Macmillan Returns as Profumo Scandal Deepens
London reports Prime Minister Harold Macmillan back from a holiday as the Profumo scandal widens. War Minister John Profumo resigns amid sexual scandal linked to Cuba crisis and Soviet efforts to split Western unity. Ward faces court on living off earnings of prostitutes. Christine Keeler, a 21 year old call girl, implicated.
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London
UPI
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
John Profumo
Profumo
Cuba
Earl of Home
Earl of Arran
London Daily Mail
Mail
Arran
Home
Eugene Ivanov
Stephen Ward
Ivanov
Washington
Christine Keeler
Ward
Miss Keeler
Faces
Samuel Herbert
Equal Pay Bill Signing Stated
Washington Kennedy planned to sign a law extending equality of the sexes to the pay window. The measure bans pay discrimination for women in factories stores and service establishments covered by the federal minimum wage law within one year. About 27.5 million workers are covered by the act.
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Washington
UPS
Kennedy
U.S
Congress
Labor Department
Weather Summary for Beckley and Vicinity
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with a chance of showers and highs 83 to 88. Tonight lows 65 to 70. Tuesday warm with showers then cooler. Temp readings show highs near 88 and a low around 66. River and lake levels normal and clear with a new gauge at Hinton reading 2.3 ft. Five day forecast calls for temperatures near normal to five degrees below in the south and north regions with a cooler spell early week and a wetter pattern with about one inch of rain overall.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Greenbrier
Hinton
West Virginia
Negotiators Speed Talks to Avoid Looming Rail Strike
Washington negotiators work to avert a nationwide railroad strike as a 30 day cooling off period under the Railway Labor Act nears expiration at midnight EDT Tuesday The talks oversee work rule changes unions say would reduce diesel engine firemen and overhaul pay for 200000 operating employees The dispute spanning years includes a presidential study and a three man board noting potential massive economic impact and opposing arbitration.
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Washington
UPI
W. Willard Wirtz
Congress
Presidential Railroad Commission
U.S
Five Die In State Traffic Weekend Toll Rises
United Press International reports five people died in West Virginia traffic over the weekend. Two drowned in separate incidents in Taylor and Mercer Counties, and three died in crashes in Preston and Fayette Counties. The toll for the year reaches 152, down from 172 a year ago despite the weekend losses.
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United Press International
West Virginia
Preston
Taylor
Mercer
Ernie Holyfield
Clarksburg
Tygart Lake
Ted Lee Bird
Princeton
J. P. Sammons
Harold Everette Adkins
Fayette County
Charles E. Hawkins Jr
Masontown
Ralph Metz
Arthurdale
Preston County
W. Va
Kingwood
Holden B. Shay Jr
Cave-In Claims Second Victim In Ohio Tunnel Collapse
PARKERSBURG UP I The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tunnel collapse claimed a second life when Arthur Boggs 24 died from kidney failure after 18 hours trapped. Harry Nichols 51 of Bartlett Ohio remains missing as crews pause during a fresh roof fall. About 35 men worked in the tunnel near Walker 20 miles southeast of Parkersburg.
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Parkersburg
UPI
Baltimore and Ohio
Arthur Boggs
Harry Nichols
Bartlett
Ohio
Walker
Here
Boggs
Perkins
Gilmer County
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Columbus
Nichols
Youngstown
Kennedy pledges no atmospheric tests while others avoid them
President Kennedy announced the United States will refrain from further atmospheric nuclear tests "so long as other states do not do so" and that U S Russia and Britain will begin high level talks in Moscow to rescue a general nuclear test ban treaty. Talks likely begin mid July with non summit representatives chosen for high trust. He urged Americans to reexamine attitudes toward peace and freedom at home while outlining civil rights commitments and forthcoming proposals to curb racial violence.
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UPI
Kennedy
United States
Russia
Britain
Moscow
Nikita S
Khrushchev
Harold A. Macmillan
American University
London
Congress
Birmingham
Legislative Branch
Dismissal Sought In West Virginia Apportionment Suit
Charleston dispatch reports defendants move to dismiss a lawsuit seeking state constitutional reapportionment. State Atty. Gen. Robertson argues lack of federal jurisdiction due to exhausted state remedies and absence of irreparable harm. Plaintiffs allege a political question regarding legislative representation. defendants cite purely political issues. County Court suit names Gov. Barron Senate President Carson and Speaker Singleton. action filed before 1963 session.
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Charleston
UPS
U. S. District Court
West Virginia
John A. Field Jr
Donald Robertson
Kanawha
Robertson
Asst. Atty
Andrew J. Goodwin
Field
Goodwin
W. W. Barron
Senate
Howard W. Carson
Fayetteville
House
Julius W. Singleton
Morgantown
Beckley Receives First Funds For City Garage
Mayor Cecil L. Miller announced Beckley has received a 15750 check from the Housing and Home Finance Agency for the first 25 percent of the city garage cost. He said the project is over half done and the agency will fund 50 percent at halfway. The next payments total 40 percent after completion and final inspection.
