Concentration Camps Return To East Germany
Two former camp inmates who fled to West Berlin describe Nazi style confinement in East Germany. They report 17 hour work days, brutal beatings, barbed wire enclosures, and severe food shortages at camps near Berlin and Leipzig. They fled after a border crossing and shared details in a West Berlin refugee camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph B. Fleming
Berlin
UPI
East Germany
West Berlin
Detlev Mueller
Guenter Breuer
Mildenberg
Gransee
Mueller
Breuer
Berndsdorf
Leipzig
Mecklenburg
Ohio Driver Jailed In Lieu Of $10 Fine
A list of local jailings and releases. James Delbert Stinecester 19 Galion Ohio remanded for failure to control vehicle and AWOL from the Army after a 1:45 a.m. arrest on North Kanawha Street. Others include drunk and disorderly warrants, drunkenness, and minor traffic offenses with local police and magistrate actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Delbert Stinecester
Galion
Ohio
Joe Rodriguez
United States Army
Kanawha Street
William Samples
Sophia
Tommy E. White
Fireco
Mansfield
Harold Francis Byrne
John Douglas Mangrum
Chicago
Ill
Richard Alburn Woodward
Owensboro
Charleston Tollgate
Cherry Creek Dip
Howard Thompson
Maude Harvey
Dorothy
Howard W. Lawrence
Belle
W. A. Burke
Four Wrecks Probed In Area Four
Area two car and left turn crashes marred Veterans Day in Beckley. Jorden F. Grose 69 of Sophia faces failure to yield after a two car crash at Central Avenue and Valley Drive South injures none listed. Lawrence Wiseman 45 of Beckley and Mrs Wiseman treated and released. Bobby T. Smith 22 Fort Knox Ky charged for failure to yield at Route 21 Bradley. Joseph Dinkins 38 Princeton rear ended Smith. no injuries. A third crash on Route 21 in Shady Spring left Joseph Brady 66 hospitalized? no injuries. Charles Grogan 68 Raleigh charged for failure to yield. Mrs Ed Reed 69 Glen Daniels in satisfactory condition at Beckley Memorial after two car crash on Rt 3 Eccles. Ed Reed 75 and James J. Roberts 27 Beckley involved. $250 damage. Reed kept for observation.
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Beckley
Jorden F. Grose
Sophia
Central Avenue
Valley Drive
Grose
Lawrence Wiseman
Beckley Ave
Wiseman
Woodrow Wilson High School
Bobby T. Smith
Fort Knox
Bradley
Smith
Joseph Dinkins
Princeton
Shady Spring
Shady Spring Gulf Station
Joseph Brady
Charles Grogan
Raleigh
Brady
Ed Reed
Glen Daniels
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Rt. 3
Eccles
Russo’s Grocery
James J. Roberts
5Th Ave
Reed
Thant Holds Separate Talks With Envoys On Cuba Crisis
U N chief Thant has met separately with Soviet Cuban and U S envoys since taking a personal role in the Cuba crisis on Oct 25 He is seen daily with Cuban Ambassador Carlos Lechuga while limiting contacts with American and Soviet officials Thant and Lechuga discuss three points from his Havana mission: missile removal inspection sovereignty respect and neighborly assurances against subversion or aggression
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Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Carlos Lechuga
Cuba
Thant
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Lechuga
U. N
Havana
Legislature Faces Redistricting Debate In West Virginia
Carson reports continued doubt over defense and a push for reapportionment. House Speaker Julius Singleton says a bill will be introduced to solve the issue at the next session, hoping court intervention won t be needed. Senate Majority Leader William Moreland favors court action to enforce constitutional requirements. Del Frazer notes each county deserves at least one representative, while Senate Minority Leader Carrigan says the legislature is ready to reapportion and should be given the chance.
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House
Julius Singleton
Morgantown
Senate
William Moreland
Moreland
Law Clerk Dies in Charleston After Short Illness
Mau rice J. Crocker of Kanawha County, 64, the first legally established law clerk for the Kanawha County Circuit Court, died after a brief illness. He served as law clerk since 1937 and aided Common Pleas and Intermediate courts as a researcher. Survived by his widow Mrs Keith Holmsted Crocker and a daughter Mrs Thomas Boyd of Charleston.
