Six Granted Citizenship in Raleigh County Ceremony
Six individuals were sworn in as United States citizens in Raleigh County. Judge Norman Knapp administered the oath with U S Immigration and Naturalization Service officer Jean A Morell present. New citizens include Mrs Mary Benedetto Calloway Heights and Massimiliano Cinotti MacArthur. Margaret Hightower, Germany born. Dr Andor Cserny Pinecrest Sanitarium from Hungary. Mrs Anna Belley Bradley from Czechoslovakia. and Vasilios Zaferatos 118 Whitestick Road from Greece.
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United States
Raleigh
United Laterete
Jean A. Morell
U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Norman Knapp
Mary Benedetto
Calloway Heights
Massimiliano Cinotti
MacArthur
Margaret Hightower
Church St
Germany
Andor Cserny
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Hungary
Anna Belley
Bradley
Czechoslovakia
Vasilios Zaferatos
Whitestick Road
Greece
Biggest Missile System Tests Arctic Defense Network
The Thule setup to enter operation this fall in Alaska and England by 1961 forms a nearly one billion dollar system. Four 165 foot antennas loom over buildings hosting computers and power gear. The heart is a computer that compares radar data with satellite and debris data to detect missiles and direct defense commands.
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Thule
Alaska
Arctic
Air Defense
Colorado
Absconded banker Ballard turns gun on himself in Grundy
Sheriff Grimmett said contact had been made between Ballard and his mother and wife yesterday. FBI, state police, and local officers were told Ballard would be picked up at Grundy, Virginia today. The banker reportedly told his wife he had forgotten something upstairs before turning the weapon on himself.
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Grimmett
Ballard
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Grundy
FBI
FALSE TEETH THAT LOOSEN NEED NOT EMBARRASS
Many wearers suffer embarrassment as their plate drops or slips. Sprinkle a non acid powder on the plates to hold them firmly and improve comfort. Helps with odor and breath. Get FASTEETH at any drug counter.
Area Teams For Training Of Unemployed Meet In Raleigh County
Two executives from the State of Education, D McMillen and Fred Eberle, join 18 county officials at Raleigh County Vocational School for an all day session on implementing a vocational training act for unemployed workers in West Wir es. The meeting aims to outline a long range program and prepare the school to provide skilled and semi skilled labor for local industries.
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State of Education
West Wires
D. McMillen
Fred W. Eberle
Raleigh County
Demo Recount Set In Raleigh County Democratic Primary
Recount for three candidates in the Democratic primary to begin Wednesday morning in the Raleigh County Courtroom. Covey seeks seven Town District precincts to recount votes where he trailed Farmer. districts No. 15 No. 25 No. 26 listed. Official figures show Farmer leading Covey. Coal City, Sophia, Rhodell, and surrounding areas involved.
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Raleigh
H. Dale Covey
Prec Covey
H. G. Farmer
Charles T.coal City
Police Unable To Find Sinatra's Bodyguard
Hollywood AP reports detectives seek the identity of "Big Sam" after a nightclub parking lot attendant says Frank Sinatra's bodyguard beat him early Saturday. Sinatra denies having a bodyguard. city attorney says insufficient initial information for action.
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Hollywood
Big Sam
Parker
Frank Sinatra
Ed Moran
Sinatra
Raney Named Soldier of the Year in West Virginia
Sgt Donald G Raney of Martinsburg won the Gov Okey L Patterson Cup as the top citizen soldier in the West Virginia National Guard. Eight candidates from state units competed at Camp Dawson near Kingwood over the weekend. Raney, a DuPont employee, serves in Battery D 1st Howitzer Battalion 201st Artillery and enlisted after two years in the 9033rd AAA Battalion in the Panama Canal Zone.
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Charleston
DuPont Co
Martinsburg
Raney
201St Artillery
Kresge Policy on Sit-in Protests Desegregation
The S. S. Kresge Co said its policy is not to file complaints against sit-in demonstrators at its Southern variety store lunch counters. The company stated it is obeying laws and customs in Southern cities where integration is prohibited.
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Detroit
S. S. Kresge Co
South
Senator Hopeful On Coal Measure
WASHINGTON AP senator hopeful on coal measure as bill to create a coal research office within the Interior Department wins Senate committee support. Randolph and House back the plan after a veto last year and Interior endorses the measure amid WV coal support.
