Hammarskjold Wins Nobel Peace Prize Posthumously
Oslo reports Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, awarded the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize posthumously after his death in a Congo mission crash. The 1960 prize goes to Albert Luthuli. prizes total swedish kroner amounts cited.
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South Africa
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Norwegian National Assembly
Albert John Luthuli
Congo
Superbomb explosion sighted amid Cold War doubt
The White House voiced skepticism that the Arctic blast reported by Swedish and French stations was Khrushchev's promised 50 megatons. Uppsala University and French Atomic Energy Agency data cited a very large atmospheric test near Novaya Zemlya, with AEC and Kennedy administration officials offering no confirmation.
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UPI
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Andrew Hatcher
Atomic Energy Commission
United Press International
Arctic
Nikita Khrushchev
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
U.S
Khrushchev
Sweden
Uppsala University Seismological Institution
French
Atomic Energy Agency
Uppsala
Novaya Zemlya
Markus Booth
AEC
Uppsala University
Soviet Union
1962 Seen As Boom Year
New York dispatch reports 316 economists polled by F W Dodge predict 1962 will be record breaking with rising consumer and wholesale prices. They foresee total output reaching $565 billion by Q4 1962, a 10 percent rise from Q2 1961, and industrial production at 122 percent of the 1957 average, up from 112 percent. Federal defense spending is seen as a key short term stimulus as government outlays grow.
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Churchill ill but active despite chill and cold
Sir Winston Churchill aged 86 at Chartwell fell ill with a cold. A spokesman said he was only lightly ailing. In other news, the Supreme Court agreed to review William Presser’s conviction on obstruction of a Senate inquiry into labor racketeering. Yuri Gagarin canceled a planned India visit due to illness. Blond Tina Livanos wed the Marquess of Blandford in Paris. A Citadel cadet Frank Cayce Jr died after a parachuting accident in South Carolina. Convicted slayer Arthur Schuck faces death at Rockview Penitentiary. Some 500 hunters remain stranded in Idaho and Utah snow, with rescue drops planned. Cambodia’s parliament allows breaking relations with Thailand and seeking Communist help if war erupts.
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Princess Margaret
Paris
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Citadel
Walterboro
S. C
Arthur G. Schuck
Rockview
Beaver County
Rockies
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Utah
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
Thailand
Sarit Thanarat
Payoff accusation over West Virginia interstate route
Rep. Gordon H. Scherer charged the Kennedy administration with a political pay off in allocating 180 miles of interstate highway to West Virginia. He cited the West Virginia primary that helped Kennedy’s nomination, noting the route would run largely through economically distressed areas. The BPA had sought to keep the 285 miles in reserve for system adjustments. The route connects Washington Pennsylvania to a West Virginia Turnpike near Charleston.
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Skeleton of Former Summersville Man Found in Pa
In Erie County, Edinboro resident Thomas Lloyd while walking his dog found a fully clothed skeleton on Dean Swift's property in Washington Township. The body, identified via papers as Frank A. Alderson, formerly of Summersville West Virginia, appears to have been dead about a year according to state police.
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Erie County
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Washington Township
Frank A. Alderson
Summersville
W. Va
Work To Start On North End
Road official Burl Sawyers says Morgantown to Clarksburg area will likely get priority for first work on Interstate 79 in West Virginia. He notes existing road issues, two early contracts near Bentons Ferry, and plans to upgrade north of Weston toward Charleston under a 50-50 funding setup.
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Rainelle Area Still Hard Hit By Snow Storm Damages
A conservative estimate places Appalachian Power Co damages at 50000 in Beckley District after Friday’s freak snow storm. John Gates APC assistant said Rainelle remains hard hit with about half the customers without power. Most Beckley outages have been corrected with street lights still out. 75 percent of Oak Hill’s 12000 customers affected.
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Beckley
John Gates
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Rainelle
Oak Hill
West Virginia Weather Outlook and Storm Damage
Forecast covers West Virginia with clear nights and frost, two to three dozen degrees, a five day outlook of cooler midweek and showers Tuesday night and Thursday. Reports detail power outages in Rainelle, Oak Hill, Beckley and Summersville due to a major snowstorm, with crews from multiple states restoring lines and a pelican lift aiding repairs. Water, tree damage, and communications impacts are noted while local officials praise utility and telecom workers.
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Fred Filler
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Summersville
Richwood
Nicholas County
Voroshilov Humiliated By Soviets
Moscow report says Klimenti Voroshilov, 80, faced public denouncement by Dmitri Poylanski at the 22nd Soviet Communist Party congress for opposing Khrushchev in the 1957 anti party plot. Poylanski demanded responsibility for the dissenters as Flynn attacked Albania for Stalinist lines.
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Poylanski
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Little
Albania
Train Kills 5 In 2 Accidents Near Stuttgart Ark
In two hours a Cotton Belt freight train killed five people in separate crashes 18 miles apart near Stuttgart Arkansas. Engineer J A Rector a 61 year old veteran with 36 years on the rails saw his perfect safety record end in two wrecks. The No 1 Motor Special struck a pickup at a flasher crossing killing three of the four occupants. Moments later a 24 year old mother and her 2 year old daughter were struck and killed as they wandered onto the tracks.
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Pine Bluff
West Virginia hunting season fatality sequence begins
In Welch, West Virginia, Bailey McDowell County claims the season's first fatality when 39 year old Bailey is shot by his nine year old son Gary who tripped and dropped a 410 shotgun. The father died from the back blast while the boy, holding the gun, stood nearby. Another hunter, Phillip R. Simms of Dunbar, remained in critical condition after a hunting accident. Two others died of heart attacks and about 25 were wounded during the opening week of the season which began October 14.
