C&O and N and W Protest 1960 WV Property Assessments
The C&O and N&W, major West Virginia railroads, urged the Board of Public Works to adjust tentative 1960 property valuations citing export coal declines and merger issues. C&O seeks 113% million valuation for Class III and IV, while N&W requests 117% million, arguing merger incompleteness and unrecovered capacities.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Chesapeake and Ohio
Norfolk and Western
Virginian
Board of Public Works
C. E. Lex Jr
Woman Divorced After Communist Party Influence Claim
The judge granted a divorce to Mrs. Bellinger after recounting she had been married 12 years when she befriended the secretary of the Finsbury Park Communist party and his wife. He said she was under their influence from that time. The case was heard Tuesday.
Americans View Mental Health Survey Finds Happiness Tied to Children and Money
New York AP reports a nationwide mental health survey from 1957 showing happiness linked to having children and enough money while debt and inadequate housing cause unhappiness. The 2,460 interviewed support conclusions that older people feel fewer shortcomings and younger seek achievement. coping methods include talking with family, praying, or doing nothing.
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New York
U.S
Unialone
Joint Commission On Mental Illness and Health
Deaths of Morris Loeb Benham AP notices
John T Morris 61 longtime Westinghouse patents supervisor died of heart ailment Tuesday after 47 years with the firm He aided many noted electrical patent holders Mortimer Loeb 68 headwear maker died Tuesday whose silk hats were gifted to presidents Roosevelt to Truman Clyde S Benham 73 former Chicago Tribune advertising chief died Tuesday A Valparaiso Ind native joined the Tribune in 1910
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Associated Press New York
John T. Morris
Westinghouse Electric International Co
Morris
New York
Mortimer Loeb
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Chicago
Clyde S. Benham
The
Chicago Tribune
Valparaiso
Ind
Tribune
Skeen First To File Expenses
State Treasurer Orel J. Skeen filed a personal campaign report showing $910 in contributions and $1,893 in expenditures. The Skeen for Governor Committee listed $19,228 in contributions and $19,209 in expenditures. Rep Ken Hechler filed a statement listing $10 in contributions and $301 in expenses. Filing deadline is June 10.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Secretary of State Today
Orel J. Skeen
Skeen
Rep
Ken Hechler
Huntington
Congress
Jaycees Plan Miss Beckley Contest Convention
Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce members will discuss plans for the Miss Beckley contest and the national convention in St. Louis. John J. Flanagan urges full attendance at 6:30 p.m. meeting, with the board of directors to meet afterward at the Town & Country Drive-In.
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St. Louis
Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce
John J. Flanagan
Jaycees
Town & Country Drive-In
Negligent Homicide Charged To 2 Men
HAMLIN AP Negligent homicide charges are filed against John H Linkous 30 and Berman Adkins 32 in the hit and run death of Robert McNeely 34 of West Hamlin. An auto struck McNeely on West Virginia 10 near Branchland May 15 and he died six days later. The pair waived a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Walter Baisden.
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Hamlin
John H. Linkous
Berman Adkins
Robert McNeely
West Hamlin
McNeely
W. Va
Branchland
Linkous
Adkins
Justice of the Peace
Walter Baisden
Pike Driver Fined For Speed On Turnpike
Russell J. Hackett paid a $10 fine and costs to Magistrate Cotton White on speeding. Benton K. Chapman fined $5 for no inspection sticker. Edward William Pack waived hearing on drunken driving and posted $500 bond. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Duncan pleaded guilty to truancy and paid $3. William Monroe paid $10 on a charge.
