Docket Prepared For Criminal Court Term In Raleigh County
The Raleigh County Criminal Court docket for March lists three Glen Jean men Philip Rakes and Emory Jackson Williams and Johnny Edwin Williams who pleaded guilty to attempting to commit a felony in a break in at Coffee's Grocery Stamford. Judge McCreery set sentencing for April 13 with bonds continued. Trials begin Monday with 100 jurors and a long docket of offenses including break ins, drunken driving, and various charges across March and April.
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Raleigh County Criminal Court
Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
Glen Jean Men
Phillip Daniel Rakes
Emory Jackson Williams
Johnny Edwin Williams
McCreery
Monnaglin Criminal Court
Frank Morris
Forrest Dallas Meye
William F. Flanagan
Paul E
Macmillan Urges United Policy On Germany Talks
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrives in Ottawa en route to Washington to brief Canadian officials on Berlin crisis talks with Nikita Khrushchev. He backs a united Western policy based on firm principles and readiness to negotiate. He plans a Moscow look-in and a Dulles visit before meeting Eisenhower, aiming for a summer summit if a foreign ministers conference shows progress.
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Ottawa
Harold Macmillan
Eisenhower
Germany
Macmillan
London
Washington
John Diefenbaker
Berlin
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Diefenbaker
Sidney Smith
Selwyn Lloyd
Congress Hears Irish President in U S Visit
President Sean T. O Kelly of Ireland addressed a joint session in Washington, becoming the first Irish head of state to visit the United States officially. He urged reducing colonial and anti colonial suspicions and said Ireland can aid international understanding through the United Nations and other forums.
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Washington
Sean T. O'Kelly
Ireland
Congress
U.S
United Nations
Kelly
Eisenhower
Easter Business Reported Lively
The Associated Press interviews merchants bankers and Chamber of Commerce officials nationwide report brisk Easter retail trade. Department store executive on State Street Chicago says Easter sales are far ahead of last year and consumer confidence is rising. Rich's Atlanta president cites stronger spending while L Bamberger & Co senior VP Liebman Newark notes stock market health boosts demand. Scruggs Vandervoort Barney president Mallinckrodt St Louis adds sales are very good with days left.
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New York
Chamber of Commerce
Associated Press
Chicago
State Street
Richard H. Rich
Rich's
Atlanta
Joseph Liebman
L. Bamberger & Co
Newark
Laurence Mallinckrodt
Scruggs, Vandervoort
Barney
St. Louis
Aviation Team To Visit Beckley College
Lt Charles Ryan and Mate W L Henry of the Aviation information team will visit Beckley College from 10 am to 3 pm on Thursday and Friday to interview applicants. They will also conduct three hour mental tests at the Beckley Navy Recruiting Station and distribute information on the Naval Aviation program. Qualified naval aviators can be 18 to 25 with two years of college. applicants may have 60 hours toward a BA or BS degree. The team, based at Naval Air Station Washington DC, plans a May return and is the first aviator recruiters in Beckley in about two years.
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Charles Ryan
Aviation Machines
W. L. Henry
Beckley College
Beckley
Ryan
Henry
Naval Air Station
Washington
G. E. Akers
Japan Opens Talks to Restore Diplomatic Ties
Tokyo newspapers report that Japan has begun preliminary negotiations to restore diplomatic relations with Hungary Romania and Bulgaria amid postwar diplomacy moves.
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Tokyo
Today
Japan
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Lemnitzer Named New Army Chief
Eisenhower nominates Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer to be chief of staff of the Army in succession to Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor. Lemnitzer, vice chief of staff since July 1957, will take over when Taylor’s term ends June 30, with Taylor not seeking another term.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Army
Maxwell D. Taylor
Lemnitzer
White House
Taylor
Joint Chiefs
Nathan F. Twining
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm
Arleigh A. Burke
Naval Operations
Thomas D. White
Air Force
Marine Corps
Corps
Randolph Pate
State GOP To Outline 1960 Campaign Plans
West Virginia Republicans will outline their 1960 campaign plans at an April 4 Charleston meeting of the executive committee. The gathering will also address filling committee vacancies and a proposed by law amendment. Chairman Daniel L. Leuchery announced the event and invited county chairmen and Legislature members.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Daniel L. Leuchery
West Virginia Weather and River Conditions Update
Fair and cold tonight with low values mostly near freezing. Thursday looks partly cloudy and warmer with melted prior conditions. river gauge readings at Bellepoint show Greenbrier at normal stage, Bluestone Reservoir at normal stage with 45 gates open and gauge at 3.4 feet.
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Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Arguments Cited By Witnesses In $462 Lawsuit
In Raleigh County Circuit Court the $462 suit filed by Paul Lilly against J R Redden focuses on whether the two men were partners in Mabscott Body Shop. Witnesses testified the pair quarreled over money with Lilly alleging he earned half the bill and Redden denying partnership. The plaintiff rested as the defense prepared its case.
