German Union Vice President Confers With Local Officials
Friedrich Pott vice president of the German Miners Union visits Beckley and the Wind ing Gulf Coals mine in West Virginia after meetings in Washington. He notes 40 hour weeks, layoffs, and a shift to oil as key issues, with pension and job concerns for 58,000 miners since 1958.
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Friedrich Pott
Germany
Leighton C. Farley
United Mine Workers of America
President Hotel
Beckley
United States
Pott
Bochum
Ruhr
United States Department of Labor
United Mine Workers
Pittsburgh
Utah
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Riffe
Winding Gulf Coals, Inc
Washington
Department of Labor
Department of the Interior
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Thomas Kennedy
Paul K. Reed
Arnold Witausch
Chicago
Marshall
Russia
Pot
Legistive
The
Billion-To-One Birth In Colorado Springs
Mrs. Le Croy delivered a daughter at 1:35 a.m. Monday in Colorado Springs. The couple already had two children, including a boy born four years earlier at 3:13 a.m. on November 2, 1955. Hospital attendants called the odds a billion to one.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
John le Croys
le Croy
le Croys
Clifford
West Virginia Morning Weather Summary
Fair conditions in parts of West Virginia this morning with increasing clouds this afternoon and a high near 50s. Night rain and Wednesday chill follow with a drop in temperatures. river gauges show Bluestone at 2.5 feet with 3.5 gates open and Greenbrier clear and normal.
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Greenbrier
Eisenhower to hold news conference Wednesday morning
President Eisenhower will conduct a news conference on Wednesday at 10 30 a m in Washington with reporters invited to ask questions on current policy and events from the White House briefing room.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Halloween Pill Peddler Sought by Fremont Police
Fremont California AP reports dentist Dr. William V. Shyne sought after allegedly distributing candy coated laxative pills to children on Halloween. Six of sixteen affected suffered nausea and diarrhea while pills tested positive for bitter aloe. Police inspected 250 homes finding over 450 pills in unspent loot as warrant for arrest stands on charges of public decency and unlawful dispensing of medicine.
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Fremont
Calif
William V. Shyne
Lee Reima
Robert Plummer
Shyne
Supreme Court Begins Hearing Steel Arguments
The Supreme Court opened an 80 day cooling off hearing on the steel strike. Arthur J. Goldberg led the United Steelworkers Union against the injunction while John C. Bane argued for the steel companies. Court rules allowed lengthy debate with no time limit set.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Steelworkers Union
Herbert P. Sorg
Pittsburgh
J. Lee Rankin
John C. Bane
Goldberg
Warren
Beckley Man Passes State Mine Inspectors Test
Beckley man Robert O. Stewart is among eight who passed the State Mine Inspectors Examining Board test. Mines Director Crawford L. Wilson said the eight increased to 11 the roster of eligible persons for four inspectors positions yet to be filled. A total of 83 took the test.
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Beckley
Robert O. Stewart
State
Crawford L. Wilson
Pilot’s doomed jet crash devastates Ohio family
Maj. James Bradbury ejected from an F104 Starfighter as it crashed into a house near Mayton Ohio killing two children ages 2 and 12. Mother Grace Shoup 24 critically burned was to be treated in Texas. The house burned. Bradbury survived and said he could not control the aircraft.
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Mayton
Ohio
James Bradbury
AIR Force
Grace Shoup
Texas Military Medical Center
Rich
Clyde Allen
Billy
Tommy
Sherwood Glutz decries modern fiction and speech
Sherwood Glutz argues against what he calls the garbage age. He says obscene poolroom language appears in movies TV and books and mocks the notion that realism justifies it.
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Geese Wood
City Chamber to Discuss Chartering Business Development Corporation
Beckley Chamber of Commerce schedules 1:30 p m meeting at the Beckley Hotel ballroom to consider chartering a local Business Development Corporation. M Frank Barksdale urges Chamber members and business leaders to attend as Industrial Development Committee evaluates feasibility and potential to attract stable industries and aid economic welfare.
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Beckley Hotel
M. Frank Barksdale
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
The
Chamber
Business and Industry
Chamber of Commerce
Industrial Development Committee
Paul Hutchinson
Hulett C. Smith
Locat
Ing
Eisenhower to lay cornerstone for CIA HQ in Langley
President Eisenhower will lay the cornerstone for a new multi million dollar CIA headquarters in Langley Virginia and will then travel to Gettysburg Pennsylvania to vote in the state election. In Panama Canal Zone authorities prepared for any emergency as Panama marks its independence anniversary after nationalist calls for displaying flags. In Nicosia the Greek Turkish constitutional panel resumed talks on power sharing as Cyprus nears independence next year.
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Eisenhower
Central Intelligence Agency
Langley
Gettysburg
Panama Canal Zone
Republic of Panama
Canal Zone
Constitutional Committee
Nicosia
Cyprus
Investigators Probe River Bottom in Columbus Looting Case
A special investigator in a diving suit searched a river bottom as part of the probe into looting by Columbus police officers. Nine officers have been arrested and Police Chief George W. Scholer said more may be involved.
