Governors Williams Directs Flint Tornado Rescue
Flint tornado toll climbs as Governor Williams takes command with state and local agencies aiding rescue. National Guard, police, and Red Cross deploy to Flint and surrounding areas after a path from Tawas City to Bowling Green claims multiple lives and injures hundreds.
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Flint Rescue
Kurtz Street
Michigan
Lake Huron
Flint
Donald S. Leonard
Detroit
London
Indians Warned To Stay Out Of Korea Demonstrations Challenge Armistice
In Seoul hundreds of thousands of South Koreans protested an armistice plan, clashing with U S military police and Korean officers outside the Eighth Army HQ. Police and protesters fought to reach the compound as crowds surged in Pusan Taegu and Suwon. Rhee conferred with officers and cabinet leaders after pledges to oppose any cease fire based on May 25 UN terms.
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Seoul
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Eighth Army
Pusan
Taegu
Suwon
Syngman Rhee
Maxwell D. Taylor
National Assembly
Assembly
Yoon Chi Yung
U. N
Korea
India
South Korea
Panmunjom
Rhee
Raleigh County farm group reorganizes with rehire of key staff
The Raleigh County Agricultural Extension Service Committee held last night re hiring H B Thomas county agent Clarence Wooten 4 H club agent and Mrs Mildred Floyd secretary. The group signed a permanent agreement with West Virginia University to continue educational agriculture services and elected Herbert Shumate as chairman and Mrs Worthy Harris as secretary. Members include H G Farmer Floyd F Farrow Minor Scott B C Callaway and James Lowry. The committee will hold quarterly meetings under House Bill 410 of 1953 establishing local control of extension activities.
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Clarence Wooten
Mildred Floyd
W. H. Roberts
West Virginia University Agricultural Extension Service
Raleigh County
Herbert Shumate
Harper Road
Worthy Harris
Shady Spring
Raleigh
H. G. Farmer
Bolt
Floyd F. Farrow
Minor Scott
Table Rock
B. C. Callaway
Beckley
James Lowry
Sophia
West Virginia University
Italian Crisis Threatens De Gasperi Western Alignment
Premier Alcide de Gasperi faces a growing threat from an extreme left and right bloc as early returns show the opposition ahead or near parity in Italy’s national vote. The four party center coalition trails in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate counts, jeopardizing plans for a pro Western European defense treaty and continued alignment with the West. Official returns indicate government support at 48.6 percent of votes counted thus far.
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West Virginia Weather Report With Scattered Showers
West Virginia forecast shows scattered thundershowers this afternoon and evening with cloudy Wednesday. Lows range 66 to 74 and temperatures about 2 to 5 degrees above normal on average. Northern and southern regions trend cooler and warmer later in the week, with rainfall around half an inch in some areas. River levels near normal and clear at Bellepoint. Highs reached 89 in Beckley and Oak Hill yesterday with lows in the upper 60s.
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Bellepoint
New River
Greenbrier
Glade Creek
Congress Asked To Let Tax Die
Washington The U S Chamber of Commerce formally urged Congress to let the excess profits tax die on June 30 after opposition to extending the tax surfaced in the House Ways and Means Committee. Secretary Humphrey and Under-secretary Folsom had discussed the tax with committee members as opposition persisted.
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the Treasury
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Marion B. Folsom
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National Association of Manufacturers
Gulf Coal Volume Tops 1952 Tonnage
Twenty four Wind ing Gulf Operators Association mines produced 161,829 net tons in the week ending June 6, down 2,445 from May 30 but up 1,316 from the same week last year. Operating time was 72 percent and the 60,379 ton loss was blamed on a five day week no market and a strike totaling 2,381 tons.
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Winding Gulf Operators Association
WGOA
Army adjusts August draft call to 23000
Washington reports the Army kept the August draft call at 23 000 men, the same level as July and far below the late 1952 to early 1953 monthly average, signaling a reduced intake amid ongoing manpower needs.
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Washington
Finishing Touch Remains on Pact To Stop Firing
Panmunjom talks progress as liaison officers finalize cease fire details amid mass street protests in Seoul against a forthcoming armistice. Allied and Communist teams met in the truce hut for 12 minutes while lower officers prepared wording for the document.
