against police for rights violations
The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling, holds suspects may sue individual police officers under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 for rights violations. James Monroe, questioned 10 hours without counsel, was released without charges after officers ransacked his home. The decision lets plaintiffs sue individual officers, not the city, and contrasts with state-court remedies.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Chicago
Kennedy orders action to end wildcat flight engineers strike
New York UPI report says President Kennedy instructed Secretary Arthur Goldberg to take federal measures to resolve the nation’s worst airline tieup as flight engineers walk out in a wildcat strike.
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New York
UPI
Kennedy
Arthur Goldberg
Capsule Snatch Set At 5 P.M.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California the Air Force will try a record recovery of Discoverer XX after four days in orbit. The mission aims to test retrieval techniques for a possible monkey carrying capsule next month and to prove space recovery of instruments and animals within a few days. The capsule has completed 62 orbits totaling about 1.5 million miles, setting a new duration record.
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Vandenburg Afb
Calif
UPI
Air Force
Earth
Kennedy outlines 16 point Congress priority list
President Kennedy presented Democratic leaders with a 16 point priority legislation list at a White House conference. He stressed urgency for supplemental unemployment benefits and included items on Social Security, aid to dependent children, minimum wage, aid for depressed areas, feed grain program, and related measures.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
White House
Congress
Sam Rayburn
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
Pee
Trials Begin For USS Kitty Hawk Armament Upgrade
A 400 man skeleton crew launched the USS Kitty Hawk for her first sea trials as a $250 million Forrestal class carrier becomes the first to be armed with guided missiles. Meanwhile air mail delays followed a wildcat strike by flight engineers and a Titan missile test marked a 20th success in 29 attempts. The Senate moved to form an agency to attract foreign tourists and ease gold reserves drain. A California earthquake near Fontana woke residents, while ice on the Allegheny river area prompted forecasters to monitor hazards near Pittsburgh. Eisenhower was reported suffering lumbago at Palm Springs. State briefs cover WVU Alumni Day speech, a canceled gubernatorial visit, a WVU Mines dean’s death, tax talks in Washington, a WV children’s home supervisor, a Weirton Moose Club cash theft probe, and a Wood County theft-ring arrests count.
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Fontana
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Allengheny
French Creek
Pittsburgh
Eisenhower
Eldorado Country Club
Palm Springs
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
Michael A. Musmanno
West Virginia University
W.W. Barren
Fairmont
G. Ralph Spindler
WVU
School of Mines
Spindler
Donald C. Carman
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Glen W. Gainer
Elkins
W. Va
Weirton
Wood County
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