Raleigh County Bank Plans Bright New Look In Beckley
Raleigh County Bank announces a lighting overhaul for Beckley’s main building. Floodlights will circle the ledges on multiple floors, blue vapor lights will highlight the penthouse, and reflective covers atop the penthouse will be visible from afar. Completion is expected within 30 days, with interior modernization and a self service elevator delayed by a factory strike.
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Beckley
Raleigh County Bank
Okey Patteson
Patteson
Reds Unfolding New Diplomacy In Rocket Test
Washington reports Soviet rocket tests in the central Pacific may launch a new missile diplomacy aimed at impressing Asian nations and Western powers. The window between Jan 15 and Feb 15 brackets key events including a US Japan security treaty signing on Jan 19 and Khrushchev’s 10 day Indonesia visit hinting at a May four power summit and Eisenhower’s June trip to the Soviet Union.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Central Pacific
United States
U. S
Moscow
Japan
White House
Nobusuke Kishi
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Indonesia
Asia
South Asia
China
Formosa
Prison Barber Missing Crala Convicted Burglar At Large
Crala, 28, a San Joaquin County burglar serving 15 years, is presumed to still be inside the 42 acre prison grounds as police check all his old contacts for leads.
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Crala
San Joaquin County
West Virginia Weather Outlook From Oak Hill
Mostly cloudy with light drizzle today and tomorrow. Highs 45 to 50 north and 50s south, lows 33 to 38 north and 38 to 45 south. Temperatures stay near normals through Saturday with 5 to 10 degree above normals. Light precipitation starts, becoming general Thursday and Friday totaling about half to one inch.
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Oak Hill
Cove
Work for Older Men in West Virginia Face Revision
Washington AP reporting that West Virginia lawmakers plan a youth conservation corps expansion to include a workmen's conservation program for older men. Sen. Jennings Randolph Rep. Cleveland Bailey and Sen. Byrd push a plan to employ displaced miners and crews in timber and mine areas, offering training and home living allowances.
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West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
Dwva
Congress
Youth Conservation Corps
Cleveland M. Bailey
House Labor Committee
Hulett C. Smith
Democratic Executive Committee
Smith
Randolph
Yough Conservation Corps
Sen
Byrd
House
Tailored To Avoid Veto New Coal Bill Being Planned
Washington AP reports revised coal research legislation is in preparation to meet administration needs. Rep. John P. Saylor Pa says the bill will expand the U S Bureau of Mines role and keep the two million dollar appropriation. The National Coal Association backs a separate commission, while the United Mine Workers oppose it. The plan seeks coordinated government and private research to find new coal uses.
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John P. Saylor
D-Pa
Saylor
Coal Research Commission
Eisenhower
Interior Committee
U. S. Bureau of Mines
National Coal Assn
United Mine Workers Union
Bureau
Egypt opens Aswan Dam with 85-million-dollar plant
President Nasser inaugurated a new hydroelectric plant four miles up the Nile from the Aswan high dam. The plant will begin at 22 000 kilowatts and later reach 351 000 kilowatts with 80 percent allotted to a nearby fertilizer facility. West German engineers aided the project after a French firm pulled out amid the Suez crisis and British and French invasion. the site is linked to the Voice of the Arabs radio network.
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Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nile
Aswan High Dam
Nasser
Suez Canal Zone
United Arab Republic
Notable military and public figures die in recent weeks
Retired Adm. Arthur S. Carpender aged 75 dies of a heart attack in Scarsdale after a long career in two world wars and service in the Navy. Miller McClintock 65, a former Mutual Broadcasting System president and current chairman of a New York chemical firm, dies in New York. Omer Carmichael 66, longtime Louisville superintendent praised for school integration work, dies of an apparent heart attack. Christine Rice Gillett 88, Worcester widow of former House Speaker Frederick H. Gillett, dies in Worcester.
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Arthur S. Carpender
Atlantic
Pacific
Navy
Bureau of Personnel
Scarsdale
N. Y
Miller McClintock
Mutual Broadcasting System
New York Chemical and Drug Concern
Cedar Rapids
Neb
Louisville
Omer Carmichael
Boston
Christine Rice Gillett
Worchester
Mass
Frederick H. Gillett
House of Representatives
Retired General Criticizes U S Defense Policy Shift
Washington reports former Army chief Maxwell D Taylor challenges massive retaliation as a dead end. He argues budgeted plans drive defense, downplaying manpower, and urges restoring Army control of Jupiter missiles with mobile basing to deter Soviet targets.
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Maxwell D. Taylor
New York
Taylor
Washington
Army
Orerioe
Soviet Union
Brigitte Bardot Gives Birth to a 7-Pound Son Nicolas Jaques
Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier welcome a 7-pound boy named Nicolas Jaques. The couple, married since June 18, 25 years old, welcomed their child amid public attention.
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Brigitte Bardot
France
Nicolas Jaques
Jacques Charrier
American Airlines
Milton Berle
Idlewild
John XXIII
Vatican
Crossing Crash Claims 6 Lives in Wisconsin
In Tomah Wisconsin a car with six aboard edged around a tractor and haywagon at a railroad crossing at dusk and collided with a Chicago and North Western passenger train. The six victims include George Emrich 43 of Warrens Wis his sons Duane 15 and Patrick 11 a daughter Sandra 5 his son in law James Lyon 29 of Round Lake Ill and neighbor James Monarch 75.
