110-150 Road Deaths Predicted On Holiday
United Press International reports the National Safety Council estimates 110 to 150 traffic deaths during the 30 hour Independence Day holiday period starting at 6 p.m. local time. Up to 8,000 injuries are forecast with past records noting 1956 as the worst year. The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts clear skies, near normal temperatures, cooler in the north and warm in the South, with possible afternoon or evening thundershowers from the Rockies to the Appalachians and the Gulf Coast.
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United Press International
National Safety Council
U.S. Weather Bureau
Rockies
Appalachians
Gulf Coast
Ash Tactics Blamed In Beckley Plant Loss
News account critiques Harrison O Ash for tactics used to fund a proposed garment plant near Beckley. New Kanawha Industrial Corp rejected locating the plant there after stock efforts failed to raise required funds. Ash had pledged a $175000 building financed by $100000 in local stock, but board costs and escrow refunds emerged amid conflicting assurances of regional fundraising.
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Eve Breck
Beckley
Harrison O. Ash
New Kanawha Industrial Corp
Mahan
White, Higgins and Graney
Fayetteville
Nation
Register Observes Independence Day
The Raleigh Register will not publish tomorrow as employees observe Independence Day. Subscribers will receive the Beckley Post Herald instead. The Register will resume publication Thursday.
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Raleigh Register
Register
Beckley Post Herald
120-Unit Resort Urged For Plum Orchard Lake
A 120 unit resort is recommended for immediate development at Plum Orchard Lake in Fayette County with an estimated cost of 2 160 000. The plan is part of the New River Gorge Area survey by Checchi and Co under Area Redevelopment Act technical aid for the New River Gorge Development Corp covering Fayette Raleigh Summers and Mercer counties. The target market includes vacationers seeking water access group business small conventions and mixed business pleasure travel.
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Plum Orchard Lake
Checchi and Co
Washington
Fayette County
Missing 10 year old Theresa Cahill sought after disappearance
A statewide alert issued for Theresa M Cahill of Hilltown Pa reported missing since Monday after leaving a swim party with a 13 year old companion. Police described a blonde haired man in a black convertible as the suspect and said a civilian helicopter joined the search with more aircraft hoped for.
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Perkasie
UPI
Theresa M. Cahill
Hilltown
Here
Theresa
Charles F. Clarkson Jr
Quakertown
Naval Air Station
Willow Grove
Weather Outlook Mixed Clouds and Showers Across West Virginia
Weather forecast shows cloudy cool conditions with rain and scattered thunderstorms in West Virginia. highs upper 60s to low 70s, tonight's lows in 60s, Wednesday cloudy with showers and storms, warmer in the south. Beckley reported 64 to 70, Oak Hill around mid 70s. River gauges show Greenbrier clear, Lake clear with 2.5 gates open. Hinton gauge 2.1 inches. New York temperatures from UPI list range from 30 to 107 degrees.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Greenbrier
Hinton
New York
Development Corp Thanks Mrs Kee for Service
A resolution of appreciation adopted by New River Gorge Development Corp honors Congresswoman Elizabeth Kee for excellent energetic and intelligent service. Signed by Pat R. Hamilton president and J R Carr secretary the note calls her support heartfelt and notes progress and favorable future outlook due to her concern initiative and devotion.
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New River Gorge Development Corp
Elizabeth Kee
Pat R. Hamilton
J. R. Carr
Four Counties Eye Midwest Market for Meetings and Conventions
Travelers seek venues within 500 miles of home base with Columbus Toledo Cleveland and Cincinnati as targets. A report backs توسعه Stephens Lake Raleigh County and Bluestone Lake Summers County resorts, predicting 700 jobs and about 8 million yearly tourism income from a private-public 8.6 million investment, while Plum Orchard Lake needs funds for access roads parks beaches docks and utilities.
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Midwest
Columbus
Toledo
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Stephens Lake
Raleigh County
Bluestone Lake
Summers County
Plum Orchard Lake
Automation's Benefit: No Coffee Breaks for Machines
The piece notes one advantage of automation is that machines do not need coffee breaks, allowing continuous operation and potential productivity gains.
