Jackie JFK Assigned Separate Paris Bedrooms
Paris reports that President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy will occupy separate single rooms in the Quai Dorsay suite at the Foreign Ministry, a historic elite arrangement used by monarchs and premiers. The Kennedy visit sparks Parisian interest as wives of diplomats prepare outfits to outshine the First Lady in a symbolic fashion showcase.
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Robert Musel
Paris
UPI
John F
Jacqueline Kennedy
Quai Dorsay
Foreign Ministry
Baudouin
Queen Fabiola
Belgium
Nikita Khrushchev
George VI
Britain
Elizabeth
Kennedy
Mrs. Kennedy
Could It Be Classed Hit Run Plane Harms Power Lines
Oak Hill State Police trace a suspected hit run pilot who clipped a 7200 volt electric transmission cable near Needles Eye while buzzing Oak Hill. The severed line cut power to about 50 customers until repairs. A Cessna single engine was identified by private pilots. the FAA and other agencies are reviewing the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
RNL
Federal Aviation Administration
R. R. Griffith
Appalachian Power Co
Needles Eye
Griffith
Fayetteville
Gatewood Road
East Oak Hill
Junior Green
Terry Avenue
Coal City Husband Jailed For Assault
Henry Watkins of Coal City is in Raleigh County Jail awaiting a hearing on assault and battery charges. Police booked him at 3:05 a.m. after his wife obtained a warrant for his arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Watkins
Coal City
Raleigh County
Congress Eyes Big NASA Boost for Apollo Moon Program
Democrats and Republicans predict Congress will approve a 549 million increase for NASA in the next fiscal year starting July 1. The boost aims to raise NASA spending from 1.235 billion to 1.784 billion, including a 130 million rise for the Apollo spacecraft and 76 million for Nova booster facilities development.
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Mendous
Kerr
Tulsa
Kennedy
Congress
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Apollo
Threeszman
Moon
Kennedy names 11 member Missile Sites Labor Commission
President Kennedy named an 11 member commission to settle labor disputes at missile and space program sites including Cape Canaveral. The group will be led by Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg with three public three labor and three management members and will source from AFL-CIO leaders and industry executives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
White House
Senate
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Missile Sites Labor Commission
Arthur J. Goldberg
William E.simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
David L. Cole
National Academy of Arbitrators
John P. Dunlap
Harvard University
David Stowe
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
Industrial Union Department
Cornelius J. Haggerty
Building and Construction Trades Department
James D. Marshall
Associated General Contractors
Edgar F. Kaiser
Kaiser Industries, Inc
Douglas V. Dorman
The
Martin Co
ROK Forces Turned Over To UN Command
United Press International reports the Republic of Korea’s ruling military junta agreed to return all ROK armed forces to United Nations Command control. General Carter B. Magruder will use IC to defend Korea, not intervene domestically, with Marines and artillery returning to front lines. Cabinet members were partly released, censorship persists, and paratroop officers allege U.S. adviser's awareness of the coup was limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R.S Smith
United Press International
Seoul, Korea
UPI
Republic
Magruder
South Korea
1St Marine
6Th Corps
ROK
Seoul
Ted
United States
U.N
ROK J Army
Chang Do-young
John M. Chang
Mount Hope Driver Awaits Drunk Hearing
Frank North of Mount Hope faces a drunk driving hearing after pleading guilty to driving with four people in the front seat. He was arraigned before Magistrate W. A. Burke, fined ten dollars plus costs, and booked by state police Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank North
Mount Hope
Raleigh
North
W. A. ‘Burke
Stratton Class Sermon Sunday Traditions Highlight
The Rev Clinton Ray Washington a 1935 Stratton High School graduate and father of Theresa Washington will give the annual sermon for 1961 seniors at 10 am Sunday in the high school gymnasium. Invocation and benediction by Rev H Booker, with Frances Scott and Frances Booker among 1961 graduates. The Rev A D Marks will read the scripture and Wilma Booker a graduate. Glee Club music directed by Mrs Bernice Henry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton Ray Washington
Stratton High School
Stratton High
Thomas Evans
Theresa Washington
Washington
Shaw Methodist Church
East Beckley
H. Booker
First Baptist Church
Kimberly
Wyoming Post Offices Hit Thursday Night
Two Wyoming County post offices were broken into Thursday night. Investigating the break ins are Wyoming County Sheriff Lelan Phillips and Deputy Sheriff Marvin Martin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Pineville
RNL
Wyoming County
Co‘ver
Stephenson
Lelan Phillips
Marvin Martin
Pilot Plan aims to boost diets with early food stamp test
In Welch West Virginia on Monday a needy family will buy the first federal food stamps since 1943. The plan creates a bonus allotment of extra stamps to buy milk meat poultry and vegetables. The pilot will roll out in eight localities by July 3 with officials including Secretary of Agriculture Freeman and WV Governor Barron present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Brenner
Washington
UPI
Welch
W.va
McDowell County
U.S
Orville Freeman
West Virginia
William Wallace Barron
W.B. Henderson
Floyd County
Silver Bow County
Mont
San Miguel County
N.M
Fayette County
Franklin County
Virginia - Hibbing- Nashwauk
Minnesota
Detroit
Mich
MYF Spring Rally Planned Saturday
Beckley District Methodist Youth Fellowship hosts its annual spring rally at Raleigh County 4H Camp Little Beaver on Saturday. Registration starts 10 a.m. with forms for district office seekers at the desk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley District Methodist Youth Fellowship
Raleigh County
Little Beaver
Beckley
Janice Feazell
Kennedy urges long term aid authority to boost 1962 funds
Senator Kennedy proposes increasing the foreign aid program to 4.5 billion for fiscal 1962, with loans repayable in dollars to promote development in less developed countries. Fulbright and other veterans doubt congressional approval can be won. He seeks long term authority for public debt transactions totaling 900 million in 1962 and 1.6 billion annually for the next four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Sen. J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Kennedy
U.S
Glen White Motorist Charged With Hit-Run
Beckley City Police arrested Lena M. Duncan on the charge of leaving the scene of an accident. She was booked at 10 20 a m and ordered into police court. She struck a parked truck on Klaus Street.
