Beckley Woman Wins Europe Trip In National Contest
Miss Madge Richardson of Beckley won the Dr. Pepper name the dog contest grand prize a two week trip to Europe with stops in London Paris Rome Montreux and New York The winner’s name will be withheld for advertising. She also receives a St Bernard puppy prize and plans the European journey after recovery from surgery.
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Beckley
Madge Richardson
Europe
Dr. Pepper Co
Richardson
Hargrove St
London
Paris
Rome
Montreux
Switzerland
New York
Mother Faces Court Over Son's Robbery Charge
A tearful Raleigh County mother sat in court as her son Henry Robert Short faced robbery charges for the General Store heist at MacArthur on June 25. Prosecutors allege Short used a screwdriver to break in, with items later sold to residents in Crab Orchard. Other defendants pleaded guilty to related attempts and offenses, with several cases set for further action on November 10.
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Raleigh County Criminal Court
Henry Robert Short
MacArthur
Short
Anthony J. Sparacino
Billy Joe Lively
James N. White
James
Steve Fekete
Roger Hylton
Lively
Cartiers
Harry L. McCreery
Howard Lee Jarrell
Ronald Kincaid
McCreery
Sparacino
Charles Franklin Kufahl
Henry Odes Cook
James Willard Vernatt
Roger Lee Ransom
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Young
Department of Motor Vehicles
Freezing Temperature Report From Flat Top Weather Station
Flat Top recorded its first freezing temperature of the season as the thermometer fell to 32 degrees between 6:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. Fog settled afterward, helping shield blooming flowers according to Mrs. Fred Bowling, observer for the U S Government Weather Bureau.
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Flat Top
Fred Bowling
U. S
West Virginia Weather Outlook With Warmer Day
The forecast calls for mostly sunny and warmer conditions with highs in the low 70s in West Virginia. Tonight and Saturday bring a chance of showers with winds and lows in the 50s.Extended outlook shows below normal temperatures midweek, a warming trend by Tuesday or Wednesday, and scattered showers with small totals. River gauges show Greenbrier normal and Bluestone murky and falling.
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W. Va
Beckley High
Cove
Oak Hill
Greenbrier
De Gaulle peace plan wins broad Algerian approval
President de Gaulle's peace plan for rebellious Algeria won overwhelming parliamentary support as Premier Debre pledged France will not yield North Africa for generations. Lord Carrington named first lord of the admiralty in Britain, replacing Lord Selkirk. UAW approves 3 percent annual raises for three years for Walter Reuther and others. Joseph A Brunton Jr named next chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
Michel Debre
France
Lord Carrington
Australia
The
Admiralty
Harold Macmillan
Lord Selkirk
Southeast Asia
United Auto Workers Convention
Walter P. Reuther
Joseph A. Brunton Jr
New Brunswick
N. J
Boy Scouts of America
Theft Ring Operated From Swankiest Beckley Shack
State Police linked a four-station gas theft ring to a one room shack in Beckley near upscale homes. William Evans Diehle, once of Philadelphia, resided there and the hangout had been used for about a month. Police doubt ownership is known.
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Beckley
William Evans Diehle
Philadelphia
Diehle
Register
West Virginia Journalism Hall of Fame adds two names
The West Virginia Journalism Hall of Fame inducted two new members at the WVPA fall meeting. John Alburtis, a pioneer who produced the first Berkeley Intelligencer issue in 1799, and Calvin W. Price, longtime editor of the Pocahontas Times, were honored with posts in the biennial election.
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Fairmont
West Virginia Journalism Hall of Fame
Berkeley Intelligencer
Martinsburg
John Alburtis
Calvin W. Price
Marlinton
Pocahontas County
Hall of Fame
West Virginia Press Assn
WVPA
Gilbert C. McKown
Martinsburg Journal
Alburtis
Charles Burdett Hart
Wheeling Intelligencer
Price
William H. Barger
Keyser Mountain Echo
Mineral Daily News
Keyser
Pocahontas
West Virginia
Berkeley County
Shepherdstown
Alburtis and
Journalism Hall of
John S. Gallaher
Harpers Ferry Free Press
Hugh Ike Shott
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sunset News
White House disputes over policy raise tensions and probes
Newsweek reports friction between President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon over key policy questions. United States protests Britain selling outdated jet fighters to Cuba as tensions show. Thousands line up for Mario Lanza’s body viewing in Philadelphia. Requiem Mass set for Saturday at St Mary Magdalene. Barry Fitzgerald returns from brain surgery in Dublin. Explorer VI loses radio contact after long mission. U.S. to launch 10 research rockets during International Rocket Week. Truman tours Texas. Princess Suga to wed a bank clerk next March 10. Five children hurt when car hits sidewalk then school yard in Lowell. 2,000 firefighters face brush fire threatening Los Angeles suburbs as winds shift.
