Catholic Leader Takes Grave Turn For Worse Violence Erupts
Violence erupted in Philadelphia as chant ing Negro pickets stabbed two policemen and injured five others during a protest against alleged job bias by unions at a school building project. The clash occurred two hours before a deal to end the mass picket was reached.
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Ala
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James Rhoades
John Bockford
Philadelphia General Hospital
Thomas J. Dugan
Steamfitters
Building Trades Labor Council
Jackson Police Ready To Arrest By Thousands
UPI reports Jackson Mississippi prepared to arrest racial demonstrators by the thousands with riot control measures and prison compounds for up to 10,000. Across Florida and Virginia protests prompt court appearances and beatings as federal tension rises amid NAACP negotiations and local police actions.
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United Press International
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West Virginia official warns on pep pills abuse
State Health Director N H Dyer calls improper use of pep pills and barbiturates a serious problem in West Virginia. He cites FDA reports of widespread misuse, notes mixes with alcohol cause hallucinations and danger, and urges tighter controls and regulation on sale and distribution.
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Charleston
UPI
N. H. Dyer
West Virginia
Dyer
Food and Drug Administration
Wheeling
Pleasant BECKLEY area weather outlook and five day forecast
Sunny and pleasant this afternoon with a high around the mid 70s.Clear and cool tonight with patches of fog in valleys and lows 44 to 48. Saturday mostly sunny, warmer with highs in the upper 70s. Temperature readings include 71 recently, 45 low, and 68 by early afternoon. River Greenbrier normal and clear. Lake normal and clear with four gates open. Five day WV forecast calls for highs 82-56 in south and 77-50 in north. warmer weekend, cooler Tuesday or Wednesday. precipitation around half to three quarters inch mainly Monday and Tuesday.
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Hinton
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Kennedy Men Work To Avert National Crisis
Washington officials view race tensions as a national crisis and push swift civil rights legislation. Attorney General Kennedy and other aides labor over holiday plans to desegregate hotels theaters restaurants and stores while contemplating a national address. Vice President Johnson calls for lawful action within a free society as Shriver urges public involvement in integrated housing and church membership drives.
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Gettysburg
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Roosevelt Library
Hyde Park
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Peace Corps
R. Sargent Shriver
Mass effort to integrate craft unions spreads from Philadelphia
The NAACP and CORE accuse Philadelphia craft unions in construction of discriminatory membership policies, focusing on plumbers, sheetmetal workers, and electricians. Officials warn Washington next as clashes injure more than 20 people, with unions maintaining apprenticeship controls that bar many Negroes.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Board of Education
Center City
North
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Philadelphia
Washington, D.C
Herbert Hill
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Steel Shipment Delays Beckley City Hall Construction
Beckley faces a hold up on the new city hall on South Kanawha Street as Armco steel cribbing, about 200 lineal feet costing around 19000 dollars, arrives late. Wipperman Construction Co. holds a $232,584 contract and must finish within 200 calendar days from a April 29 start. The project is funded 75 percent federal Accelerated Public Works Act grant with a 25 percent local match.
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Beckley
Armco
D. E. Wipperman
Wipperman Construction Co
Wipperman
Barron Links Education Level to West Virginia's Future
Gov. W. W. Barron told Fairmont State College graduates that West Virginia’s average adult education is 8.8 years and condemned the gap as the state’s major problem. He urged better teacher prep, modern math and science curricula, expanded higher education research, and broader university roles in economic and social development. He emphasized higher education as the rallying point for improved living and opportunity across communities.
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UPI
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Record Memorial Day traffic toll tops 1961 estimate
Americans faced a grim Memorial Day as deaths from traffic accidents surged toward a new high for the 102 hour weekend. By 10:30 a.m. EDT 166 traffic deaths were recorded, with Cornwall Connecticut seven killed in a sports car crash and Missouri and Utah each reporting five. New York led states with 23 road deaths while California logged 20. The final 1961 Memorial Day toll reached 462.
