Talks on Southeast Asia pact deepen BritainUS ties
British Foreign Secretary Eden and Secretary Dulles to meet at the White House as Washington presses for urgent consultation with eight other nations on a Southeast Asia security conference. Churchill’s planned visit and Franco British friction over German rearmament influence the agenda as indirect steps toward possible joint action in Indochina.
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Anthony Eden
Dulles
White House
Indochina
Southeast Asia
Eisenhower
Churchill
Washington
Eden
West Germany
Britain
United
Nego
Russia
China
Geneva
Churchil
Triangle land to glow in Beckley parking lot lighting
A 1600 square foot private parcel in Beckley municipal parking lot will be illuminated along with surrounding land after a Raleigh County court ruling against condemning private land for public use. The site, a 45 by 66 by 80 foot triangle, may host a service station by Miss Lova Snuffer pending oil company talks. Lights totaling 22 fixtures with 10,000 lumens each will be activated tonight, with meters installed progressively and 3200 feet of white lines painted at $5 a gallon for 20 gallons. Concrete curbing will replace lines to save long term costs. A joint City Council and Parking Lot Commission meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at City Hall to discuss opening and operation.
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Beckley
Raleigh County Circuit Court
Leary
Elmer Davis
City Hall
Oscar Vecellio
Defense Bill Up In Senate Today
The Senate debates a defense bill to fund armed services with about 28.68 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year. Senate leaders expect quick approval, with allocations split to the Air Force around 11 billion, Navy just under 10 billion, and the Army a bit over 7 billion.
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Washington
Senate
Armed Services
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
Army
Air Force
Navy
Defense Department
House
Eisenhower
Congress
Defense
Secretary of Defense
Pemberton Men Get Jail Terms
Two Pemberton men, Harry Owens and Virchow Belcher, were sentenced by Magistrate C. T. Burdiss after State Police arrested them for stealing gasoline from Lilly Ice and Bottling Co. Owens, 26, received multiple fines and a 30 day jail term for petit larceny trespassing and destruction of personal property, while Belcher, about 56, got a 30 day term and a $10 fine for petit larceny. The company’s manager estimated about $154 in damages and 400 gallons of gas wasted when the pump was left on.
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Pemberton
C. T. Burdiss
Lilly Ice and Bottling Co
Harry Owens
Virchow Belcher
H. R. Sawyers
Stock Market Surges After Sharp Gains and Dividends
New York trading opens with strength after yesterday’s record advance. Container Corp climbs 3 percent as directors declare a 75 cent dividend, second increase this year. Union Pacific up more after an 8 percent rise yesterday, others gaining include U S Steel Chrysler Douglas American Cyanamid and General Electric. local weather notes and river conditions follow with no major changes expected.
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New York
Container Corp
Union Pacific
U. S. Steel
Chrysler
Douglas Aircraft
Homestake Mining
American Cyanamid
General Electric
Santa Fe
Prisoner Learns He Is Free to Face Mercer Trial
The Raleigh County Grand Jury set a June term criminal docket running June 22 to July 2 with numerous indictments and holdovers. Kenny Calhoun, not yet indicted on a bad check charge, had his case dismissed but was placed on hold for transfer to Princeton to face similar charges. The docket lists defendants and charges by day from June 22 through July 10, including driving drunk, breaking and entering, grand larceny, and various alcohol related offenses in Lancaster County courts.
