Beckley Child Care Center development briefing held at Methodist Temple
Officials and supporters gathered at The Methodist Temple in Beckley for a lunch meeting updating on Beckley Child Care Center Cranberry. Dr J M Helm spoke on opening arrangements and contractor reports noted completion of buildings with a planned late summer formal opening.
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Beckley
Cranberry
Methodist Temple
J. M. Helm
Board of Hospitals and Homes
West Virginia
The
Methodist Church
Deaths and Funeral for Mrs. Sarah Ray
Mrs. Sarah Ray of Paynesville, 46, died after a long illness. Funeral services will be held in Grundy, Virginia, with arrangements completed after the body’s transfer from Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home to Virginia for final rites.
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Sarah Ray
Paynesville
Grundy
Final rites for Mrs Loraine C Kovach in Princeton
Mrs Loraine C Kovach 44 of Princeton will have services at 2 30 p m Wednesday at the Oliver Street Church of God with Rev Earl P King and Rev Joe Byrd officiating. Burial follows at Resthaven Memorial Park. She died Monday morning in a Princeton hospital after a three month illness. She was a member of the Oliver Street Church of God and worked as a machine operator for Celanese Corp in Narrows Virginia. Born August 24 1916 at Madams Creek she was the daughter of T J and Ethel Fink Young of Princeton. Survivors include a brother Jennings Young of Norfolk Virginia and five sisters Violet Vaughan Catlettsburg Kentucky Emma Noble Baltimore Maryland Hester Hubbard Kegley Charlotte Parks Princeton and Kellen Smith Beckley. The body will lie in state at Memorial Funeral Directory and proceed to the church one hour before services.
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Loraine C. Kovach
Princeton
Oliver Street
Madams Creek
T. J
Ethel Fink Young
Jennings Young
Norfolk
Violet Vaughan
Catlettsburg
Emma Noble
Baltimore
Supreme Court Rules on Bar Membership and Free Speech Limits
The ruling ties all practicing lawyers to a state bar but refuses to decide if dues funding opposes free speech rights. It also voids Missouri procedures for seizing obscene material from Kansas City vendors in 1957. The Ohio wiretap question and admissibility of wiretapped evidence remain to be decided by Congress.
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Pet
Official
Bar Association
Missouri
Kansas City
Ohio
Supreme Court
Congress
Now You Know By United Press International
The Mandarin language of China is spoken by an estimated 469 million persons more than any other language in the world.
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United Press International
China
Court upholds notary oath ruling in Torcaso case
The Texas court decision on Roy R. Torcaso of Wheaton Md. stems from his refusal to sign an oath for a notary commission. The Maryland Court of Appeals had ruled against him. The U S Supreme Court majority led by Justice Hugo L Black reaffirmed that states cannot compel belief or disbelief in religion nor favor one religion over another.
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Texas
Roy R. Torcaso
Wheaton
Maryland Court of Appeals
Torcaso
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
God
Central blocks three way merger with exit door left open
New York Central blocked a three way merger while suggesting a future possibility. NYC urged ICC to dismiss the C&O control request, arguing Cyrus Eaton would control both C&O and B&O unlawfully. C&O lawyers denied Eaton’s control of Chesapeake & Ohio and disputed the companion application requirement.
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New York Central
ICC
C&o
Cleveland
Cyrus P. Eaton
B&o
Eaton
Chesapeake & Ohio
Pioneer Camps Planned for Bluestone Presbytery
Bluestone Conference Center hosts two Pioneer camps in July. The first runs July 10 15 for students completing grades eight or nine, with registration due Monday. The second camp, July 24 29, is for students finishing grades six or seven. Contact Miss Doreen Eachus at Beckley Presbyterian Church for details.
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Bluestone Presbytery
Bluestone Conference Center
Doreen Eachus
Beckley Presbyterian Church
First Lady Kennedy handles press club roast with grace
In Washington the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy endures sharp satire at the Women's National Press Club dinner while the spoof targets her husband and daughter. The evening features a vibrant stage parody with Caroline Kennedy played by Bonnie Angelo and Lyndon Johnson portrayed by Helen Thomas, as the First Lady remarks the president could not attend due to a back strain and jokes about White House weekends.
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Helen Thomas Washington
UPI
London
Vienna
United States
Jacqueline
Kennedy
Women’s
National Press Club
Caroline Kennedy
Petite Bonnie Angelo
Long Island
Newsday
Lyndon B. Johnson
Helen Thomas
United Press International
Hello
Johnson
Deena Clark
Diplomat Magazine
Beatty Beale
Washington Evening Star and Hall Syndicate
White House
Anne
Bergdorf - Goodman
New York
Bruno Pagliai
Lord Dickon Lumley
Igor Cassini
Nicholas R. du Pont
Delaware
Harvey Firestone Jr
Tire and Rubber Family
City Plan Renewal Moves Forward After Approval
Mayor Miller says the plan, already approved, will start planning work soon after July 1. The city relies on the approval to accelerate construction and public works initiatives.
