West Virginia highway plan linked to area redevelopment
Slack described proposed CUVIVILLIL MULLULILITIIL PI VSPSLILs across seven counties as key to job growth and market access. He argued such urban corridor funding could spur broader federal state and private projects, reversing long-term Southern West Virginia unemployment trends. Kennedy pledge boosts Central American aid but falls short on Cuba action.
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Weston
Beckley
Slack
West Virginia
Batt
Neads OS
Kennedy
U.S
Alliance For Progress
Fidel Casio
Cuba
Central America
University of
Costa Rica
el Coco
United States
el Salvador
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Honduras
Panama
Weisberg Delivers Capitol Double Yolkers For Congress
Harold Weisberg from Hyattstown Maryland led a NEPPCo effort delivering 700 dozen double yolk eggs to Congress on Capitol Hill. A tractor wagon parade bore a banner "double yolk energy for Congress" as 73 million hens produced the eggs for a promotional event despite rain.
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Washington
UPI
Harold Weisberg
U.S. Capitol
Land of Ours
Weisberg
Northeast Poultry Council
Neppco
Hyattstown
Capitol
Congress
Capitol Hill
Service To All Races Sought At Hostelries
Charleston agencies aim to persuade hotel motel and restaurant operators by June 1 to serve all customers regardless of race. The State Human Rights Commission hopes progress continues during the Centennial year tourism surge.
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Charleston
UPI
State Human Rights Commission
West Virginia Weather Forecast For Beckley And Oak Hill
Cloudy cool conditions with highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s across the south and north portions. Fair tonight and Thursday followed by a warmer Friday then cooler weekend. Precip totals under a quarter inch. River Greensbrier six feet above normal, Greenbrier River muddy. Lake at 69 feet, six gates open with a new gauge at Hinton.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Hinton
Flop-Eared Hound Finds Boy Lost 26 Hours in Woods
In Hodgens Oklahoma a pair of flop-eared hounds locate 3 year old Danny Thomas after 26 hours lost in the rattlesnake infested Ouachita National Forest. Sheriff Leflore County Hosea Austin reports the boy, sunburned and hungry, was found safe and unharmed. Danny had wandered with his siblings after leaving home Monday.
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Boy
Hodgens
Okla
UPI
Lawrence Graham
Danny Thomas
Ouachita National Forest
Graham
Leflore
Hosea Austin
Danny
Gene Thomas
Gene
Dee Ann
Flood Situation Eases in West Virginia After Severe Rain
Upstate cities Clarksburg and Weston remained isolated by floods from heavy Tuesday rains as crests occurred on Monongahela Cheat and West Fork rivers. One man drowned in Buckhannon. Weston declared emergency with shelters and moved patients from a flooded hospital.
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Clarksburg
Weston
West Virginia
Harrison County
Marion County Sheriff's Office
Worthington
Fairmont
Tyler County
Middle Island Creek
W. Va
Buckhannon
R. C. Kidd
Louis Craig
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital
Admiral Byrd’s 3-Master Sinks Off Nova Scotia
The USS Bear, 198 feet and 89 years old, sank in rough seas off Nova Scotia while being towed toward Halifax. Two crewmen from Dartmouth, N S, were rescued after an amphibious plane dropped a rubber raft to the Bear as the tug Driving Birch fought 30-foot seas. The Bear, once a museum piece bound for Philadelphia, saw its masts fail as it capsized in the Atlantic.
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Boston
UPS
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
Nova Scotia
Coast Guard
Driving Birch
Halifax
N.S
Atlantic Ocean
Canada
Philadelphia
Jerry Coffin
Henry Dingle
Dartmouth
Salem
Mass
SRC Seeks Released Federal Highway Funds Audit Begun
The U S Bureau of Public Roads began auditing the State Road Commission's claims for 565 056 of 836 419 dollars in federal highway funds withheld last year. SRC seeks 78 percent based on reappraisals. The claims cover 552 433 of 652 479 Interstate funds and 103 623 of 183 940.Other amounts were written off as unrecoverable and a later claim may be filed for 71 395.
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Charleston
UPI
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
State Road Commission
Bureau
SRC
County Announces Tax Cut Budget Cut and Cash Surplus
Beaver County commissioners, Democratic control, said on Tuesday they reduced the county tax rate by one and a half mills, adopted a budget half a million dollars under last year, and disclosed a year end cash surplus of 1,291,283 dollars for 1962.
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Beaver, Pa
UPI
Beaver County
Board endorses pollution study and river discharge request
The State Water Resources Board backed a legislative resolution to form a special interim committee to review West Virginia stream pollution laws. It approved McKay Chemical's plan to discharge more chloride into the Ohio River at New Martinsville to support facility expansion by August 1, and adopted a policy requiring drainage permits and remedial steps where current pollution exists.
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Charleston
UPS
State Water Resources Board
West Virginia
McKay Chemical Company
Ohio River
New Martinsville
Judge Fails To File Briefs In Local Will Case
Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Norman Knapp did not file briefs in the State Supreme Court to show cause why he should rule on a will dispute pending 16 months. Aniela Cackowska appeals the estate handling by administrator Anthony Sparacino.
