Beckley Named State City Eligible for Federal Aid Contracts
The Labor Department lists Beckley along with Charleston Huntington Wheeling and other WV cities among 20 major cities and 71 smaller labor markets set to receive special federal contracting preference. Areas must show 6 percent or more unemployed workers to qualify. The policy aims to steer contracts to designated areas and is part of a broader federal effort to aid regions with chronic unemployment despite political disputes over relief measures.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
West Virginia
Charleston
Huntington
Wheeling
Beckley
Bluefield
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Logan
Morgantown
Point Pleasant
Welch
Ronceverte - White
Labor Department
Washington
Electrician On Stand In $3,000 Suit Over Fire
In Raleigh County Circuit Court a veteran electrician testified that a device connected to Appalachian Power Company transformers likely caused a fire that destroyed furniture belonging to Mr and Mrs Bradford of Buffalo Creek. The Bradfords seek 3000 dollars for losses as the trial enters its third day with defense witnesses planned. The Bradford house, owned by Mrs Launa Bradford, burned on Oct 10 1959. Jurors were to report at 1 15 pm and may be dismissed after the next case is queued.
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Raleigh County
Appalachian Power Company
Garrett Bradford
Buffalo Creek
William H. Bryant
Lillybrook Coal Co
Norman Knapp
D. D. Ashworth
Power Company
Bradfords
Bradford
Launa Bradford
Raleigh County Board of Education May payroll total
The May payroll for the Raleigh County Board of Education amounts to 428,365.88 gross with deductions for social security, withholding taxes, insurance, and loans producing a net payment of 339,639.69.
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Board OF ED
Raleigh
Primary results advance in Senate races nationwide
Incumbent Sen. James E. Murray retires as Orvin B. Flare leads the Republican field. Gracie Prost defeats Leslie McCarthy in Idaho Democratic renomination. Gregg Potvin leads the Democratic Senate field with runoff set for June 28 against McLaughlin or White. Ben Reifel and Ray Fitzgerald win Wyoming? South Dakota nominations while McGovern runs unopposed. Eastland and two congressmen secure solid Democratic primaries in Mississippi.
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Henry Dworshak
South Dakota
Ben Reifel
Ray Fitzgerald
George McGovern
McGovern
Senate
Karl Mundt
South
Nixon
Mississippi
James O. Eastland
Eastland
Ance Blakeney
John Bell Williams
Arthur Winstead
Nationalists to get on court and parade in Wheeling
Sophia Youth Parkersburg and Andrew Zaleski of Wheeling join Walter Rockenstein l Morgantown and Jeff Davis Weirton as Nationalists to sit on the court. Senate split 11-11. House of Delegates Nationalists 24 Federalists 20. Counties canvass votes. Boys State parade held. Gov. Underwood to address dinner.
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Parkersburg
Andrew Zaleski
Wheeling
Walter Rockenstein l
Morgantown
Jeff Davis
Weirton
Withis
Senate
House of Delegates
Legislaa
Eld
Gov. Underwood
Commodity Distribution at Cranberry Friday
Commodities will be distributed at Cranberry from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Friday.
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Cranberry
Register Champ Spelling Contest Offers $1000 and NYC Trip
The Scripps Howard chain and partner papers sponsor a national spelling championship, crowning America's top speller after multiple rounds. Contestants must be 15 or under and not past eighth grade. The winner earns $1000, plus a New York sightseeing weekend. Last year’s champ was Joel Montgomery, 12, of Denver, who nailed fanfaronade and catamaran after 594 words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scripps-Howard Chain
America
New York
Joel Montgomery
Denver
Colo
Baptists Denounce Legalized Gambling As Deceit
The American Baptists Convention, at its five day annual meeting in Rochester New York, condemned legalized gambling as a symptom of economic and cultural decay and said governments that legalize it are partners in deceit. The assembly also urged education on communism, disarmament, nuclear ban, better US Soviet cultural exchanges, expanded aid programs, birth control and improved food production to address population growth.
