Eisenhower appeals for public support to save foreign aid
President Eisenhower urged Americans to back foreign aid to block a proposed billion-dollar cut, calling the move calamitous. He welcomed Senate passage of a bill setting spending ceilings while warning groups aim to slash the aid program further. The Senate also resisted foreign aid restrictions tied to the United Arab Republic and Israeli Suez shipping bans, a nonbinding action.
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Washington
Eisenhower
America
Senate
State Department
United Arab Republic
Network Boss Denies Favoritism In Clark Payola Case
ABC President Leonard H. Goldenson denied any double standard in ethics amid firing of Alan Freed for payola links. He said Freed alone refused to sign an affidavit denying payola, while Dick Clark was not given special treatment. Hoernan and Goldenson testified as House subcommittee probes undercover payments to disc jockeys.
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ABC
New York
WABC
Ben Hoperman
Goldenson
House
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Plug Records
Hoberman
Missouri Democrats Name Truman Delegate for Unit Rule
Missouri Democrats named Harry S. Truman a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and instructed the delegation to cast 39 votes as a unit for Sen. Stuart Symington. Truman said he would not be bound by the unit rule. Eisenhower arrived at Fort Benning for a one day inspection tour as Defense Secretary Gates accompanied him. Former White House aides Caudle and Connelly to surrender for two year prison terms for attempting to block an income tax evasion prosecution. Omar Haragicue sentenced to death for aiding a liner bombing. Soviet military leadership changes replace Marshal Sokolovay as chief of staff. An Air Force C123B transport crashed near York, killing two officers and a civilian. Gas fumes from a stove killed a family in Hopewell Township. Coast Guard searched off Charleston for the missing yacht Killdeer. five men rescued from Dutch Treat. Efrem Zimbalist Jr marriage noted.
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Missouri
Harry S. Truman
Stuart Symington
Washington
Eisenhower
Ft. Benning
Secretary of Defense
Thomas S. Gates
T. Lamar Caudle
Matthew J. Connelly
White House
Truman
St. Louis
Omar Haraigue
France
President de Gazelet
Marshal M. V
East Germany
V. D. Soko- Levay
Farm Field
York
J. C. Oop Court
Hopewell
Coast Guard
Charleston
Efrem Zimbalist Jr
Religious Tolerance In Politics Urged
A group of Protestant leaders urged fellow clergymen to push congregations toward religious toleration in politics. An open letter from Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal leaders praised all candidates for honesty and independence and urged not to discount any candidate for faith. The letter, released from Washington Cathedral dean F. B. Sayre Jr.’s office, names no candidates.
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Washington
F. B. Sayre Jr
Washington Cathedral
Protestant Episcopal
Nixon wants Rockefeller as running mate for Nixon
New York Herald Tribune cites high authority that Vice President Nixon desires Gov Nelson Rockefeller on the ticket. A Washington dispatch says Nixon would wait to the July Republican National Convention for Rockefeller to decide on accepting the vice presidential nomination. Rockefeller has said he would not entertain a vice presidency and exited the presidential race last December. The Herald Tribune notes Nixon believes a majority of GOP leaders favor Rockefeller for second place.
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New York Herald Tribune
Richard M. Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Washington Dispatch
Nixon
Rockefeller
Herald Tribune
Voters Go To Polls In Five States Today
Voters cast ballots in Indiana Ohio and the District of Columbia in Democratic and Republican presidential primaries. Alabama signals civil rights concerns while Florida selects governors Congress and legislators. Nixon and Kennedy seek favorable results in Indiana and Ohio with district and state totals shaping convention votes.
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Associated Press
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Ohio
District of Columbia
Florida
Congress
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Nixon
Kennedy
Adlai E. Stevenson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Wayne
Oregon
Underwood backs Neely for governor in WV race
Charleston AP dispatch notes Gov. Underwood endorsed Harold E. Neely for the Republican gubernatorial nomination while denying reviving statehouse machine politics. He urged party leadership duties and cited broad inquiries as his reason. Chapman Revercomb declined immediate comment.
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Harold E. Neely
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Chapman Revercomb
Republic
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Organized Labor
West Virginia
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Revercomb
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Osher Parsons
House of Delegates
West Virginia State Bar
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Bevercomb
Hulett C. Smith
Braxton County
Sutton
Korean Students Demand Immediate National Assembly Elections
Thousands of students defied martial law across Seoul Pusan Taegu and Kimhae demanding new Assembly elections and dissolution. About 150 protesters sat for 40 minutes at the Assembly building while the regime seeks constitutional amendments to shift power to a premier under a new government.
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South Korea
National Assembly
Pusan
Taegu
Kimhae
Assembly
Poy
Syngman Rhee
Lee Ki-Poong
Huh Chung
Cnet
Huh
Shee
Wisconsin Primary Sweet In Comparison
In Charleston West Virginia Kennedy and Humphrey slug it out as Wisconsin’s primary winner by Kennedy adds zest to the race. Both camps report high volunteer interest. A Humphrey supporter reports bringing in two volunteers while a Kennedy worker preserves a restrained image at the campaign center.
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Charleston
W. Va
Wisconsin
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
West Virginia
Kennedy
Bob Kennedy
Humphrey
Hubert
Pierre Salinger
U. S
Garden musings mix with music and frost claims
Sherwood Glutz jokes about frost taking garden sass amid a claim that Grant took Richmond. He says the campaign fever won’t wilt and predicts a mature saxophonist will be noisy through Tuesday. His yards are full of weeds and candy.
