Four held in Durham counterfeiting ring case
Secret Service agents arrested Haywood Forbush of Virginia and earlier four men tied to a Durham counterfeit operation that produced more than a million dollars in bogus twenty dollar bills. Roy Lee Matthews, Robert Ferguson, and R B Poole were arraigned in U S District Court with bonds set at five thousand dollars.
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Durham
N.C
UPI
Secret Service
Haywood Forbush
Boston
Roy Lee Matthews
George Dipper
Matthews
Dipper
Robert S. Ferguson
Ferguson Printing Co
R. B. Poole
U.S. District Court
Vernon Spiece
Secret Service Bureau
Charlotte
Five Negroes Shot In Canton Miss In Voter Drive
United Press report notes five Black men leaving a CORE voter registration meeting in Canton Mississippi were wounded by shotgun fire but not seriously hurt. Police investigate as protests accompany desegregation efforts in the state amid ongoing civil rights campaigns.
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United Press International
Canton
Miss
Dan Thompson
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Jackson
John N. Butzner
Richmond
U.S
Prince George County
Mobile
Ala
Daniel H. Thomas
Mobile County School Board
Alabama
Los Angeles
Savannah
Mississippi To Seek Death For Sniper Beckwith
Mississippi will seek the death penalty for Byron De La Beckwith, the white segregationist charged with the sniper slaying of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers. Beckwith, 42, of Greenwood, was to appear in a preliminary hearing in Jackson today. The state seeks an indictment from the Hinds County grand jury and eventual trial with capital punishment. The FBI arrested Beckwith after fingerprints on a rifle tied to the crime were matched. A World War I rifle was found hours after the murder nearby.
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Waller
Beckwith
Greenwood
Jackson
USS
John R. Countiss III
Justice Department
Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
FBI
Hoffa Faces Federal Charges In $20 Million Fraud Case
Chicago UPI James R Hoffa president of the Teamsters is due in federal court to plead innocent on 27 counts of mail and wire fraud and one conspiracy to defraud. He and seven others allegedly diverted over $1 million from a Teamster Pension Fund loan scheme. Potential penalties include up to five years prison per count and fines. Hoffa has not been convicted before.
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Chicago
UPI
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Teamster
Hoffa
Teamster Pension Fund
Logan Bad Men Still At Large In West Virginia
Two men who robbed the Monitor Drive-in Theater near Logan and held up a coal miner at gunpoint remain at large after wrecking their car near Warfield. State Police link a Sunday night theater robbery to a Monday morning pistol point assault on Floyd Fitch, with the same suspects described as carrying a sawed off shotgun. The car involved had been stolen in Chicago and the suspects fled across the Tug River into Kentucky before wrecking their vehicle in Warfield.
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Kermit
UPL
Logan
Here
Floyd Fitch
Monitor
Tug River
Martin County
Warfield
Fitch
Warfields
Chicago
World Leaders Exchange Views After Breakfast Talk
Bonn mayor Willy Brandt said Kennedy and he had a good exchange on many subjects after a breakfast meeting. In New York, Martin Luther King Jr urged immediate action on racial equality warning time is running out as Black Americans demand their rights here and now.
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United Press International
Bonn
Germany
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Kennedy
New York
Martin Luther King Jr
Waller says death penalty sought if Beckwith indicted
In Jackson Mississippi District Attorney William Waller vows to seek the death penalty if and when Byron De La Beckwith is indicted and tried for the slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. In Georgetown Texas attorney Price Ashton argues thirteen years is too long for desegregation, urging quicker school integration.
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Jackson, Miss
William Waller
Byron de la Beckwith
Medgar Evers
Beckwith
Austin
Tex
Mail Boat Docks In Downtown Charleston
A small mail boat named Lady Grace docked at the Kanawha River levee in downtown Charleston becoming the first mail boat to run the Kanawha River in 80 years. Frederick Way Jr. of Sewickley Pennsylvania piloted the gas driven sternwheeler on a four day trip started in Wheeling and stopping at river towns as part of the Centennial Celebration.
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Charleston
UPI
Kanawha River
Chesapeake
Wheeling
Frederick Way Jr
Sewickley
Mayor Elect Smith Takes Oath Of Office
Beckley Mayor Elect John Wesley Smith was quietly sworn in at City Hall in a pre term ceremony at 3 p.m. with family present. He plans to start duties July 1 and has called a meeting of the new City Council for 8 a.m. that day.