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White House
Newsweek
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Britain
Caribbean
Mario Lanza
Lanza
Italy
St. Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church
Barry Fitzgerald
Dublin
U.S
Harry S. Truman
Texas
Suga
Hirohito
Lowell
Mass
Los Angeles
100th anniversary marks Harpers Ferry attack
Historic Harpers Ferry today marked the 100th anniversary of John Brown s attack on the federal arsenal. Sekou Toure president of Guinea is set to visit Wheeling November 2 3. The Classroom Teachers Conference opened at Jackson s Mill with about 200 teachers attending the three day event. Auditor Edgar B Sims opposes constitutional change to abolish the Board of Public Works. Governor Underwood backs a short ballot proposal limiting elected members to the governor auditor and attorney general existing six officials and the state school superintendent on the board.
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Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Federal
Sekou Toure
Republic of Guinea
Wheeling
Jackson's Mill
Edgar B. Sims
Board of Public Works
Underwood
Asheville
N. C
Woman Stricken At Bus Station Near Raleigh General
Betty Mashia, address unknown, fainted at the bus station before noon and was taken by ambulance to Raleigh General Hospital. She was in the treatment room shortly after noon with the extent of illness not known. She was en route to Spencer to visit a relative when she became ill.
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Betty Mashia
Raleigh General Hospital
Spencer
Antitrust Suit Filed Against General Motors Over Euclid Buy
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint in U S District Court New York charging General Motors with violating anti trust law by acquiring Euclid Road Machinery Co Euclid once the nations largest off highway dump truck maker and a major earth moving equipment producer The government asks GM to divest Euclid division assets and business Euclid is based in Cleveland Ohio in the Euclid division headquarters region
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General Motors
Euclid
Cleveland
Ohio
Deaths: Col Elliott White Springs and C S Smith
In New York Col Elliott White Springs 63 WWI flying ace author and cotton firms head died of cancer. In Memphis C S Shirttail Smith 85 who campaigned in the 1930s to lengthen men's shirt tails died Wednesday.
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New York
Elliott White Springs
Spring Mills, Inc
Memphis
Tenn
Tonite's the Night for Football Fans in Cold Weather
Local crowd is urged to attend tonight's game as chilly conditions set in. Fans are warned to dress warm and expect a tense atmosphere with strong chants directed at referees.
Retrial Ordered For Boy Killer
MOUNDSVILLE AP Young Dean Smith, now 16, receives a new trial after a jury verdict of murder lacked an insanity verdict option. Smith was convicted in Marshall County Circuit Court last June for killing his mother Grace Wims with a hatchet, body found under his bed March 14 1958 in a family trailer. Circuit Judge Lloyd Arnold granted the retrial order citing the trial court's failure to instruct on insanity acquittal. No trial is scheduled until February next year.
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Moundsville
Dean Smith
Marshall County
Grace Wims
Here
Smith
Huntington State Hospital
Lloyd Arnold
Settlement Reached on Property for Route 16 Relocation
The State Road Commission approves a price of 18 364 for 409 S Oakwood Ave owned by Mrs. Bessie E Gore widow of Silas Gore. The Gore home has housed her since age 13. The deal was agreed without a hearing per attorney Warren Thornhill.
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State Road Commission
S. Oakwood Ave
Bessie E. Gore
Four jailed after Raleigh County service station bandits
Four young men arrested after a spree of service station robberies faced a total bond of 25 500 set by Magistrate Cotton White. The group including Millard Thurmond James Bonham and Robert Daniels faced separate bonds with Thurmond at 8 000 Diehle 9 000 and Daniels 2 500. State police report Thurmond transported the gang in a family car to the crime scenes.
