Census Shifts Set for 1960 House Seats Change
Washington reports twenty five states will gain or lose seats in the House after the 1960 census. The total of 50 states reached 179,323,175 on April 1, an 18.5 percent rise from 1950. Officials say the figure will exceed 180 million once overseas personnel and dependents are included. Changes reflect population shifts since 1950 and pave the way for House realignment.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Theatment
House
Kennedy and Nixon discuss GOP roles in Kennedy administration
President-elect John F Kennedy reportedly learned that Vice President Nixon has reservations about Republicans taking key posts in a Democratic administration. The two men met for 63 minutes at Key Biscayne, Florida, and Kennedy said no offer was made, while sources said discussions touched on placing Republicans in foreign policy and national security. Nixon signaled he would oppose any partisan constraint on his party and cited the need for bipartisan cooperation on national security issues.
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Palm Beach, Fla
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Kennedy
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Fla
Connecticut
Abraham [Ribicoff
Kanawha Poll Official Indicted For Election Fraud
An Intermediate Court grand jury returned indictments against Arnold Foster of Papenoe on felony election fraud charges for aiding a woman to vote and using the machine for his chosen candidates. He faces two misdemeanor counts for voting against the woman’s wishes and offering payment for votes. The same grand jury found no indictments from a DMV audit.
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Charleston
Arnold Foster
Papenoe
Foster
State Department of Motor Vehicles
J. Marshall Holcomb
Earl H. Mathews
Marmet
Holcomb
Mathews
Trains Collision Kills 110 in Steblova Station
At least 110 people died and 106 injured in a collision between two local trains crowded with passengers at Steblova station in Bohemia, about 75 miles east of Prague. The wreck occurred on a siding at the Steblova railway station in Czechoslovakia.
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Vienna
Austria
Steblova
Czechoslovakia
Radio Prague
Bohemia
Prague
West Virginia Weather Update and River Conditions
Mostly cloudy with a low around 50 tonight. Tomorrow remains cloudy and warm with a chance of scattered showers. Beckley highs near 68 yesterday, 69 at noon today. Oak Hill hit 70 yesterday. River Greenbrier normal and clear. Lake normal and clear with 1.4 gates open. gauge 2 feet.
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Beckley High
OAK Hill High
Adm Spring Among 10 Dead In Navy Copter Crash
Ten people died when a U S Navy helicopter crashed near Subic Bay after an amphibian aircraft wreck. Admiral Arthur Spring 52 and his wife Clare 52 were killed along with aide Lt Karl Ziegenhagen pilot Lt Cmdr Wade K Clinton copilot Lt(jg) Kenneth Cowles and Airman Cecil G Johnson. Four more aboard included a Marine and three Philippine constabulary personnel. No survivors among eight aboard the helicopter and two medics assisted at the scene. The Springs had attended a military dinner dance in Manila before the fatal flights.
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Clare
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Karl Ziegenhagen
Gary
Ind
Cmdr
Wade K
Clinton
Tenn
Kenneth Cowles
Frederick
San Marino
Calif
Cecil G. Johnson
Kansas City
U.S
Philippine Constabulary
Hornet
U.S. Air Force
Manila
U S To Resume Drafting Doctors In 1963 Push
Washington AP states the Defense Department will resume drafting doctors if needed, after notifying more than 4,500 hospital interns who ignored forms. They were given until December 1 to file. Assistant Secretary Dr. Frank Berry said the volunteer program since 1954 reduced fears, but the draft law runs into 1963 and 650 doctors could be drafted next spring if required.
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Washington
Samael
Defense Department
Frank B. Berry
Fair To Defend His Record At Crime Hearing
Charleston AP State Police Supt Hazen G Fair prepared to defend his department at a Crime Commission hearing on proposed DPS legislation. He said the department has accomplished much in four years and had little time to study the 45 page proposals. Sergeants supported the plans, stressing protection of officers and superintendent authority.
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Hazen G. Fair
Crime Commission
Department of Public Safety
Fair
P. R. Pritchard
South Charleston
Commission
Clarence E. Martin Jr
Derkeley
State Police
C. L. Walker
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152 Pupils Die In Syria Fire Traps At Amude Theater
DAMASCUS AP Syria's worst fire disaster killed 152 school children trapped in a burning theater at Amude near the Turkish border during a Sunday night educational film showing. Only 40 escaped and half of them were injured as almost every family in town lost at least one child.
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Syria
Amude
Here
Body found after three day search in Buckhannon
Okey B. Rose an 82 year old Upshur County man missing since last Friday was found dead near French Creek about a quarter mile from his son in law Fred Braggs home. About 100 national guardsmen took part in the extensive weekend search.
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Upshur County
French Creek
Okey B. Rose
Fred Bragg
Bragg
National Guardsmen
Wreckage of Plane Found Near Elkins Peak
Searchers found the burning wreckage of a small plane on a snow covered peak near Elkins. The pilot remained inside the rubble and was tentatively identified as retired Air Force Col Nelson P. Jackson. Roger Bell, burned heavily, walked away from the site and was found nearby.
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Civil Air Patrol
Air Force
Nelson P
Pete) Jackson
Severna Park
Roger Bell
Epping Forest
Jackson
CAP
Knob
West Virginia
Panhandle
Virginia-West Virginia
Anathor’s memory joke and bigamy claim in local chatter
Sherwood Glutz jokes that Anathor’s wife has a terrible memory because she remembers everything. He adds his son is reportedly engaged to five girls simultaneously, joking Cupid used a machine gun.