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Miller
Japanese Hostility and Seoul Military Rule Rise
The report notes rising Japanese hostility and the emergence of military rule in Seoul. It states the Japanese leader hopes Kennedy will grant a token gesture acknowledging Japan's residual sovereignty over U.S.-occupied Okinawa.
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Seoul
Kennedy
U.S
Japan
U.s.-Occupied
Okinawa
UAW President Reuther Joins Castro Prisoner Exchange Effort
Deadline leaders Walter P Reuther and Joseph M Dodge sign a cable from UAW headquarters to Fidel Castro. The committee urges acceptance by noon Friday June 23 and warns of dissolution and withdrawal of funds if terms are not met. Castro's prisoner list is reportedly smaller than the 1,214 claimed earlier, prompting Red Cross review.
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Walter P Reuther
United Auto Workers
UAW
Cochairman
Joseph M. Dodge
Detroit Bank ‘and Trust
Castro
Americas
International Red Cross
State Department recalls Dean from Geneva talks
The United States recalls nuclear test negotiator Arthur H. Dean from Geneva for consultations and flags uncertainty about his return to the talks. Four California Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson after entering a segregated waiting room. U.S. and Russia plan to resume long postponed talks on commercial air service between New York and Moscow. West Berlin riot squad rescues eight Communist demonstrators from an angry crowd in the American sector over the Soviet plan to end Western allied rights.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
U.S
Arthur H. Dean
Geneva
Dean
United States
Russia
New York
Moscow
United Nations
Jose M. Velasco Ibarra
Ecuador
Stevenson
Velasco
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Miners Injured In Separate Beckley Area Incidents
Two area miners were admitted to Beckley Hospital Monday for injuries from separate accidents. Fred Nichols of Beckley injured his back while shoveling dirt at Imperial Smokeless Coal Co. in Quinwood and is in good condition. Doris Bennett of Midway is treated for injuries from a fall at Slab Fork Coal Co. and is in fair condition.
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Beckley Hospital
Fred Nichols
Beckley
Imperial Smokeless Coal Co
Quinwood
Doris Bennett
Midway
Slab Fork
Oil Drum Injury At Crab Orchard
Patrick Lovell of Crab Orchard sustained a left foot injury when a 500 pound oil drum fell Saturday. He received treatment at Beckley Hospital.
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Patrick Lovell
Beckley Hospital
Dean's List at Baylor School for Boys
Darryl Roberts son of Mr and Mrs Chester G Roberts of 1019 Wod lawn Ave appears on the dean's list at Baylor School for Boys in Chattanooga Tennessee.
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Baylor School
Chattanooga
Tenn
Darryl Roberts
Chester G. Roberts
Woodlawn Ave
Thumb injury at Midway hospitalized patient Pauline Minnick
Mrs. Pauline Minnick of Midway is in hospital after suffering an injury to her right thumb from a car door.
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Pauline Minnick
Midway
Beckley Hospital
Anne Ford Debuts Amid Rain At Ford Garden Fete
Automobile heiress Anne Ford danced through a drenched night in Detroit for her 18th birthday debut in Henry Ford II's garden setting. Despite a soaking rain and roof leaks, guests including Maria Cooper and Merle Oberon attended as Jacques Frank's 18th century decor shone indoors.
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Detroit
UPI
Anne Ford
Henry Ford II
Charlotte
Meyer Davis
Ella Fitzgerald
Jacques Frank
Ford
Anne
NASA aims four hour and a half orbital mission by 1961
Demarquis D. Wyatt outlined a plan to orbit a man for four and a half hours before year end 1961, three times longer than Yuri Gagarin. He urged Congress to back Kennedy's $20 billion moon program for a 1970 lunar landing, warning an adopted plan would ensure an American on the moon.
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Atlanta
UPS
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Demarquis D. Wyatt
United States
Yuri Gagarin
Wyatt
National Junior Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Kennedy
Shortening The News Briefs Hit National Races And Local Events
Shortening The News covers Pennsylvania governor and U S Senate races plus four or five Congressional seats. Air Force sergeants arrive at Pearl Harbor after a nose-cone capture mission. Danny Thomas ordered to rest throat for two weeks after tour. Assistant Secretary Williams plans Africa trip next month. House passes espionage crime bill for global reach. Hagerty criticized by Brinkley in NBC interview. West Virginia approves $1 million for Cabell Wayne economic program. Kenneth Evans dies in I 64 bridge accident. partner injured. A L Johnson Co bids $9.61 million for Opekiska locks project. Barron to start state historic site visits from Randolph County next month. Hearing set July 6 for Wilson and Byar at State Board of Education. Wheeling must hold special election before razing public market place. Six Pittsburgh men denied hearing by U S Supreme Court over 1958 gun plot for Cuban rebels.
