Rockefeller Rejects No 2 VP Bid At GOP Convention
Chicago AP reports Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York rejected a second vicepresidential bid as Gov. Mark Hatfield led a group of Republican governors in urging a stronger civil rights plank and defense measures. Rockefeller told reporters the decision was irrevocable while Nixon pressed for platform changes. Eisenhower slated to address the convention tonight amid debate over lunch counter sitin language and civil rights enforcement.
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Chicago
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
Hatfield
Sheraton Towers
Nixon
Platform Committee
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Louisiana
North Dakota
Illinois
Eisenhower
White House
Thomas E. Stagg
Stagg
Jacob K. Javits
Congress
Newport
R.I
Weather Plane Missing North of Anchorage
A U S Weather Bureau plane with seven aboard is missing 100 miles north of Anchorage as search planes are thwarted by bad weather. Lumumba meets Hammarskjold as Congo seeks aid and Belgian troops exit. Congo faces cash crunch, payroll worry. Eisenhower delays flight to RNC due to rain. Johnson begins vice presidential campaign with Frontier Day trip. Adler estate beneficiary valued near four million dollars. Japan to pay U S investors ten million plus for WWI losses. Peterson files to challenge Martin in 14th District. Faubus seeks four term Arkansas governorship as primary looms. Three more firefighters die in West fires, toll rises to nine.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Anchorage
Alaska
Patrice Lumumba
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Congo
Pascal Nkanyi
Leopoldville
Nkango
Eisenhower
Chicago
Sen
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cheyenne
Wyo
Maurice
Buddy) Adler
20Th Century - Fox Studios
Japan
U. S
Joseph W. Martin
Mass
Congress
Oscar H. Peterson
Easton
Martin
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
British Columbia
Washington
West Virginia Weather Update and River Gauges
Partly cloudy and warm with scattered thunderstorms through Wednesday. Today’s high near 60s in the mountains and around 70 elsewhere. Beckley yesterday’s high reached 88 with a low in the 70s. Oak Hill’s high yesterday and tonight’s low not clearly stated. River Greenbrier gauge normal and clear. Lake Greenbrier normal and clear at 1.9 feet. gauge at Terre Haute shows 1.5 feet.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Greenbrier
Judd Frames Peace Theme at GOP Convention Keynote
Rep. Walter H. Judd opened the Republican National Convention with a 6000 word keynote praising the Eisenhower era, pledging Nixon as the best qualified to handle the cold war, and attacking Democrats as unequal to the challenge. He warned against misrepresenting the United States and invoked Lincoln in the centennial year, urging focus on human freedom and the end of Korea War hostilities.
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Chicago
Walter H. Judd
Eisenhower
Judd
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Minnesota
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Underwood Attacks Democrats Over Smearing World Leadership
Gov. Cecil H. Underwood told the Republican National Convention that Democrats smear America’s world leadership and blame President Eisenhower for Khrushchev’s Paris tirades. He contrasted Republican lines with Kennedy’s Democratic rhetoric, criticizing Kennedy for mudslinging at the DNC.
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Kremlin
Underwood
Eisenhower
Paris
Khrushchev
America
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Democrats Or Republicans It's The Same Old Tale
James Marlow notes the 1960 conventions in Chicago and Los Angeles mirror each other in dull, machine politics. Nixon is assured the Republican nomination, Kennedy the Democrat, with Johnson and Rockefeller as potential running mates. TV exposure exposes the excess of speeches, prompting calls to shorten future conventions and focus on delivering concrete plans.
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Los Angeles
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Kennedy
Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Chicago
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Panther Hunt Begun in Hepzibah West Virginia
In Harrison County area a search for a panther was started after reports of eerie screams heard for more than a week. An eyewitness, Mrs Rol land Vernon of Hepzibah, said her uncle saw the animal near a water barrel, described as dark brown or black. Deputy sheriffs and game wardens joined the hunt.
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Hepzibah
W. Va
Rolland Vernon
Harrison County
Commocrats and Republicans Duel in Conventshion Rumors
Sherwood Glutz notes Democrats in their convention cursed Republicans and predicts the Republicans will return the favor with rumors. He warns rumors are like hornets and should be left alone if not killed quickly.
Freedom Leap Figure Dies
Oksana Stephanova Kasenkina who influenced Cold War events with a 1948 leap from the Soviet consulate window died Sunday in a Miami hotel at age 63. A former Russian schoolteacher, she became an American citizen in 1957 and lived in seclusion amid fears of reprisals. The Tolstoy Foundation said she died of natural causes complicated by a heart condition.