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Rochester
N. Y
American Baptists Convention
United States
U. S
Short News Briefs Highlight Congressional, State Actions
Shortening The News producers resigned Tuesday as guild president to pursue producing work. A House Un-American Activities Committee member spent up to 103 dollars daily on hotel rooms and ran a 90 dollar nightclub bill at public expense. A Kentucky soldier reported his car stolen and helped detain the suspect until police arrived. State briefs note Revercomb campaign expenditures total 22,314 with 1,789,008 in May by the Employment Security Department. William Shears’s life sentence under habitual criminal law upheld. West Virginia to receive 24,700 for fish and 126,983 for wildlife funds. Senator Morton lauded West Virginia Governor Underwood as a top keynote prospect. Underwood named Altman and West to terms on the State Board of Insurance and State Athletic Commission. U S Engineers in Huntington invited bids to clean and paint gates at Winfield Locks and Dam, estimated at 60,000, bids due around July 14.
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Guild
House Committee On UN
Woodrow Patterson
Ft. Campbell
Frank
Cecil i Edmondson
Secretary of State’s
U. S
Chapman Revercomb
State Employment Security Department
F. Duane Hill
William Shears
Preston County
State Supreme Court
West Virginia
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
GOP
W. Va
Cecil Underwood
Washington
Underwood
James M. Altman
Charleston
Bernard W. West
Huntington
State Board of ‘Insurance
State Athletic Commission
U. S. Engineers
Winfield Locks
Ohio River
Break-In at Beckley Pure Oil Station Nets Tires and Cash
Thieves entered an unlocked window at the Pure Oil Station at Routes 3 and 1921 in lower Raleigh Heights between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 6 a.m. today. They stole three tires and $70, breaking a window to access the items yet causing no other damage. Police are investigating the incident.
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Lower
Raleigh Heights
Judgment Awarded Against Sandy Wade for 1350 Dollars
Robert Board obtained a judgment of 1350 dollars in Raleigh County Circuit Court signed by Judge Norman Knapp Jo ny. Wade confessed liability in the order, with Board originally suing for 10000 dollars.
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Oather
Robert Board
Sandy Wade
Raleigh County
Norman Knapp Jony
Board
Funeral services for Mrs Rosa Reichard at Meadow Bridge
Funeral services for Mrs Rosa Ellen Reichard 70 of Meadow Bridge were held at 1 p m today at Meadow Bridge Baptist Church with Rev Alfred Mersman officiating. Burial followed in Judson family cemetery. She died Monday after a long illness born September 2 1889 in Judson. Survivors include two daughters Mrs H H Meadows Beckley and Mrs Quentin Goddard Rainelle three sons Howard Emmett and Albert two sisters and 18 grandchildren. Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home East Rainelle in charge.
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Rosa ‘Ellen Reichard
Meadow Bridge
Meadow Bridge Baptist Church
Alfred Mersman
Judson
Reichard
H. H. Meadows
Beckley
Quentin Goddard
Rainelle
Howard
Emmett
Albert
Beaver
Myrtle Martin
Johnnie Adkins
Wallace
Funeral notices for Minnie A Richards and Basil H Stinnett
Funeral arrangements remain incomplete for Minnie A Richards 81 died after a short illness at her daughter in Fayetteville Survivors include her husband four sons and many relatives The body is at Dodd Payne Home Fayetteville prior to church services Pallbearers named Basil Harvey Stinnett 60 Oak Hill died after a long illness at an Oak Hill hospital Burial planned at Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill in charge
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Minnie Alonzo Richards
Maggie Cline
Fayetteville
Loup Creek
Doggett Chapel
Dempsey
Samuel W. Richards
John S
Dennis W
Oak Hill
Carlos E
Lakeview
Ore
Harry L
the Ville
Nie M. Ratliff
Bessie M. Bodkins
Gracie E. Richards
Dora M. Barton
Union
Clara E. Kirk
Beckwith
Bertha Moter
Mount
Eva V. Richards Huntington
John
James Nugen
Bertha
Basil Harvey Stinnett
Oak Hill Baptist Church
Randolph Johnson
Lawn Memorial Park
Stinnett
Ansted
Vivian Stickler Stinnett
R. M. Stinnett
Rock Lick
Jack
Denver
Lillian McClung
Moorehaven
Fla
Billie Barlow
Opal Burgess
Marcella Yates
Tom’s River
N. J
Gale Stinnett
Tyree
Final rites for Mrs Roxie C Bower in Mabscott
Mrs Roxie C Bower 82 Mabscott dies after a long illness. Funeral at Calvary Baptist Church at 2 p m Friday with Rev Norman H Harless and Rev James H Neal. burial in Canday Cemetery Glen View. Body to be taken from Melton Mortuary to her residence at 11 a m Thursday.
