Eisenhower Pushes Shorter Transition and Tax Proposals
President Eisenhower urged a constitutional amendment to shorten the transition period before a new president takes office and to set election and inauguration timing so the next administration has at least 80 days to prepare key messages. He warned Kennedy faces foreign policy strains and urged a calm, bipartisan approach. West Virginia Governor Barron proposed a state income tax to fund broad economic reform, expand roads and job retraining, and create new state agencies, with details to come.
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Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
Congress
Carlo J. Salzano
Charleston
W. W. Barron
West Virginia
Barron
Eal
Tnmnananaa
Constitutional Change Urged City Decides Against Two Bank Buildings
Beckley city council with Mayor Cecil L. Miller and Attorney Truman L. Sayre visited the old Beckley National Bank on Fayette and Main and the Bank of Raleigh on Main and Kanawha. Both banks offered their vacant former premises for city hall use but were rejected due to annual payments and needed repairs. Offer details: Beckley National Bank old building at $120000 over 20 years at 4 percent. Bank of Raleigh at $100000 over 16 years at 4 percent. Annual payments cited would be about 8800 and 7000 to 8800 respectively plus remodeling costs. Both banks will offer the properties to other buyers.
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City of
Beckley
Bank of Raleigh
Beckley National Bank
Beckley National
Neville Street
Main and
Kanawha
Main Street
Police Department
Fire Department
Kanawha Street
Cecil L. Miller
Truman L. Sayre
D. E. Warpe
Miller
Fayette and Main
Elmer L. Davis
Justin R. Carr
Kennedy hosts glittering preinaugural parties
President-elect John F Kennedy hobnobbed with top entertainers and politicians at two preinaugural parties in Georgetown and Washington. Navy awards Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover the Distinguished Service Medal in Groton for nuclear propulsion work. Tugboat strike halts 70,000 New York area commuters. Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack receives a suspended sentence for taking a remodeling payoff. Soviet ship reports being pursued by a destroyer in the Arabian Sea. Four Marines complete a 361 mile March of Dimes fundraiser trek. Labor says steel strikes hurt little and urges Congress to preserve bargaining. Grand Blanc wife discovers dead husband and family in grisly scene. State brief notes Harold Neely resting in hospital.
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John F. Kennedy
Stephen Smith
Georgetown
Washington
Bart Lytton
Navy
Hyman Rick
Groton
Conn
New York
Hulan E. Jack
Manhattan
General Sessions
Josepha A. Sarafite
Arabian Sea
Baufort Marine Air Station
Gaffney
S. C
Idaho Tops States In 1960 Voter Turnout At 80.7 Percent
New York report says Idaho achieved the highest voting turnout in the 1960 presidential election with 80.7 percent of eligible voters casting ballots Bren dan Byrne of the American Heritage Foundation released the figures New Hampshire was second at 80.5 percent Utah 79.9 North Dakota 79.5 South Dakota 78.8 and West Virginia 77.2 percent Connecticut 76.91 Indiana 76.7 and Massachusetts 76.4 percent compiled the top ten. The national average turnout stood at 64.3 percent. West Virginia reported 837 781 votes from 1 085 000 registered voters.
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New York
N. Y
Idaho
Brendan Byrne
American Heritage Foundation
New Hampshire
Utah
North Dakota
South Dakota
West Virginia
Minnesota
Connecticut
Indiana
Massachusetts
Cloudy with snow possible late tonight and Thursday
Weather outlook shows 2 to 3 inches in the mountains, little elsewhere. Tonight low 28 to 32, Thursday highs in the 30s. Five day temps stay below normal with colder Thursday and Friday, warming Saturday then turning colder again Sunday into Monday. Precipitation under a quarter inch, mainly Thursday. Beckley and Oak Hill temps are reported with highs around 44 to 47 and lows in the 32 range. River conditions show Greenbrier normal and muddy, lake normal and clear with 6 gates open.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Divers Penetrate Sunken Tower Off New Jersey Coast
New York dispatch reports divers entered the sunken Air Force radar tower off the New Jersey coast in an effort to recover 28 missing airmen. Only debris found in the tower's living quarters as search teams work through the tri bubble structure. One body recovered at sea, another sighted but not retrieved as hope fades and the operation ends.
