Missing New Jersey socialite found in Chicago park
Jacqueline Gay Hart, 21, daughter of a Colgate-Palmolive executive, was found wandering in a Chicago lakefront park after reporting she had been kidnapped in Newark. She described two abduction suspects, one of whom warned, We gotta get rid of you, and she identified no further details. She planned to marry Stanley Gaines on August 29 and remained with her father Ralph Hart in Short Hills, New Jersey. Meanwhile two drivers faced police action in Beckley for drunken driving and speeding.
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Chicago
A _ young
New Jersey
Chicago Lake Front
Newark
Jacqueline Gay Hart
Colgate- Palmolive Co
Jack Blakeslee
Miss Hart
Gay Hart
James Meskell
Blakeslee
Stanley Gaines
Gaines
Miss . Hart
Charles Pierson
Ralph
Short Hills
N. J
Pierson
FBI
Jacqueline
Sweet Briar College
Virginia
Sweet Briar
Governor Wants Judge to Retract Statements
Governor Underwood asked Monongalia Circuit Judge Don J. Eddy to retract newspaper attributed remarks about the governor and state office. He cited a Morgantown Dominion News report alleging Eddy spoke on use of political influence in a drunken driving case and said no official was reprimanded. Underwood noted the defendant’s spouse felt the arresting officers erred and defended the arresting decisions, asking Eddy to retract the statements the paper attributed to him.
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Charleston
Underwood
Morgantown
Monongalia
Don J. Eddy
Eddy
Morgantown Dominion News
Clarksburg
Monongalia County
J. P. Shale
Circuit Court
A. C McDaniels
Office of State Police
Hazel Fair
McDaniels
Fair
Drought Keeps Raleigh Farmers Under Heavy Rain Shortfall
The Register reports July has brought only 1.59 inches of rain in the Raleigh County area with six light showers. County agent H. B. Thomas is away on vacation, but rural reports indicate conditions are critical after a dry June and a below two inch May.
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Veterans Administration
H. B. Thomas
Raleigh County
Register
Rura
Thomas
West Virginia Weather Outlook With Showers and Humid Warmth
A western Virginia daily forecast notes considerable cloudiness and warm humid conditions with showers and scattered thundershowers today and tonight, highs 80 to 92 across counties, lows in the 60s, and a cooler, partly cloudy Saturday. Extended outlook calls for near normal temperatures through Wednesday, a slight weekend cool-down, and scattered thunder showers possible Monday or Tuesday with 12 to 14 inches? of rainfall overall. River conditions show Greenbrier low and clear, Bluestone reservoir at normal levels with gates partially open.
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W. Va
Beckley
Aes
Owen Tea
Oak Hill
Bluestone
Subdivision Earns Unusual Name Cigarette Heights
Dallas city plan panel puzzled as chairman Edmund J. Kahn calls a proposed subdivision Cigarette Heights before naming streets Kool Pall Mall Fatima Raleigh Camel and Chelsea, revealing the pun in the area’s branding.
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Dallas, Tex
City Plan Commission
Edmund J. Kahn
Cigarette Heights
Kool, Pall Mall
Fatima
Raleigh
Camel
Chelsea
New Light Shed On Squabble At Raleigh County Tax Hearing
In Raleigh County, the Board of Review and Equalization spent a slow morning in the County Clerk's Office as two coal firms, The New River Co and Beaver Coal Corp, pressed for assessment increases. Officials from The New River Co. attended, while Beaver Coal representatives failed to appear by noon, prompting questions about timing and figures. The board reviewed proposed increases, with totals showing a county rise of 517,035 for New River land and 72,905 and 159,775 for Beaver Coal's town and county lands respectively. The meeting paused for a lunch recess as assessments and budget timelines loom ahead.
