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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1962
Page
6
The final segment of the Pan American highway will cross the 450 mile Darien Gap linking Central and South America. The United States will provide two million dollars for an engineering survey under the Alliance for Progress. When finished the road may allow travel from Alaska to the southern tip of South America.
West Virginia State Natural Resources Director War den M Lane urged legislators to empower the State Water Resources Commission to force counties to create public service districts to halt pollution from unincorporated towns. He called for immediate penalties for offenders and hearings in Charleston to cut costs.
Atty Gen C Donald Robertson said estates of decedents with no heirs revert to the state and the proceeds go to the school fund. He replied to State Auditor Denzil L Gainer who inquired whether funds should go to the school or general fund.
A West Virginia subcommittee reports that defeating the liquor by the drink amendment would signal strict enforcement of current liquor laws. It urges high license fees, strict standards, a new enforcement division, and emphasis on treatment for alcoholics, while noting no proven link between sales method and alcoholism or crime.
Gov. W. W. Barron said Congress has not set a date to fund extending the Aid to Dependent Children of the Unemployed program. West Virginia shut the program Monday, laying off about 5,000 ADCU workers with 7,500 more let go last week, amid $3 million in state matching funds and $1.5 million monthly needs. Barron pledged that workers will be recalled as soon as federal money becomes available and state funds are matched.
Reports list multiple notable deaths including Virginia Dare former stage and film star who died at Motion Picture Hospital Gabriella Besanzoni opera singer Helen Rebecca Roosevelt Robinson at 80 former secretary Theodore Douglas Robinson Hyde Park and Paul Cantrell former State Senator Athens Tenn Neal Grider Indianapolis banker and former American Legion treasurer George B Shaw Dixon editor and co publisher Fred Hutcherson Jr first African American to fly the Atlantic Ocean all dying in recent days Readables note the names ages locations and brief death notices across cities and fields.
West Virginia families owned more than 2.4 million life insurance policies providing about $4.6 billion of protection at the start of 1962. The Institute of Life Insurance said totals rose from $4.4 billion the prior year and $2.3 billion in 1952, a 99 percent increase since 1952.
Iceland, a North Atlantic island 300 miles from its nearest European neighbor, Scotland, is considered part of Europe and is Europe's westernmost state.
A UPI column notes the social pool trend in Washington with a 16 by 36 foot pool costing 4200 dollars and lighting costs. It cites Mrs Kennedy hosting a pool event with 300 guests and only three entering the water, plus anecdotes about Pierre Salinger and Betty Beale verifying pool sightings, and a McLean wedding where guests jumped in after the couple's sendoff.
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