Jet crashes into convent killing 15 nuns in Ottawa
A Royal Canadian Air Force CF100 jet struck the Grey Nuns of the Cross convent near Ottawa last night, killing 15 people including several bedridden nuns and a priest. Three nuns and a priest were recovered. 8 nuns were missing. The two crew members and a cook are also listed as missing and presumed dead. Firefighters battled the blaze as crowds watched, with the cause of the crash undetermined.
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Ottawa
Grey Nuns of the Cross
Ottawa River
Marie Edmond
Lare
Canada
RCAF
Montreal
Uplands
Air Force Base
Six Months to Begin Coal Washery Clean-Up Plan
State Water Commission told top mine officials in Beckley to complete engineering plans for anti-pollution facilities at coal washers within six months, with three months for planning and three for design and start of construction. Officials stressed flexibility, detailing standards vary by stream condition, and urged installing solids removal in plants to ease lagoon work. Representatives from Pocahontas Fuel, Winding Gulf Coals, Mead Coal, Somet-Solvay, Buckeye, Crozer, Lillybrook, and North American Coal attended, with WV Coal Association officers present.
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State Water Commission
Guyandotte River
Lyhie E. Gillenwater
The
Water Commission
Beckley
Rex C. Pierson
John H. Hail
Winding Gulf Operators Association
Bair
Gillenwater
Commis
Sion
C. H. Mead Coal Co
Somet-Solvay Division
Allied Chemical & Dye Corp
Buckeye Coal & Coke Co
Crozer Coal & Land Co
Lillybrook Coal Co
North American Coal Corp
West Virginia Coal Association
R. C. Andrews
R. G. Kelly
Explosion Scare Ends as Styrene Car Is Drained
A Chesapeake & Ohio switch engine bumped a derailed tank car near the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals plant in South Charleston West Virginia causing an explosion scare. Police closed U S 60 while workers drained the styrene into two tractor trailers and the threat ended in about four and a half hours.
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South Charleston
W.va
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co
U.S
J. L. King
Carbide
Desegregation Move Proves Economical
Oklahoma officials say desegregation will save at least one million dollars for state taxpayers during the current biennium. Integration of common schools began last September. Policy allows keeping Negro schools this year but districts wishing two schools next fall must pay the costs. State aid is based on attendance, so separate staffs and facilities will be funded by local taxes.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Y Executive Walter Faust Dies in Charleston
Walter A. Faust 51, general executive of the Charleston YMCA, died after a heart attack suffered at about 9 p m at the YMCA. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a Charleston hospital and had served as YMCA general executive for two and a half years.
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Charleston
Walter A. Faust
YMCA
Faust
Charleston ‘Y
$200 Robbery Probed at Calloway Heights Home
State Police investigate a Tuesday night break-in at a Calloway Heights residence where $200 in cash was taken. The report was filed today by D. C. Toney. Further details were not available.
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Calloway Heights
D. C. Toney
Lutheran Pastor Declines Synod Office in State
The 44th West Virginia Synod convention in Jackson's Mill elected Rev. Harry G. Schweiger as president but he resigned, citing time demands on his parish at First Lutheran Church in Parkersburg. Rev. George Weirich of Amboy to serve 1956-57. Consideration of a full-time president discussed. action delayed. New Home Mission members Rev. H. L. Hann and Rev. C. L. Blessing named. Church Vocations members Rev. C. K. Schultz and Rev. James M. Alden named.
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George Weirich
Amboy
Aurora-Davis
H. L. Hann
Fairmont
C. L. Blessing
Mason County
C. K. Schultz
Morgantown
James M. Alden
Bittinger, Md
Mabscott Police Chief Evan Hall Quits
Evan Hall resigned as Mabscott police chief after six months in the role and six years earlier, with Tremton Stover reappointed by the town council. Hall, who had sought the Raleigh County sheriff nomination, said he planned no immediate plans and felt unwell. Stover previously held the post for eight years before leaving. Mayor James Sparacino said the resignation was effective immediately.
