Eisenhower Says War Talk Won’t Aid Peace
President Eisenhower warned against speculation about war as unhelpful to peace and said no solid information tied to a Chinese attack on Quemoy and Matsu had reached him. He avoided affirming any defense of the islands and urged restraint in forecasting war timing while noting Congress-approved powers to defend Formosa. He also signaled readiness to ease world tension and discussed bipartisan White House talks on the world situation.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Quemoy
United States
Carney
Matsu
U.S
Congress
Formosa
Pescadores
Fisenhower
Russia
White House
House
Senate
Trailways may join Beckley area with Greyhound service
Trailways buses could enter Beckley area via the Price Street terminal owned by Consolidated Bus Co as a possible competitor to Greyhound Lines. Consolidated demands extensive remodeling of the Price Street terminal starting next week while Greyhound maintains a temporary depot under a pending state permit.
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Trailways
Greyhound Lines
Beckley
National Trailways Lines
Price St
Consolidated Bus Co
Jack J. Adams
Consolidated
National Trailways
Middle West
United States
South Carolina
Safety Trailways
Adams
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ashland
Cincinnati
Greyhound
State Public Service Commission
Princeton Students First in City For All-State Chorus
A Beckley arrival today marks the start of the All-State High School Chorus and Orchestra events. About 50 of 250 chorus delegates registered by noon at Woodrow Wilson High School, with 125 orchestra participants registering at 3 p.m. Principal attendees from Parkersburg Huntington Spencer and Bluefield also appeared as Glenn W. Sallack, head of Woodrow Wilson music, organized the joint rehearsals. Don Craig of New York will direct the chorus Friday night and Orion Dalley of the University of Michigan will direct the orchestra. The West Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals holds a meeting at the Beckley Hotel with President Jonathan Y. Lowe presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Beckley
Woodrow Wilson High School
Parkersburg
Huntington
Spencer
Bluefield
Glenn W. Sallack
Sallack
Fairmont
Charleston
Morgantown
Don Craig
New York
Orion Dalley
University of Michigan
West Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals
Beckley Hotel
Jonathan Y. Lowe
Milton
Duty Posts Set For Fire Watch
Seven and possibly eight of the 19 observation posts in District 4 will be manned beginning Thursday. Key towers to start include Pilot Knob in Mercer County and Keeney Mountain in Summers County with others at Ivy Knob Raleigh County Gauley Mountain North Fayette South Fayette Berwin McDowell and possibly Rich Knob Greenbrier County.
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Conservation Commission
Pilot Knob
Mercer County
Lambert Knob
Wyoming County
Keeney Mountain
Summers County
Ivy Knob
Raleigh County
Gauley Mountain
North Fayette County
Lick Knob
South Fayette County
Berwin
McDowell County
Rich Knob
Greenbrier
Kiwanians to Hear District Forester Carl Lucas
Beckley Kiwanis Club will host Carl Lucas district forester for District 4 Conservation Commission at the noon Friday meeting at El Chico. Lucas will discuss The Work of the Conservation Commission and works from the Beckley office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Lucas
District 4 Conservation Commission
Beckley Kiwanis Club
el Chico
Lucas
Conservation Commission
Beckley
Commission
Runaway Boys Held in Raleigh County Jail
Two Springhill youths are being held at Raleigh County Jail as runaways awaiting relatives to take them home. They were caught by City Police at about 12:15 a.m. today. The report lists weather and river conditions for nearby areas in Virginia.
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Springhill
Raleigh County
Prison Term Meted In East Park Slaying
George W. Edmonds a 35 year old East Park man was sentenced to five to eighteen years in the State Penitentiary at Moundsville after pleading guilty to second degree murder in Raleigh County Criminal Court. He shot Sam Muse 51 who died Jan 2 after a scuffle. Edmonds earned credit for time in Raleigh County Jail awaiting trial.