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John Wesley Smith
Beckley
New
Walter Humphrey
Smith
Second Trieste Dive Delayed Aboard USS Fort Snelling
The Navy called off today's second Trieste dive near the Thresher search due to minor difficulties. The operation is rescheduled for 9 a.m. with Navy Lt Cmdr Donald K. Keach and civilian Kenneth W. MacKenzie, both San Diego, aboard. Keach had led the first dive Monday and an injury delayed the crew assignment. Navy Lt George W. Martin, also of San Diego, sprained an ankle Monday night and will be replaced.
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Fort Snelling AT
UPS
Navy
Trieste
Donald K. Keach
San Diego
Calif
Kenneth W. MacKenzie
Keach
MacKenzie
George W. Martin
Foreign aid bill cut agreed by key House members
Washington officials report that top members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee have reached a compromise on a $400 million reduction in President Kennedy’s $4.5 billion foreign aid bill while signaling they will oppose further cuts.
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Washington
UPI
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Kennedy
Democrats Choose Atlantic City For 1964 Convention
The Democratic National Committee chose Atlantic City New Jersey as the site for the 1964 nominating convention to reelect President Kennedy. The event will run from August 24 with Chicago and Miami Beach as rivals. Governor Richard J Hughes praised the East Coast choice and outlined a $625000 package from state local businesses and hotels to host the gathering.
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Washington
UPS
Kennedy
Atlantic City
N.J
Miami Beach
Chicago
Richard J. Hughes
New Jersey
Philadelphia
New York
Hughes
Miami
San Francisco
John M. Bailey
Bailey
Gent Shot Questioning Of Wife Planned
Gen Thomas J Gent was critically wounded by a head bullet at Tinker AFB in what authorities believe was an accidental shooting. His wife Martha, 52, was arrested for drunken driving and resisting arrest after the incident and was sedated at the base hospital as investigators prepared to question her later in the week.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Air Force
Thomas J. Gent
Gent
32Nd Air Division
Tinker Air Force Base
Martha
State Heart Association adopts $100,700 budget
CLARKSBURG, WV. West Virginia Heart Association directors approved a $100,700 budget for the coming fiscal year at a Sunday meeting. The group also announced six regional meetings to explain activities and gather information on community needs for additional heart programs.
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Clarksburg
UPI
West Virginia Heart Association
B&O Considers Halting Tunnel Work After Mine Tragedy
CHARLESTON UPI There is a moral duty to recover the body of Harry Nichols 51 of Bartlett Ohio buried under rock in a Parkersburg tunnel after a June 6 roof fall. The B and O plans to abandon work if danger persists, while a second tunnel might be dug to continue piggyback rail traffic between Clarksburg and Parkersburg.
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Charleston
UPI
Parkersburg
Lawrence Barker
Barker
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Harry Nichols
Bartlett
Ohio
Arthur Boggs
Perkins
Gilmer County
Nichols
C. W. Shaw Jr
B&o
Shaw
Clarksburg
Elkins To Get 147-Bed Hospital
Washington reports a 3.6 million federal grant and loan will fund Memorial General Hospital Elkins, a 147 bed facility on a city block. ARA provides 2.43 million grant and 1.17 million PF A loan to start construction in about 90 days. The project will create 76 jobs and spur up to 500 indirect positions. the existing hospital will become a convalescent facility operated by Memorial General Hospital Association.
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Public Facilities Administration
Elkins
Memorial General Hospital Association
Kennedy vows to risk U S cities to defend allies in Germany
President Kennedy pledged the United States would risk its own cities to defend allies, saying a threat to European freedom is a threat to America. In Frankfurt he urged economic unity and Western resolve against communism, stressing indivisible Atlantic defense and deep self interest. He spoke at St Pauls Church after Bonn talks with Chancellor Adenauer and previous stop near Hanau with American troops.
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Merriman Smith
UPI
White House
Frankfurt
Germany
Kennedy
United States
Freedom of
Europe
Paulskirche
St. Paul’s Church
West Germany
Berlin
Ireland
Britain
Hanau
Ihs
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
America
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Eleven Counsellors Selected For Science Camp
Charleston UPS reports eleven counsellors chosen for the West Virginia Centennial National Youth Science Camp in Pocahontas County from June 30 to July 20. Prof. Charles Cochran of West Virginia University will direct, with Prof. Joseph M. Hutchinson Jr. as assistant director. The three week program centers near the National Science Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank with one hundred teenage boys, two from each state, attending.
