Killer Of 5 To Be Returned To Md
Melvin D. Rees Jr., accused of five Maryland slayings, may be sent to Baltimore to face prosecution. His Hyattsville lawyer arrived in Memphis to confer and consider immediate return, with a July 6 removal hearing planned. Rees faces federal charges for the Jackson and Susann murders, plus Maryland and Virginia killings, with the death penalty possible.
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Memphis, Tenn
Melvin D. Rees Jr
Maryland
Baltimore
Walter L. Green
Hyattsville
Rees
Green
Carroll V. Jackson Jr
Susan Ann
Anne Arundel County
Margaret V. Harold
Gambrills
Jackson
Susann
Virginia
School Board Transfers and Delegation Clash Over Staffing
Walker objects to moving kin of Reid's wife as Wanda Wright is moved to Stratton High. The board cites Wright's versatility in social studies, commerce, and English for the transfer. A delegation from East Beckley PTA asks to retain a teacher next year but no action is taken. Clara Rutherford placed at Jonben Elementary despite a petition by 13 families. Several staff placements and transfers approved including ROY J. Dawson to Stratton assistant principal and Norma Thompson returning from leave. Travel pay set at eight cents per mile for eligible employees.
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Byrd-Prillerman
Stratton High
William C. Reid
Wanda Wright
Reid
Wright
East Beckley
Parent-Teacher Association
Clara Rutherford
Jonben
Andrew Durgan
Katherine Hairston
Henry Dubois
Henry Hoskins
Mary Ann Poling
Betty Jean Hoover
Roy J. Dawson
Stratton
Viola Braxton
Piney Oaks
Hattie Lee Austin
Sanders Elementary
George W. Coats
Stotesbury
John W. Davis
Martha Dawson
Sanders
East Park
Alice Pannell
Eddiena Lester
East Killivan
Norma Thompson
Ameagle
Pansy B
Mankin
Fairview
Brother of H R Alley Suffered Stroke at Meadow Bridge
John R. Alley is in critical condition at Beckley Memorial Hospital after a stroke at his Meadow Bridge home. He is a brother of H R Alley of 104 Ball Street.
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John R. Alley
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Meadow Bridge
H. R. Alley
Ball St
Gopher Hole Blamed for Flooding on Alden Jensen Farm
Tracy Minnesota AP reports farmer Alden Jensen blames a gopher hole for a break in his dike that allowed Des Moines River floodwaters to inundate his land.
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Tracy, Minn
Alden Jensen
Des Moines
Tuohy Statement Affiliation Plan For C and O and B and O
Tuohy states that C and O and B and O have approved an exchange plan. It notes C and O dividends and a 50 percent boost for B and O owners, with one C and O common share issued per B and O share plus participation in future C and O dividends. The note calls the affiliation a landmark in railway progress. The Earth is noted as 50 times the size of the Moon.
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C&o
Baltimore and Ohio
Keeping Capitalism From Page One in Soviet Stores
A critique of Soviet consumer goods shows prices inflated for quality items, with Americans offered better value abroad. Khrushchev’s attempts at persuasion clash with rigid doctrine as social change grows a potential middle class, pressuring the planned economy’s emphasis on quantity over quality.
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Czechoslovakia
U.S.S.R
Kremlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Stalin
Automation Gain By Soviet Union Amazes West
Western experts at the International Congress on Automations say the Soviet Union leads in self correcting control systems and pneumatic computing devices. They note the pneumatic systems reduce moving parts and improve safety in chemical plants while Soviet electronic computers advance but are slower.
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Moscow
Soviet Institute of Automation and Telemechanics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kelly Leaves Heirs Character Not Money Says Will
Philadelphia AP report says John B. Kelly, estate over $500000, leaves most to wife and three daughters and son. He stresses character as wealth, noting loyalty honesty ability sportsmanship and humor. Kelly, 70, Olympic rowing champion, died last week of cancer. will dictated April 14 and made public Tuesday.
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Philadelphia
John B. Kelly
Grace of
Monaco
Kelly
Atlantic City
Castro Threatens Cuban Sugar Expulsion and U.S. Mills
In a fiery denunciation of a U.S. sugar quota bill, Fidel Castro warned that Cuba would seize American sugar mills and repurpose sugar lands if the law passes. He blasted the plan as stupid and criminal while calling Americans gringos and vowing to use sugar wealth to pressure U.S. interests valued at over half a billion dollars.
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U.S
Castro
Cuba
House Agriculture Committee
United States
Local Army Reservists Injured In Kentucky Windstorm
In Camp Breckenridge Kentucky a heavy windstorm injured eleven Army reservists from Beckley and nearby units during summer training. Reports list M. Sgt Edwin McCoy Whipple and S. Sgt Kyle Cole among the injured, with ten aircraft damaged including nine JL 9 planes and two helicopters. The 83rd Infantry Division personnel endured mile a minute winds and falling trees during bivouac at the reserve base.
