West Virginia primary sees heavy turnout and polling delays
Voters turned out in large numbers across West Virginia for the primary but faced long ballots and machine lines. Kanawha and Cabell counties reported delays and lines from 7 am, while Morgantown and Clarksburg showed moderate to heavy activity. In Clay County, ballot chaos followed party squabbles over election officials until court rulings. Early results hint at statewide mobilization by Democratic opponents seeking a strong vote.
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Charleston
West
Morgantown
Clarksburg
Monongalia
West Virginia
Charleston Daily Mail
Kanawha
Huntington
Cabell County
Clay County
State Supreme Court
Otter
Mercer
Raleigh
McDowell
Cabell
Raleigh County
Stratton High School
Nathaniel Smith
Truman Ave
Voter Registration Dips in California Primary
In Sacramento California the June 5 presidential primary saw voter registration at 194?487,822 down 176,966 from the 1954 primary. The drop highlights a weaker turnout trend and shifting engagement among electorate groups across the state.
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California
Sacramento
Calif
Voters vote in Raleigh County 1956 primary races
Raleigh County voters turnout heavy in the 1956 primary with Democrats leading in early returns. Beckley precinct tallies show 132 for and 47 against machine voting. W H File Jr leads non partisan school board race. Chapman Revercomb ahead for Senate GOP. Byrd leads Eckard in House race. Underwood slight edge in governor race. Mills leads for sheriff. Dove tops Republican sheriff field. Anderson leads county clerk. Hunter nips Hanks for circuit clerk.
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W. H. File Jr. Beckley
Board of Education
File
A. P. Leeber
James H. Trail
W. D. Nace
J. Marion Cook
Carl Jarrell
Jesse Daniel
Brown Hugo Payne
W. T. Harris
Chapman Revercomb
U.S. Senate
John G. Fox
William C. Marland
Robert CC. Byrd
Sophia
Okey A. Mills
Emery J. Smith
Milton H. Dove
Harry F. Anderson
W. W. Vines
van Hunter
C. Harold Hanks
Egyptian-Israeli Pact Faces U N Oversight Hurdle
Major General E L M Burns opened efforts to operationalize the Egyptian Israeli agreement for a U N observer scheme along the Gaza Strip border. Talks with Egyptian armtistice chief Col Salah Gohar aim to formalize posts and mobile patrols within the Mixed Armistice Commission as shooting incidents raise urgency. U N observers would serve on both sides with access and patrol authority, while Hammarskjold’s mission fuels Security Council expectations.
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Jerusalem
E. L. M. Burns
U. N
Gaza Strip
U. N. Truce Supervision Organization
Gaza
Salah Gohar
Egyptian
War Ministry
Dag Hammarskjold
Burns
Joseph Tekoah
Foreign Ministry
Egypt
Israel
Hammarskjold
Truce Supervision Organization
New York
U.N. Security Council
Council Emi
Sunay
New Frontiers Slated By Methodist Church
MINNEAPOLIS Methodists end four year General Conference with steps toward integration of the church structure and full clergy rights for women. Delegates approved a School of International Service in Washington and two new seminaries, plus funds to expand church colleges. They also backed a broad local-church outreach program and condemned liquor, sanctioned birth control, and boosted the missionary budget. A contentious move to liberalize marriage rules for divorced persons was postponed. The conference endorsed a voluntary plan to unify white and Negro churches.
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Minneapolis
Washington, D. C
Ohio
Kansas-Nebraska-Missouri
Everett W. Palmer
Glendale
Calif
California
Mental Patient Kills Best Friend at Richmond Dorm
James Edward Whitlow, a 21 year old Clover Virginia sophomore at Richmond Professional Institute, was shot twice in the back of the head in his dorm room by Alfred Vischio, 21, a former roommate and mental patient. Vischio was arrested and charged with first degree murder after reportedly admitting the act and returning to McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital. The two had shared a room until March when Vischio was committed and later released in April after a Florida trip together.
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Richmond
Richmond Professional Institute
James Edward Whitlow
Clover
Whitlow
Alfred Vischio
Brooklyn
N.Y
McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital
Vischio
F. S. Wakefield
McGuire Hospital
Florida
Nation's Employment Record Shows Jump
Washington reports civilian employment rose by 900,000 in April to a record 63,990,000, with unemployment down 270,000 to about 2.56 million. The March-to-April gain was 912,000, aided by seasonal factors including a 700,000 rise in farm employment. Auto and factory joblessness trends diverged, with auto workers seeing higher unemployment while overall factory jobs did not show the usual spring decline.
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Washington
Labor and Commerce Departments
French Students Riot in Algiers Demanding Stronger Action
About 2000 French students rioted in Algiers calling for military power to quell the nationalist rebellion. They pelted Robert Lacoste with tomatoes and clashed with police as reports say 97 rebels were killed in two days and 20 European settlers died in attacks near the city.
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Algiers
Algeria
Robert Lacoste
Guy Micollet
French
Morocco
France
Fes
Constantine
Agricultural Revolution Cited as State's Need
Agriculture Commissioner John T. Johnson warned in the Market Bulletin that West Virginia must pursue an agricultural revolution to match industrial growth. He said the state's farmers currently produce only about 30 percent of the food consumed by residents.
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Charleston
West Virginia
John T. Johnson
State Mother Free After Posting Bond
PT. PLEASANT Mrs Ruth Miller 29 Hartford mother of five was granted freedom on 5000 bond while awaiting a murder trial date in the death of her husband Leroy Indicted by Mason County Grand Jury Troopers said Miller admitted shooting him last March 29 in their home She said her 32 year old husband had beaten her the day before the shooting and she feared him The children range in age from six months to seven years
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PT. Pleasant
Ruth Miller
Hartford
Leroy
Mason County
R. E. Forren
A. A. Galford
Socialists Nominate Haas for Presidency
Eric Haas of New York Socialist Labor party, candidate for president in 1952, has been nominated to run again in the current year.
