Raleigh County Court reviews assessments as board sits
The Raleigh County Court began sitting as a Board of Review at 10 a.m. with no totals ready from the assessor Ira A. Whitlock. Deputy John Boley reported real estate values up in six of seven districts and promised personal property books would finish before adjournment, though workers were short. A protest by Pocahontas Fuel Inc. over 20,000 acres leased by the company was continued to July 17 as the board seeks completed books and totals.
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Raleigh
Ira A. Whitlock
John Boley
Beckley
Whitlock
West Virginia
Coroperty
Scherer
Kozlov Cancels Maryland Trip Amid Speech Prep
Soviet Deputy Premier Frold Kozlov canceled a Maryland tour including a Beltsville Agriculture Department farm visit to focus on a major address later in the day. The cancellation followed sharp exchanges with administration leaders Wednesday, underscoring the importance of his National Press Club speech.
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Washington
Frold Kozlov
Maryland
Kozlov
Agriculture Department
Beltsville
National Press Club
City Car Collision Damages Estimated at $200
A two car collision occurred at 10 45 a m on City Avenue at Central Avenue. Police reported J L Meador age 8 of Beaver and Bill Bonds age 54 of Piney Avenue driving a car and a Yellow Gab respectively collided, with damages estimated at 200 dollars.
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City Avenue
Central Avenue
J. L. Meador
Beaver
Bill Bonds
Piney Avenue
Boy Injured In Fall Discharged From Beckley Hospital
Eight year old Richard Warren Hogan son of Mr and Mrs Car Hogan of 225 East Prince Street will be discharged today from Beckley Memorial Hospital where he has been treated for a head injury. He fell from a tree and was admitted last Wednesday. His father is employed at the hospital.
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Richard Warren Hogan
Car) Hogan
East Prince St
Beckley Memorial Hospital
West Virginia Weather Outlook With Showers East
Partly cloudy and windy in West Virginia with scattered showers across the far east this morning. Highs in the 70s. Tonight clears and cools with lows in the 50s. Friday looks mostly sunny and cool.
Senate Passes Compromise Foreign Aid Program
The Senate backed a two-year two-billion dollar foreign development loan plan funded by direct appropriations, after a compromise between Democratic and Republican leaders. The measure, supported by Democrats and opposed by some Republicans, passed by voice vote as President Eisenhower favored appropriations with congressional review.
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Senate
Washington
Congress
Eis
Eisenhower
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Dark
Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Aid Administration
Treasury
Everett M. Dirksen
Ilinois
Case
Ohio Airline Crash Kills Ten Including Eight Executives
An airliner owned by Continental Can Co. crashed near Marion Ohio in an overcast sky, disintegrating in a wheat field. All 10 aboard died, eight were company executives returning to New York after a Chicago meeting. The twin engine B26 Martin was destroyed, wreckage spread over 150 yards. Pilot John R. Dunham and copilot Donald Martin, both of New Jersey, were identified. Most passengers resided in the New York metro area.
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Marion, Ohio
Continental Can Co
Here
New York
Chicago
Continental Can
Robert Obenour
H. F. Smith
Ohio City
Smith
Alvin DeVore
John R. Dunham
Madison
N. J
Donald Martin
Dover
New York Metropolitan Area
Bluefield Death May Be Murder
Police suspect Harry Goodwin a 49 year old former Bluefield State College chef was murdered. Relatives found his badly decomposed body hanging in a basement corner after a days long missing search. A coroner jury ruled death by violence and an autopsy is pending.
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Bluefield
Harry Goodwin
Bluefield State College
Goodwin
Charles Cregger
Princeton
Pineville magistrate weighs disposition of winged cat case
Magistrate W P Wilson has 24 hours to decide the ownership dispute over a cat named Thomas also called Mitzi in Pineville. The case began at 10 a.m. and ended at noon with Mrs Mary Hicks claiming the cat is hers against defendants Coy Shelton and his son Douglas.
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Pineville
RNS
W. P. Wilson
Thomas
Mary Hicks
Welch - Pineville Road
Mitzi
Coy Shelton
Douglas
Slayer Of Ky. Operator Gets Life Sentence
John Henry Warren, a United Mine Workers member, was convicted of the March 31 slaying of Woodrow Smith at Smith’s mine near Stinking Creek. A Laurel Circuit Court jury sentenced him to life in prison after a three hour, 14 minute deliberation with a dinner recess.
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London
John Henry Warren
United Mine Workers
Laurel
Woodrow Smith
Smith
Stinking Creek
Federal Building
Warren
Kentucky
Cannoy Rites To Be Friday Funeral services for Wiley Cannoy
Funeral services for Wiley Cannoy 51 of Crab Orchard are set for Friday at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of the Caffee Funeral Home officiated by Rev. Everett Shafer. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. Cannoy died Wednesday morning after a heart attack at his daughter Danelle Worley’s home in Columbus Ohio. Born October 27 1907 in Roanoke Virginia he was the son of the late James and Lucy Cannoy. He worked as a miner and belonged to the Methodist Church. Survivors include son James Herbie Cannoy and daughter Jacqueline Higgins of Columbus three brothers Boyd James and Bill and three sisters Lina Robertson Maudie Bridgewater and Minnie Keller. Pallbearers named are James Fekete Steve Fekete Calvin Fekete Jim Wooten Robert Wooten and Clifford Snuffer.
