Fifteen Dead As Planes Collide Near Cincinnati
Burlington Kentucky reports state fifteen believed killed in a collision southwest of the Cincinnati airport. One plane was a Trans World Airlines craft bound for Dayton and Cleveland. the other was a DC-3 from Battle Creek, Michigan. TWA crew listed as Captain J W Quinn First Officer R Childress and hostess Pat Stermer. DC-3 pilots Arthur Werkhaven and Edward Agner. Passenger liaison Robert Sobul and Swank Jewelry official Paul Strahm aboard TWA. Authorities report planes fell two miles apart two miles apart and wreckage strewn over fields as fires burned. investigation by Civil Aeronautics Authority pending.
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Dodge
Hedrick
Gannett
Coated Paper Co
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Burlington
Greater Cincinnati
Trans World Airlines
Dayton
Cleveland
TWA
J. W. Quinn
Belleville
Mich
R. Childress
Ann Arbor
John Hedrick
Oper
Flight disaster witness recalls bodies near wreck site
A witness who reached the scene within minutes of a flying service crash described seeing several bodies sprawled over about a 200 yard area. Roy Gannett of Hebron Kentucky related the dire scene and his belief that there were no survivors.
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Ator
Roy Gannett
Hebron
Eisenhower defers judgment in Ladejinsky case to Stassen
President Eisenhower said he has no personal judgment on the Ladejinsky affair and that Harold E. Stassen must take full responsibility for the outcome of Ladejinsky remaining in government service. He noted he did not know the other side of the story and defended Stassen’s decision to hire Ladejinsky after Benson’s department ousted him on security grounds. He also praised Vice President Nixon and suggested shortening the 1956 campaign, discussed atomic weapons in a police action, and described the security program as adequate pending possible commissions. He did not comment further on the Costa Rica Nicaragua dispute as an investigation proceeds.
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Eisenhower
Wolf Ladejinsky
Harold E. Stassen
Ladejinsky
Benson
Stassen
Agriculture Department
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State Department
Viet Nam
Nixon
Republican National Committee
Congress
Justice Department
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Organization of American States
Soviets Agree To Release Gl Soldier Verdine
Washington announced that the Soviet government agreed to turn over Pvt. William Verdine of Starks Louisiana to U.S. authorities in Berlin for repatriation. Verdine has been a prisoner of the Russians for five years and his return date will be set later.
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Washington
William Verdine
Starks
State Department
U.S
Berlin
Verdine
Vorkuta
Arctic
Russia
Seal Sale Campaign Totals Grow With 7000 Yet to Respond
Contributions to the Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association Christmas Seal Sale reach 7160.18 with about 7000 people still to be heard from. The drive aims for 10000 and seal sales fund the TB office and support the annual spring free X-ray clinic.
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Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association
Special Planning and Zoning meeting on Beckley remodels
A 4 p.m. special Planning and Zoning Commission meeting will discuss remodeling plans for three Beckley structures including J. S. Fisher on Main Street and the Stanley Building on Neville Street. The Fisher building and Stanley Building suffered fires in The Club Virgil's Newsstand and People's Credit Store, respectively, with December blazes noted.
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Planning and Zoning Commission
J. S. Fisher
Main St
Stanley
Neville St
Fisher
Club
Virgil's
People’s Credit Store
Borth
West Virginia Weather Outlook and River Updates
Cloudy with rain or snow tonight and snow flurries Thursday. Temperatures fall with a low of 24 to 32, colder Thursday. Beckley and Oak Hill show extreme low readings. rivers at Bellepoint show normal stages for Greenbrier and New Rivers, Bluestone Reservoir at normal, clear conditions.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
New
Fifth Reprieve Granted San Quentin Author
Daryl Chessman, convicted in 1948 of kidnapping and attempted rape, was granted his fifth reprieve from execution in San Quentin's gas chamber. Judge William Denman of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the sentence, citing probable cause for appeal. Chessman, 33, author of Cell 2455 Death Row, has faced extensive litigation across the Supreme Court and lower courts, totaling decades of legal maneuvering.
