Sit-Down Threates Runway Protest Over Ike Visit Tokyo
Radical Tokyo students threaten a June 19 sit-down on runways to block President Eisenhower's arrival, aiming to protest the U S Japan security pact. Government pledges strong action if needed and calls for peaceful welcome plans. 50 000 demonstrators may join at airport and U S Embassy as political clashes continue.
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Tokyo
Eisenhower
Zengakuren Student Federation
Nobusuke Kishi
National Public Safety and Army
Kishi
Aiichiro Fujiyama
Fujiyama
U.S
Students Federation
Labor
Sohyo
Fire destroys Skelton house in rapid blaze
A three room frame house owned by New River Co. at Skelton was destroyed by fire this morning. Delmar Ball and his mother were away when the shed burned. Beckley Fire Department replied at 8:15 but the rapid blaze prevented saving the structure. Damage estimated at 3000 dollars. Furniture removed before flames.
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New River Co
Skelton
Delmar Ball
Beckley
Shortening The News Briefs On Asthmatic Bronchitis And Bus Tour
The White House announced hospital care for the president due to asthmatic bronchitis and that he will not accompany the Far Eastern tour. Barbara, Ike’s daughter-in-law, will join the tour. The Knight chain claims Rep. Robert Chipperfield and an aide spent 1358.23 from embassies on a 10 day mission to Venezuela Salvador and Mexico, bringing travel costs to taxpayers to at least 2446.02. Nixon? Eisenhower attended a breakfast with Gov. Rockefeller after a 1915 West Point reunion. Barry Goldwater listed West Virginia and four other states as favorable for GOP Senate gains in November. Broadway talks on ending the stage blackout collapsed, with wage disputes causing a near deadlock. Atlas launch bases were largely shut with only Vandenberg active. The two most populous states New York and California are highlighted among others.
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White House
Ike
Barbara
Knight
Robert Chipperfield
R-Il
U. S
Venezuela
Salvador
Mexico
Eisenhower
West Point
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
West Virginia
Senate
Wyoming
Montana
Michigan
Oregon
United States
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
California
Probe of FDA Wrongdoing Set Probing FDA ties to drug firms
Washington AP reports a special investigation unit will begin this week into alleged FDA wrongdoing. Secretary Flemming said testimony in Senate hearings will launch the probe led by a lawyer doctor and investigator. Also noted Welch removal after evidence tied him to $287,142 earnings from medical publishers tied to firms his division policed.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Secretary of Welfare
Arthur S. Flemming
Senate
FDA
Flemming
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly
Henry Welch
Welch
FDA Antibiotics
Medical Journal Publishing Ventures
West Virginia Weather Forecast Report
Weather bulletin notes mostly sunny and cool conditions with highs 70 to 75 in lower elevations and cooler in mountains. Tonight fair and cool with lows around 50. Regional figures show Beckley low near 50s, Oak Hill 46, Greenbrier River normal and muddy, Lake clear with four gates open. River gauge 2.8 feet.
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Beckley Aed
Uae
Neto Peete
Oak Hill High
Greenbrier
White Waives Murder Hearing
James A. White, 36, of Oak Hill waived preliminary hearing on a murder charge for the slaying of Harry Edward Holmes, 38, of Red Star. He was remanded to jail with bond not yet set and will face the Fayette County Grand Jury. White had fled to Maryville, Tennessee, before returning to Fayette County.
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Oak Hill
RNS
James A. White
R. C. Godsey
Harry Edward Holmes
Red Star
White
Fayette County
Maryville
Tenn
C. A. Berkley
Ike Should Keep Tour Date, Herter Believes
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that President Eisenhower should proceed with plans to visit Japan on June 19 despite demonstrations. He urged ratification of a new U S Japan treaty pledging U S defense if Japan is attacked, while noting the old pact allowed troop station but not a defense obligation.
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Ike
Herter
Washington
Christian A. Herter
Eisenhower
Japan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
United States
Far East
Underwood Seen as Likely Keynoter for GOP at Chicago
Charleston AP reports New York Times columnist W. H. Lawrence cites well informed Republican sources who favor Cecil H. Underwood as the keynote speaker at the July 25 national convention. The West Virginia governor, 38 next November, is politically active in a bid to win a Senate seat against Democrat Jennings Randolph.
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Charleston
Republican Party
Cecil H. Underwood
West Virginia
Chicago
New York Times
W. H. Lawrence
Underwood
Lawrence
Jennings Randolph
Fireball sightings reported near multiple towns
Two Mullens brothers reported seeing a fireball at 1:30 a.m. Monday, later echoed by Mebant Maddean and Richard Harvey near Mt. Hope and Hinton. Reports tie the event to a likely 500 foot balloon launch from Glync o Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Ga, intended to collect cosmic ray data with a parachute drop planned after 3:30 p.m. today.
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Mullens Brothers
Mebant Madde
Ioovert Meatien
Urandview
Richard Harvey
Hinton
Simon
Wyoming County
Glynco Naval Air Station
Brunswick
Harvey
Court To Act On Dam Offer At Next Meeting
Raleigh County Court at an unscheduled session votes to act at its next meeting on Crab Orchard Coal and Land Co offering 450 acres at Stevens Branch Dam site for 50 dollars per acre plus timber costs. Davis notes terms appear satisfactory after discussion with C. O. Smith and County Engineer.