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Raleigh County Clerk’s Office
Board of Review and Equalization
H. G. Farmer
John C. Ward
A. J. Lilly
New River Co
C. R. Bourland
C. E. Jones
Mount Hope
C. E. Mahan
Fayetteville
Mahan
Beaver Coal Corp
L. L. Scherer
Beckley
Beaver Coal
Scherer
Register
County Court
Ward
Beaver Coal Corm
Beaver Coal Com
Raleigh
John Boley
Boley
Beaver Firm
New River
Charleston
Raleigh County
Bourland
Jones
Publicity Credited for Safe Return of Missing Jacqueline
In Short Hills New Jersey, Mrs. Ralph A. Hart hailed publicity as crucial after daughter Jacqueline Gay, 21, was found safe in Chicago. Jacqueline told police she had been abducted and asked her father to fetch her. The Hart family celebrated, while noting no ransom calls and considering a possible August wedding.
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Short Hills
N. J
Ralph A. Hart
Jacqueline Gay
Chicago
Jacqueline
Hart
Stanley Gaines
Fayetteville
W. Va
Goodby
Newark Airport
Pittsburgh
Harts
Newark
Bicycler Bennett In Critical Condition After Accident
Maplewood RNS reports Charles Robert Bennett listed in critical condition at Beckley Memorial Hospital with head injuries after a car struck him Thursday afternoon while he rode a bicycle. Details on the 4 p.m. accident remain unavailable despite statements from Constable James Bragg and off duty state trooper informant. unidentified trooper name and rider age not learned. Burke Cassell of the Rainelle detachment also investigated but could not be reached by noon.
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Maplewood
RNS
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Charles Robert Bennett
James Bragg
Laysland
Burke Cassell
Rainelle
Weathering the drought at Sherwood Glutz farm
Sherwood Glutz says the weather acts like a hen that cackles but never lays. Clouds gather with no rain, risking a brush fire in the potato patch. If rhubarb isn’t nearly burned, you ain’t got rhubarb.
Nixon Khrushchev clash in Moscow exhibit debate
In Moscow, Vice President Nixon and Premier Khrushchev argued face to face during an exhibition tour. They debated bases abroad, peace prospects, and military strength as 200 reporters watched. Nixon promised uncensored TV coverage of the remarks, and both leaders agreed to show videotape in the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
U.S
Richard M. Nixon
Nikita Khrushchev
Nixon
Sokolniki Park
Khrushchev
Exhibition Grounds
Kremlin
Eisenhower
Reds Ban U S Exhibit Books
A three man Russian crew removed books from the American exhibition in Moscow hours before opening after a Soviet government note warned of measures unless certain titles were removed. Harold McClellan, fair director, said he could remove objectionable items if needed, while the cause of the delay in the rest of the dispatch was unclear.
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Moscow
Llewellyn Thompson
Harold McClellan
United States
Richard M. Nixon
Mrs. Jones Succumbs in Home Death
Mrs. Berta Wade Jones of "G" Street died at about 5 30 this morning. The body is at the Trent Funeral Home pending arrangements.
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Berta Wade Jones
G” St
Trent Funeral Home
Handcar overturn injures two Virginian workers
Dewey R. Monk aged 25 of Harper and Bobby B. Clyburn 31 of Princeton were injured when a Virginian Railway handcar overturned after striking a rock on the Lester line around 9 30 this morning. Clyburn treated for bruises at Beckley hospital and released. Monk's injuries were not yet determined. Monk had four years with the company and Clyburn six years.
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Dewey R. Monk
Harper
Bobby B. Clyburn
Princeton
Virginian Railway
Lester
Clyburn
Beckley Hospital
Monk
The
Virginian
Traffic Plan Triggered By Car-Payment Rule Idea
Mesa Arizona city official Howard Godfrey of the Planning and Zoning Department nearly disrupted a Mayor’s Traffic Safety Committee meeting with a proposal to ease traffic by allowing on the street only cars that are paid for.
