NASA Deputy Says U S Made 200 U2 Flights
NASA Deputy Hugh L. Dry testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that U2 planes have flown more than 200 weather missions covering about 264000 miles since 1956. He said the flights were for research and instrument tests, not spying, with instruments aboard Pan American and TWA jets and cooperation with foreign governments and airlines. Observations are worldwide and plans are known only after the fact.
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Washington
Space Ag
United States
Europe
Turkey
Japan
Hugh L. Dry
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Dryden
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
NASA
Pan American
TWA
Paris
U.S
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Albert Gore
D- Tenn
Dulles
J. William Fulbright
D- Ark
Pratt Town Gives Away Its Wooden Jail
Pratt Kansas population about 600 has donated away its old wooden jail after Mayor William H. Vaughan said no prisoners have occurred since his election last year. The police court judge noted the town’s sparsity and disposal of the structure.
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Charleston
Pratt
Here
William H. Vaughan
Weather forecast with showers and temperature trends
Mostly sunny and warmer today with highs in the 70s east and 78 to 84 west. Fair tonight lows in the 50s. Thursday stays warm and more humid with a shower risk in the afternoon or night. Through Monday temps average 2 to 5 degrees above normals. Showers Thursday night and Friday, then again Sunday, totaling about half to three quarters inch. Beckley high 72, low 48. Oak Hill high 75, low 45. River and lake readings show cloudy or normal conditions with New River gauge at 3.4 ft.
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Beckley
Oak Hill High
Lansinh Ba Dhase
Fire Chief Warns After Woman Burns From Cleaner
East Beckley resident Mrs. Robert Grant, 49, suffered burns to her ankles and hands while cleaning drapes with flam mable fluid in the basement. Fire Chief Cecil P. Connor urged never using flammable liquids indoors, noting $100 in smoke and fire damage to the home. She is listed in satisfactory condition at Beckley Memorial Hospital. Fire crews responded at 7:05 a.m. and returned by 7:45 a.m.
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Robert Grant
Broadway St
Connor
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Beckley
Grant
Holiday Traffic Toll Set At 367
A three day Memorial Day period killed 367 people in traffic accidents in Chicago area. The toll missed the 371 record from 1958 and fell short of the NSC estimate of 375. Including boating and other accidents the total deaths reached 579, exceeding the 504 recorded in 1947.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Bootleg Scaffold Ban Demanded After Deaths at Speedway
INDIANAPOLIS AP A ban against bootleg scaffolds at future 500 mile races was demanded Tuesday night by State Fire Marshal Jay L Foster. He said he will meet with Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials this week to insist on a future ban on homemade stands like the one that collapsed Monday, killing two fans and injuring 82.
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Indianapolis
Jay L. Foster
Foster
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Scientist Peter King Decorated by Navy for Soviet Explosions Find
Washington AP reports Dr. Peter King associate director of research for materials at the Naval Research Laboratory has been identified and decorated by the Navy for first detecting Soviet nuclear explosions nearly 11 years ago.
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Washington
Navy
Peter King
Naval Research Laboratory
Eisenhower’s wife hospitalized for acute bronchitis
Mrs Mamie Eisenhower entered Walter Reed Army Hospital Tuesday for treatment of an attack of acute asthmatic bronchitis. Doctors said she is as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. End of brief White House note.
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Mamie Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
White House
Socialist Party
Nobusuke Kishi
Virginia Coast
Cape Canaveral
Fla
State To Distribute 12 Carloads Of Beans
Senator Byrd reported from Washington that the Agriculture Department will send 12 carloads of dried beans to West Virginia for distribution to welfare cases under the surplus commodities program. The shipment should reach the state mid month and be allocated by July 1 through the Department of Public Assistance.
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Charleston
Robert C. Byrd
D-Wva
Washington
Department of Agriculture
West Virginia
Byrd
Sen
Jennings Randolph
Agriculture Department
Department of Public Assistance
Grampaw Says Spring Near As Loan Offer Persists
Sherwood Glutz quotes Grampaw predicting an early spring and notes a loan company offering funds for a vacation. The speaker dislikes the idea, citing two weeks of enjoyment followed by six months of worry about repayment.
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Grampaw
Murder Charged To Oak Hill Man
A 36 year old Oak Hill man James A White was captured in Marysville Tennessee and will be returned Friday for questioning in the fatal shooting of Edward Holmes 38 of Red Star The body with two bullets was found May 21 near Stone Cliff along the New River Holmes last worked as a mechanic at Mount Hope May 17 and was killed that evening Officials say White has been charged with murder and has waived extradition.
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Oak Hill
RNS
James A. White
Marysville
Tenn
Ery Edward Holmes
Holmes
Stone Cliff
New River
Blount County
Berkeley
White
Tennessee
Hulme
Raleigh Census Accuracy Questioned Against Mingo Figures
Raleigh County preliminary 1960 census counts appear more precise than Mingo County's. Early estimates show Williamson with 6,629 people but 7,298 registered voters, plus 2,222 school pupils and about 1,500 pre voting age residents. Raleigh totals reach 63,646 with 40,905 registered voters and 22,741 in schools. Beckley 18,489 residents and county 76,525.
