Senate Delays Gag Vote and House Rules Fight On
The 88th Congress opens with Democrats aiming to preserve a 15 member rules committee to aid Kennedy New Frontier proposals. A House vote on keeping expanded rules control is due, with Republicans rallying opposition and some Democratic defections noted. Budget and foreign aid plans add to the clash as Congress faces a tight schedule.
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Senate
House
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Rules Committee
Congress
South
McCormack
India
Mike Mansfield
Mont
Mona Lisa displayed amid UPI staged gala in Washington
Two thousand dignitaries gathered for the American debut of Mona Lisa as President Kennedy praised France and the painting while mic troubles muted speeches. Secretary Rusk noted acoustics amplified rear remarks and Andre Malraux’s tribute was inaudible. Kennedy hailed the “second lady” from France as he urged U S artistic independence.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Dan Vinci
Dean Rusk
Andre Malraux
France
United States
Nassau
M. Malraux
Tshombe opens talks as Kasai tribal war rages
Katanga President Moise Tshombe said he would discuss peace with the central government signaling end of war in Katanga. Meanwhile a full scale tribal conflict continued in Kasai Province leaving over 370 Lulua tribesmen and two whites dead with many villages burned, travelers reported. The fighting was confirmed to Leopoldville by Maj. Gen. Victor Lundula.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
the Congo
UPI
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Congo
Kasai
United Press International
Leopoldville
Victor Lundula
Five penitentiary guards fired for rapist escape
Five members of the Moundsville State Penitentiary guard force were fired after a miscount led to the escape of life-term inmate Jerry Bridwell. Warden Otto Boles said Bridwell, 24, from Charleston, vanished Tuesday morning after being in the North Hall area before nightly cell locking. No wall breach or outside help detected. extensive searches continued. Bridwell was sentenced in 1961 for abducting and raping a 23-year-old babysitter.
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Moundsville
UPI
Moundsville State Penitentiary
Jerry Bridwell
Otto Boles
Bridwell
Charleston
Boles
North Hall
U. S. Seeks Delay in Disarmament Conference
The United States asks to postpone the 17 nation disarmament conference from next Monday to February 12 to give Russia more time to break the deadlock over ending nuclear tests. No Russian reply yet, but officials expect agreement. a new U N negotiator may also be named after Arthur H. Dean's resignation on January 4.
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Geneva
UPI
United States
Arthur H. Dean
West Virginia high school and college bills eyed
Interim groups urge passage of four school bills including higher nonresident registration fee increases to 300 dollars and directing funds to capital improvements. They seek 17th birthday compulsory attendance and six-year-old first graders by Nov 1, plus study on educational broadcasting authority.
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Charleston
UPI
56Th Legisature
State Board of Education
West Virginia University Board of Governors
Fother
State General Revenue Fund
West Virginia
del. J. F. Deem
R-Ritchie
Governor’s Committee On Educational Broadcasting
Man Shot In Fuss Over Coal In Pineville
Earl Sheppard, 35, was wounded in the upper chest and shoulder by a 16 gauge shotgun blast in his yard around 2:30 pm on Tuesday. Dell Cline, about 50, who rented on the Sheppard property, is charged with intent to kill after surrendering to a deputy. A preliminary hearing is set for this afternoon before Magistrate Cecil Kennedy in Hanover.
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Pineville
RNS
Hanover
Wyoming County Sheriff's Department
Earl Sheppard
Grace Hospital
Welch
Dell Cline
Sheppard
Cline
Cecil Kennedy
West Virginia Weather Warming Trend Expected Times
Five day forecast notes partly cloudy and warmer today and Thursday with highs in the 40s and mid 40s, lows in upper 30s. Precipitation totals rise to about three quarters of an inch Friday into Monday. Beckley and Oak Hill observations show highs near 30s and lows near upper 20s, Greenbrier River conditions normal and clear, Hinton gauge at 3 feet.
