Second Public Auction Of Obsolete Road Equipment
Charleston reports the state's second public auction of used road equipment set for 10 a.m. June 25 near Buckhannon. Purchasing Director Samuel T. Waller says over 50 types will be sold at the State Road Commission HQ on U.S. 33, with 1 to 80 units per item, including autos, trucks, shovels, dump trucks, graders, and scrap metal. The prior sale drew 100 buyers and more than $200,000. this sale is expected to match that total. Equipment may be inspected for several days beforehand and profits go to the state road fund.
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Charleston
Buchannon
Samuel T. Waller
State Road Commission
U.S. 33
Buckhannon
Road Commission
Waller
Department of Purchases
State Road Fund
Glen Daniel Resident Found Dead in Bed
George Washington Collins, 70, of Glen Daniel, was found dead in bed at 7:30 a.m. by a neighbor. Funeral home staff cited a likely heart attack during the night after he retired Wednesday at 9 p.m. The county health officer will examine the body. A retired miner and Church of God member, he was born in Baileysville, Wyoming County, in March 1686, son of Anderson and Liza Collins. Survivors include a half brother, Charles Collins of Knoxville, Tenn., and a sister, Mrs. Mary Campbell of Glen Daniel. The body rests at the funeral home pending arrangements.
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George Washington Collins
Glen Daniel
Collins
Church of God
Baileysville
Wyoming County
Anderson Collins
Liza Collins
Charles Collins
Knoxville
Tenn
Mary Campbell
Anderson's Due A Case of Hives
Raleigh County Clerk Harry E. Anderson may incur expenses after Beckley Farmers Day. He recalled buying a quart of strawberries for 9 dollars and quipped that they give him hives, reflecting on the costly purchase and its humorous consequence.
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Anderson's
Raleigh
Harry E. Anderson
Anderson
Forestry Camp Opening Triggers Inmate Relocations Statewide
Charleston news reports the opening of West Virginia's first forestry camp for youth offenders on June 14, enabling rapid reassignments of inmates. It clears the way to integrate La kin and Pruntytown industrial schools, move the Negro girls’ school from Huntington to Lakin, and join the Huntington children’s home with Elkins’ white-child institution. The McKendree home will be abandoned and its occupants moved to the new camp in Fayette County within days. Up to 125 youths expected after 30 days, with initial placements from Pruntytown and Lakin. The camp near Davis in Tucker County lies about a quarter mile from Blackwater Falls. Initial funding came from the 1956 legislature with an $86,799 annual appropriation and $35,000 for the remainder of the year. Youths 16 to 21 may be committed for up to two years with a program of work, education, recreation and counseling. Initial tasks involve cleanup for a major park improvement halted by a strike. The acting superintendent is Clyde R. Henderson of Farmington.
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Charleston
James M. Donohoe
State Board of Control
Lakin
Pruntytown
Davis Donohoe
Tucker County
Blackwater Falls
Board of Control
Clyde R. Henderson
Fairmont
Three Murder Cases Await Grand Jurors
Raleigh County Grand Jury will meet at 9 a.m. Monday with 46 presentments including three murder cases the first since June 1955. Defendants James Minnick Noah Gadd and Sampson Williams face murder or related charges. All are jailed.
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Raleigh County Grand Jury
Raleigh County Criminal Court
James Minnick
Affinity
Noah Gadd
Pluto
Sampson Williams
Jonben
Minnick
Williams
Gadd
Horace Benton Ellison
Charles Madden
Whitby
Mack Phillip Sheridan
Beckley
Raleigh
Press Association Opens Summer Meet in Wheeling
The West Virginia Press Assn opens a three day summer outing in Wheeling with a reception at Wheeling Publishing Co. tonight and a Better Newspaper Contest awards ceremony at Wheeling Country Club tomorrow. Activities continue at Oglebay Park with a 2:30 p.m. AP business meeting and Freedom of Information Committee session led by Robert Mellace.
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West Virginia Press Assn
Wheeling
Wheeling Publishing Co
Association
Wheeling Country Club
Oglebay Park
West Virginia
Associated Press
C. J. McQuade
Beckley
AP Association
WVPA
Freedom of Information Committee
Robert Mellace
Welsh Miners Dig For Jobs In Welsh Valley Test
In Gwaun-Cae-Curwen Wales two hundred seventy nine miners return to work for a two week trial ordered by Britain's National Coal Board after 1 000 local families faced hardship. The board fired 1 065 and cited low output 7.4 cwt per man daily versus regional 19 cwt. Union says workers show improvement while families monitor nightly production.
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Gwaun-Cae-Curwen
Wales
Britain
National Coal Board
Coal Board
Amman
The
National Union of Mineworkers
Lay Leaders Confirmed At Methodist Meeting
BUCKHANNON W Va- T E Campbell of Marmet today was confirmed to serve his seventh year as lay leader of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church. Named to the conference board of lay activities were J A Greenlee of Dunbar who will continue as treasurer Dewey H Helmick of Parkersburg associate director of stewardship and George W Bright of Beckley honorary lay leader. District lay leaders elected and confirmed include Beckley District James B Deck of Sophia.
