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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1963
Page
2
A major blizzard furrows New York and stretches across the nation with subzero temperatures. Snowbound roads, stranded cars, and ice hinder travel from Utica to Watertown, while towns report powerful winds and scarce food stocks.
Britain and portions of Europe saw a slight thaw while many regions remained icebound. Italian towns faced snow and avalanches with two deaths reported near Cagliari, Sardinia, and Mondovici rescue efforts underway.
Sunny and cold with highs 10 to 20 this afternoon, and lows 0 to 5 below tonight. Tuesday will bring increasing cloudiness but milder afternoon temperatures. Five day outlook calls for highs in the 20s, drier conditions, and precipitation totaling about a half to three quarters of an inch late Tuesday into Wednesday. River gauges note Greenbrier and Lake at normal levels with a new gauge added at Hinton. In national terms, Lone Rock Wisconsin reported 31 below zero the coldest morning, while Miami reached 85 earlier.
The Huntington Herald-Advertiser questions judge James J. Sweeney amid controversy over the West Virginia Centennial Exhibition of painting and sculpture. Joe F. Moss of Morgantown wins with West Virginia Moon, among 219 artists entering 350 works for four top prizes.
U S Ambassador Fay D Kohler flew to Washington to brief President Kennedy on his first four months in Moscow amid Cuban crisis tensions and espionage concerns. He met with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and had signaled delivering any Kremlin message to Washington.
Two Marshall University coeds Patricia Lester and Teresa Battle escaped with minor injuries after their car veered into the Guyandotte River near Man, Logan County. Local man Bernie Spence and a companion pulled them from a window using a rope. Lester received 17 stitches for a left arm laceration. both were treated and released from Man Memorial Hospital.
Oslo newspaper cites Arbeiderbladet editor Per Monsen reporting Charles de Gaulle offered Nikita Khrushchev a grand design including American withdrawal from Europe in return for demilitarization of Soviet satellites and reunification of Germany with broader demilitarization of Germany Greece and Turkey.
The Kennedy administration reported to Congress that 1962 saw greater U S space progress with more satellite payloads in orbit than the Soviet Union, though Russia remained ahead in total mass, engine thrust, and rendezvous development. It noted U S launch failures and referenced the August Soviet two-astronaut rendezvous attempts.
The West Virginia Centennial Commission announced the stamp design winner Dwight O. Mutchler of Athens Ohio. The Post Office will consider his design for the West Virginia Statehood Commemorative Stamp set to release June 20 in Wheeling. Postmaster General Day will present a $500 award at a Charleston Chamber dinner. Second and third place designs from Edward R Grove of Drexel Hill PA and Mrs Marie Kenny of Hawthorne NJ were named.
Five children died in a Sunday night fire at a Brunswick County farm home. Parents Junious and Christene Gayles escaped with two other children, a two year old and a four month old, while the other two adults also fled. Identified victims were Mary Ann 11 Robert 10 Claude 9 Ella May 8 and Patricia 5.
In Bloomfield Township Michigan a sniper has fired at private homes at night, killing Mary Godrey 38 mother of five. Police hunt a teen age suspect with a 22 caliber rifle as the 19 member force patrols snow lit streets in fear. The killings followed two earlier shootings at local homes Brian Hans and Robert Pittsley.
The West Virginia Legislature moved toward Senate approval of most of Gov Barron s revenue package while public hearings on reapportionment dominated today s agenda A 3 per cent sales and use tax was set to pass with amendments to make the taxes permanent debated Also votes were awaited on welfare department investigations and reapportionment hearings in both chambers with a 60 day annual session proposal under consideration.
West Virginia lawmakers opened the 60 day session with six Senate and 16 House bills. Senator Hans McCourt proposed a measure to base state income tax payments on a scale independent of federal rate changes, keeping current amounts. Delegate Kenneth Anvil also backed a constitutional amendment calling for a 60 day annual legislative session and fixed salaries by statute.
The Common Market Council of Ministers met in Brussels to decide whether to break off negotiations with Britain. Delays in West German Foreign Minister Schroeder's travel postponed the session, as France insists on adjournment. Britain seeks favorable terms to protect agriculture and trade with the Commonwealth.
GM announced 1962 sales of 14.6 billion dollars and net income of 1.459 billion, the highest figures ever for an American manufacturer. The results set new records in sales, earnings, dividends, payrolls and car truck deliveries with 5 239 000 units sold worldwide.
Joseph Luchini counsel for Rush Dean Roark 27 of Shady Spring filed for a writ of error and a new trial in Raleigh County Circuit Court. A 1:30 p.m. Tuesday hearing before Judge Norman Knapp will consider alleged errors in denying a direct verdict and setting aside the voluntary manslaughter verdict in the death of Wilbur Ray Plumley 25 of Abrah am, whose body was found near Grand View State Park. Roark is jailed awaiting trial.
More than 100 state police guarded Clemson College approaches to ensure the peaceful admission of Negro Harvey Gantt. Officials planned a get-away plane for potential trouble. Clemson President Robert C. Edwards said the university would enroll Gantt as directed by the Fourth Circuit Court. Edwards met reporters and outlined plans to treat Gantt like any other student while urging normal campus activities.
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