Beckley Area Chamber of Commerce gains volunteers
After a two hour meeting in the courthouse Beckley chamber members vote to continue the organization and recruit 300 or more new members. Leaders cite recent community projects and planned development including rural, tourism, and industrial initiatives while volunteers pledge to recruit new members.
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Beckley Area
Beckley
Chamber
Waldo la Fon
Chamber of Commerce
Earle E. Bibb
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Prince
LaFon
C. L Johnston
Armed Forces
H. L. Walker
Bluefield Hardware Car
Elmer Davis
Guatemala Junta Resigns Amid Rebel Push for Surrender
Guatemalan government radio reports Col Carlos Enrique Diaz resigns as junta leader after Castillo Armas demands unconditional surrender. Jose A Sanchez also quits. Alfred Monzon heads new ruling group. Rebels bomb Guatemala City. Arbenz under guard and exiled to Argentina as chaos follows rapid regime changes.
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Col
Castillo Armas
Enrique Diaz
Jose A. Sanchez
Arbenz
Alfred H. Monzon
Jose Luis Salavar
Maurice Dubois
Diaz
Guatemala City
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Communist Party
Rogelio Cruzier
J. Antonio Saravia
Jaime Rosenberg
Rutledge
Argentina
French abandon central Viet Nam strong point An Khe
Saigon reports the French withdraw from An Khe after a two day Vietminh ambushes left French and Vietnamese troops with serious losses. The retreat to Pleiku marks regrouping in Indochina as Gen. Navarre concedes the central Viet Nam campaign failed.
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Viet Nam
Saigon
Indochina
An Khe
China Sea
Pleiku
Henri Navarre
Tax cut plan sharpens Senate party lines
Senate leaders firmed party positions on a Democratic amendment to add a $100 personal tax exemption increase as part of the administration tax revision bill. The measure aims to lift exemptions from $600 to $700, with final action expected by Thursday after a party-line House result of 210 to 204 against the same idea.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
House
Senate Democrats
Presbyterians Oppose Reds And Race Track
CHARLESTON West Virginia Synod Presbyterian Church urged rejection of communism and anti communism based on fear. It backed opposing a race track near Culloden in Cabell County and planned to vote against the proposal Aug 3. The synod elected Lloyd D Feuchtenberger to Davis and Elkins College board and prepared to discuss segregation in churches. President Eisenhower signaled a special committee to aid the soft coal industry amid a crisis pushed by an industry group urging 10 steps to boost coal production and curb imports.
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Charleston
West Virginia Synod, Presbyterian Church
U. S
Lloyd D. Feuchtenberger
Bluefield
Davis and Elkins College
West Virginia
Washington
Eisenhower
Sen
Cooper
R-Ky
House
Pennsylvania
Virginia
White House
Atlantic Seaboard
Senate
Sen. Hunt
D-Wye
Time for Change Echoed by Adlai Time for Change Echoed by Adlai
Adlai E Stevenson told 600 at a Springfield dinner that Democrats should adopt the 1952 slogan that there is a mess in Washington and that it is time for a change. He blasted the Republican administration as hopelessly torn and unable to govern and warned of a costly failure if it continues.
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Springfield
Ill
Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
City Licenses Set to Expire June 30 1953
City recorder E. J. Smith announced that all city commercial and business licenses expire June 30 with dues payable on or before July 31. He reported 771 licenses renewed by his office in 1953.
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E. J. Smith
City Recorder
Smith
West Virginia Weather Forecast Extension and Remarks
Fair tonight with 50s on low. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer. Extended forecast shows near normal temperatures through Sunday with a slow rise through Thursday. Cooler Friday or Saturday, warming Sunday, and scattered thunder showers late Thursday or Friday delivering 0.2 to 0.5 inch. Normal highs: 73 in north WV, 74 in south. Beckley high 73 yesterday.
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WVA
West Virginia
Belington man kills wife then takes own life in quarrel
Esser Hymes, 40, shot his wife Blanche Digman Hymes, 38, in the leg and back with a 30-30 rifle in their Belington West Virginia yard, then killed himself. Eyewitnesses reported the family quarrel and police said no inquest will be held. The couple’s two children are Robert, 17, and Delores, about 12.