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Charleston
UPS
West Virginia
Pocahontas County
Charles Cochran
West Virginia University
Jean Guthrie
Centennial Commission
Joseph M. Hutchinson Jr
National Science Radio Astronomy Observatory
Green Bank
Paul R. Errington
Scarbro
Robert Combs
John R. Harris
Pennsboro
Robert O’leeson
Clay
Roger L. Mersing
King Lowell Shaw
Fairview
David Shepherd
Westover
John W. Stone
David F. Tork
South Charleston
John S. Weldon
Morgantown
Roderick W. Wilson
Auto Slips Off Jack Kills Mt Hope Musician
James Russell Banks 31 of Mt Hope was crushed when a car slipped from a jack in Washington DC Monday. A music teacher from Kingston NC Banks had returned to visit his wifes sister, Mrs Georgia Williams, and was to join his wife who left Mt Hope Sunday. He was born April 23 1932, son of Lawrence Banks. He graduated from DuBois High School and West Virginia State College with a BS in Music Education.
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James Russel Banks
Mt. Hope
Washington
D. C
Banks
Kinston
N. C
New York
Georgia Willams
James Jr
Lawrence Banks
DuBois High School
West Virginia State College
West Virginia State
Landslides bury village in Korea killing 71
Landslides after heavy rains buried the village of Changsungpo on Koje Island, killing at least 71. Floods and landslides elsewhere in southern Korea have caused 41 deaths this week. Details are scarce as communications to the mainland are disrupted by two days of torrential rain.
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Seoul
UPI
Changsungpo
Koje Island
Korea
We Like W.Va Billboards Erected Across West Virginia
Governor Barron announced 13 billboards display the slogan We Like West Virginia statewide. The West Virginia Manufacturers Association funded and placed the signs on major highways near Parkersburg Wheeling Martinsburg Point Pleasant Charleston Huntington Caldwell Greenbrier County and Friendly Tyler County. Barron called the effort a substantial contribution to a better economy and said manufacturers are leading the way to greater industrial development.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
W. W. Barron
West Virginia Manufacturers Association
Parkersburg
Wheeling
Martinsburg
Pt. Pleasant
Huntington
Caldwell
Greenbrier County
Friendly
Tyler County
Barron
Khrushchev Plans East Berlin Trip to Counter Kennedy Visit
Premier Khrushchev will visit East Berlin this Sunday to blunt Western momentum from Kennedy's West Berlin stop. Observers tie the trip to backing Ulbricht and pressuring for a peace treaty with East Germany. Khrushchev’s talk may hinge on Kennedy’s movements in West Berlin and the timing marks Ulbricht's 70th birthday.
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Moscow
UPI
Nikita S. Khrushchev
East Berlin
West Berlin
Kennedy
East Germany
Walter Ulbricht
Kremlin
Berlin
Khrushchev
Ulbricht
Tax Extension Ready For Kennedy Signature In Congress
Senate approved the House bill to extend wartime taxes on corporations and items like cigarettes liquor beer and telephones. The measure would push the current 52 percent corporate tax and excise levies to June 30 1964 while Kennedy on a European trip is expected to sign before Sunday midnight to prevent revenue loss. The plan also kept intact the 5 percent federal tax on airline tickets despite a GOP push to repeal it.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Senate
House
Treasury
Europe
Treasury Department
Court Set July 2 for Blue Law Case in Charleston
CHARLESTON UP I The State Supreme Court set July 2 as the date to hear West Virginia's revised blue law dispute. Justices will review the law's constitutionality amid three indictments against Heck's and Pic-Way Shoes. The court suspended proceedings and ordered Cabell County officials to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue. Attorneys argued the law was vague and unfair, with harsh penalties for repeated violators.
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Charleston
UPI
State Supreme Court
West Virginia
Heck’s
Prc- Way Shoes
Cabell County
High Court
Russell C. Dunbar
Common Pleas
E. E. Winters
Stanley Preiser
Pic-Way
Presser
Floods from 14 inch rains strike Nebraska towns
Torrential rains up to fourteen inches inundate Wahoo Ashland Crete and Lincoln area towns leaving hundreds homeless and prompting one hour evacuation notices. Two deaths reported with millions in damages. Red Cross aiding 460 families with shelters and feeding units deployed across Linwood Wahoo Ashland and Lincoln.
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Wahoo
Neb
UPI
Nebraska
Dewitt
Memphis
Valparaiso
Ashland
Lincoln
Swan River
Turkey Creek
Salt Creek
Nebraska Grasslands
Red Cross
Crete
Beckley Area Weather Forecast Outlook Sunny and Warm
Weather bulletin for Beckley and vicinity shows sunny and warm conditions this afternoon with highs in the low 80s and fair cool nights in the mid 50s. Wednesday continues sunny and warm with gentle west winds and no precipitation reported.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Greenbrier
Hinton
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W. J. Smith
Anne Sheffler
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State Heart Association
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