Push for Alaska statehood gains bipartisan momentum
President Eisenhower signals support for granting statehood to Alaska and possibly Hawaii. Rep. Clair Engle warns a May 1 floor move if Rules Committee fails to clear the Alaska bill. Senate leaders debate timing and Germaneness rules complicate linking Alaska and Hawaii in one measure.
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Alaska
Hawaii
Eisenhower
Clair Engle
D-Calif
House Rules Committee
Engle
House
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Johnny McCormack
D-Mass
Rules Committee
McCormack
Senate
Congress
William F. Knowland
Calif
G.O.P
Frank Church
Idaho
Ile
Strauss to Bow Out of AEC Amid Dulles Test Policy Clash
Atomic Energy head Lewis Strauss plans to resign when his term ends in July after clashing with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over nuclear testing. Eisenhower would renominate him, but Strauss fears tough on Capitol Hill re confirmation battles due to entrenched opposition.
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Lewis Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
John Foster Dulles
United States
Aganda
Dulles
Strauss
Eisenhower
AFC
Fatherly Reflections on a Five Year Old Tracy Ann
Hal Boyle writes about parental worries and joys as a father watches his almost five year old daughter Tracy Ann turn from child to individual. He muses on tenderness and discipline, the child’s growing independence, and the evolving balance of love and boundaries in fatherhood.
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New York
Tracy
Sat
Margaret Tracy
Ann Kath
Teen Boyle
Susan
Margaret
Tracy Ann
Peggy Kessinger Military Men In News At Home And Abroad
Pfc William B Collier nicknamed Pink of the Saist Quartermaster Company basketball team led the unit to the company level championship in Ludwigsburg Germany. He arrived in Europe last September from Fort Lee Virginia and is the son of William J Collier of St Albans. Sally his wife resides at 301 Temple Street Beckley. A 1933 Woodrow Wilson High School graduate he enlisted in April and completed basic training at Fort Jackson South Carolina. Also completing Naval Hospital Corps School at Great Lakes Illinois were Jesse T Daniel Glen Daniel hospitalman and Howard A Treadway hospitalman sons of local families.
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Saist Quartermaster Company
Ludwigsburg
Germany
Pfc
William B. “Pink” Collier
Sally
Lves
Temple St
Beckley
William J. Collier
St. Albans
Europe
Fort Lee
Woodrow Wilson High School
Army
Fort Jackson
S.C
Naval Hospital Corps School
Great Lakes
Naval Base
Jesse T. Daniel
J. E. Daniel
Glen Daniel
Howard A. Treadway
Military notes on Beckley residents in European training
James Marlow and Spe cial ist 3 C Thomas L Cantley participate in a field training exercise with the Sixth Infantry Regiment in the Grunwald Forest Berlin. Donald R Greer graduates recruit training at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Carlos L Pruitt completes nine week equipment maintenance course at Fort Belvoir. Sgt L C Johnny Cook graduates from the Seventh Army Non Commissioned Officer Academy in Munich with wife Louise.
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Berlin
Thomas L. Cantley
Over Cantley
Dry Creek
Grunwald Forest
Amy
Marsh Fork High School
Great Lakes, I., Naval Training Center
Donald R. Greer
Enoch W. Greer
Helen
Engineer School
Fort Belvoir
Seventh Army Non-Commissioned Officer Academy
Munich
Germany
L C. Johnny Cook
Elizabeth Cook
Beckley
J. Cookgeant
Lth Armored Cavalry
Cook
Louise
Nixon Trip Faces Severe Latin American Backlash
The article describes Vice President Nixon's Latin American tour encountering strong anti US sentiment. In Uruguay Argentina Bolivia and Peru he faced jeers and protests from students and crowds amid economic tensions and mistrust of US policy. The San Marcos University incident in Peru culminated the visit with stones and fruit thrown at Nixon and his party.
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Washington
Nixon
Peru
Soviet Union
Wixon
Latin America
United States
State Department
Uruguay
National University
Argentina
Arturo Frondizi
Paraguay
Alfredo Stroessner
Bolivia
U. S
U. S. Tariff Commission
San Marcos University
Bug Dust and Global Drunkorexia Echoes in Times
A sprawling column weaves together assorted items: bootleg liquor issues in the Soviet bloc, liquor advertising debates led by Dr. Clare A. Risley, and a national mood on drunkenness. It notes Khrushchev’s penalties for bootleggers, rising liquor consumption in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and U.S. concerns about alcohol in culture and policy. A closing quip wonders about a potential summit with Russia.
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Register Daily
Clare A. Risley
National Sunday School Association
Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Langer
Risley
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Thayer
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Russia
Moscow
France
Germany
United States
National Advertising Representative Rates Announcement
National Advertising Representative Brooks and Finley lists mail subscription rates with annual and semiannual terms for Daily and Sunday editions. It notes 2 percent West Virginia sales tax, addresses change procedures, and clarifies carrier and distributor roles and responsibilities for payments.
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Brooks & Finley
ENC
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Detroit
Reston
Cleveland
Atlanta
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Ponays Aml
Geere
West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Junior Editors Quiz On Ancient History
A reader challenge notes Antipater of Sidon’s list of Seven Wonders and lists the surviving pyramids while noting the rest were destroyed by disasters. David Bullen of Arcata, California wins ten dollars for a submitted question. readers are invited to send more. Tomorrow’s query asks about the Empire State Building.
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B.C
Antipater of
Sidon
Pharos
Bay of Alexandria
Babylon
Rhodes
Halicarnassus
Maugolus
Diana
Ephesus
Zeus
Olympia
Pyramids
Egypt
David Bullen
Arcata
Calif
Beckley
Empire State Building
Earl Wilson Surveys Celebrities in California Desert Locale
Palm Springs report places Bing Crosby and other stars in a celebrity enclave with private homes and luxe haunts like Romanoff's On the Rocks. The piece notes a booming scene with Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Joan Collins, plus millionaire residents and showy motor parks.
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Palm Springs
California Desert
Jimmy van Helsen
Bing Crosby
Bing
Jimmy
Syracuse
Edwin Chester Babcock
Hollywood
Alan Ladd
Tony Martin
John Haskell
Romanoff
Mike
Frank Sinatra
Tony Curtis
Janet Leigh
Joan Collins
Sammy Cairns
Dean Martin
Frank
B. W
Frankie
Phoenix
Miami
Ray Ryan
el Mirador
Bill Holden
Charlie O'Curran
Patti Page
Horace Heidt
Bert Wheeler
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Hal Boyle
Boyle
Peggy Kessinger
James Marlow
Clinton B. Treadway
Tees Road
Carlos L. Pruitt
Carl 8. Pruitt
Piney View
Fort Gordon
Richard Nixon
Bob Wills
Dunn
Cannes
Wall Street
Boon
Logan Mine
Supreme Court
Charles W. Thayer
Raleigh
Prince St
W. Va
Hinton
J. McQuade
Associated Press
Earl Wilson
California
God
Jesus
Ellis K. Sch- Weickhard
Minneapolis
Charlie Farrell
Ann Miller
Bill Moss
Elsinore Machris
Jack Dempsey
Jack
Charley Jones
Earl
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