Soviet Armament Cut Urged by Bulganin to Ike
President Eisenhower was told by Soviet Premier Bulganin that Russia plans to trim armed forces by 1.2 million and cut armaments and military spending. He urged the United States to follow suit, while Dulles rejected this as contrary to U.S. interests. The letter also suggested open UN disarmament talks and possible direct U.S.-Soviet discussions.
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Washington
Nikolai Bulganmin
Eisenhower
Russia
Bulganin
United States
Dulles
United Nations Disarmament Group
U. N
Georgi N. Zarubin
Pittsburgh Man Still on Bond On Pistol Count
Raymond Allen of Pittsburgh remains on bond pending appeal after Raleigh County Criminal Court denied motions to set aside a magistrate verdict and grant probation. Police stopped his vehicle for speeding and license violations. a pistol found during the stop led to a guilty plea on the pistol charge and six months in jail with a $50 fine. He had previously pleaded guilty to speeding and no operator’s license with fines totaling $32.00 and posted $500 bond to appeal.
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Raleigh County
Harry L. McCreery
Raymond Allen
Pittsburgh
McCreery
Allen
J. E. Mays
Pace
Mays
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Anderson's Re-Election Boomed For Chairmanship of Committee
Har ry Anderson, while saying he will not seek or back a candidate for chair of the Raleigh County Democratic Executive Committee, remains a leading possibility for the role at Saturday's 10:30 a.m. meeting in the Raleigh County Courthouse. John C. Ward, Raleigh County Sheriff and current Beckley City committee chair, is also cited as a likely candidate. The session will also choose a vice chair associate chair, secretary, and treasurer, with a luncheon to follow at 12:15 p.m.
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Raleigh County
Democratic Executive Committee
Har
Ry Anderson
Anderson
John C. Ward
City
Lewisburg Man Faces Hearing Following Wreck
William Sidney Coleman of Lewisburg is to appear before Magistrate J. E. Mays on a charge of passing in the face of oncoming traffic after a wreck at 12 10 a m at the Blue Jay road and U S Routes 19 21 intersection at Beaver. James Kenneth Wright of Mount Airy N C drove a tractor trailer. Billi Carl Daniely of Princeton drove another car. Coleman attempted to pass the tractor trailer and Daniely’s car, sideswiping Daniely and pushing the trailer off the road. no injuries were reported and damages were estimated at 500 dollars.
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Wiliam Sidney Coleman
Lewisburg
J. E. Mays
Coleman
Blue Jay Road
U.S
Beaver
James Kenneth Wright
Mount Airy N.C
Billi Carl Daniely
Princeton
Daniely
Beckley Gross Sales Rise by 5 Million in 1955
City Recorder Emery J. Smith released 1955 figures showing Beckley gross sales up 5,021,849.97 from 1954. Manufacturing retail wholesale public utilities loan companies all rose. contractors amusements services and rents and royalties fell. 1948 to 1953 posted higher totals than 1955.
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Beckley
Emery J. Smith
Smith
C of C Delegate To Attend Meet
Beckley chamber will be represented at the National Community Conference in Washington DC from June 13 to 16. W O Sydnor Jr traffic agent for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and chamber member will attend with headquarters at the Hotel Staer. Panels workshops and talks by civic leaders and national administrators will cover community development.
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Beckley
Chamber of Commerce
Washington, D. C
W. O. Sydnor Jr
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co
Hotel
Staer
Gunman Kills Three In Bid for Revenge
A fast shooting gunman invaded a North Side tavern early today fatally shooting one owner a dice girl and a 32 year old news vendor Police learned the gunman s identity from a victim s brother He is described as an enraged ex convict who had been arrested for a disturbance in the tavern a month earlier
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Hicago
North Side
Beckley meter receipts total $577 for the week
The City Recorder's Office reports Beckley parking meters collected 577 dollars in the week ending today. The figure reflects official city revenue and is the latest weekly tally from municipal meters.