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Charleston
UPI
Maurice J. Crocker
Kanawha County
Crocker
Common Pleas
Frank L. Taylor
Charleston High School
Washington & Lee University
Keith Holmsted Crocker
Thomas Boyd
Deaths and Funerals for Carl Garrett at Kilsyth
Funeral services for Carl Garrett 45 Mount Hope will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Freewill Baptist Church Kilsyth with Rev Ernest Barley in charge. Burial in Hilltop Cemetery. Garrett died of a self inflicted shotgun wound at 10:55 a.m. Monday at home. Coroner Dr M G Hiesan ruled death by own action. Born Fayette County Sept 17 1917 he was son of the late Mr and Mrs Denzil Garrett. Survived by wife Mildred Garrett two daughters Carol Hart Price Hill and Ruth Ann at home a son Jimmy at home four brothers Hugh Kenneth Charles Thomas and a sister Ethel Strange. Body taken from Tyree Funeral Home Mount Hope to residence at 5 p.m. today.
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Carl Garrett
Mount Hope
Freewill Baptist Church
Kilsyth
Ernest Barley
Hilltop Cemetery
Garrett
M. G. Hiesan
Fayette County
Denzil Garrett
Mildred Garrett
Carol Hart
Price Hill
Ruth Ann
Jimmy
Hugh
Kenneth
Charles
Summersville
Thomas
Cleveland
Ohio
Ethel Strange
Tyree
Pineville Man John Gibson Dies After Long Illness
John Gibson 62 of Pineville died at 9 p.m. Monday in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness. He came to Pineville in 1945 and worked for Jackson Drilling Co. and previously for Bower Construction and Rising Drilling. Survived by wife Gay Belt Gibson, a daughter Suzanne Smith in Eureux France, two brothers and a sister. preceded in death by a son Roger Dale in 1948. Funeral arrangements pending.
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John Gibson
Pineville
Bluefield
George
Ida Boggess Gibson
Burning Springs
Wirt County
Jackson Drilling Co
Ace Bower Construction Co
Rising Drilling Co
United American Mechanics of Palestine
Gay Belt Gibson
Suzanne Smith
Eureux
France
Cecil
Lamesa
Tex
Ralph Hamblin
Louise Gibson
Kansas
Roger Dale
MacDougal
Robertson and Foglesong
Raleigh County Court Approves Notary Public Application
A quiet morning session of the Raleigh County Court adjourned at 11:35 a m with one notary public application approved. Court President John C Ward and H G Farmer approved A C Cline Beckley's application and all October county bills. An afternoon public hearing at 1:30 p m will discuss creating a sanitary district in MacArthur Crab Orchard Green Valley to enable federal sewer funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
John C. Ward
H. G. Farmer
A. C. Cline
Beckley
MacArthur-Crab-Orchard- Green Valley
Ward
Mikoyan backs Castro five points on Caribbean peace
Anastas Mikoyan told Havana University that Castro’s five points, including American withdrawal from Guantanamo, form a Soviet supported peace program for the Caribbean. He praised Castro, reaffirmed Soviet Cuban friendship, and urged hands off revolutionary Cuba. Exiles say Mikoyan may stay long, awaiting U.S. missile decision.
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Miami
Anastas Mikoyan
Fidel Castro
Guantanamo
Caribbean
Soviet Union
Havana
University of
Castro
Cuba
Fidel
Mikoyan
Russia
United States
U.S
Quirks and quirks in 1950s headlines from UPI
A collage of short dispatches from London, Moscow, and Paris shows whimsical signage, a birdlike Soviet plane concept with high lift, a Scottish auction of 5 000 old gravestones, a Maine bush pilot’s mishap, a Texas wallet mystery, and a London man jailed for dual enlistment while AWOL.
