Texas Pledge Boosts Johnson as Kennedy Widens Lead
Texas commits 61 convention votes to Lyndon B. Johnson boosting his tally in the Democratic race. Kennedy holds 363 convention votes while Johnson rises to 199. Other contenders include Symington 69 Humphrey 51 Stevenson 26 and uncommitted 379 among 1,345 votes selected.
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Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tween
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Johnson
Senate
Associated Press
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Adlai E. Stevenson
Republicans Holding Delegates Vote Totals For Nixon Nomination
Delegates yet to be chosen stand at 176 for a convention roster of 1,521. In Texas another batch of 54 GOP delegates increased Nixon's unofficial total to 1,007 of 1,331 with 666 needed for the nomination. Overall, 1,263 GOP delegates have been chosen, with 30 for Goldwater, two for Rockefeller, and 224 uncommitted. Remaining selections: Illinois 10, Montana 14, New Mexico 14, Virginia 30.
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Texas
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
GOP
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Illinois
Montana
New Mexico
Virginia
Teenagers Eligible for $500 Essay Prize Contest
Readers are invited to submit a 300 word or less essay on What's Right About American Youth for a chance at a $500 grand prize or one of ten lesser prizes. Mail entries to the newspaper and Eugene Gilbert by July 18. The prompt challenges critics who claim teens lack direction or are careless.
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Eugene Gilbert
County Pays $114 Bill For Prisoner
Raleigh County taxpayers funded a $114 hospital bill for Glen Gene Bell who was treated after a fight at Raleigh County Jail on April 9. Prosecutor Sparacino said the county could pay the bill since Bell was injured in custody, with Sheriff Mills affirming county responsibility though Bell was not asked to contribute.
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Raleigh General Hospital
Glen Gene Bell
Princewick
A. J. Lilly
Raleigh County Court
Anthony J. Sparna
Bell
Beckley Post-Herald
Post-Herald
J. N. White
Sparacino
White
Cuba Executes Three Rebels
In Santiago Cuba a firing squad executed Manuel Beaton and two accomplices at dawn. The former army captain, his brother Ciprano Beaton, and Felipe Martinez were convicted by a military tribunal after leading an abortive revolt against Prime Minister Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra and killing a peasant militia leader. All three were 30 or younger and were captured last week in the eastern mountains.
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Santiago, Cuba
Manuel Beaton
Cipriano
Felipe Martinez
Fidel Castro
Sierra Maestra
Beaton
West Virginia Weather Outlook With Showers Possible
Weather bulletin notes considerable cloudiness and a chance of showers with highs in the 70s across the state. Showers taper to the north tonight with cooling and a return to partly cloudy skies Thursday. Temperatures through Monday near normal, a cooling Friday, and a warming trend by Sunday, with scattered showers totaling roughly one half to one inch over the area. Beckley and Oak Hill report highs in the 80s yesterday and lows in the 50s to 60s, Greenbrier and Lake areas show normal, clear conditions with gauge readings around 2.3 ft.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Iver Greenbrier
Logan Jury Not To Probe Voting
In Logan County, there will be no special grand jury investigation of alleged corruption in the May 10 primary until late July at best. Circuit Judge C. C. Chambers postponed the decision to the end of the current court term, pending the attorney general's inquiry and Gov. Underwood's urging for a study of those findings before acting.
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Attorney General
Chambers
New York Population Grows 1.7 Million in Decade
New York state's population rose by 1,765,315 over ten years, reaching 16,596,507 according to preliminary 1960 Census figures. The Census Bureau on Tuesday reported an 11.9 percent increase.
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New York State
Census Bureau
Bureau
Nixon Kennedy Debate Focuses on U S Strength
Washington AP report describes Senator Kennedy urging a strong national posture to meet global threats. Vice President Nixon, likely the Republican nominee, challenges Kennedy’s claims of U S military weakness while Kennedy criticizes Eisenhower era policies and calls for lasting strength to negotiate with the Soviets.
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John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
America
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Senate
Kennedy
United States
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Homer Capehart
Indiana
Capehart
Alaskan Plane Crash Kills 14
An airliner crashed near Mt Gilbert killing all 14 aboard including two children. Pacific Northern Airlines Constellation vanished after takeoff from Cordova on the Seattle to Anchorage leg. A search and Air Force team found no survivors. the crash ended 29 years of PNA service to Alaska.
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Mt. Gilbert
Pacific Northern Airlines
Constellation
Cordova
Seattle
Wash
Anchorage
Here
Air Force
PNA
Alaska
Shermen
Wedding Ends As Soldier Is Arrested For AWOL
Pvt. and Mrs. Alfred E. Coates Jr. wed in the county clerk's office Monday. Coates, 18, of Woodman, was arrested for being absent without official leave from Fort Campbell, Ky. Circuit Judge Charles W Ferguson suspended a 10 month jail sentence on condition he return to base. Military police located him during the ceremony and escorted him back to Fort Campbell.
