Vehicles Commissioner Outlines N S Highway Benefits
Beckley residents heard Jack A. Nuckols, commissioner of motor vehicles, describe vast benefits from Interstate Highway changes. He champions extending I-64 from Beckley to Sprague and beyond toward Hinton, linking Raleigh County with Raleigh and Shady Spring areas, and bringing the airport within Beckley’s reach. He notes potential interchanges and midstate routing, discusses funding, and urges support for local projects like Honey In The Rock and Bald Knob Ski Slope while outlining criteria for interstate money eligibility.
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Raleigh
Jack A. Nuckols
Beckley Lions Club
Nuckols
Beckley Turnpike
Harper Road
Sprague
Gray Flats
Piney Gorge
Raleigh County Memorial Airport
Richmond District
Madam’s Creek
Hinton
Beckley
MacArthur
Shady Spring
Ghent
Charleston
Sutton
Rock
Bald Knob
Khrushchev Triumph at Soviet Congress Heralds New Leaders
Premier Khrushchev secured a sweeping victory over Stalinist remnants as the 22nd Soviet Communist party congress adjourned. Stalin’s mausoleum staff were removed and key anti party figures were purged while Khrushchev eyed bloc diplomacy and new leadership including his son in law Alexei Adzhubei. West Berlin police intensified identity checks on Russians in civilian dress amid East West border clashes and motorist tensions on the Autobahn. A Life magazine correspondent was briefly detained at the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint as British American and French officials weigh access rights amid rising Cold War friction.
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Moscow
UPS
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Communist Party
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Kremlin
Great Red Square
Lenin
Nikolai Bulganin
Dimitri Shepilov
Kliment Voroshilov
Vyacheslav I M. Molotov
Georgi Malen‘kov
Lazar Kaganovich
Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
United States
Britain
France
East Berlin
East Germany
Neues Deutschland
Friedrichstrasse
Red
West
Central Committee
Khrushchev
Alexei Adzhubei
Izvestia
West Virginia Weather Forecast Outlook
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with cooler conditions. Temperatures to run 2 to 8 degrees above normal, 57-32 in the north and 62-38 in the south. Rain totals around one tenth inch from scattered weekend showers, with a warming trend into the weekend and a cooler early next week. Beckley and Oak Hill temperatures shown, river gauges report clear, lake and Greenbrier values normal.
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Beckley
Mickey Cohen Back In Jail Indicted for 1959 Whalen Slaying
Los Angeles based mob figure Mickey Cohen faces murder and conspiracy charges in a secret grand jury indictment. Four co defendants include Sam Liccione George Piscitelle Roger Leonard and Joe De Carlo. The case centers on the 1959 shooting of Jack Whalen at a Sherman Oaks restaurant where Cohen and all five men were present. Leonard was arrested in Philadelphia amid Route 66 filming.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Mickey Cohen
Jack
Candy Barr
Texas
Leonard
Philadelphia
Cantrell Surrenders To Beckley Officer
An escaped prisoner, James Thomas Cantrell, surrendered via telephone to Beckley State Police Sgt. D W Lilly after calling from a Paintsville payphone. Cantrell, a 29 year old escaped trustee from Martinsburg, is awaiting Martinsburg troopers and had stolen a car during his October 26 escape. He was sentenced to life on August 9, 1956, for the murder of Glenna Lewis in Prosperity.
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Beckley
James Thomas Cantrell
Paintsville
D. W. Lilly
Lilly
Martinsburg
Kentucky
Cantrell
Glenna Lewis
Prosperity
Pikesville
Use Every Precaution Says Dyer on Fallout Advice
Dr Dyer urges West Virginians to wear hats and coats in rain as a simple measure against potential radioactive fallout. He notes no confirmed danger yet but advocates precaution and plastic rainwear for children, citing Japanese school guidance. He warns against panic and calls for widespread practical protection.
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Charleston
UPI
West
Dyer
Milk Tests Increased In Charleston Health Dept Steps Up Tests
Increased milk testing in Charleston due to Russia's superbomb test. State Health Department raised frequency from once to twice weekly as a precaution. Officials say current milk supplies are safe despite the intensified checks.
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Charleston
UPI
State Health Department
Russia
Atomic blast effects of a 50 megaton bomb as studied by AEC
United Press International reports UPI on Atomic Energy Commission estimates of a 50 megaton nuclear bomb effects. Airburst at 50 000 feet would burn skin and set paper aflame within 60 miles, damage structures up to 14 and 8 miles, and deliver lethal fallout doses 500 miles downwind. Ground blast would raise heavy Roentgen doses. Higher altitudes cause radio blackout up to thousands of miles, retinal burns, and spectacular sonic displays. Deep sea detonation would generate large waves and shoreline impact.
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Washington
UPI
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate Leader Urges U S To Resume Nuclear Tests
Senate Armed Services Chairman Richard B Russell urges the United States to resume atmospheric nuclear testing to develop a neutron bomb, claiming tests are essential until perfection and that at least one or two bombs should be tested by missiles. He cites the neutron bomb as a reason to resume full scale tests.
