Moon Rocket Set for Atlas Able Launch at Cape Canaveral
A towering Atlas Able rocket with a 375 pound satellite stands ready at Cape Canaveral awaiting a launch window that could occur Thursday. The four day period offers best odds as earth and moon orbits align, with a 2 12 day flight to reach the moon vicinity if successful, and ground signals will ignite retro rockets to enter lunar orbit. The payload includes a camera to photograph the lunar surface as the US aims to be first to orbit the moon.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Moon
Soviet Union
Earth
U. S
Lunar
Snow Falls in Beckley Causes Early Morning Accidents
Snow began before daylight in Beckley bringing winter driving hazards. Two traffic accidents were reported early this morning as about one inch of snow fell. State Police said no highway accidents outside the city before noon and traffic moved slowly as the sun briefly appeared.
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Beckley
No Skiing At Bald Knob Slopes This Season
Spokesman John McKay announces Bald Knob Slopes will not offer skiing this season with no activity until December despite early snow. Skiers advised to seek other venues while awaiting reopening.
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Bald Knob
John McKay
Snow and slick roads cause two Beckley accidents
Two early morning crashes on slick, snow‑slick streets in Beckley injured no one. Samuel M. Wilson, 17, lost control on South Kanawha Street near the East Beckley liquor store and hit a utility pole, causing $175 damage. Harold Griffin, 30, and family escaped serious injury after skidding on Prince Street and going over an embankment while another vehicle waited to clear snow from its windshield. All were treated and released at Raleigh General Hospital. Road crews cleared routes 19 21 41 16 Tam Mountain Mabscott Hill Route 3 White Oak and Flat Top Mountain. weather remained cloudy and cold with minor snow flurries.
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East Prince Street
Stanhope Court
Harold Griffin
Northfork
Griffin
Prince Street
Raleigh General Hospital
State Road Commission
Tams Mountain
Mabscott Hill
White Oak
Flat Top Mountain
W. Va
No Register Tomorrow Thanksgiving Observance
The Raleigh Register will not publish Thursday as all staff observe Thanksgiving. Subscribers will receive the Post-Herald Thursday morning instead.
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Raleigh Register
Register
Post-Herald
Labor Force Study Planned For Area
A comprehensive labor force study will begin in Raleigh Wyoming and McDowell counties within two weeks with parallel surveys in Boone Logan and Mingo counties. The State Department of Employment Security will gather data on employed and unemployed workers by sex age occupation and marital status to assess area economic potential. Approximately 600 employers will report pay data and unemployed workers will be surveyed via post offices and newspaper inserts during December.
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Raleigh
Wyoming
McDowell
Boone
Logan
Mingo
State Department of Employment Security
West Virginia
Welch and
Beckley
Slow Dog Delays First Grader in Trinidad
An AP dispatch from Trinidad reports a first grade teacher asking a pupil why she was late. The girl replies after thought that she was walking behind a slow dog, explaining the tardiness.
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Trinidad
Cole
Local Woman Polio Victim in Beckley and Marmet Hospitals
Raleigh County reports its latest polio victim Miss Rosalyn Haley, 23, of Route 3 Beckley. She was examined at Beckley Hospital and transferred to Marmet Hospital. Attendants describe her condition as satisfactory. she has been ill about a month, daughter of Mrs Mil dred Haley.
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Raleigh County
Rosalyn Haley
Route 3
Beckley
Beckley Hospital
Marmet Hospital
Mildred Haley
Ax-Wielding Man Fatally Shot by Monessen Officer
A Black man, 69-year-old John Edmonds, was fatally wounded by veteran Monessen patrolman Leroy Bailey after Edmonds lunged at him with an axe Tuesday night. The officer fired a single shot to the throat.
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Monessen
Leroy Bailey
John Edmonds
Edmonds
Ex-Slave Augustus Wesley Dies in Philadelphia at 115
Augustus Wesley, born a slave on a Georgia plantation, died at his Philadelphia home a day before his 116th birthday. He was 17 during the Civil War and lived through Reconstruction four wars and three major depressions.
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Philadelphia
Augustus Wesley
Eatonton
Horn-Honking Lion Winds Up In Jail
George the 55-pound African lion, housed in a Oklahoma City jail cell after an open charge, caused commotion with horn honks and front seat attempts. Owner Ted Moore said the lion, now headed to the city zoo, is being watched by amused inmates and guards.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
George
City
Arch Downing
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Ted Moore
City Zoo
Moore
Reporter wins trip praise and woes from Paris visit
Franklin Clay Beckley Newspapers junior reporter returns from a two week Europe tour calling it the greatest experience of his life though Paris disappointed him. He shot about 20 rolls of film and plans to share vivid accounts with friends and relatives. He was met at Prince station by R L Amick and rode home with Linda Surratt after an earlier New York connection altered his schedule.
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Ana
Chesapeake and Ohio
Prince
Holland
Clay
Paris
Franklin
R. L. Amick
Beckley Newspapers
Linda Surratt
New York
Europe
Airmen Missing After 80 Foot Fall From Radar Station
Two Air Force officers Capt. Lewis V. Barker and Chief Warrant Officer Owen L. Morgan fell about 80 feet into the sea from the Texas Tower II off Cape Cod while being transferred from a service ship. Civilians Arnold Price and Robert Taylor were rescued with back injuries and hospitalized.