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New York
Oksana Stephanova Kasenkina
Miami
Fla
Kasenkina
Tolstoy Foundation, Inc
Britain to dispatch battalion to Kenya amid Mau Mau fears
London reports Britain will send an infantry battalion to its East African colony Kenya. The move follows fears of a renewed Mau Mau outbreak against white settlers and local authorities.
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London
Britain
Kenya
Dream Plagued Murderer Leads Police To Bodies
A man charged with one murder led police to a second body and claimed a dream filled chain of eight killings. Emmett Spence, 35, of Sandy Hook Kentucky, guided detectives to Leon Hammell Jr. in a Key West area and described another victim on a two lane highway. He says he killed a Virginia family of four and a missing hitchhiking woman, while police verify his statements and search for the remaining persons. The FBI has arrested another man in the Virginia family case.
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Miami
Fla
Emmett Spence
I Sandy Hook
Johnny Thomas Keen
Navy Yard
Key West
Dade County
Spence
Leon C. Hammell Jr
Big Coppitt Key
Virginia
Mpence
FBI
Hoover hailed as great humanitarian at GOP convention
At a Chicago GOP gathering, Herbert Hoover was greeted with thunderous applause as he returningly vows this may be his final term if a Lordly miracle does not come. The crowd, knowing him well, roared and cheered as he spoke of his long career and hopes for the party’s future.
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Herbert Hoover
GOP
Plane Probe Sees 88th Soviet Veto At UN
United Nations diplomats expect the Soviet Union to veto today to block an international inquiry into the downing of the American RB17 reconnaissance plane by a Soviet jet on July 1. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov defended rejecting an international review and condemned the U.S. proposal as only to confuse the issue. U.S. Representative Lodge countered that the RB-47 conducted electromagnetic observation and remained 30 miles from the Soviet coast, beyond the 12-mile limit claimed by Moscow.
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N. Y
U.N
Soviet Union
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Security Council
U.S
International Commission
International Court of Justice
Kuznetsov
Alnation Council
Council
United States Air Force
Henry Cabot Lodge
Barents Sea
Lodge
State To Receive 1 Million Boost In Highway Aid
West Virginia is set to receive 27,135,281 in Interstate funds for the 1962 fiscal year starting July 1, up from 22,328,460 this year, part of a total 33,610,979 including primary and secondary roads and ABC program funding. Primary and ABC allocations are listed with reductions from the current year. The federal share remains 90 percent of Interstate costs.
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Washington
West Virginia
Frederick H. Mueller
ABC
Would-Be-Bride Joins Paramour In Jagtime
Laura Ann Rawson, seeking to marry prisoner David Walker who has a 20 year sentence on two armed robbery counts and awaits trial on a third, was arrested on warrants for burglary larceny and forgery and is held in the same county jail.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Laura Ann Rawson
David Walker
African Rioter Killed By Police in Bulawayo Riots
In Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, police opened fire on African rioters in the Negro section, killing at least one and injuring many as three days of unrest against white rule pass. Thousands of native workers failed to report for work while mobs swarmed rail yards and sections near the white area were blocked. Over 2,000 troops sealed off black townships as whites feared a broader uprising.
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Bulawayo
Southern Rhodesia
El Diario coinés new name for Cuba ruler Castrovich
New Yorks Spanish language daily El Diario on its front page dubbed Cuba's leftist ruler Fidel Castrovich in a bold headline. The quirky spelling draw attention to the political figure and the media reaction in New York.
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NEW York
el Diario
Cuba
Fidel Castrovich
Jail Break Thwarted in Raleigh County Jail Shakedown
Sheriff Okey Mills led a courthouse roof escape probe after a jail saw an area bar cut through and a hole opened to the roof. A hacksaw blade and mattress rope were found as prisoners resisted the search. Authorities condemn the ringleader and vow full punishment.
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Raleigh County
Okey Mills
Mills
Calling Card Trips Up Two Young Burglars
In Baileysville Wyoming County two 12 year old boys from Pineville and Bradshaw were arrested after a broken into Kester McKinney home July 15 was linked by a calling card with a Pineville youth s name found on a bed. The Pineville boy and another 12 year old were held July 19. More than 50 dollars in cash 2 pistols 4 watches 15 to 20 fountain pens were reported stolen. The Pineville youth was also tied to thefts from Baileysville Elementary School last winter. The boys were released from jail and the case is being investigated by Paul Rice Wyoming County Child Welfare worker.
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Pineville
RNS
Wyoming
Kester McKinney
Baileysville
Bradshaw
McDowell County
Ward Sheppard
Sheppard
Paul Rice
Wyoming County
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