Political Roundup North Dakota to hold primary tomorrow
The Associated Press reports rapid campaign activity as governors meet in Glacier National Park Montana and Nixon endorsement talks unfold. Rockefeller declines to sign a draft pledge while Johnson denial and Williams accusations surge. North Dakota voters prepare for Tuesday Senate election amid farm policy stakes with Kennedy and Symington weighing in at state conventions. Sanford wins Democratic nomination for North Carolina governor signaling moderate school segregation stance.
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Associated Press
Glacier National Park
Mont
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Montana
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Helena
North Dakota
Gov. Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Rockefeller
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Johnson
Williams
Kennedy
Senate
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Washington
Symington
Mountain
Des Moines
Iowa
John E. Davis
Quentin Burdick
William Langer
Ezra Taft Benson
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Dr. I. Beverly Lake
Sanford
County Red Cross Unit To Operate Until Sept 1
S Austin Caperton announced the Raleigh County Red Cross chapter will operate on Eastern Area funds until September 1 1960. He said funds due National Red Cross leave no operating money and a grant request may be filed to cover six months of the next fiscal year beginning July 1 If the grant is not received preparations to close the chapter on Sept 1 will be made. The meeting also elected eight directors and officers for the new year including Caperton Peregoy Hayes Bright Richmond and Phipps.
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S. Austin Caperton
American Red Cross
Caperton
National Red Cross
National RC
Edwin Ratcliffe
Roger Sharp
M. E. English
Fred Richmond
Beckley
Dewey Bone
Dry Creek
Harold Feazelle
Montroal
H. G. Farmer
Bolt
Carl Bunch
C. C. Carman
C. G. Peregoy
Fred Hayes
George Bright
Paul Phipps
Kilsyth Passenger Injured In Wreck
A Kilsyth passenger, Miss Zona Hoke, 20, was admitted to Beckley Memorial Hospital after a two car crash in Prosperity. The 1954 car driven by Carla Jerome Cook collided with a 1952 model vehicle driven by Orman B. Meadows. Hoke is listed in fair condition. State Police report the accident occurred at 4:45 p.m. with no arrests yet.
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Kylsyth
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Prosperity
Zona Hoke
Carla Jerome Cook
Beckley
Orman B. Meadows
Woodland Specialist to Aid Fayette County Farm Timber Plan
Woodland Conservationist Ross Mellinger of the Soil Conservation Service will visit Fayette County Tuesday to assist the Wiseman farm on Laurel Creek near Fayetteville. He will work with Fayette County Farm Planner Ward Ashford and Porter A. Hanna to select a site and develop a plan to improve the existing timber stand on the chosen acres.
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Ross Mellinger
Soil Conservation Service
Fayette County
Wiseman
Laurel Creek
Fayetteville
Ward Ashford
Porter A. Hanna
SCS
C&O Names Murphy Beckley Assistant Coal Traffic Agent
Covington man John T. Murphy has been transferred to Beckley to serve as assistant coal traffic agent for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. He moved from Cincinnati where he did clerical work in the coal traffic office and completed a one year training program. Murphy, a Cincinnati native, is married with two children and will relocate his family to Beckley after finding a home. He will work under Coal Traffic Agent J. O. Dellinger Jr. Another assistant coal traffic agent in Beckley is B. T. Childers.
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Covington
Beckley
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
John T. Murphy
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati
Murphy
J. O. Dellinger Jr
B. T. Childers
Texas Deluged Floods Claim Several Lives Across Coast
Port Lavaca survivors housed with relatives as five feet of water floods streets after 30 inches of rain. Typhoid serum flown in. Two 13 year olds, Arthur Garza and Neives Garcia, drown wading in a street. Shrimper Jay Hale and two crewmen presumed dead after boat sinks in a tropical storm. Fireman William Hamm, and youths Lee McKeen Calvin Joseph drown in Houston floods. Drownings near Seguin tally additional victims Willie Rodriguez Armando Ibarra.
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Port Lavaca
Arthur Garza
Neives Garcia
Jay Hale
Aransas Pass
Tex
William E. Hamm
Braes Bayou
Houston
Lee McKeen
Calvin Joseph
Willie Rodriguez
Staples
Armando Ibarra
San Marcos
Seguin
San Antonio
Cuba Blasts Kill About 100 At Shipyard Explosion
Cuban officials traced the Coubre blast to March 4 during munitions unloading, with Castro alleging U.S. blame but no evidence. Herter denounced the claim as baseless while anti American chants surged. Newsmen faced barred access and conflicting reports of nearby injuries and a possible grenade attack.