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Charleston
UPI
Raleigh County
Norman Knapp
State Supreme Court
Knapp
Aniela Cackowska
Gus Lapinsky
Anthony J. Sparacino
Sparacino
Beckley City Garage Contract Move Under Way
A community facilities admin official said Beckley will inspect the city site next Tuesday with field engineers from Pittsburgh and Charleston to discuss pre contract plans for a new city garage by New River Park. The Radford Brothers contract totaling 79 523 has verbal approval to stay within the 30 day grant deadline. The garage costs 84 000 with 63 000 funded by a federal match and 21 000 by the city.
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Community Facilities Administration
Pittsburgh
Charleston
Beckley
Iity
Cecil L. Miller
Radford Brothers
DVA
Radford
James F. Carroll
John Johnson
Philadelphia
Miller
New River Park
Recreation Department
Meat Plant Gas Leak Kills One
Memphis workers fled a meat plant when a refrigeration line leak released ammonia gas. Roy Orman 59 first warned others but died. Francis Maben 53 also died. Four others were hospitalized, including Loyd Watkins 31 Everett Murray 19 and Roy Fisher 43. Plant manager cited a forklift contact likely breaking a three inch ammonia pipe.
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Memphis
Tenn
UPI
Roy Orman
Orman
Francis Maben
Loyd Watkins
Everett Murray
Roy Fisher
D. G. Koenig
Info Chief Sylvester Targeted in News Management Probe
Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, is a central figure in a congressional inquiry into government news management. The hearing, led by Rep. John Moss, features industry voices debating whether the Kennedy administration over managed news and calls for crisis guidelines as probe resumes with Sylvester and other officials expected to testify.
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Alvin Spivak
Washington
UPI
Pentagon Informaton
Arthur Sylvester
Moss
Sylvester
Robert Manning
Clark Mollenhoff
Cowles Publications
Freedom of Information Committee
Sigma Delta Chi
SDX
Professional Journalism Society
Mollenhoff
Venedetta
Cat Killer's Fine Nullified by State High Court
Philadelphia upi reports the Pennsylvania Superior Court nullified a $100 fine for killing a neighbor's cat in Lanark Manor near Allentown. The court ruled state law bans harm to horses and cattle but omits cats, saying the Legislature erred.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Ernest Massini
Lanark Manor
Allentown
State Superior Court
Massini
Lehigh County
Olga Ollogio
Hope Cooke Wed Crown Prince of Sikkim in Buddhist Rites
Hope Cooke 22, an American graduate of Sarah Lawrence, becomes Her Highness Princess Hope of Sikkim after a Buddhist wedding with Crown Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal in the royal palace. The ceremony cost about 100000 dollars and she will renounce U.S. citizenship to become a naturalized Sikkimese while maintaining her Episcopalian faith.
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Gangtok
Sikkim
Upi
Hope Cooke
Palden Thondup Namgyal
Miss Cooke
Hope
Princess Hope
John H. Hampstone
New York
Crown Prince
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville
N.Y
U.S
Yellowstone Park
Grace of
Monaco
Windsor
Grace
Central Park
Royal Palace
Maharaja Sir Tashi Namgyal
India
Selden Chapin
Iran
Hampstone
Philip Hanes
Winston Salem
N.C
Ronald Metz
Saudi Arabia
Mary Helen
Youth Employment Act Advances In Senate Panel
The Senate Subcommittee on Manpower and Employment voted to report the Youth Employment Act of 1963 to the labor committee. The bill would authorize a Youth Conservation Corps for ages 16 to 22 modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps. Sen. Jennings Randolph urged West Virginia agencies to draft early programs once the act becomes law.
Arabian King's Jetliner Crashes Near French Border
Saudi King Saud's four engine Comet IV air liner crashed into snow in the Alps near the French border at dawn. Sixteen aboard were killed. Saud was not on board. Italian and French troops searched the wreckage. authorities saw little chance of survivors. police ruled out foul play.
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Cuneo
Italy
UPI
Saud
Crazy Mountain
Lausanne
Geneva
Nice
Riviera
Andre Leyvraz
Western influence fades claim by Salisbury premier
Salisbury leader Sir Roy Welenski predicts the West will disappear from Africa making future influence hard to regain. Passman calls for 2.4 billion dollar aid cut saying the US will not be taken advantage of. Larry Shaw recalls police rough handling after rescue in Madrid. Roy Orman reports a deadly ammonia leak at a Memphis meat plant with several victims.
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Washington
House
Foreign Aid Appropriations
Otto E. Passman
D-La
Woman killed in Hammond crash injures two others
A car clipped three posts and struck a house at a Hammond intersection today. Mrs. Katherine Jeffries, 31, of Hammond was killed. The injured were Frank Farrell, 27, Beckley West Virginia, the driver, and Harold Bryant, 26, Staten Island New York.
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San Jose
Francisco Orlich
United Press International
Admiral Byrd
Judge Knapp
New City
Subcommittee
Pentagon
Her
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Okeh
Sherwood Glutz
Madrid
Larry Shaw
Beckleyan
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