WVU Receives 14200 Dollar NSF Grant for Binomial Sums
West Virginia University has been awarded a 14200 dollar National Science Foundation grant to support ongoing research by Henry W. Gould. The project, titled Binomial Coefficient Summations, seeks new methods to derive closed formulas and transformations of binomial sums under the direction of assistant professor Gould, with university president Paul A. Miller confirming the funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
UPI
West Virginia University
National Science Foundation
WVU
Paul A. Miller
Henry W. Gould
New York Area Weather Minute Record
The UPI report notes the day's low of 15 degrees at Newport VI and a high of 91 degrees at Yuma AZ, with the US Weather Bureau providing the figures.
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HI LO
New York
UPI
U.S. Weather Bureau
Newport
Yuma
Ariz
Death of Chris G. Weaver in Mullens after long illness
Chris G. Weaver, 82, of 802 Frantz Ave Mullens, died in a Bluefield hospital at 7 50 p m Monday after a long illness Born April 6 1889 in Floyd Va he was a retired carpenter and member of First Methodist Church Mullens Surviving are wife Ada Agnew Weaver four sons Roby Orlando Fle George Russell and Eldsworth all of Mullens three daughters Mrs Cecil Coleman Princeton Mrs Lillie Tilley Roanoke Va and Mrs Janeth Wipperman Fort Hood Tex The body is at Sam Fogle song Funeral Home Mullens pending funeral arrangements
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Chris G. Weaver
Frantz
Ave
Mullens
Bluefield
Floyd
George
Emma Smith Weaver
First Methodist Church of
Ada Agnew Weaver
Roby
Orlando
Fle
Russell
Eldsworth
Cecil Coleman
Princeton
Lillie Tilley
Roanoke
Janeth Wipperman
Fort Hood
Tex
Sam Foglesong
William H Legg Funeral Services For Oak Hill Man
William Herbert Legg 73 of Oak Hill died in a Beckley hospital after a short illness. A retired Southside Coal Co. worker and Church of God member, he was born June 11, 1889, in Oak Hill. Survived by wife Margaret, two sons James of Maryland and Billy in Korea, two daughters Thelma Coffey and Natila Perkins, a brother Samuel, three sisters Virgie Basham Belle Hutchinson and Bessie Arthur, and 11 grandchildren. Body at Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill.
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William Herbert Legg
Oak Hill
Beckley
Southside Coal Co
Caperton
Church of God
Houston
Ella Barton Legg
Margaret Legg
James
Oxon Hill
Billy
Welch nurse leader Pauline Bracey dies at 33
Funeral services for Mrs. Pauline McClellan Bracey of Welch will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Welch First Methodist Church with pastors in charge. Burial at Memorial Park in Bluefield. She died Sunday night at home. Survived by husband Dr. Hendrik A. Bracey and three brothers and sisters. The body is at O J Douglas Funeral Home. In Harrisburg, Dr. Harvey F. Smith, 91, who helped discover Christy Mathewson and played for the Senators, died Monday after a medical career and scouting duties.
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Pauline McClellan Bracey
Welch
Welch First Methodist Church
Kenneth Ball
Oren Zaebst
Bluefield
Stevens Clinic
West Virginia State Nurses Association
Harrisburg
UPI
Harvey F. Smith
Christy Mathewson
Washington Senators
Smith
Bender
Philadelphia Athletics
Funeral for NYSE veteran Howard Homans at Princeton private
Private funeral services were held Monday for Howard Homans 83 longtime New York Stock Exchange member and 1901 Princeton University graduate. He spent over four decades on the exchange and was a noted alumnus of Princeton.
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Princeton
N.J
Howard Homans
New York Stock Exchange
Princeton University
Denver fund boss Harold Huber dies at 55
Harold Huber, 55, board chairman of Hamilton Management Corp. of Denver, a leading mutual fund firm, died Monday of a heart attack. He chaired the Denver company and led its growth as one of the nation’s largest mutual fund houses.
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Denver
Colo
UPI
Harold Huber
Hamilton Management Corp
Khrushchev cites farm output lag in USSR
Premier Khrushchev said 1962 farm production would miss planned targets in many sectors despite gains in milk and meat. Pravda published his Nov 10 briefing to the Presidium noting grain procurement would hit 1958 levels, with droughts and weather blamed for disappointments.