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Panmunjom
Seoul
Church of God Convention Marks Second Day Attendance Grows
The Church of God state convention in Beckley entered its second day with about 1500 attendees. Three morning speakers were Rev. James Parrott, Rev. Oran White, and R. P. Johnson, followed by an afternoon address by Rev. R. Leonard Carroll, president of Lee College. Carroll also spoke at a 5 p.m. alumni dinner at El Chico. The gathering at the Recreation Building is expected to draw around 2000 ministers and lay members by week’s end.
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Church of God
James Parrott
East Rainelle
Oran White
West Virginia
Beckley
R. P. Johnson
Reasurer
International Movement
Hialeah
Fla
R. Leonard Carroll
Lee College
Cleveland, Tenn
Carroll
el Chico
West Virginia Lee College
Russia lifts controls. two Austrian police chiefs to be fired
In Vienna the Soviet Union agrees to discharge two top Austrian Communist police chiefs in the four power city. Moscow ends permanent troop controls at border crossing points along the 225 mile demarcation line and allows freer travel into the Soviet zone with only passports and Austrian visas. Crowds celebrate by tearing identity cards and dancing on Linz and Vienna streets.
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DAV Plans High Level Fight for VA Hospital
The Beckley DAV chapter plans a push for mandatory legislation to keep Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital fully open for general medical care. A resolution also seeks to reopen an unused psychiatric ward and expand funding, supported by Commander Basil Sweeney and other delegates ahead of the state convention and national DAV actions. The group cites a local veteran population of about 20,000 with 5,000 disabled and notes the ward’s 170 beds, contingent on psychiatric services. Rumors of VA hospital cuts were called unfounded by hospital manager Dr. Blanton E. Russell. Delegates appointed to the Clarkburg convention include Richard Cooper, Basil Sweeney, and others.
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Beckley Veterans Administration
Basil Sweeney
Beckley
Washington
Sweeney
Raleigh County
DAV
Blanton E. Russell
Beckley VA
Veterans Administration
West Virginia
Clarksburg
Richard Cooper
Stanley Bender
W. 7. Vines
Earl Carter
Luke Ross
Everett Broyles
West Virginia briefs on murder case and mine strike
A 63 year old tenant on Delbert Nichols farm is bound over for grand jury on a murder charge in Nichols death after police say John Floyd Johnson confessed to shooting him following an ax threat. In Clay County, the trial of Virgil Nelson and others for conspiring to halt a coal mine car moves toward a verdict with one defense witness left. W. R. DeGarmo resigns from the Conservation Commission to lead Maine’s inland fisheries and game division. John D. Gill named successor pending departure date.
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W. Va
Delbert Richard Nichols
Nichols
John Floyd Johnson
Widen
Virgil Nelson
Clay County
Nelson
Elk River
Charleston
W. R. DeGarmo
The
Conservation Commission
Maine Commission of Inland Fisheries and Game
DeGarmo
Elkins
West Virginia Commission
Carl Johnson
Johnson
John D. Gill
Scott Reynolds Damage Suit On Agenda Today
Wesley V. Scott of Beckley seeks 15000 dollars in damages from Matthew Reynolds after a January collision involving two cars. Scott, a polio victim since infancy, says injuries from the wreck aggravated a neck and back condition and caused loss of work.
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Wesley V. Scott
Beckley
Matthew Reynolds
Scott
Reynolds
Two Die as Floyd River Flood Recedes in Sioux City
In Sioux City Iowa a house to house survey of more than 3000 flooded homes began after the Floyd River receded. Two flood deaths were reported and officials said property damage may exceed one million dollars as the city begins to recover from one of its worst floods.
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Sioux City
Prisoner Pleads Guilty In Amputation for Home Return
GOEPPINGEN Germany A 21 year old Korea War veteran testified at an Army court martial that a German cut off four fingers of his left hand to hasten his return home to his bride of six months He was sentenced to two years imprisonment dishonorably discharged fined 936 dollars and the German assailant already received eight months in jail Curry joined the Army at 15 and said he hoped the act would speed his reunion with his wife who is expecting a child
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Germany
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Charles T. Curry
Longwood
U. S
Curry
Far East
Korea
Missouri
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