Eisenhower signals end of foreign tours and personal diplomacy
Washington AP report notes Congress reacts with mixed views as President says chance of new journeys in remaining seven months is slight yet would not hesitate to travel if needed. He cites Tokyo riots and Japan security pact ratification as factors in the shift, calling it a victory against communism. Republicans praise gains from tours. Democrats urge reliance on established diplomacy.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Japan
Tokyo
United States
Free World
America
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Foreign Relations Committee
John Sparkman
Dala
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate
Shaken Kenny Foundation Chooses New Leadership
In Minneapolis the Shaken Kenny Foundation reshuffles its board after a state report found polio donation funds diverted for private profit. New chair B C Gamble seeks to stabilize the charity and vows rapid action to keep the foundation alive, naming names such as Marvin L. Kline and Fred Fadell as figures highlighted in the AG report.
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Minneapolis
Minnn
Sistter Kenny Foundation
Atty
Walter Mondale
B. C. Gamble
Global tensions and trials in 1960s News Specter
Governor Nelson Rockefeller urges a 3 billion dollar rise in defense spending calling the 1960s a decade of danger during a Glacier National Park speech. A KC97 tanker crash in Maine leaves five dead. Thai royal visit to Washington aims to reinforce alliance. Steel layoffs hit workers as orders slump. Typhoon Olive devastates the Philippines with hundreds dead and missing. Kentucky hosts a large alcohol and tobacco field officers convention. A Los Angeles murder trial resumes for Carole Tregoff and Dr R Bernard Finch. Tokyo student protest against U S Japan security treaty spikes.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Eisenhower
Glacier National Park
Mont
U.N. Security Council
General Assembly
Air Force
Plattsburgh
N.Y
Maine
Bhumibol
Adulyadej
Sirikit
Thailand
Washington
United States
Cambridge
Mass
Prince Mahidol
Harvard Medical School
Olive
South China Sea
Hong Kong
Philippines
Kentucky
Louisville
Carole Tregoff
R. Bernard Finch
Los Angeles
Barbara Jean
Tokyo
U. S
Nobusuke Kishi
Zengakuirent
West Virginia Weather Report Shows Sunny Warmth East
The Beckley and Oak Hill readings indicate mild temperatures with highs in the 80s and lows around 60s. Expect mostly sunny conditions in the east, cloudier skies and possible scattered showers in the west, with river gauge near 2.3 feet and open water conditions.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
NEA proposes driver courses gain equal school status
Norman Key of the NEA Commission on Public Education urges upgrading driver education to a full high school course with standards for college faculty and certification requiring a bachelor degree and a minor in driver and safety education. He argues for standards comparable to other teaching fields despite critics labeling it a frill.
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Los Angeles
National Education Assn
Norman Key
NEA
Commission On Public Education
Key
Boy Killed By New Driver In Parkersburg
In Parkersburg a three year old boy Johnny Roach died after an elderly woman learner driver lost control near Rav enswood trailer camp. Mrs Ann Duccia 65 and her daughter Mrs Mary Collins were receiving driving instruction when the car sideswiped a parked vehicle and struck the child who had just left his tricycle. The accident occurred Sunday and the child died about 24 hours later at a hospital. No charges have been filed.
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Parkersburg
D. C. Orndorff
Ann Duccia
Clarksburg
Mary Collins
Ravenswood
Collinses
Johnny Roach
John L. Roach
Britain's TV rivals say rock n roll era ends
London reports AP states that Britain's two major networks agree the vogue for rock and roll is finished. BBC plans to quit after Drumbeat and Dig This failed to draw large audiences while the Independent Television Authority concedes little success for Boy Meets Girl and Am I.
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London
Britain
British Broadcasting Corp
Independent Television Authority
Am i
Won't Vacate Property Until State Pays Up
In Wheeling, the Cox family fights a road relocation order. Marshall Circuit Judge Lloyd Arnold halted gas and phone service to their McMechen home as Caterpillars move in and work begins on a 1.7 mile project. The family will not vacate until they receive their condemnation payment, disputing the state award of 10 000 dollars. They threaten to stay until the money arrives or power is cut off.
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McMechen
David Cox
Cox
Marshall Circuit
Lloyd Arnold
Mimio
Khrushchev
Stalin
Georgi Malenkov
Brothers Charged in Knife Attack on Teen in Huntsville
Two white brothers William Aliverson, 26, and Bobby Alverson, 23, were charged in Huntsville with an assault on Melvina Rogers, 18, a Black teen. The escort suffered knife wounds. the attackers were held without bond. A deputy or witness, Elzie Bates Jr., 18, reportedly fled, and two other men were cleared.
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Huntsville
Ala
Circuit
Macon L. Weaver
William Aliverson
Bobby Alverson
Hazel Green
Weaver
Melvina Rogers
William
William Neadlus Hill
Elzie Bates Jr
Holiday traffic fatalities forecast by safety council
The National Safety Council projects about 370 traffic deaths and up to 13 000 disabling injuries during the four day Fourth of July weekend as 173 million motorists expected on roads travel roughly 7.2 billion miles. Tips urged include not drinking driving and avoiding anger while behind the wheel.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Stop Kennedy movement drives Massachusetts redhead nominee chatter
Sherwood Glutz endorses the Stop Kennedy push as the likely flop of the year. The Massachusetts redhead is described racing ahead, with strong implication he will be the Democratic nominee and soon shaping national leadership.
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Massachusetts
White House
Senate approves coal research bill to boost industry
The Senate passed swiftly a bill to create an Office of Coal Research in the Interior Department. The measure, supported by the administration, would fund research with up to 17 500 annual director pay and require findings be shared with industry and the public, except national security. Senate action returns the bill to the House for its consideration of changes.