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Raleigh County Grand Jury
Kenny Calhoun
Raleigh County
Anthony J. Sparacino
Princeton
J. R. Bitner
John Ferre Mize
Aaron M. Brooks
Jack Roles
John Edward Burks
Benny Buckland
John Cook
Charles Hooks
Westley Hurd
Mack Ray Mann Jr
John Herbert Milliner
Grover Murl Phipps
Robert Lee Stanton
Douglas Lester Stanley
Bobby Vance
Don Stover
Bobby D. Underwood
Wesley Wilkes
Ray E. Bailey
Carl Daniels
Forrest Powell
Lawrence Curtis
Clyde Leasure
Zachary Taylor Moss
Frankie D. Worix
Joe Balenski
Green Leaf Cooney
Arnold Caldwell
Brown H. Payne
Dorsey Gordon Stephens
William Whitehead
Harry Williams
Raymond Johns
Lawrence Roark
Howard Blevins
Carl Hutchens
Lloyd Meadows
Everett Mathues
Clayburn Johnson
Hubert E. Plum
Hazel Roark
Den
11 Area Girls Seek Offices at Clifftop
West Virginia Girls State delegates from 15 high schools name Bettie Leonard and Delores Green as governors hopefuls from Nationalist and Federalist tickets. Nominees for other offices include Claretta Jones, Datrne Griffith, Barbara Cosby, Helen Rhodes, Delores Wingfield Ines, Rebecca Moss, Ernestine Tanks, Sylvia Hunt, Charlotte Meade, Carolyn Snyder, Anna Covington, Freda Braxton. Camp director is Mrs. Armette Broughton. camp runs with a parallel white girls camp at Jackson's Mill. Speakers include Bishop Glashen and State Police Captain Walker.
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West Virginia
Bettie Leonard
Gary
Delores Green
Lester
Washington Carver
Jackson's Mill
Armette Broughton
Fairmont
American Legion Auxiliary
Claretta Jones
Besoco
Datrne Griffith
Beckley
Barbara Cosby
Helen Rhodes
Elkins
Delores Wingfield
J Ines
Rebecca Moss
Beck Speedibe
Ernestine Tanks
Sylvia Hunt
Charlotte Meade
Carolyn Snyder
Anna Covington
Skelton
Freda Braxton
T. C. Glashen
C. L. Walker
C. L. Long
Hinton
Betty Jo Hutchison
Raleigh County
McCarthy Strongly Defends Handling of Army Inquiry
Senator McCarthy defended his actions on the Army hearings trotting out criticism from Democrats who said he should have gone to Secretary Stevens sooner about alleged Communist infiltration at Ft Monmouth New Jersey. He clashed with Sen Jackson and Army counsel Joseph Welch while praising Roy Cohn as a valuable aide, amid questions over timing and authority.
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Washington
McCarthy
McCarthy Army Hearings
Army
Stevens
Ft. Monmouth
Sen
Jackson
D-Wash
Joseph N. Welch
Sen. Symington
D-Mo
Roy M. Cohn
Wisconsin
Mr. Cohn
Eisenhower outlines next step in Korean issue at UN
President Eisenhower said the next step toward solving the Korean problem is for the 16 anti Communist Allies to report to the United Nations. He noted the Geneva talks with the Communist side broke off yesterday and that Walter Bedell Smith may return from Geneva next week to brief Congress.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United Nations
Pres
Ident
Geneva
Walter Bedell Smith
Indochina
Smith
Congress
White House
U.N
Princeton Man Killed In Break from Prison
Frank S. Moxley 22 of Princeton West Virginia was cornered by a posse in a wooded area near White Deer Union County and fatally shot after refusing to halt. Richard F. Lehriver 25 of Baltimore surrendered to FBI agents nearby without a fight. Both men were trusties who escaped Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in a prison truck.
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Lewisburg
Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary
Frank S. Moxley
Princeton
W. Va
Richard F. Lehriver
Baltimore
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Abbaticchio
Schriver
Moxley
FBI
Andrew Stefan
White Deer
Union County
Eisenhower Says 1956 Re-Election Not Yet Considered
President Eisenhower stated he has given no thought to running in 1956. He dismissed comments from Sherman Adams about possible non-candidacy if Republicans lose Congress, and said he is focused on global issues and current world problems. He refused to commit on vetoing farm price support changes and distinguished parity from market price.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Congress
United States
Beckley Boys in Jail on Petit Larceny Warrants
Two Beckley youths aged 11 and 14 were placed in the Raleigh County Jail on warrants charging petit larceny. They were arrested by sheriff's deputies and await a Juvenile Court hearing.