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Roxie C. Bower
Mabscott
Calvary Baptists Church
Norman H. Harless
James H. Neal
Canday
Glen View
Stevenson position unclear as delegates limp toward deadlock
Pincer move seeks Stevenson guidance if a voting deadlock returns. He denies seeking the nomination and may issue a statement clarifying his stance. Humphrey pressed for a direct move while Kennedy backers seek Stevenson endorsement. Commager Galbraith and Schlesinger endorse Kennedy, all former Stevenson advisers.
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Stevenson
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Illinois
Kennedy
Henry Steele Commager
Alhert College
Harvard
John K. Galbraith
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
Sheriff Nominee Suter Questioned Over Deputy Service
In Upshur County a petition seeks to remove Eugene Suter, GOP nominee for sheriff, from the November ballot. The motion argues Suter, who served as deputy from 1957 to 1959, cannot be sheriff per Article IX, Section 3 of the State Constitution, which bars two consecutive full terms by the same person or a deputy becoming sheriff. The case was presented to the West Virginia Supreme Court in Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Supreme Court
Moneth W.zikefoose
Roy L. Warner
Upshur
Eugene Charles Sudjer
GOP
Suder
Suter
Harley V. Tenney
Teacher Named To Parole Board
CHARLESTON AP Gov Underwood named 27 year old John S Callebs a teacher at Waynesburg College in Uniontown to the State Board of Probation and Parole for the unexpired term through June 30 1965 He is a Republican and joins Chairman John S Holy and Democrat J Alexander Creasy Callebs has worked toward a doctorate in political science at the University of Pittsburgh and hails from Mc Dowell County He succeeds Robert L Galvin who left to head the administration division in the Department of Mental Health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Underwood
State Board of Probation and Parole
John S. Callebs
Uniontown
Waynesburg College
Callebs
McDowell County
University of Pittsburgh
Robert L. Galvin
Galvin
Department of Mental Health
John S. Holy
J. Alexander Creasy
Salem College
Vanguard Battleship to Be Scrapped in Britain
Britain's last battleship the 44 500 ton Vanguard, completed in 1946, is headed for the scrap pile. It cost about 2800 dollars a week to maintain, a figure the navy deemed too high to continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
England
Britain
Vanguard
Witness testifies in Clay County payroll probe at Crime Commission
Orvil Schoonover, Clay County SRC maintenance foreman and station owner, testifies amid payroll padding allegations. He admits cursory knowledge of payroll makeup while claiming SMT clerks and signatures were handled by others. handwriting inquiry planned. two SRC workers recant earlier affidavits admitting they did receive checks.
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Charleston
Crime Commission
State Road Commission
Clay County
L Orvil Schoonover
Schoonover
Legislative Auditor’s Office
Road Commission
Legislative Auditor's
SRC
Jenevee C. Gray
Cox
Clay County Young Republican Club
Gray
GOP
Burnside
Homer R. Phillips
Legislative Auditor
Morgantown Okehs poll results summarize West Virginia town races
Salem elected Elmer Brown and Merle Pierce to the council while Winston Davis secured another term as mayor. Lost Creek re elected Granginger Dodd over George Prince. Shinnston elected George F. Dorsey as mayor. Buckhannon saw John Teets win a council seat and Herbert Price win the other. Belle returned James Thornberry as mayor with all five council seats. Oceana chose Eldon D. Cook as mayor. Pineville re elected Vaughan Stewart as mayor with four council seats won by the People's Party. Glen Dale elected Joseph Rodrigues mayor as incumbents faced mixed results. Ronceverte kept W. A. Boone as mayor, Westover re elected John H. Camp, Smithers kept Mayor Joseph Cavalier, Richwood elected Merele White mayor with a Republican recorder, and Chester elected Ray Collins mayor with a $75,000 pool levy approved.
