Hopkins Plans Recreation Center With Bowling Alleys
Hopkins and associates will convert the Hopkins Motor Co. building on South Oakwood Avenue into a modern bowling complex with 16 alleys on the ground floor and possible second floor lanes. An out of state engineer will visit to design the plant and a snack bar will be included. Completion would give Beckley three bowling establishments alongside Elite Alleys and Bowl-Wick.
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Hopkins Motor Co
Oakwood Avenue
B. H. Hopkins
He and Associates
Out of State
Hopkins
Valley Drive
Beckley
Neville Street
Johnstown Road
Kennedy Eyes Bowles in Administration Post
President elect John F Kennedy indicated after a breakfast with Chester Bowles that Bowles may join his administration though no post was fixed. The two discussed world affairs while Bowles declined to detail plans, with a White House meeting and other transition talks scheduled next week.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Chester Bowles
Connecticut
Kennedy
Bowles
Georgetown
House of Representatives
New York
White House
Eisenhower
Kennedy-Bowles
Terry Sanford
North Carolina
Wilton B. Persons
Clark Clifford
Illinois
Kennedy Likes Touch Football
Washington AP reports that John F. Kennedy enjoys sports like golf hunting and boating. He walks briskly with aides, attended church, hunted deer in Texas, and plays touch football with the Kennedy clan. Aides say he rode a white horse briefly and has a sailboat at Hyannis Port.
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Theodore
Texas
Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Mass
Elect
Fairfax
Eisenhower
FBI Nabs Kidnapper in San Diego Abduction Case
FBI agents arrested Frank Marrone at a Los Angeles intersection in the kidnapping of Anthony A Bannt, a 41 year old Calente race track executive director abducted from his San Diego home. Marrone, 31, unarmed, drove a 1953 car carrying ransom money part of the $200,000 paid by the Alessio family. Also jailed were Marrone’s wife Selma and two others, with $77,900 seized earlier. Don Keller, San Diego DA, planned formal charges.
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FBI
Los Angeles
Frank Marrone
Anthony A Bannt
Marrone
Alessio
San Diego
James R. Gorman
Huntington Park
Calif
Gorman
Ruby
Shortening The News From Wire Dispatches
The Albany Times Union reports president elect may name Press-Site vice secretary of state Eugene R Black World Bank president as secretary of the treasury John J McCloy Chase Manhattan chair as secretary of commerce and his 34 year old brother Robert Kennedy to attorney general. A New Orleans school integration ruling looms as federal judges consider delaying racial mixing. Mrs John F Kennedy advised to rest six months in White House. Eisenhower says US West Germany talks to improve payments, Germany not asked to cover 600 million for troops again. A Guadalajara to Mexico City crash killed 6 and injured 15. Dr Donald Glaser honeymoon after Nobel win and marriage to Ruth Louise Thompson. Britain’s Duke of Kent hobbling in a plaster cast.
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Albany
N. Y
Times- Union
Eugene R. Black
The
World Bank
Treasury
John J. McCloy
Chase Manhattan Bank
New York City
Commerce
Times-Union
Robert Kennedy
New Orleans
John F. Kennedy
White House
Eisenhower
Ruth Louise Thompson
University of California
West Virginia Weather Report Notes Snow Flurries and Cold
Partly cloudy and colder tonight and Wednesday with few snow flurries. Beckley high yesterday seven low last night forty eight. Oak Hill high yesterday fifty seven low thirty six. Rainfall totals around one point three eight inches. Greenbrier River normal and clear. Lake normal and clear with one point four gates open and gauge reading one point eight feet.
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Beckley High
Oak Hill High
Bogm Os Seciencecays
Union Bosses Get Prison Terms In Road Scandal
INDIANAPOLIS AP Two Carpenters Union officials Maurice A. Hutcheson and O William Blaier were sentenced to 2 to 14 years for conspiracy and bribery in Indiana highway scandal. Judges set bond at 5,000 each and ordered costs. voting and public office bans for five years. Sentences mandatory. new trial motions heard with protests from defense.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Carpenters Union
Carpenters
Maurice A. Hutcheson
William Blaier
M. Walter Bell
Bell
John A. Rouse
Hutcheson
Blaier
State Highway Department
Lake
Wayne
Pink Hair Craze Hits Wisbech In England
AP reports in Wisbech Cambridgeshire that a pink hair trend grips teens. Barber Aubrey Tite sells spray at 5 shillings 6 pence per application with girls already preferring boys sporting pink hair. Teen David Grange believes the craze will spread nationwide as a way to stand out, though the dye can turn dark hair scarlet.