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Cecil L. Miller
City of
Beckley
Housing and Home Finance Agency
HHFA
Miller
Five Minutes To Pray Woman Turns Gun On Estranged Husband
Frances Suddreth of Crab Orchard shot her estranged husband Edward Suddreth four times in the legs on a dirt road near Crab Orchard after he drove them at 5 a.m. Sunday. She waived a preliminary hearing on felonious assault and posted bond. Edward Suddreth, 48, is in satisfactory condition at Beckley Hospital. she says she acted after he forced her into the car and gave her five minutes to pray.
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Crab Orchard
Frances Suddreth
Paul Epperly
Edward Suddreth
Suddreth
Tory
Beckley
Becket Beaver Methodist appoints Virgil C Cook full time
The Rev Virgil C Cook is named full time administrator of Beckley Child Care Center by West Virginia Methodist head Bishop Fred G Holloway. Cook has served as director at the center and as minister of Beaver Methodist Church expressing delight at devoting all time to directing the child care program and thanking Beaver church members for nine years of support. Integration Day Tomorrow Wallace To Take Charge At Bama. A large police and National Guard force braces Tuscaloosa as Gov George C Wallace prepares to block two Negro students enrollment at the University of Alabama despite a federal injunction.
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Virgil C. Cook
Beckley
West Virginia
Fred G. Holloway
Cook
Beaver Methodist Church
Cener
Tuscaloosa
Ala
UPI
University of Alabama
George C. Wallace
Montgomery
Dixie Filibuster Defeat Predicted On Civil Rights
In a weekend forecast, Senator Smathers predicted the Senate will override the Dixie filibuster and pass Kennedy civil rights measures this year. He anticipated a cloture vote despite opposition, as Vice President Johnson urged broad commitment to equal opportunity. The report covers security at the Alabama campus, state police leadership, and 1500 Guardsmen ready to defend order during the university crisis.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Kennedy
Smathers
Mutual
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tufts University
Medford
Mass
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
New York City
Javits
Harrison A. Williams
Dn.j
Congress
Williams
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Informal Talks Toward Picking New Pope Begin
Vatican City reports cardinals in Rome for informal talks on Pope John XXIII successor. More than 50 of 82 eligible electors are present with others arriving from worldwide seats. A full congregation meets to arrange the conclave while a funeral Mass honors Pope John.
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Vatican City
UPI
Sacred College of Cardinals
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
John XXIII
Rome
Mornig
Vatican
St. Peter’s Basilica
Pope John
Francis Spellman
Laurean Rugambwa
Rutabo
Tanganyika
College of Cardinals
Spellman
U.S
Richard James Cardinal Cushing
Boston
United States
Hoffa and ten others enter innocent pleas in jury tampering case
In Nashville the Teamsters Union president James R Hoffa and ten co defendants pleaded innocent to federal charges of jury tampering. Three defendants stood mute while pleas of innocence were entered for them.
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Nashville, Tenn
UPI
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Flat Top Lake swimmer injured by propeller
Kathy Kyle, 14, daughter of Mrs Bonnie Kyle, was struck by a motor boat propeller while on a raft at Flat Top Lake. She suffered multiple cuts on her right arm and possibly an eye and is listed in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital.
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Kathy Kyle
Bonnie Kyle
Hendrick Sr
Flat Top Lake
Raleigh General Hospital
Nancy Dickson Thrilled By Washington Spelling Trip
Nancy Dickson, tri county spelling champ, flies to Washington for the National Spelling Bee. She registers at the Mayflower Hotel and meets others including a finalist who lost on onomatopoeia. The day includes a Fed Bureau of Investigation tour, a Smithsonian visit, and a Champions Get-Acquainted party with 69 other spellers.
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Marye Rhodes
Register
Washington
Nancy Dickson
Chamber of Commerce
Nancy
Mayflower
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Smithsonian Institution
Capitol
Graduation talk fades as youths eye jobs in city
Sherwood Glutz comments that graduation speakers have largely finished urging high school seniors toward greatness and instead they can pursue jobs in Cleveland or Washington. Unkle Nabob argues youth today must be strong and unafraid to become better taxpayers than their parents.
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Cleveland
Washington
Unkle Nabob
Mayors Back Kennedy Plea for Civil Rights Action
HONOLULU UP I delegates from the National Conference of Mayors backed President Kennedy s call for a grass roots program to promote racial equality The President outlined a five step local plan including biracial human relations committees non discriminatory hiring equal opportunity ordinances and an anti drop out summer campaign Vice Mayor Sam Massell of Atlanta called the proposals workable and said local governments must act to ease tensions and improve opportunity
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Honolulu
UPI
Kennedy
National Conference of Mayors
Sam Massell
Atlanta
Massell
Hero's Welcome Set For Marsh Fork Nine
Marsh Fork High School team to return from the State tournament to a hero's welcome with a car caravan at Sylvester and a school assembly at the high school tonight. The Bulldogs were to meet Harrisville in the finals at Parkersburg at 2 p.m. today. Mrs. Nelson Beard of the Marsh Fork Women's Club says the team should arrive about 8 p.m. A banquet is being planned.
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Marsh Fork
Bulldogs
Harrisville
Parkersburg
Sylvester
Nelson Beard
Marsh Fork Women’s Club
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