Rebels in Laos Proclaim Ceasefire and Call for Talks
Laos rebel forces led by Kong Le and Khampay Siphandone say they have ceased military actions and seek a front lines truce with pro West forces. New China News Agency reports the halt since 8 a.m. Laos time, while Britain and the United States follow cautious signals amid talk of a 14 nation Geneva conference to resolve Laos political fate.
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Charles E. Smith
Tokyo
UPI
Laos
Pathet Lao
Khampay Siphandone
New China News Agency
Kong le
London
Foreign Office
Britain
Prince Boun Oum
Phoumi Nosavang
Russia
Indochina
Space Shot Set Friday to Launch Shepard in Redstone
UPI reports America's No. 1 astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. is set for a 15 minute space flight Friday if weather cooperates. Weather officials say surface winds and sea conditions look excellent with possible broken clouds at 20,000 feet. Final countdown begins 1:30 a.m. EDT if launch proceeds, with a simulated flight scheduled today and a smooth recovery area noted 29 miles down the Atlantic missile range.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
UPI
America
Walter Williams
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Shepard
Redstone
Williams
Atlantic Missile Range
Mercury
West Virginia Election News From Several Cities
Veteran New Martinsville Mayor Robert L. Bruce is assured of re election as Republicans renominate with Democrats lacking candidates. In St Albans Averil L Ramsey seeks a second term after Peoples Party renomination while Frank E Oliver wins Citizens Party nod. Cecil H Underwood offered executive VP post at National Association of Life Underwriters but unlikely to accept. Secretary of State Joe F Burdett hospitalised with virus infection. Ninety furloughed miners recalled by Princess Coals near Man. Travis Hary killed in bulldozer overturn near Pembroke. About 1100 stolen from Charleston carpet store after safe knock in. William P Nicely of Parkersburg named director of WV GOP youth camp at Camp Caesar in Webster County.
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NEW
Martinsville
UPI
Robert L. Bruce
ST. Albans
Averil L. Ramsey
Peoples Party
Frank E. Oliver
Citizens Party
Parkersburg
William P. Nicely
West Virginia
Camp Ceasar
Webster County
GOP
Daniel L. Louchery
Clarksburg
Ghetto Revolt Recounted At Eichmann Trial
Jerusalem witness Mrs. Scha Lubotkin testifies against Adolf Eichmann recalling how Warsaw ghetto Jews armed with home made weapons rose up against Nazis. She describes the famine reducing 500000 to 60000, and reports a pole named Henrik bringing news of extermination. The rabbi reacted with tears as the story unfolded.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Warsaw
Scha Lubotkin
Adolf Eichmann
Treblinka
Henrik
Temperature Dips To 33 In Capital
Charleston reported a record low of 33 degrees with the Weather Bureau forecasting continued unusually cool weather. Bluefield matched Charleston for the coldest major city reading while Flat Top, Mercer County, logged 34. State readings remained in the 20s overall with Wheeling at 38 as the highest minimum. Temperatures in the 30s were expected again tonight and the extended forecast predicted readings about 5 degrees Below normal for five days.
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Charleston
UPI
Weather Bureau
Bluefield
Flat Top
Mercer County
Wheeling
West Virginia Weather Forecast and River Conditions
Mostly sunny and cool with highs 60 to 64 and valleys cooler in the mountains. Fair and cool tonight with lows in the 30s, clouds and warmth Thursday and Friday, then cooler over the weekend. Five day outlook shows rainfall about half an inch, near Friday and possibly late Monday. Beckley and Oak Hill observed highs near 88 and 56 respectively, river conditions show Greenbrier muddy, Lake at 13 feet above normal with gates open.