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Kentucky Camp
Charleston
Esra Staley
Ayyen En Damee
Lins
Beckley
Camp Breckenridge
Kentucky
Edwin McCoy
Whipple
Kyle Cole
Youngstown
Ohio
Altho
McCoy
Co. C
4Th Battle Group
19Th Infantry
Army
Henderson
Fred C. Glutz
Bowling Green
Robert Geigl
Pierpont
Newark
Lewis D. Hensel
Cleveland
George R. Wells
Dale F. Foupey
Athens
West Virginia
Lucius Maynard
Logan
Corp
Harold E. Boles
Davis Clinging To N. D. Lead
Gov. John E. Davis clung to a slim lead over Democratic Rep. Quentin Burdick in the Dakota special Senate race. With 1,735 of 2,310 precincts counted, unofficial results showed Davis 89,746 to Burdick 96,268, a margin under 3,500 votes.
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Fargo
N. D
John E. Davis
Quentin Burdick
Dakota
Senate
Davis
Burdick
GOP
British doctor crosses into West Virginia on U.S. hike
Dr Barbara Moore, a British vegetarian trekking across the United States, departs Frostburg Maryland heading south along West Virginia 28 to Romney and then U S 50 toward Washington. The report notes other world and state updates including a Canada Soviet trade pact and Wimbledon results.
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Barbara Moore
U. S
West Virginia
Washington
Frostburg
West ‘Virginia
Romney
District of Columbia
Canadian Senate
Soviet Union
Canada
Rod Laver
Australia
England
Italy
Nicola Pietrangeli
Governor seeks broader program funded by gifts
The governor urged expanding the program through gifts from organizations and individuals. He highlighted land, equipment, or material purchases for local projects and noted inquiries from women's clubs about STEP. Projects were chosen to create jobs and improve parks and forests, with immediate applications urged for all qualified.
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Women’s Club
STEP
Delinquent Registrant Notified By Local Draft Board
Mullens resident Raymond Ira Gilmore Jr. of McGraws has not kept his address current and missed an armed forces physical examination on May 26, as reported by Local Board No. 21 clerk Imogene M. Lilly who seeks his whereabouts.
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Mullens
RNS
Imogene M. Lilly
Raymond Ira Gilmore Jr
McGraws
Funeral services set for Boyd Cleveland Madison Fayetteville veteran
Funeral services for Boyd Cleveland Madison 67 of Fayetteville will be held at 2 p m Thursday in the Dodd Payne Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev William Dreger and the Rev J Edwin Stanfield presiding Burial will follow at Huse Memorial Park Madison a former Fayette County deputy sheriff and Fayetteville police chief belonged to the Fayetteville Presbyterian Church LaFayette Lodge 57 and the West Virginia Sheriff's Assn Survivors include his wife Ada Frances Madison three daughters Geneva McGrath Raleigh NC Betty Lucas Parkersburg and Lois Madison Arlington VA four brothers C C Lusby Talmadge and Jack Madison and four grandchildren Members of the LaFayette Masonic Lodge will conduct grave side rites The body will lie in state at the funeral home
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Boyd Cleveland Madison
Fayetteville
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
William Dreger
J. Edwin Stanfield
Huse Memorial Park
Madison
Oak Hill
Fayette County
Beltsville
LaFayette Masonic Lodge
Final rites for David Hale four die in accident
David Lee Hale four of Glover Va died Tuesday after darting into a car near his home in Richlands. Services will be Thursday at Richlands Methodist Church with Rev Perry Herndon. Burial in Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery. Survived by parents Leonard and wife from Glover and five brothers and two sisters. Body released from Robertson Foglesong Funeral Home Pineville to grandfather in Tazewell.
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Rockview
Fergie Scott
Wilkerson Clinic
Pineville
Clyde Samson
Man
Loraine Rudolph
Charleston
Too Funeral Home
Oceana
David Lee Hale
Glover
Richlands Methodist Church
Richlands
Perry Herndon
Leonard Hale
William Carl
Roger Dale
James Berk
Leonard Jr
Don Ray
Glenna Gay
Kathryn Melinda
Samuel Bowen 90 Funeral Services Planned in Gilboa
Funeral services for Samuel Bowen 90 of Gilboa will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Church of God in Gilboa with Rev. George Williamson presiding. He died Tuesday in a Montgomery hospital after a three week illness. A native of Johnson County Kentucky he had lived in Gilboa for 15 years as a retired miner and member of United Mine Workers of America and Church of Christ on Coal River. Survivors include his wife Sally three sons Walter and Troy both of Gilboa and Earl of Oak Hill a sister Miss Nancy Bowen of Tommahawk Kentucky 10 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren. Burial will be at Groves Cemetery Summersville.
