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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1961
Page
6
The State Education Department with county schools will start a testing program for 6th and 12th graders in 1962 63 to provide objective comparative data on student behavior and performance. Costs are about 147 150 dollars in 1962 63 rising to 200 760 in 1963 64 with added 3rd and 9th grades.
Charleston UPI State Income Tax Director Clifford Lantz said the new tax is on track to hit the 15 million annual estimate. He reported 4.45 million collected from July through September with 14 100 employers paying. Only 285 failed to submit forms and 1 011 employers reported no tax withheld. He noted fewer nonpays than before, suggesting the system is becoming routine for employers.
Newsmen in Moscow report Vyacheslav Molotov dismissing talk of party expulsion with a quip to pivot to other topics. In Harmony a American Legion post defends a rabbit hunt as a mockery of humane critics. Betancourt of Venezuela says the Cuba breakup does not alter Venezuela’s non intervention policy. Nehru in Los Angeles speaks on the world’s entangled state and the difficulty in disentangling it.
Mountain State Visitors Bureau will run April ads in The Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Philadelphia Bulletin with the theme Central West Virginia is Only Eight Hours Away. President Bill Ellinghaus said the quarter-page Sunday ads will cost about 6000 dollars and include a coupon for free travel literature. Combined circulation of the two papers is 1,221,000, giving about 4,884,000 readers in April.
The State Commerce Department reports that plant construction and expansions since July 1 will create over 5,000 jobs in West Virginia. Fourteen companies plan new plants or expansions, led by Lockheed at Clarksburg, North American at Princeton, and Food Machinery at South Charleston.
West Virginia could relax admission rules now governing state colleges and the University. A 15 member committee advised leniency to admit capable graduates who miss minor requirements, proposing exceptions decided jointly by college registrars and high school principals. The panel, chaired by John St. Clair, seeks better high school college coordination and studies on testing, counseling, placement.
The piece argues Soviet industrial progress is hampered by partial mechanization and a quota system that stifles innovation. It cites Pravda figures showing high manual labor in steel and other industries, notes lower agricultural productivity, and warns of potential future space and economic growth driven by concentrated effort and Western tech.
UPI correspondent William Cook reports on British Honduras two weeks after Hurricane Hattie. Death toll rising toward 500, 15,000 homeless, looting and martial law, aid from US Britain Jamaica Guatemala Mexico and Red Cross, efforts to rebuild and relocate the capital debated.
Glenn Watson, 21 months, was electrocuted Sunday after touching a television set in Glen Rock New Jersey. His mother, Mrs Frank Watson, found him slumped over the portable set.
In Sneedsville Tennessee Carl Myers and James Horton return to trial for an April 22 shootout that killed Hancock County deputies Alex Morris Lon Tyler and C B Oaks and wounded Sheriff Verlin Maxey. The case sparked a mistrial and a Tennessee Supreme Court appeal over verdict revival.
Irish premier Sean Lemass condemned a border gun attack that killed a Northern Ireland police officer and wounded three. He warned of sinister influence behind the violence as authorities sought attackers, believed to be the IRA, amid a week of border unrest including a post office truck and police building explosions.
MOUNDSVILLE W Va An event in Marshall County has Daniel Johnson of Benwood held on $1000 bond after a man Slaughter charge in his father Alvey Johnson 61 shotgun death. State Police also identify a wreck victim near Glen Dale as Elmer Frey 50 replacing Leslie Carroll in initial reports. A Public Service Commission hearing opens on City Lines of Fairmont fare increase request.
Dr Paul A Miller new WVU president will visit Morgantown to meet the WVU Board of Governors attend the West Virginia Indiana football game and hold a 11 a.m. news conference. He will succeed Elvis J Stahr as president of the University.
United Press Internation reports that the first lighthouse on the Atlantic Coast was erected on Little Brewster Island near Boston Harbor in 1716, marking a milestone in maritime navigation.
Sheriffs deputies searched for intruders who entered Kay Starrs hotel room in Las Vegas and stole about 20000 dollars in rings watches and necklaces while the singer slept with her 9 year old daughter Kathie in the room She was performing at a Strip hotel on Sunday and reported the loss of the jewelry including valuable pieces from her room.
Police say the boy Glenn was electrocuted after touching a TV set and a nearby stove at the same time. The incident occurred in a residence where relatives, including the child's father and sister, were present.
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