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Raleigh County
Paul Lilly
J. R. Redden
Lilly
Redden
Mabscott
Clay S. Crouse
Crouse
Ned H. Ragland
Ragland
Edward Hurt
Mont Hall Jr
Nile Pennington
Harry Bryant
Pennington
Four Children Die In Blazing Home
SALAMANCA N Y Four children perished Tuesday night as flames swept a rural farmhouse while they slept Their mother suffered severe burns while saving three other children and driving them to a neighbor for help The dead include Barbara Hecker 14 William 10 Holly 13 and Joan 3 The two surviving children Jacqueline 12 and Loretta 6 months were listed in fair condition The wife Mrs William Hecker was reported in critical condition Firefighters found the two story wooden house burned to the ground The husband was away at his factory job in Buffalo
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Salamanca
Nvv
API
Olean
Barbara Hecker
William
Holly
Joan
William Hecker
Christine
Jacqueline
Loretta
Twining Warns Against Reducing Foreign Aid
General Nathan F. Twining told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that cutting military foreign aid would jeopardize modernization and support for allied forces. He urged approval of Eisenhower's 3.93 billion dollar foreign aid program, including 1.8 billion for the military component, with McElroy backing the plan despite calls to curb waste.
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Washington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congress
Nathan F. Twining
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
Neil H McElroy
Underwood Links Healthy Economy To Home Building
Governor Underwood said the economy hinges on home construction and remodeling. Speaking at a Charleston housing symposium before 500 industry leaders, he asserted housing creates more jobs than any sector except agriculture and urged strong highways and schools to attract new industry and build attractive communities. Senator Sparkman will headline the banquet address.
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Charleston
Underwood
West Virginia
John J. Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Senate
Three-In-One Vanguard Stated in Space Study Plan
Washington AP reports the United States plans a three in one Vanguard satellite mission including a balloon to study space friction. Dr John P Hagen announced the plan saying it will launch soon from Cape Canaveral Florida. The three satellites include a 52 pound empty third stage case a 13 inch plastic sphere with a 2 foot arm and a magnetometer and a 30 inch expandable balloon weighing 1 to 2 pounds folded in a tray until inflation.
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Washington
United States
John P. Hagen
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Hagen
Vanguard
Truman Rejects Offer To Be Editor For Day
Former President Harry Truman declines a one day editor role at the Boston Globe after telling the University of Missouri School of Journalism he would like to be a newspaper editor. The Globe confirmed receipt of his letter explaining editors know how another man's business should be run while he does not pretend to know the mechanics of theirs.
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Truman
Boston
Harry Truman
The
Boston Globe
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Globe
Ash Appointed To Vieweg's Job
Gov Underwood named Henry L. Ash as Commissioner of Finance and Administration to succeed George B. Vieweg Jr. Hill will become Ash's successor as unemployed security department general counsel. Changes take effect April 1, with Vieweg leaving for private industry in Wheeling.
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Charleston
Underwood
Henry L. Ash
George B. Vieweg Jr
F. Duane Hill
Ash
Vieweg
Wheeling
Hill
Raleigh County Group Plans Washington Highway Meeting
A Raleigh County delegation will travel to Washington D C to meet West Virginia and Pennsylvania officials about extending Interstate 79 from Erie Pa to Beckley. The 1 p m briefing will include Federal Highway Administrator Bertram Tallamy. attendees include Harry Anderson Charles Hode Hulett Smith Hal M Scott Isadore Wein J S Larrick and Clarence L Bibb. Officials from both states and federal leaders are expected. The Beckley Chamber of Commerce chief calls the extension a big tourist boost and a strong southward link to I 77 through Parkersburg and Charleston.
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Raleigh County
Washington, D. C
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Erie
Beckley
Bertram D Tallamy
Harry Anderson
Charles Hode
Hulett Smith
Hal M. Scott
Isadore Wein
J. S. Larrick
Clarence L. Bibb
Washington
Cleveland
Ohio
Parkersburg
Charleston
Anderson
GE Fires Last Sit-In Strikers at Bloomfield Plant
General Electric discharged the last two sit-in strikers at the Bloomfield New Jersey plant after the union replaced the rope used to feed the men with a crane. GE described the firings as due to gross insubordination amid a protest over the plant’s closure.
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Bloomfield
General Electric
Peter Weber
al Hartnett
International Union of Electrical Workers
Editorial Golden Rule Ignored in Raleigh County Meetings
The Raleigh County editorial decries a board decision to cut veteran teachers from Social Security benefits while proposing a $3.2 million five year levy for buildings and new pay raises. It laments the lack of protest from principals associations and warns that ignoring the Golden Rule signals broader dictatorial school board policies.