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Mabscott
Trenton Stover
Evan Hall
Hall
Raleigh
Stover
Beckley
James Sparacino
Inoculation Push for Polio Vaccine at March of Dimes Session
Dr. Herbert T. Wagner urged wide first shots for polio vaccine at a Beckley workshop for March of Dimes workers. He noted first dose timing, advised health departments and doctors to reach families, and outlined goals including research funding and patient care. Burcaw warned higher 1956 costs due to care load, while local advisers urged year-round campaign and family consultations.
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March of Dimes
Beckley
Herbert T. Wagner
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
New York
United States
Wagner
Nfip of
Robert A. Burcaw
Burcaw
Joseph Pugh
Morgantown
MOD
Moose Lodge
Jenny Ellison
Freddie Rowles
Woodrow Wilson High School
Robert A. Bureaw
National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis
Cal Welch
Huntington
Postponed H-bomb test on Bikini Atoll delays timing
Weather delays the scheduled H-bomb test aboard USS MT McKinley off Bikini Atoll. The test was postponed again today just 1 hour and 36 minutes before the shot time. A new tentative date was set for tomorrow as conditions worsen.
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MT Mckinley
Bikini
U.S
County Candidates File Campaign Costs in Raleigh County
Raleigh County candidates who sought May 8 Primary nomination must file receipts and expenditures within 30 days. Twenty-two names appear with offices sought, receipts and expenditures listed. examples include Harold Smith for Judge, Willard Davis for Sheriff, John Cooper for Demo Committee, and Basil Sweeney on the GOP Executive Committee.
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Raleigh
Albert Canterbury
Pine Knob
Democratic
W. A. Stump
Helen
Constable
Slab Fork
John McGinnis
Shady Spring
Willard E. Davis
Beckley
E. E. ‘Doc’’ Williams
Constable Town
John Cooper
Coal City
Earl Bragg
Cranberry
N. J. Sloan
Harper
Constable Trap Hill
Ina Lusk
Demo
M. M
Mike’’ Gladwell
GOP
George Quincy Gunnoe
Suveyor
Basil R. Sweeney
Ernest A. Large
Naoma
Marsh Fork
Charles T. Burdiss
L. F. Smith
Peery Haga
Sophia
Fire at Sanitary Cafe Causes $8000 In Damages
Fire at the Sanitary Cafe in Eccles caused about 8000 in damages and left the building a total loss. Beckley firefighters from Station No. 2 responded, with out-of-town call pay to be covered by apartment operator Mrs. Fred Hodges. The cafe operator was Alice Hinte and the building owner Joe Trimboli. Cause of the blaze undetermined. building reportedly insured.
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Beckley
Fred Hodges
Alice Hinte
Joe Trimboli
Congressman to Resist Curbing Supreme Court
Congressman Joseph L. Ballester? no. Celler of the House Judiciary Committee rejects any legislation linked to James Byrnes' call to curb the Supreme Court. He notes Byrnes, ex-justice and former secretary of state, criticized the court’s school desegregation ruling as usurpation in a U.S. News & World Report article. Celler defends judiciary independence and says curbing the court would threaten liberties.
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Washington
Celler
D-Ny
House
Judiciary Committee
James F. Byrnes
Supreme Court
Byrnes
South Carolina
U. S. News & World Report
Cellier
Brynes
Congress
Rescue Squad Again Aids Patient With Iron Lung
Beckley rescue squad answered a 9 10 p m call Tuesday to transport a portable iron lung from the Veterans Administration Hospital to Memorial Hospital for Elbert Dehart a patient there. Monday night the squad already took its resuscitator to the hospital for Dehart.
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Beckley
Memorial Hospital
Veterans Administration Hospital
Elbert Dehart
Dehart
President Eisenhower Urges Memorial Day National Prayer
President Eisenhower calls on all Americans to join in a Memorial Day prayer for an enduring peace founded on mercy and justice. He notes a 1950 Congressional resolution establishing nationwide prayer and designates 11 a.m. local time on May 30 as a moment for united supplication.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Regal Wedding Plans Denied
London informant close to Britain's royal circle dismissed rumors that Princess Margaret plans to wed German-born Prince Christian of Hanover as false. Newspapers quoted Christian’s non-committal reply while noting palace policy to ignore such gossip. Christian, a shipping company director, is a distant cousin of Margaret and has limited meetings with her.