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Anathor
Hisself
Cupid
Two Days of Nonviolent Integration Proceeds in New Orleans
In New Orleans on the second day of school integration four Black girls faced jeers and police protection. At McDonogh 19 three girls entered shortly after the bell under federal marshals, while a fourth attended Frantz school with six marshals nearby. Crowds of hundreds gathered, chanting insults as teenagers tried to march near Frantz. police used night sticks to deter them.
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Bell
Rose Valley
Pentagon Aero Club
New Philadelphia
Richmond
1St Fighter Command
Mitchel Field
N. Y
New Orleans
McDonogh 19
William Frantz
Frantz
Frantz School
McDonogh
Sex Slayings Probe Narrows in Northwest Ohio
Paulding County authorities hunted known sex offenders for leads in the death of 14 year old Nancy Eagleson. The girl, found fully clothed except for underwear in a wooded area, appeared raped and shot in the head. she and sister Cheryl were walking home from a movie when abducted.
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Ohio
John Keeler
Nancy Eagleson
Paulding
Nancy
Junction
Cheryl
Sheriff's Office
GOP Road Jobs Safe Till March First
Charles ton AP The new Democratic state administration takes office Jan 16 but Republican state road commission employee Patrick C Graney remains in post through March 1 end of term. SRC information officer Bob Boaz said the 4 800 to 5 000 SRC employees statewide stay employed regardless of party until then.
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State Road Commission
Patrick C. Graney
Bob Boaz
SRC
Graney
Boaz
Katanga withdrawal of U.N. troops due to tribal threats
U N troops withdraw from danger areas in north Katanga as Baluba tribesmen mass and threaten Albertville. Irish and Ethiopian units return to headquarters, while a UN spokesman warns of likely large scale attacks if operations remain passive.
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Katanga
U.N
Albertville
United Nations
Niemba
Baluba
Elizabeth Taylor suffers virus infection in London
Actress Elizabeth Taylor doctors report a severe virus infection aggravated by dental problems possibly leading to tooth extraction. Headlines also note political tensions in Guatemala Cuba relations, aviation safety after a Toledo crash, and Russia's new heavy ruble valued at $11.11. Other items include a Nicaragua hostage surrender, network talks nearing strike deadline, and Eisenhower meeting on foreign aid.
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London
Miguel Ydigoras
Guatemala
Organization of American States
Cuba
Federal Aviation Agency
Toledo
California Polytechnic College
Soviet Union
Diriamba
Nicragua
Space Capsule Recovery Marks Second Air Force Catch
Honolulu AP The U S Air Force recovered a Discoverer spy capsule for the second time in a Monday operation within a 250 by 50 mile ball park area 500 miles northeast of Honolulu The Pelican II crew led by Capt Gene W Jones spotted the parachute and bagged the capsule at 11 000 feet after a fuel leak delayed takeoff from Hickam Air Force Base The first catches followed earlier Discoverer capsules and Navy frogman retrievals in the Pacific.
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U.S. Air Force
Air Force
Pacific
iCapt
Gene W. Jones
Walla Walla
Wash
Nuclear submarine George Washington ready for Atlantic patrol
Charleston harbor hosts the nuclear powered submarine George Washington armed with 16 Polaris missiles. Rear Adm. MecManes says the mission blends goodwill and deterrence as the 380 foot vessel departs at noon for a two year at sea patrol with alternating crews and a future fleet plan of 45 Polaris armed subs by 1965.
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Charleston
D.C
George Washington
Atlantic
Placid
Charleston Harbor
Adm
K. M. MecManes
Atlas Test Succeeds Cone Is Retrieved
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida AP a power packed intercontinental Atlas missile streaked 5000 miles down the Atlantic missile page early today The Air Force said the Atlas America s most potent military rocket met all test objectives by delivering its nose cone near Ascension Island in the South Atlantic A recovery vessel retrieved a data capsule ejected from the cone and parachuted into the water The cone coated with improved materials for better protection of hydrogen warheads carried by Atlas missiles now stationed at bases in California and Wyoming.
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Fla
Atlantic
Air Force
America
Ascension Island
South Atlantic
Ibases
California
Wyoming
Robots to spot disease prone individuals via computing patterns
University of Texas doctor says robot mathematicians could identify innate susceptibilities to diseases from cancer to alcoholism. He notes inherited biochemical weaknesses may indicate vulnerability, enabling preemptive control by feeding individual pattern data into high speed computing machines.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
University of Texas
Tor
Roger J. Williams
Williams
National
Ex-Residents Traffic Victims Two West Brothers Die
Two teen brothers Harmon West Jr and Patrick Neal West died in a highway crash near Charles Town on Sunday. Former Raleigh County residents, they lived in Sprague years ago and later moved to Fayette County and Maryland. Grandparents from Daniels left for Silver Springs to attend services.
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Charles Town
Raleigh County
Harmon West Jr
Patrick Neal West
Silver Springs
H. G. West
Fayette County
Maryland
Daniels
U. S. Navy
Patrick
Sunspot Explosion Impacts Tokyo Communications
Tokyo astronomical Observatory reports the biggest sunspot explosion in years. Overseas radio communications were briefly disrupted as a result.
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Tokyo
Tokyo Astronomical Observatory
Caught In Own Speed Trap In Charleston
Mayor John Shanklin told the City Council an irate resident complained that police were not enforcing speed limits. He said speed equipment was set up in the letter-writer's section and 58 violators were arrested including the writer.
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Charleston
John Shanklin
Shanklin
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