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Raleigh County
Secondary Principals Association
Elementary Principals Association
Raleigh
Board of Education
Police extend patrols after eastern Kentucky coal strikes
In Hazard and neighboring Letcher County, state police reinforced patrols following two violent coal strike incidents. Strikers linked to the United Mine Workers demand a 2 dollar per day raise to 24.25, with clashes injuring at least four and a truck-tipples attacked. Major Crutchfield reports 200 to 225 cars in a demonstrator caravan and 12 to 14 workers at the tipple assaulted.
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Hazard
Kentucky
Letcher County
Pike County
United Mine Workers of America
Governor Refuses Guardsmen in Pike County Coalfields
A Pike County coal operator asked Governor A B Chandler to deploy National Guardsmen to restore order. The governor refused saying the struck coalfields are under control.
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Frankfort
Pike County
A. B. Chandler
State police director promises extra patrols in Letcher County
State police director said extra patrols would be in Letcher County. Roland P. Price, president of the Gem-Elkham Coal Co. at Rockhouse Creek, said he would cooperate with authorities.
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Don Sturgill
Pike County
Charles Crutchfield
Letcher County
Roland P. Price
Gem-Elkham Coal Co
Rockhouse Creek
Committee Cuts Big Money Bill
The House Appropriations Committee voted a nominal cut of about one percent in the first large spending bill for Eisenhower’s 1960 budget. It recommends total new funds of 4,628,097,000 to run the Treasury Post Office and Tax Court for the next fiscal year, down 60,230,000 from the President’s request but up 518,339,000 from current year. The Treasury gets 779,402,000, the Post Office 3,847,160,000, and the Tax Court 1,536,000.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
House
Treasury and
Post Office
Tax Court
Congress
Treasury
Post Office Department
Hawaii Statehood Bill Signed by Eisenhower
President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill making Hawaii the 50th state. Officials say Hawaii could join the Union by next July if action is swift, with October deemed more likely. Territorial Gov. William Quinn will have 30 days after notice to issue a proclamation for elections.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Hawaii
Congress
Alaska
William Quinn
Two Men Die in Bedroom Duel in Hollywood
In Hollywood a bedroom gun battle left two men dead Bar ney Silva 38 part owner of three Los Angeles restaurants and Jack Sorin 47 a jazz musician Investigators say the violence erupted after Sorin came to Dorothy Chester 38 newly rented home to urge her to return to her husband Simon Chester Silva and Sorin fought after one weapon was discarded and both fired leading to a fatal duel involving an automatic and a revolver
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Hollywood
Barney Silva
Los Angeles
Jack Sorin
Dorothy Chester
Silva
Beck
Cecil DeMilles Widow to Receive 5000 Monthly
Los Angeles AP reports Cecil B. De Mille widow Constance De Mille, 8 years as widow, will receive a $5000 monthly allowance from the estate. The order, granted amid a suit on Tuesday, follows a request by De Mille's daughter Celia De Mille Harper, named guardian for her mother and the will’s chief beneficiary. De Mille died January 21 at age 77.
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Los Angeles
Cecil B. de Mille
de Mille
Cecelia de Mille Harper
Constance de Mille
Harper
Earl's Pearls:Election quirks and social quips in print
The piece jokes about new states in the union and upcoming candidates kissing babies and doing the hula. It contrasts a bachelor painting the town with a husband painting the back porch, offering light social observations on marriage and politics.
State To Launch Manpower Study In West Virginia
Governor Underwood announces a statewide land use and manpower study to address economic ills. A nine member Economic Development Agency will be created with federal aid of 100000, under the Department of Employment Security. Legislative funding of 250000 was requested but the study can begin before the appropriation.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Underwood
Economic Development Agency
Department of Employment Security
EDA
Woman Found Knifed To Death In Pittsburgh Home
Verna Bagran about 55 wife of a garment firm president was found stabbed to death at her home in the Squirrel Hill section. A paring knife protruded from her throat and police said she was discovered at the foot of the steps to the garage. An unidentified woman friend reported no one had answered the phone for days, and officers forced entry. Her husband Louis Bagran is president of the Nathan Ganeren Co. She had been in New York on a business trip.
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Pittsburgh
Verna Bagran
Squirrel Hill
Bagran
Nathan Gane Ran Co
New York City
Coal Executive E C Hanna Dies at 75 in Charleston
Emory C. Hanna a prominent coal executive died today in a Charleston hospital at age 75. He served as president and treasurer of Raleigh Boone Service Co and as vice president of Carbon Fuel Co Bedford Land Co and Winifrede Co. A native of Falling Springs Greenbrier County he started with Covington Machine Co then came to Charleston in 1929 as a bookkeeper with Carbon Fuel. He was survived by two children and his wife had died years earlier.
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Charleston
Emory C. Hanna
Raleigh Boone Service Co
Carbon Fuel Co
Bedford Land Co
Winifrede Co
Falling Springs
Greenbrier County
Hanna
Covington Machine Co
Covington
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