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New York
UPS
New Jersey
Air Force
Atlantic
Adm
Allen M. Shinn
Naval
City council weighs home fire causes
Dallas leaders discuss causes of recent home fires with George Mixon noting insurance and mortgage stress. Gainesville council approves a resolution for a city ordinance banning fried chicken eating except with fingers. Lenoir Rhyne College keeps a 50 pound bear cub mascot but rejects responsibility for its care. The mascot lives in a local zoo after a prior bear incident raised insurance concerns.
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Dallas, Tex
UPI
George Mixon
Gainesville, Ga
Gainesville
Hickory
N.C
Lenoir Rhyne College
Voigt Cramer
View
Ienter
Litt Liz Warns Of Women’s Intuition Doubts
A fragment suggests a quip on a woman’s intuition making her doubt answers and ask many questions, hinting at sly humor or a pondering critique of insight and certainty.
Eisenhower farewell speech and Khrushchev aid pledge
United Press International reports President Eisenhower’s farewell radio TV speech in Washington saying war has been avoided though lasting peace not yet seen. Khrushchev in Moscow pledges continued support for armed revolutions worldwide.
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United Press International
Washington
Eisenhower
Jugged Juror May Disrupt Forgery Trial
Fayetteville Nineteen forty eight era report notes Judge Garvin to rule on evidence objections in the Orville Schoonover forgery case. The jury panel will miss one member as Chester Adams serves a 30 day jail term for drunken disorderly conduct, with no official notice of his absence until juror roll is called.
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Fayetteville
RNS
C. L. Garvin Jr
Orville Schoonover
Clay County
Fayette County
Schoonover
Kanawha
Crime Commission
Wil
Chester Adams
Lookout
Adams
Dow Willis
Edmonds
Father Charged In Fire Tragedy
Abel Vosburgh a 63 year old farm laborer was ruled criminally responsible for the death of his wife Marjorie Vosburgh in a December 29 flash fire at their one room shack on the Quebec Vermont border in Noyan Quebec A six man coroner s jury deliberated nine minutes before finding him responsible for her death 43 year old Marjorie dies in the blaze while 11 of the couple s 15 children perished in the pre dawn fire Police prepared to charge Vosburgh formally with her death though investigators later ruled the wife died from a head injury not the flames
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Bedford, Que
UPI
Abel Vosburgh
Vosburgh
Marjorie Vosburgh
Noyan
Que
Quebec- Vermont
Quebec
America Strong Ike Reflects on End of Presidency
President Eisenhower states the economy remains fundamentally strong as he leaves office. He notes moderate declines in late 1960 production and income, cites slight inflation, and urges fiscal restraint, avoiding explicit recession language while warning against budget imbalance.
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Washington
UPS
Eisenhower
Congress
John F. Kennedy
7-Year-Old Survives 60-Hour Car Ordeal Beside Dead Father
Michael Mason, 7, recounts a 60-hour nightmare pinned in a wreck with his father Thomas Mason, 30, beside him near Taholah on the Quinault Reservation. Found soaking wet and in shock, he asked for water as State Patrol notes suggest high speed and a Sunday night crash into a 20-foot embankment. Rescue worker Paul Rowe found the pair after hearing the boy’s cries.
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Hoquiam, Wash
Michael Mason
UPI
Tacoma
Wash
Thomas
Michael
Paul Rowe
State Patrol
Mason
Taholah
Quinault
Washington
Seattle
Rowe
State Highways Department
Wife denies part in murder by ex husband
Bakersfield Calif UPID Richard A Lindsey's wife Dixie Lindsey 23 mother of three denied through her attorney today that she aided in the killing of 6 year old Rose Marie Riddle. She said she was beaten when she begged ex convict Lindsey to return the girl and that he threatened to kill her if she tried to stop the assault. Lindsey claimed Rose Marie was raped and choked with his wife's consent and that she killed the child by beating her with a tire iron wrench. Both were arraigned on kidnap and murder charges.
