Byrd urges panel to find use for abandoned Sugar Grove scope
Sen Robert Byrd urged President Kennedy to appoint a special committee of government engineers and scientists to determine the optimum use for the Navy’s abandoned Sugar Grove radio telescope site in West Virginia. He warned the project’s termination harmed the local economy and tourism plans, and urged a systematic federal analysis to coordinate potential future uses.
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Washington, D. C
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
Kennedy
Navy
Sugar Grove
W. Va
Byrd
Navy Department
West Virginia
Trade policy hardening signals from Kennedy era
Common Market discussion shows a tougher U.S. stance on trade under the Kennedy administration. Retaliation is viewed as a tool to defend American markets. The move is framed as educational for Freeman's European audience. Some Agriculture Department officials say the United States has been too soft in negotiations and should harden bargaining tactics.
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Washington
Freeman
Agriculture Department
United States
Beckley Woman Jailed on Child Desertion Warrant
Beckley resident Mrs. Josephine Shrewsubry, 31, was jailed in Raleigh County Jail at 5 55 p.m. Monday on a child desertion warrant issued by Magistrate Joe Rodriguez.
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Josephine Shrewsubry
Beckley
Raleigh
Joe Rodriguez
Beaver Man Waives On DD in Route 21 Case
Lonnie Queen, Beaver, was held to the grand jury Monday and posted a $500 property bond to Magistrate Joe Rodriguez for release from custody on a drunk driving charge. State Police arrested him Saturday on Route 21. Other notices: Joseph R. Tabor of Beckley paid $20 fine and costs for hunting without a license. Treva W. Meadows of MacArthur paid $5 fine for speeding on Route 16. William W. Clinton of Crab Orchard paid $5 for defective equipment. Charles Shuck of Ghent paid $5 for speeding in a school zone. A peace warrant against Dewey Erskine of Skelton was withdrawn. court costs paid by wife Etta Erskine.
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Lonnie Queen
Beaver
Joe Rodriguez
Joseph R. Tabor
Beckley
Rodriguez
Old Crow Road
Treva W. Meadows
Mac.Arthur
Dewey Erskine
Skelton
Burke’s Court
Etta Erskine
Defense Dept buys tax cut and dip in aircraft orders
The report notes that the Defense Department spending on tax cuts and aircraft orders shows a rare dip in orders for aircraft while fabricated metals orders hold steady. It suggests the decline may reflect a temporary downturn after a strong September performance.
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Defense Department
Schools To Open Full Day Wednesday Before Thanksgiving
Superintendent John W. Saunders announced all county schools will be in session for a full day Wednesday before Thanksgiving and closed Thursday and Friday for the holiday. He noted schools will resume the usual day on Dec. 20 and urged that Christmas parties be held in the afternoon of Dec. 20 before the holidays.
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John W. Saunders
Byrd urges federal panel on Sugar Grove naval telescope
Senator Robert Byrd asks President to appoint a special committee of government engineers and scientists to survey the Navy radio telescope installation at Sugar Grove West Virginia. He argues for a systematic analysis of all possible uses to protect taxpayers and aid local tourism and economy. He offers to assist the committee.
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Byrd
Sugar Grove
Spor
Instant ICBM War Readiness Seen Shortely
CAPE CANAVERAL NEWS: Nuclear tipped Minuteman rockets are on station in Montana underground silos and will be declared war ready within weeks. A test flight from Cape Canaveral cleared up issues, signaling progress toward a 800 rocket force including Atlas Titan and Polaris missiles with solid propellant missiles offering near instant launch readiness.
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Cape Canaveral
UPS
United States
Montana
America
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Minuteman
U.S
England
Italy
Turkey
Atlas
Titan
Titans
One Injured In Two Car Wreck
Miss Phyllis Ann Fox of Hinton, 20, was charged with failure to yield the right of way after a two car collision on Route 21 near Town and Country Drive at about 1 40 p m. She attempted a left turn and pulled into a car driven by Luther Smith Jr of Shady Spring, 30. Mrs Anna Lee Fox, 40, a passenger in Miss Foxs car, was treated at Beckley Memorial Hospital for facial cuts and released. About $700 in damage to both vehicles.
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Phyllis Ann Fox
Hinton
Miss Fox
Luther Smith Jr
Shady Spring
Anna Lee Fox
Beckley Memorial Hospital
AWOL Sailor Released to MPs from Raleigh Jail
Kenneth M. Thomas was released from Raleigh County Jail at 6 40 a m today to Military Police on a charge of being absent without leave from the United States Navy.