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Beckley
City Recorder’s
Beckley Juveniles Held on Assault Charges
Two 16 year old Beckley youths are jailed in Raleigh County pending hearings for assault on another boy. They are set for arraignment Saturday before Juvenile Court Judge Harry L. McCreery. One youth faces an additional concealed weapon charge after police arrested them Thursday night.
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Beckleyans
Raleigh
Harry L. McCreery
Drowning Victim Albert Myers Found in River
Beary Mountain youth Albert Loren Myers, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Myers, drowned after he and a companion jumped from a boat in the swift New River at Fire Creek. The other boy swam to safety as searches located the body but could not yet recover it.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Fire Creek
New River
Albert Loren Myers
George Myers
Building Move Launched at Church College
Buckhannon The Methodist Church launches a 2.4 million dollar building program for West Virginia Wesleyan College to end in 1965 during the West Virginia Conference. President William J. Scarbrough says the five million dollar fundraising plan funds the endowment and new facilities include a student center gym field house chemical building memorial chapel women’s dormitory and more. About 1,100 ministers and laymen attend as the Board of Missions outlines activities led by Rev. R Moorman Parker of Charleston.
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Buckhannon
The
Methodist Church
West Virginia
Board of Missions
R. Moorman Parker
Charleston
Western Maryland Railway Posts Record May Revenue
The Western Maryland Railway reported May gross operating revenues of 4.793 million dollars, a company record. Freight from coal mining areas rose 271 thousand over last year to 1.806 million, aided by a wildcat strike in Fairmont West Virginia. Preliminary May net income stood at 867 thousand dollars or 1.12 dollars per common share. For the first five months of 1956 net income was 3.299 million dollars or 4.05 dollars per share, up from 2.691 million dollars or 3.14 per share a year earlier.
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Baltimore
Western Maryland Railway
Fairmont
W. Va
Kanawha Board Approves Major School Integrations
Kanawha County Board of Education approved 22 changes to implement total racial integration. Plans include closing 114 small schools, consolidating eight, and changing four more, with most affected being former Negro units. Integration is set for next fall.
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Charleston
Kanawha County Board of Education
Mrs. Biddle Dies in Paris at 44
Margaret Thompson Biddle heiress to copper fortune and ex wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Paris after returning from the opera. She was 44.
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Paris
Margaret Thompson Biddle
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr
Biddle
Opera
Why Does a Turtle Cross the Road in Spring
Oklahoma reports a turtle migration as dry weather ends and rains return. Turtle lovers and hazards fill roads as terrapins move seeking higher ground, spurred by spring and a joke about crossing for a girl terrapin.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Julian Frazier
Lincoln Park Zoo
Frazier
Theother
President Eisenhower Hospitalized For Stomach Upset
President Eisenhower was stricken with inflammation of the lower intestine and to be moved to Walter Reed Hospital as a precaution. White House said there is no heart trouble and that he had one intravenous injection of dextrose with consultation from Walter Reed physicians.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
White House
Walter Reed
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Senators Seek White House Aid Bill Support Meeting
President Eisenhower pressed for backing of his foreign aid program after House cuts. Senate leaders from both parties summoned for a White House conference to try restoring the multibillion package. A second House battle over continuing military and economic aid to Yugoslavia looms.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Senate
White House
Nixon
Knowland
Calif
Millikin
Cole
Bridges
Saltonstall
Mass
Wiley
Wis
Smith
Johnson
Tex
George
Clements Ky
Hennings
Green RI
Yugoslavia
Veterans Payments Get Committee Okeh
Union members at Fairmont Williams No. 98 mine will meet at 10 a.m. to consider returning 9,500 striking miners to work and sending a committee to John L. Lewis in Washington over a roof-bolting dispute. The two week wildcat strike has halted operations in 33 mines across Harrison Marion and Monongalia counties. In Washington the House Veterans Affairs Committee approved a multibillion-dollar bill to boost veterans payments, with costs estimated at 1.4 billion dollars the first year, rising over 10 years.
