Out Of State Speakers Spark West Virginia Rallies
The Associated Press reports Democratic senator and national party chair attacked the Eisenhower administration at West Virginia rallies while Senator Morton urged Republicans to elect more GOP leaders. Chamber events in Morgantown Wayne and Weirton featured criticism of federal policy and calls for aid measures amid 1958 campaign activity.
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West Virginia
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
Monongalia County
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Congress
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Wayne
Senate
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Wayne County
Morgantown
United States
Chapman Revercomb
Rwva
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Weirton
U. S. Senate
Revercomb
Byrd
Peoria synagogue bomb blast shocks Illinois
FBI and state police probe a basement blast at Peoria’s Anshai Emeth Temple the city’s oldest synagogue. No injuries. A past unexploded bomb at a new synagogue site was found 16 months earlier. Rabbi Joseph Ginsberg links the act to tensions and notes Atlanta blast.
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Peoria
Ill
FBI
Joseph Ginsberg
French Officers Quit Algerian Politics Under De Gaulle Order
In Algiers French army officers led by Maj. Gen. Jacques Massu withdrew from the Algerian Committee of Public Safety after Premier De Gaulle ordered the military out of politics to ensure neutral parliamentary elections. Civilians, led by Moslem Azam Ouali, remained in session amid protests and warnings of consequences. Meanwhile in Formosa, Vice President Chen Cheng said Nationalist garrisons would not be cut, arguing that Communist forces eye the offshore islands and U.S. guarantees are uncertain.
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Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
Raoul Salan
Jacques Massu
Committee of Public Safety
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Azam Ouali
France
Tiapei
Formosa
Chen Cheng
Chen
Ta Hua
Great China
Washington
United States
Chiang K K
Chiang
U.S
Neil McElroy
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U.S. 7Th Fleet
Manila
Quemoy
Anti Semitic Group Blamed in Temple Dynamite Case
An Atlanta man says he may be killed for speaking, detailing a dynamite bombing of a Jewish temple last May at an East Atlanta anti Semitic organization meeting. He dictated the statement to police, attended the planning session but objected to dynamite and was not invited to later meetings. About 40 to 50 sticks exploded Sunday against the temple wall, with damage estimated around $200.
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M. W. Blackwell
Le Na Roy I Smith Receives Silver Beaver Award
Le Na Roy I Smith earned the Silver Beaver Award at the Appalachian Council Appreciation Banquet held at Beckley Elks Club. Robert Misfeldt presented the honor as his wife shared a kiss, with Paul Mooney of Kopperston and Dr. William Greenspon of Bluefield also receiving the national scouting award.
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Robert Misfeldt
Appalachian Council of Boy Scouts
Beckley Elks Club
Paul ‘Pop’ Mooney
Kopperston
William Greenspon
Bluefield
Integration Turmoil Shifts To Churches
In Little Rock Arkansas the fight over school integration shifts to churches as about 300 form a Council of Methodist Laymen vowing to oppose church integration and consider splitting from the national Methodist Church if policy does not change. A segregationist minister claims victory as a Southern Baptist group spares him, while NAACP leader Mrs. L. C. Bates reports limited assurance from Albert Hudson about halting his white church integration campaign.
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Little Rock
National Methodist Church
St. Louis
L. C. Bates
Arkansas
The
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Methodist Church
General Conference
Supreme Court
Pulaski County Baptist Assn
Wesley Pruden
Pruden
Presegregation Capital Citizens Council
Three Guilty Pleas at Raleigh County Court
A brief Raleigh County Criminal Court session heard three guilty pleas from men involved in October 4 break ins in Beckley. Defense counsel J Q Hutchinson urged probation for Charles Edward Wynes as Judge Harry L McCreery sentenced Waynes to not less than one year.
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Raleigh County
Jurors To Report For Duty Thursday
Jurors serving Raleigh County Criminal Court must report at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Criminal Courtroom, replacing Wednesday as previously instructed by Judge Harry L. Mc Creery. The judge said jurors were excused Monday and told to return Wednesday after all Wednesday docket cases could be disposed of without juries.
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Raleigh County Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
McCreery
Two Teens Admit Breaking and Entering Local Church
In a state penitentiary hearing, Antonio Cueto and Ronald Hickman, both 17 of Sprague, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering Valley Drive Esso Servicenter on Oct 4 and stealing $58. Judge McCreery set judgment for Nov 10 at 10 am. Probation motion for St Francis de Sales Church case to be decided later. Bastardy cases were listed and adjourned for in chambers.
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Oakwood Ave
Antonio Manuel Cueto
Ronald Lee Hickman
Sprague
Valley Drive
Esso Servicenter
McCreery
Anthony J. Sparacino
Lowell Brown
Wesley Carpenter
Clifford R. Cochran
Jerry English
William Howard Ferguson
Thomas Holstein
Earl Roark
Wreck Victims Rites Thursday for Mother and Son
A joint funeral will be held at Oak Hill Presbyterian Church for Christina Cunningham Williams, 22, and her 13 month old son David Bryan, killed in a West Virginia Turnpike crash at milepost 28. Four-year-old Lillian Isabelle Allen was released, Gregory Allen 6 and an unnamed sibling injured. The car left the road and struck a rock cliff between 6 and 7 a.m. Lt. Roy G. Coen cited sleep at the wheel as cause. Burial at High Lawn Memorial Park follows.