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Columbus
Ohio
George W. Scholer
George Cole
FBI
Des Moines
Iowa
San Quentin
San Francisco
Joseph Lacey
Sharon Ann Dooley
Ottumwa
Pearl River
Debates Rise Over France A-Bomb Plan In Sahara Desert
A UN gathering features Asian and African delegates opposing France plans to test an atomic bomb in the Sahara. Nehru of India calls for partial disarmament amid global tension as Khrushchev pushes for universal disarmament.
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U. N
France
Sahara
Nehru
India
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Russia
Biloxi
Miss
Harry Blue
John Taylor Coggins
Little Rock
Pulaski Circuit Court
Cugat says he was coached on The $64,000 Challenge
Orchestra leader Xavier Cugat testified before a House subcommittee that he received advance help as a contestant on The $64,000 Challenge and actually won $16,000. He said his publicity agent and others shared the winnings, and that producers helped shape questions he would face. He defended his lack of legal wrongdoing while noting the show’s flaws.
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Washington
Xavier Cugat
Congressional
Cugat
House
House Subcommittee On Legislative Oversight
Charles van Doren
New York
Mert Koplin
Wilton J. Springer
Cohn
Shirley Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Walter Nemore Dies at 50 in Welch Hospital
Walter Nemore, 50, Glen Rogers, died at 6 a.m. Tuesday in a Welch hospital after a short illness. The body is at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home pending completion of arrangements.
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Walter Nemore
Glen Rogers
Welch
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home
Van Doren's Future Hinges On Reaction
Charles Van Doren faces a clouded future after testimony about a rigged quiz show. Columbia University accepts his offer to resign as assistant professor effective immediately. NBC suspends him with pay from a $50,000 post. outcome hinges on congressional hearings.
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Washington
Charles van Doren
Mony
Columbia University
van Doren
University
National Broadcasting Co
Striking Confessions Reach Public Stage on TV Show Scandals
A Richmond woman recounts how she was coached to reveal personal details on the 1955 CBS program Strike It Rich and how she was told to bet her winnings. The story parallels broader admission of deception tied to quiz show fixings.
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Richmond, Va
Richmond
Dorothy Waller Heppert
Highland Springs
Farm Bureau Opposes Expanded Social Security Medical Benefits
West Virginia Farm Bureau vice president Lyle L. Austin testified at a Senate aging subcommittee hearing that the bureau opposes compulsory health insurance added to Social Security. He warned expansion could lead to socialized medicine and said rural elderly can be cared for without more federal action. Representative Cleveland Bailey and Senator Jennings Randolph also spoke on aging policy and administration support.
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Charleston
West Virginia Farm Bureau
Lyle L. Austin
Hogsett
Mason County
U.S. Senate
Austin
Farm Bureau
Jennings Randolph
D-Wva
State Senate
Cleveland M. Bailey
Clarksburg
Bailey
White House
Thieves Break Into Sprague Grill Take Horoscope Machine
State Police report a break in at Sprague Grill early Monday, with thieves gaining entry through a rear window and stealing 50 dollars, candy cigars and a fortune telling machine worth 25 cents to operate.
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Sprague Grill
Therill
Elections At A Glance By The Associated Press
Kentucky selects a governor with Bert T. Combs favored against John M. Robsion Jr. Combs faces a split with retiring Gov. Chandler. Philadelphia votes for mayor where Richardson Dilworth is favored over Harold Stassen. Mississippi’s Ross Barnett runs unopposed for governor. New Jersey Kentucky Virginia Mississippi New York elect state legislators on local issues as Boston Cleveland Pittsburgh San Francisco Salt Lake City mayors seek local mandate.
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Kentucky
Bert T. Combs
John M. Robsion Jr
Combs
A. B. Chandler
Philadelphia
Richardson Dilworth
Harold E. Stassen
Mississippi
Ross Barnett
New Jersey
Virginia
New York
Oston
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
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Bing
Witausch
Mine Workers Social Security
W. Va
Cedneriaceers
Oak Hill
Lawleet Garr
Beckleyan
Dayton
Kettering
Shoup
Lori Ann
Lynne Marie
Lynne
Sherwood Glutz
D. C
Barksdale
Nary
American Flint Glass Workers Union
Glass Container Manufacturer Institute
Errol Flynn
Nora Eddington Flynn Haymes
Flynn
Norfolk
Plattsburgh
N. Y
East Huntington
City Planning Commission
West Virginia Council of Churches
Baptist Temple
Underwood
Sistersville
John M. Williams
Jackson County Grand Jury
Okey
Patty Duke
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Charles F
Stoney’’ Jackson Jr
Tullahoma, Tenn
Arthur Cohn Jr
Jackson
Warren Hull
NBC
Steven B. Derounian
R-Ny
Associated Press
Mirror
Castro
Latin America
Fidel Castro
New York Mirror
Miami
Cuba
Emilio Nunez Portuondo
United Nations
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