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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1960
Page
1
Rescue Crews Beckley draws Montgomery pairings for Region 3 AAA tournament at Fayetteville Memorial Auditorium this weekend. Princeton faces Bluefield Thursday, Beckley meets Montgomery Friday, with winners meeting for the Saturday night championship.
London AP Buckingham Palace announced Princess Margaret will marry Antony Armstrong Jones at Westminster Abbey on May 6 at 11 30 AM with Archbishop of Canterbury officiating. Prince Philip will give the bride away. The couple plans a morning ceremony and likely future peerage for Armstrong Jones.
MILTON WV The Morris Memorial Hospital trustees voted to turn control back to Milton after declaring no future need for the hospital. Polio patients were treated there for 20 years under a lease. only 10 patients remain. The town council will decide the hospital’s fate, while an offer from the West Virginia Methodist Conference to operate it as an elderly treatment center was previously rejected.
Rescue teams battled a mine fire at Island Creek Coal Co Holden 22 eight miles from Logan West Virginia. Eighty men and relatives faced cold snow as two trapped workers William Donaldson and others used barricades and voice contact before the line went dead. Firefighters fought flames and smoke through slate and coal to reach the 2,000 foot barricaded section with state police coordinating cinders and plows.
CHARLESTON AP The Temperance League of West Virginia said Liquor Control Commissioner Morris C. Shawkey did not stay hands off in Summersville liquor store election. Shawkey denied the charge as Summersville approved a state liquor store by 14 votes in a Feb. 14 special election.
A major new snowstorm is forecast to deliver at least four inches in the southern mountains, with parts of Beckley Raleigh County and nearby areas expected to bear the brunt. Temperatures in the 20s and road warnings accompany the storm as State Road crews battle drifting snow and closures.
Heavy snowfall paralyzed Flat Top with 29 inches on the ground and more predicted. Residents on distant roads lack coal and groceries while livestock feed runs short. Road crews push with bulldozers to open routes as schools cancel activities and a second funeral grave is dug due to a plotting error.
Cuban frontier dispatches condemn U S Secretary Herter for accusing Fidel Castro of inciting last Friday’s Havana harbor explosion. A Spanish rescue team braved a heavy snowstorm to save 10 of 14 aboard a U S Navy plane that crash landed in the Sierra Nevada. Pope John XXIII blessed drivers outside Vatican City as Elizabeth II knighted Dr John Peel for delivering her children. Soviet trade minister Patolichev cited 20 percent 1959 growth and forecast higher 1960 figures. Seven air force crew survived a tanker crash near Carswell AFB Texas. two burned, two injured, three unhurt. Senator Jackson urged Antarctic nuclear plants to slash base power costs.
Women delegates to the National Assembly on Formosa presented a celebration message today marking Madame Chiang Kai shek affair of state and her long service to the republic as observers attest.
Pairings for the Region 3-AA basketball tournament at Princeton were set. Oceana meets Hinton in the opening game at 7 p.m. Friday. The winner of Shady Spring and Marsh Fork faces Northfork Elkhorn in the nightcap. The title game to reach the state tournament is at 8 p.m. Saturday.
G C Murphy Co of McKeesport has invested 3000 in Beckley Business Development Corp signaling faith in Beckley. J W Kern presents 300 shares to Isaac McKinney with a $10 Murphy employee stock gift as the firm starts employee participation via payroll deduction. The investment boosts the BBDC’s daily take to 3600.
A jet fighter raked the Merdeka Freedom Palace in Jakarta spraying bullets before pulling away. Sukarno reportedly escaped injury as speculation swirled over motives tied to political unrest and a dissolved Parliament amid Indonesia's post independence turmoil.
A humorous account claims Senator Bob Byrd led a long running filibuster described as a setting record. It mocks the idea of talking for hours as only words are produced in the Senate's prolonged speech.
James Roy O'Neal of Crab Orchard asks Raleigh County Court to correct his birth date from January 31 1896 to January 30 1895 using the family Bible as proof. His brothers Boyd Marshall Glen White and Lantie Cecil Lester also seek date changes with March 22 set for further evidence.
Oregon Democrat Senator Richard L. Neuberger dies at 47 from a cerebral hemorrhage at his home after battling cancer and recent infections. He had just filed for re election and his death shifts party balance prompting hastened efforts to nominate a replacement ahead of the May 20 primary.
Harold Hamilton of Chestnut Grove Maryland kept a promise by walking 11 miles to a Red Cross bloodmobile in Pendleton West Virginia after his car broke down He told reporters he would donate a pint of blood and fulfilled the pledge despite the detour on Tuesday.
Heavy snow and dangerous driving forecast with accumulations over 10 inches in the south and 6 inches elsewhere. Temperatures plunge with highs in the 20s and lows around 10s. precipitation through Monday totals about a half to three quarters of an inch. Skiing conditions reported as excellent and rivers and lakes noted as normal or clearing across Greenbrier and Beckley areas.
In Manchester an enormous Democratic vote boosted John F. Kennedy toward the Democratic nomination while Republicans celebrated Richard Nixon rising past Eisenhower’s 1956 primary record. With 34 precincts left, Nixon led Kennedy in overall votes as the two party contenders split delegates for the convention. Kennedy’s tally outstripped Kefauver’s 1956 performance by a wide margin. Kennedy secured all 14 Republican delegates along with shared Democratic delegates. The statewide margin favored Republicans about 56 to 44 percent, signaling a notable party split in the Granite State.
The column jokes about women drivers and suburb expansion, noting the irony of paying for a home while the suburbs extend farther away. It references Earl Wilson’s column on page 4 for more laughs.
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