Guatemala Battle Grows Over Rail Town Zacapa
Rebels and government forces clash near Zacapa as both sides claim momentum in Guatemala’s four day old conflict. Castillo Armas’ forces say they control 25 towns while Arbenz reports success at Gualan and massing troops along the Zacapa corridor.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Guatemala
Zacapa
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Gualan
Liberation Radio
Col
Carlos Castillo Armas
Associated Press
Guatemala City
Arbenz
Puerto Barrios
Castillo Armas
Esquipulas
Gulan
San Jose
Morales
Coban
Gua
International
Latin American campuses protest Guatemala crisis worldwide
Chilean students and workers burned Eisenhower in effigy as leftist Arbenz support grows. Uruguay condemns Guatemala aggression. Cuban officials and students vie to recognize Castillo Armas. Pro Guatemala protests span Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama, Argentina, and Mexico, with mixed regional responses and calls for sovereignty.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Cen
Carlos Castillo Armas
Arbenz
Latin America
Chile
Santiago
el Mercurio
Russia
Security Council
Organization of American States
Americas
United States
U.S
Institute of North American Culture
University of Guayaquil
Ecuador
Quito
Federation of
University Students
Guatemala
la Paz
Bolivia
Cuba
Havana
Panama
National University
Col. Castillo Armas
Buenos Aires
la Epoca
Juan D. Peron
Washington
British Honduras
Fruit Trust
Mexico City
Excelsior
America
Soft Coal Representatives to Meet President on Industry Problems
President Eisenhower will host soft coal industry representatives next Tuesday to discuss economic issues facing the sector. Sen. Cooper arranged the meeting and noted the disputes span multiple states and require national coordination beyond local action. The group includes officials from Huntington and Washington and leaders from Virginia Smoke less Coal Co. and related firms.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Sen
Cooper
Rky
Interior Terior Department
White House
Rolla D. Campbell
Huntington
W. Va
James W. Haley
Virginia Smokeless Coal Co
Raymond Salvati
Valley Drive extension and access road to turnpike eyed
State Road Commissioner H. K. Griffith told a conference that extending Valley Drive to Mabscott Hill via S Oakwood Avenue and 4th Street would cost 500000 dollars while an access road from Sprague to the turnpike would cost 250000 dollars. Both projects are in planning stages and await funding.
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Valley Drive
H. K. Griffith
Griffith
Mabscott Hill
S. Oakwood Ave
4Th St
Sprague
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Limit St
Black Knight Country Club
Elmer Davis
City plans road surface and widening projects this summer
Mayor Davis outlined multiple road improvements including surfacing one side of Johnstown Road at Vance Eisenhower intersection, widening South Kanawha Street through East Beckley, extending Valley Drive to Mabscott Hill, and widening S Fayette Street and Route 3 toward the city limits. Griffith and officials scheduled afternoon discussions with two other groups to address road issues.
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Davis
Griffith
Johnstown Road
Vance and
Eisenhower Drives
Valley Drive
South Oakwood
Mabscott Hill
Beckley chamber plans five key road projects
The Highways and Roads Commission of the Beckley Area Chamber of Commerce proposes building or improving five major roads to aid the area's economy. The list includes Belt Three Forks Road Beckley to Hinton road the access road Old Eccles Road and Valley Drive extension. Mabscott Lions Club to widen Mabscott underpass at 4 p.m. Griffith attends with C A Rothrock and Carl Long of SRC.
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Highways and Roads Commission
Beckley Area
Raleigh County Canning Center Opens July 1 at Shady Spring
The Raleigh County Canning Center near Shady Spring Elementary will open on July 1 with double the capacity of the former cannery. The $19,300 facility features a 40 by 60 foot main room, a butchering room, storage, and washing floors. Supervisor Mrs. W. A. Collier and engineer Van W. Carper will manage operations, funded by user service charges. From last year, 146 hogs were butchered and 64 760 pints of food were processed during July to January.
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Raleigh County
Shady Spring
Board of Education
Gold Central
Raleigh County Vocational School
Shady Spring High School
William B. Connoley
County Vocational School
Wyoming County
W. A. Collier
van W. Carper
Munson
Connoley
Woman Leads Beckley Recruiting Station in War Effort
1st Lt. Jean M. Reardon now commands the Beckley Main Recruiting and Examining Station while Major William W. Cumbey is away. She serves as WAC recruiting officer and adjutant, guiding enlistment efforts and operations at the center.
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Beckley Main
Jean M. Reardon
Reardon
WAC
William W. Cumbey
Boreman Named Federal Judge for Northern West Virginia
President Eisenhower nominated Herbert S. Boreman of Parkersburg West Virginia to be federal judge for the Northern District of West Virginia to replace the late Judge William Baker Boreman a Republican former Wood County prosecutor and state senator born September 21 1897 in Middlebourne He previously led in the West Virginia Senate and has served on the WVU board of governors He is a great nephew of Governor Arthur I Boreman Judge Baker died after taking qualified retirement last April 3 the state’s three federal judges include Judge Ben Moore and roving judge Harry E Watkins.
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Washington
Herbert S. Boreman
Parkersburg
W. Va
Eisenhower
Northern
West Virginia
William Baker
Boreman
Middlebourne
Wood County
State Senate
Senate
Okey L. Patteson
Arthur I. Boreman
West Virginia University Board of Governors
Baker
Ben Moore
Harry E. Watkins
Studebaker Packard to merge into new corporation
New York reports that Studebaker Corp and Packard Motor Car Co directors approved a merger subject to stockholder approval. The proposed Studebaker Packard Corp will have Harold S. Vance and Paul G. Hoffman as chairmen and James J. Nance as chief executive. Hoffman to be chairman, Vance to head executive committee, Nance to lead. Ferry plans to retire as Packard chairman but stay on the board.
