Lincoln Proclamation Scroll Missing From Capitol Statue
Washington columnist notes theft of the Emancipation Proclamation from the Abraham Lincoln statue in the Capitol rotunda. Rep. Fred Schwengel filed a report urging the subcommittee to obtain a replacement scroll for the 100th anniversary. Observations include other statues with scrolls and possible clues, noting fragile evidence and joking about the security of the Will Rogers statue.
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Washington
UPI
Abraham Lincoln
Capitol
Fred Schwengel
Iowa
Schwengel
House Committee On Rules and Administration
Rotunda
James Marquette
Wisconsin
Stephen F. Austin
Texas
Charles Carroll
Maryland
Henry Clay
Kentucky
Will Rogers
UMW Told To Halt Coercion in West Virginia
The United Mine Workers Union lost a bid to overturn an NLRB order to stop coercive tactics against non union miners in north central West Virginia. The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the order, though some findings were vacated due to timing. Charges were filed by five Clarksburg Philippi area coal firms.
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Washington
UPI
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
West Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals
District 31
Blue Ridge Coal Corp
M. & T. Coal Co
Marra Bros. Coal Co
West Virginia Weather Forecast Update
Intermittent rain today with highs 48 to 56. Rain tonight becomes snow flurries Saturday, lows 38 to 46. Colder Saturday and Sunday then warmer next week. Precipitation totals over three quarters of an inch. Beckley and Oak Hill saw varied yesterday highs and lows. River conditions show normal Greenbrier flow, Lake level cloudy with 10 gates open. US Weather Bureau notes record low at Roosevelt Utah and high at Fort Myers.
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Beckley
TOGMT
Oak Hill
Hinton
Hilo
U. S. Weather Bureau
Roosevelt
Utah
Fort Myers
Soviet Union reverses stance in test ban talks deadlock
In Geneva at the nuclear talks the Soviet Union rejected referring the test ban issue to a global disarmament conference. Semyon Tsarapkin said the move was unacceptable and the talks remained deadlocked. American delegate Charles Steele called the meeting pointless without common ground.
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Geneva
UPI
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Charles C. Steele
Justice Clark Urges Leading by Example on Youth Behavior
UPI Charleston report quotes Justice Tom C. Clark saying American adults have failed to teach respect for law through example. He warns against glorifying outwitting the law and praises West Virginia programs that offer job training to dropouts. Governor Barron urges schools to imitate industry by reducing undereducated graduates and adapting to labor market needs. The conference continues with religious leaders addressing youth.
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Charleston
UPI
America
Supreme Court
Tom C. Clark
West Virginia
White House
Clark
Gov
W. W. Barron
Barron
Stacy L. Groseup
Paetor
Wesley Methodist Church
Doubt cast on inmate confession in three hospital deaths
State Mental Health Director Charles Zellen and Huntington State Hospital Superintendent Dr Whitmore joined city police in probing three patient deaths at the hospital. An allegedly confessing patient, about 19, is held under tight security, with autopsy pending to determine if strangulation occurred. Hospital services may be paused until autopsies are completed.
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Huntington
API
Charles A.zellen
E. B. J. Whitmore
Huntington State Hospital
Huntington City Police
J. E. Sadler Jr
Sadler
Lagan
Cameron
Whitmore
E. Ray Blake
Interstate Location Committee Selected
Charleston dispatch: House Speaker Julius Singleton names a five member panel to confer with State Road Commissioner Burl Sawyers on I-79 location and I-64 relocation. Members include Dels. Myles Morford Frazer and Seibert Ours. Inquiry seeks reasons for routing North South highway Morgantown to Charleston rather than Beckley and why I-64 runs south on the Turnpike to Beckley then east to Lewisburg.
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Charleston
Missioner
Morgantown
Beckley
West
Chuckles Orders Need Help Dayon Training Unit
Dayton postmaster Hugh T. Albright received a memo from his training superintendent requesting a dictionary purchase. Albright signed the purchase order immediately as the unit requires linguistic reference.
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Dayton, Ohio
UPI
Hugh T. Albright
Albright
Censors Panel May Be Urged
Washington senators may urge Defense Secretary McNamara to set up an advisory panel to review military speech censorship. Sen. Henry M. Jackson discussed the plan with Chairman John C. Stennis and suggested including former Pentagon officials and retired officers. Hearings resume next Tuesday with testimony from Army Navy and Air Force chiefs.
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Washington
UPI
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Henry M. Jackson
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Jackson
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Pentagon
Army
Navy
Air Force
House Ways & Means Committee
Censorship Examples in Military Speeches Spark Debate
A Senate subcommittee reviews deletions from officers speeches revealing censor battles over terms about Khrushchev Toynbee Cuba and Russia. Examples include replacing a horse metaphor and removing the phrase Korea fiasco with a dictionary note and war.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Khrushchev
Arthur G. Trudeau
Arnold Toynbee
State Department
Toynbee
R. B. Pirie
Cuba
U.S
Army
Elvis J. Stahr Jr
Russia
Paul L. Freeman Jr
Freeman
Moonshot Set This Afternoon 2 Space Shot Conditions 'Go'
Cape Canaveral reports countdown pressing well for John H. Glenn orbital flight on Saturday. Spokesman Lt. Col. Powers outlined options for one to three orbits depending on launch time between 7:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. EST. If delays push launch, two orbits possible, with a single orbit later. Postflight news conference planned after two days in seclusion. Weather favorable with sunshine and light mist over the Atlantic.
