Eisenhower Eyes On The Spot Fallout Checks By Foreign Nations
President Eisenhower, at a news conference, discusses future fallout checks, possible U S uranium plans, and the goal of an hydrogen bomb free of radioactive fallout. He proposes inviting nations to observe tests and place instruments to measure fallout, while stressing U S leadership on peaceful atomic use.
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Eisenhower
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White House
Russell
United States
Sen
D-Ga
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Congress
Washington
U. S
Russia
U.S
Fallout figures from AEC tests compared to soil levels
The Atomic Energy Commission reports strontium and other fallout in millicuries per square mile. It cites topsoil containing about 1,000 millicuries of radium per square mile for comparison. Congressional committee witnesses debated how close these figures are to danger levels for humans.
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Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
LU. S
Congressional Foint Atomic Energy Com
Mittee
Iran Earthquake Toll Rises With 750 Dead
Rescue teams recover 400 bodies in two northern Iranian villages, lifting reported deaths to 750 as more than 3,000 remain missing. Quake shock spanned a 30 000 square mile area along the Elburz range near the Caspian Sea, affecting Navak Firuz Kuh Domavend and surrounding communities.
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Tehran
Iran
Porti Les
Demavend
Union
Baku
Caspian
Elburz
Caspian Sea
Sol
Tighband
Sanghal
Greatest Atomic Blast In U S To Be Touched Off Thursday
The Nevada test site will host the largest U S atomic blast to date as authorities aim for a shot named Hood at 4 40 a m If weather delays the timing stands 1 500 feet above the ground with a 73 foot balloon anchor Dr Alvin C Graves cautions fallout should be light though observers and foreign press will monitor the event from a designated area nearby
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Nevada
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Ground Zero
Alvin C. Graves
Graves
Plans Completed for Raleigh County Motorcade to Wytheville
Final plans were set at a Beckley Hotel luncheon for a Raleigh County motorcade to Wytheville Virginia on Saturday. All vehicles meet at 9 a m. at the hotel parking lot. the group will link with Bluefield at 10 15 a m and proceed to the Mercer County Airport for deplaning by Governors Cecil Underwood and William O Neil of Ohio. They will be met at the Virginia line by State Police and escorted to the rally. Patty Paxton will not join the motorcade. Those joining later for portions of the program should contact the Chamber Office. Minor Scott, county road supervisor, also planned to ride.
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Raleigh County
Wytheville
Beckley Hotel
Walter Duncan
Main and
S. Kanawha Sts
Bluefield
Mercer County
Cecil Underwood
Wiliam O'Neil
Ohio
Beckley
Virginia Line
Great Lakes
Florida
Patty Paxton
Duncan
Raleigh
Chamber
A. K. Minter
Minor Scott
Rape Charge Filed Against Pax Man in Raleigh County
James Duncan of Pax was arrested in Raleigh County at 10:45 p.m. Tuesday on a rape charge. State Police served the warrant issued by Magistrate Cotton White after a complaint by an 11 year old Long Branch girl.
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James Duncan
Raleigh
Duncan
Cotton White
Long Branch
Ghent Woman Fined On Moonshine Charge
Lakie Jo Carr, 30, of Ghent, was fined 100 dollars plus costs after arraignment before Magistrate J. E. Mays on possession of moonshine. She was arrested and jailed by sheriff's deputies at 12:50 a.m. Booked later on an assault warrant was William Zerbrook, Beckley, by Beckley Police.
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Ghent
J. E. Mays
Raleigh
Pan
Mays
Willia
Zerbrook
Beckley
Birchton Man Held In Shooting
A Birchton resident, Jesse W. Briggs, is jailed in Whitesville on a peace warrant after a Tuesday night dispute and shooting at Briggs home. He faces a $500 bond and a separate assault warrant on Elmer Chandler, who had signed the peace warrant. Chandler had not yet been arrested at presstime.
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Birchton
Whitessville
Jesse W. Briggs
L. G. Daniels
Biggs
Elmer Chandler
Chandler
Briga
Briggs
Daniels
Raleigh County Sheriff's
Edgarj Jarrell
Woman Duelist Put On Probation in Raleigh County
Ace June Blaney 26 of 105 Commercial St was placed on probation for one year by Judge Harry L McCreery after a six month Raleigh County Jail term for brandishing a weapon. The ruling followed a knife razor duel on June 16 between Blaney and Miss Mary Elizabeth Evans alias Elizabeth Green of Beckley. Both women are free on 1 bond for October Grand Jury appearances on mutual complaints.
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Ace June Blaney
Commercial St
Raleigh County
Harry L. McCreery
Blaney
Miss Blaney
Mary Elizabeth Evans
Elizabeth Green
Beckley
Raleigh Register Not Published for July 1 Holiday
Raleigh Register will not be published tomorrow as employees join most of the nation in observing the July 1 holiday. Subscribers will receive a copy of the Beckley Post‑Herald tomorrow morning.
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Raleigh Register
Mos of the Nation
Beckley Post-Ierald
Maysville Man Appointed State Fire Marshal
Carl Weimer of Maysville, former Grant County sheriff, is named the new state fire marshal in the Underwood administration replacing A. Raper who led the office since 1949. Insurance Commissioner Harold Neely informed Raper of the change on his 27th anniversary in the job.