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Tomah
Wis
Chicago & North Western
George Emrich
Warrens
Duane
Patrick
Sandra
James Lyon
Round Lake
Ill
Emrich
James Monarch
U.S. business fears backing Cuba policy may fail
In Havana American executives express doubt the United States will be firm enough with Fidel Castro to protect investments as expropriation and government supervision intensify. Ambassador Bonsal returns from Washington amid talks of a quicker U.S. stance while hotels face cash shortages without presumed Castro aid and workers go unpaid.
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U. S
United States
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Philip W. Bonsal
Washington
Bonsal
Marcello Fernandez
Castro
Indi- Munich
Institute of Agrarian Reform
Cer
Starvation Ended At Jail in West Virginia
MOUNDSVILLE West Virginia AP Sheriff Herman Laas halted meals for 15 inmates at the county jail for three days after they tampered with cell door locks and mocked his attempts to reason with them. The prisoners survived on tap water for over 98 hours before receiving three regular meals Sunday. The sheriff said the incident is resolved and normal operations resumed.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Herman Laas
Laas
Train Wreck Kills Four on 10 Car NY Central Detour
A 10 car New York Central flyer derailed near Wellington Ohio injuring many and killing at least four. The crash occurred near an intersection with the Nickel Plate railroad as diesel locomotives and cars smashed. one unoccupied signal tower was wrecked and leaking diesel caught fire. Passengers numbered about 155 with several conductors among the dead. Names include Phil Lehman fireman, George Rummel and Kenneth Hale conductors, Audrey Cox 6, treated at Allen Memorial Hospital Oberlin.
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Nurt
Southwest Limited
Nickel Plate Railroad
Cleveland
John Dolan
New York Central
Limited
Paul Kopsch
Lorain County
Phil J. Lehman
George P. Rummel
Indianapolis
Kenneth Hale
Rosedale
Inn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Audrey G. Cox
St. Paris
Ohio
Allen Memorial Hospital
Oberlin
MIT Dorm Icicle Craze Produces Giant Tricolor
In Cambridge Massachusetts three Baker House residents Steve Raphael Robert Ratner and William Tobin created a four story high tricolored icicle outside their dorm by lowering an ice cube on a string and siphoning colored water to form a red white and blue display. The colossal icicle at times reaches about 14 inches in width drawing astonished looks from pedestrians and drivers along Memorial Drive.
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Cambridge
Mass
Memorial Drive
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Baker House
Steve Raphael
Brooklyn
N. Y
Robert Ratner
Short Hills
N. J
William Tobin
Colorado Springs
Colo
Missing Heiress Traced To Paris
ANTWERP Belgium AP Missing heiress Gamble Benedict traced to Paris after a freighter trip from New York with married Romanian born chauffeur Andre Porumbeanu 35. NY police say Benedict 18 sailed Dec 31 aboard the Edga and later boarded an express to Paris. Authorities note she left voluntarily after a society party and had been seen in New York since.
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Belgium
Gamble Benedict
Paris
New York
Edga
Andre Porumbeanu
Oneitime
Arde Bulova
Miss Benedict
Porumbeanu
Naples
Upper East Side
Kath
Jimmie Davis named Louisiana governor and segregation vow
Jimmie Davis won Louisiana’s Democratic runoff for governor and pledged a state sovereignty commission to preserve segregation. He praised the South and promised to avoid building a political machine, while facing school integration suits in three parishes. Davis led with 486,095 votes to Morrison’s 414,258.
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Jimmie Davis
Louisiana
Aon
State Sovereignty Commission
Davis
Southland
Huey P
Earl K. Long
Huey
deLesseps S. Morrison
Morrison
Farmer
Jackson Parish
Red Hill Country
Central Parish
Gov. Long
Francis Grevemberg
Kent Courtney
Oak Hill Expressway Appraisals Proceed
SRC engineers in Charleston said formal offers will be made to owners of 16 parcels on Main Street near Minden Road for the Oak Hill expressway. Appraisals move forward and construction plans are set to take these properties, with others potentially needed but not yet decided.
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OAK Hill
ANS
State Road Commission
SRC
Charleston
Main Street
Minden Road
Engineers
Weather and politics clash in windy Charleston forecast
Windy and warmer conditions hit Charleston tomorrow as the Republican governor addresses the Democratic legislature. The lawmakers begin their debate, but the meeting of a debating society won’t solve unemployment or raise meat on the table.
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Charleston
Military Disaster Amendment Vote Set
Washington AP reports that 11 states will vote next November on constitutional amendments enabling continuity in government laws as urged by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. As of December 3 1959, 3M states had adopted all or part of OCDM suggested laws.
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Washington
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
OCDM
Council of State
Council
Mine Strike Hits Barrackville Shift Return
At Bethlehem Mines Corp operation in Barrackville a picket line formed early today influencing an 8 a.m. return for the day shift. About 606 unionized miners, Local 4346 of the United Mine Workers, walked out over a seniority dispute. A union hall meeting was set for later today to discuss the issue.
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Fairmont
Bethlehem Mines Corp
Barrackville
United Mine Workers of America
Union Hall
Soviet press highlights crimes and scandal in rare edition
Soviet newspapers ran a string of crime stories including a Chelyabinsk rape case where six youths were jailed then released on bail to work in factories. The Komsomol Pravda piece questioned leniency due to parents’ factory ties. Other reports covered an Orthodox priest leaving assets to a girlfriend, a confiscated car, and a man who captured a train thief after finishing a prior sentence.
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Komsomol Pravda
Communist Youth Organization
Ural
Chelyabinsk
Chistopol
Kazan
Soviet Russia
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