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Alvin Webb JR
Cape Canaveral
UPS
Space Administration
John H. Glenn
John Shorty Powers
Glenn
America
Powers
Atlantic Ocean
Washington
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Space
Atlantic
Spacetalk
Condi
OAS Tightens Stand on Cuba With Anti Castro Resolution
In Punta del Este Uruguay an unofficial seven nation committee pressed a draft resolution to bar Fidel Castro from the inter American system. The text would deem Cuba a Communist state incompatible with the OAS and call for its suspension and arms embargo. President Osvaldo Dorticos, in Havana, dismissed the remarks as propaganda aimed at reporters.
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Punta del Este
Uruguay
UPI
Fidel Castro
Seven Nations
Foreign Ministers
Castro
Cuba
Organization of American States
Osvaldo — Dorticos
Mine Accident Fatal in Richwood Area
Harry A. Taylor aged 37 of Fenwick was killed in a mine accident at Johnstown Coal and Coke Co near Nettie. Taylor a World War II veteran is survived by his widow two daughters and three brothers across Nicholas County.
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Richwood
UPI
Harry A. Taylor
Fenwick
Johnstown
Taylor
MacArthur Sees 82nd Birthday With WWII Friends
General Douglas MacArthur marked his 82nd birthday with a dinner in New York City attended by World War II comrades. The same day federal tax actions targeted Bernard Goldfine and his wife Charlotte, with liens and assessments totaling over 3 million dollars tied to Goldfine's Strathmore woolen and Boston Associates. Rescue teams pulled eight more bodies from a collapsed hotel in Spain, raising the death toll to 18, as President Kennedy spent time with his convalescing father at Palm Beach. Russia voiced alarm over Congo politics amid ongoing regional tensions.
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Douglas MacArthur
New York City
Bernard Goldfine
Boston
Charlotte
Goldfine
Strathmore Woolen Company
Boston Associates
Internal Revenue Service
Kennedy
Palm Beach
Pineda del Mar
Spain
Russia
Fugitive Caught After High Speed Chase in Atlanta
FBI agents captured Ira Travis Sutton and Walter Leo Haney after a pursuit on Atlanta's south expressway. Sutton’s wife was killed earlier in Alabama in a botched federal trap. Authorities said the men were armed but not allowed to fire.
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Atlanta
UPI
FBI
Alabama
Ira Travis Sutton
Walter Leo Haney
South
C.E. Weeks
Weeks
West Virginia senate stalls on coal pipeline plans
In Charleston UPI reports the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an administration backed bill to grant eminent domain rights for coal slurry pipelines and sent it to the floor with a passage recommendation. Debate noted one amendment requiring pipeline as common carrier status. The legislature also moved on cigarette tax extension and sales tax measures, with hearings and amendments ongoing.
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Charleston
UPI
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Arch Riley
Ohio
W. W. Barron
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Dels
Mino D'Aurora
D-Brooke
Foster Lineweaver
R-Morgan
House
Public Service Commission
PSC
Kennedy Pushes Voting Rights With New Reorganization Plan
President Kennedy announced plans to send Congress a reorganization bill creating an urban affairs department led by Housing Administrator Robert Weaver, while Senate leader Mike Mansfield introduced a bill to ban literacy tests for federal elections. The move follows a political sequence intended to pressure the GOP on civil rights. The plan would take effect in 60 days unless disapproved by Congress.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
Robert Weaver
Senate
Mike Mansfield
House Rules Committee
House
Italy to Try Spy Plane Pilot in Civil Court
A Bulgarian pilot, 22-year-old Milose Solakov, who crashed near a secret NATO base in Italy, will be tried for espionage in a civil court under peacetime procedures. He faces up to 15 years if convicted after a 90-minute interrogation at Acquavia hospital. The defense ministry cited inconsistencies in his statements about seeking asylum from Bulgaria.
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Rome
UPI
Milose Solakov
NATO
Italy
Solakov
Acquavia Hospital
Defense Ministry
Bulgaria
Presstime Bulletins: Costs Decline. US Stability Forecast
Washington US government price experts report December living costs fell slightly for the second month, signaling continued stability in 1962. Charleston West Virginia labor data show a 2.4 percent drop in the labor force with unemployment easing from 65,800 in November to 64,200 in December. Leopoldville Congolese police surround the U S Embassy to shield it from a Gizenga sympathizer crowd. Vientiane Laos royal army clings to Nam Tha as pro Communist rebels tighten their grip on the town.
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Washington
UPI
Charleston
West Virginia
State Department of Employment Security
Department
Vientiane
Laos
Nam Tha
Insidious Plot Alleged Over Coal Pipeline Shiney Idea
A Morgan County man writes to State Senator Clarence Martin declaring a conspiracy to use a coal pipeline to pump shiney moonshine. He claims the plan would hide liquor flow in energy wires reaching Philadelphia New York terminals and expose dual 120 volt taps. The letter was read to senators Thursday with a tongue in cheek tone.
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Charleston
UPI
Morgan County
West Virginia
Clarence Martin
Berkeley
Martin
Philadelphia
New York
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Charles Hillman Jr
John G. Warner Washington
Zev
Gallant Fox
John W. Carpenter II
OAS
U.A.S
Gadsden
Ala
Sutton
Katie Ruth Gladden Patterson
By Carter McDavid
del. Rene V. Zabeau
D-Harrison
Senate Public Institutions Committee
Public Institutions
Joseph Hodgson
Pinecrest
Hopemont
Terra Alta
GOP
Leopoldville
U. S
Antoine Gizenga
Lis
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