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Russell J. Hackett
Cotton White
West Virginia
White
Benton K. Chapman
Edward William Pack
Stanley Duncan
William
T. Monroe
Ing
Rainelle Driver Hurt In Wreck at Coal City
Russell Wyatt of Rainelle was released from Beckley Veterans Hospital at 4 55 p m Tuesday after treatment for slight head cuts from an automobile crash at Coal City His car struck a utility pole veered across the highway and stopped in a ditch in front of Stoco High School Constable Lacy Meadows and State Police investigated the accident with damages estimated at 500 dollars
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Coal City
RNS
Russell Wyatt
Rainelle
Beckley Veterans Hospital
Stoco High School
Lacy Meadows
Delivery Vehicle Slams Into Embankment Injuring Driver
A May Office Supply station wagon was out of control and slammed into an embankment between Hinton and Alderson, badly damaging the 1969 vehicle. Driver Dave Finley of Beckley suffered a bruised arm but returned to work the same evening as damages were estimated at 1000 dollars.
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Hinton
Alderson
Dave Finley
Beckley
Testimony Sparks Limited Comment From NASA Deputy
NASA Deputy Dulles avoided comment on the inquiry and Ful bright offered little to say about Dulles’ testimony, which he refused to release for publication even in censored form.
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Dulles
Fulbright
Wyoming Republicans Re-Elect Dr. Steele
Dr. B. W. Steele of Mullens was re-elected chairman of the Wyoming County Republican Executive at a Friday night meeting in Pineville. It will be Steele's second four year term after first being elected in 1956. Thirteen members attended and all voted for him. one member was absent.
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Pineville
RNS
B. W.steele
Mullens
Wyoming County
Steele
Dr. Steele
State Board Eyes Non Citizen Hiring for Visiting Professors
West Virginia State Board of Education moved toward allowing colleges to hire non citizens as visiting professors. President Joseph F. Marsh of Concord College asked for permission to employ for one year an non citizen professor. names, nationality, and proposed position to be submitted. Board noted no formal ban on non citizens but has previously rejected eight or ten such hires. The meeting also covered dormitory and dining hall constructions at Shepherd and Glenville State Colleges, job retraining for unemployed residents, and a study of WV vocational rehabilitation under Harbridge House. The board planned to review jurisdiction over West Virginia University and to receive recommendations from the state textbook advisory committee on approved reading and spelling books for elementary schools.
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Charleston
State Board of Education
West Virginia
Joseph F. Marsh
Concord College
Marsh
H. K. Baer
Awomen
Shepherd College
Glenville State College
Robert Braverman
Boston
Braverman
Harbridge House, Inc
A. D. Albright
University of Kentucky
West Virginia University
University of Governors
Deaths and Funerals for Hattie Claytor and Frank Moore
Final rites for 77 year old Mrs Hattie Claytor Hilltop will be held at 2 pm Friday at Hilltop Baptist Church with Rev G J Wilson. Burial in Hilltop Cemetery. She died at home after a short illness leaving two brothers James Cosby Eagle and Frank Cosby Charleston one sister Carrie Penn Mount Hope and three sons Justin Audrey Richard all of Cleveland. Body moved from Collins Funeral Home to home at 6 pm Thursday and to church one hour before services. Final rites incomplete for Frank Moore 61 Harlem Heights with body at Trent Funeral Home.
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Hattie Claytor
Hilltop
Hilltop Baptist Church
G. J. Wilson
Claytor
James Cosby
Eagle
Frank Cosby
Charleston
Carrie Penn
Mount Hope
Justin
Audrey
Richard
Cleveland
Collins
Wickline Rites Set At Oak Grove Church For Russell Wickline
Funeral services for Russell C. Wickline age 50 of Ashland Ohio formerly of Oak Hill will be held at Oak Grove Baptist Church Gates at 2 p m Thursday with Rev Cecil Neel and Rev A B Shifler officiating Wickline died in an Ashland hospital Monday night after a heart attack He worked for Darling Construction Co Mansfield Born Jan 29 1910 in Keenan he was a son of the late Charles and Hatty Bostick Wickline Survivors include wife Edna four sons two in North Carolina and two in Ohio three daughters two brothers a sister and five grandchildren Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill handles arrangements one hour prior to service RNS
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Russell C. Wickline
Ashland
Ohio
Oak Hill
Oak Grove Baptist Church
Gates
Cecil Neel
A. B. Shifler
Wickline
Darling Construction Co
Mansfield
Keenan
Charles
Hatty Bostick Wickline
Edna
Carl
Sandy Ridge
N. C
David
Joe
Betty Workman
Nancy Rheinholt
Martha Mazzotta
Wooster
Raymond
Union
George Tyree Funeral Services Incomplete Notice
George Tyree, 28, of Columbus Ohio and formerly of Itmann, died Monday in a Columbus hospital. Funeral services are incomplete at this time, with arrangements to be announced by the funeral home.
