Special U N Council to Convene Over South Africa Crisis
The United Nations Security Council will hold a special session early next week at the Asian African bloc's request to address the killing of about 80 demonstrators by South African police. Henry Cabot Lodge said the 11-nation group would meet within a few days, likely Tuesday, to discuss the situation as a potential threat to international peace.
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United Nations, N.Y
U. N. Security Council
Ter
U. S
Henry Cab
Let Lodge
Security Council
South Africa
UN Presence Considered for Troubled Africa Says Undersecretary
Undersecretary Ralph J. Buncher suggested a possible upcoming United Nations presence in Africa, but did not specify if it would be a military or diplomatic mission. The remark came as he spoke to the International Press Institute assembly, where a keynote tied Africa to domestic civil rights issues.
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Ralph J. Buncher
United Nations
Africa
U.N
Egypt
Israel
Laos
Assembly of the International Press Institute
United States
United States, Soviet clash over central disarmament agency
At the 10 nation disarmament conference, the United States urged negotiations on a central enforcement body for a world disarmament pact, while the Soviet Union rejected the approach. Western nations favored an international organization to enforce the deal, amid debate on how to define powers and functions.
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Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
Frederick M. Eaton
Valerian Zorin
Eaton
Jules Moch
Zorin
Moch
E. L. M. Burns
United Nations Emergency Force
Middle East
Britain
France
Italy
Canada
an_ international organization
Cost Of Living Hits Record Level In February
Washington AP says living costs rose to a record February level after a two month drop. Increased home loan rates and higher health insurance costs pushed the Labor Department CPI up two tenths to 125.6 percent of the 1947-49 average, matching November’s peak. Deputy Commissioner Myers warned prices may rise further for a couple of months.
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Washington
Labor Department
Januasry
Robert J. Myers
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Myers
West Virginia Weather Outlook With Sunny Spells
Mostly sunny and cold today with some cloudiness and a few snow flurries in the northeast this morning. Highs range 28 to 35 west and 25 to 90 east, then a cold night. Saturday clouds increase with rising temps and light snow possible in the northwest by night. Extended outlook: temperatures 8 to 12 degrees below normals in north and south through Wednesday, with a warmer Saturday and cooler Sunday and Monday, slight warming again midweek, and additional flurries Tuesday through Wednesday. Precipitation under a quarter inch. BECKLEY and OAK HILL daily highs and lows noted but incomplete in data.
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W. Va
Beckley
State May Get 1 More Million For Hospitals
Charleston AP reports an additional two million dollars in federal money for hospital construction may come to West Virginia, raising total federal hospital funds to about 27 million. The FY 1962-63 tentative figure of 2,022,057 depends on Eisenhower’s budget and may change. State Health Board heard from Paul D. Bibb that 12 million more is requested for hospital expansion, with four projects in the continued category including St Joseph’s Parkersburg Wheeling Charleston Memorial Elkins.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Eisenhower
State Board of Health
Paul D. Bibb
State Health Department
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
Wheeling Hospital
Charleston General Hospital
Memorial General At
Elkins
Logan Miner Killed In Week At Taplin Mine
Ollie J. Workman of Harts Lincoln County was fatally crushed at Hatcher Coal Co mine in Taplin. He died hours after being trapped between a mine car and timber at Man Memorial Hospital. This week Logan County saw three mining deaths and 21 this month.
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LOGAN
Ollie J. Workman
Harts
Lincoln County
Hatcher Coal Co
Taplin
Logan County
Workman
Man Memorial Hospital
Cecil Casto
William Okey Blankenship
State Falls
Casto
McGregor
Amherst Coal Co
Slagle
Blankenship
Omer Mining Co
Stirratt
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Beckley
Beckleyan 84 Uses Bankbook From 1900 in Raleigh County
A Raleigh County resident, C. W. Fisher 84, displays a bankbook issued in 1900 after making his first deposit of 400 dollars in the Bank of Raleigh’s second year. He reflects on lean years and 50 years measuring timber, including a 76 foot white pine log, and recalls 1932 without work and a 1904 farm purchase he never saw.
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Bank of Raleigh
C. W. Fisher
E. S
Beckleyan
North Kanawha St
Fisher
J. R. Baieevee
Bailey’s
Crow
Bailey
Lewis Martin
Grandview
Glade Creek
Princeton Miss Voted Best Majorette in Pageant
Sharon Kaye Shutty of Oak Park Michigan won first place in the second round of Amer ica's Junior Miss Pageant talent competition in Mobile Alabama. Sarah Jane Evans of Princeton West Virginia was named best in formal evening wear and Lalla Dennis of Bessemer Alabama won for sports attire. The final round is tonight with three more winners to join six already chosen. Dimpled Sarah Jane aged 17 wore a white satin lace gown and is the daughter of Samuel J Evans and his wife of Princeton.
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Mobile
Ala
Gap
Michigan
Sharon Kaye Shutty
Oak Park
West Virginia
Sarah Jane Evans
Princeton
Alabama
Lalla Dennis
Bessemer
Sarah Jane
Samuel J. Evans
Fire Claims Three In Chesapeake House Blaze
A mother saved a younger child as flames trapped a family in Chesapeake near Charleston. Fatalities include Mrs Rose Marie West 52 and boys James Frederick Connett 11 and William Darr ell Connett 9. father Fred Connett 37 in critical condition. Robert Gene Connett 5 burned but survived.