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George W. Edmonds
East Park
Moundsville
Harry L. McCreery
Edmonds
Raleigh County
James H. Rowland
Raleigh
Eccles
Thomas McKindley Maloney
James Gilbert Vaughan
Albert Webb Jr
Glen White General Department
Georgia Rock
Jacob Rock
Slick Shumate Runs for Beckley Ward 1 Council
D B Slick Shumate of 203 Reservoir Road today announced his candidacy for nomination as councilman in the April 19 Beckley primary election. He seeks the Ward 1 Republican nomination and was previously a 1953 Beckley Council candidate. Born July 26 1902 in Troutdale Virginia he worked in a mine at age 14 and later moved to Beckley to work for a bus company. He joined Charleston Daily Mail in 1934 and remains with the paper while co owning U S Royal Tire Sales Co. He married Eula M Tucker in 1928 and they have three children. Also Howard Christian of 113 Sprague Ave filed for election to the Beckley Democratic Executive Committee from Ward 3.
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D. B
Slick
Shumate
Reservoir Road
Beckley
Charleston Daily Mail
U. S
Royal Tire Sales, Co
Eula M. Tucker
Howard Christian
Sprague Ave
Democratic Executive Committee
Lawfords Welcome First Son in Santa Monica
Actor Peter Lawford and wife Patricia Kennedy announce the birth of their first son yesterday at St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica California. The brief notice confirms the new arrival to the family and identifies the parents by name.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Peter Lawford
Patricia Kennedy
St. John's Hospital
Navy planes sink flotilla near Matsus in taiwan clash
Nationalist planes attacked a Red flotilla off the Matsus sinking one wooden craft and damaging seven other ships including three gunboats the Chinese air force reported.
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Taipei
Formosa
Matsus
Flannery Would Push Two-Item Tax Plan For Teachers Pay
Charleston West Virginia House Speaker W E Flannery aims to back a two item tax plan to raise about 6 1 million dollars for teachers during a weekend meeting with Senate President Ralph Bean The plan extends the 2 percent sales tax to utility bills and broadens the 30 percent surtax on gross sales to retailers water firms contractors and services The move seeks about five million dollars yearly for teacher salaries with the rest covering social security for teachers The plan faces opposition from Phares E Reeder executive secretary of the West Virginia Education Assn who says it won t do the job for attracting and keeping good teachers and favors a 2700 dollar starting salary for degree holders with experience increments
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Charleston
House
W. E. Flannery
Senate
Ralph J. Bean
Flannery
Phares E. Reeder
West Virginia Education Assn
WVEA
Reeder
Prison Guards Say Inmates Run Massachusetts Prison
Six state prison guards testified at a news conference that inmates have effectively taken control of the Massachusetts State Prison. They alleged liquor production and organized gambling within the facility, with hundreds of inmates living in fear of a desperate group that once held five guards hostage for 84 hours. A grand jury earlier returned no indictments, and guards blamed a citizens committee for alleged concessions during a January surrender.
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Boston
Massachusetts State Prison
Superior Court
Paul G. Kirk
Citizens’ Committee
Prison revolt at Nebraska State Penitentiary ends after 65 hours
Eight inmates surrender after a 65 hour standoff at the Nebraska penitentiary. Two guards and an inmate were held, then released unharmed as Gov. Victor E. Anderson ordered punishment including time in the hole and extended solitary confinement for the rebels.
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Nebraska
Victory Anderson
Herbert H. Hahn
Col
B. B. Albers
Lincoln
Neb
Victor E. Anderson
Eugene Swanson
Warren B. Miller
French Premier Gets Tax Reform Powers
Paris reports Premier Edgar Faure won 329 to 265 votes granting special powers to reform the economy and tax collection. He pledged prudent changes to aid small shopkeepers and artisans while preparing broader measures to aid economically troubled regions, notably Poujade strongholds in the southwest.
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Paris
National Assembly
Edgar Faure
Pierre Poujade
Poujade
Pierre Pflimlin
Verdine Guilty of AWOL Charge
A seven man military court in Frankfurt found Pvt. William Verdine a 29 year old prisoner of war guilty of being absent without leave. The court deliberated briefly and heard no defense testimony. Verdine faced a possible penalty up to six months in prison a dishonorable discharge and loss of pay and allowances potentially totaling ten to twelve thousand dollars.
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Frankfurt
Germany
William Verdine
Verdine
Starks
Six Labor Department Employes To Lose Jobs Due to Budget Cut
Charleston budget cuts threaten layoffs at the State Labor Department with four field inspectors and two office workers to be let go by July 1. Commissioner Sattler notes safety inspections will be reduced, long trips and emergency responses scaled back, and layoffs chosen by seniority amid legislatures cuts to salaries, expenses, and equipment. Remaining staff include 25 weights and measures inspectors, five safety inspectors, seven office workers, plus boiler and bedding inspectors retained.