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West Virginia
Oak Hill Presbyterian Church
R. P. Robertson
High Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Christina Cunningham
Williams
Huntington
David Bryan
Gregory Allen
Lillian Isabelle
Beckley Interchange
Melton
West Virginia Weather and River Conditions Report
Fair tonight with a low around 42 to 52. Wednesday looks mild and mostly fair. Beckley reported a high yesterday with a low last night, Oak Hill reached 72 yesterday and 34 overnight. Bellepoint river gauge shows Greenbrier normal stage and clear conditions. Bluestone Reservoir is normal with one gate open and gauge at 1.6 feet.
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Beckley High
Oak Hill
BO Fy Son
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Blue Jay Man Hurt In Wreck
A Blue Jay man is hospitalized in Farmville Virginia after a Sunday night automobile crash while en route to Navy stations. Jimmy Browning reportedly has a broken leg. other car occupants James Earl Persinger and Edward J Hoover were uninjured. The new Mrs Browning Helen Marie Cetti stayed behind.
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Blue Jay
Farmville
Virginia
Jimmy Browning
Archie Browning
Enrollment At WVU Reaches 6378 Students
Morgantown AP report shows West Virginia University enrollment rising to 6378 with 1595 freshmen, 1347 sophomores, 1131 juniors, 1117 seniors, 782 graduate students and special/professional students. Registrar J Everett Long notes a 162 increase from last year's first semester and a 46 percent rise since eight years ago.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
J. Everett Long
Long
Beckley Skies Tonight Bright Planets Shown
The Sun sets 5 50 p m and rises 6 33 a m on Wednesday The Moon sets 7 21 p m First quarter on Oct 19 Mars appears in the eastern sky at 10 42 p m and lies under 50 million miles from Earth Saturn sets at 8 35 p m and is about twenty times farther away than Mars
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Mars
Earth
Saturn
Mansfield Opposes Foreign Policy Issue
In Washington Senator Mike Mansfield urged that foreign policy not be treated as a political football while President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon sparred over depictions of U S policy. Nixon credited Formosa Strait actions to the administration and challenged Democrats to compare records with the Truman era.
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Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Mansfield
Nixon
Truman
Eisenhower
Chicago
Dean Acheson
Democratic Advisory Council
Senate
Theodore F. Green
D-Ri
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dulles
Green
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Morse
Democratic Party
Flood Control Hearing Set at Marsh Fork High School
Huntington AP The Huntington District Engineers announced a public hearing at Marsh Fork High School Monte coal Raleigh County on proposed Coal River flood control improvements. Col H J Skidmore district engineer said input for or against the project is sought to judge economic feasibility, noting flood frequency and damage. The Coal River runs through Monteval Seth and Asford to the Kanawha River at St Albans.
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Huntington
Huntington District
Marsh Fork High School
Montecoal
Raleigh County
Col
H. J. Skidmore
Monteval
Seth
Asford
St. Albans
Revercomb objects to UMW endorsement of Byrd
Senator Revercomb accuses the United Mine Workers of trying to steer WV voters. He says a small committee endorsement does not bind free citizens and vows to serve all workers, not a select group, in the U.S. Senate race.
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Revercomb
UMW
Byrd
Ike 68 Today Urges GOP Unity In Vote Battle
President Eisenhower marked his 68th birthday by urging GOP campaign staff to unite in a hard driving effort to win back Congress. He promised victory through sound governance and asked workers to mobilize supporters while Mrs. Eisenhower attended the breakfast. He will begin a six day campaign tour of the Midwest and Pacific Coast. A pontifical requiem Mass for Pope Pius XII followed at St Matthew's Cathedral.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United
Congress
GOP
Midwest
Pacific Coast
St. Matthew's Cathedral
Pope Pas XII
Ameleto Giovanni Cicognani
United States
Moon Landing Seen By 1970
CHICAGO AP Man will be on the moon in 12 years predicts Maj Gen John B Medaris Army missile chief Medaris commanding general of the US Army Missile Command in Huntsville Ala at a National Electronics Conference news conference After praising the Air Force rocket moon as a success he said the Army is on schedule for its moon shot with about a 50-50 chance to reach the lunar vicinity and that the proposed Jupiter first stage may not place the rocket in lunar orbit.
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Chicago
John B. Medaris
Medaris
U.S. Army Missile Command
Huntsville
Ala
National Electronics Conference
Air Force
Former Beaver Woman Dies In Cincinnati
Mrs. Gave Lewis aged 48 formerly of Beaver died in Cincinnati Ohio at 11 am from cancer. Survivors include husband D B Lewis a daughter Joyce Ann her mother Mrs J H Breeden of Daniels three sisters Mrs Mae Pettry Mrs Faye Meador and Mrs Virginia King and three brothers Myra and Jack of Daniels and Earl with the Air Force San Jose California. Funeral arrangements are in complete.
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Gave Lewis
Cincinnati
Beaver
D. B. Lewis
Joyce Ann
J. H. Breeden
Daniels
Mae Pettry
Faye Meador
Virginia King
Jackson
Myra
Jack
Earl
Air Force
San Jose
Calif
Sophia Resident Dies at Home in Sophia
Paul H. Mills about 41 died about 1 30 a m Tuesday in his home. Dr S A Ford county coroner said Mills a veteran receiving disability died of a heart condition. The body is at the Williams Craven Funeral Home Sophia. Arrangements are incomplete.
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Paul H. Mills
Sophia
S. A. Ford
Mills
Williams- Craven Funeral Home
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