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Beckley
Acetic
Cerees Sas
Oak Hill
Ani
Cesseerevess
Greenbrier
Control Mission Urged By Three Nations In Laos Truce Push
UPI reports State Department officials urged the three nation International Control Commission to move from India to Laos swiftly to verify a cease fire. They welcomed rebel orders to hold fire but warned against premature optimism pending official confirmation. The commission includes Canada and Poland. Nehru is expected to aid rapid deployment as hopes rise for a general cease fire and a 14 nation Geneva conference set to begin May 12.
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Souvanna Phouma
Geneva
Laos
Stewart Hensley Washington
UPI
State Department
International Control Commission
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Control Commission
Canada
Poland
U. S
South Oakwood Work To Finish By Month's End
Harold Salisbury of Kyowa Construction Co reports South Oakwood Avenue relocation near Beckley nearing completion by month end with paving by May 31 if weather cooperates. Contractors will finish a 600 foot road section from Ellison to Central and install drainage cross Central Avenue before paving proceeds in two stages. Concrete aprons and asphalt extensions will restore access roads and complete the Rt 16 work within Beckley limits.
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Oakwood Avenue
Beckley
Harold Salisbury
Kyowa Construction Co
Central Avenue
South Oakwood
Salisbury
Ellison Avenue
Beckley Avenue
Dember
State Road Commission
Huntington
Colony Drug
Beckley Hospital
Rt. 16
Mabscott Hill
Vecellio & Grogan Construction Co
Leo Vecellio
Eighteen Augustinian Priests Recalled From Cuba
Villanova based Augustinian order reports eighteen priests including nine Americans were recalled from Cuba at Fidel Castro s government request. The group served at Villanueva University clinic parish and school complexes. One priest Rev John I McNiff of Media Pa was arrested during the rebel invasion and is believed released and to return with the others. Named Americans include Daly Philadelphia Connery Troy Brown Leesville Hufnagel McCarthy Seymour King and Galloway others from Nova Scotia.
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Villanova
UPC
Cuba
Fidel Castro
James A. Don‘nellon
O.S.A
St. Thomas of Villanova
Castro
Augustinians
University of Villanueva
John I. McNiff
Media
Henry L. Daly
Philadelphia
Edward J. Connery
Troy
N.Y
Jeremiah C. Brown
Leesville
Peter C. Hufnagel
McSherrytown
Edward J. McCarthy
James M. Seymour
Tyrone
Edwin F. King
New York
Norman G Galloway
Nova Scotia
Udall Scandal Draws GOP Heat Over Oil Tickets
Interior Secretary Udall denies soliciting industry support while Republicans demand action after a letter from oil executive J. K. Evans proposed selling $100 tickets to a Kennedy dinner as a personal favor for Udall. Udall called the letter appalling and said Evans admitted the mistake.
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John G. Warner
Washington
UPI
Stewart L. Udall
J. K. Evans
Kennedy
Evans
Udall
Asiatic Petroleum Corp
Deadly Factory Blast Kills 20 in Caracas
A fireworks factory explosion in Caracas at 4:23 a.m. killed about 20 people and injured at least 50. Authorities recovered 15 bodies and feared five more buried in debris. The blast damaged 20 nearby homes in La Pastora district. cause was not yet determined.
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Caracas
Venezuela
UPI
la Pastora
Girl Finds Groom Lacks Funds Before Wedding
Just as a girl plans marriage for love she discovers her fiancé has no money. The line illustrates a complication in romantic plans and financial concerns impacting a future union.
Congress set to vote on compromise wage bill and unions probe
A minimum wage bill faced a House vote with Kennedy Democrats seeking victory through concessions to Southern Democrats eliminating 16000 cotton gin jobs from coverage and aiding textiles with import curbs. Senate probed union practices at missile bases with company reps to be questioned. Labor stats showed a seasonal unemployment drop to 4962000. Kaiser Jr. died in Oakland aged 44 after multiple sclerosis battle. Udall won Arizona seat over Matheson by about 3500 votes with 53 precincts left. Kennedy and Johnson to address editors in Washington June 8-9. State briefs note hepatitis cases up to 841 for the year. Weirton Steel gifted a rolling mill to Carnegie Tech. Henderson trial postponed. Dean Rusk appeared before state officials.
