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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1962
Page
1
A Washington columnist weighs TV ratings against real skill for Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare. The piece argues Kildare has broader experience across media and would outshine Casey if Gillespie relaxed his scrutiny, rating Kildare as television's top M D.
Geneva (UPI) United States calls for repeal of the law of the jungle and a 30 percent cut in world arms and nuclear delivery systems plus a global warning system to avert surprise war. Soviet foreign minister Gromyko proposes a general disarmament treaty. Rusk and Gromyko open the 17 nation disarmament conference with restrained, low key speeches. Rusk pushes an interim four point plan ending production of fissionable material for nuclear weapons and urges signing a nuclear test ban.
Considerable cloudiness and continued cold today through Friday with highs from 38 to 44 in lower elevations and 30s in higher mountains. Nights drop to 20s,Beckley and Oak Hill report 44 and 45 yesterday with morning lows around 26. Greenbrier River muddy, Lake level 3 ft above normal. New gauge 5.8 ft at Hinton. Bis Marc, North Dakota records 6 below zero as West Palm Beach hits 84.
President Kennedy showing a shift toward a possible summit with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, tying trip to national interest and fruitfulness. Macmillan due in U.S. next month. Geneva talks may set stage for late May or June meeting. Topics include Berlin tactics, medical care financing, and a preferred test ban treaty ahead of April atmospheric tests.
Geneva reports quote Lord Home threatening to return to London over Soviet harassment of Berlin air corridors. Britain protested to Andrei Gromyko at meetings with Dean Rusk and again in a private talk. No commitment was stated by Gromyko. Four Soviet flights were canceled Wednesday night, timing matching Western flights.
Russians resumed harassment of Western Allied air traffic in the Berlin air lanes defying Kennedy warnings. Military transports entered Berlin air space as Western passenger flights operated with no incidents reported. Reported round trips in the Berlin air space increased danger to Western aircraft.
The Raleigh County Park Board plans to employ Harry Anderson as supervisor of the Aid to Dependent Children workers assigned to county parks. He will be paid $200 per month, the former Raleigh County Clerk.
A humorous column suggests venting by confessing facial chin thoughts. The piece riffs on openly discussing facial quirks and personal grooming as a playful mental release.
Jacqueline Kennedy continued her tour of India leaving New Delhi speeding to Fatehpur Sikri and the Taj Mahal at Agra. Nehru and a crowd of women in saris saw off the First Lady at the station. The Pentagon drafts new mobilization plans designating about 100000 reservists as fillers to attend summer camps with units. Barbara Stanwyck, 54, underwent minor surgery and is recovering well. Identification of all 95 bodies from the New York jet crash has been completed. The Army May draft call is set at 6000 men with low March and April figures. Morning and afternoon steel talks sessions were planned with no progress reported.
Beckley Drug Store assets sold in trustee sale. R B Coburn buys fixtures for Ghost Town in the Sky memorial at Ghost Mountain Park Maggie Valley. Kay's Drug owner John F Rist Jr buys stock and prescription files. Park opened last year draws tourists and features a western town and frontier replicas.
Consolidation Coal Co. vice president James Hyslop told the Wheeling chapter of the American Institute of Banking that two to four large coal mines will be opened south of Moundsville near the Ireland mine, which he said holds reserves for about 100 years.
A Kanawha County jury convicted 39 year old Kyman in the abduction of 13 year old Edna Means of Charleston. The girl was returned home after police halted Hugh Goffs car in Charleston. He allegedly admitted sexual relations with the girl after luring her to a Charleston area motel.
President Kennedy signed a three year, 4135 million retraining plan to aid up to one million workers displaced by automation and market shifts. The act marks a key New Frontier measure enacted after Congress returned to work, addressing waste of capable workers whose skills are replaced by machines or mine closures.
Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia participated in the White House signing of the Manpower Development and Training Act with President Kennedy. Randolph stated the act will provide national leadership and better training for unemployed and underemployed workers and youths entering the labor force to improve productivity and employment status.
A new training system under the 1961 area redevelopment law aims to funnel labor to lure industry into depressed regions. It plans full scale payment of training costs for up to 52 weeks with up to five dollars daily for travel. Estimates project 500000 to one million workers benefited as states begin cost matching in year three.
Nobel laureate Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, a key figure in atomic bomb development, died at 69 in Berkeley after cerebral hemorrhage. He won the 1927 physics Nobel for X-ray research and led wartime nuclear work at Chicago’s Metallurgy Laboratory with Enrico Fermi and Glenn T. Seaborg guiding plutonium and chain-reaction efforts.
In Lincoln County two teens held on burglary charges admit to entering Mrs. Rachel Workman’s rural home March 8 with intent to assault and rob her. Ronnie Adkins, 17, was fatally wounded at the scene. a 19 year old and a 15 year old youth face questions as investigators seek the missing woman with efforts ongoing to locate her. Local troopers report lie detector tests show the trio did not kill or injure the woman before she fled after a shotgun blast hit Adkins.
President Kennedy proposes sweeping federal controls to shield buyers of food drugs and cosmetics. He urges Congress to curb misleading advertising packaging and sales practices and creates a consumer advisory council and agency assistants to represent consumer interests. A pilot project by the postmaster general is planned.
Washington reports Congress and the White House acting on emergency relief for winter storm victims. Sen John J Williams proposes letting property owners deduct losses from the 1961 tax return, while President Kennedy weighs federal funds to insure seashore water damage and seeks a supplemental appropriation to restore the presidential emergency fund.
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