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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1962
Page
1
A columnist narrates a cross country driving vacation as he learns truckers play bumper tag or Detroit chess on hills and curves. Players earn points for capturing cars, tailgating doubles scores, and leaders win a life size Jimmy Hoffa portrait autographed by Bobby Kennedy at the truck stop restaurant.
United Press International reports violent weather across the Great Plains and Midwest. A 70-year-old woman drowned when her home was washed away in Kenton County Kentucky. An Iowa City service station owner died from floodrelated burns after gasoline tanks exploded. A tornado south of Pampa Texas destroyed a house trailer and badly injured its elderly tenants.
Showers and thundershowers move through this afternoon and tonight with clouds. Temperatures will range from upper 60s to 80s, cooling into the 60s tonight and into the 70s and 80s Tuesday. Precipitation through Friday and Saturday expected at one quarter to one half inch. River gauges show normal conditions. Greenbrier muddy, lake clear with 1.8 gates open.
A mediation board withdrawal opens path for railway management actions as firemen face layoffs and overhaul of pay and seniority for train crews. Five unions threaten strike over proposed changes while Board Secretary Eugene C Thompson says letters were sent to unions and major railroads about the move.
A National Mediation Board proposal to arbitrate rail labor disputes was accepted by railroads but rejected by labor unions. Under the Railway Labor Act no changes could be made for 30 days, and a presidential emergency board could delay any changes or a walkout for about 60 days after naming. Negotiations began April 2 as a five/five/five presidential commission studied the issues for over a year.
A C47 transport with 27 aboard crashed after takeoff from Kontum airfield 240 miles north of Saigon. 23 killed including an American officer. others presumed Vietnamese personnel. Helicopter crash deaths reported nearby with four missing and two Americans found dead. A C123 transport on a supply flight also missing.
A mosaic of short items reports Margaret Talbotts death by suicide in New York 62 widow of Harold E Talbot Air Force secretary in Eisenhowers first cabinet. Also notes a Senate medical care bill vote and Ribicoffs consulting role, a mine explosion in Japan eight dead five injured, Ezra Taft Benson joining Olson Brothers board, Cleveland mayor Celebrezze to join Kennedy cabinet, potential mayoral succession puzzle in Cleveland, Churchill improving after bed rest, hunger strike in Cairo pool, doctors strike in Saskatchewan, Gov Barron recovering and Benwood crash death, VFW convention in Huntington with new chairman William Alexander.
In Ludowici Georgia a weekend highway collision involving three cars killed five people. The victims were Roy L. Nelson 51 and his wife Helen 41 of Kearnersville North Carolina. Lois Mary Carnall 31 of Burgettstown Pennsylvania, her daughter Pamela 9, and Erma Black Rock 59 who moved from Weirton West Virginia to Largo Florida a year ago.
Geneva United Press International. The Soviet Union rejected a compromise on a nuclear test ban by sticking to national control systems for policing any treaty. Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin said Moscow would not budge from its position. The Soviets would only accept national controls, though they would consider a treaty on the basis of an April compromise from eight neutral members of the disarmament conference. Western sources argued the Soviets interpreted those proposals to fit their aims.
Detectives and volunteers swarmed rural areas near Medora Kansas after reports of a pistol-packing teen and a harvest laborer suspected in the sheriff murder were seen along Kansas Highway 7. The search, aided by dogs and three planes, focused on a brush filled ditch near a railroad embankment as authorities extended the hunt to neighboring counties and states.
Diane Joyce Hunter, Miss Morgantown and WVU radio television major, won Miss West Virginia 1963 over 20 contestants. The Albany NY native from Arlington VA will represent West Virginia at Miss America in Atlantic City Labor Day weekend. She is a WVU junior with a 34 23 34 figure and plans to stay in the Mountain State after graduation.