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George Tyree
Columbus
Ohio
Itmann
Tyree
Colum
Witness Refuses Tavern Photo Permission in Civil Suit
A tavern operator testified she would not permit attorney photographs at The Rove in Cool Ridge after the July 10 1959 shooting of Bruce Hartsell. She sought advice from the prosecutor and allowed plaintiff's lawyers and newspapers to take pictures, while disputing liability and admissibility of tax records as evidence in the Vanney and Anderson case.
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George Norman Vanney
Cool Ridge
Charles Hartsell Bruce
Josephine Kunkle
Rove
Bruce
Vanney
Sidney Marshall Anderson
Anthony J. Sparacino
Fourney
Robert J. Ashworth
Leo Birci
Charles J. Ransom
Ashworth
Vannoy
Anderson
Knapp
Oscar Vecellio, Inc
Textile Workers Union backs Kennedy for president
The Textile Workers Union of America, with about 220,000 members in New England, the mid-Atlantic, and the South, calls on Democratic delegates to nominate Sen. John F. Kennedy, praising him as a practical liberal able to provide strong leadership. The move defies AFL-CIO policy against pre nomination endorsements.
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Chicago
Textile Workers Union of America
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Afl-Cio
New England
mid-Atlantic
South
West Virginia taps Dr Prutten for industrial drive
The governor appoints Dr Carl F Prutten as special assistant for industrial development effective today. He will handle out of state contracts, mainly in New York, expanding the state's push to attract industry.
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Carl F. Prutten
West Virginia
Prutton
New York
Huntington
U. S
Elk River
New Sutton
Board of Public Works
Ohio Trio Posts Bond on Charges
Three Ohioans arrested Tuesday night on the West Virginia Turnpike were released from Raleigh County Jail after posting 45 dollars in cash appearance bonds before Magistrate Cotton White. Overt Osher Tribble of Biowell Ohio posted 25 dollars for reckless driving. Verna J. Brumbaugh and Marvin Alvin Anderson of Akron posted 10 dollars each for being drunk in public. They were booked at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday and scheduled for Saturday appearances before White. Two juveniles from Mabescott and Skelton were moved to the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys at Pruntytown for breaking and entering.
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Raleigh
Cotton White
Osher Tribble
Rt. 1
Biowell
Ohio
Verna J. Brumbaugh
Akron
Marvin Alvin Anderson
Cleveland St
White
Mabescott
Skelton
West Virginia Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Submerged Lands Boundaries Split Gulf States in Oil Case
The Supreme Court upholds 1953 Submerged Lands Act giving states historic seaward limits. Florida and Texas win three-mile bounds. Louisiana faces loss of many oil wells outside that line. Interior Department holds escrow of 308 million. Dispute centers on where to draw the line and possible zigzag boundaries offshore. Justice Black dissents, urging a nationwide settlement as Congress may not favor giving marginal lands to only Texas and Florida.
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Supreme Court
Florida
Texas
Louisiana
Interior Department
Jack Gremillion
Justice Black
Alabama
Mississippi
Black
Congress
Gulf States
Congressmen Accused of Excess House Per Diem Claims
A dispatch reports congressmen billed the government for travel on committee business. Burleson claimed 1,375.29 dollars in expenses from Oct 1, 1958, to year end, mostly 12 dollar per diem for 84 of 92 days including holidays. He said he worked on several matters and could not recall details. Other accounts cite stays at Royal Hawaiian Biltmore Plaza hotels in New York and Casa Montego in Jamaica.
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Burleson
Royal Hawaiian
Biltmore
Plaza
New York
Casa Montego Hotel
Jamaica
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