West Virginia 2nd Thanksgiving traffic death reported
Wilbur McCoy a 49 year old New Cumberland man died after falling from a motor boat on the Ohio River. Boat owner Thomas Lamb was arrested on drunk boating charges. West Virginia had one highway fatality in the 102 hour Thanksgiving period with Luther Hammock of Charleston killed near Sissonville. The toll for the extended weekend rose with fires claiming 25 lives and other accidents accounting for 36 deaths, totaling 209 across the nation.
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Associated Press
Cumberland
Ohio River
West Virginia
Wilbur McCoy
Thomas Lamb
Luther K. Hammock
Charleston
U.S. 21
Sissonville
Pittsburgh
Homewood
Canastota
N. Y
National Safety Council
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A sparse fragment reports holiday deaths involving a person named Renee with unclear context. The text is fragmented, offering few readable details beyond a possible incident during a holiday period. No verifiable locations or organizations are present.
Thanksgiving Prayer Answered Boy Trapped Four Hours
Todd Duncan a 2-year-old from Gardena Calif fell into an eight inch wide eight foot deep hole at a motel while playing with his brother. Rescue crews drilled a three-foot shaft and pulled him to safety after nearly four hours. He was examined at Wheeler Hospital and released.
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Gilroy
Calif
Todd Duncan
Marvin E. Duncan
Gardena
Todd
Duncan
Ida Jackson
Wheeler Hospital
Merit Exams Set Jan 7 in Six WV State Departments
Charleston AP clerical and stenographic exams will be held January 7 to fill vacancies in Health Mental Health Public Assistance Employment Security Conservation Commission and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Applicants must have a high school education and experience in the two fields. December 17 is the deadline for applications.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Merit System Council
Welch H. Henritze Jr
Merit System
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
West Virginia Weather: Cool Tonight and Mild Weekend
Fair and cool tonight with lows 28 to 35. Saturday remains fair and mild. Extended forecast shows temperatures about six degrees above normal. Charles Town 51/32, Elkins 47/26. Mild weekend, cooler Monday, warmer Tue/Wed. Tuesday may bring light precipitation. Beckley high 46, low 40. Oak Hill high 50, low 38. Greenbrier River normal and clear. Lake normal and clear with 1.2 gates open and gauge at 1.8 ft.
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Charleston
Elkins
Beckley
DOGEF
Oak Hill
Varied World News From The Wire Dispatches
Pope John XXIII age noted as 79 with lowered ceremonies. Search for a Philippine Airlines plane that disappeared with 33 aboard. Nationalist gunners in Matsu claim hit on a Red China warship. Joan Caulfield and Robert H. Peterson wed in Beverly Hills in a second marriage for both. Churchill recovering and enjoying cigars and Scotch. Bandaranaike weighs Soviet visit invitation. Patriarch Alexius heads to Middle East on pilgrimage. Mother in Gimbels toy dept charged with abandonment after leaving two children. West Berlin elects Willy Brandt as candidate for chancellor. Bombs rock Havana. one wounded, anti Castro ties alleged. Fifth death from Harrisonburg roof collapse at a new plant.
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John XXIII
Vatican
Philippine Airlines
Manila
Matsu
Joan Caulfield
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Ceylon
Alexius
Moscow
Middle East
Tass
Gimbel
Eileen Wiss
Michael
Maria
New York
Social Democrats Today
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Havana
Harrisonburg
John McCray
Harrison
Cost Of Living Hits New Peak In October
The October consumer price index rose four tenths of a percent, reaching 1127.3 percent of the 1947-49 average and 1.4 percent above a year earlier. Food costs climbed six tenths of a percent, with broad gains across cars, rents, apparel, and medical care, driving the record price level and triggering wage adjustments for several thousand workers.
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Washington
Iran An
United Steelworkers Union
Kennedy Maintains Lead as Illinois GOP Seeks Recount
Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy holds a 213,502 popular vote edge nationally with 34,019,970 to Richard Nixon's 33,806,468 as votes from 800 precincts remain. In Illinois, Republican leaders push for a ballot recount citing alleged fraud after the Chicago canvass deemed complete.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Illinois
Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Cook County
Chicago
Francis X. Connell
Connell
Chicago Election Board
Job Hunter’s Future Break in West Virginia Areas
Charleston AP reports a bleak outlook for five West Virginia labor markets Martinsburg Morgantown Fairmont New Martinsville and Clarksburg with a temporary Christmas pickup followed by scant openings into 1961 Martinsburg faces sharp two month decline with larger cuts in February Public Assistance October relief caseload fell to 49759 from September while benefits rose to 2 851 million due to higher need share and total benefits increased to 2 851 145
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Charleston
West Virginia
State Department of Employment Security
Martinsburg
Morgantown
Fairmont
New Martinsville
Clarksburg
Department of Public Assistance
Burned girl the center of Army grafts at Brooke
Peggy Roller four year old from El Paso remains stable after a two hour operation at Brooke General Hospital. Three Army sergeants M Sgt William M Goodloe Sgt I C Earl D Bieler and Sgt I C Harold S Orff contributed 128 square inches of skin grafts from their thighs to the burned areas. Doctors expect the grafts to shield Peggy from infection until she regains strength.
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San Antonio
Tex
Peggy Roller
Army
Brooke General Hospital
William M. Goodloe
Earllington
C. Earl D
Bieler
Machias
Maine
1.C. Harold S. Orff
Milo
Peggy
Mas
Harry N. Roller
el Paso
Country Boy Fame Follows Creekside Coon Hunt
Sherwood Glutz comments that genuine fame often comes unexpectedly, likening it to a country boy suddenly discovering wealth after a creek coon hunt. He argues that those who wake up rich and famous have not truly been asleep to life.