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Wisbech
England
Cambridgeshire
Aubrey Tite
David Grange
Britain
David
Runaway 84 Boxcars Brought Under Control In Philadelphia
A line of 84 grain cars rolled five miles through Philadelphia Monday night until two Pennsylvania Railroad workers redirected switches to miss passenger trains and property. The cars halted in an upgraded area after derailing 15 others following a freight train from Buffalo to Jersey City. Injuries eased when engineers jumped clear. 84 grain cars moved at up to 40 mph before stopping 19 minutes later.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Frank W Rattle
Tancdale
Larry Vance
Collingswood
N.J
West Philadelphia
Bartle
Vance
Charles M. Campbell
Camden
John A. Cooney
Narberth
Thhey
Presbyterian Hospital
PRR
Buffalo
Jersey City
Overbrook
Thes Media
Weathered Woes at Brewers Convention Morning
Sherwood Glutz speaks of a wet morning at a Brewers Convention his old bullet wounds flared, recalling midlife aches and the itch that in a week or two he might feel better than ever.
Train hits school bus at Lamont killing many children
A Canadian National Railways train struck a loaded school bus at Lamont Alta. A school official said about half of the 32 children aboard were killed. Police and railroad investigators began a full examination of the crash site as emergency crews worked at the scene. The accident disrupted local traffic and prompted a rapid response from regional authorities.
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Lamont, Alta
Canadian National Railways
Security Moves Ordered To Half Caracas Rioting
In Caracas Venezuela troops imposed strict security as Betancourt's moderate Socialist government acted to crush leftist rioting that has deadly tolls. Since Friday four killed, one on Monday, with up to 200 reported injured. Riots focused on police stations amid suspensions of civil guarantees as army navy and air force pledge support.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Betancourt
Marcos Perez Jimenez
Castro
Revolutionary Left
Sucre
UN Congo Financing Triggers East West Clash
United Nations faces a funding crisis as a $66 million Congo bill sparks East West tensions. The Soviet bloc refuses to pay its share, while the United States weighs large backings and potential loans. Assembly actions on the 1961 Congo budget are deferred until year end.
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United Nations
N. Y
Congo
Financial Committee
Dag Hamaneceii
General Assembly
United States
United —S
Washington
U. N. Special Fund
Technical
Assembly
John F. Kennedy
Hammarskjold
U. N
WVU Hospital Seeks 2000 Blood Donors in Morgantown
WVU Hospital aims to recruit 2000 blood donors within a year to supply 7500 pints for open heart surgery planned within six months. Doctors say 12 donors are needed per operation and the hospital will be among the few nationwide equipped for this procedure.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University Hospital
WVU
Lumumba Flees as Congo Tensions Rise in Capital
Congolese soldiers hunt for ex Premier Patrice Lumumba through Leopoldville after his villa escape. Lumumba’s top lieutenants move to assemble Parliament in Stanleyville, while UN officials note careful planning and possible outside help in the escape. Mobutu’s provisional government doubts Lumumba’s capture prospects as rival factions brace for power shifts.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
Stanleyville
Thomas Kanza
United Nations
Accra
New York
Joseph Mobuttu
Mobutu
Joseph Kasavubu
Louis
Antoine Gizenga
Victor Lundula
UN Troops Kill 10 Ambushers in Katanga Clash
In Elisabethville Katanga a UN Nigerian unit killed at least ten rebel tribesmen near Kabondo Dianda after a roadblock ambush. Four Nigerians were wounded as tribesmen attacked with bows arrows and rifles in dense bush. The detachment had arrived at Kamina air base and was moving toward Manono to fortify the tin mining town.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
U. N
Congo
United Nations
Kabondo - Dianda
Kamina
Manono
Ohioan Caught With The Goods-102 Gals
John Hirst, 35, of Canfield Ohio, was arrested after officers found 102 gallons of untaxed moonshine in his car near Harper Road Beckley. The liquor was in half gallon jars on the seats and in the trunk. He was charged with transporting untaxed whiskey, bonded at $1,000, and remanded to jail as the moonshine and vehicle were seized.
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John Hirst
Canfield
Ohio
Harper Road
Beckley
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit
U.S. Treasury Department
Hirst
Raleigh County
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Department
U.S
W. A. Riffe
Portland Coed Missing as Lover's Lane Murder Probed
Police widened the search for Beverly Allan 19 of Port Townsend Wash amid fears she was kidnaped after her date with Larry Ralph Peyton 19 of Portland State College. Peyton's body was found in his car on a secluded lover's lane with a brutal struggle indicated by 23 stab wounds and a skull fracture.
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Portland
Ore
Beverly Allan
Port Townsend
Wash
Washington State University
Larry Ralph Peyton
Portland State College
Peyton
Miss Allan
Peytons
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