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Washington
Senate
Department of Interior
House
Eisenhower
Special Coal Research and Development Commission
Interior Department
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Robert C. Byrd
DW Va
Soviet Russia
United States
Senate Interior Committee
Secretary of Interior
Office of
Coal Research
Interior Committee
Secretary of the Interior
Fred A. Sea
Three Children Die In Flash Flood Near Little Rock
In Arkansas, Branscum family car swept off Highway 65 by a flood. Sgt. Roy Branscum and his Japanese wife Motoko and a son were rescued after clinging to tree trunks for nearly an hour. Marilyn 8 was recovered from the car, while Daniel Ray 5 and Gray 2 remained missing. Passersby aided the survivors.
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Little Rock
Ark
Roy Branscum
Branscum
Motoko
Carl
Highway 65
Here
Marilyn
Daniel Ray
Gray
New Orleans
Roxie Branscum
Fight for control of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
New York Central action to acquire 1,550,000 B and O shares follows a C and O offer. Central proposes 1 1 2 Central shares plus 9 cash per B and O share, with offer expiring Sept 26, 1960. C and O had earlier suggested stock exchange as a merger prelude. B and O stock rose to 39 dollars after the news.
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NEW York
America
Baltimore & Ohio
New York Central Railroad
RKO
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
B&o
Central
Alfred Perlman
Road
Central Common
B & O Common
Impson
Chesapeake and Ohio
Perlman
C&o
Baltimore and Ohio
C&o and Central
Mine Explosion at Six Bells Kills Nine, Traps Forty
A mine explosion at the Six Bells coal mine in Abertillery Wales kills nine men and traps about forty others as debris seals the shaft area. The trapped workers lie about 1000 feet underground, with rescue efforts uncertain for hours or days. The blast happened during the morning shift with roughly 600 men present.
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Abertillery
Wales
Six Bells
British National Coal Board
Three Juveniles Held In Oceana Liquor Store Robbery
Three youths from Kopperston Oceana and Lillydale were jailed at Pineville after the Monday morning robbery of the Oceana State Liquor Store. Hearings for the two 15 year olds and one 16 year old will be held later. Two were arrested at home and one at the Oceana Park.
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Oceana
RNS
Kopperston
Lillydale
Pineville
Oceana State
Oceana Park
Illegal Use Of Planes Charged To State Chiefs
A report from Glacier National ParkMont lists governors and their parties allegedly flying in National Guard planes in violation of Pentagon rules. The restriction allows only crew and specific officials including the governor and select aides.
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Glacier National Park, Mont
Pentagon
West Virginia Guard authorizes governors’ flight list
Adjutant General William E. Blake confirmed 12 passengers on the National Guard plane to Glacier National Park for the Governors Conference. The list includes Mrs Underwood and two children, the governor’s sister, aides, and three newsmen. Blake said no Pentagon rules were violated and he approved the flight order.
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Glacier National Park
Mont
Underwood
Cecilia
Craig
Russell Ferrell
Charles N. Straughan
Duane Hill
Donald Hayhurst
Thomas F. Stafford
Charleston Gazette
John Hurd
Wchs-Tv
Charleston
Don Roberts
Wsaz-Tv
Huntington
Blake
Pentagon
Governors and air craft fuel fears at governors conference
The report on federal state relations drew warnings from former Governor Milward Simpson and others about using Guard aircraft. Wyoming ex chief quipped about antiquated planes as Colorado Governor Stephen McNichols recalled engine failures during past conferences.
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Ernors
Milward Simpson
Wyoming
Simpson
Pentagon
Lorna
Stephen L. R. McNichols
Colorado
National Guard
Cuba fixes minimum sugar price amid U.S. dispute
Cuba plans a minimum of three cents a pound for world market sugar as prices fall. Cuba slashed American property claims in response to U.S. quota cuts, with Castro threatening seizure of a third of U.S. holdings. The Agriculture Committee moved to extend the quota, amid GOP attacks and concerns over anti American sentiment. Sugar dominates Cuba’s economy, with the United States buying about half of exports at a premium under the Sugar Act.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Fidel Castro
U.S
Castro
Agriculture Committee
Eisenhower
State Could Get 4.7 Million Aid In Randolph Bill
West Virginia would receive about 4.746 million dollars annually in federal aid under a proposal to broaden the Social Security Act. The plan offers a 30 percent state match and optional participation, with matching shares ranging from 50 to 70 percent.
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Randolph
Washington
West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
D-Wva
Senate
Four year-old Hale killed by car in Pineville tragedy
Four year-old David Lee Hale, son of Mr and Mrs Leonard Hale of Glov er, died after darting into road near home at 9 15 am. Driver Jack Trittipo 35 Charleston United Produ cing Co faces a possible charge. hearing set Wednesday before Magistrate W P Wilson. Hale family planned Virginia vacation. boy died en route to Dr E M Wilkinson's office. Survived by parents seven siblings. Body at Robertson ce Funeral Home Pineville. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Pineville
RNS
David Lee Hale
Leonard Hale
Glover
Jack Trittipo
Charleston
United Producing Co
Wyoming
Bert Short Trittipo
W. P. Wilson
Hale
Virginia
E. M. Wilkinson
Island Creek Coal Co
David
Russia Inflation Pressure Hints at Khrushchev Dilemma
William L. Ryan analyzes Soviet domestic strain as inflation grows and ruble revaluation looms. A tale of consumer hunger in Moscow amid price shifts, wage policy, and state controls. The piece notes a buying rush for goods, and hints at historical parallels from Stalin-era tactics.
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Soviet Union
Moscow
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