Plan Appeal To Eisenhower On Space Agency Request
Top Army missile chiefs prepared a direct appeal to President Eisenhower to block NASA plans to take 2,400 Army missile scientists and all Redstone Arsenal facilities. NASA chief Glennan asked Brucker to arrange transfers, including Von Braun team, threatening Army missile work and JPL autonomy. Army fears losing key personnel to NASA and private industry.
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Eisenhower
Space Agency
Washington
Army
Civilian Space Agency
John B. Medaris
Ordnance Missile Command
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Medaris
Wilber M. Brucker
White House
James C. Hagerty
Brucker
Pentagon
Keith Glennan
NASA
Redstone
Huntsville
Ala
Glennan
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Los Angeles
von Braun
Army Missile Agency
Civilian
Ballistic Missile Agency
The
Missile Agency
California Institute of Technology
Eisenhower says WWII in Europe ended earlier than predicted
President Eisenhower said World War II in Europe ended in 11 months, not the two years expected at Normandy. He noted Churchill’s 1944 Paris liberation target and Montgomery’s claim that strategy disputes delayed victory, while German Gen Blumentritt said Berlin could have fallen by Christmas 1944 if Montgomery’s plan had been used.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Europe
Montgomery
Normandy
Life Magazine
Germany
France
Blumentritt
Berlin
Omar Bradley
Fired Police Chief Jails Aurora Mayor
AURORA IL AP Mayor Paul Egan, who fired Police Chief Donald Curran, was jailed Tuesday night after a disorderly conduct charge. He remained in custody five hours despite bond for four college youths, who were later bonded out. Egan refused to leave until all bonds were posted, amid a clash over an emergency meeting and efforts to replace the 68-man force Curran led before his firing.
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Aurora, Ill
Paul Egan
Egan
Donald Curran
America
Russia
Curran
Khrushchev
W. L. Stevenson
Chicago
Stevenson
Bingo
Lawsuit Delayed In Raleigh Court Over 1957 Auto Crash
Shirley Shuenate suing Alonzo Blevins Bobby Phillips and Esso Standard Oil Co for injuries from a Nov 14 1957 auto collision near the Beckley Mount Hope Airport. The $62 000 damage suit halted by judge’s delay as jurors and witnesses were excused until 1 15 pm after an all‑morning postponement. Miss Shumate, 19, sustained leg impairment facial scars and a limp.
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Raleigh County
Norman Knapp
Circuit
Shirley Shuenate
Alonzo Blevins
Bobby M. Phillips
Esso Standard Oil Co
Miss Shumate
Phillips
Blevins
Beckley-Mount Hope
Carlos Crouch
Maxwell Hill Motorist Jailed On Drunk Charge
Beckley Police lodged Clarion Kermit Owen 44 Maxwell Hill in Raleigh County Jail at 2 50 a m today on a charge of driving while drunk Sherman Kerry Jarrell 23 Beckley was ordered to appear in Beckley Police Court Monday night following his arrest at 12 55 a m today on a speeding charge
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Beckley
Clarion Kermit Owen
Maxwell
West Virginia Weather Outlook and River Conditions
Partly cloudy tonight with lows from 46 to 60 across counties. Thursday brings considerable cloudiness and warm temperatures with scattered showers possible in western and northern areas. River conditions at Bellepoint show Greenbrier in normal, clear status. Bluestone Reservoir normal and clear with one gate open at a 6 ft gauge.
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Beckley High
Oak Hill
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Night Sky Timings and Visible Planets Report
The Sun will set at 5 48 p.m. and rise at 6 34 a.m. on Thursday. The Moon sets at 8 12 p.m. with first quarter on Oct 19. Prominent Casiopeia sits northeast at moonset then sinks northwest in dawn twilight. Saturn appears low in the southwest at 7 21 p.m. and Mars rises high in the southeast at 1 39 a.m.