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San Francisco
Daryl Chessman
Los Angeles
San Quentin
William Denman
9Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Chessman
Death Row
U.S. Supreme Court
Costa Rican capital attacked by air raid
An air raider described as a Venezuelan plane based on a Nicaragua origin strafed San Jose and was shot down by Civil Guard anti aircraft fire. The attacker, resembling a P47 Thunderbolt, damaged a residential district near the Costa Rican White House before crashing in the Los Ahogados river near Liberia. Government forces report two Pacific port towns captured and rebels withdrawing as supplies arrive from the Canal Zone.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Civil Guard
Villa Quesada
White House
Jose Figueres
Lacsa Airlines
Los Ahogados
Liberia
U N Official and Staff Due in New York Thursday
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is en route to report to the U N and world on his efforts to free 11 Americans and other U N prisoners held by the Communists. He is due in New York tomorrow with no date yet set for the report.
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Tokyo
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Pacific
New York
Trial Dates Set for Three Murder Cases in January Term
Trial dates were set today for three murder defendants and a capias ordered for a manslaughter suspect. Joe George Voicekovich faces Jan. 19, George W. Edmonds Jan. 26, and Eugene Venable Feb. 1. Willie Howell is sought after a manslaughter indictment in a Stratton High incident. Previous pleas of guilty to grand larceny led to 1–10 year sentences for William G. Williams and Delbert O. Treadway. The January docket lists numerous cases including breaking and entering, grand larceny, and other charges across multiple defendants.
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Capias
Joe George Voicekovich
Lanark
Andrew Garcia Miramontez
George W. Edmonds
Sam Muse
Eugene Venable
Ronald Rogers
Harry L. McCreery
Willie Howell
South Carolina
Howell
Stratton High School
Moundsville
William G. Williams
Delbert O. Treadway
Rayburn Dari Bolen
Leonard Lee Butterworth
James William Buckland
Jack O. Daniels
Lewis Gillespie
Lloyd Irvin
Henry Lee Johnson
Herndon Eugene Martin
Everis McKay Richmond
Donald Ray Ratliff
Jerry Edward Ratliff
Robert W. Bennett
Fred Barr
Buster Davis
Charles Delvin
William Eakins
Mary E. Harvey
Sebert Lee Kessler
James C. Shilling
Stanford Spinks
Carl Lester Cousins
Claude A. Perkins
Ulysses Price
Joe Roy Williams
James E. Bandy
Clayton Webb
Lonnie Eugene Bowman
Virginia Ward
Isaac Green
Butler Price
James Edward Darnell
Eugene C. Delp
George W. Rosamond Jr
Norman G. Roy
Maxwell Allen
Jack Roles
Arnold Caldwell
Mike Stanick
J. W. Gregory
Othe Paul Minnix
Frank A. Pierson
John Trimble
Lawrence Vernon Williams
Leroy Gregory
Bob Rogers
George Hail
Lewis William Hornsby
William Edward Rowe
Wheeler Vaughn
Robert Burke
Jack Price
George Turner
al Curtis Foster
Booker Smith
Alfred L. Shumate Jr
Robert Anderson
Lawrence Curtis
John Bika Jr
William J. Osborne
Alice Osborne
Robert Osborne
Oris D. Johnson
Dewey Bowman
Dennis P. Clay
Viola Rogers
Elmer Ragle
John A. Boone
Hubert Meadows
Gertrude Mae Huff Webb
William Eugene Higgins
Tom Bazzarre
William Jackson Gardner
Hersey Elwood Gardner
Bobby Eugene Gardner
Duffie Miller
Granville Pankney Jr
Harless Burks
Emma Burks
Bertha Clemons
Floyd Guy Wyatt
Marshall E. Holstein
Coylette Graley
John Rife
Howard Jarrell
Corbett Jarrell
Billy Jarrell
Fairy Lilly
William Edward Boggess
Jess Price
Grady Lee Whitlock
Ina Barker
John Edward Burks
Herbert Judkins
John Herbert Milliner
Claude Everett Underwood
William J. B. Dunbar
Curtis Lloyd Ramsey
Carl Daniels
Charles R. Hawkins
Charles Hooks
Wesley Hurd
Henry Harmon
Winefred Harmon
Boyd Irvin
Clay‘burn Johnson
Robert Ledwell
Phyllis Jean Schoolcraft
Parachutists Survive C-119 Crash at Stewart Air Force Base
Thirty five paratroopers from the Fort Campbell area parachuted to safety after a C-119 Flying Boxcar crashed and burned near Stewart Air Force Base Tennessee. Troopers bailed out from about 8000 feet into near freezing weather over a three mile wide area, many landing on base. Pfc Richard L. Dalton of Benton Harbor Michigan was hospitalized overnight with minor injuries. The aircraft had been taking off at 30 minute intervals since 6 am Monday.