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Bakersfield
Calif
UPID
Richard A. Lindsey
Lindsey
Rose Marie Riddle
Dixie Lindsey
Eugene McKnight
Rose Marie
Routine House Attention Given 2nd Tax Measure
Gov W W Barrons address to the 55th West Virginia Legislature was the sole major item on the agenda. A Senate approved bill extending the consumer sales tax from July 1 to Aug 31 was at amendment stage in the House as delegates handled routine business. The tax extension is expected to pass final House action. Attachments and executive appointments drew some debate as House members approved a Rules Committee resolution to appoint 149 attaches.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
W. W. Barron
West Virginia
House of Delegates
House
Joseph Handian
Wood
Senate
Rules Committee
del. Nell Walker
Khrushchev Pledges Aid to World Revolts and Berlin Stand
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev vowed full Soviet support for national liberation wars, calling them inevitable, and warned of pressing Western withdrawal from Berlin. He cited 1956 events and said the Marxist view of inevitable capitalist wars no longer applies amid current global conditions. He spoke in a 20,000 word address to the Academy of Social Sciences and the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, with a copy released in Kommunist magazine.
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Moscow
UPI
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Berlin
Soviet Union
England
France
Israel
Egypt
Khrushchev
Academy of Social Sciences
Communist Party Central Committee
Kommunist
Democrats push to expand House Rules Committee power
In Washington, House Democrats voted to liberalize the Rules Committee by enlarging its membership. Also in Washington, Adlai Stevenson said he would accept the U S nomination to head the U N delegation in a Kennedy administration. In Bangkok, two regimes communicated across miles of Thailand this month, according to North Thai sources via UPI.
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Washington
UPI
House
Sam Rayburn
House Rules Committee
Adlair Stevenson
China
United
U. S
United Nations
Kennedy
Bangkok
Thailand
United Press International
Severance tax bill introduced in Charleston moves through House
The severance tax bill sponsored by Marshall West and Roy Lee Harmon was officially introduced as the House of Delegates opened. It calls for 20 cents per ton on coal and silica sand, 10 cents on limestone, 20 cents on salt, 40 cents per barrel of oil, a variable timber rate, and 2 cents per thousand cubic feet of natural gas. The measure seeks funds for a proposed Natural Resources Department and loans for new industry after resource depletion, while offering tax exemptions from the business and occupation tax for liable taxpayers.
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Charleston
House of Delegates
Marshall West
Wyoming
House Finance Committee
West
Oceana
Natural Resources Department
Three Tax Measures Introduced In Legislature
Charleston West Virginia legislation features a severance tax proposal on coal oil and natural gas at 20 cents per ton 40 cents per barrel and 2 cents per thousand cubic feet The measure would yield about 20 million annually The bill also extends gross sales tax to professionals and repeals the soft drink tax The professional tax would raise about 350 000 yearly and the pop tax would fund the WVU Medical School The Senate also advances a plan to create a State Department of Natural Resources combining several conservation and land reclamation activities
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Eab Sernee
West Virginia University Medical School
Dell
Roy Lee Harmon
D- Raleigh
Marshall West
D-Wyoming
Dels
D. P. Given
D-Webster
Cecil Mitchell
D-Mingo
Senate
Sens
Hans McCourt
John Carrigan
R - Marshall
State Department of Natural Resources
The
Conservation Commission
Water Resources Commission
Public Lands Corporation
Capitol chatter fills rooms before Governor Barron speech
In Charleston reporters note lawmakers abound with remedies as Governor Barron prepares to speak. The scene hints at a public mood eager for solutions while some residents mock the congressional theatrics and ignore the Marine Band performance.
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Capitol
Guvnor
Barron
Marine Band
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