Sunnyvale California reports two rhesus monkeys and four hamsters died from natural causes after a high altitude balloon mission. Ames Research Center says life support failure in the capsules caused the deaths. Dr. Webb Haymaker described air conditioning, temperature and oxygen as lacking.
Five men were injured when an explosion rocked an old mine shaft at the Grant Town operation of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates near Fairmont. Two may have fallen into the 350-foot shaft. Arlie Spry, William Zirkle, William Ice, James Hinerman, and Junior Green were named as injured, with Spry most seriously hurt and Green released after treatment.
Charleston area report: West Virginia Heart Association awarded 21 research grants totaling 11294 for 1962 63. Top grants went to Dr Robert J Marshall WVU School of Medicine 2000 dollars Dr Werner A Laqueur Beckley Memorial Hospital 1794 dollars and Dr D Sheffer Clark Cabell Huntington Hospital 1500 dollars. The awards include six medical student fellowships and 12 student grants. The association also adds 17000 dollars to the American Heart Association research program.
CAPE CANAVERAL UPS reports a 13 story silver Echo 2 balloon scheduled for a test launch this week. The up and down flight will prove inflation and design for future satellites, reaching about 950 miles before burning up within minutes after launch. If weather holds, eastern U S observers may witness a brilliant dawn display.
Americans died by the dozen in multiple traffic disasters over the weekend. Thirteen wrecks across 11 states claimed 52 lives including a father and three sons in Lake Superior drowning and a fatal plane crash in upstate New York. A seven member Alabama family perished near Fayetteville Tennessee when their car hit a bridge. Georgia Alabama and Oklahoma each reported five dead. Four tragedies left four or more dead in Ohio Indiana and California with four killed near Lima Ohio and a head on crash near Indianapolis. Three generations of a Quapaw family were among the weekend toll.
Three people died in West Virginia over the weekend including two traffic deaths and a drowning. Harold C. Barbour, 51, of Huntington, died after his station wagon was hit at an intersection and he passed away in Cabell Huntington Hospital. Bonnie Lutrell, 7, of Clear Brook Virginia, was killed and six others injured when the car they rode in wrecked on West Virginia Route 51 near Inwood, Berkeley County. Mike Mullins, 12, of Carswell, McDowell County, drowned when found at the bottom of a pool at Linkous Park in Welch. The state highway death toll rose to 219 year to date, up from 170 a year ago.
Weston Observatory reports a strong earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska likely near Kodiak Island. Seismic data place the quake about 3,500 miles northwest of Boston, recorded at 8:09 a.m. EDT. A spokesman cautions that many islands in the area raise potential for damage.
Dow Jones noon figures show 30 Industrial averages at 586.21, down 3.98. 20 Rails at 124.97, down 0.31. 15 Uails at 113.98, up 0.29. 65 Stocks at 205.18, down 0.75. Volume to noon reaches 1,190,000 shares.
West Virginia educators denounce federal aid tied to strings, urging general aid autonomy. Edgar Fuller of the Council of Chief State School Officers argues general aid allows state use and aids poorer states. cites Bailey’s proposed bill favoring private funds for private schools and public funds for public schools. The conference plans workshops and a closing session to adopt a 13 point program for educational improvement.
UPI reports a House subcommittee resumes hearings into West Virginia State Road Commission land purchases for Route 16 in Beckley. Witnesses describe overpayments as high as 400 percent, prompting calls for overhaul of highway land acquisition practices in the federal program.
Washington Senator Robert C Byrd denounced what he called pressure tactics by importers of foreign waste residual oil. He said claims that the General Services Administration cannot buy imported residual oil are spurious and that the government is nearly out of oil, forced to borrow from an importer lacking legal import tickets.
ICC hearings begin on Chesapeake and Ohio railway request to discontinue two passenger trains linking Shenandoah Valley with Washington and Huntington West Virginia. Trains named Sportsman and Fast Flying Virginian face elimination amid declining ridership. Roanoke Star City councils weigh in with opposition from Waynesboro Staunton authorities.
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