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Fairmont
United Mine Workers Union
Key
West Virginia
Williams No. 98
Harrison, Marion
Mcmongalia
Barbour County
Washington
House Veterans Affairs Committee
House
American Legion
Chairan Olin E. Teague
Dtex
Niagara Falls Rockfall Destroys Schoellkopf Station
The Niagara Gorge rockfall killed one worker and destroyed the Schoellkopf hydroelectric station. About 40 employees escaped to safety as two of the three sections collapsed into rapids. Power capacity loss nears 300,000 kilowatts with an estimated damage far above 30 million dollars.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Niagara Gorge
Schoellkopf
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
Charles J. Wick
Townsend to resign Royal Air Force post
BRUSSELS 1-Group Capt. Peter Townsend a World War II hero said he will resign from the Royal Air Force in the fall to travel around the world. He currently serves as air attache to Belgium and has not fixed the exact date.
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Brussels
Peter Townsend
Margaret
Royal Air Force
Belgium
Eccles Robbery Probed by Police
Burleson Texaco Station at Eccles was robbed by an intruder who broke a back window and stole goods valued at 40 80 including tools cigarets candy and several rolls of dimes and nickels State Police investigated the break in and recovery of the evidence.
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Burleson
Texaco
Eccles
States Fishing Prospects Good
Charleston reports the Conservation Department weekly summary shows West Virginia streams favorable for fishing this weekend. Eight Eastern Panhandle counties have normal and clear waters with Grant County streams high today. Other counties show varied levels from low and clear to normal and muddy with Bluestone River in Mercer County black and Elk River in Kanawha slightly milky.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Conservation Department
Panhandle
Grant County
Brooke
Marshall
Monongalia
Ohio
Greenbrier
McDowell
Mercer
Monroe
Raleigh
Summers
Kanawha
Calhoun
Pleasants
Ritchie
Roane
Tyler
Braxton
Lewis
Pocahontas
Randolph
Taylor
Upshur
Bluestone
Mercer County
Elk River
Solar eclipse visible over South Pacific area
The Sun will undergo a total eclipse with the New Moon seen near 4:29 p.m. and the Moon setting at 8:43 p.m. Saturday. The Moon's First Quarter is June 13. Venus remains visible near the Moon and will rise earlier each night. next month it will appear low in the east before sunrise.
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South Pacific Ocean
South Atlantic Ocean
Venus
Eisenhower Keeps To Fatless Diet At Dinner Meeting
Editor Henry Burroughs notes President Eisenhower sat between photographers at the White House News Photographers Association annual dinner. Eisenhower ate a fatless meal with a sugar dessert of strawberries. He spoke briefly, applauded Pearl Bailey, joked with Bob Hope, and left in good spirits with two Secret Service agents. He appeared in good health and did not drink alcohol.
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Henry Burroughs
The
White House
Washington
Eisenhower
Howard M. Snyder
Tony Muto
Fox Movietone News
Association
Bob Hope
Hope
James Hagerty
Jim
Hagerty
Secret Service
Heart Specialist Not Called on Case
The office of Dr. Paul Dudley White said he had not heard from Washington about the president's present indisposition. Dr. White's secretary said he is keeping his day's appointments here as usual.
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Boston
Paul Dudley White
Eisenhower
Washington
White
West Virginia Weather Summary and Forecast Details
A rough regional forecast for West Virginia notes fair conditions this afternoon with highs around 80 to 86, fair tonight with a low near 38 to 52, and fair Saturday. Extended outlook shows temperatures 2 to 5 degrees below normal through Wednesday, with a cooler weekend and a warm Monday followed by a cooler Tuesday and scattered showers Tuesday. Local readings for Beckley and Oak Hill are inconsistent in the fragment, while rivers and reservoirs show normal or clear stages with slight mud in Greenbrier.
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WVA
West Virginia
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Sir John Harding
Cyprus
Foreign Office
London
Harold MacMillan
Church College
Highway Patrol
Theodore Streibert
United States Information Agency
Fred A. Seaton
Seaton
Citizens For Eisenhower Committee
Denver
Dr. Snyder
Snyder
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Okeh
Union States
Townsend
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Takeay Rivers
Bellepoint
Bluestone Reservoir
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