Mil k Market Plan Delayed as NFO Recess Pauses Strike
The National Farmers Organization paused its 16 state campaign to keep livestock off the market amid protests and falling hog prices. President Oren Lee Staley called the recess a strategic move while warning the action could be reinstated quickly. The action began Aug 31 after overwhelming support from about 20 000 members in Des Moines Iowa aiming to pressure processors into higher prices for cattle hogs and sheep.
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National Farmers Organization
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NFC
Oren Lee Staley
Des Moines
Iowa
Tle
Staley
West Virginia High School Broadcast Association Formed
Representatives from West Virginia high schools invited to an October 13 organizational meeting in Charleston sponsored by the State Education Department the West Virginia Broadcasters Association and Morris Harvey College. WCHS General Manager William Dix to speak at luncheon. program to include business session officer elections and a tour of local broadcasting facilities. Mel Burka of the Broadcasters Association says the group will be the first of its kind in West Virginia and perhaps the nation, aiming to help schools use available equipment and set up low powered stations.
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Charleston
UPS
West Virginia
Burka
West Virginia Bishop Joins Archbishop’s U S Visit Activities
Rt Rev Wilburn Campbell Episcopal Bishop of West Virginia will spend a week with the Archbishop of Canterbury during the archbishop’s month long U S visit. Ramsey and Chaplain John Andrew arrive in New York Oct 12. Campbell attends Episcopal House of Bishops meetings in Columbia Oct 27 to Nov 2. He also attends lectures at the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria Oct 24 to 27.
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Charleston
Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary
Alexandria
WVU Cafeteria Now Study Hall
WVU president Paul A. Miller announced higher enrollment has forced use of the university cafeteria as a part time study hall. The Navy surplus building will host 300 students Monday to Thursday from 7 30 p m to 11 p m with reference books from the library provided.
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UPI
West Virginia University
Paul A. Miller
Miller
WVU
Explorer Seeks Radiation Data In Yoyo Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL UPI An explorer satellite weighing 89 pounds circled Earth on a mission to study space radiation that threatens future manned lunar flights. Launched Tuesday night aboard a Delta rocket, the moonlet aims for a wide yoyo orbit 185 to 53,000 miles from Earth, completing a 31-hour loop while measuring natural Van Allen belts and a bomb-derived belt from a 1.4 megaton detonation near Johnston Island. NASA Chief Robert Gray confirmed normal rocket performance and anticipated orbital details in days ahead. The mission follows reports that man-made radiation damaged several satellites and secret U.S. military devices.
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Cape Canaveral
UPI
Explorer
Earth
Robert Gray
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Gray
New U S Nuclear Test No Menace To Schirra
The United States resumed atmospheric nuclear testing over the Pacific, but the AEC said the 28th test was safe for Walter M. Schirra’s six orbit flight. The explosion equaled about 20,000 tons of TNT and left no lingering radioactivity in his flight path. The blast occurred near Johnston Island after the U.S. urged Russia to avoid tests that could threaten the mission.
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UPI
United States
Pacific
Walter M. Schirra
Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
Schirra
AEC
Johnston Island
WVU Press Plans Kenya Assignment for Four Staff
Paul A. Miller announced on Tuesday that West Virginia University will send four College of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics staff to Kenya to staff the Egerton Agricultural College at Njoro. The group includes an senior and a junior agricultural engineer, a zoologist and a specialist in animal husbandry and agricultural extension. Names will be released after processing.
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Morgantown
UPI
West Virginia University
Paul A. Miller
Kenya
Africa
Egerton Agricultural College
Njoro
Miller
College of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics
Ashland Oil to Buy United Carbon for 140 Million
Ashland Oil and Refining Co. announced it will acquire United Carbon Co. of Houston in a deal estimated at 140 million dollars. United Carbon owns extensive oil interests in West Virginia Ohio the Southwest and Canada. The company had relocated from Charleston West Virginia years earlier.
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Ashland, Ky
UPI
Ashland Oil & Refining Co
United Carbon Co
Houston
Texas
United Carbon
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Ohio
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Canada
Charleston
W. Va
Barron invites Governors conference to West Virginia site
Hollywood Florida UPI Gov W W Barron urged the Southern Governors Conference to hold the 1963 session in West Virginia as part of its Centennial, proposing The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs as the venue. He outlined WV's space and energy roles, citing a WV Atomic Energy Committee report backing Project Plowshare and potential underground lake creation, and praised Green Bank radio astronomy for advancing space exploration.
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Fla
UPI
Southern Governors Conference
West Virginia
Mountain State
W. W. Barron
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Barron
West Virginia Atomic Energy Committee
Florida
Green Bank
Pocahontas County
Venus
Arbitration opens between rail carrier and telegraphers
An arbitration board began deliberations Tuesday toward settling remaining differences between the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. The one month strike period ended last Friday.
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Washington
UPI
Chicago and North Western Railway
Passport Text Alteration Can Invalidate U S Passports
A U S passport may be rendered invalid through any alteration or attempted change of its official text.
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U. S
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