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Charleston
Clarence Humes Dies at 36 in Beckley Hospital
Clarence Humes of Lincoln Street died after a sudden heart attack at Beckley Memorial Hospital. He was a storekeeper there. Survived by his mother Mrs. Nannie Humes two sisters Mrs. Dorothy Arthur Washington DC and Mrs. Nannie Charles Detroit and two brothers Ralph and John Humes Detroit. Body at C D Trent Funeral Home arrangements pending Virginia
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Clarence Humes
Lincoln St
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Humes
Nannie Humes
Dorothy Arthur
Washington, D. C
Nannie Charles
Detroit
Ralph
John Humes
Deedy
C. D. Trent Funeral Home
Weather Summary: Fair Tonight With Warm Thursday
Fair conditions dominate with tonight's temperatures in the fifties east and mid fifties to low sixties west. Thursday should stay mostly fair and warmer with potential scattered showers after noon or evening, especially in the far north. River conditions along New River and Bluestone Reservoir are normal.
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Seckley High
Jak Hill High
Rettepoint
Reenbdrier
Street closures for July 4 holiday observe local offices
Street level notices state federal state county and local offices will close Thursday for Independence Day observance while Beckley merchants will also shut. Some stores stay open on Wednesday afternoon though and warnings about reptile exhibits and late openings appear in the local scene.
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Air Federal
Beckley Merchants
Msi
Probation for Walter Waller urged in arson case
Raleigh County Prosecutor A J Sparacino urged a humane approach and probation for Eugene Waller 67 a former Beckleyan who turned himself in after skipping a $1000 bond tied to a 1932 arson charge Waller now living in Pittsburgh Pa is expected to plead guilty and receive three years probation with permission to return to Lynchburg Va his family home His co defendants include James Williams C R Palmer Mabel Johnson and Mrs Hall in the Jackson and Johnson Funeral Home fire case
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Raleigh County
A. J. Sparacino
Eugene Waller
Beckleyan
Sparacino
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
Waller
Pittssburgh
Criminal Court
Lynchburg
Jackson and Johnson
James “Scotty
Williams
McCreery
C. R. Palmer
Mabel Johnson
Florland
jArrs. Johnson
Federal Court Judges Jury Duty List To Raleigh County Women
Federal court assigns jurors from Raleigh County this month for the July term. Names include Mrs. Theodore Bai and dozens of others from Pineville to Welch, spanning Summers Mercer Greenbrier and McDowell counties. Jurors report Sept 15 at 10 am, with clerks advising on Daylight Saving Time and location details in Rockview Oak Hill and Beckley.
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Summers
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Greenbrier
Singioy
McDowell
Wyoming
Theodore Bailist
Petitlex
Pineville
Woodrow
Wands
Rockview
Norman
K. Morgan
John
Sepko
Brenton
Fayette
Harry E. Calvertem District Court
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John E. Crook
Earl Cavender
Shanks
Winona
Charles R. Eddy
Ishmael J. Eye
Gauley
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Danese
NelJohn BE
E. Main St
Oak Hill
Millard K
Comeback Day Court Sets Friday Session in Raleigh County
Thirteen people are scheduled to appear in Raleigh County Criminal Court on Friday for Comeback Day hearings. Defendants include Mickey Ransom Smith who pleaded guilty to grand larceny, William Preddie Honaker for hit and run, and several others with guilty pleas for petit larceny breaking and entering and related counts. A Monday hearing will consider a motion to set aside the verdict for Carolyn Dolly Goff, convicted on a second degree murder count.
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Raleigh
Criminal Court
Mickey Ransom Smith
William Preddie Honaker
Richard Haven Thompson
John Aaron Flannery
Pete Douglas Jackson
Thomas Edward Neal
Lacy Edwin Short
Herbert Thomas
Wiliam Thomas
Osho Robertson
Ella Robertson
Sammy Ray Dondow
Russell Cox
Carolyn Dolly Goff
Naoma
Beckley Skies Moon and Planets Tonight
The Sun sets at 8 51 p m and rises at 3 07 a m on Thursday. The Moon sets at 12 41 a m with first quarter at 8 00 a m. Antares stands due south at 11 13 p m. Venus sets at 9 50 p m with Mars south of Venus, Jupiter south of the Moon, Saturn above Antares.
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Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Driver Escapes Death After 150-Foot Plunge
Arnold Eugene Bailey, 39, of Princeton, escaped death when his 1954 station wagon toppled from Route 20 near the Bluestone Bridge, flew through trees, and crashed 200 yards down a hill at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Police cited loss of control as a possible cause. Bailey is hospitalized in painful but satisfactory condition with chest injuries and a head cut. no fractures reported.
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RNGI
National Safety Council
Arnold- Eugene Bailey
Princeton
Route 20
Bluestone Bridge
Fice
Bailey
Princetonian
Fainterton
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Gis Parents Set To Fight French Trial
Thelfore. The parents of American GI Dewayne McOsker vow to contest a French court case accusing the cook of fatally shooting an Algerian in a dispute over cigarette payment. U.S. authorities say off duty crimes fall under French jurisdiction, while McOsker admits the shooting claiming self defense.
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Manhasset
N.Y
Thelfore
Giac
Dewayne McOsker
France
United States
McOsker
McOsser
Lester McOsker
Manhassar
McOskers
James Fletcher
U.S. Supreme Court
GI William Girard
Paris
Army
Orleans
Fowl Dispute Sparks Court Injunction Hearing
In Raleigh County Circuit Court a group of Price Hill residents sought an injunction against other locals to stop them from raising chickens. Plaintiffs include Le land Cooper C W Diggs Dease Campbell William R Moy and Shirley Van Natter against Felix Beni Logan Meadows and Robert Elswick. Hearing at noon continued.
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Raleigh County
Price Hill
Leland Cooper
C W. Diggs
Dease Campbell
William R Moy_ andy
Shirley van Natter
Felix Beni
Logan Meadows
Robert Elswick
Service Register boys strive to give customers best possible service
The Register delivery service invites customer suggestions for improvement or home delivery orders and provides the Circulation Department phone number CL 3 3321 for contacts.
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