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Charleston
Chesapeake
James Frederick Connett
William Darrell Connett
Rose Marie West
McMillan Hospital
Fred Connett Jr
Charleston Memorial Hospital
Robert Gene
Two Convicts Surrender After 25 Hour Prison Hostage Crisis
In Nashville, Robert Rivera and Raymond Farra surrendered after holding 19 hostages for 25 hours. Officials suspect a former guard, fired for gun smuggling, supplied the pistols. Rivera and Farra, both serving long terms for armed robbery and kidnapping, were kept from escape by negotiations. Sixteen male and three female inmates were released unharmed. two wounded were released for illness.
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Nashville
Farra
Borderland
W. Va
Rivera
Temple
Tex
J. W. Trousdale
Sam Broyles
Jack Warrick
Local Sage Warns That Work Ethic Outweighs Gossip
Sherwood Glutz argues that science has advanced society but effort remains essential. He says no substitute for elbow grease and that a man must rise often from his seat to work. He laments that some people drift into comfort without challenging setbacks.
John Lardner Dies at 47 in Manhattan Home
Short obituary notes John Lardner longtime columnist and son of King Lardner died Thursday night at his Manhattan residence from heart failure. The brief notice also lists other dispatches including Truman's letter to NAACP leaders and Khrushchev's Paris visit with de Gaulle.
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John Lardner
King Lardner
Manhattan
NAACP
Detroit
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Louisville
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Lenin
Paris
Lenin
Charles de Gaulle
House panel backs big boosts to education and health
The Appropriations Committee backed substantial increases totaling 197 million 400 thousand five hundred dollars above the President's request, urging a full campaign against juvenile delinquency. In Detroit Democrats kick off a three day Midwest rally while transatlantic cable links between New York and London suffer an hour delay.
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House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Midwest
Detroit
New York
London
Snow hampers probe of air crash cause
ELKINS AP A team of Air Force experts set out to determine why a C45 crashed killing four aboard amid heavy new snow. The wreckage lay in a mountain ravine about 25 miles southeast of Elkins. The four dead were en route from Florence South Carolina and Richmond to Denver for an education conference for teachers. The pilot reported trouble one engine out icing and loss of altitude before contact was lost. Lt Col Francis C Eberhard and a team from Bolling AFB Washington arrived to examine the remains joined by officers and doctors.
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Elkins
Air Force
Florence
S. C
Richmond
Denver
Colo
Bolling Air Force Base
Washington
Francis C. Eberhard
Air Force Accident Investigating Bureau
Dick Gorman
Benson Gregory Fay
Robert Dunnavant
Maj
Wilbur Hackett
Former W. V. U. President Dies in San Diego
Dr. John R. Turner a noted economist author and former West Virginia University president from 1928 to 1936 died at 79 in his San Diego home Survivors include his wife Effie Turner daughter Elizabeth Labab brother William and sisters Princess King and Sarah Meador Funeral services are set for Saturday in San Diego
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San Diego
Calif
John R. Turner
Turner
West Virginia University
New York City College
Washington Square College of Arts
New York University
Cornell University
U. S. Tariff Commission
Effie E. Turner
Elizabeth Labab
McLean
William
South Bend
Ind
Princess T. King
Richmond
Sarah Meador
Bedford
Earl's Pearls Sunday Drivers and Anniversary Woes
Humor column notes the danger of Sunday drivers who begin on Saturday night and observes how daily life echoes past calamities. Mentions a laugh column by Farl Wilson on Page 4.
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Farl Wilson
Kennedy to visit Beckley for April campaign rally
U S Senator John F Kennedy will attend a Beckley Hotel ballroom rally on April 11 as part of a four city West Virginia tour ahead of the May 10 presidential primary. Campaign leader Ward Wylie Mullens says Kennedy will stop in Charleston and towns including Beckley. Don Hodson chairs the Beckley Kennedy club with active county groups planned.
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U. S
John F. Kennedy
Beckley
West Virginia
Kennedy
Sen
Hubert Humphrey
Ward Wylie Mullens
Charleston
Montgomery
Fayetteville
Oak Hill
Mount Hope
Beckley Club
Don Hodson
West
Hechler seeks probe of FPC over gas rate hikes
Rep. Ken Hechler of West Virginia urges 100 House Democrats to demand a federal inquiry into the Federal Power Commission. He argues the agency fails to protect public interest as natural gas prices have doubled in many regions over the past five years, hitting fixed incomes hardest.
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Washington
Ken Hechler
D-Wva
House
Federal Power Commission
Hechler
Smith Proposes PSC Reorganization To Aid WV Consumers
Hulett C. Smith, Beckley candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, urged a reorganization of the Public Service Commission to curb frequent rate hike requests. Speaking at Stonewall Jackson Grill, he criticized convoluted PSC proceedings and pledged laws to ensure utilities do not impose unjustified increases while protecting consumer interests amid high gas costs from the southwest.
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Summersville
Public Service Commission
West Virginia
Hulett C. Smith
Beckley
Smith
Stonewall Jackson Grill
United States
An American Groom Wins an Annulment Over Greek Bride
Caterer John Kalachian of Los Angeles sought a mail order bride in Greece. After meeting Denise Drongitsi and marrying Anastasia Drongitsi under duress, a judge granted an annulment on grounds of force and duress. The uncle who supplied the photo faced the tangled tale.
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Los Angeles
John Kalachian
Greece
Denise
Kalachian
Denise Drongitsi
Anastasia
Drongitsis
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