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Washington
Office of Coal Research
Senate
Mee
Jennings Randolph
Dwva
House
Randolph
Congress
Ber
Department of Interior
Senate Interior
Interior Department
West Virginia
Cold War summit drama near Soviet embassy ends in stalemate
Khrushchev and Eisenhower clash over apologies for espionage as Western hopes for a renewed conference fade. De Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Macmillan plan a Big Four meeting after inviting Khrushchev, who tours a World War I battlefield with Marshal Malinovsky before returning to Paris.
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Eisenhower
U. S
America
Khrushchev
Macmillan
Oe Alysee Palace
de Gaulle
Sezanne
Marshal Rodion Malinovsky
Malinovsk
France
Paris
Beckley Delegation Heads to West Virginia Conference
Four Beckleyans from the Beckley Chamber of Commerce will attend the Seventh Annual Industrial Conference of the West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission at Blackwater State Park in Davis. Representing the chamber are Managing Director Floyd M. Sayre Jr., Charles Hodel, Paul Feigley, and M. F. Barksdale. The group departs this afternoon for pre meeting discussions.
Shoemaker named president of Consolidation Coal Co
G Albert Shoemaker is named president of Consolidation Coal Co succeeding the late A R Matthews. He has been executive vice president since 1952 and a director since 1956, and also leads Mathies Coal Co. Dennis L McElroy becomes executive vice president, moving up from vice president since 1947, a native of Moundsville West Virginia.
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Pittsburgh
G. Albert Shoemaker
Consolidation Coal Co
A. R. Matthews
Shoemaker
Mathies Coal Co
Dennis L. McElroy
McElroy
Moundsville
W. Va
Prisoner's Bill After Beating Presented in Court
Sheriff Mills submitted a hospital bill for 114 dollars to the County Court for Glen Bell a prisoner injured in a clash with a state trooper. The court delayed action until the next meeting to allow Prosecuting Attorney Sparacino more study. Other items included five county school board members declared elected and a dog tax report showing 959 dollars collected and 1251 stray dogs killed. Leases for 382.5 acres from Western Pocahontas Corp for the Stevens Branch Lake project were approved at 100 dollars per acre with timber. Leighton Farley filed a letter asking for precinct recounts if a candidate requests one and if not ahead.
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Okey Mills
Glen Bell
Tony Sparacino
J. A. Blackburn
E. B. Wray
Carl Jarrell
H. E. Melton
A. J. Walker
Western Pocahontas Corp
Stevens Branch Lake
Leighton C. Farley
J. Q. Cooper
Slab Fork
Motorist Pleads Guilty In Court
A Beckley Police Court session heard Guy M Thompson plead guilty to passing another car in an intersection and fined 15 dollars. Twenty other defendants forfeited bonds totaling 461.50 dollars. Roy Richardson Jr forfeited 106.50 dollars for driving while drunk and had his license revoked for six months. Samuel Ward Jr forfeited 62 dollars for driving without licenses and misusing another’s license. Arbana Johnson paid 14 dollars for overdue parking tickets. Lawrence Sampson forfeited 5 dollars for running a red light. Sixteen other defendants charged with drunkenness forfeited bonds totaling 283 dollars.
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Guy M. Thompson
Old Eccles Road
Beckley
Roy Richardson Jr
Midway
Samuel Ward Jr
Tenth Street
Aribana Johnson
Princeton
Lawrence Sampson
Multimillionaire Reynolds wins divorce alimony verdict
R. J. Reynolds secured a divorce from his third wife by a jury verdict in Darien Georgia awarding her 12 500 a year in alimony. She sought 200 000 annually. State briefs note church and medical society elections and a Republican finance meeting in Charleston. A temporary injunction blocks Local 420 from picketing and molesting against Manufacturers Light Heat Co in Wheeling.
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R. J. Reynolds
Darien
Donald D. Anderson
Synod of West Virginia
United Lutheran Church
Jackson's Mill
Albert Molisky
Follansbee
West Virginia Society of Osteopathic Physicians
Charleston
Republican Finance Committee
Manufacturers Light Heat Co
Wheeling
Uility Workers Union of America
Alf-Cio
Powers Returns to Flight From Quiet Start
After graduating in 1950 Powers joined the Air Force, rising to second lieutenant as a jet fighter pilot but saw no Korea action. He left in 1956 and soon joined Lockheed as one of 17 pilots in the U2 program, later flying missions out of Adana Turkey with his wife accompanying him.
