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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1960
Page
1
Lloyd Shuffstall, a 51 year old former mental patient, shot and killed Vera Shuffstall and Harold DuPont near Cooperstown Pennsylvania, then fled on foot into nearby woods. State police and about 60 armed troopers and volunteers hunted him overnight amid jealousy motives and a possible family link.
In Wiesbaden Germany the U S Air Force reported Soviet authorities freed a C47 and the nine Americans aboard it after the aircraft strayed into East Germany. The Soviet high command protested claiming they forced the plane to land to safeguard East German frontiers. The nine passengers and crew include eight Air Force members and a woman. An Army statement said a delegation would meet them to decide if the plane is fit to fly again.
The United Nations Security Council debates on Soviet spy charges against the United States point to a call for new Big Four summit talks with U.N. aid. A four-nation resolution by Argentina Ceylon Ecuador and Tunisia urges resuming discussions soon. A Soviet resolution denouncing U S espionage flights is expected to fail.
Charley Hodel president of Beckley Newspapers Corp receives a lifetime Salvation Army membership from Dr. Westwood W. Holliday at a Beckley Hotel fund breakfast. Local drive leader Holliday notes a large donation and plans another breakfast next Tuesday with 30 attendees.
Washington AP Lyndon B Johnson urged a calm objective inquiry into the summit controversy. He cautioned against premature conclusions from press interviews amid a Senate dispute over whether Kennedy, Stevenson, and others were appeasers. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a government operations subcommittee were expected to probe administration policies while avoiding heated debates.
West Virginia forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions with highs in the 65 to 72 range in the east and lower 70s in the west. Tonight will be fair with lows around 46 to 56. Wednesday trends toward fair and warmer. Beckley report shows high 66, low 53 with morning readings near 68 at noon. Oak Hill records show low around 43 with river gauge near 2.6 feet and normal conditions.
Hamburg based Der Spiegel reports U2 jets photographed nearly every square centimeter of the Soviet Union, except inaccessible mountains and steppes, in a mission by 12 aircraft. The article attributes the work to an intelligence vector but does not name CIA head Allen Dulles or the author Claus Jacobi.
Discussants from France Britain and Argentina join the speakers list as the United Nations Security Council plans to continue debate after the Soviet resolution vote and consider assisting options from the Security Council and other UN organs.
President Eisenhower meets with the Security Council in a special session to prepare his nationwide address on the summit collapse. Attending are Allen W. Dulles and Douglas Dillon, with Dulles often present despite not being a formal member. The session focuses on strategy and the forthcoming television speech.
A Texas geologist in Houston plays postal chess with Cecil Lewis Tiner, a man sentenced to die in Alabama. Tiner, 28, was convicted for the 1957 shooting death of J Cuthroe Woodham and appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court. The two have completed six moves. Blumenthal, 38, the Houston Chess Club president, reports seven moves and plans to reply before a Canada trip. Blumenthal has played 68 postal games since 1955, with 48 wins, nine losses and 11 ties, and is currently in 16 games, including one with Art McGillvary, a life prisoner in Walpole, Massachusetts.
Alaska rescue ends as James and Louis Whittaker of Redmond Washington arrive safely in Anchorage after ascending Mount McKinley. Other items note Senate labor panel blockage on raise to $1.25 an hour and a Pennsylvania homicide case. Pearl Buck arrives in Tokyo to adapt The Big Wave for film. Governor Brown plans street canvass to gauge presidential nominee support. A Unitarian Universalist Association merger forms a 2,000,000-member denomination next May.
Sherwood Glutz asserts May 10 was election day for the rest of the state while Logan county witnesses describe a buyers convention where people sold votes like ginseng and possum hides. He mocks sellers as so low they could wear a plug hat on a duck walk.
CHICAGO AP The National Safety Council projects up to 375 deaths on America's highways during the three day Memorial Day holiday and estimates about 13 000 people could suffer disabling injuries. A non holiday weekend would yield about 310 deaths and 12 000 disabling injuries.
Mark Twain High will not field a football team for the 1960 61 season according to Principal C E Walker. The decision cites lack of athletic field a small student body and insufficient financial backing. Instead the school will continue basketball and relocate practice away from home when needed.
Tidal waves sparked by Chilean earthquakes battered the Pacific coastlines injuring and killing hundreds. Japan Hawaii Chile and Okinawa faced heavy losses with Japan reporting 85 dead 78 missing and thousands without homes. In Hilo Hawaii 33 dead and 53 injured marked the island’s worst disaster since 1946.
The Very Rev Charles Ashley Higgins dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Little Rock will be awarded an honorary doctor of divinity by Bishop Frederick D Goodwin at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria Virginia on Wednesday. Higgins a WV Tech and Virginia Theological Seminary graduate has served as missionary and chaplain in China and Hong Kong and spent over a year in a Chinese prison camp before leading Christ Church Cape Girardeau from 1943 to 1947.
New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller calls for a national, nonpartisan debate on why the Paris summit failed. He says Republicans and Democrats must discuss the facts frankly, endorsing Adlai Stevenson’s call for full discussion while rebuking partisan blame games. The remarks precede Albany GOP talks on Rockefeller’s possible 1968 presidential bid.
Tass reported U.S. planes made three to four passes over the Lenin during a Baltic to Murmansk voyage. The Soviet news agency said the spying passes were close to the masts on both sides while not elaborating. The dispatch noted preparations for Lenin's first Arctic scientific expedition.
Mrs Helen Holt former secretary of state and widow of U S Senator Rush D Holt said she is quitting her state job as assistant commissioner of public institutions to accept a federal appointment. She may join the Federal Housing Administration in Washington pending talks with Governor Underwood.
The Wyoming Supreme Court held that a wife may not recover damages from her husband for personal injuries due to his negligence. The ruling overturns a March 1959 circuit court decision in favor of Mrs. Lucile Campbell of Oceana seeking $25,000 from her husband Riley N. Campbell and State Farm. The accident occurred March 22, 1958, in Miami Florida while traveling together. Judge Frank C. Haymond authored the opinion.
Presstime Bulletins report CAPE CANAVERAL AP United States rocks an experimental Midas spy in the sky satellite toward Earth orbit. Midas aims to provide near instant warning of ballistic missile attacks. The launch coincides with a United spy plane debate and underscores national defense posture. Florida Governor LeRoy Collins is named Democratic National Convention chairman and Senator Frank Church named keynote for the convention.
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