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Kenneth M. Thomas
Raleigh
United States Navy
Deaths and Funerals Welda Kincaid 47 East Point Georgia
Welda Kincaid 47 of East Point Georgia died at Emory Hospital East Point at 9 a.m. from cancer. A Beckley native she graduated Woodrow Wilson High School and worked as a PBX operator for Beckley Newspapers. Survived by husband Cecil daughter Kitty mother Julia Bodkin two sisters. Funeral at 2 p.m. Thursday Jefferson Baptist Church East Point. Body at Carmichael Funeral Home East Point.
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Welda Kincaid
East Point
Emory Hospital
Beckley
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley Newspapers
First Baptist Church
Cecil Kincaid
H and K Dental Laboratory
Kitty
Julia Bodkin
Pine St
Jefferson Baptist Church
Carmichael Funeral Home
Bailey funeral services held in Beartown
Columbus C. Bailey 84 of Beartown dies after a short illness in a Bluefield hospital. Services are at Beartown Methodist Church with burial in Beartown Cemetery. Surviving wife Viola and ten children plus siblings noted. Body taken from Bailey Funeral Home, Princeton, to home today.
Shatzer Jailed In Lieu Of Bond
Edward Thomas Shatzer a 31 year old from Dayton Kentucky waived to the March grand jury before a United States Commissioner at Newport Kentucky and was remanded to jail in lieu of a 2500 bond on a charge of interstate transportation of stolen property valued at 5000 dollars A detainer was placed against Shatzer by Beckley authorities at Alexandria Kentucky on a charge of breaking and entering Keatleys Sporting Goods Store here If he posts bond he is expected to be returned to Beckley for further questioning
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Edward Thomas Shatzer
Dayton
United States
Newport
Shatzer
Beckley
Alexandria
Keatley’s Inc
Sporting Goods
Downey Rites Set for J J Downey at Rose and Quesenbery
Funeral services for Jesse James Downey 75 of Beckley will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with Rev Daniel M Dorsey officiating Burial will follow at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens He died Monday at 1 30 p m after a long illness Born April 14 1887 he was a retired mine electrician and member of New Man Church Loyal Order of Moose 1489 and United Mine Workers Local 5821 Surviving are a son Huston H Downey Chicago Ill two daughters Beulah Stickler Beckley and Mrs Bob Harris Washington D C four brothers Harold H Waynesboro Va Homer A Elmer H Walter Lonnie Lexington Va four sisters Minnie Vallie Thelma and Goldie Armentrout Pallbearers are Harold Boyle Wilkie Hepler Robert Farren E P Callaghan Dewey Price and William Sheaves.
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Jesse James Downey
Beckley
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Daniel M. Dorsey
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Charlie
Clara Downey
New Mannoth
Lextington
Loyal Order of Moose
United Mine Workers of America
Clara Brown Downey
Huston H. Downey
Chicago
Ill
Homer
Beulah) Stickler
Bob Harris
Washington, D. C
Harold H
Waynesboro
Homer A
Elmer H
Walter
Roanoke
Lonnie
Lexington
Minnie Downey
Vallie Downey
Thelma Downey
Rockridge
Goldie Armentrout
Covington
Harold Boley
Wilkie Hepler
Robert Forren
E. P. Callaghan
Dewey Price
William Sheaves
Wesley F. Cousins Rites Held in Beckley
Funeral services for Wesley F. Cousins 58 of Beckley were set for noon Thursday at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlors with Rev. J. H. Wright officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park. He died Sunday night in Huntington Hospital after a long illness. Born February 4 1904 at Clintonville he was son of the late Hickman and Mary Nally Cousins. Survivors include brother Clarence Stotesbury four sisters Courtnne Jackson Irene Brown Leoma Daniels and Nellie Crump. neral home held until service time.
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Wesley F. Cousins
Beckley
Ritchie and Johnson
J. H. Wright
Greenwood Memorial Park
Huntington Hospital
Clintonville
Hickman
Mary Nally Cousins
Stotesbury
Clarence
Courtnne Jackson
West Wickham
Irene Brown
Columbia
S.C
Leoma Daniels
St. Albans
Nellie Crump
White Sulphur Springs
Mona B Legg Rites Set At Oak Hill Church
Funeral services for Mona B Legg 65 of Oak Hill will be held at 2 30 p m Wednesday at Oak Hill Baptist Church with Rev Randolph Johnson officiating. Burial follows at High Lawn Memorial Park. She died Monday evening in Oak Hill Hospital born July 31 1897 in Lansing daughter of George and Anna Rogers McVey. Survived by two daughters Mildred Herndon Oak Hill and Mary Ieslep Rich Creek Va a half brother George McVey Little Rock Ark and two grandchildren. Body to be moved from Dodd Payne Funeral Home Fayetteville to church one hour before service.