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Belington
W.va
Esser Hymes
Robert Pollock
Barbour County
E. L. Ervin
Hymes
Blanche Digman Hymes
Robert
Delores
Pollock
Ohio
Conservation Pilot Transferred to State Aeronautics Commission
Edsel France, a longtime Conservation Department pilot of 60 years, transfers to the State Aeronautics Commission to pilot a new seven-passenger twin-engine plane. Conservation Director Carl J. Johnson notes France will fly state officials on missions. He pioneered forest fire control by air and oak-wilt control by air, logging 312000 miles in 2600 hours. Johnson says no immediate replacement planned.
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Charleston
Edsel France
Conservation Department
State Aeronautics Commission
Carl J. Johnson
France
Aeronautics Group
Expiration of Rabies Quarantine Set July 6
The rabies quarantine in Raleigh County will end July 6 unless an extension is requested and approved. Two dogs’ heads have been sent to Charleston for analysis at the State Hygienic Laboratory as the outbreak continues, with Relva Lilly and Edgar Hayworth among those bitten.
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Raleigh
Charleston
Relva Lilly
Velmer Lilly
Rhodell
Edgar Hayworth
Amigo
Sister Ensures Surrender Of Slay Suspect In Cabell
Raymond McComas, 34, a confessed slayer and Weston State Hospital fugitive, surrendered to Cabell County authorities after talks arranged by his sister with Advertiser reporter Jack Hardin. He had escaped June 9 and faced charges for the slaying of Simmie Tartt in 1952.
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Huntington
Raymond McComas
Weston State Hospital
Jack Hardin
The
Advertiser
McComas
Hardin
Cabell County
Simmie Tartt
Fairmont
Knoxville
Tenn
Huttonsville
Weston
Stolen Goods Trial In Criminal Court
Everett Mathues of Princewick faces trial in Criminal Court for receiving goods stolen from Saunders Grocery Store in Coal City on April 18. The $49.80 value was cited in the indictment as the stolen haul. A second juror panel was impaneled for a separate Meadows case that ended when insurance papers showed a payoff and release. Meadows waived further claims. Everett Akers of Rhodell pleaded guilty to a reduced assault charge and received six months with credit for pretrial jail time. William Glenn Short of Dorothy admitted petit larceny for copper wire theft from Webb Mining Co. with a $1,000 value in the indictment.
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Sparacino
Insurance Company
Omaha
Neb
Meadows
Everett Akers, Rhodell
Akers
William Glenn Short
Dorothy
Raleigh
Webb Mining Co
Churchmen Hear God Is First In State Camp Meeting
About 1000 attended Beckley daylight session of the annual Church of God camp meeting in the Recreation Building. Rev George W Lemons urged that God must be first. Other sermons were by E J Gibson and J F O Hara. R Leonard Carroll of Lee College was to speak at 2 45 p m and again at a banquet at El Chico that evening with Rev Hollis Green directing.
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Church of God
Beckley
George W. Lemons
Virginia
E. J. Gibson
Matewan
J. F. O'Hara
Clarksburg
R. Leonard Carroll
Lee College
Cleveland
Drowns in Bathtub in Covington Home
John M. Nester Jr., 17, of South Covington, drowned in a bathtub at his Covington residence yesterday. The tragedy occurred in his home, with local authorities investigating the incident as a domestic drowning.
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Covington
John M. Nester Jr
South Covington
Byrd Holds Edge In Maryland Race On Demo Ticket
Dr H C Curley Byrd president of the University of Maryland appeared to win the Democratic nomination for Maryland governor but the margin was razor thin and could not be certain until after the official count. With 1 309 of 1338 precincts reporting Byrd led Mahoney 80 to 73 in unit votes and 157 435 to 154 925 in popular votes. A full canvass and possible recounts loom in several counties ahead of November. Republican Gov Theodore R McKeldin defeated three rival candidates. Incumbent congressmen Miller Small and Friedel faced primary challenges but emerged victorious.
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Baltimore
H. C. “Curley
Byrd
University of Maryland
George P. Mahoney
State Racing Commission
Maryland
Mahoney
Theodore R. McKeldin
Miller
Small
Friedel
Ex Mullens Resident Admitted to Hospital
Mrs. Mattie Moran formerly of Mullens is critically ill in Giles County Memorial Hospital Pearisburg Virginia after a cerebral hemorrhage at her sister Ethel Lusk’s Herndon Heights home where she currently resides.