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Labor Department
Charleston
Charles J. F. Sattler
Sattler
Convert Stored Grain to Flour For Use by Unemployed
West Virginia congressman urges converting surplus stored grain into flour and meal for the unemployed. Rep Byrd proposes CCC action to process grains for distribution in distress areas, arguing bread should be provided locally and savings from storage could fund food aid. He notes current aid misses bread and stresses taxpayers funded wheat should serve Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrd
Washington
West
West Virginia
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Preliminary hearing for Bill Leadingham set on statutory rape charge
Bill J. Leadingham, 19, of 205 Baker Street, is slated for a 2 p.m. preliminary hearing today before Magistrate J. P. Meadows on a warrant charging statutory rape. He was arrested Tuesday by City Police on a warrant issued on a Raleigh County girl’s father’s complaint. The alleged assault occurred last week while the girl was truant from school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill J. Leadingham
Baker St
J. P. Meadows
Leadingham
Raleigh County
Mrs Laura Fleming dies after long illness at 68
Laura Fleming aged 68 of Mount Hope died at 5 a.m. today in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Fleming
Mount Hope
Beckley Hospital
Skeleton Found of 67-Year-Old in Hardy County Woods
West Virginia State Police report the skeleton of William D. Walker, 67, who went missing during the 1953 deer season and was not reported missing for 16 months, was found about 150 yards from his brother Amos Walker’s home in Bear's Hell near Needmore. A rifle linked to Walker was found 100 yards away during the 1954 deer season. Authorities investigate cause of death.
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Moorefield
W. Va
West Virginia
William D. Walker
Amos
Bear’s Hell
Hardy County
Needmore
Wardensville
Perry
Mathias
Trout
C. G. Hamrick
Donald Burner
Samuel Clark
Lemuel Funk
W. D. McCauley
Walker
Funk
McCauley
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Robert B. Carney
Naval Operations
Glenn Sallack
Flying Eagle
Janet Triggs
Usher Club
Virginia
Beckley High
OAK Hill High
Bellepuun
Bluestone
Slick Shumate
Lawfords
Bean
Marland
Association
AFL
Miller
Calvin Plumley
Abraham
Harlow Stover
Norman Moses
Artie
van Massey
L. C. Milam
Arnett
T. B. Reed
Basin
Tom Gillespie
Birchton
Henry Williams
Ameagle
Ellis Bailey
Leslie Dunbar
Lonnie Williams
Garlie Pettry
Charlie Workman
W. F. Winston
Clear Creek
Everett Fitzwater
Beaver
W. W. Nugen
Coal City
Ray Meadows
Colcord
John Milam
Coal Ridge
Ben Harper
Route 3
Jess Maynor
Long Branch
Dudley Shrewsbury
Dott
Oat Gunnee
Gather Cantley
Harvey Jarrell
Dewey Asbury
Lacy Canterbury
Dry Creek
W. S. Marcum
Lawrence Stoots
C. D. Hambrick
Epperly
Freeman Clay
Edwight
B. A. Farley
Glen Morgan
Arnold Adkins
Grandview
Roy L. Chambers
Roy Long
C. B. Wright
Harper
R. R. Stover
Fred Hobbs
W. C. Hatcher
L. O. Cooper
Jonben
Ray M. Baldwin
Mount View
George J. Polk
Rhodell
Jesse Williams
Leevale
R. E. Birchfield
Bee Richardson
S. E. Birchfield
R. L. Dillon
H. H. McKinney
Lester
G. P. Henderson
N. L. Williams
McAlpin
G. C. Williams
Maynor
Lacy Mitchell
Harry Meadows
Montroal
C. A. Bowyer
Lacy Armstrong
Opie Williams
Howard Williams
J. P. Clay
Clarence Goodson
New
Hillie Jarrell
Basil Clay
Millard Turner
Naoma
John P. Roles
Walter Polk
Everett Price
Odd
Charles L. Hannah
Packsville
H. C. Lambert
Albert Allen
Fair
A. F. Perry
Eunice
Dewey Cantley
James M. Scarbro
Mr. Hope
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