Eighth Falls To Death In Seattle Jail Break
Seven prisoners escaped a 10th floor County City Building during a rainstorm by sawing bars with blades and tying sheets. Five were recaptured within four hours. one inmate, Lawrence D. Johnson, 25, San Francisco, died after slipping from a improvised rope. Two escapees, Thomas B. Fasenmeyer Jr. and Arthur St. Peter of Bellevue, remained at large. Authorities chased through a crowd of about 100 officers as they fled the building.
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UPS
Lawrence D. Johnson
San Francisco
Thomas B. Fasenmeyer Jr
Arthur St. Peter
Bellevue
Wash
St. Peter
King County
Tim McCullough
County City
Gerald Pincus
Pincus
Phil Pelton
Berlin border clash shows American rights in West Berlin
East German guards waved American cars through with little ceremony after U S enforcement of travel rights. Nine U S soldiers with M14 rifles entered East Berlin twice to assist diplomat E Allan Lightner when border guards blocked his car. U S Berlin command protested to the Soviet command and prepared a written note.
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Brazilian labor leaders begin six day Beckley tour
A five man team from Brazil, in the United States for two months to learn Ameri can life, started a six day tour of the Beckley area. They were hosted by the Department of Labor and the International Cooperation Administration and will visit Beckley Memorial Hospital, a local coal mine at Clifftop, public schools, and meet with United Mine Workers District 29 representatives. Local interpreter Sylvia Moraes and Lorenzo Bergeron joined the group.
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Sylvia Moraes
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International Cooperation Administration
Department of Labor
Bureau of International Affairs
Cezar Francisco Mueller
District 29
United Mine Workers of America
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Weekend Road Mishaps Kill 4 in West Virginia
West Virginia’s 1961 traffic death toll rose to 288 after four deaths in three weekend accidents. John A. Nickels and Clarence A. Grimm, both of Williamson, died in a Logan County two car crash on U S 119. Ronald Grimm, 18, survived. Elizabeth Schoonover, 28, of May, died Sunday after a clay county collision on W Va 36. Maj. Thomas G. Sprott of Del Rio Texas died Saturday when a car struck a rock ledge on the West Virginia Turnpike near Charleston.
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Clarence A. Grimm
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Valley Fork
Clay County
Elizabeth Schoonover
Air Force
Thomas G. Sprott
del Rio
Tex
West Virginia Turnpike
Charleston
Six Die as Rice Conveyor Struck Power Line in DARNELL
Six men were killed instantly when a moving rice conveyor touched a high voltage line in Darnell. Victims include Douglas Wilson 40 a Darnell rice farmer and his five Black helpers Shack Calhoun 62 and Tommy Calhoun 20 from Pioneer La John E Glover 60 and son James Glover 25 from Epps Willie Norris 35 from Epps all fatally electrocuted.
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Shack Calhoun
Tommy Calhoun
Pioneer
John E. Glover
James Glover
Willie Norris
Epps
Theater Cave-In Crushed Woman in New Orleans Theater
A concrete ceiling collapsed at the Nola Theater in New Orleans during a horror film, killing 65 year old Mary Odienet and injuring 45 others including a girl seeking her 13 year old cousin. An unidentified man warned others seconds before the debris fell.
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Public Perception on Nuclear War Raises Alarm
Dr. Jerome Frank of Johns Hopkins warns the public against blasé talks of casualties and survival rates as a danger to humane judgment. In New Orleans, 14 year old Sharon Fenney escaped a theater collapse that killed one and injured 45 others amid a loud blast and screams. In Springfield New York, Mrs. John Gerrity reflects on a home collapse into an excavation for a self built fallout shelter, remarking that it did not pan out.
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U.S
United Press International
Washington
Jerome Frank
Johns Hopkins University
New Orleans
Sharon Ann Fenney
Springfield
N.Y
John Gerrity
Psychiatrist finds U.S. not hysterical over nuclear threat
Dr Jerome Frank of Johns Hopkins says Americans show concern not panic about cold war danger. He notes shelters are a topic of conversation but few have built them. He warns children are shaped more by adults' behavior than words as fears of fallout linger.
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Washington
UPI
Jerrome Frank
John Hopkins University
JFK Plugging West Virginia Firms
WHEELING UP I The Wheeling area may gain defense work as President Kennedy replies to the Ohio Valley Association of Mayors. He says prime contractors have names of several firms in the valley and bids on government contracts are invited. The mayors protested the Army’s failure to award the West Virginia Ordnance Co. a large M 14 rifle contract, citing unemployment relief. Kennedy stresses his focus on reducing unemployment and the misery caused by joblessness.
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UPI
Kennedy
Ohio Valley Association of Mayors
Ohio Valley
Mayors Association
West Virginia Ordnance Co
Ex-Councilman Beckett Sentenced to 1–10 Years in Embezzlement Case
Former Parkersburg councilman James M. Beckett Jr. received a 1 to 10 year prison term for embezzling city lumber used on a motel project. Wood County Circuit Judge Donal d F. Black denied motions for new trial and probation, refused bond renewal, and allowed a 90-day appeal period to his attorney. Beckett is jailed. successor Glen C. Evans faces separate embezzlement and theft charges.
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James M. Beckett Jr
Wood County
Donald F. Black
Beckett
Black
William L. Jacobs
Jacobs
State Supreme Court
Citizens
Glen C. Evans
Evans
Auto Talks Brighten as UAW, Chrysler Seek Peace
Detroit reports brighter hope for a peaceful end to new contract talks between United Auto Workers and Chrysler after settling past level disputes at nearly half the union bargaining units.
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