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Washington
UPID
Senate
U.S
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Don’t Eat Snow Radioactive Threat Debate
UPI reports fallout experts say children need not stay indoors this winter for fear of radioactive snow though one parent would not let his kids eat snow or ice for safety. Weather Bureau predicts Soviet test debris to reach Northern Hemisphere snow and rain in Feb through May. Public Health Service notes no general danger to snow lovers but warns of possible hot spots and that communities would inform if radiation levels rise.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
U.S. Weather Bureau
Public Health Service
PHS
Notable World Figures and Disasters Amid Turbulent News
A hurricane battered Belize with mass evacuations and extensive destruction. Augustus John, a leading British artist, died at 83 in London. State Department dismisses Soviet Finland note as distraction. Truman guests at Kennedy dinner. stay at White House. Leontyne Price retires from Met opera with illness. Kirsten fills in. Spreckels II dies from accidental fall at 49 in Phoenix motel. Kennedy to campaign for Wagner in New York. Bearden jailed for hijacking Continental jet. son remains in custody. Chrysler warns of looming strike. UAW demands urgency. Richmond Capitol designated a national historic landmark.
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Hattie
British Honduras
Belize
Gulf of Mexico
Augustus John
Britain
London
State Department
Lincoln White
Soviet Union
Finland
West Germany
Harry S. Truman
Kennedy
White House
Trumans
Clifton Daniel
New York
Leontyne Price
Metropolitan Opera
Dorothy Kirsten
Adolph Spreckels II
Clark Gable
Spreckels
Phoenix
Ariz
Robert F. Wagner
Leon Bearden
Continental Airlines
Cody
Chrysler Corp
United Auto Workers
Virginia
Richmond
Thomas Jefferson
Police Eye 2 Theories In Reed Missing Case
State Police pursue two theories in the disappearance of Wayne L. Reed operator of Daniels service station in Beaver. Reed 51 vanished with 626 dollars after blood was found at the station suggesting robbery and abduction. New evidence suggests Reed may have staged the crime. Reed's car was found in Parkersburg prompting a mobile to Wood County City with two CID investigators from Charleston.
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Daniels
Wayne L. Reed
Beaver
W. A. Dyer
Reed
Parkersburg
Dyer
Wood County
Charleston
Criminal Investigation Bureau
E. J. Newman
West Virginia State Police Criminal Investigation Bureau
Beckley State Police
H. C. Fullmer
CIB
Panair DC7 Crash At Recife Kills 48 On Board
Panair Do Brasil DC7 with 85 aboard crashed during attempted landing at Guararapes Airport Recife. Airline officials report 48 dead and 7 of 37 survivors in serious condition. Aircraft carried 76 passengers and 9 crew from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, with a stopover in Cape Verde.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Panair Do Brasil
Guararapes
Recife
Panair
Gilberto Freire
Lisbon
Ilha Do Sul
Cape Verde Islands
South Atlantic
Rio
Guanabara
Portugal
UN May Vote On New Nuclear Test Moratorium
United Nations delegates pressed for action to halt all nuclear weapon tests amid world outrage over Russia's mega blasts. A vote was hoped for on an Indian led moratorium, opposed by the United States and Britain, who favor an international control treaty instead.
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United Nations, N.Y
UPI
United Nations
Russia
General Assembly
United States
Britain
India
Soviet Union
Violence erupts across Algeria amid seventh anniversary clashes
Moslem crowds clash with French police in cities nationwide marking seven years since the Algerian war began. An official French communique tallies 30 Muslims killed and 70 wounded as rebel commandos mingle with demonstrators and trigger exchanges of fire.
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Algiers
Algeria
UPI
Runaway Heiress Inherits Millionaire Grandmother's Trust
Gamble Benedict Porumbeanu and her husband Andre react to Katharine Benedict’s will leaving Gamble two-fifths of the $50 million estate in trust. The heir’s brother Douglas receives two-fifths in trust, and a niece Mary Graham gets the final fifth. The couple faces arrest warrants tied to their elopement violating a Brooklyn court order.
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Erlenbach
Switzerland
UPI
Benedict Porumbeanu
Andre Porumbeanu
Katharine Geddes Benedict
New York
Benedict
Gamble
Douglas Benedict Sharpe
Hamilton College
Clinton
N.Y
Mary C. Graham
Porumbeanus
Peter Horn
Brooklyn
West Virginia Unemployment Drops 10 700 in Sep
West Virginia unemployment declined by 10 700 from August to September while employment fell 3 400. The labor force dropped 14 000 as college students returned to school, leaving 62 200 jobless or 10.1 percent of a 614 200 labor force. Employed total stood at 551 900, down about 14 000 from a year earlier.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
State _Employment Security Department
Radioactivity caution and political dare in brief quotes
Winter snow not generally dangerously radioactive says Public Health Service spokesman though hot spots possible. Senator Smathers urges delaying aid to British Guiana’s Cheddi Jagan to test promises of freedom and progress. Walter Reuther says UAW Chrysler talks require urgency or a strike looms. Billy Graham comments on nuclear morality about shelter protection for neighbors.
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U.S. Pat
United Press International
Washington
Public Health Service
Miami
George Smathers
D-Fla
U.S
British Guiana
Cheddi Jagan
Detroit
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
UAW
Chrysler
Tom Minter Named Civic Center Manager
Thomas Minter of Hull Street a Marsh Fork High School teacher has been selected by the Armory Board to manage the Armory Civic Center. Charles S. Lewis Jr., board chairman, said the employment date will be announced later when financial arrangements are made.
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Thomas Minter
Hull Street
Marsh Fork
Armory Board
Armory Civic Center
Charles S. Lewis Jr
Jay
Lewis
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