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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1963
Page
6
Former Isle of Pines prisoner No 25871 recounts 29 months under Castro in a mined facility with 6,000 inmates. He describes mines, torture, and a 1960 prison revolt that briefly forced concessions amid 20,000 pounds of dynamite. Next: strike demands and retaliation.
Eddy Suarez Rivas, a Cuban law student at Catholic Villanova University in Havana, was jailed as a political prisoner. At 28 now, he was 25 at first imprisonment, spent four months at La Cabana, then 29 months on the Isle of Pines. He is fluent in English and educated in Miami County Day School, Valley Forge Military Academy, and Boston University. His father served as a Cuban senator for 20 years and was agriculture minister under the Prio government.
Colo the first captive born gorilla at the Columbus Zoo is tested with tuberculosis along with her mother Christina and male playmate Bongo. Dr James Savoy reports treatment options and notes other infected apes include Jiggs the orangutan. Ohio State University expert Dr Robert Henthorne urges caution but hopes remain.
The West Virginia Legislature approved a 155,292,773 general revenue budget financed 1963 64 from carryover surplus totaling 5,299,925 for 40 items. Top items include water supplies for Huttonsville prison and the boys school, college building purchases, stadium repairs, and World’s Fair pavilion funding, with other projects ranging from mental health drugs to park improvements and land acquisitions.
Gloria Brothers 22 of Charleston die in U S 60 crash east of Huntington on head and chest injuries. She was to star in The Seven Year Itch at Kanawha Players in Charleston starting Friday. She worked as a telephone company supervisor. State Police report 54th WV traffic death this year, down from 69 last year.
Martinsburg City Council votes to keep this Eastern Panhandle city on daylight saving time through October to align with Washington DC Baltimore metro areas. Statewide DST runs April to September under a recent West Virginia law. legality pending AG and Supreme Court rulings.
The body of Charles W. Kaufman, 60, was found Sunday in a pond near New England, eight miles south of Parkersburg. Coroner Richard W. Corbitt ruled accidental drowning. Kaufman was last seen Friday night by his son, living alone while his wife recovered from a broken leg at a daughter's home. He was believed to have fallen into the water while working on the pond bank that had washed in.
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will be among four panelists at Charleston's Forum of the Future examining West Virginia's economic educational and social stature. Also joining are James E. Allen Jr Paul L. Davies and Gilbert Seldes.
In Sant Antonino Italy a factory mishap released 30 pounds of sodium cyanide into the Dora Riparia killing hundreds of thousands of fish and thousands of birds. Officials warn the water now dilutes and poses little human risk, though fear and long term ecological harm persist.
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