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Casiopeia
Moonset
Nortwest
Saturn
Mars
John Bott 66 Taken By Death
John Bott 66 of Beckley died at his residence at 9 15 p m Tuesday from a heart condition He was born in Germany June 27 1892 son of the late Ferdin Bott and Elaine Lapin Bott He was a member of United Mine Workers Local 7327 Beckley Moose Lodge and Bluefield Lutheran Church Survivors include a brother Carl Bott Germany and a sister Mrs Caroline Grabon Jersey City N J Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p m Thursday at the Gouge residence by Rev Robert Sanger Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park The body will be removed from Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home to the Gouge residence at 6 p m today
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John Bott
Bibb Ave
Beckley
Germany
Ferdinand and
Elaine Lapin Bott
United Mine Workers of America
Beckley Moose Lodge
Bluefield
Frank Gouge
Bott
Robert Sanger
Sunset Memorial Park
Rose and Quesenberry
Gouge
Eccles Man Dies Of Cancer
Harlen Eugene Mohr sixty six 36 Eccles died in a local hospital at 5 p.m. Tuesday after a five month illness from cancer He had recently returned from Houston where he lived four years Born December 22 1921 in Houston Tex he was the son of Jay and Leta West Mohr He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Abiding Savior Lutheran Church Survivors include wife Hazel Erwin Mohr a son Harvey Scott and two daughters Nina Jean and Margie Ann all at home his mother Leta Mohr Houston three brothers C C Mohr Cross North N C W W Mohr Springfield Ill and Jay Mohr address unknown two sisters Mrs Joan Anderson and Mrs Maxine Royle both of Eccles Funeral services will be conducted at Mount Tabor Baptist Church Friday at 2 p.m Burial will be in Calfee Cemetery Calfee Funeral Home will be at 4 p.m. Thursday to the home of brother in law Dallas Hinkle Eccles
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Harlen Eugene Mohr
Eccles
Mohr
Houston
Tex
Jay and
Leda West Mohr
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Abiding Savior Lutheran Church
Hazel Erwin Mohr
Harvey Scott
Nina Jean
Margie Ann
Leta Mohr
C. C. Mohr
Cross Norse
N. C
W. W. Mohr
Springfield
Jay Mohr
Joan Anderson
Maxine Royle
Mount Tabor Baptist Church
Calfee Cemetery
Mount Tabor
Calfee
Dallas Hinkle, Eccles
RDC Committee Meeting at Beckley Hotel Thursday
The Beckley Area Rural Development Council executive committee will meet at noon Thursday at the Beckley Hotel. The RDC manager said a new Livestock Commission chairman will replace J R Beaty who resigned. A chairman for the new Horse Riding Commission will also be chosen, formed to work with the Beckley Horse Club organized Monday night.
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Beckley Area Rural Development Council
Beckley
C. T. Shackelford
RDC
Livestock Commission
J. R. Beaty
Table Rock
Horse Riding Commission
Beckley Horse Club
Eisenhower labels bombers hoodlums like Capone
President Eisenhower denounces church bombers as hoodlums of the Al Capone and Babyface Nelson type after attacks on Jewish temples in Atlanta and Peoria. He rejects Confederate self-identification and says foreign policy should stay out of partisan campaigns while outlining a six day Midwest and Pacific Coast tour to reach voters via regional media.
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Washington
Eisenhower
al Capone
Nelson
Atlanta
Peoria
al Capones
Nelsons
Harry S. Truman
Nixon
Quemoy
Midwest
Pacific Coast
Iowa
Kansas
Colorado
Illinois
Lebanon forms four man cabinet to restore peace
Beiruts new four man cabinet unites main civil war factions. Peace returns with shops reopening and barricades taken down. Rashid Karami remains premier with Pierre Gemayel, Hussein Oweini, and Raymond Edde as deputies and ministers.
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Lebanon
Beirut
Rashid Karami
Camilo Chamoun
Pierre Gemayel
proChamoun Phalange Party
Senior Girl Scouts Meeting in Raleigh County Church
All Raleigh County Senior Girl Scouts are set to meet at 4 p.m. Thursday at Beckley First Baptist Church. A report on last year's senior conference will be shared and plans for the 1959 Senior Roundup in Colorado Springs, Colorado will be discussed.
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Raleigh County
Beckley First Baptist Church
Colorado Springs
Colo
Oak Hill Child Dies at 15 Months
Ernest Lee Blackburn Jr. aged 15 months, son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Lee Blackburn of Oak Hill, died in a local hospital at 7 a.m. today. The body is at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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Ernest Lee Blackburn Jr
Ernest Lee Blackburn
Oak Hill
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Tailor Prepares Three Robes for New Pope
In Rome the Gammarelli tailor shop, official purveyor to the Holy See since 1798, prepares three sizes of papal robes for the next pontiff. Bonaventura Gammarelli says one will fit the new pope, with robes kept ready in the Sistine Chapel sacristy for swift dressing after election.