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Samuel ‘Bowen
Gilboa
Johnson County
United Mine Workers of America
Church of Christ On
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Sally
Walter
Troy
Earl
Oak Hill
Nancy Bowen
Tommahawk
Groves
Summersville
Mrs Emmer Mosingo Rites Set At Kincaid Church
Mrs Emmer Mosingo 74 Warminister Pa formerly of Kincaid dies after long illness. Funeral Thursday 2 p m at Kincaid Church of God with Rev Lillian Childress in charge. Survived by son Samuel Franklin and daughter Mrs Margaret Brown both of Warminister. brothers Frank of Middlesboro Ky Hughy Tucker of Blue Spring Run Va. sister Mrs Mazura Berry of Kincaid. two half sisters Mrs Anise Hiser Oak Hill and Mrs Edith Myers Akron Ohio. 10 grandchildren. Body arriving at Thomas Funeral Home Oak Hill and remaining until one hour prior to funeral.
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Emmer Mosingo
Warminister
Kincaid
Kincaid Church of God
Lillian Childress
Samuel Franklin
Margaret Brown
Frank
Middlesboro
Hughy Tucker
Blue Spring Run
Mazura Berry
Anise Hiser
Oak Hill
Edith Myers
Akron
Ohio
Thomas Funeral Home
Sandra Kay Cook Graveside Rites Held for Rockview Daughter
Final rites for Sandra Kay Cook daughter of Mr and Mrs Cecil Cook of Rockview were planned to be held at 11 am today at the graveside. The obituary notes her family and home in Rockview.
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Sandra Kay Cook
Cecil Cook
Rockview
Barbour Death Confirms Different Name From Report
Lewis Edward Barbour, 64, of Page, died Sunday at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital. The Raleigh Register had incorrectly reported the deceased as Frank William Barbour, 52. The body rests at C. D. Trent Funeral Home in Beckley pending arrangements.
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Lewis Edward Barbour
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Frank William Barbour
Raleigh Register
C. D. Trent Funeral Home
Beckley
Underwood defends civil defense while criticizing Rockefeller
In a continuing report from the Governor's Conference Underwood brands Rockefeller cowardly yet impropriety laden. He says Eisenhower Administration matters are best handled by the Defense Department NSC and the President. He emphasizes faith in current leadership and notes West Virginia’s campaign contrasts. He also states he and his wife will join governors and spouses on a mid November tour to Brazil and Argentina.
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Underwood
Defense Department
National Security Council
Eisenhower
West Virginia
John F. Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
America
Mrs. Underwood
Brazil
Argentina
Hotel And Union Postpone Talks Amid Concession Clash
After tentative concessions by the hotel and union, the talks stalled over a demand for employee input on insurance costs. Holtzman and LaDu deemed the proposal unacceptable as second meeting was set for 3 p.m. Today’s session came after the last guest departed two days earlier and the West Virginia State Amateur Golf Tournament was called off by Holtzman.
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Holtzman and LaDu
West Virginia
Holtzman
Deaths in Germany and Britain mark notable losses
Prof Walter Baade 67 from Germany renowned astronomer who helped map galaxies while at Mt Wilson Observatory California died Saturday. London mourns Charlotte Dod 88 famed Wimbledon champion at age 15 who became a British tennis legend dying Sunday.
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Goettingen
Germany
Walter Baade
Mt. Wilson Observatory
Pasadena
Calif
London
Charlotte
Lottie) Dod
Baptists Split Over Soviet Coexistence Request
U S and Brazilian Baptists urged the Baptist World Alliance to renounce peaceful coexistence with a Soviet delegation led by Jackov Zhidkov and Alexander Karev. They accused the Soviets of using religion for communism while outgoing president Theodore F Adams praised Russian Baptists as zealous New Testament Christians.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
U.S
Baptist World Alliance
Jackov Zhidkov
Alexander Karev
the Free World
Alliance
Theodore F. Adams
Richmond
Adams
Soviet Union
Driver Waives To Grand Jury
Jack Trittipp 35 of Charleston waived to grand jury action at a hearing before Magistrate Bill Rutherford on negligent homicide. He drove the car that struck and killed 4 year old Lee Hale, son of Mr and Mrs Hale of Glover, Tuesday morning. Trittipp posted a $1,000 bond.
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Pineville
Rns
Jack Trittipp
Charleston
Bill Rutherford
Lee Hale
Leonard Hale
Glover
Trittipo
Congress fights over housing, taxes, and health care bills
Democratic leaders face stalled housing and education aid in the House Rules Committee while a 400 billion defense funding bill nears Senate approval. The Senate passes the annual tax extension increasing the debt limit by four billion and extending taxes. The conference aims to resolve differences on three major spending bills for State Justice foreign aid and public works as adjournment nears.
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Albert Rains
D-Ala
Senate House Conference Committee
Senate
House Rules Committee
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Rules
House
Rules Committee
Senate Finance Committee
State
Justice Departments
Appropriations Committee
Amphitheater plans slip. bids unlikely before August
Funds for a 1000-seat amphitheater will be available July 1. Architect was asked to deliver complete plans by June 10, but they have not arrived. Bids usually take two to three weeks to advertise and a contract to let, making an August start unlikely. An epic drama by Kermit Hunter, Honey In The Rock, is planned for next summer.
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Kermit Hunter
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