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Raleigh
Crab Orchard Coal and Land Co
Stevens Branch Dam
C. 0. Smith
Robert L. Davis
Davis
Baptists Elect Negro to Top Post in Convention
ROCHESTER N Y AP A Negro was elected today to a top level post of the American Baptist convention for the first time Ruth McKinney of Cleveland named second vice president Delegates elected C Stanton Gallup of Plainfield Conn head of Gallup Lumber Co as president Elected first vice president was the Rev Roger Fredrickson of Sioux Falls S D Gallup 49 succeeds the Rev Dr Herbert Gezork of Newton Centre Mass Gallup is married and a father of four children He lives on a 100 acre farm outside of Plainfield
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Rochester
N. Y
American Baptist Convention
Ruth McKinney
Clevepoy
C. Stanton Gallup
Plainfield
Conn
Gallup Lumber Co
Roger Fredrickson
Sioux Falls
D. Gallup
Herbert Gezork
Newton Centre
Mass
Gallup
Plain
Earl's Pearls and Humorous Wives in Local Quips
A humorous local item notes a henpecked husband calling his wife an angel and quips about a "hyphenated American" often meaning he is half drunk, reflecting light, witty regional satire.
Earl Wilson column tease hints at more laughs on Page 4
A brief note directs readers to Earl Wilson's humor column on Page 4 for additional laughs. The line suggests a continuation or related jokes appear in that section.
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Earl Wilson
Register Champ Tours Washington With Mary Ann Milano
Mary Ann Milano Tri County champion speller tours Washington today visiting Andrews Air Force Base and iconic sites. She meets new friends including a speller from Hawaii and enjoys cafeteria food while worrying about busy traffic as she prepares for the National Spelling Bee.
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Ann Milano
Register
Champ Tours
Washington
Andrews
Air Force Base
Speller
Mary Ann Milano
Truman says he rejected spy planes as president
In Chicago, former president Harry S Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson reportedly rejected a State Department proposal to send spy planes over Soviet territory in 1949 or 1950. Truman said espionage reports came to his desk, but he refused to discuss Eisenhower's role in the U2 incident and offered sympathy to the White House amid Soviet tirades.
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Chicago
Harry S. Truman
White House
Dean Acheson
United States
Espi
Acheson
State Department
Eisenhower
New York Times
Washington
Truman
Nikita Khrushchev
Beer drinker saves himself in basement cooler
Paul Wilkinson, 24, a refrigerator repairman, describes how he crawled into a basement beer cooler on New York's lower East Side. He found the door sealed shut with no handle, closed all valves to cut off beer supply, and waited until help arrived. After hospital care, he surprised patrons by returning to finish the job with the door propped open.
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New York
Paul Wilkinson
Lower East Side
Wilkinson
Angered Doctor Slays Ex Partner In Ambush Shooting
AP reports Dr. Anthony Ruvolo 37 killed Dr. Annunciato La Face 35 after being ousted from a medical partnership at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Elizabeth New Jersey. Senior partner Dr. Francis Merlo 51 fled as shots were fired. Police captured Ruvolo 15 minutes later at a roadblock. La Face married with two children.
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Elizabeth
N.J
Anthony Ruvolo
Ruvolo
Merle
St. Elizabeth's
Alexian Brothers
Merlo
la Face
Italy
WVU to Graduate 16 MDs in 1962
Morgantown AP reports sixteen West Virginia University medical students are set to graduate in 1962 as the first WVU class to earn Doctor of Medicine degrees within the state. The 16 will begin their third year in September at the new WVU Medical Center after 15 of the 36 second year students finish at the Medical College of Virginia and three elsewhere.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
WVU
Medical College of Virginia
Elections Set Today For 28 State Cities
28 West Virginia municipalities vote on local officials and bonds in off year contests. Clarksburg faces a $1.15 million city improvements levy and a fire tax, Morgantown offers a $750,000 airport bond with seven council seats, and Nitro eyes a seventh mayoral term amid seven council seats. Welch, Glen Dale, Oceana, Hamlin, and Fairmont also vote on mayors, recorders, and councils with varied unopposed or pending races.
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Associated Press
Clarksburg
Morgantown
West Virginia
Nitro
W. W. Alexander
Glen Dale
Marshall County
Reno F. Howard
Welch
Oceana
Hamlin
R. V. Pauley
Fairmont
Alabama fights federal access to voting registration records
Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones issued a temporary restraining order to bar federal agents from reviewing Alabama voter registration files in a challenge to the 1960 Civil Rights Act. Atty. Gen. MacDonald Gallion led the suit for state sovereignty, with federal access sought in Montgomery Wilcox and Sumter counties. The order blocks FBI visits pending July 7 arguments for a permanent injunction.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Walter B. Jones
MacDonald Gallion
Gallion
Justice Department
Jones
U.S. Atty
William P. Rogers
Wilcox
Sumter
FBI
Thomas H. Boggs
Rogers
Wilcox County
Nicholas S. Hare
Road Official On Crime Probe Stand Today
Charleston AP Clay County highway maintenance superintendent Orville Schoonover was to be among 11 witnesses today as part of the West Virginia Crime Commission probe. Former SRC employee Otha Eagle testified about forged checks and political fund use claims. Witness Gary Cox offered evasive answers as lawmakers pressed for details.
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Charleston
Clay County
West Virginia Crime Commission
Orville Schoonover
Otha A. Eagle
State Road Commission
Orel J. Skeen
Atty
W. W. Barron
SRC
Eagle
Schoonover
Commission
Gary Elwood Cox
Senate
Clarence E. Martin
Berkeley
Crime Commission
F. Dean Nichols
Glutz Warns of Future War With Khruschev Fear
Sherwood Glutz argues any future war led by Khruschev would destroy humanity. He cautions against reckless arms tests and warns the human race could disappear, comparing it to a ruined 69 cent shirt in rain.
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Khruschev
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