House Demos Consider Serious Tax Loophole Push
House Democrats weigh a serious drive to plug long-standing tax loopholes in the new Congress. The plan aims to raise revenue by narrowing gaps in corporate and individual taxation, with a two year program starting in the first session and possible final action in 1960. It could cut depletion allowances and revise credits for foreign oil firms while curbing tax benefits for cooperatives and capital gains use.
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House
Mills
Congress
Senate
Washington
Taxation Plans Hit Life Insurance and Highway Fees
The Ways and Means Committee will study raising taxes on life insurance investment income and possibly increase the federal gasoline tax and other highway user taxes. Current law taxes investment income at 15 percent with no tax on premiums, and highway taxes fund the interstate system. The panel will explore methods to boost federal revenue for highway construction and other costs.
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Ways and Means Committee
The
Treasury
Brucker Deflates Soviet Limited-War Blackmail Charge
Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker denounced Soviet blackmail aims at a Veterans Day speech in Welch, citing eight million Soviet soldiers, submarines, and thousands of aircraft. In Williamson Gov. Underwood lauded the National Guard and highlighted two Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, Antoine and Julien Gaujot, as part of a Veterans Day observance.
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Associated Press
Wilber M. Brucker
Welch
Soviet Union
Brucker
Ave
Soviet Bloc
Williamson
Underwood
Army National Guard
Wiliamson
Mingo County
Williamson Brothers
Gaujot
Antoine Gaujot
Julien
Agua Prieta
Mexico
National Guard
George Orwell
Charleston
Mercer County
Bluefield
C. A
Pat) McGovern
Kanawha County
McDowell County
West Virginia
Adj
William Blake
American Legion
Moon Rocket Has Chance Of Going Into Sun's Orbit
In San Antonio AP report, Dr. Wernher von Braun says an Army moon probe has a one in two chance to escape Earth's gravity, reach solar orbit as a 30 pound planet, and not return. The plan aims for December, with a probe speed of 25 500 mph, possibly missing or striking the moon, while measuring radiation bands and ensuring sterilization to avoid contamination.
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San Antonio
Tex
Wernher von Braun
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Air Force
Moon
School of Aviation Medicine
Southwest Research Institute
Army
von Braun
UMW Silent On Plans For 1959 Anthracite Contract
Washington officials report United Mine Workers may terminate the old contract with a 60 day notice on Oct. 31 for the anthracite industry with wage talks to follow. Tom Kennedy says no comment while headquarters close for Veterans Day and John L. Lewis is unavailable. Industry welfare funds face strain from low production, prompting calls to merge with the soft coal fund. Negotiations reportedly extend to the softer coal sector as well.
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John L. Lewis
UMW
Lewis
Alexandria
Tom Kennedy
Pennsylvania
Anthracite Welfare Fund
Washington
Coal Production Below 1957 Mark
West Virginia coal output for the first nine months of the year totaled 80,962,010 tons, down from 113,204,721 in the same period of 1957. Fatalities and injuries declined with 83 deaths and 4,610 injuries through September, compared with 142 deaths and 5,100 injuries a year earlier. September saw 11 deaths and 521 injuries, while monthly mine employment was 44,297 versus 58,923 in 1957.
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State Department of Mines
Scaffold Slips Kills State Boilermaker at WV Plant
A scaffold collapse at the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co plant in Keyser, Maryland area, killed Richard F. DeWitt, 32, of Morgantown, and injured Charles W. Atkinson, 40, who was rescued after hanging head downward. Maxwell Atkinson, 30, escaped unharmed as three boilermakers and welders worked on a 50 million dollar expansion.
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Kingwood
W. Va
Potomac Valley Hospital
Keyser
Atkin
Maxwell
West Virginia Weather Outlook Tonight to Wednesday
Mostly clear and colder east portion tonight with lows in the 20s east and 30s to mid 30s west. Wednesday expected to be fair and warmer. Oak Hill high yesterday and low last night at 7 a.m. today not provided in readable form.
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OAK Hill High
Beckley Man Awaits Hearing On Two Charges
Henry L. DuBois, 35, of I Street, is jailed in Raleigh County awaiting arraignment on charges of drunkenness and moonshine possession. He was arrested by City Police and confined at 4:04 p.m. Monday. Shadrick W. Estep of Madison was released from jail at 7:30 a.m. today after serving a sentence on drunk driving and hit and run, booked October 10 by City Police.
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Henry L. DuBois
I Street
Raleigh County
Shadrick W. Estep
Madison
Joe Comisky Dies at 53 in Glen Rogers
Joe Comisky, 53, died Monday at Glen Rogers. The body will remain at Webb and Neal Funeral Home pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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Joe Comisky
Glen Rogers
Webb and Neal Funeral Home
Writ Bars Knapp From Enforcing Alimony Decree
A State Supreme Court writ forbids Judge Norman Knapp from enforcing a $50 monthly alimony order against Woodrow W. Cecil and bars further contempt proceedings by Cecil’s ex-wife Bessie Cecil. The ruling cites Cecil’s 1955 divorce for cruel treatment and holds the ex-wife forfeited maintenance rights, invalidating the alimony award as beyond the circuit court’s power.
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Charleston
State Supreme Court
Norman Knapp
Raleigh
Woodrow W. Cecil
Knapp
Bessie E. Cecil
Cecil
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Frank C. Haymond
Coffee Salvage Work Launched Near Gauley Bridge WV
Workers on Gauley Mountain four miles east of Gauley Bridge begin salvage of a 30,000 pound coffee cargo valued at 24,000 dollars after a tractor trailer plunged 250 feet. A wrecker from Charleston clears a temporary road for salvage operations likely to start tomorrow. The driver Roscoe B. Humphries and his son Roscoe W. Humphries escaped injury. cargo loss estimated at 45,000 dollars due to damage.