Kennedy Jr. born to President-elect Kennedy
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy gives birth to a 6 pound 3 ounce boy named John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. at 12:22 a.m. in Washington D.C. The infant has a head of black hair and is in an incubator. Mrs. Kennedy undergoes cesarean delivery with Dr. John Walsh reporting both mother and baby healthy. Kennedy plans for daughter Caroline to turn three on Sunday as he returns to Georgetown Hospital to be with his wife and newborn son.
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Washington
Lelect
John F. Kennedy
Fiori
Jacqueline
John A. Walsh
Walsh
Boston
Massachusetts
Richmond
Calif
Kennedy
California
Gladys Uhl
Georgetown Medical Center
Georgetown
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr
Caroline
Heat Checks By Tiros II Excellent. Photos So-So
Washington AP government scientists rate the Tiros II weather satellite. The small camera accurately photographs 75 mile square cloud areas while the large camera images 800 mile square clouds but needs fixes. Infrared gear reliably checks heat balance and radiation.
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Tiros II
Washington
Weatherman
Tiros
Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Earth
Dead Playwright Crichton Remembered in Charleston
CHARLESTON AP Kyle S Crichton a noted playwright and biographer died in New York at 64 after collapsing in a midtown restaurant He began writing in Charleston as a Charleston Daily Mail reporter after Lehigh University graduation in 1917 He later served as associate editor of Collier s magazine Crichton was uncle to Charleston attorneys Harry and Robert Crichton and had relatives including Walter in Washington and two nieces and a sister in law in Charleston.
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Charleston
Kyle S. Crichton
New York
Charleston Daily Mail
Crichton
Lehigh University
Daily Mail
Albuquerque
Collier's Magazine
New
Five Maine Children Placed in DPA Custody
In Marshall County Court five Maine children were ordered placed in DPA custody after the death of 4 month old John Louis Maine, with coroner Harley Moore citing possible pneumonia. The infant died at home near Woodland from malnutrition and generalized infection. The other children, four girls aged 1 to 6 and a 5 year old, were also turned over to the DPA by Judge Lloyd Arnold.
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Moundsville
Department of Public Assistance
John Louis Maine
Marshall County
Harley Moore
Richard Maine
Woodland
Maine
DPA
Lloyd Arnold
Marshall County Circuit Court
Ice Skating Rink Planned at Blackwater Falls Park
The park near Davis will add an ice skating rink this winter. A polyetherene liner will form a 12 inch deep, 100 by 100 foot rink filled with water and frozen by natural cold.
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Davis (Ap
Blackwater Falls
Davis
Red Summit Nearing End
The worldwide Communist summit in Moscow, secret since November 9, may end as reports from a Soviet Finnish reception Thursday night say major decisions were made on the Red China Soviet camp rift. Talks reportedly focus on Khrushchev's patient peaceful competition versus China's harder line demanding war if capitalism endures. Pravda upholds peaceful coexistence as core Soviet policy, fueling views the Chinese position has been softened amid unity talk. An additional big session reportedly looms as observers await closure.
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Moscow
Red China
Khrushchev
Pravda
Oregon town of 1000 submerged by Thanksgiving flood
Western Oregon towns faced widespread flooding from heavy rain. An entire town of 1000 residents was submerged as U.S. 101 U.S. 22 and many roads were blocked by floodwaters and slides. About 50 families evacuated. no casualties reported. Mill Creek flooded Turner, inundating streets as boards drifted through town.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
U.S. 101
U.S. 22
Cascade Range
Weather Bureau
Walsett
Coast Range
Mill Creek
Turner
Salem
Mother of 10 Weds 16 Year Old Jailed
SAN DIEGO Calif AP A mother of ten is jailed on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor the 16 year old she says she married in a proxy ceremony in Tijuana Mexico The teen cried when arrested and investigators say she led him into an illicit relationship She hopes to marry him in California if allowed Eight of her children from prior marriages live with her oldest 25 youngest 5
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San Diego
Calif
Susan Elizabeth Young
Robert Buchanan
Robert Majors
Majors
Buchanan
Tijuana
Mexico
Young Eve‘mings
Young
California
Man Who Shot Poacher Found Shot To Death
Elwood Ressler a 39 year old patrolman at Meander Reservoir was found dead this morning from a shotgun blast to the chest in a barn beside his home on the Warren Salem road. A nephew found him at 4 45 am near a single shot twelve gauge shotgun. Ressler had recently shot and wounded Roger Herrall 17 On Nov 14 at the reservoir a warning blast over the youths head and said the youth reached for a gun Ressler said he fired wounding him Herrall was taken to Youngstown hospital and listed in fair condition The boy’s father filed a charge of assault with intent to kill against Ressler and he was bound over to the grand jury Ressler was the son of Earl A Ressler game protector of Mahoning County.
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Youngstown, Ohio
Elwood Ressler
Meander Reservoir
Joseph Smith
Youngstown
Ressler
Warren-Salem Road
Austintown
Roger Herrall
Herrall
Earl A. Ressler
Mahoning County
Igame
Banishment Of Haiti Archbishop Denounced As False
Haiti expelled Roman Catholic Archbishop Francois Poirier amid accusations he aided student strikers in a government crackdown. Police and guards whisked him to the airport with minimal belongings, calling the charges untrue. Duvalier allies rallied, while the crisis followed martial law and school closures.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Poirier
Francois Duvalier
Miami
Brittany
France
Swift
Claude Raymond
Daniel ‘Beauvoir
Defense
Aurele Joseph
Duvalier
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