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Wiley Cannoy
Crab Orchard
Caffee
Everett R. Shafer
Sunset Memorial Park
Cannoy
Danelle Worley
Columbus
Ohio
Roanoke
James and
Lucy Callahan Cannoy
Methodist Church
James Herbie Cannoy
Jacqueline Higgins
Boyd
Gibson City
James
Wyandotte
Mich
Bill
Wytheville
Lina Robertson
Decatur, Ill
Maudie Bridgewater
Minnie Keller
James Fekete
Steve Fekete
Calvin Fekete
Jim Wooten
Robert Wooten
Clifford Snuffer
Four Inspectors Sworn In Mines Dept Beckley Office
West Virginia mine inspectors are to supervise Raleigh Greenbrier Fayette Nicholas and Wyoming from a Beckley office. J A Philpott James M Cook R L Keaton and Almont M Hicks qualified by the new Charleston exam and will staff the Beckley post. Cook Keaton Hicks go on probation for a year with Philpott heading the office.
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State Department of Mines
Beckley
Raleigh
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Wilson
J. A. Philpott
James M. Cook
Midway
R. L. Keaton
Bradley
Almont M. Hicks
West Virginia Department of Mines
Greenbrier
Fayette, Nicholas
Wyoming
Charleston
Inspec
Tors
Fom
Crawford L. Wilson
Department of Mines
Cook
Keaton
Hicks
Philpott
Fairmont
Welch
Logan
G. R. Spindler
School of Mines
West Virginia University
Raymond O. Lewis
United Mines Workers of America
Joe L. McQuade
Tioga Coal Co
Richwood
Roy F. Hayhurst
Christopher Coal Co
Osage
H. E. Mauck
Olga Coal Co
Coalwood
West Virginia veterans bonus applications pass 82 thousand
The State Veterans Affairs Department reported 82 367 valid Korean War veterans and eligible survivor applications. By yesterday the agency had paid 80 630 claims totaling 21 278 082 dollars with an average payment of 263 99 dollars per claim. Deadline for postmarked applications is June 30. Frank Candy noted overseas mail delays may extend receipt beyond that date.
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Charleston
State Veterans Affairs Department
West Virginia
Frank Candy
Department
First U.S. case of white man executed for rape of a Black woman
In Beaufort South Carolina Marine Pvt. Fred G. Davis, 24, was sentenced to die by electric chair for raping a 47 year old Black woman. Judge J Henry Johnson set the date for August MH. If carried out it would be the first such white on record in the United States.
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Beaufort
S.C
Fred G. Davis
J. Henry Johnson
United States
Bluestone Regatta Protest Sparks Holiday Weekend Debate
Protesters allege Bluestone lake regatta planned by the Hinton Chamber and a Summers County club disrupts a holiday weekend and water skiing access. Senator Jack Nuckols pressed Kermit McKeever of the Conservation Commission for assurances that future events avoid holiday weekends and allow skiing, citing the Commission's park authority and lake control.
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Bluestone Lake
Jack A. Nuckols
House of Delegates
Raleigh County
Hinton
McKeever
Bluestone
Hinton Chamber of Commerce
Conservation Commission
Parks Division
The
Sherwood Glutz Reflects on Progress and Chaos
Sherwood Glutz laments aging and cultural decline from lively Fourth of July celebrations to violent car violence, contrasting past fun, oratory, and parades with present danger. He questions progress and jokes about building a seaplane.
Belcher Released After Bond For Raleigh Court
Raymond Joseph Belcher of Beckley was released at 11 20 a m after posting a 500 property bond for a City Police Court hearing. He faced reckless driving invalid registration and operating without a city operator's license after arrest by City Police.
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Raymond Joseph Belcher
Beckley
Raleigh
Belcher
Quinton Maynor
Clear Creek
Cotton White
Maynor
Emmett Calhoun
Mount Hope
White
Calhoun
Jack Lindberg Snider
Turnpike State Police
Pope Urges Peace and Unity in Encyclical
Pope John XXIII called on rival nations to seek every approach to peace to avoid a nuclear war that would ruin both sides. He urged Christians to unite, criticized media immorality, and outlined a three section message stressing truth, unity, and the ecumenical council to aid church unity.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
Peter
St. Peter
God
Church
Ecumenical Universal Council
Prince Albert of Liege Weds Dona Paola Ruffo di Calabria
Prince Albert of Liege, heir presumptive, marries Dona Paola Ruffo di Calabria, the Italian princess, as giggles disrupted the glittering church ceremony. Other items note wildcat steel strikes threatening 30,000 Pennsylvania and Ohio workers, Governor Long’s woes, and various accident and political updates.
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Prince Albert of
Liege
Dona Paola Ruffo di Calabria
United Steelworkers
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Long
F. H. Rankin
Texas City
David Rankin
John Sealy Hospital
Galveston
Tex
Storm Slows Landings At Raleigh County Airport
Three Piedmont flights and a private plane could not land at Raleigh County Memorial Airport around 6 30 p m due to a rain storm. A spokesman said planes circled Beckley for about 10 minutes before weather allowed a landing.
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Piedmont
Raleigh County Memorial
Beckley
Ricca Surrenders for Tax Case in Chicago
Dapper crime boss Paul Ricca known as The Waiter surrendered in Chicago to serve a three year federal prison term for income tax evasion. In Texas, the Raymond Parr family of Benham suffers more losses as five members die in crashes over months with Jackie Parr, 17, among victims. West Virginia workplace deaths fall to 12 in June, with coal mining accounting for five fatalities.
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Paul
Ricca
Chicago
Raymond Parr
Benham
Tex
Jackie Parr
West Virginia
Workmen's Compensation Commission
Beckley City Hall to Close Friday and Saturday
Beckley City Hall will close Friday and Saturday in observance of the Fourth of July. The shutdown affects standard services and inquiries during the holiday period.
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Beckley City Hall
Street Scene Woman Carrying Load On Prince Street
A street scene describes a woman on Prince Street stag gering under a load she had consumed and the new load she carried in her arms.
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Prince Street
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