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Coubre
Castro
U.S
la ‘Coubre
Christian A. Herter
United States
Fidel
Revolucion
Havana
Board May Close 3 Schools Tuesday
Raleigh County Board of Education will hold a regular meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday to discuss closing three one room schools at East Metalton Metal ton and East Sullivan and to review the salary schedule and hiring personnel.
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Raleigh
Red’s Walk Out Signals End of Conference Plan
A summary of a Cold War armament framework outlines an eight step U S and Soviet led disarmament plan. It calls for an international disarmament organization a space weapons ban on-site inspections and staged force reductions culminating in a global peace force and limits on armament production while preserving clear national contingents.
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Vo Pe
France
Italy
Cana
Paris
Zorin
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
International Disarmament Organization
Notable deaths span engineers artists and military leaders
Bethlehem, Jon athan Jones, 78, engineer who oversaw bridges for Chesapeake Bay, George Washington and Golden Gate dies. New York, Percy V. Ivory, 83, painter of Western scenes. Tokyo, Lt. Gen. Tora shiro Kawabe, 70, deputy chief of staff, former imperial army leader. Plainfield, Thomas W. Corcoran, 91, Cincinnati Reds field captain around turn of century, dies.
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Bethlehem, Pa
Jonathan Jones
Chesapeake Bay
George Washington
Golden Gate
Tokyo
Torashiro Kawabe
China
Plainfield, Conn
Thomas W. Corcoran
Cincinnati Reds
State Records 9 Accident Deaths Over Weekend
Nine lives ended in West Virginia and nearby areas over the weekend. Drownings claimed Ralph Metzer, Nardi Ceravalo, A O Winter, and Roy Markle amid pool, river, and creek incidents. Auto crashes killed Thomas Lomax and Curtis Lomax. Mrs Clover Frymier and Mrs Violet Rector died in separate road accidents. John Henry Moss died from a home accident. Police reports detail drownings, a boating overturn, a skindiving search, and alcohol-linked negligent homicide fines.
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Associated Press
West
Marylowe
Berkeley County
Potomac River
Clear Spring
Washington County
Lee Kelley
Caravalo
A. O. Winter
Ohio River
Ravenswood
Winter
Roy Markle
Parkersburg
Middle Island Creek
St. Marys
John
Lomax
Bartley
McDowell County
Ohio
John Lee Belcher
Bellefontaine
U.S
Thomas
Curtis
Jackie
Belcher
Clover Lee Frymier
Tanner
Gilmer County
Ritchie County
Edgar Lawson
Shock
Violet A. Rector
Shinnston
John Henry Moss
Sissonville
Charleston
Raleigh Woman Jailed on Capias
Catherine Hayes of Raleigh was jailed on a capias at 10 a m after being sentenced in the March term of Raleigh County Criminal Court to six months for shoplifting with a 30 day stay for appeal. Her lawyer Brown H Payne left Beckley for Chicago, and she was unaware of a return date. She is also indicted by the June Grand Jury for a later shoplifting offense. her case was docketed for today.
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Catherine Hayes
Raleigh
Raleigh County
Keiling Named Assistant District Forester in Fourth District
Francis Keiling of Raleigh County is named to the new post of assistant district forester effective July 1, serving under Carl Lucas in forest management fire control and the state forest program. He remains in Beckley and is a 1951 Panther State Forest superintendent and 1955 Raleigh county forester veteran. His successor as county forester will be David A. Yost of Williamsport Pa a 1960 Penn State forestry graduate who will also start July 1.
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Carl Lucas
Beckley
Keiling
North Carolina State College
United States Steel Corporation
McDowell County
State Conservation Commission
Panther State Forest
McDowell
Raleigh
David A. Yost
Williamsport
Yost
Penn State College of Forestry
Soviet Citizens See Pressure Rise Under Khrushchev
The article notes rising population pressure on Khrushchev and party elites as housing, promotions, and privileges are challenged by practical needs. It cites Army demobilizations, workforce shifts, and critiques of diplomacy after the U2 incident, with Russians increasingly comparing living standards to the West and seeking peacetime gains. Tuesday: Supply and demand among the proletariat.
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Khrushchev
U.S.S.R
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Local Firm Plans Major Earth Moving Construction
A local firm announced plans for a tremendous earth moving project as its first job. Architect Donald Stark of Mount Hope is revising building plans that will include a large National Guard drill hall a firing range a field house for athletics and large kitchens for events.
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Struction Co
Francis
Donald Stark
Mount Hope
National Guard
Beckley Jaycee John J Flanagan Excelled in National Speech
West Virginia Jaycees leader John J Flanagan represented by Beckley in the national public speaking contest. He reached the top bracket before being eliminated in the final eight as 38 states competed. Contestants included Toastmasters members lawyers and professors of speech from various schools.