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Milligan
Air Force
Korea
Powers
Lockheed
Prii
Adana
Turkey
Deaths and Funerals From Local Notices
Delores Penn of Beckley died Friday in Walter Reed Hospital. She is survived by her mother Mrs. Delores Penn, two brothers Robert and Lester, two sisters Marlyon and Jean, and her paternal relatives. Delores attended Morton-Reaves Elementary and belonged to Ebenezer Baptist Church. Pallbearers will be her classmates. The service will be at 1 p m Wednesday at Park with the body moved from Wright and Anderson Funeral Home one hour before. Henry L. Lewis of Mount Hope died Monday in Fletcher North Carolina. Burial will be in Bluefield. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. He was a former Kroger Baking Co. employee. The Clyde M Goodwin funeral will have pallbearers including C Trail, Roger Sharp, Robert Bullock, Clyde Marshall, Roy Lester Hatcher, I Wil l. Services at 2 p m Wednesday at Beckley Predwarian Church with Rev J W Witherspoon. burial in Sunset Memorial. Among survivors is daughter Anita Virginia Cottle of Decatur Illinois. Daniel Minor Lester died in a Minden nursing home after a long illness. Body at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor pending arrangements.
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Penn
Maplewood Lane
Wed Park
Delores
Walter Reed Hospital
Delores Penn
Beckley
Robert
Lester
Marlyon
Jean
Heigh
Morton-Reaves
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Wright
Henry L. Lewis
Mount Hope
Fletcher
N. C
Bluefield
Mount Hope Kroger Baking Co
Clyde M. Goodwin
Man C. Trail
Roger Sharp
Robert Bullock
Clyde Marshall
Roy I. Lester Hatcher
Beckley Predwarian
J. W. Witherspoon
Eta
Sunset Memorial
Anita Virginia Cottle
Decatur
Ill
Daniel Minor
Minden
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Final rites for Grace Kaylor set for Thursday in Sophia
Mrs Grace Kaylor formerly of Sophia will have funeral services at 2 p m Thursday at Sophia Methodist Church. Her daughter in Germany plans to attend if time allows. Burial will be in Coal City Cemetery.
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Grace Kaylor
Sophia
Sophia Methodist Church
Germany
Coal City
Samuel B. Burke Funeral Service Set in Virginia
Funeral services for Samuel B. Burke, 68, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Ebenezer Baptist Church with Reverends Corey O. Mitchell and Edward Burgess presiding. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park. Burke died Monday after a long illness. Survivors include sisters Charity Younger of Narnia, Frances Maben and Connie Younger of Lynchburg, and brothers Clarence, James, and Pharoh Burke of Rustburg. The body remains at the C.
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Samuel B. Burke
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Corey O. Mitchell
Edward Burgess
Greenwood Memorial Park
Burke
Charity Younger
Narnia
Frances Maben
Connie Younger
Lynchburg
Clarence
James
Funeral arrangements for Phyllis Blanks
Phyllis Blanks four month old daughter of Mr and Mrs George Blanks Harlem Heights dies Monday afternoon at home. Survived by three brothers George Stanley and Phillip two sisters Joyce and Shelvy maternal grandmother Mrs Valerie Wilson paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Mason Phern. Johnson Funeral Parlor.
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Phyllis Blanks
George Blanks
Harlem Heights
George
Stanley
Phillip
Joyce
Shelvy
Valerie Wilson
Mason Phern
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Funeral services for Lester Payne in Mount Hope area
Lester Payne 35 of Virginia Beach formerly Mount Hope died Monday at 6 30 a m in Lee Hospital Richmond Born October 1925 he was the son of Henry Payne and Mrs Etta Payne now of Detroit He is survived by wife Anna Fontana Payne a son Ted a daughter Rita four brothers Howard Albert John in Detroit Carl of unknown address and sisters Mrs Eallen Blackburn Mrs Betty Humphrey and Mrs Isabell Malago Burial at Highlawn Memorial Park with body remaining at Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hope.