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Raleigh
Mingo County
Mingo
Williamson
Raleigh County
Census Bureau
Beckley
Polar bear Mar sha collapses at San Francisco zoo
San Francisco AP reports Mar sha a 15 year old female polar bear at Fleishhacker Zoo suffered a heart attack. She collapsed while outside her grotto, revived briefly after a fire hose spray, then lurched to her den. Zoo officials plan a strict diet.
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San Francisco
Marsha
Fleishhacker Zoo
Zoo
Carey Baldwin
Baldwin
West Virginia Building Permits Hit Record April Total
April permits in WV reach 14.34 million across 24 large cities, a new April high. Chamber index shows 160 percent rise from April 1959, with four months of 1960 improving in 14 of 20 categories. Coal output up 4.1 percent. salaries up 4.5 percent. mixed shifts in taxes, employment, and other sectors.
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Charleston
West Virginia
West
Methodists Open 115th Meeting at Wesleyan College
BUCKHANNON AP The West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church began its 115th annual session at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke will preside over the five day meeting with a two million dollar world services budget. Duke Divinity professor Dr. Hugh Anderson will give three addresses as conference speaker. Dr. Arthur S. Flemming will speak Thursday morning and participate in cornerstone laying for the new Methodist Hospital in Clarksburg Thursday afternoon.
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Buckhannon
West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Lloyd C. Wicke
Pittsburgh
Methodist Church
Hugh Anderson
Duke University Divinity School
Arthur S. Flemming
Tommy Balks At Leaving Cellar Horse Rescued From Chicago Basement
In Chicago a waiflike horse named Tommy, long kept by a fruit peddler in a cellar, will be rescued by the Anti Cruelty Society. Workers will cut through concrete to lift him out, with J J Shaffer directing. Tommy once thrived away from modern life, but now faces a new fate.
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Chicago
Tommy
the Anti-Cruelty Society
J. J. Shaffer
Shaffer
Julius Pekovsky
Pekovsky
Schaffer
Beckley Economy Rises as Postal Receipts Grow
Beckley postoffice receipts rose from 1959 to 1960 with April totals of 24 017 this year versus 20 829 the previous period. Bank debits edged up from 20 841 to 21 809. February 1960 retail trade reached 121 on a 1949 baseline, while building permits fell in Beckley to 22 500 in April from 65 500 a year earlier.
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Beckley
Husband divorces wife over communist obsession
In London AP report Judge John Flowers hears Sheila Bellinger, 33, accused of late night political talks and alleged infidelity since joining the Communist party in 1957. Stanley Bellinger, 43, cites marriage strain and alleged affairs as key factors.
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London (Ap
John Flowers
Sheila Bellinger
Communist Party
Medical School Resident Named Medical School Resident Named
Morgantown WVU announces the appointment of Dr Walter H Moran of Minneapolis as senior resident and instructor in surgery He will join WVU medical faculty this summer Moran a Grand Forks North Dakota native holds degrees from North Dakota Harvard and has held a post doctoral research fellowship since 1959 with the National Heart Institute and the U S Public Health Service
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Morgantown
Walter H. Moran
Minneapolis, Minn
West Virginia University
Elvis J. Stahr Jr
Grand Forks
N.D
Moran
University of North Dakota
Harvard University
National Heart Poured
U.S. Public Health Serv
Tidelands Oil Case Seaward Boundaries Given by Court
Washington AP reports the Supreme Court defined Gulf oil rights, granting Texas and Florida a seaward limit of three marine leagues from the low water mark while Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama gain about 3.45 land miles. Litigation and potential legislation loom as states seek to challenge and refine the new boundaries.
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Washington
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf States
Supreme Court
Congress
Texas
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Gulf
Paper Turns Table On West Virginia Critics
Charleston Daily Mail launches a two part series rebutting unfavorable West Virginia coverage. Reporter Charlie Connor and photographer Earl Benton travel to Philadelphia to contrast slums and poverty with critiques by roving politicians and commentators tied to a Saturday Evening Post article.
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Charleston
Saturday Evening Post
Connor
Benton
Philadelphia
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Albert Allen Jr
Willie Warriston
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Cecil P. Connor
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Monaco
John B. Kelly
Kelly
Charles de Gaulle
France
Boris Pasternak
Moscow
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Republican House
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
GOP
Thruston B. Morton
Morton
Communication Workers of America
Chesapeake and Poitomac Telephone Co
Char
Sherwood Glutz
Woodland Sprites
Paulette Mason
Sophia
Raleigh County 4H
M. Lane
Lucky Girl
Jane Anderson
Woodrow Wilson
Jennifer Crickmer
Mark Twain
Nancy Carol Lowe
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Tidelands
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