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Beckley City
Lena M. Duncan
Glen White
Klaus St
Deaths and Funerals Lurendia Edmonds
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Mrs. Lurendia Edmonds, 84, of 308 Hunter Street East Beckley, who died in Beckley Memorial Hospital at 10 a.m. Thursday after a long illness. The body is at Durgan Funeral Home.
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Lurendia Edmonds
Hunter St
East Beckley
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Durgan Funeral Home
Margaret Roebuck Rites Set in Calfee Chapel
Funeral services for Miss Margaret Roebuck of Cleveland, formerly Beckley, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Calfee Funeral Home Chapel. Burial follows at Calfee Cemetery Mount Tabor. She died in Cleveland hospital after a short illness. Born May 4, 1933 in Beckley, she was the daughter of Elizabeth Meadows Roebuck and the late Samuel Roebuck. Surviving are four half brothers Zina Farley O Dell Farley James Farley and Hollis Farley. The body arrives Saturday evening.
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Margaret Roebuck
Cleveland
Ohio
Beckley
Calfee Funeral Home
Calfee
Mount Tabor
Miss Roebuck
Elizabeth Meadows Roebuck
Samuel Roebuck
Zina Farley
O'Dell Farley
Icherry Creek
James Farley
Richmond
Hollis Fareley
Ellison
Final rites set for Mrs Viola Dillon of Princeton
Mrs Viola Dillon 84 of Princeton will receive final rites at 2 p m Saturday at Rich Creek Primitive Baptist Church Lashmeet with Elders I W Kirby and Thomas Jenkins presiding Burial is Mills Cemetery Beeson She died Thursday at home of her daughter Mrs F M McComas in Lilly Grove Addition Survivors include three daughters Mrs W R Monk Lashmeet Mrs J H French Bluefield Va and Mrs Harry Watson Griffin Ga two sons Raymond Beeson Aubrey Mills Spanishburg a brother Conwell Bailey Lashmeet born June 8 1877 Arista
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Viola Dillon
Princeton
Rich Creek Primitive Baptist Church
Lashmeet
I. W. Kirby
Thomas Jenkins
Mills
Beeson
Dillon
F. M. McComas
Lilly Grove
Cool
Women vanish after car trouble near Plainfield reservoir
James Ewell and his wife are found dead hours after stopping near the Plainfield reservoir. Two suspects Maxey and Parks were arrested within two hours after witnesses and police traced the couple’s 1961 car from Scotch Plains. The Ewells’ only child is a Columbia student, Tyson family includes a Honolulu daughter and two New York sons.
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Morris
Maxey
Parks
Scotch Plains
Ewells
James
Columbia University
New York City
Tysons
Honolulu
Tyson
Mack ‘Trucks
Wall Street
Financial Rally at Central Baptist Church
A financial rally will be conducted at Central Baptist Church starting at 2 30 p m Sunday. The event features a four point panel with Mrs 8S A Abram as moderator. Music provided by the church senior choir and gospel chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Baptist Church
House Group Probes Defense Dept Changes
Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee asks Defense Secretary McNamara to explain recent policy shifts and Pentagon reorganizations. He worries about civilian military frictions and secretaries being bypassed, urging chiefs stay in the chain of command. Also notes Navy bid savings and KeFa uver on electoral reform.
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Washington
UPI
Carl Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Defense Department
Vinson
Pentagon
Georgia Democrat
Army-Navy-Air Force Journal
Army
Navy
Air Force
Joeph Campbell
Estes Kefauver
Senate
Constitutional Amendments
Tennessee Democrat
Cool Ridge Man Executes Bond
Ira Ferguson of Cool Ridge posted a 500 bond before U S Commissioner W A Riffe and waived to federal court action, with the July 18 convening. He was arrested at 3 30 p m Thursday by Alcohol Tobacco and Tax Division agents for illegal possession of moonshine, aided by Beckley state police and deputies. At 845 a m Thursday two agents raided a Cheery Creek still near Cool Ridge, arresting George Robert Ransom of Mount View, 20. A 65 gallon still was found along with six gallons of moonshine and 150 gallons of mash. the still and liquor were destroyed. Ransom was arraigned before Commissioner Riffe and waived to Federal Court, posting a 500 bond and being released.
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Ira Ferguson
Cool Ridge
U. S
W. A. Riffe
Ferguson
Alcohol Tobacco and Tax Division
U. S. Treasury Department
Beckley
Cheery Creek
George Robert Ransom
Mount View
Ransom
Riffe
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Huntington
McDowell
MYF
Redwood & Aluminum
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EREEY
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Neville Maytag
Neville St
Suevereres
Neville Maytag & Furniture Co
Plainfield Reservoir
House
Defense Dept
Cool Ridge Man
Bond
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