Insufferable Example Of Incompetence In West Virginia Road Probe
Hearings by a House highways subcommittee end amid a heated charge of administrative ineptitude and inefficiency. Rep. Cramer accuses State Road Commissioner Sawyers of pressuring highway workers for political contributions, while Rep. Wright and others fault both federal and state agencies for deficiencies. Blatnik and others launch partisan barbs as the probe shifts focus amid alleged crackpot letters and threats to jobs.
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Joseph D. Hutman Washington
UPI
House
West Virginia
William C. Cramer
R-Fla
Bur] Sawyers
Jim Wright
D-Tex
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Wright
SRC
Cramer
Sawyers
Commission
Democratic State Committee
John A. Blatnik
D-Minn
Subcommittee
Blatnik
Republican State Finance Committee
Budget deficit for 1962 nears eight month target
The U S federal government closed its 1962 fiscal year June 30 with a deficit of 6 3 billion dollars, spending total 87 7 billion and tax receipts 81 4 billion. It notes the deficit as the tenth in 16 postwar years and links it to the Kennedy administration’s first full year in office. In Peru, labor unions pressed for a general strike against the military junta as troops dispersed demonstrators after the coup.
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Washington
UPI
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Congress
Lima
Peru
Armed Forces
Lighter Side of Washington Humor Pokes Fun at White House Life
A humorous column notes social influence from the President and family in Washington. It contrasts past easy living with current demands, joking about keeping up with the Kennedys, Jackie looks, pony stables, patio parties, and improvised outdoor entertaining ideas like a plastic pool, a bathtubs, and a bird bath.
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Washington
UPI
Weather summary for West Virginia region and towns
Five day forecast for Beckley Oak Hill and surrounding areas projects fair today with highs near 80s and nights in upper 50s to mid 60s. Saturday brings more clouds and scattered storms while rainfall totals run about half to one inch across Saturday and again Monday or Tuesday. River and lake levels remain normal with gauges noted at Greenbrier and Hinton.
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North 83
Beckley
An Carew
RAND
Oak Hill High
Greenbrier
Hinton
Hemispheric Censure Move Eyed By U S
United States gauges OAS member views on condemning Peru's military coup that toppled President Manuel Prado. White House calls coup a serious democracy setback and suspends most aid, while Kennedy voices concern and aid is limited to humanitarian programs.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Peru
Organization of American States
OAS
Manuel Prado
White House
Hemisphere
Kennedy
State Department
U.S
Sugar Strike Ties Peru Coup to APRA Backing
In Lima crowds chant freedom as sugar workers and students join a 12,000 strong North Peru strike. workers at textiles and universities align with the APRA led drive. Observers say the protests pose no serious threat to the four man junta that toppled President Manuel Prado in a bloodless coup. A relative of Prado, Mariano Ignacio Prado, figures in the unfolding events.
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Lima
General Labor Confederation
University of San Marcos
Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
APRA
Fourman
Manuel Prado
Mariano Ignacio Prado
Teen girl’s post office game nixed rules say mail a male not allowed
Postmaster General J Edward Day informed a Wyoming teen in Rawlins that mailing a person is against policy. The girl sought ways for her Illinois boyfriend to visit before college, asking if she could mail herself cheaper or how to do it. Day responded with sympathy and noted people are available even when they are male.
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Louis Cassels Washington
UPI
J. Edward Day
Wyoming
Rawlins
Wyo
Day
Ilinois
Illinois
Post Office Department
Geneva talks move toward Laos neutrality basis
Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived in Geneva for East West discussions with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and said that a Laos neutral status would provide a good basis for its future. Kennedy plans Cape Cod weekend at Hyannis Port, Mass. Four SAC B47 crew escape unhurt after emergency landing at Des Moines airport. General Motors reports record Q2 and six-month sales with strong earnings. House Appropriations approves funds to purify milk contaminated by fallout. Groton negotiators aim to end strike delaying 11 new atomic submarines. Montgomery cancels appointments for medical checkup. Italy to pay $85.6 million to erase Marshall Plan debt. Telstar color TV broadcast to Britain and 24 calls include Churchill recovery note.
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Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
Laos
Kennedy
Cape Cod
Hyannis Port
Mass
Strategic Air Command
Des Moines
Town
General Motors Corp
House ‘Appropriations Committee
Groton
Conn
Viscount Montgomery
Italy
United States
U.S
Britain
Telstar
UPI
Winston Churchill
Norstad Retiring As NATO Chief
Washington reports Gen Lauris Norstad will retire from active duty effective November 1 as supreme allied commander Europe. President Kennedy expressed deep retreat approval and a possible successor may be announced. Norstad led NATO since 1956, the fourth American in the role since 1951, a West Point graduate who rose from cavalry to general officer.
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Washington
West Point
Norstad
Cavalry
Air Corps
Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs in Memphis
Memphis Children’s Theater will stage Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs. A spokesperson said the casting committee added the sleepy twins to avoid hurting a child’s feelings, expanding the cast beyond eight dwarfs.