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Beckley High
Barry Fos Spats Benedad
TOGRY
Cscececeivess
Chenosdexenesteas
OAK Hill High
Greenbrier
Hinton
State Youth Arrested For Robbing Poor Box
Phillip Young 21 of Huntington West Virginia faces trial January 22 on looting a church after a penniless couple identified him as the man who robbed the poor box at St. Vibiana Cathedral. He was held on $1500 bail and bound over to Superior Court. Police say Young admitted taking $2000 from five churches in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Phillip Young
Huntington
W. Va
Young
St. Vibiana’s Cathedral
Marice T. Leader
Orange
Fast Moving Thief Stole Car Twice In Houston
Insurance adjuster E M Jordan praised Harris County sheriff office for recovering a stolen car insured by his company. When Jordan went to retrieve the vehicle behind the Criminal Courts Building it had vanished and been stolen again.
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Houston, Tex
UPI
Harris County Sheriff’s Office
Jordan
Criminal Courts
Automatic Dryers End Neighbors Clothesline Judgments
A note on how automatic clothes dryers have removed the old habit of judging neighbors by their washday clotheslines, changing domestic routines and social signals in the community.
Shortening The News From Wire Dispatches
Postmaster General J Edward Day unveiled a new 50 star stamp matching the 5 cent rate. A dramatic explosion at an Oulu Finland nitrate plant killed at least six and injured nineteen. Police in Accra questioned a man about a bomb in a crowd cheering President Nkrumah. At Ole Miss Negro student Meredith faced jeers during cafeteria entry. Pittsburgh and Allegheny County opposed a proposed railroad merger. The auto industry consumed record steel at iron and coal plants. UMW picket lines at Blairfork Coal Co two pickets wounded. police kept order. U S letter writers bought 6.9 million dollars in stamps the day rates took effect. Kathryn Granahan sworn in as U S treasurer. New York newspaper strike talks remained stalled. State notes include Cecil Underwood named Cancer Crusade chairman and two Marshall University students jailed on narcotics charges.
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J. Edward Day
Washington
Oulu
Finland
Accra
Ghana
Kwane Nkrumah
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
United Mine Workers
Blairfork Coal Co
Tilford
Kentucky
Post Office Department
U. S
Kathryn E. Granahan
Pennsylvania
United States
New York
Cecil H. Underwood
Island Creek Coal Co
Huntington
Marshall University
Jay Michael Myers
New Martinsville
Raymnd Haymond Maxwell
Clarksburg
Cabell County
Empire State Building Fire Under Control
Firemen fought a two alarm blaze in the Empire State Building, overhead through a 1472 foot shaft of wiring. By 8 a.m. the fire was under control and most workers had returned to their offices, though firefighting continued inside the midtown Manhattan landmark. No injuries were reported as investigators began checking offices and stripping insulation from wires.
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New York
UPI
Empire State Building
Midtown Manhattan
Fifth Ave
34Th St
Wnewtv
Wnbc-Tv
WNEW
Death Verdict Review Sought
Ernest Stevenson asked the UPI reported Supreme Court to review his murder conviction and death sentence in West Virginia. He claims an unfair trial due to an oral confession, alleged jury misconduct, and coercion to view the crime scene with a body, plus violations from courtroom conditions including radios and calls during the Huntington trial. Stevenson, 23, was unemployed at Huntington and imprisoned after a 1961 death sentence. WV Supreme Court upheld the verdict 3-2 in 1962.
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Louise Davis
Huntington
W. Va
Frederick
Stevenson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Silent partners in crime study urges Beckley watchers
Opal Ripley reports Beckley police urge witnesses to notify authorities of suspicious activity after 84 break ins in 1962. Ed Thomas Shatzer, 31, Dayton Kentucky, allegedly stole 85 guns from Keatley’s Sporting Goods and fled to Kentucky. other incidents involved Atkinson’s Shopping Center and nearby residents witnessing entry attempts but not calling police. Shatzer faces interstate transportation charges via FBI. several juveniles were arrested in related cases.
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Beckley City
Millard E. Tyree
D. W. Lilly
Beckley
These
Keatley's Inc. Sporting Goods
Edward Thomas Shatzer
Dayton
Campbell County
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State Board of Public Works
General Fund
State Road Commission
State Department of Education
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A. C. Bartlett
Tuddle House
Fred Collier
Route 21
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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