Global scramble and Cuba aid marked by political and social shifts
British Secretary Selwyn Lloyd pressed for a last effort to salvage a Big Four foreign ministers summit at a secret meeting with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko as Western allies backed him. Fidel Castro staged a baseball protest match to fund agrarian reform while workers face layoffs from the steel strike. Alicia Cogan named Secretary of the Year at a Miami Beach event. Rio de Janeiro moves to expel US attorney Lowell Birrell amid stock fraud indictment. Brigitte Bardot’s sister declines an American film role. Textile workers in Henderson receive long prison terms for conspiracy to dynamite a mill. The Air Force test launches a Thor IRBM and Dr Emil Grubbe nears another cancer operation.
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Selwyn Lloyd
Andrei Gromyko
Lloyd
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Agrarian Fund
Logan Division
Appalachian Power Co
Alicia Cogan
Edgar J. Buttenheim
Buttenheim Publishing Corp
New York
Miami Beach
Rio de Janeiro
Lowell M. Birrell
Brazil
U. S
Brigitte Bardot
Mijanou
Universal Studio
Paris
Mickey Rooney
Adam and Eve
Textile Workers Union
Henderson
N. C
Air Force
Emil F. Grubbe
Miss Universe finalists narrowed to 15 in Long Beach
Judges will select 15 from 16 remaining contestants as they review charm, body, and face in evening gowns and swimsuits. Finalists include Belgium Helene Savigny, Brazil Vera Ribeiro, Colombia Olga Pumarejo, England Pamela Anne Searle, France Fran coise Saint Laurent, Germany Carmela Kunze, Greece Zoe Koyroykly, Iceland Sigridur Thorvaldsdottir, Israel Rina Issacov, Japan Akiki Kojima, Korea Hyun Choo Oh, Norway Jorunn Kristiansen, Poland Zuzanna Dembrowska, Sweden Marie-Louise Ekstrom, and U.S.A. Terry Lyn Huntingdon.
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Long Beach
Calif
Belgium
Helene Savigny
Brazil
Vera Ribeiro
Colombia
Olga Pumarejo
England
Pamela Anne Searle
France
Francoise Saint Laurent
Germany
Carmela Kunze
Greece
Zoe Koyroykly
Iceland
Sigridur Thorvaldsdottir
Israel
Rina Issacov
Tel Aviv
Japan
Akiki Kojima
Tokyo
Korea
Hyun Choo Oh
Norway
Jorunn Kristiansen
Poland
Zuzanna Dembrowska
Sweden
Marie-Louise Ekstrom
U.S.A
Terry Lynn Huntingdon
First 1959 Polio Case Reported In County
A two year old MacArthur boy, Harold Lee Dobbins Jr, Raleigh County's first 1959 polio case, was diagnosed July 17 after returning from Daytona Beach. He was admitted July 10 to Marrett Hospital following a three shot Salk series, with a mild paralytic polio affecting his right leg.
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MacArthur
Raleigh County
Harold Lee Dobbins Jr
Harold L. Dobbins
Marmet Hospital
Daytona Beach
Fla
Brothers Jailed On Trespassing Charge
Two California brothers James Cleveland Tackett and Stephen G Tackett were jailed in Raleigh County on trespassing charges after arrest on Clark Street. They were booked at 9:55 a.m. Clyde Lilly of Resaco remains jailed awaiting a hearing on breaking and entering, jailed at 1:26 a.m. Thursday by a deputy sheriff.
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Raleigh County
James Cleveland Tackett
Stephen G. Tackett
California
Clark Street
Clyde Lilly
Resaco
Lilly
Sunday Blue Law Outrages St. Joseph Citizens
St. Joseph Missouri adopted a liberalized Sunday blue law. Beer may be bought but peanuts cigarettes and tobacco are restricted. The ordinance bans sales of many items on Sundays with restaur ants exempt. Five arrests followed for selling items like ketchup. Public outrage spurred officials to seek modification.
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ST. Joseph Mo
St. Joseph
St Joseph
Missouri
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