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Beckley
Raleigh
Vietminh POWs Being Returned
The French high command began returning 575 sick and wounded Vietminh prisoners of war as repayment for earlier exchanges. Seventy were handed over at Dinh Cau near Hanoi this afternoon, with 70 more and 127 tomorrow. Remaining prisoners to be released in Central Viet Nam later this week. Many had been prisoners over three years and cheered as ambulances carried them to the release point.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Dinh Cau
Viet Nam
Jets Motor Found In Ground After Fury Jet Crash
Marine and aviation investigators located the engine of an F-12 Fury jet in a crater at Maple Meadows. Water and sludge cover the buried engine. Beckley Fire Department could not pump it out, finally obtaining a pump from Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. The water and sludge must be removed before a winch can lift the engine from the ground.
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Marine and Aviation
Maple Meadows
Beckley Fire Department
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Beckley Reports Heavy Rainfall
The Weather Bureau logged heavy rain across Southern and Eastern West Virginia last night with Beckley recording 3.15 inches from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday, and 41 inches at Union in 24 hours ending today. Severe regional downpours caused minor damage, with Mabscott underpass flooded yet passable and Oak Hill reporting 0.93 inches.
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Weather Bureau
West Virginia
Beckley
Bureau
Union
Pickway
Monroe
Rainelle
Lookout
Rock Cave
Buckhannon
Arborvale
Marlinton
Matoaka
Alderson
Mabscott
Oak Hill
County Court Shifts Bi Monthly Meeting to Friday
The Raleigh County Court moved its bi-monthly meeting from Saturday to this Friday. The session starts at 10 30 a m in the County Court room of the courthouse.
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Raleigh County Court
Attic Fire Damages Home Near Upholstery Shop
An unoccupied house at Calloway Heights sustained minor damage from an early morning attic fire. Beckley firemen extinguished the blaze after a 6:50 a.m. alarm. The structure, owned by George Watkins, stood near an upholstery shop.
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Calloway Heights
Beckley
George Watkins
Shady Spring Beckley Pineville Candidates Named
Federalist Ann Louise Gose of Shady Spring led in the Rhododendron Girls State governor race against Nationalist Carroll Smith of Fairmont during today’s primary. Other primary winners include state officers and legislators with polls opening at 2 p.m. and closing two hours later.
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Jackson's Mill
W.va
Ann Louise’ Gose
Shady Spring
Carroll Smith
Fairmont
Board of Public Works
State Supreme Court
Senate
House of Dele
Nationalist Party
Carolyn Morrison
Beckley
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Bellepoint
Greenbrier
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Mercer
Nis P. Clay
Earl Damon Honaker
Lewis Marion Hall
Lee Roy Hall
Howard Jarrell
Corbett Jarrell
Billy Jarrell
Elmer Ragle
Phyllis Jean Schoolcraft Green
James Anderson
Bernice Coleman
Harrison Scott
Robert H. Buckland
Herbert Judkins
Jack Harmon
Rapheal H. Jones
Henry Lee Johnson
Milton Buford Meadows
Dennis Lee Kirk
Charles Ray Painter
Lawrence A. Johnson
William Glen Short
Ronald Hughes Vass
Claudie Lovell Gustinski
Milburn Smith
Lester Wills
William Jackson Gardner
Hersey Elwood Gardner
Bobby Eugene Gardner
Cline Shrewsbury
Dallas Stanton
Everette Akers
Carl Lester Cousins
James Monroe Ewell
Charles Givens
Margaret Meador
Mary White
Carlo Sprachey
Carl Clint Elkins
Jack Price
George Turner
Milt Wilson
Mitchell Dibbs
Early Parker
Jess Price
Raymond Clark
Winifred Clay
Winifred Pettry
Arthur Clay
Earl Long
Bill Turner
Frank A. Pierson
Rebert Bailey
John Bailey
Robert W. Bennett
Clarence Goodson
Eugene Maynor
Avery McGrady
Zelma McGrady
Alvie Earl Richmond
William J. B. Dunbar
James Dalton
Griffin Wilson
Charles R. Hawkins
Robert Ledwell
Rufus McBride
Viola Rogers
Arthur Richmond
Warren Schernbeck
Alfred W. Lawson
Ray J. Abbatticchio, Jr
Philadelphia
Ike
Pineville
Ann Louise Gose
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