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Mona B. Legg
Oak Hill
Oak Hill Baptist Church
Randolph Johnson
High Lawn Memorial Park
Legg
Oak Hill Hospital
Lansing
George
Anna Rogers McVey
Mildred Herndon
Mary Ieslep
Rich Creek
George McVey
Little Rock
Ark
Dodd-Payne Funeral
Fayetteville
Clara Ramey
Mount Hope
Tyree
L. W. Stanley
Ramey
Beckley Hospital
Calvin Chandler
Glen Jean
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Glen
Martin
Washington, D. C
Roscoe Chandler
Pineville
Burne Foster
Sebert
Dennis Stone
Jack Spadaro
F. L. Merrit
Rufus Beverly
Indian border crisis deepens as China drives north
India faces a worsening frontline crisis as Chinese forces push along the northern border. Assam’s chief minister Bimla Prasad Chaliha warned on radio of a potential worst case, while reports say Indian posts in Ladakh and NEFA have fallen, Se La Pass and Walong were captured, and Bombila isolated amid an undeclared war. Parliament debates whether to declare war, but fears of bombing Calcutta restrain action.
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Assam
Bimla Prasad Chaliha
India
Ladakh
Se la Pass
Walong
Nefa
Bombila
Calcutta
Maurice Wallbrunn Dies A Founding Lions Club Leader
Maurice Wallbrunn age 80 a founder of the parent body of Lions Clubs died Monday in Chicago He helped start the Central Lions Club of Chicago in 1917 and was a pioneer in organized service.
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Chicago
UPI
Maurice Wallbrunn
All Lions Clubs
Central Lions Club of
Two Beckley Drivers Cleared as Court Drops Two Traffic Counts
In Beckley City Police Court Monday night, two traffic counts were dropped for Grady Whitlock and Elliott Ellis due to insufficient evidence. Whitlock’s past charge stemmed from a November Heber Street crash that also involved Allen Fleming. Fleming paid a separate fine for no operator’s license. Bond forfeitures totaled 226 dollars, including penalties for reckless driving, allowing a juvenile to play a pinball game, and seven intoxicated charges.
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Beckley
Grady
Marjorie) Whitlock
Harper Road
Heber Street
Allen Ray Fleming
Whitlock
Fleming
Elliott Ellis
Eccles
Cecil C. Stanley
Coal City
Ralph Edward Bond
Mississippi Desegregation Lessons Urge Mature Leadership
Oxford residents start a fundraising drive for the widow and baby of Ray Gunter a $50 weekly jukebox repairman killed during the September 30 riot at the University of Mississippi. Gunter shot by a stray bullet as he watched the unrest leaving his 18 year old wife and newborn daughter.
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Mississippi
Oxford
Miss
Ray Gunter
University of Mississippi
Gunter
Governor Barron Recovery From Gall Bladder Surgery
Gov W W Barron continues his uneventful recovery at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore and is expected to be released later this week to return home Dr Kenneth Hood Ashland Ky dentist freed on bond after waiving to the grand jury in Charleston on a dynamiting charge and pleading innocent to a federal charge of sending obscene letters to the dynamited firm's owner s wife West Virginia Library Commission urges a new state library be considered in Charleston expansion plans estimated cost 1 14 million About 50 IRS workers from Washington assigned to the new IRS Data Computing Center near Martinsburg
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W. W. Barron
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Kenneth Hood
Ashland
Charleston
Austin
Eugene Austin
West Virginia Library Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Washington
IRS Data
Martinsburg
Charlestonians Cited On Traffic Counts
Two Charleston residents posted 15 cash bonds at 12 45 a.m. on traffic violations. Charles Patterson, 38, faced a charge of permitting an unlicensed person to drive, while John Turner, 20, was cited for driving without an operator license. George Tex Bailey, 17, of Clear Creek, was released from Raleigh County Jail after posting 17 cash bond for no operator license. He was arrested by City Police at 1 45 a.m.
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Charleston
Charles Patterson
John Turner
George Tex Bailey
Clear Creek
Raleigh
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Herndon Heights
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Crumpler
Hattie Bailey
Donnie Munn
Bailey Funeral Home
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William M. Taylor
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Preston Lightner
Dry Goods and Nations
South Heber Street
Mary Baldwin Seminary
Carter Opera House
Jes Edward
Kate Tinsley
Amherst
Preston
Nicholas
Katherine) Raffalovich
Rapallo
Lynchburg
New York
J. W. Witherspoon
B. T. Hash
First Methodist Church
Virgil Conant
O. H. Massey
Roselawn
Princeton-Bluefield Road
Masonic Lodge No. 151
Hash
Union Furniture Store
Mullens Hospital
B. I. Hash
Main
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Mrs
Mona Legg
Lucille Sneed
Lucille G. Sneed
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
The
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Burke Memorial Baptist Church
Greenview
Bridgeport, Conn
Jasper McLevy
Bridgeport
Joseph Buda
Beaunit Corporation
London
G.H. Elliott
South Bend
UPID
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Drewery’s Limited, Inc
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Davenport
Iowa
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