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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1956
Page
5
Three Polish youths accused of murdering a secret police corporal in the June 28 bread and freedom riots near Poznan were sentenced Monday to prison terms from 4 to 12 years. The court called the sentences mild as the death penalty could have been imposed.
Pvt. Charles Robert Crews, son of Mr and Mrs T M Crews Beckley W V, completed a 10 day furlough before reporting to Fort Dis to await overseas assignment Secretary of Defense says Wilson back at Pentagon training cadets for ROTC program and basic training.
TV critics urge restraint as viewers tire of repeated product placements. Betty Furness and Ed Sullivan are cited as emblematic figures in a shift toward an all commercial TV era, while viewers seek genuine, personalized service and fewer sameness in campaigns.
Viewers report conflicting Soviet ads and party notices about workers changing or quitting jobs within two weeks without clear rights for Communist party members. They cite ads from a party organ and licit claims of freedom clashing with wartime labor restrictions and public trust.
An Israeli court will rule Thursday on charges that Mary Frances Kayali, 29, wife of a Syrian diplomat, spied for Syria. If guilty she could face up to 28 years in prison. Kayali, from Huntington West Virginia, was arrested in Tel Aviv after a nine day visit amid suspicions by security officers. She pleaded innocent and was tried in secret in Jerusalem before Judge Benyamin Halevy. A U S observer attended the trial and the State Department informed her family. Local papers noted she would be the first U S citizen charged by an Israeli court with espionage for an Arab state.
AP reports at the American College of Surgeons meeting Dr. Paul R. Schloerb described a plastic sausage casing device that can be swallowed to purify blood inside the small intestine. In early tests it helped a 46 year old man with severe kidney damage though he later died of a heart attack.
Kit Carson Kuhn, 34, of Bob White, a Boone County coal miner, was killed early Monday when his skidding automobile flipped after being thrown from the vehicle. Winifred Dickens, 33, of Van, Boone County, was also ejected, suffering a scalp wound and bruises and was hospitalized.
The West Virginia Historical Society asked the Legislature to fund a state history building housing the Department of Archives and History and to hire a historian to author a centennial history. The request, made to the State Centennial Commission, was announced at a meeting that elected Dr. William D. Bates as president, replacing Otis K. Rice.
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