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New York
Eric Haas
Socialist Labor Party
Voters Protest as Primary Moves Into High Gear
Voters flood The Register with complaints about polling precincts in Beckley and surrounding areas. Issues include open ballots, slammed doors, improvised facilities at White Oak No 97 and Johnstown No 4, and requests to sign statements at Hollywood. Beckley League of Women Voters staged a cleanup of off limit lines while observers noted sample ballots marked for specific candidates.
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White Oak
Johnstown
Allen Grocery
Beckley League of Women Voters
Board of Education
A. P. Leeber
James H. Trail
J. Marion Cook
Continuous Miner Described For Thin Coal Seams
Robert N. Morris of Mead Coal Co. East Gulf Va. outlines a new three part continuous mining machine suited for seams 2 to 40 inches high. The device uses twin augers a powered cutting head and a conveyor to move coal to the haulage system. Robert I. Billings of Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Co. notes design changes to address thin seams and the use of extensible belts to remove transport bottlenecks.
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Cincinnati
West Virginia
Robert N. Morris
Mead Coal Co
East Gulf
W. Va
Morris
American Mining Congress
Robert I. Billings
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Co
Indiana
Billings
Tito's Paris Visit Mixed Sightseeing With Talks
Yugoslav President Tito’s state visit to France featured a busy schedule of sight seeing and talks with Premier Mollet. He urged East West détente at a state dinner and aimed to strengthen Franco Yugoslav ties as a bridge between blocs. Separately in Norfolk Virginia the battleship Wisconsin and destroyer Eaton arrived for repairs after a collision off the Virginia Capes. No injuries were reported though multiple compartments flooded and a gun mount damaged.
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Paris
Tito
Yugoslavia
France
Guy Mollet
Mollet
Paris Opera
Norfolk
Wisconsin
Eaton
Virginia Capes
Utina
Martinsburg Airport Contract Awarded to Williams Co
The Williams Construction Co Inc of Baltimore has been awarded a 1,820,000 dollar contract for work at Martinsburg Municipal Airport to accommodate jet planes of the National Guard. Rep Harley O Staggers released the information yesterday.
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Martinsburg
W.va
Williams Construction Co., Inc
Baltimore
National Guard
Harley O. Staggers
Salvation Army Rally Scheduled in City
Approximately 150 persons are expected to attend a District Rally at 7:30 p m today in Beckley with attendees from southern West Virginia and delegates from Pulaski Virginia and Ashland Kentucky. Guests include Colonel and Mrs Atlanta Ga and Col and Mrs Ernest Pickering. Col Stephens of Richmond Virginia is field secretary for the southern territory. The program features a mass band drawn from Salvation Army Citadels in the area.
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Beckley Salvation Army Citadel
R. H. Boyce
Ernest Pickering
Richmond
Stephens
Southern Territory
States
Mexico
Col
Pickering
Virginia
West Virginia
Boyce
Salvation Army
Weather to Schedule H Bomb Test at Eniwetok
Weather conditions will decide the timing of the Cherokee H bomb test at Eniwetok. The blast is tentatively set for Thursday, pending favorable winds at all altitudes to keep radioactive fallout within the 375000 square mile danger area. Three B52s stand ready to carry the device to Namus Island, about 190 miles from Bikini Atoll.
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Eniwetok
Cherokee
U. S
Namu Island
Bikini Atoll
Beckley Skies: Moonrise and New Moon Ahead
Beckley sky chart notes THE SUN sets at 7 22 p m and rises at 5 20 a m on Wednesday THE MOON rises at 4 28 a m Wednesday New Moon Thursday morning Prominent stars Alphard in the southwest at 9 12 p m Regulus high above Alphard To the right of Regulus is Jupiter moving steadily nearer Regulus for the next two months
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Alphard
Regulus
Jupiter
Piney View Brothers Jailed for Assault
Three Piney View brothers, including a 16 year old, were jailed in Raleigh County at 10 45 am on felonious assault charges. State Police booked Donald Lee Pruitt Clarence Robert Pruitt and a 16 year old after a warrant issued by Magis trate J E Mays followed an alleged attack on Susie Clay s husband that fractured his jaw.
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Piney View
Raleigh
J. E. Mays
Donald Lee
Clarence Robert Pruitt
Susie Clay
Price Hill
Fall From Bridge Fatal to Maben Man
George Whitlow a about 70 year old retired Maben miner died after a head first fall from a bridge into Slab Fork Creek at Maben roughly 11 30 am today He was taken by ambulance to Wyoming General Hospital Mullens where he died about five minutes after admission Witnesses noted he had been drinking and loafing around the Maben polling place
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Mullens
RNS
George Whitlow
Slab Fork Creek
Maben
Whitlow
Wyoming General Hospital
West Virginia Weather Forecast and Readings
Clear and cool tonight with scattered frost. Lows 32 to 34 west and 26 to 34 east. Wednesday mostly sunny then warmer. Extended forecast calls for slightly below normal temperatures through Sunday with a warming trend and few light showers in the north Thursday and again late week. Total rainfall near a quarter inch. Normal temps around 60 to 61 across southern and northern portions. Beckley reports yesterday high values and low around the mid 0s to 10s, with today readings near 10 am. Oak Hill and other stations show similar patterns with light rainfall and normal river stages at Bellepoint where Greenbrier and New rivers run clear on normal stages.
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W.va
North Section
Beckley
Scovess
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