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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1952
Page
7
Washington reports 1 to 2 cent increases per can on canned vegetables fruits and juices to offset lower wholesaler earnings. The Office of Price Stabilization may allow retailers higher markups later this month for other items, with tuna and salmon exempted.
George Baldanzi a former CIO official who joined the AFL launches a costly push to organize Southern textile workers claiming 100000 CIO members could switch. Emil Rieve counters saying contracts will hold even if workers secede as Baldanzi signals a broad mobilization in the South.
The Rev. Wade H. Koons of Parkersburg is elected president of the West Virginia Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America at its 40th annual convention in Jackson's Mill. Koons succeeds the Rev. Kenneth W. Munster. Robert E. Cassell was named secretary and H. L. Shelhamer treasurer. Thirty-eight delegates attend the synod. 31 delegates attend the Women’s Missionary Society session.
Six former college students from this area were fined 50 dollars each and warned by Circuit Court Judge John Dillard Hooker after a family cemetery grave was opened and a seance held over the skull. The felony charge of violation of sepulture was reduced to trespass after reports of good character. defendant Jay Ford Pigg, 20, and the other five residents were named in the case.
Cloudy with tonight showers and a cool Wednesday turning warmer into the weekend. Temperatures near normal with a quarter to one half inch precipitation. Rivers at Bellepoint range mudded with near normal stages for Bluestone Reservoir and Greenbrier. slight rise noted. Funeral services set Thursday in Kentucky for Cecil Carter Blackburn Mullens fireman died from injuries in a Virginian train wreck.
Senate criticism of President Truman grows as Senators Bridges Capehart Johnson and Welker challenge his ADA speech claims. Johnson says Truman overstated Supreme Court backing on submerged lands and oil rights, while Welker calls the accusation of GOP isolationism an utter falsehood.
Rush D. Holt the Republican candidate for governor told the 63,000 member Congress of Agriculture in Jackson's Mill West Virginia that taxes can and should be reduced. He called for tax reform but opposed changing limits on property taxes and criticized the road funds allocation from the $100 million bond issue.
Charleston City Council authorized Mayor John Copenhaver to oppose the northern terminus of an 8B mile Princeton to Charleston express highway. If the Turnpike Commission does not accept the city’s stance, officials will seek an injunction to halt construction. The commission proposed three northern end options, two entering the city and one outside.
John Ward won the Democratic sheriff primary and leads Emery Smith by 91 votes after the official canvass. A 13-vote discrepancy was found at Elecles precinct with no other issues. The canvass, covering about 70 precincts, was reportedly finishing at noon per County Court President Tack Nuckols.
In Intermediate Court Judge William J. Thompson sentenced Otto Haverty aged 40 of East States to a maximum term for the death of his wife Mean Piancne Haverty in a February quarrel. James Robert Howard aged 20 of Winifrede received a long term for the fatal knifing of James Mason on March 15 after an all night drinking party.
The Rev. John Calvin Siler, 76, who served four Presbyterian churches in the region for 24 years, was buried today. He died Saturday night in Shepherdstown West Virginia.
Police Chief Evan Hall urged the public to stop using the Post Office parking zone as a reading center after mail pickup. He noted drivers linger in the five minute space causing congestion and urged reading at home or at work.
President Truman declared that Communist aims in Korea failed to break the United Nations and that the allies will defend freedom with growing strength and new atomic power. He warned of treachery and renewed aggression and upheld civilian control of the military at West Point.
Nationwide college prank results in doorways and dorms ransacked as male students raid women’s houses for lingerie. Police seize several youths, National Guard alerted in Missouri, and campuses from Northwestern to Wisconsin report bucket dousing and minor injuries amid a four hour spree.
A House vote defeat on a Social Security bill to raise benefits by 300 million drew Republican fears of socialized medicine and likely voter resentments. The measure passed the House only with a 150 to 140 margin, needing two thirds under a special rule, and AMA lobbying warned that a section protecting old age and survivors insurance could grant broad powers to Oscar Ewing. Republican skeptics argued the plan would expand federal control while Democrats warned of harm to current and future beneficiaries.
National Steel Products Co. conceded holding larger steel wire inventories than permitted by federal regulations but said no wilful violation occurred. The charges by the U S Commerce Department's National Production Authority allege acts tantamount to hoarding in carbon steel wire acquisitions.
Three big railroad unions and the railroads studied a White House labor peace plan. John R. Steelman delivered the proposal which would raise yard and road wages, move toward a 40 hour week, add a cost-of-living escalator, and propose limited binding arbitration on key operating rules. The plan aims to end a three year dispute, with unions and carriers signaling acceptance of the framework.
The West Virginia Supreme Court vacated the involuntary manslaughter conviction of Virginia Comstock former superintendent of Barboursville State Hospital directing a new trial. Court held in Cabell County that death of Pauline Cook a patient on June 15 1950 resulted from alleged overdose of a paralyze drug under Comstock's orders. Comstock 64 had been sentenced to six months in jail and is free on bail pending appeal.
Arthur Jessett, 20, University of Washington student, died of exposure after slipping into an icy crevasse on Mt. St. Helens at 8,000 feet. Rescue crews recovered his body after climbers lowered 73 feet into the crevasse. The Rev Thomas E Jessett, his father, and the grieving party met at Spirit Lake as the last rites were sung.
Two state police officers W. E. Webb and Trooper C. C. McGraw are named as defendants in a $15,000 damage suit by H. Riser, owner of K. K. Music Company, over three pinball machines seized after parents complained their children used lunch money to play them. McGraw says the firm is seeking the machines' return.
Western Union Telegraph Co proposes an average seven cents per hour pay increase to end a strike by 31,000 telegraph workers. The offer depends on government approval of higher telegraph rates, which would add 7.7 million dollars annually to company revenues. The AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union called the strike in April.
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