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Rome
Bonaventura Gammarelli
Cardinal Pacelli
Pope Pius XII
Cardinal Maglione
Gammarelli
Ficial
Gaenmarelli
Gammarellis
Sistine Chapel
Candidates Step Up Oratorical Barrages
West Virginia senatorial candidates intensified campaign rhetoric with Byrd challenging Revercomb for a six year term in Wellsburg and asserting Democrats would be smeared for pushing Social Security housing and education proposals. Revercomb rallied in Cameron attacking small business neglect claims and praising SBA for aiding three billion in procurements. Hoblitzell in Hinton cited 65 million employed in motion and Randoph in Welch urged restraint on war and a united Far East policy with Congress consideration.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Robert C. Byrd
D-Wva
Chapman Revercomb
R-Wva
Wellsburg
Revercomb
Marshall County
Cameron
Small Business Administration
John D. Hoblitzell
Hinton
Jennings Randolph
Hoblitzell
Senate
Welch
Randolph
Congress
Far East
State Escapee Held In Robbery
Three men arrested near Deming New Mexico waived extradition to Texas for a $16,000 daylight robbery in El Paso. Armed suspects were captured 17 miles east of Deming on U S 70 80 at a roadblock Monday. the manager's billfold was found on one man. One suspect claimed the name Jim Townsend before admitting William Lowell Samples, an escapee from West Virginia State Prison, was his true identity. Others are William J. Kordron and James Kelly.
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Jim Townsend
Cleveland
William Lowell Samples
West Virginia
William J. Kordron
Marietta
Ohio
James Kelly
New York
Hospital Treats Child For Injuries To Leg
A two year old girl fell while running injuring her right leg and was treated at Beckley Memorial Hospital and released. Clarence Plumley son of Mildred Smith Maplewood was treated for minor injuries to his face finger and knee after a bicycle incident and released.
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Tat
Loretta Stover
Lorena Stover
MacArthur
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Clarence Plumley
Mildred Smith
Maplewood
Federal Appeals Court weighs Little Rock case
In St Louis the Eighth Circuit heard a bid to permanently block Little Rock High Schools from being leased to private segregated institutions. Judge Woodrough kept the restraining order in place as the court weighs the NAACP and NAACP counsel Thurgood Marshall's challenge to the school board’s actions and motive.
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Little Rock
Thurgood Marshall
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Marshall
NAACP
Four Die As Plane Crashes In Fog
A private four place single engine plane crashed in dense fog near Batavia New York two miles north of the New York State Thruway killing Air Force Sgt Francis McKinney 31 his wife Anne Mae 26 a daughter Deborah 4 and a son Robert 2. The pilot was returning to Little Rock Arkansas where he was stationed. Airport officials had warned him against flying in the fog before takeoff. The family had been visiting relatives in Batavia.
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Francis McKinney
Jacksonville
Ark
Anne Mae
Deborah
Robert
McKinney
New York State Thruway
Here
Little Rock
Students Urged Leave Pets Home
Raleigh County Dog Warden A C Allen urges parents to keep children’s pets at home to prevent disturbances at school. He notes dogs are brought to campus, then picked up and kept at the Animal Shelter until claimed, a process he says causes avoidable trouble for both sides. |
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Ralegh
A. C. Allen
Allen
Feminine 'Look' Marks State's 1958 Elections
West Virginia's 1958 races feature many women on both sides of the ballot led by Secretary of State Helen Holt first among female statewide contenders. The slate includes Elizabeth Hallanan seeking a State Senate seat and several incumbents running for re election, with women candidates spread across Kanawha Fayette McDowell Raleigh and Wyoming counties.
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Charleston
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Kanawha
Fayette
Helen Holt
Holt
U. S
Rush D. Holt
Underwood
Sec. of
D. Pitt O’brien
Joe F. Burdett
The
Board of Control
Virginia
Elizabeth Kee
House
West Senate
Raleigh
Wyoming
Jack A. Nuckols
Beckley
E. Wyatt Payne
Huntington
Elizabeth Drewry
Northfork
McDowell County
Nell W. Walker
Winona
Fayette County
Walker
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Wernher von Braun
Ruhr
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Field Marshal
von Rundstedt
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RDC Committee
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Wisconsin
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United States
Strategic Air Command
Offutt Air Force Base
Neb
Stroy
San Jose
Calif
Federal Appeals Court
Batavia
N.Y
Air Force
Seres
Miss Hallanan
Peggy Kessinger
J. R. Price
Summerlee
Callie Tsapis
Weirton
Christine
John F.) McKuskey
Harrison
Freda Cavendish
South Charleston
Hattie E. Clark
Eudora Andrews
Margaret Kerns Sicardi
Fairmont
A. L. Hopkins
Velma J. Hedrick
Mae S. Belcher
Pineville
Wyoming County
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