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National Safety Council
Safety Council
Cornwall
Conn
Missouri
Utah
New York
California
Four Deaths Raise West Virginia Traffic Toll to 139
West Virginia traffic deaths climbed to 139 during the Memorial Day holiday period. Two men, Ernest Simpkins and Irvin Gale Brown, both of Portsmouth Ohio, died in a one car crash on West Virginia 10 near Ranger. Marty Dean Brewster of Indian Creek Wyoming County died in a head on collision in Wyoming County. Nathaniel Briggs of South Charleston perished from injuries after his car went over an embankment in Charleston. The toll contrasts with 149 at the same point last year.
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Bologna
Msgr
Alfredo Cavagna
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St. Peter's Square
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United Press International
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Lincoln County
Ernest Simpkins
Irvin Gale Brown
Portsmouth
Ohio
W. Va
Ranger
Logan
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Indian Creek
Wyoming County
Nathaniel Briggs
South Charleston
Charleston
First Pacific Hop Navigator Dies
Paris Hill Maine UP I Capt Henry Harry W Lyon 78 navigator on the first plane to fly the Pacific Ocean died Thursday Lyon a Charleston S C native and adventurer sailed in port at San Francisco when Sir Charles Kingsford Smith asked him to be navigator on the Southern Cross a tri motored Fokker On May 31 1928 Kingsford Smith Lyon and three others took off from Oakland to Brisbane Australia flying 7000 miles Lyon had never flown before this historic flight died after a long illness in hospital
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Maine
UPI
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Harry) W. Lyon
Pacific Ocean
Lyon
Charleston
S.C
San Francisco
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Southern Cross
Kingsford- Smith
Oakland
Calif
Brisbane
Australia
Thresher Found 8 000 Feet Down
Photographs of the ill fated submarine Thresher lying in 8 000 feet of water off the New England coast were to be flown to a Navy board of inquiry. The images show a ruptured hull section and conning tower as the submarine rests about 220 miles east of Boston.
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UPI
New England
Navy Board of Inquiry
Lamont Laboratory
Conrad
Adm
Alton W. Grenfel
Atlantic Submarine Force
Portsmouth
N.H
Board of Inquiry
Atlantic Fleet
Norfolk
Thresher
Skeleton found in Crow area prompts welfare aid search
West Virginia officials from the Welfare Aid to Dependent Children program assist State Police in a Crow area search after the badly decomposed body of Mrs. Woodrow Bailey Daniels was found in a shallow Scott's Branch creek bed. Bailey had been missing since Sept 1, 1962. The investigation continues.
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West Virginia
Beckley ministers urged to use Christian approach on Elks Lodge racism
Rev. David L. Smith of Raleigh County NAACP urges Beckley ministers to meet with the Human Rights Commission to address racial barriers in Elks Lodge operated Little League. He says if ten prominent pastors unite, the issue could be solved peacefully. Elks invitees have not yet replied.
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Elks Lodge
Little League
David L. Smith
Raleigh County
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
The
Register
Smith
Human Rights Commission
James T. Farris
Air Mapping Finished For Scenic Highway Project
Senator Jennings Randolph announced completion of aerial photography over about 160 miles in West Virginia for the Highlands Scenic Highway planning. The coverage includes Nicholas Pocahontas Randolph Tucker and Grant counties, outlining a route from Richwood to Germania with 100 miles through Monongahela National Forest.
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API
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
West Virginia
Randolph
Nicholas
Pocahontas
Tucker
Grant Counties
Richwood
Nicholas County
Germania
Grant County
Monongahela National Forest
House Mover Crushed in Foundation Lift Death
Emerson Lee Fetty, 32, of Huntington, died Thursday while attempting to move a house from its foundation. A jack lifted the structure when it slipped, pinning him beneath a beam.
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Huntington
UPI
Emerson Lee Fetty
Besneath
Budget humor on loans and giraffes in wild prosperity
Sherwood Glutz jokes that budgets are outdated like hoop skirts and buggy wheels. Installment buying is so common that families could own a giraffe for a dollar down and a dollar a week. He says he should save enough in hard times to endure this supposed era of prosperity.
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