Moss on the road and track danger in Stirling Moss interview
Washington report recounts a drive with Stirling Moss during the American debut of the British Motor Corp. Austin 850 at Marlboro Raceway. Moss argues highway hazards come from other drivers, not racing, then demonstrates aggressive driving while the author signs a waiver and survives a perilous ride.
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Washington
UPI
Ben Hur
Marlboro Raceway
Stirling Moss
Moss
British Motor Corp
United Kingdom
Volkswagen
BMC
State's Tax Law Argued Before West Virginia Court
West Virginia and Ned Tanner of Parkersburg argued before the state supreme court over the constitutionality of the personal income tax. State Attorney General Robertson and Atty. Gen. Goodwin defended the law, while Tanner's team contended it violated the constitution. The hearing focused on exemptions under the 1954 federal code and whether the 1961 legislature properly documented urgent action to suspend the three day reading rule.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Ned Tanner
Parkersburg
State Supreme Court
State Tax Commission
C. Donald Robertson
Asst
Thomas J. Goodwin
James W. Simonton
Jack L. Miller
Richard F. Pence
Tanner
Black
House
Kidnap Charge Shocks New York Family
John M. Fralic a 25 year old Huntington West Virginia truck driver was charged with kidnaping and impairing the morals of a minor after allegedly taking 3 year old Glen Murphy on a walk to buy candy. The boy was found unharmed in a midtown YMCA room and returned to his parents.
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New York
UPI
West Virginia
John M. Fralic
Huntington
W. Va
Glen Murphy
David Dana Murphy
Fralic
Murphys
Greenwich Village
Murphy
Frake
Weather summary and city reports
Sunny mild today with high of 55 to 64. Fair tonight with low 25 to 32. Wednesday remains sunny and mild. Beckley high yesterday 40, Oak Hill high 63, low 34. Greenbrier river normal and clear, lake normal with 8 gates open. New gauge at 3.9 ft at Hinton. Reed City, Mich. saw 20 degrees, Yuma, Ariz. 95.
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Beckley
Lipa
Esaches
SM Nour
Ssksetsasane
Oak Hill
Low West
Ccs
Scceenes
Hinton
HI LO New York
UPI
U.S. Weather Bureau
Reed City
Mich
Yuma
Ariz
Kennedy kin divorce shocks Las Vegas couple
Hugh D Auchincloss Jr step brother of Mrs Kennedy was divorced Monday in Las Vegas by his wife of four years for mental cruelty. Alice Lyon Auchincloss testified of constant bickering. Meanwhile Mrs Kennedy rested in London after a two week India Pakistan tour and prepared for a luncheon with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace. Robert Briscoe Dublin lord mayor visited Kennedy to discuss common concerns. Martha Raye rests in Hollywood hospital after exhaustion. Caroline Kennedy and John Jr returned to the White House from Palm Beach. German President Luebke set for first state visit to Austria.
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Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr
Jacqueline Kennedy
Las Vegas
Nev
Alice Lyon Auchincloss
New York
Auchincloss
Hugh Auchincloss Sr
Comedienne
Martha Raye
Hollywood
Malibu
Calif
Caroline Kennedy
John Jr
White House
Palm Beach
I la
Joseph P. Kennedy
Heinrich Luebke
Vienna
Austria
Strike Protests Algiers Killings
European settlers in Oran called a general strike and demonstrations against French rule in response to the Algiers killings and injuries. The protests followed reports that French security forces fired on crowds, with 50 dead and 200 wounded. The OAS threat loomed for reprisals as tensions rose in Algiers.
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Algeria
API
Oran
Secret Army Organization
OAS
Rusk En Route Home as Reds Plan New Bomb Tests
Secretary of State Dean Rusk flew to Washington after addressing a 17 nation disarmament conference. Meanwhile the Soviet Union warned it would resume its own nuclear tests if the United States restarts atmospheric testing next month, signaling renewed Cold War tensions as Kennedy sought a test ban agreement.
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Stewart Hensley
Geneva
UPI
Dean Rusk
Washington
Kennedy
Russia
United States
Rusk
U.S. Air Force
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Soviet Union
Both Sides Deny Steel Settlement
Pittsburgh reports that Detroit Free Press claimed a basic wage deal was reached in steel talks. Industry spokesman R. Conrad Cooper and United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald denied the report saying talks are ongoing. A union negotiator declined to confirm the Detroit account. The Free Press cited 8 to 10 cents an hour as potential contract gains and a possible delay in formal announcement due to 11 company committee discussions on non economic issues.
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Pittsburgh
UPS
Detroit
R. Conrad Cooper
Detroit Free Press
Edwin A. Lahey
Washington
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
Lahey
Free Press
The
Vandals Strike St Sebastian Cemetery in Beckley
Vandals toppled at least 10 grave markers at St Sebastian Cemetery between Ford Street and Edgewood Drive in Beckley. Notable wreckage includes a large tombstone for Nel lie Collins Ward, first wife of the late Judge Columbus M. Ward. The Rev Sylvester Staud plans to report the damage to police.