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Yankees
Grant
Richmond
Rosenthal And Drury Win Pulitzer Prizes
New York AP reports Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent, the musical Fiorello, and the Los Angeles Times prize winners. A. M. Rosenthal of the New York Times earns a top journalism award for reporting that led to Poland expulsion. Awards total 13 in letters music journalism. no newspaper cartooning awards this year.
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Pulitzer
Allen Drury
Los Angeles Times
A. M. Rosenthal
New York Times
Poland
Columbia University
Meritorius Public Service
Gene Sherman
the Times
Sherman
Mexico
Washington
Texas
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Atlanta Constitution
Washington Evening Star
Scripps- Howard Newspaper Alliance
Norfolk Virginian- Pilot
United Press International
Houston
Tex
Capitol
Reader's Digest
Fiorello
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Broadway
Joseph Pulitzer
Jerome Weidman
California Woman Named American Mother of 1960
New York AP reports Mrs. Emerald Arbogast of Los Angeles a 72 year old mother of six including a retarded child was chosen American Mother of 1960 by the American Mothers Committee Inc. from state nominees. A Chehalis Washington native with an eighth grade education she has three daughters two sons aged 6 to 16 at last child birth and will be honored at a luncheon here Friday.
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New York
Emerald Arbogast
Los Angeles
American Mothers Committee Inc
Chehalis
Wash
Arbogast
Dwight B Billings Named Beckley Social Security Manager
Dwight B Billings is appointed manager of the District Office of Social Security in Beckley announced by regional director Edmund Baxter. He succeeds Stanley Earl and has a long career in Social Security including posts in Roanoke Bristol Raleigh Hagerstown and Logan. Billings is a Norton Virginia native and plans to move his wife and son to Beckley after the current school term.
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Dwight B. Billings
Chessman Dead But-Lives On After Execution At San Quentin
Daryl Chessman, 38, executed after 12 years on death row amid protests in the United States and Europe. A federal judge failed to halt the gas chamber as Gov. Edmund G. Brown faced pickets and chessman proclaimed his innocence to the end. Warden Dickson noted the final walk as Chessman spoke briefly to a reporter, insisting he was the man linked to crimes he denied.
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San Quentin
Calif
Daryl Chessman
Chessman
Edmund G. Brown
Hangman of
California
Europe
Stanley Mose
Los Angeles
Fred Dickson
Diamond to Serve Negroes at Charleston Store
The Diamond Department Store in Charleston announces it will serve African Americans at the fifth floor cafeteria and first floor lunch counter. In cooperation with the Mayor's Commission on Human Relations, the store says facilities are now available to all customers. The move follows a two year boycott by some Negro groups and a sit-in by West Virginia State College students at the first floor counter last month, marking Diamond as the last major Charleston merchant to open dining to Negro patrons.
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Charleston
Diamond Department
Commission On Human Relations
Diamond
West Virginia State College
State Revenue Slips Again In Early Fiscal Year Report
Charleston AP reports the General revenue fund fell short of estimates for the first 10 months of the fiscal year. Finance Commissioner Henry L. Ash notes April receipts at 13,455,001 were 384,000 below forecast, with March shortfalls totaling 1,616,440. The year’s total estimate is 115,659,000 and actual receipts through last month stood at 95,582,016.
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Charleston
Henry L. Ash
Eisenhower Urges Congress to Pass Program Without Politics
President Eisenhower called on Congress to enact his legislative program without political interference. He praised foreign aid and farm bills, urged restraint in new federal spending, and warned against balancing accounts with debt interest rising beyond nine billion annually. He warned against over spending and overcentralizing powers, noting election-year distractions.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
America
Presbyterians Endorse Integration in Church Schools
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States approved a report urging opening church institutions to qualified students regardless of race. Submitting Presbytery was Potomac, with the aim to boost mission work in Africa and elsewhere by educating native leaders in U. S. colleges.
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Associated Press
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In the
Hoffa Granted Indefinite Stay Of Trial In Teamsters Dispute
Washington AP James R Hoffa won an indefinite stay of his trial aimed at ousting him as Teamsters president The stay was granted by the US Court of Appeals by a 2 1 decision The majority said appeals before starting the trial must be resolved and that union monitors status and intervention rights must be settled before trial proceeds Judge Wilbur K Miller dissented favoring trial start today
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Washington
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
U. S. Court of Appeals
Teamsters
District Court
Wilbur K. Miller
Wyoming Board Post Abolished and Restructuring At Meeting
The Wyoming County Board of Education abolished the building coordinator job held by Robert Kuhn and retrograded his status to assistant superintendent. A concurrent motion placed all hourly workers under temporary maintenance head Clarence Snuffer until a permanent head is hired, and required three board members’ consent to hire or fire staff. Kuhn urged legal advice and defended his record as he spoke against alleged political bias.
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Pineville
RNS
Wyoming County Board of Education
Robert Kuhn
Kuhn
Clarence Snuffer
Gilbert Goode
Don D. Cook
Archie Lusk
West Virginia Weather Outlook for Today
Mostly sunny and somewhat warmer today with highs in the 60s in the mountains and in the 70s elsewhere. Fair tonight with lows in the 40s. Wednesday partly cloudy and a little warmer. New River gauge reads 2.6 feet at Beckley O pen.
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Beckley O Pen
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