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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1955
Page
1
President Eisenhower unveiled a leaner budget aiming at a 62.408 billion outlay for the year starting July 1 with a roughly 2.0 billion deficit. The plan favors civilian cost sharing, civil benefits, and foreign aid while urging tax reductions when feasible, and requires renewing the 52 percent corporate tax and certain excise taxes.
Lloyd Irvin faces breaking and entering charges after Teel General Store manager Jonben Roy Teel testified he caught Irvin at gas pumps with goods stolen from the business. The case overlaps with a prior related charge and includes defense objections about witness availability amid court continuances. Separately, the OAS pressed Costa Rica for more military aid against rebel forces, approving a sale of four U.S. fighter planes to Costa Rica and provoking Nicaragua's Somoza with protests.
In West Virginia increasing cloudiness brings a chance of snow late tonight in western portions with lows 20s to low 30s. Tuesday remains cloudy and cold with snow likely. highs and temperatures reported for yesterday and last night show scattered readings. Rivers at Bellepoint and Greenbrier, Bluestone Reservoir report normal stages with clear conditions or slight muddiness as noted.
T H Davis of Piedmont Airlines announced Piedmont won a Civil Aeronautics Association ruling for a direct Charleston to Columbus flight via Parkersburg. The decision ends a yearlong dispute with Eastern Air Lines, which had been awarded the Columbus to Charlotte route. The authorization sets March 15, 1955 as the operation start date for both lines.
Plans for the Raleigh County American Red Cross fund campaign to be conducted in March will be formulated this afternoon. Thad A. Baxter field representative will be in Beckley to confer with Ned Ragland, chairman of the Red Cross fund committee.
Fifty nine men of a drawn list of 125 for the January term reported for duty at Raleigh County Criminal Court. Judge McCreery excused six more who had served on juries within two years. Jurors, except those hearing a breaking and entering trial, were excused until 9 a.m. Wednesday. Petit jurors were told Tuesday’s docket will be disposed of without jury service.
Affinity Miners Walter Waters Pem berton and Virgil Rakes Lester were treated at Beckley Hospital after an incident at 7 a.m. as workers were lowered into the mine shaft on a cage. An ice fragment struck Waters injuring his left foot while Rakes’ foot was pinched between the cage and rock siding. Both were released after treatment.
The Register opens a ten part series on a new income tax law. If income is under five thousand dollars you may use the new card type form and new exemptions may save money. Pension contributions may be partially non taxable. Read all articles by Frank O’Brien for full guidance.
United Nations secretary general Dag Hammarskjold and atom experts from eight countries met in New York to plan a world congress on peaceful uses of atomic energy. The session advances Eisenhower’s Dec 8 1953 proposal to broaden atomic tech in industry medicine and agriculture and to spread peaceful know-how. Hammarskjold will announce time and scope, with a Geneva session in August likely. Red China invitation and Soviet denial are noted.
A 12-year-old Beckley boy, deserted by his family and unable to adjust to foster homes, is held in Raleigh County Jail awaiting transfer to Pruntytown. Judge Harry L. McCreery said there was no detention home for such cases and committed him to the Boys Industrial Home until age 21 unless released earlier by the school authorities.
A ten minute smoke cloud blanketed London yesterday afternoon plunging the metropolis into darkness and near panic. Weather experts blamed a dense smoke layer trapped under thick clouds. A Piccadilly seller described pitch black silence and a crowd crying out as some prayed and others feared the end of the world had arrived.
Presstime Bulletins report Gov Marland criticizing a proposed highway agency reform backed by the Legislature. The plan would replace the single road commissioner with a multi member board to oversee Oklahoma's highway program.
Panama's National Assembly was convened to start preparations for the trial of former President Jose Ramon Guizado and others accused in the assassination of President Jose Antonio Remon. The assembly also planned to lift the state of siege to aid in the pursuit of Remon's killers.
Charleston news brief reports a proposed West Virginia Centennial Commission to plan the 1963 observance with a 15 member panel including ex officio leaders and five governor appointed members. Separate resolutions seek women jurors and extending voting rights to 18 year olds.
President Eisenhower proposed a 34 billion dollar military budget for the next fiscal year with two thirds allotted to air power and nuclear-armed forces. The plan highlights hydrogen and fission weapons, expansion of production, and new subs and missiles, while aiming to reduce total manpower from about 3.2 million to around 3.0 million by mid-1956. Air Force 15.6B, Navy 9.7B, Army 8.85B are detailed for the next year.
President Eisenhower sent Congress a high spending budget aiming to pull the government out of competition with private enterprise. The plan projects $62.4 billion in outlays and $60 billion in revenue for fiscal 1956, with a cash surplus but a continued nonbalanced overall balance sheet. He urged no tax cuts this year while preserving social security trust funds, and stressed government economy to let private industry expand.
A United States Navy four engine Constellation crashed in the Atlantic off Southwest Newfoundland. Search planes found no trace of the 13 occupants after the plane, airborne less than two hours from Harmon Air Force Base, reported engine failures. The aircraft was en route from Harmon to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland.
The budget recommends a slight cut to 12,893,000 for the U S Bureau of Mines for the year ending June 30, 1956. It compares with 13 million for 1955 and 15,928,180 for 1953. Programs cover coal petroleum fuels helium ferrous and nonferrous metals nonmetallic minerals and research plus 5 million for health and safety.
West Virginia House members introduced a package of measures including a proposal for Fayette County school board members to be paid 200 dollars monthly. Other actions set permanent squirrel and quail hunting seasons, adjust election poll hours, and modify state charter and tax provisions. The bills cover salaries, election hours, corporate charters, education board signatures, and tax exemptions, reflecting broad legislative activity.
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