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Mullens
Mattie Moran
Pearisburg
Giles County Memorial Hospital
Herndon Heights
Ethel Lusk
Market Steady Turn Amid Du Pont Profit Taking
New York stocks opened lower after Du Pont tumbled from yesterday’s 15 percent gain, slipping two points to 141.5 and then to 140 percent. Shares of Allied Chemical Union Carbide and American Optical rose by a point or more at times as the session progressed.
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New York
du Pont
Allied Chemical
Union Carbide
American Optical
State Official Involved Athletes Indicted For Rape Attempt
Charleston report: state official Charles P. Caldwell chief clerk of the Public Service Commission is indicted for attempting to bribe a potential witness in a rape case. Morris Harvey College players Billy Joe Woolwine and John Jazwa and former player Harold Proctor face rape indictments for a 17 year old girl at Coonskin Park. Caldwell faces two indictments over bribery of a possible female witness. Caldwell not in custody. ordered to appear in Intermediate Court for bond.
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Charleston
J. H. Woodley
Charles P. Caldwell
Public Service Commission
Morris Harvey
Coonskin Park
Kan
Ton
Woolwine
Jazwa
Proctor
Orlando
Fila
Caldwell
Woodley
Pair Charged After Truck Rams Through Town
A three quarter ton truck rammed through a fence and a garage in Oceana at 2:30 a.m. Damages to the garage and car are estimated at 800 to 1,000 dollars. Driver Belva Lea Browining of Madison Boone County faces charges of driving while drunk and driving without a license. Truck owner Hubert Lee Harvey, Kopperston miner, is charged with permitting an unlicensed person to drive. A third occupant, Grat Clay, is not charged. Both Harvey and Browining were to be arraigned before Magistrate John Lambert in Oceana.
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Oceana
RNS
James Roberts
Oceana Theater
Roy Aliff
Don Toler
Belva Lea
Browining
Madison
Boone County
Hubert Lee Harvey
Harvey
Kopperston
Grat Clay
Lynco
John Lambert
Eisenhower and Churchill End Talks With Unsettled Issues
In Washington President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill wrapped up a five day session after reconciling some differences on Southeast Asia while leaving several issues unresolved. The leaders, aged 63 and 79, concluded their final meeting at 12:15 p.m. EDT amid noted difficulties in peacetime cooperation compared to their wartime partnership ten years ago. In New York a federal grand jury cleared the State Department of charges that it had ignored security risks among American employees at the United Nations.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Churchill
Southeast Asia
New York
U.S. State Department
United Nations
Hinton Man Jailed On Shoplifting Charge
Hinton man Glenn Boyd was jailed by city police this morning on charges of shoplifting in Beck ley stores. He was arrested in the G C Murphy Store and booked on two counts of petit larceny at the Murphy Store and the J C Penney Department Store. Boyd is held in Raleigh County Jail pending a hearing.
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Hinton
Beckley
Glenn Boyd
G. C. Murphy
Murphy
J. C. Penny
Boyd
Raleigh County
Poison ivy sickens guards at Camp Pickett
Eleven National Guardsmen from Raleigh County and nearby areas were treated for poison ivy after two weeks of maneuvers at Camp Pickett Virginia. They were hospitalized briefly at Raleigh General Hospital upon returning home Sunday and released the same night. Names include Charles McManamy Beckley Patrick Johns Harper Robert Wiseman East Beckley Robert Soltes Tams Joseph Ramsey 108 Laurel Terrace James R Woods 122 Austin Ave Ralph Sutton 118 Klaus St Robert Brand Sprague Charles Tanner 122 Huffman St John Haynes 503 Sheridan St and Richard Burdiss 604 N Oakwood Ave.
Threatened Publication in Advertising Council Operation
A terse notice reports a threatened publication tied to an advertising council project. The item notes involvement by a cooperative group and an agency identified as The A. Details remain sparse in the readable text. The piece emphasizes the official nature of the threat and the organizational partners.
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Co Advertising Council
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George Warren Hodel
Bership
Beckley Chamber
Charles Hodel
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Radio Today
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Buenos Aires
Synod
Thomas C. Clay
Council On Christian Relations
Culloden
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Time For Change
Adlai
West Vircin
Beckley High
Zee Tag Dione
O.h. Wogby
Cdacchetoscecen
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OAK Hill High
Tek
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Greenbrier
Bluestone
Johnson
Cabell
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Princewick
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