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Gauley Bridge
W. Va
Gauley Mountain
Charleston
L. P. Mullins
Roscoe B. Humphries
Roscoe W. Humphries
Mullins
Girl Scouts Receive Church Offering in Beckley Drive
The Blue Jay Methodist Church donated its Monday evening offering to the Raleigh County Girl Scout Council. Contributions totaling 2668.06 were collected by county Girl Scouts and their fathers in the door to door drive. The goal is 10000 dollars.
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Blue Jay Methodist Church
Raleigh County
Girl Scout Council
Beckley Hotel
Sam Wood Jr
Slate Dump Explodes Injuring Two Workers
Welch AP report: a slate dump exploded near Coalwood while State Road Commission workers dug for surfacing material. Two men, W. H. Amick 38 of Berwind and Gillard Smith 28 of Welch, were critically injured. Cause cited as a spark igniting gases.
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Welch (Ap
State Road Commission
W. H. Amick
Berwind
Gillard Smith
Welch
Olga Coal Co
Coalwood
Road Commission
Clark Rites Incomplete Funeral Arrangements
Mrs. Mary E. Clark 51 of East Park died Monday morning at home after an extended illness. The body is at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home.
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Mary E. Clark
East Park
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home
Beckley man seeks Supreme Court review of verdict
Beckley resident Ben K. Daniel asked the State Supreme Court to review a $20,000 jury verdict from Fayette County Circuit Court in a crash that killed two people. Daniel and his wife Mary Ann were en route to the State Fair near Lewisburg on August 18, 1957, when their car collided head on with a vehicle owned by Martha Hunt. The Hunt estate also sued Daniel for damages, and the two cases were consolidated, ending in a verdict against Daniel.
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Charleston
State Supreme Court
Fayette County
Ben K. Daniel
Mary Ann
Daniel
Lewisburg
Joseph H. Hunt
Cleveland
Martha
Hunt
Osage Bomb Blast Shuts School For 240 Pupils
In Morgantowns Osage community a pre dawn dynamite blast damaged the school housing 240 pupils, sparking fears of racial motives but officials saw no link to segregation. About 20 FBI agents and local police swarmed Osage as investigators probed a professional job by an outside actor.
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West Virginia
FBI
Washington
Osage
Morgantown
Area Man Held In Auto Theft Case
McKinley Lee Treadway, 26, of Pineknob, held in U S District Court on interstate transport of a stolen motor vehicle. Remanded to Raleigh County Jail on 1000 bond. FBI agents and a deputy sheriff lodged him after a 10 40 p m arrest. He faced charges for transporting a stolen car from Akron to Wheeling and for taking a car from Burleson Motor Company lot and abandoning it at Arnett, with related break in and theft of keys and a jacket.
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McKinley Lee Treadway
U. S. Southern District Court
U. S
W. A. Riffe
Raleigh
Treadway
Federal Bureau of Investigation
E. H. Winterrond
FBI
Pittsburgh
Neil Moran
Wheeling
Akron
Burleson Motor Company
Woodlawn Avenue
Arnett
Beckley
Raleigh Driver Cited After Car Hits Pole
John C. Kincannon aged 20 of Raleigh was charged with reckless driving after his car struck a utility pole on South Fayette Street at about 9 p.m. Monday. The 1950 model car was towed as a total loss and Kincannon was ordered to appear in Beckley Police Court Thursday night.
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John C. Kincannon
Raleigh
South Fayette Street
Beckley Wrecking Company
Kincannon
Beckley
Death of Mrs Gladys Mosley in East Beckley
Mrs Gladys Mosley of East Beckley died in a local hospital Monday night. The body will remain at C D Trent Funeral Home pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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Gladys Mosley
East Beckley
C. D. Trent Funeral Home
Young Houston mother charged with murder of 4 week old daughter
Iris Conrad, 19, of Bellaire, is accused of killing her infant Lynda Conrad by throwing her to the floor. The death follows three other infant deaths in the family since 1956 listed as pneumonia. Police conducted a 10 hour interview before filing the charge after midnight. An attorney claimed insurance company influence and payments linked to past deaths. bond awaiting psychiatric evaluation.
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Houston
M AP
Iris Conrad
Bellaire
Lynda Conrad
Jack O'Brien
Conrad
William
W. C. Ragan
Harris County
New Berlin Crisis Looms If Khrushchev Acted
AP Foreign News Analyst Thomas P. Whitney reports that Khrushchev’s push to end four power rule in Berlin could trigger a new international crisis. He notes that blocking West Berlin or transport between West Germany and West Berlin could draw strong Western countermeasures with West Germany’s backing, risking World War III if force is used. The State Department rejected Khrushchev’s proposal and reaffirmed resolve to defend West Berlin, while diplomats consider Moscow might resign as occupying power to press the issue.
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Thomas P. Whitney
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin
West Berlin
West Germany
Soviet Union
United States
France
Britain
Khrushchev
Lenin Stadium
Moscow
East Germany
East Berlin
West
State Department
U.S
Washington
London
Sovie Union
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Texas
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Buenos Aires
United Mine Workers
Clark
Beckleyan
Monongalia County
Osage Junior
Mrs. Mosley
Satellites
Quemoy
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