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Moscow
UPI
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Presidium
Communist Party
Pravda
Khrushchev
Communist Central Committee
Uzbekistan
Tadjikistan
Turkmenia
Kazakhstan
Russian Republic
Soviet Union
Riots at campus as federal forces escort Meredith nightly
Meredith led federal guards escorting at the campus amid 14 hours of mob fighting with outsiders and marshals. Reporter Paul Guihard and Ray Gunter were killed in the clashes. The grand jury heard O Barr urge suppression of soldier seized evidence from dorm searches, deemed unconstitutional. The Army listed items found in Baxter and Lester halls including fireworks, shells, a gas grenade, a dismantled rifle, and an air rifle with BBs. Meredith began his eighth week of classes as federal marshals and soldiers continued to accompany him on classroom rounds.
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Meredith
Paul Guihard
Ray Gunter
O’barr
Grand Jury
Army
Baxter
Lester Halls
Tycoons Drinking Less Eating More
Chicago executive Lon D. Barton of Cadillac Associates says business leaders now drink about one and a half drinks at lunch down from two and a half. He notes Los Angeles and San Francisco average three drinks, New York two plus, and predicts Chicago trends will spread. He warns four martini lunches wasted manpower hours.
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Chicago
UPI
Lon D. Barton
Cadillac Associates
Windy City
Barton
Roark Receives 60 Day Stay in Grandview Park Murder Case
Roark and Lilly faced murder charges in the Plumley death found 352 feet below the Grandview State Park overlook on June 25. Lilly's trial is set for the January term. After four days of trial and three hours of deliberation a jury of three women and nine men returned a voluntary manslaughter verdict against Roark.
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Roark
Lilly
Plumley
Grandview State Park
Plane Lands Safely After Hydraulic Trouble at Kanawha
An emergency alert was issued at Kanawha Airport when a Lake Central Airlines aircraft developed hydraulic trouble with its landing gear. The plane landed safely with five emergency vehicles standing by on the Morgantown to Charleston flight.
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Charleston
UPS
Kanawha
Lake Central Airlines
Morgantown
Horse statue stolen from Cranbrook Academy in Detroit
Cranbrook Academy officials report a 250 pound wounded horse statue was stolen in Detroit. Police are investigating the theft and searching for the sculpture and suspect. The incident highlights security concerns at the campus and nearby arts facilities.
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Detroit, Mich
UPI
Cranbrook Academy
Circuit Court Opens With Jurors to Report Nov 26
The November term of Raleigh County Circuit Court opened this morning with divorce commissioner Herbert Stansbury overseeing a heavy schedule of non contested divorces. Pre trial conferences will continue until Nov 26 when petit jurors from Beckley Mabscott Ghent and other areas are to report including Harold Adkins Roy Applegate Lacy Adkins Junior Bowling Andy Barbera Delbert Bailey and many more.
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Raleigh County Circuit Court
Herbert Stansbury
Harold Adkins
Mabscott
Roy Applegate
Ghent
E. L. Allenbaugh
Beckley
Lacy Adkins
Stamford
Junior C. Bowling
MacArthur
Andy Barbera
Delbert Bailey
C. E. Bailey
William L. Bower
Henry M. Bennett
Oral Brown
John R. Beavers
Fred Clark
C. W. Canaday
von Daniels
Marie Duncan
Eccles
George Davis
William Dancy
Hude Darlinton
Glen Morgan
Charles L. Dalaney
Five Juveniles Facing Hearing in Beckley Larceny Case
Five Beckley juveniles were arrested on charges of larceny and destruction of property after moving a parking meter on First Avenue and destroying it at a site behind the former Kroger Building. Four boys faced additional counts of destroying a telephone, siphoning gas from trucks, and stealing items from Curley’s Silver Dollar Junk Yard and Broughton Dairy Trucks. Ages ranged 14 and 16. They awaited Raleigh County Juvenile Court with damages to the meter estimated at 50 dollars.
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Beckley
First Avenue
Kroger
Eccles
Curley
Silver Dollar
Broughton
Raleigh County
Harry L. McCreery
Chinese massing on India border sparks emergency debates
New Delhi reports indicate Chinese armies mass along the entire frontier as Home Minister Shastri tells the upper house that preparations are widespread from Ladakh to Assam. No fighting reported. Indian patrolling continues. Chinese officials reportedly burn records amid potential diplomatic break.