Toll climbs as West Virginia road deaths rise in weekend wrecks
A Preston County man dies from injuries after a W V 92 wreck near Kingwood. George Keener, 24, of Kingwood and Markleysburg Pa, dies Monday night. Waneta Thomas, 20, Parsons, remains hospitalized. Ohio collision kills Dallas Monk, 12, in Ironton. Robert Waldron, 31, dies from a Saturday W V 28 crash in Grant County. Overall toll includes seven weekend fatalities and a Monroe County death near Hinton.
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United Press International
West Virginia
Preston County
Kingwood
George Keener
Markleysburg
Ronald Hebb
Parsons
W. Va
Waneta Thomas
Charleston
Monroe County
Hinton
Monay
Lynn nurse found strangled in Lynn. Boston Strangler linked
Lynn police probe a nurse Helen E. Blake 65 found dead in her ransacked apartment with a stocking and brassiere tied around her throat. Medical examiner rules homicide. Slayings in Boston suggest same killer. police say one man may have committed all three murders.
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Mass
UPI
Boston
Helen E. Blake
Edmund A. Jannino
Lee
Blake
Soblen watched by police as he recovers in London
Runaway Soviet spy Robert A. Soblen remains under tight police surveillance in London to prevent self harm while delaying his return to the United States for life imprisonment. He is described as improving after a suicide attempt, with no set date for air transfer.
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London
Robert A. Soblen
United States
Soblen
U. S
Iron Age Magazine
Luck Wields Knife In 2nd Arm Miracle
LOS ANGELES via UPI a 61 year old man named Robert Orona regained movement in his crushed left arm nine months after a freeway construction accident. Surgeon Dr E Vernon Luck performed a delicate reattachment on a severely mangled limb, noting two nerves remained intact and could be coaxed to function. The case was compared with a Boston boy who had a severed arm reattached, but whose recovery remains incomplete.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Robert Orona
Orona
E. Vernon Luck
Orthopedic Hospital
Luck
Boston
Everett Knowles Jr
Algeria Proclaimed Independent as France Ends Rule
ALGIERS API Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule with De Gaulle's proclamation issued in Paris and Algeria's 99 percent referendum vote. Fares announces the result while power bids rise between GPRA leaders Ben Khedda and Ben Bella.
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API
Algeria
Christian Fouchet
Abderrahmane Fares
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
de Gaulle
France
Rocher Noir
Fares
Ben Youssef Ben Khedda
Algerian Provisional Government
GPRA
Mohammed Ben Bella
Ben Bella
Youth, 16, Slays Stepdad and Wounds Mother
A 16 year old boy, William Bodmer, fled Alexandria to Baltimore where he was found asleep in a car with bloodstained clothes. Police say he and a 19 year old accomplice, Malcolm Ward, killed Bodmer’s stepfather Donald G. Cooley and fled as his mother Catherine was stabbed while trying to aid her husband. Ward confessed to shooting Cooley after Bodmer stabbed him repeatedly. The couple’s son had been visiting the house when the attack occurred on Monday night.
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Bing Crosby
Santa Monica
Nikita Khrushchev
Red China
Kennedy
U. S
Formosa
Shikibori
Tokyo
Baltimore
UPI
Alexandria
William Bodmer
Bodmer
Seaboard
Washington
Malcolm Leon Ward
W. W. Zimmerman
Ward
Donald G. Cooley
Mount Vernon High School
Catherine
Zimmerman
Cookey
NEA Plans Fierce Fight Against Teacher Unions
Denver United States news report notes the National Education Association and its 812,000 members will oppose teacher unionization. William G. Carr declares no strike and urges a militant, united NEA, boosting grassroots strength and local negotiations to counter unions. He cites AFL-CIO spending and urban growth as driving factors.