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Tenn
Fort Campbell
Richard L. Dalton
Benton Harbor
Mich
Montana
Yellowstone River
WV Budget Slash Leaves Merit Raises Off the Table
The Board of Public Works proposed a 1955-56 general revenue budget in Charleston showing a $6.7 million deficit against projected income, with no general salary increases or Merit System raises. Education funding remains steady, DPA aid cuts are planned, and Hope mont Sanitarium gains 66,850 while state universities see minor changes amid broader fiscal strain.
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General Revenue Fund
West Virginia
Board of Public Works
Department of Public Assistance
West Virginia University
Hopemont
Senate
D. L. Gainer
General Revenue
General Fund
DPA
Department
CPA
Potomac State College
Marshall College
West Liberty State College
West Virginia Tech
Planes Burn In Tennessee Paratroop Flight Crash
Eleven servicemen leapt to safety as two C109 Flying Boxcars burned near Tennessee. One plane crashed killing the pilot Captain John Rasper Jr. and co pilot Lt. Ross W. Richards, both 30, body removals completed. Sixty eight paratroopers and three airmen escaped by parachute from the two aircraft in flight from Fort Campbell Kentucky to Alaska for Operation Snowbird.
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Sewart Air Force Base
Tenn
Alaska
Montana
Public Information Office
John Rasper Jr
Mt. Clemens
Mich
Ross W. Richards
Jacksonville
Fla
Miles City
Mont
T.G. Johnson
Sewart Afb
Ft. Campbell
503Rd Airborne Infantry Regiment
James Reynolds
Melbourne
Reynolds
Forces in Europe Ready for Attack
At Frankfurt Germany Lt Gen Charles E Hart said US Army 5th Corps troops in Europe can strike back with atomic firepower using 280 mm guns and Honest John rockets. Decision to use atomic weapons rests with the U.S. government. A new system will rotate regiments intact. the 1st Infantry Division will depart next summer, to be replaced by the 10th Infantry Division from Fort Riley, with completion by next November.
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Germany
America
Europe
Charles E. Hart
U.S. Army
U.S
Hart
1St Infantry
10Th Infantry
Fort Riley
Kaw
Bergen seeks divorce from Courtland in cruelty suit
Los Angeles reports Polly Bergen aged 24 sues for divorce from actor Jerome Courtland aged 27 alleging cruelty. She did not seek alimony.
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Los Angeles
Polly Bergen
Jerome Courtland
Bean and Flannery Re-Elected to West Virginia Legislature
CHARLESTON The 52nd West Virginia Legislature convened with Democrats secure in leadership as Sen. Ralph J. Bean of Moorefield won a second term as Senate president and Del. W. E. Flannery of Man, Logan County, was reappointed as speaker. Republicans named Sen. Dayton R. Stemple and Del. Cecil Underwood as minority leaders, with clerks J. Howard Myers and C. A. Blankenship continuing in post.
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West Virginia
Senate
Ralph J. Bean
Moorefield
Senate Democrats
Sen
C. H
Jackie) McKown
Wayne
Marland
House Democrats
Del
W. E. Flannery
Man
Logan County
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J. Horner Davis I
House
Dayton R. Stemple
Barbour
del. Cecil Underwood
Tyler
Stemple
Harry Moats
Ritchie
Underwood
J. Howard Myers
Martinsburg
C. A. Blankenship
Pineville
Bean
John Amos
D-Kanawha
del. Martin C. Bowles
Bean-McKown
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