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Pennsylvania
U.S
Air Force
Pearl Harbor
Danny Thomas
St. Jude
G. Mennem Williams
Africa
House
Senate
United States
James Hagerty
NBC
David Brinkley
Wsaz-Tv
Hagerty
ABC News
Brinkley
West Virginia
A. L. Johnson Co
Minneapolis
Opekiska
Monongahela River
Bairmont
Morgantown
W. W. Barron
Randolph County
Craig Wilson
T. Madison Byar
State Board of Education
Oglebay Park
Wheeling
State Supreme Court
Pittsburgh
U. S. Supreme Court
Border Patrol
Backers Fear For School Aid
Washington reports a sharp split in Congress over Kennedy's public school aid bill. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell says swift White House action is needed to salvage the $2.5 billion measure, as it sits in deadlock between school aid supporters and backers of aid to private and parochial schools. Powell, coming from Europe, hints the President must act quickly to keep the bill viable this session.
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Washington
UPS
Kennedy
White House
Adam Clayton Powell
DN. Y
Powell
House Education Committee
Europe
Congress
Committee
House Rules Committee
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chamber
United States
Senate
U.S
House
Commerce Department
Eichmann Testimony in Jerusalem Court Packed for Trial
The Jerusalem courtroom was filled as Eichmann testified with about 600 spectators turned away. Security was tightened to prevent demonstrations at the trial where Eichmann claimed he did not come to Israel of his own free will and operatives like Gestapo chief Himmler guided decisions. The session ended at 1:42 p.m. and adjourned until 8:30 a.m. Wednesday with no afternoon sessions planned.
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Nazi
Secret Police
Europe
Berlin
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Jerusalem
Eichmann
Israel
Medicare transfers denied in Virginia among six states
The report shows Virginia had no transfers listed while six other regions operated Medicare programs. Kentucky approved 394 applicants, Michigan 4,339, Oklahoma 3,271, Washington 2,450, Puerto Rico 954, and the Virgin Islands 86, excluding transferees.
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Virginia
Kentucky
Michigan
Oklahoma
Washington
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Tradition broken as couple marries in Paden Fork chapel
W Va. Briers reports a long time tradition ended when a couple wed in the Paden Fork Chapel Christian Church, the first ceremony in the 95 year old building. A new Shoe Corp of America department store will open in Huntington by September employing up to 100. In Charleston, 14 year old Isaac Lewis Walker killed two copperhead snakes, one in his yard and another in a neighbor's yard.
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Paden City
UPI
Paden Fork Chapel Christian
SET _ HUNTINGTON
The
Shoe Corp. of America
Columbus
Charleston
Isaac Lewis
Butch) Walker
West Virginia Statehood Origins and Lincoln Proclamation
The piece traces early proposals to form Vandalia and Westsylvania, the 1842 Clarksburg meeting for Appalachia, the Restored Government plan for Kemawha, leading to West Virginia’s 1862 statehood bill. Lincoln signed the act December 31 1862 and issued a proclamation April 20 1863 with effect 60 days later.
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Benjamin Franklin
Vandalia
Pt. Pleasant
Westsylvania
Continental Congress
Virginia
Kemawha
West Virginia
Congress
Lincoln
West Virginia Court Rules Late Insurance Claim Invalid
The West Virginia Supreme Court freed an insurer from liability after a five month reporting delay following a fatal accident. George H. Brown failed to notify as soon as practicable, the court ruling that five months was beyond a reasonable time, overturning a Kanawha Circuit Court decision awarding $10,000 to James J. Hardiman's estate.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia Supreme Court
High Court
Lawer
George H. ‘Brown
Brown
James J. Hardiman
White Sulphur Springs
Hardiman
Chauncey Browning
Kanawha
Adlai Stevenson's Quito visit seen as turning point in US Ecuador ties
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson arrived in Quito to advance Kennedy's alliance for progress and press Ecuador for a proposed 200 million credit to combat poverty. He then flew to Bogota for the tour's finale, amid discussions with President Velasco Ibarra about Cuba and regional unity.
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Francis L. McCarthy
Quito
Ecuador
UPI
Adlai Stevenson
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
South America
United States
Stevenson
Bogota
Colombia
U.S
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First Methodist Church
Glenn W. Stewart
R. R. Thomas
Oak Hill
C. J. McQuade
Raleigh Register
Mrs
Loraine Kovach
Gue
Ae de Gaulle
Mr. K. K
Jackie
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Richmond
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California
Illinois Central Terminal
W. Va
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