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London
Britain
Margaret
Christian of
Hanover
Daily Express
Christian
Daily Mail
Palace
Frederika
Greece
Queen Victoria
Germany
New York
Contract Expires As Radford Arsenal Walkout Closes Plant
Radford Virginia. The Hercules Powder Co plant, a major ammunition producer for the armed forces, shuts after a midnight walkout by Chemical Workers Union members following an undisputed strike vote. About 4,000 workers are affected, with 2,370 union members. The union seeks higher wages, better welfare, holidays, vacations, and binding arbitration. Plant managers report base pay around 1.89 dollars per hour plus about 30 cents per hour in fringe benefits.
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Radford
Radford Arsenal
Chemical Workers Union
Arsenal
Hercules Powder Co
William Howell
Board of Control Revises Transfer Plans Pinecrest May Get Denmar's TK Patients
L Steele Trotter, treasurer of the State Board of Control, tells a legislative committee why moving 250 mentally ill tubercular patients from Weston State Hospital is out of the question. He proposes moving about 100 aged infirm Negroes to Denmar for conversion to a chronic disease hospital while urging Huntington for the Girls Industrial School and warning that failure to change plans could close Denmar and move tubercular patients to Pinecrest.
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Charleston
L. Steele Trotter
State Board of Control
Weston State Hospital
Denmar Sanitarium
Trotter
Denmar
Pocahontas County
Howard University of Washington
McKendree
Fayette County
Industrial School For
Huntington
Lakin
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Beckley
Miss Minnie's embezzlement trials begin in Virginia
Norfolk subject Minnie Mangum 52 faces multiple indictments for embezzling nearly three million dollars from Commonwealth Building and Loan Assn over 22 years. She worked 28 years at Commonwealth and served as assistant secretary treasurer. First trial today charged false information to the Virginia Corporation Commission. Subsequent trials cover 22 counts of theft and total theft of $2,884,957 from 1933 to 1955 with possible sentences up to ten years and $1,000 per count.
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Norfolk
Minnie Mangum
U. S
Commonwealth Building and Loan Assn
Miss Mangum
Commonwealth
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp
Miss Minnie
Corporation Court
Virginia Corporation Commission
Corporation Commission
GOP Chairman Links Big Business Share to Demos
Baltimore Republican National Chairman Leonard W Hall charged that under Eisenhower labor rose to 69 percent of national income while big business, after taxes, fell to 6 percent in the first three Eisenhower years. He contrasted with Truman, noting 65 percent for labor and 7.8 percent corporate profits. Hall promoted Butler’s re election as a strong Republican.
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Baltimore
Leonard W Hall
Harry S. Truman
Hall
Maryland
Eisenhower
Truman
GOP
John Marshall Butler
$1000 Suit Filed After Auto Accident
Wilson Thompson sues Donald Eugene Vines for personal injuries in a $1000 suit filed Tuesday in Raleigh County Circuit Clerk's office. The auto accident occurred December 25, 1955 on State Route 3 between Beckley and Hinton.
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Raleigh County Circuit Clerk's Office
Wilson Thompson
Donald Eugene Vines
Beckley
Hinton
Evening Forecast With Frost Risk In Mountain Valleys
Fair tonight with low 38 to 44 west and 32 to 38 east. Some scattered light frost likely in mountain valleys. Thursday partly cloudy and warmer. Beckley records show high yesterday and lows near 49. Rivers at Bellepoint and regional gauges report normal stages with muddy conditions in Greenbrier. The Moon is in first quarter with Jupiter and Regulus visible. Jupiter sits about 495 million miles from Earth.
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Plata
Oak Hill
Sdaehig
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone
Jupiter
Regulus
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