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Air Force
Atlantic
Texas Tower II
Cape Cod
Lewis V. Barker
Pocasett
Mass
Owen L. Morgan
Federal Seizure Moves on Four More Cranberry Batches
Federal authorities opened seizure proceedings on four additional batches of cranberry products. Two of the consignments are in Ohio as part of the ongoing action.
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Washington
Ohio
Two Japanese Ships Sink In Storm Off Japan
In rough seas off Japan two Japanese vessels sank today. Six crew are dead and twenty are missing.
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Tokyo
Japan
Sophia to Lose Express Agency in Raleigh County
Railway Express Agency, Inc. has been granted authority to discontinue its Sophia, Raleigh County, agency effective Nov 30. The Virginian Railway has represented the Sophia agency, with service moved to Pemberton about 2½ miles away.
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Charleston
Railway Express Agency, Inc
Public Service Commission
Sophia
Raleigh County
Railway Express
Virginian Railway
Express
Pemberton
Worker Personal Crisis Reports At Kennecott Smelter
Garfield Utah AP report says Clarence Roberts sixty one Magna apparently died by his own action after leaping into a molten copper furnace at Kennecott Copper Corp plant. Justice of the Peace D S Walker notes despondency reported by coworkers.
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Garfield, Utah
Kennecott Copper Corp
Justice of the Peace
D. S. Walker
Clarence Roberts
Magna
Walker
Roberts
Shortening The News From Wire Dispatches
A taft analysis blames failure to win the 1952 GOP nomination on New York financial interests and press majority per the New York Times. Popper indicted for contempt of Congress. World Telegram Sun reporters fired over alleged bribery charges. Merchant ends Panama mission stance on Canal Zone sovereignty. East Texas fires burn thousands of acres and destroy homes. Washington officials plan settlement talks in steel strike. Names of Bahamas club officials eyed by defense contractor to be released. Rep Charles Brown named director of Symington campaign. Cezanne and Gauguin paintings sold for 770000 at a London auction.
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Robert A. Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
New York
New York Times
Martin Popper
National Lawyers Guild
Congress
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Fred J. Cook
Eugene Gleason
New York World-Telegram
Sun
U. S.S
Livingston T. Merchant
Panama
United States
Canal Zone
East Texas
Washington
Bahamas Island
Charles Brown
D. Mo
Stuart Symington
D - Mo
Cezanne
Gauguin
London
Huntington judge convicts 133 in vice raid disorderly houses
A Huntington municipal judge found 133 defendants guilty of operating disorderly houses or loitering in such establishments from a State Police vice raid on November 8. State police cases raise 1959 totals to 187, down slightly from last year. Jury deliberations resume in Federal Court for Charles G. Rhodes, a former real estate agent charged with making a false report to a federally chartered group, with a state retrial also possible.
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Huntington
Polic
Charles G. Rhodes
Rhodes
Soviet Vessels Buzzed by Western Planes Alleged
London report says Soviet merchant marine minister Viktor Bakayev charged Western military planes buzz Soviet freighters and fishing boats in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He demanded steps to stop such patrols and protect Soviet ships and crews.
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London
GAP
Viktor G. Bakayev
Atlantic
Pacific
Herter Says Soviet Position Has Relaxed
Secretary Herter told reporters that the Soviet stance has moved far from Khrushchev’s Berlin threat and suggested a better postwar arrangement might be possible, though not guaranteed. He emphasized no plan to delay a Paris Big Four summit and noted Khrushchev has begun acknowledge Western legal rights in West Berlin.
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Washington
Christian A. Herter
Soviet Union
Berlin
Herter
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Britain
France
West Berlin
Khrushchev
East Germany
Congressman Blasts Filipino Officials Over GI Treatment
Rep. Phil Weaver reports American troops in the Philippines face looting extortion and assaults sometimes approved by authorities. He urges reappraising Pacific defense and possibly moving base operations to Thailand. Mahon says hearings will call in commanders early next year for first hand accounts.
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Washington
Phil Weaver
R-Neb
Philippines
Pacific
House
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Philippine
Weaver
United States
Philippine Islands
Thailand
The
Fense
George H. Mahon
Local Driver Cautions on Snowy Roads and Thanksgiving Risks
Sherwood Glutz comments on risky driving as snow affects holiday travel. He warns that careless motorists may endanger themselves and others, affecting plans for Thanksgiving and turkey meals.
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Medi
Richard
M. Nixon
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America
Arthur Godfrey
Nathan M. Pusey
Harvard University
Henry A. Wallace
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abilene
Kan
East
Clare Boothe Luce
Italy
Wernher von Braun
H. W. Beecher
Satie
Ist
Samuel M. Wilson
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Cogry
M. Todby
Ccr
S.ce
Boak Hill
OGRP
Cciss
Greenbrier
Cen
Lies Tae Han
Newsbay
George Arnold
Paree
Franklin Clay
Brigitte Bardot
Oce
Robert L. Amick
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Oceana
Register and Post-Herald
Otis Air Force Base, Mass
Sophia To Lose Express Agency
Sherwood Glutz
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