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John J. Flanagan
Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia
Miner's Injury Cancels Family Vacation in Mine Accident
Ey A Gayness of Tralee suffers a leg injury at the Tralee mine on Wednesday when his leg is crushed between two machines. He is hospitalized in fair condition at Wyoming General Hospital. The accident cancels a planned vacation to Ohio and Michigan for Gayness, his wife Margaret, and their children Kay Fay and Deward Lynn.
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Ey A. Gayness
Sophia
Wyon General Hospital
Tralee
Gayness
Ohio
Michigan
Margaret
Kay, Fay
Deward Lynn
Hill Top Miner Injured On First Day Of Work
A 59 year old Harlem Heights miner James Browder was injured on his first day at Hill Top Mine Co when a cradle tipped and threw him into a coal chute. He sustained head injuries a strained shoulder and cuts. He is at Oak Hill Hospital. Also at the same hospital is John Howard Jasper nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Phillip B Jasper of Harlem Heights who fractured his right arm while playing near his home. John is a fourth grade student at Harlem Heights School.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Harlem Heights
James Browder
Hill Top Mine Co
Oak Hill Hospital
John Howard Jasper
Phillip B. Jasper
John
Harlem Heights School
Raleigh County Health Depart cancels Friday well child conference
The Friday well child conference originally scheduled by the Raleigh County Health Department has been cancelled due to the miners vacation.
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Raleigh County Health Department
Deaths and Funerals Have 4 Obituaries Listed
Funeral services follow for Orval Hobbs 50 of Mount Hope with burial at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Clara Wriston 58 of Lester dies from rifle wound. service at First Baptist Lester. Clark Snead 70 of 201 Highland St. to be buried Sunset Memorial Park after long illness. Clarence Massie 70 of Jumping Branch to be buried White Oak Williams Cemetery after long illness.
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Mount Hope
Mount Hope Christian Church
Raymond Martin
Mount Vernon
Hobbs
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
Tyree
J. C. Gwinn
Roy Brewer
Edward Harless
Roy Miller
Alex Natier
J. B Helton
Clara Wriston
Lester
First Baptist Church
R. J. Patterson
Clark Snead
Highland St
Webb and Neal
Joseph Mascioli
Sunset Memorial Park
Snead
Bernard Snead
Dunns
Thomas G
Ella Okes Snead
Clarence Lewis Massie
Little Vine ‘Primitive Baptist Church
Beaver
Kenna Little
Eli O. Lilly
Jessie I. Bowling
Carlie Cox
Williams Cemetery
White Oak
Massie
Ghent
William and Mary Williams Massie
Little Vine
Sarah West Massie
Carl
Earl
Oak Hill
Lara Harvey
Mary Allen
Arlington
Albert
Jumping Branch
Edgar
Daniels
Walter
Frank
Chester
Dayton
Beckley
Orpha Deaver
Hinton
Ora McGrady
Fayetteville
Laura Massie
Clarksburg
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Dean Pack
Martin Lester
Wade Waddell
Merle Lilly
Edgar Lilly
C. B. Quesenberry
Eisenhower to push practical low spirits area bill
President Eisenhower's full report of a practical low in spirits area measure will prompt Congress to pass such a bill. Time remains, Underwood noted in a letter to the President for enactment during the present session. Dr. D. Franklin Milam, of Charleston, named associate professor of urology at West Virginia University Teaching Hospital, to start in September and first native West Virginian on staff. Mrs. Ethel Brownson Burns, 84, widow of a pioneer lumber operator, died yesterday at her Huntington home.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Underwood
Charleston
D. Franklin Milam
West Virginia University
West
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Huntington
Drive In Robbed Of Merchandise
RHODELL Rhodell drive in restaurant The El Rancho was broken into after midnight Sunday and merchandise including candy cigarettes beer and food taken. Owner Claetta Helvey discovered the break in at 10 am today noting entry through a pried front door and a rock thrown through an upstairs window. This marks the sixth break in during three years of operation. Police investigated with Beckley State Police and Rhodell Chief Irvin Simmons.
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Rhodell
RNS
el Rancho
Claetta Helvey
Nuclear Talks Stall Colder Front in Arms Race
The report says a new blow to disarmament talks signals a potential hardening of Soviet stance under Khrushchev and forecasts no restart of negotiations until after the U.S. presidential transition next January. If talks collapse, the world faces a major crisis in U.S. Soviet relations and renewed pressure to resume nuclear testing.
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Zorin
United States
Khrushchev
Geneva
Eisenhower
U.S
Britain
Soviet Union
Inducement bill outlined for labor surplus area industries
Randolph outlined a bill feature used in several states as an extra incentive to draw new industries into labor surplus areas. A similar measure was introduced in the House by Rep. Ken Hechler.
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House
Ken Hechler
Wva
Randolph
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