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St. Sebastian
Ford Street
Edgewood Drive
South Beckley
Sylvester Staud
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Nellie Collins Ward
Beckley
Columbus M. Ward
John C. Ward
U. S
West Virginia
Raleigh County Court
John Zwilling
Barbara Zwilling
Joseph McQuade
Peter
Jemima McQuade
Aid For Jobless Near Expiration Eyed Renewal
Washington appris: Kennedy administration weighing renewal of the TEUC program to aid about one million long term unemployed in 1962. Labor Secretary Gold berg has begun consulting congressional leaders as the current expiring TEUC plan would halt payments in June after Sunday. Approximately $695 million in benefits has been paid to 2.5 million people since TEUC began.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Arthur J. Goldberg
Beaver Fire Dept Answers 1st Call
The Beaver Volunteer Fire Department answered its first call at 3 25 am when an empty house owned by Finley Basham White Oak was completely destroyed. They arrived about 20 minutes after the call, using a pickup truck to transport equipment due to no fire truck. Fire chief Wendell Thurman blamed faulty electrical wiring as the cause. A nearby house owned by Eugene Adkins was saved. the frame house was valued at 3000 dollars and Basham carried 2500 dollars in insurance.
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Beaver Volunteer Fire Department
Finley Basham
White Oak
Wendell Thurman
Eugene Adkins
Basham
Kennedy's Foreign Trip Color Film Set for $100,000
Washington reports Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy’s overseas travels are being turned into a $100,000 color movie likely to be a box office hit abroad, though few Americans may see it due to US law. USIA says the film will air widely outside the U.S. as two reels covering India and Pakistan, produced by Hollywood team for documentary use.
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Washington
UPI
Jacqueline Kennedy
United States Information Agency
USIA
Asia
Hollywood
Kennedy
Pakistan
Eisenhower
John Glenn
Alibi Tactic Seeks Proof of Meeting Attendance
The phrase describes using an alibi to prove presence at a meeting you did not attend while aiming to show you were not at a poker party where you were. It highlights the counterintuitive aim of misplacing location proof in a social context.
Three Vehicle By-Pass Crash Kills Mrs. Jean Crouch
Mrs. Jean M. Crouch, 67, died after a three vehicle crash on the U.S. 21 By-Pass near Beckley Memorial Hospital. Rex Edmundson of Norwood Ohio drove the tractor trailer that struck her car broadside. A third vehicle, driven by Earl Mullins of Oak Hill, collided with the trailer and was hospitalized. The state police report Raleigh County toll at two for the year. The body lay at Webb and Neal Funeral Home awaiting relatives’ instructions.
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Jean M. Crouch
Beckley Memorial Hospital
E. H. Crouch Oceana
Raleigh
Route 19
Rex Edmundson
Anchor Motor Freight Co
Norwood
Ohio
Earl Mullins
Oak Hill
Mullins
Court Ruling Could Reshape West Virginia Seats
Analysis of a Supreme Court decision impacts West Virginia reapportionment debates. If voters approve the Fair Representation Amendment in November, courts may not intervene in House makeup. If rejected, Legislature faces wide reform or court actions to enforce constitutional mandates.
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UPI
West Virginia
House of Delegates
U. S. Supreme Court
Tennessee
House
Senate
Supreme Court
Soviet Defector Seeks Return to Soviet Union
Alexei Golub, the Russian engineer who defected to the West last year, has asked for his passport to return to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Embassy in The Hague released the statement that he is in the embassy and wants to go back. A Dutch ministry inquiry is examining whether he went to the embassy freely.
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Hague
Holland
UPI
Alexei Golub
Amsterdam
Russia
Golub
Soviet Union
Alexandra
Disappearing Forms Puzzle Tax Director
West Virginia tax chief Clifford Lantz reports the state has distributed about 970000 income tax forms including long short and non resident returns and still sees heavy demand. He notes 530000 booklets mailed to federal roll names in Parkersburg another 120000 to non roll taxpayers and 60000 plus non residents plus 25000 more on order. Additional batches of 100000 70000 and 90000 long forms were issued as requests continued. County clerks and field staff supplied forms and Lantz says administration is now in place with some losses or misplacements blamed for a few returns.
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Washington
UPI
Los Angeles
California
Inyo
Mono
Alpine
Tennessee
U.S. Supreme Court
Los Angeles County
Georgia
Wyoming
Charleston
Clifford Lantz
West
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Lantz
Income Tax Department
Frondizi Refuses To Quit Amid Military Demand
Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi defied a military demand to resign after a letter from retired General Pedro F. Aramburu urged resignation in the name of constitutional order. Frondizi insisted he would not resign, though Maj. Gen. Franklin A. Rawson ordered dismissal by force. Life in downtown Buenos Aires appeared normal as this crisis follows March 18 elections won by supporters of ousted dictator Juan Peron.
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Buenos Aires
UPI
Arturo Frondizi
Pedro F. Aramburu
Frondizi
Ministry of War
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Franklin A. Rawson
Tandil
Court Discusses Plant At Airport
Raleigh County Court heard a proposal to create a new aircraft manufacturing industry at Raleigh County Memorial Airport using about five acres. It would run in two phases costing about 50 000 for phase one and nearly a million for phase two, including hangar space, an apron and lighting. Officials discussed funding via budget levy with July 1963 as a funding target and considered borrowing from banks to pay as work progresses.
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Raleigh
Raleigh County Memorial Airport
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