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Congress
Kennedy
House
Senate
Martin Co
Boeing Aircraft Corp
Convair Astronautics
Labor Department
Henry J. Kaiser Jr
Henry J. Kaiser
Oakland
Calif
Morris
Moe) Udall
Arizona
Stewart Udall
Mac C. Matheson
Lyndon B. Johnson
United Press _International Editors and Publishers
Washington
Weirton Steel Co
Carnegie Tech
Riley Henderson
Huntington
Florence Harris
Charleston
Kanawha
Henderson
Veterans Hospital
New York City
JFK Proposes $30 A Day Cap On Business Deductions
President Kennedy urges Congress to curb luxury business expenses by barring deductions for night clubs yachts theater tickets and costly gifts and to cap daily food and lodging deductions at 30. Treasury Secretary Dillon opened a 79 page briefing outlining examples of extravagant spending as lawmakers weigh the tax reform push.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Plu
Kennedy
Treasury
Douglas Dillion
House Ways & Means Committee
Dillon
Federal Treasury
Dillion
Internal Revenue Service
Killian Named CIA Overseer
Washington UPI Kennedy names Dr James R Killian Jr to head a permanent board monitoring foreign intelligence He intends to reconstitute the presidential board now active Killian chair of MIT revival follows Cuban invasion fallout He was first chairman of the board 1956 58 later succeeded by Maj Gen John E Hull
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Kennedy
Killian
Eisenhower
Central Intelligence Agency
John E. Hull
U.S
Far East
The
Manufacturing Chemists Association
Barron Names Kelly Bias Fox To New West Virginia Board
Gov W W Barron named three trustees to the West Virginia Public Retirement System board to join ex officio members State Auditor Denzil Gainer and Finance Commissioner Truman Gore. Appointees Kelly Bias and Fox will serve five year terms ending 1964 65 and 1963 respectively, with a today organizational meeting to set officers and chief executive terms. The system aims to supplement federal social security for state employees and may include cities towns schools and counties.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia Public Retirement System
W. W. Barron
John H. Kelly
Henry C. Bias Jr
State Road Commission
Charles F. Fox
Denzil Gainer
Truman Gore
Fox
Kelly
Probers Question Ex GE Boss Paxton On Price Fixing
Senate investigators questioned former General Electric president Robert Paxton over alleged personal involvement in a price fixing conspiracy. Paxton retired in February after an operation and held GE stock under an executive incentive plan. Burens testified that Paxton directed a 1954 meeting with a Milwaukee electrical manufacturer president.
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Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Paxton
Burens
Milwaukee Electrical
Brainwashed spy Blake jailed for 42 years in Britain
George Blake a British diplomat who spied for Russia since captivity in Korea was sentenced at the Old Bailey to 42 years, the harshest peacetime sentence. He confessed after arrest in Beirut, admitting passing a mass of information to the Russians while claimed brainwashing in North Korea custody.
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London
UPS
Russia
George Blake
Old Bailey Court
Reginald Mannningham-Buller
Beirut
Foreign Office
Blake
Korea
Britain
Manningham-Buller
Lord Parker
England
Rotterdam
Holland
Spain
Royal Navy
Blite
Donald MacLean
Guy Burgess
Soviet Union
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Pad 5
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R. Walter Riehlman
Alan Shepard
W. Va
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Cecil H. Underwood
National Association of Life
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Island Creek Coal Co
LOGAN
Princess Coals Inc
Man
Pembroke
Travis Hary
Oakvale
Here
Norfolk & Western Railway
Hary
Yeggs
Eichmann
Kyova Construction Co
John Trimble
William E. Miller
R-N.y
Miller
Kenneth B. Keating
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Keating
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
NEA
Dean Rusk
JFK
CIA
Barron
Bias
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