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Eight Dwarfs
Memphis, Tenn
UPI
Memphis Children’s Theater
Snow White
Nike Zeus intercepts Atlas nose cone in Kwajalein test
The U S Army launched a 48 foot Nike Zeus anti missile from Kwajalein atoll in the Pacific targeting an Atlas missile nose cone traveling at 16000 mph. The nose cone was intercepted within minutes, a breakthrough claimed by officials though earlier tests had failed. McNamara praised the shot but stressed the need for real breakthroughs before full development.
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Norman Runnion
Washington
UPI
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
United States
Kwajelein Atoll
Southwest Pacific
Pentagon
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Farm Worker Arrested In State Man's Murder
Fairfax County police arrested 32 year old farm worker Raymond La Fon in the brutal slaying of Robert Glaspell from Bridgeport West Virginia. Glaspell was beaten to death with a blunt instrument and found hidden beneath clothing near a Paige dairy farm.
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Fairfax, Va
UPI
Fairfax County
Robert Glaspell
Bridgeport
Harrison County
W. Va
Glaspell
Paige
Fairax
Raymond la Fon
Parkersburg Man Killed In Elevator Accident
Parkersburg parkersburg Parkersburg Parkersburg man Aubra G Tingler a maintenance supervisor, was killed instantly when his head was caught between an elevator and its supporting steel beams at the Park A Loft in downtown Parkersburg. The body was found on the elevator floor by Ralph Wilson, an employee, who was checking why the car had stopped near the second floor. Investigators say Tingler, 47, likely touched the starter button accidentally while leaning outside the cage during a trial run.
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Parkersburg
UPI
Aubra G. Tingler
Park- A-Loft
Tingler
Ralph Wilson
Brawl Leaves 1 Dead 1 Hurt Near Mount View Road
The bullet-riddled body of Richard Meadows, 0 Cool Ridge, was found in the cab of an old model panel truck on Mount View Road near White Oak Mountain. Meadows died after eight bullets, four enters the heart ear back groin, in a drunken brawl involving Robert West and James Burgess. West and Burgess were intoxicated and could not clarify who fired. West bore a gunshot wound to the right knee. The bodies and suspects were at Beckley State Police and Webb and Neal Funeral Home pending arrangements.
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Cool Ridge
Mount View Road
White Oak Mountain
Richard
Little Richard) Meadows
Meadows
Robert West
Ghent
James Burgess
Beckley
West
Hinton State Po
Burgess
Hinton
Ies
Webb
Arab Jetliner Crash Kills 26 3 Americans
Rescuers pushed through teak forests toward the wreckage of United Arab Airways jetliner near Bangkok. Twenty six aboard including three Americans per a U.S. Embassy radio report there were no survivors. The plane disappeared on the Hong Kong to Bangkok leg from Tokyo. People aboard included Mrs Virginia Gilbertson and her two children Eric and Christine of Bradford Woods Pennsylvania.
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Thailand
UPI
United Arab Airlines
Here
U.S
Hong Kong
Pittsburgh
Japan
Dennis L. Gilbertson
Blaw-Knox
Chemical Division
Tokyo
Gilbertson
Soviet Harassment Campaign Buzzes Allied Air Traffic
The Soviet Union escalated harassment of Allied air traffic in the Berlin corridors with two buzzings on Tuesday. A U S transport was tested by a Russian jet and a Western passenger flight was shadowed at takeoff, prompting protests to Moscow via Berlin’s four power air safety center.
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Berlin
UPI
Soviet Union
Baker
West Germany
West Berlin
U.S
Federal Aviation Agency
West Virginia lawmakers fault lack of warning on Sugar Grove cancel
West Virginia's congressional delegation pressed Defense Secretary McNamara after the Sugar Grove radio astronomy project in West Virginia was canceled. They sought advance notice and details on future use of the site as the $195 million program was scrapped, with McNamara citing lost military value and cost.
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Washington
UPI
West Virginia
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Sugar Grove
W. Va
McNamara
Sen
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Randolph
Senate
House
Department
Floyd Held For Murder In Richwood Shooting
William A. Floyd of Richwood faced a preliminary hearing on a murder charge for the fatal shooting of Dorothy Jarvis a 25 year old mother of two. Jarvis died after a shotgun blast Wednesday night at Sacred Heart Hospital and funeral services were set for Saturday.
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Richwood
UPI
William A. Floyd
Justice of the Peace
M. T. Goheen
Dorothy Jarvis
Sacred Heart Hospital
Ex-Convict Charged in Sistersville Wounding
Albert Howard Britton, 45, was charged with malicious wounding of Rosalee Ryan, 18, in Sistersville after she was shot three times at her home. She was in fair condition at a Parkersburg hospital. her mother was jailed on a drunk charge and for further investigation.
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Sistersville
UPS
Albert Howard Britton
Rosalee Ryan
Miss Ryan
Parkersburg
Celebrezze named HEW secretary by Senate vote
The Senate confirmed Cleveland Mayor Anthony J. Celebrezze as secretary of health education and welfare by voice vote with no debate. West Virginia welfare workers expect to return to their jobs within a day or two after Kennedy signs the new compromise welfare reform bill, with most furloughed staff back by Monday or Tuesday depending on action.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Today
Cleveland
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Health, Education and Welfare
Charleston
State Welfare Department
West Virginia
Kennedy
L. L. Vincent
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