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New York
Studebaker Corp
Packard Motor Car Co
James J. Nance
Hugh J.ferry
Packard
Harold S. Vance
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker
Hoffman
Studebaker-Packard Corp
Vance
Nance
Ferry
Stock Market Slips as Tobacco Shares Lead Decline
The New York Stock Market rose broadly with gains in major names while tobacco stocks retreated after the American Cancer Society linked smoking to cancer. Reynolds Tobacco B down 1% to 35 1/2, Liggett & Myers at 60 off 1% on 5300 shares. Lorillard and Philip Morris down over a point. Big risers included U.S. Steel, General Motors, Chrysler, Goodyear, Montgomery Ward, Caterpillar, United Aircraft, General Electric, Westinghouse, Commonwealth Edison and Sinclair Oil. Bethlehem Steel, American Smelting, American Telephone, Pennsylvania RR, American Airlines and U.S. Gypsum dipped.
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New York
American Cancer Society
Reynolds Tobacco
Liggett & Myers
Lorillard
Philip Morris
U. S. Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
Goodyear
Montgomery Ward
Caterpillar
United Aircraft
General Electric
Westinghouse
Commonwealth Edison
Sinclair Oil
Bethlehem Steel
American Smelting
American Telephone
Pennsylvania Railroad
American Airlines
U. S.gypsum
Mabscott Prisoner Escapes County Jail
A Mabscott prisoner, Addison Patterson, escaped from the Raleigh County Jail Monday night. He tapered through a stairway from the juvenile section to the circuit judge offices after sawing the door handle. Patterson, serving 12 months on a peace warrant, was found missing at 6:30 a.m. He is the third inmate to escape recently via work privileges.
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Raleigh County
John C. Ward
Addison Patterson
Mabscott
Patterson
Fred Aaron
Little Beaver Lake
Registration Ends July 3 for Primary
County Clerk Harry C. Anderson announced that voters registration books close July 3 for the upcoming primary. Beckley city books have been closed since June 15 while Beckley residents can still register for the August 3 primary. cards will be held until after the July 13 special levy election before being added back.
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Harry C. Anderson
Beckley
Truman Recovers From Sunday Surgery at Hospital
Kansas City report says Harry S Truman sat up about 45 minutes after a Sunday operation in which his gall bladder and appendix were removed, reading telegrams and letters.
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Kansas City
Harry S
Truman
Norway Rejects U. S. Move to Check Boats
Oslo reports Norway became the third nation to formally reject a U S request for special search powers on the high seas to intercept Guatemala bound arms shipments. Britain and the Netherlands had similar responses. The note says Norway will support actions to contain hostilities in Guatemala per UN Security Council resolution but its laws do not permit barring ships in peacetime.
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Oslo
Norway
U.S
High Seas
Guatemala
Britain
State Department
Netherlands
Western
Europe
U.N
Security Council
Diplomats Ask Delay Over Guatemala Protest
The Inter-American Peace Commission set aside Guatemala’s protest of foreign aggression to gauge the impact of a United Nations cease fire order. The five-nation panel unanimously granted the delay two hours before meeting to consider the complaint. Guatemala had charged Honduras and Nicaragua after declaring an attack by exiles. The move allows time to decide whether to pursue the matter before the commission or the U.N. Security Council.
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Washington
Guatemala
Inter- American Peace Commission
United Nations
Five-Nations Commission
Sheriff Ward Faces Decisions After Holiday Absence
Sheriff John C. Ward returned from an 18 day vacation in Florida to a desk stacked with mail and pressure from two internal cases. A prisoner escaped Raleigh County Jail last night as Ward weighs possible action on deputy Mason Farley and another deputy Ted Brown linked to a Rhodell numbers case. Ward said he will continue investigating but declined to reveal his intended steps.
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Mack Ray Mann Jr
Stamford Road
Harry L. McCreery
Mann
Douglas Stanley
John C. Ward
Florida
Mate Ters
Raleigh
Ward
Mason Farley
Farley
Rhodell
Clifford W. Roberts
Ted Brown
Harmon Quits Delegate Race
Roy Lee Harmon, three term House of Delegates member, announces he will not seek re election. He filed earlier and aimed to run Democratic for the seat first won in 1946 but his wife’s health requires time in New Mexico. He sold his Beckley home, resigns from the Department of Mines, 90 day leave granted, and remains on the Public Safety payroll with uncertain status. He is poet laureate of the state and has backed the administration on many issues.
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Roy Lee Harmon
House of Delegates
Harmon
New Mexico
Alamosa Road
N.W
Albuquerque
N.M
Beckley
Department of Mines
Mines
Frank B. King
West Virginia Department of Public Safety
Beckly
Commentator Hollenbeck Found Dead in Midtown Hotel
New York CBS commentator Don Hollenbeck was found dead by gas in his Midtown hotel apartment. Police said five gas jets were open, and it appears to be a death by own action. Hollenbeck resided at the Midtown Hotel on East 48th Street in Manhattan.
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New York
CBS
Don Hollenbeck
Hollenbeck
Middletown
East 48Th Street
Manhattan
West Virginia Weather Forecast and Conditions
Cloudy with scattered thunderstorms possible tonight and Wednesday in east and south areas. Temperatures generally above normal through Sunday, with cooler north and west Thursday and warmer Friday. Showers likely Friday or Saturday statewide and Wednesday in the south, totaling about half an inch. Normal highs around 72 to 73.
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W. VA
West Virginia
North Section
South
Beckley High
Oak Hill
Cestanene Lee
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
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