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New Delhi
UPI
Lal Bahadur Shastri
India
China
Ladakh
Punjab
Uttar Pradesh
West Bengal
Assam
Red
North East Frontier Agency
NEFA
Himalayas
Bombay
Calcutta
Yeager linked to double murder, found dead in car
Police said Yeager killed two people last weekend, drove the slain woman in her car to a Sunday crash site near Branchland, then shot himself with the same gun. He wandered remote backwoods for days, stopping at relatives’ homes as talks to surrender failed. Authorities noted the body showed bruises and scratches. no note was found.
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Yeager
Branchland
Lincoln County
Jess Chandler
Air Force Launches Secret Atlas Agena B Satellite
Arguello California reports a secret satellite was launched from the Pacific missile range using an Atlas Agena B booster. No further details were disclosed by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Arguello
Calif
UPS
Air Force
Pacific Missile Range
Ex Senator Improves Springfield Vi
Former Republican Senator Ralph E. Flanders aged 82, who suffered a mild heart attack at his home Sunday, was reported in satisfactory condition today at Springfield Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ralph E. Flanders
Springfield Hospital
Labor time lost to strikes drops to postwar low
The Labor Department said United States working time lost in September due to strikes fell to the lowest September total since World War II. There were 1,590,000 man days of idleness last September, down from 1,950,000 in September 1961.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Budget Running 7 Billion In Red
A new review by the Budget Bureau shows the federal budget running more than seven billion dollars in the red, the second largest peacetime deficit on record. It projects fiscal 1963 spending near 94 billion with revenue around 87 billion, contrasting Kennedy’s earlier January estimates of 93 billion revenue and a 463 million surplus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Budget Bureau
Kennedy says Cuba weapon removal signals progress
Attorney General Robert F Kennedy stated the United States sees progress in getting offensive weapons out of Cuba. He cautioned vigilance remains, and warned that Cuba will remain a problem even as missiles and bombers reportedly leave. Officials note possible temporary naval blockade suspension pending concrete evidence of complete withdrawal.
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Soviet Union
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
U.S
Mondey
Albany
Cuba
Reapportionment Question Faces Legislature
Smith warned that failure to reapportion would leave the court responsible for unconstitutional legislation. He argued only a reapportioned legislature could legally enact laws, or else any act might be void due to an unconstitutionally constituted body.
Woman Arrested In $22,000 Burglary
In Huntington Mrs. Lucy Floyd, 36, was arrested on burglary charges after a $22,000 theft from a local businessman's home. Her husband Sidney Floyd and two co‑suspects, William Keenan and Grayson T. Osborne, had been arrested previously. Floyd posted $10,000 bond and was jailed with the amount set at $10,000. The cash was later found in a footlocker near Four Pole Creek in Wayne County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
UPI
Lucy Floyd
William Keenan
Newport
Grayson T. Osborne
Floyd
Osborne
Adenauer En Route to Washington for Talks with Kennedy
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer flies to Washington to meet with President Kennedy and U.S. leaders. His party includes Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder and six others. They plan discussions Wednesday with Kennedy, Thursday talks with Secretary of State Rusk, and a lunch at the National Press Club before a final meeting with the President. He departs Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BOM
UPI
Konrad Adenauer
Washington
Kennedy
U.S
Adenauer
Gerhard Schroeder
Dean Rusk
National Press Club
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Auburn
Maine
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Paris
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James Brown
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William H. Legg
Pauline Bracey
Mary Carter Enamel
Mary Carter
S. Kanawha
Circuit Court
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H. S. Edwards
C. C. Farmer Jr
Frederick Friar
K. T. Ford
Berman Farley Jr
W. Favors
C. C. Farley
Jack Fleenor
Alex D. George
J. C. Gravely
Leslie Gates
Ben M. Guy Jr
Joe Giampalo
Charles G. Gwynn
Melvin Garten
Clarence Hairston
Robert Hicks
Clarence Hancock
Fred Helm
R. C. Hart
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O. D. Janney
Crab Orchard
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Jim B. Kessinger
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