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Denver
UPI
National Education Association
NEA
William G. Carr
Carr
Afl-Cio
New York City
Major Demands Return To Duty
Maj Arch E Roberts seeks federal court order to reinstate him on active duty after a 19 April speech to the Daughters of the American Revolution in which he accused the Los Angeles mayor of a Communist background. He claims the dismissal violated his constitutional rights and risks about 50000 in retirement benefits plus other allowances. Roberts, a reserve officer with 18 years in active service, now resides in Fort Collins Colorado.
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Roberts
Fort Collins
Colo
Water tower rebellion ends at Western Correctional Institution
The last of 13 convicts who protested conditions at Western Correctional Institution Woods Run Pittsburgh descended from an 80 foot catwalk at 5 55 a m EDT Charles Cannon Miller 32 a life term inmate was among those who took part in the rain ending the uprising which began more than a week earlier life term convict rejoined the prison interior
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Western Correctional Institution
Charles Cannon Miller
Woods Run
Weapons Contract Awarded to Hercules Powder Co
Washington The Navy Bureau of Weapons awarded a 25.9 million dollar contract to Hercules Powder Co for research and development on solid propellants at its Rocket Center West Virginia plants. Representative Daniel Brewster of Maryland announced the action.
Dow Jones Noon Averages Rise Amid Broad Gains
Dow Jones noon figures show United States industrials up 0.79 to 574.54, rails rising 0.09 to 120.38, utilities 0.55 higher at 110.47, and stocks up 0.42 to 199.43 with volume around 1,350,000 shares.
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Dow-Jones
Indus
Star Chamber Session Sets Police Duties in Mullens
Mullens city officers met in a star chamber style executive session with the new mayor W. F. Staats to review the police memorandum, set July 17 council action, and rehire all city employees with possible future changes. The memo stresses officer appearance conduct, public relations, station cleanliness, and strict law enforcement including speeding. It also directs two officers for parking meter duties and assigns absolute charge to the chief, while stressing cooperation and use of radio and patrol cars. Additional items discussed include the city parking lot, removal of the Nariva tipple, street repairs, and Aid to Dependent Workers. City Hall lease was renewed and traffic sign needs reviewed.
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Nariva
City Hall
Kennedy hails Algerian independence in White House note
President Kennedy congratulates the Algerian people on independence calling it a solemn and joyful occasion. The White House release says the United States seeks stronger bonds of friendship and cooperation with Algeria and notes imminent recognition of the new government by the United States.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
White House
Algeria
United States
Two Louisville Boys Found Slain After Disappearance
The bodies of James Impellizeri fourteen and James Benningfield seventeen were found in Bullitt County woods. They had been shot in the head with a thirty eight caliber weapon and dumped from a car. Fathers identified them by clothing, dental work and scars. No motive yet. Authorities searched for an eighteen year old girl last seen with them.
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Louisville
UPI
Bullitt County
James S. Impellizeri
James Benningfield
H. G. Bleemer
Jefferson
Barron Seeks Action on Residual Oil Imports
West Virginia Gov. W. W. Barron asked President Kennedy to act to restrict residual oil imports to aid the coal industry. He argued the 185 million barrel quota displaces 44 million tons of coal and questioned its benefit to national welfare during the 54th National Governors Conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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Hershey, Pa
UPI
W. W. Barron
West Virginia
Kennedy
Barron
Richmond's Woman Mayor Faces Title Dilemma
Eleanor P. Sheppard, age 54, becomes Richmond's first woman mayor after a 25th council ballot vote. The city operates under a city manager system, with the mayor's duties largely ceremonial, raising questions about whether she should be called Madam Mayor or Mrs Mayor. Sheppard is a grandmother of two and previously served as the first woman council member and as vice mayor.
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Richmond
UPI
Eleanor P. Sheppard
Soldier Wall AWOL held for Army authorities at Ft Knox
A soldier stationed at Fort Knox Kentucky was released from Raleigh County Jail at 730 am today to military authorities. Thomas A Wall is charged with being absent without leave from the U S Army.
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Ft. Knox
Raleigh
Thomas A. Wall
U. S. Army
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