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Buckhannon
W.va
T. E. Campbell
Marmet
West Virginia
The
Methodist Church
J. A. Greenlee
Dunbar
Dewey H. Helmick
Parkersburg
George W. Bright
Beckley
James B. Deck
Sophia
To be Released Soon Aims at 475000 Reservists
The Amy announced it will discharge 475000 ready reservists and transfer 500000 others to the standby reserve list. It calls the move a wholesale effort to end military service liability from World War II and Korean veterans and to weed out dead wood.
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Washington P
Amy
West Virginia Ranks Second in Methodist Census
Buckhannon WV reports West Virginia now has 2.1 Methodist members per 1,000 population, second to Delaware. The State of the Church briefing to 1,100 ministers and laymen shows 556 pastoral charges serving 1,626 churches, with $10.84 million in capital assets. The conference notes 81 new churches and 85 new Sunday School units in four years.
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Buckhannon
W.va
West Virginia
de T. Ae
Delaware
Wayne F. Ransom
Beckley
Ransom
F. E. Ambrose
Bluefield
Board of Social and Economic Relations
Congress
Union Meeting Slated To End Wild Cat Strike
UMW officials plan a closed meeting of local officers in Fairmont to seek an end to the two week old coal mine strike affecting 33 mines in Marion Harrison and Monongalia counties. A 10 am session in Marion County Court House follows talks with Consolidation Coal Co. leaders.
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Fairmont
United Mine Workers
Wildcat
West Virginia
UMW District 31
Cecil J. Urbaniak
UMW International
George Higginbotham
Strikebound Consolidation Coal Co
W.va
Urbaniak
Marion County
Barbour County
Marion
Harrison
Monongalia
UMW
Higginbotham
John L. Lewis
George Love
Lewis
Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Co
State Mines Department
State CIO AFL merger opposed in West Virginia
Wheeling state CIO Council urges rescission of action delaying Huntington convention set for Aug 3 4 to merge CIO and AFL on the state level State President Paul Rosen says CIO executive board asked AFL CIO President George Meany to correct the situation and prevent recurrence Rosen notes 18 international building trades unions opposed state mergers while national unification stands The CIO board says it will proceed with Huntington convention and may terminate the current agreement if a merger is not completed now
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Wheeling
State
CIO Council
State Federation of Labor
Huntington
CIO
AFL
Paul Rosen
Afl-Cio
George Meany
West Virginia
Rosen
International Building Trades
San Francisco watchmaker completes third solo Atlantic hop
Peter Gluckman, 38, arrived at Prestwick Scotland in his single engine plane after two stops on a solo flight from New York. The San Francisco watchmaker intends to visit London, then travel to Switzerland, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Africa, Natal, Argentina, and back home.
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Peter Gluckman
San Francisco
Prestwick
Scotland
New York
London
Switzerland
Greece
Israel
Egypt
Africa
Natal
Argentina
Giant Sea Monster Sighted Off Nova Scotia
The Liberian freighter Rhapso dy reported a 45 foot white spotted sea turtle in the North Atlantic south of Nova Scotia. The Coast Guard issued a warning to navigators to be on alert for the giant reptile that can rise eight feet above the surface and has 15 foot flippers.
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Chatham
Mass
North Atlantic
Rhapsody
Nova Scotia
Coast Guard
The
President to Receive New Bulganin Note
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin has written a new letter to President Eisenhower. Soviet Ambassador Georgi N. Zarubin will deliver it at the State Department. Neither side commented on the note details. Zarubin canceled a return flight, fueling speculation he was to stay to deliver the message.
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Bulganin
Washington
Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
Georgi N. Zarubin
State Department
Zarubin
Dulles
Russia
United States
Moscow
Britain to Conduct 24 Nuclear Tests in Megaton Range
London reports Prime Minister Eden announcing Britain will conduct a limited number of nuclear explosions in the megaton range next year in the Pacific. He says tests will be high air bursts, far from inhabited areas, with safety precautions and talks with other nations on test regulation.
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London
Eden
Britain
Pacific
House of Commons
U.S.R
U.S.S.R
Coal tonnage on C&O shows rise through May
Cleveland reports Chesapeake & Ohio Railway coal loadings through May average 16.2 percent above the year-ago period with 438,383 carloads vs 377,278 by June 2, 1955. Last week’s loadings rose 3.3 percent to 20,991, compared with 20,317 in 1955, but fell 5.4 percent from the prior week when 22,200 carloads were hauled.
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Cleveland
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
C&o
Police Reconstruct Bandit's Noon Heist in Charleston
Police pieced together the procedure of a casual bandit who robbed the Kanawha Savings and Loan Co during the noon hour, escaping with 1876 dollars. The thief used a borrowed 1956 sedan, paid a cab to wait, and vanished into downtown Charleston's noon foot traffic.
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Charleston
Savings and Loan
Washington Street
Kanawha City
Kanawha River
Kanawha Savings and Loan Co
Kanawha City Bridge
Meter Receipts Up Parking on Municipal Lot This Week
City Recorder's Office reports parking meter receipts totaling 510.50 this week on the municipal lot, higher than the summer average of about 450 per week.
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City Recorder’s
Night Sky Thursday and Friday Bright with Regulus
Beckley skies show sunset at 7 45 pm and sunrise 5 02 am Friday The Moon rises 4 44 am Friday New Moon Friday Regulus appears in the west at 10 23 pm Jupiter moves closer to Regulus this month and will pass east of the star in July
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Regulus
Jupiter
Beckley High
Oak Hill
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
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