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Coates
Augusta
Maine
Charles W Ferguson
T. S. Varney
Woodman
Satae
Resident laments bank chimes and loan song request
Sherwood Glutz complains about plans to install chimes atop the Raleigh county bank to serenade loan applicants with Hearts and Flowers, threatening to leave the county or harm himself if rock and roll music is ever played locally.
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Raleigh
Okey Patteson
Truce Reached As Douglas Strike Ends
United Auto Workers and Lockheed Douglas announced a tentative two year contract covering 22000 hourly workers in Long Beach California and Tulsa following nationwide IAM and UAW walkouts. Pickets to be withdrawn, terms undisclosed pending member meetings. A separate IAM strike affected several Lockheed facilities and Convair Atlas missile sites.
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Tulsa
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Sal
United States Space and Missile
Lockheed
IAM
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Atlas Missile
Long Beach Memorial Stadium
Thurmond Renominated In Landslide Senate Victory
In Columbia South Carolina Sen Strom Thurmond age 58 won the Democratic nomination for another U S Senate term by a landslide, collecting 242022 votes to 29133 for opponent R Beverley Herbert 80 with all but a scattering of the states 1602 precincts reported.
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S. C
Strom Thurmond
U. S. Senate
Thurmond
R. Beverley Herbert
Nuclear Sub Fire Put Out Two Missing At Pearl Harbor
Two Navy sailors were unaccounted for after a flash fire aboard the nuclear submarine Sargo at Pearl Harbor. The one hour blaze in the stern torpedo room was contained as the torpedo compartment flooded and the stern half beneath the water. Officials cited a ruptured liquid oxygen line as the cause and noted no reactor danger.
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Pearl Harbor
Navy
Riot at Tokyo Parliament Overthrows Police Amid Pro West Gov
Thousands of leftwing students stormed Japan's Parliament in Tokyo, overpowering police and occupying buildings as Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi faces a near revolt. Two killed and hundreds injured as the government moves to quell the unrest.
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Nobusuke Kishi
Kishi
Violence erupts as Tokyo protests threaten security for Eisenhower visit
In Tokyo, 10,000 Marxist students clash with club wielding police who resist tear gas and firearms, finally retreating and letting rioters roam. The unrest follows Kishi government dropping efforts to finalize the U.S. Japan military treaty ahead of President Eisenhower’s Tokyo arrival, per Kosaku Shinoda of Kishi’s Liberal Democratic Party.
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U.s.-Japan
Eisenhower
Tokyo
Kosaku Shinoda
Liberal Democratic Party
Senate approves U S Japanese security pact in 20 minutes
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed the U S Japanese security treaty unanimously after a brief 20 minute debate. Chairman J William Fulbright said the full Senate would likely ratify the agreement before President Eisenhower travels to Tokyo on Sunday.
Tokyo protests threaten Eisenhower visit plans
Newsmen quoted administration officials discussing a political truce to ensure President Eisenhower's visit proceeds. Police faced a massive mob with over 1,000 officers attempting to hold back demonstrators, while Liberal Democrats warned of an insurrection as students from Zengakuren hurled pavement chunks and torched a police truck amid the unrest.
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Eisenhower
Shojiro Kawashima
Liberal-Democrats
Tokyo
Zengakuren ‘Student Federation
Ditch Cave-In Injures Two Tower Construction Workers
Two Tower Construction Co employees were injured at Crab Orchard when dirt fell into a trench during telephone line repair work. Fred Dancy and Glen Morgan were buried up to their waists and treated at Beckley Hospital for chest and ankle injuries respectively. J L Lilly, manager, said they were trapped about five minutes before extraction.
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Crab Orchard
Fred Dancy
Glen Morgan
Beckley Hospital
Theodore Thompson
Route 2
Beckley
J. L. Lilly
Eisenhower Presses United Front Against Communism in Philippines
President Eisenhower urged maintaining strength and friendship as he condemned international communism as the chief source of world tension. Speaking before Philippine legislators during a 10 day Far East tour, he praised Filipino nationalism and warned that Soviet propaganda, threats, and subversion target the United States.
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Eisenhower
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Soviet Union
Philippine Congress
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Formosa
Okinawa
Japan
Korea
America
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Republic
Methodists Vote On West Virginia Bishop Selection
The Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference of the Methodist Church opens in Washington with a communion service and organizational meetings spanning 12 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The assembly will elect possibly four new bishops and use a silver chalice sent to the church founder John Wesley.
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The
Methodist Church
Columbia
Puerto Rico
Iar
John Wesley
Argentina asks UN meeting on Eichmann case
Argentina asked the United Nations Security Council for an urgent session to address its claim that transferring Adolf Eichmann from Buenos Aires to Israel violated sovereignty and breached international law. It argued the incident created insecurity, naming Articles 34 and 35 of the UN Charter as the basis for action. Israel refused to return Eichmann, who faces trial by an Israeli court for Nazi crimes.
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U. N. Security Council
Adolf Eichmann
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Israel
U. N
Mario Amadeo
Tingfu F. Tsiang
China
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Tsiang
Amadeo
Security Council
General Assembly
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