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Lester ‘Payne
Virginia Beach
Mount Hope
Tyree
Howard
Albert Payne
John Detroit
Mich
Carl
Eallen ‘Blackburn
Betty Humphrey
Isabell Malago
Detroit
J. E. Perkins
Highlawn Memorial Park
Mass Army Enlistment Set For High School Graduates
The Beckley Recruiting Main Station will join in mass Army enlistment ceremonies June 1 led by Sgt Major Thom as R Overstreet. Graduates from southern Virginia will enlist with friends, receiving basic training together and two weeks leave after. Enlistees may choose schooling or an assignment in Europe, with options in electronics, medical, automotive and aircraft mechanics, drafting, surveying, or parachuting for those seeking excitement. three year enlistments apply.
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Beckley
Thomas R. Overstreet
Virginia
Europe
Senators Greetings Draw Varying Reactions From Graduates
West Virginia graduates faced mixed responses to greetings mailed by Senators Byrd and Randolph using franking privileges. The parchment cards, bearing engraved capitol imagery and signatures, cost about 11 cents each to produce and were sent to seniors at Woodrow Wilson Mullens Hinton and Collins high schools. An Oak Hill student criticized the expenditure as taxpayer money spent on political gestures, noting multiple copies received and estimated total costs in the thousands.
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West Virginia
Robert C. Byrd
Jennings Randolph
United States Congress
United States Capitol
Robert Co. Byrd
United States Senate
Byrd
Woodrow Wilson
Mullens, Hinton
Collins High
Mullens
Oak Hill
Randolph
Spy pilot captured near Sverdlovsk shot down in Soviet Union
A former Barbara Moore of Albany Ga notes he would fly again. He made repeated flights and on April 30 casually said he was flying the next day. He asked his wife to help his bag. The next day he was captured near Sverdlovsk and shot down on a spy mission, Soviet authorities said.
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Barbara Moore
Albany
Sverdlovsk
Soviet Union
Three Divorces Granted In Wyoming Court
PINEVILLE RNS Divorces granted Monday were Vernie Blankenship against Fanny Blankenship Imogene Gilbert against James Gilbert Denice M Hamons against Sidney Hamons Gloria McNaughton against Frank McNaughton and Annie against Mack L Shep-
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Pineville
Rns
Vernie Blankenship
Fanny Blankenship
Imogene Gilbert
James
Gilbert
Denice M. Hamons
Sideney R . Hamlons
Gloria McNaughton
Frank McNaughton
Annie Agrees
Mack L. Shep
Notable Deaths Across Several States and Roles
Washington AP reports Robert Fletcher 90 longtime AAR general counsel died after a long illness. Gavin Brown 82, former act s ean in 1950s, died after a long illness in Sea Island. Worcester Mass AP notes Dr Richard J Lougee 55 geomorphology professor at Clark University died Monday. he proposed Ice Age glacier theory reversal in 1958. Wellington Kan AP memorials Bishop L L Baughman 61 of Evangelical Brethren Church died Sunday. Denver Colo AP Maurice Judd 68 Federal Bureau of Land Management official and former newspaperman found dead in a Denver hotel while on temp assignment. Knoxville Tenn AP Mrs Lawson Starmer 50 composer of We Like Ike died of cancer in a Knoxville hospital.
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Worcester
Mass
Richard J. Lougee
Clark University
North Amerila
Wellington
Kan
L. L. Baughman
Evangelical Brethren Church
City
Denver
Colo
Maurice Judd
Federal Bureau of Land Management
Knoxville, Tenn
Lawson Starmer
San Diego
Calif
Ike
Knoxville
Hoffman Estate Dispute Over 1958 Heir Claims
Legal filing in Ohio County concerns the fate of the Hoffman estate after Hoffman's 1958 death leaving an $85 000 to 150 000 claim. Trustees seek court approval while Schiffler asserts jurisdiction to settle, opposing heirs objections and arguing denial of jury trial.
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eThe Moundsville Church
Ohio County
Falland
Andrew ¢ Er
Hoffman A
Hoffman
Schiffler
Plans claim leader sees stronger military than US
A political figure asserts his nation holds greater military power than the United States. The remark signals a confrontational stance amid shifting regional security dynamics and raises questions about asymmetry in global power.
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United States
Khrushchev’s Peace Strategy and Soviet Military Push
The piece analyzes Khrushchev’s effort to create a powerful, prosperous Soviet Union able to steer global communism via peaceful means rather than costly revolutions. It notes demobilization plans for 250,000 officers, pressure at home, and Khrushchev’s tension with Eisenhower over aerial intelligence, marking a severe reversal on the world stage.
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Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Iraq
Moscow
I Ag
Khrushechev
Eisenhower
U. S
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