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Diehle
Valley Drive
Millard A. Thurmond
Thurmond
James A. Bonham
Clyde Street
Calloway Gulf Station
Turnpike
Harper Road
Wally Drive
Henry
Crescent Road
Cabell Heights
Bonham
Thurman
Sprague
Crescent
Ficers
Cleveland
Robert Lee Daniels
Eccles
Beckley
Raleigh
Cotton White
White
Russell Street
William Evans Diehle
Philadelphia
McLean Addition
Frank McManamay
Gulf Station
N. Kanawha Street
Valley Amoco
Martini
Keystone
Daniels
Naan
Pleas Entered in Drunken Driving Case
George Buffa Bradley pleaded guilty before Magistrate Cotton White to a drunken driving charge. He received a $50 fine, a two day jail sentence, and a six month license revocation.
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George Buffa
Bradley
Cotton White
Four Dead as B52 and Tanker Crash in Kentucky
A nuclear-armed B52 bomber and KC135 tanker collided during refueling near Hardinsburg Kentucky. Four crewmen on the bomber were killed and four were missing, with four others injured or unhurt. Survivors were listed from the bomber crew, while the tanker’s four crewmen perished. Witnesses described a sky ablaze as wreckage scattered for miles.
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Hardinsburg
Eliza Robertson
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Columbus Air Force Base
Miss
Paul E. Thomasson
Mary E. Thomasson
Hamilton Ave
Columbus Afb
William G. Gutshall
Mander
Aberdeen
James W. Strother
Gino Fugazzi
New York City
Milton E. Chatham
Here
Fire destroys trailer and cargo on WV Turnpike
A trailer and its cargo were destroyed by an early morning fire between Mileposts 56 and 57 on the West Virginia Turnpike. Beckley Fire Department arrived at 6 20 AM and returned at 10 20 AM after attempting to save the tractor and cargo with a portable pump and creek water. The driver, Robert Ramsey, from Ohio Southern Express of Atlanta, Ga, was northbound for Charleston with carpeting and toys from the Carolinas. Fire loss, estimated at 20000 dollars, covered cargo only. the tractor was detached and saved.
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West Virginia Turnpike
Beckley Fire Department
Ohio Southern Express
Atlanta
Robert Ramsey
Ramsey
Wheeling
Charleston
Carolinas
Three Parkersburg men named in Wood County indictment
Cleveland E. Lynch 74 Truman N. Owens 28 and Daniel R. Nesselrote 27 were indicted by the Wood County grand jury on a reported incident of attempted statutory rape. Nesselrote also faces an indictment for taking a female under 16 with intent to defile after alleged abduction with a teenage informant.
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Parkersburg
Wood County
Cleveland E. Lynch
Truman N. Owens
Daniel R. Nesselrote
Nesselrote
Beckley Drive child care center fund praised by bishop
Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke lauded Beckley West Virginia district’s drive for a child care center raising more than 177000 dollars toward a 140000 dollar goal. The State Methodist Conference will own and operate the center with campaign leaders Hulett C. Smith and E. D. Armstrong noted for their roles.
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Pittsburgh
Beckley
W. Va
Methodist Church
Lloyd C. Wicke
West Virginia
Wicke
Bishop Wicke
State Methodist Conference
Humphrey to Speak at Raleigh County Democratic Dinner
Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota will headline Raleigh County's first annual Democratic Dinner on Saturday November 21 at the Beckley Hotel Ballroom. The fundraiser for the 1960 campaign is at 6 30 p.m. with invitations at 10 dollars per plate. Okey A. Mills serves as general chairman with arrangements by Warren A Thornhill Jr Mrs W W Withrow and Cotton White.
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Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
United States
Raleigh County
Beckley Hotel
Okey A. Mills
Democratic
Warren A. Thornhill I
W. W. Withrow
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McDonald
George W. Taylor
Taylor
Harvard
Walter C. Guralnick
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Hugh Burdette
New River Pharmaceutical Association
Raleigh County Medical Society
New River Dental Society
Elks Club
Guralnick
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GMC
Sherwood Glutz
Boy Killer
Gang
John A. Kinchelow
Omaha
Neb
SAC
Beckley Drive
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