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Salem
Elmer Brown
Merle Pierce
Winston Davis
Lost Creek
Grangier Dodd
George Prince
Shinnston
George F. Dorsey
Buckhannon
John Teets
John Thomas
E. Q. Miles
Herbert Price
Guy Zinn
City Recorder
John Anthony
Belle
Progressive Party
James Thornberry
Oceana
Eldon D. Cook
A. G. Lugar
Cook
Lugar
D. C. Cook
Woodrow W. Cook
Pineville
Vaughan Stewart
Everett Collins
William Lewis
People’s Party
Glen Dale
Joseph Rodrigues
Victor Haythorn
Elmer Logston
Wayne West
Dale McMahon
Jack Smith
William L. Schoeman
Howard Allen
Thomas Brannon Jr
Romney
Louis Pugh
Floyd King
Albert Corbin
George Shannh
Joseph Cavalier
Owen L. Tucker
John Cavalier
James Bell
Recorder
Richwood
Merele White
Ed Hivick
Harland Meadows
Joe White
Keith Jarvis
Hamlin
R. B. Pauley
Chester
Ray Collins
Alvin Clutter
Charles Kology
Dino Rossi
Killer Awaiting Caliber Revolver Verdict
A Raleigh County deputy sheriff reports a fatal shooting near a restaurant where the victim died on a sandpile about 125 feet away. The accused man is identified as a former Beckley resident and is awaiting further investigation of the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Aeage Oll
Raleigh County
Sherif
Probers dodge Logan primary election corruption inquiry
The Crime Commission refused to investigate whether corruption occurred in Logan County's primary. Gov Underwood and Atty Gen Barron will handle the matter with federal probes already underway. Dr Luke Combs said affidavits will be reviewed by Justice Department officials as election laws face scrutiny. The commission cited lack of manpower and politics in the county influence.
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Charleston
The
Crime Commission
Logan County
Underwood
U.S. Senate
Atty
W.W. Barron
Clyde Freeman
Chapmanville
Commission
Barron
Logan
Road Commission
Clay County
Washington
Justice Department
Luke Combs
the Crime Commission
Eccles Men Sentenced Fined By Magistrate
Two Eccles youths, Jackie Ross Kessler and David Burnell, were drunk and tampering with an automobile when police arrested them in Beckley after midnight. Apprehended, jailed at 2:10 am, they were taken before Magistrate W A Burke and fined 10 dollars each for drunkenness 25 dollars each for tampering and given 60 days in jail.
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Eccles
Beckley
Jackie Ross Kessler
David Burnell
Raleigh
W. A.burke
Parolee Bert Armstrong jailed on violation charge
Parolee Bert Lee Armstrong of Beck ley was lodged in Raleigh County Jail at 7:55 p.m. Tuesday and charged with a parole violation after an arrest by city police.
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Bert Lee Armstrong
Beckley
Raleigh
Flemington New Jersey: Hauptmann trial landmark then art pottery hub
Flemington New Jersey gained fame as the Hauptmann kidnap trial’s location in 1935 marking a historic court case. Today it is chiefly known for its art pottery works and local crafts scene shaping the town’s identity.
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Flemington
N. J
Bruno Hauptmann
Lindbergh
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George Dale
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Basil H. Stinnett
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Lynn Bernay
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Esther Williams
Jeff Chandler
Mile
Clay Road
Morgantown Okehs
Dr. In
Reckless
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Tex Williams
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Anthony Quinn
Open Air Theatre
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