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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1962
Page
1
This report profiles Logan West Virginia where a 4000-population hollow begins a recovery. A nine-day radio marathon raised 256000 by 1400 participants, with 85000 more needed to fund a local plant and jobs. Shifting mood and optimism emerge as unemployment eases and community action drives progress.
Harvard professor Dr Jerome Bruner reported to a House subcommittee that new experiments show the nervous system dispatches its own messages in addition to receiving inputs. Electrodes on animals reveal brain impulses that filter stimuli, altering what senses perceive.
State Public Institutions Commissioner Joseph Hodgson urged lawmakers to create a standalone State Department of Corrections to rehabilitate prisoners, ease inmate load, and run a full-time commissioner's office. He argued rehabilitation drives an effective penal system and criticized current time constraints on reform programs.
A Raleigh County Bar Association resolution unanimously endorsed Judge Norman Knapp for a seat on the West Virginia Supreme Court as a successor to Judge Leslie E. Given. The group urged Gov. W. W. Barron to seriously consider Knapp, citing his tenure on the Raleigh County Circuit Court and his high standing among lawyers. Knapp, 44, was born in Fairmont, a Morris Harvey College alumnus, and WVU Law graduate, serving since 1953 and having held the 10th Judicial Circuit since the state split from Boone County.
Dutch forces rushed to push back Indonesian parachutists landed on the southern coast of West New Guinea near Fak Fak. Rear Adm. Leendert Reeser reported at least 100 paratroopers had landed as Dutch air units engaged two Indonesian bombers. Four C47s carried about 80 paratroopers in the first wave at 6:30 a.m. New Guinea time.
President Kennedy announced the deployment of 5000 U.S. military personnel to Thailand to deter Communist forces near Laos. A Marine combat group will land in Bangkok at 10 am EDT, joining 1000 troops already in country as part of a multi-service force under a new United States Military Assistance Command Thailand.
Fair tonight with little change temperatures 60s to 50s at higher elevations. Wednesday turns sunny and hot with highs mostly in the low to mid 90s, cooler in the mountains. Oak Hill reported 87 at high and 59 at low. river conditions show a new gauge at 2.4 feet at Hinton. In New York, readings note Redmond Oregon at 2 degrees, and highs around 95 in Texas and New Mexico sites Carlsbad and Laredo.
The Senate Commerce Committee will resume hearings May 21 on President Kennedy's coal pipeline bill. The measure would grant eminent domain to transport powdered coal mixed with water, creating a slurry pipeline. The railroad industry opposes it, while President Kennedy says it aids the coal industry by lowering transportation costs. Major coal producers largely back pipelines, though some smaller producers voiced objections in earlier testimony.
The New Jersey General Assembly approved by a 42 to 1 vote with 11 abstentions a bill restricting eminent domain to natural gas or liquid petroleum concerns. The move affects plans for a slurry coal pipeline from West Virginia and signals a setback for the project on the Eastern Seaboard.
Parkersburg UPI report says Reliable Furniture Co store was gutted by a Monday fire injuring four firefighters including one treated for smoke inhalation. Officials estimate total damage over 250000 with interior and fixtures between 80000 and 100000 and uncertainty about replacement.
The dispatches include Pravda accusing US troops of planning a renewed attack in Thailand, El Dorado Club manager Daugherty teasing Eisenhower’s 75 at Palm Desert, Sen Sumulong criticizing the Philippine war damage bill vote, and astronaut Scott Carpenter recalling a youth marked by mischief and drifting.
Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas acknowledged Billie Sol Estes contributed 1700 dollars toward expenses for taping programs aired on Texas radio stations. Yarborough aides released a statement detailing the costs of preparing and arranging the broadcasts.
Two 25 year old Chicago men, James Miraglia and John McCarthy, were found slain and hidden in the trunk of a new car on a residential street. Both had been sentenced to federal prison for armed robbery and had disappeared weeks earlier. The case marks at least eight gang style killings in Chicago this year and follows several similar slayings in the past three weeks.
The record shows broadcasts in Senate studios since Jan 1, 1959 with total costs of 24,400 dollars. Speaker notes 20,384 dollars paid and 3,982.90 dollars owed, attributing 1,700 dollars of Estes campaign contributions to a Texas radio report and stating no strings attached to these contributions from Estes and others.
A 23-year-old former Coal City man, Lowell Thomas Russell, was arrested by Cleveland police after taking his 2-year-old daughter from his ex wife at Coal City. He waived extradition to West Virginia as deputies prepared to transport him and the child to Beckley. Police indicated Russell had previously abducted his other child, a 3½-year-old boy, last year but no charges were filed in that incident.
CAPE CANAVERAL AP S Preparations for astronaut Scott Carpenter's planned three orbit flight for Saturday moved steadily ahead with hopeful weather outlooks. Technicians worked to fix control system issues on the Aurora 7 spacecraft and NASA officials said there is no current obstacle to the Saturday schedule.
David P. Johnson, 32, a U S railroad worker who visited the Soviet Union for a week but found life not living up to Communist promises, is subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un American Activities and expected to testify within two weeks. Plastics technician Robert Webster of Pennsylvania has a U S embassy visa in Moscow to return as an immigrant, saying temporary insanity led him to renounce U S citizenship years ago. Yugoslavia sentences Milovan Djilas to about nine years and bans public activity for five years after his book Conversations with Stalin. Israel will decide May 29 on Adolf Eichmanns appeal against his death sentence. About 20 student pickets demonstrate outside the U S Embassy in Manila over the Philippine war claims bill. The U S conducts its 11th nuclear explosion in the Pacific test series, dropping an intermediate yield device from an aircraft.
H Sutton Sharp of the Parkersburg Sentinel and Earl V Witt Penn of the Weirton Daily Times were elected president and vice president of United Press International Editors of West Virginia On Monday at the sixth annual meeting at Oglebay Park Sharp to succeed J Knox Dye of the Pt Pleasant Register J Richard Toren UPI West Virginia news manager was re elected secretary The organization includes 24 daily newspapers The two day meeting was attended by W Munn chief of the UPI United.
New York traders faced a frenetic session with an early selloff, a 34 minute tape lag the worst since May 1933, and 5,990,000 shares changing hands the year's heaviest volume. A midday rally reversed what could have been a large loss into a notable gain.
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