Soldier Jailed On Two Charges
George A. Basham of 224 1-2 S Fayette St was arrested by City Police at 2 40 a m today and charged with drunkenness and AWOL from Ft Bragg NC. R L Forbes Crab Orchard was jailed at 11 35 a m Wednesday on a bad check warrant by constables. Coleman Bobby Ray address unlisted is held in the county jail by military authorities on a charge of AWOL from Cherry Point NC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Basham
S. Fayette St
Ft. Brag
N.C. R
Cherry Point
N. C
County Father Aid Program Employs 530 Residents
About 530 Raleigh County residents are employed on the Aid to Dependent Children for Un employed Fathers program with Fayette County using a similar number. Mrs Hattie Gregory Raleigh County director says those who applied three months ago should visit the local office for review before November 1. Offices will be open 9 am to noon normally, extended to 4 pm weekdays and noon Saturdays to handle these cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Department of Welfare
Charleston
Fayette County
Hattie Gregory
State Department of Welfare
Dental Study Group Has Busy Schedule
The New River Dental Study Club meets at the Elks Club at 6 15 p m for a dinner and program on civil defense dentistry. Dr George Howard of Charleston speaks on The Role of the Dentist in Civil Defense followed by a visit to the Raleigh County Health Center to review a dental work proposal by Dr Gerald R Guine. The club secretary reports about 18 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New River Dental Study Club
Elks Club
George Howard
Charleston
Howard
Raleigh County Health Center
Gerald R. Guine
Dental Health Bureau
Istate Department of Health
James T. Farris
Sense Of Humor (Continued From Page One)
A light moment amid tense surroundings as characters joke about a bagful of alley cats while realizing they are surrounded by Communists. They still manage a laugh despite the perilous context.
Jailed on capias Roy Biggs picked up on capias
Roy Biggs of Lanark was booked at Raleigh County Jail at 11 30 a m today on a capias. He was arrested by a deputy sheriff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Biggs
Lanark
Raleigh
Hurt Lifting Logs In Crow Beckley Hospital Treatment
Ervin Edwards of Crow was treated at Beckley Hospital on Wednesday for back injuries sustained while lifting logs. He works for the Aid to Dependent Children Program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ervin Edwards
Crow
Beckley Hospital
Aid To
World powers weigh fallout risks from Soviet tests
Nations across the Northern Hemisphere debated how to shield public health from radioactive fallout as the Soviet Union pressed ahead with its test series. Governments ordered investigations and protective measures while officials warned against panic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene McLoughlin
Soviet Union
Semyon Tsarapkin
United Nations
Funerals set for Alphonso Peaks and others in region
Funeral services for Alphonso L Peaks 63 of Winona will be held at 2 pm Saturday at United Baptist Church Winona with Rev R L Sims officiating Burial will follow in Locust Lane Cemetery Winona He died at 124 am Wednesday after a long illness He was a retired coal miner and a member of United Baptist Church Survivors include his wife two daughters a son a brother two sisters and 19 grandchildren The body will be taken from Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor to the church one hour before the service Final rites for Patricia Bolen eight month old daughter of Ronald and Mrs Bolen Glen White Road will be held at 2 pm Friday in Caffee Funeral Home Chapel Burial at Sunset Memorial Park The child died at home Tuesday apparently of asphyxiation Hugh E Reynolds 54 of Lewisburg died at Beckley V A Hospital after a short illness The body is at Jack A Wallace Funeral Home Lewisburg awaiting arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alphonso L. Peaks
Winona
United Baptist Church
R. L. Sims
Locust Lane
Peaks
Bessie B. Peaks
Gwendolyn Carter
Niagara Falls
Coretta Barr
Washington, D.C
Elmer Jr
John
Piedmont
Betty Staunton
Pittsburgh
Nannie Staunton
Harvey
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Patricia’ Bolen
Ronald C. Bolen
Glen White Road
Caffee Funeral Home
Everett Shafer
Sunset Memorial Park
Hugh ‘E.' Reynolds
Lewis‘burg
Beckley Veterans Administration “Hospital
Jack A. Wallace
Lewisburg
Mrs Leola Ivory Funeral Services Incomplete
Mrs Leola Ivory 50 of Lochgelly died in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. Survivors: husband Willie two daughters Delores Jackson Cunard Olivia Johnson. sisters Irene Harris Rosa Robinson Gussie Jackson all of Birmingham Ala. 11 grandchildren. Member of Hillcrest Baptist Church Lochgelly. Body at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leola Ivory
Lochgelly
Beckley
Willie
Delores Jackson
of . Cunard
Aes
Olivia Johnson
Thhree
Irene Harris
Rosa Robinson
Gussie Jackson
Birming- Inne
Hillcrest. “Baptist Church
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Funeral arrangements for Mrs Prudie Shelby in Mullens
Mrs Prudie Shelby 62 of Mullens died after a long illness at Wyoming General Hospital Wednesday afternoon from cancer. The body lies at Sam Fogler Song Funeral Home in Mullens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prudie Shelby
Mullens
Wyoming General Hospital
Sam Foglersong
Final rites for Alexander Mawson 76 Whitesville
Alexander Mawson age 76 of Whitesville died Wednesday morning at his sister Mary Walker’s home after a long illness. Funeral service Friday at 1 p m in Armstrong Funeral Home Chapel Whitesville with Rev C E Stump and burial at Spring Hill Cemetery Charleston. Survived by brother William Mawson of Santa Anna California and four sisters Ann Jordan Ameagle Abigail Hanson Emporia Kansas Margaret Stephenson Sylvester and Lilly Mawson Charleston. The body will lie in state at the mortuary until the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Mawson
Whitesville
Armstrong Funeral Home
C. E. Stump
Spring Hill
Charleston
Mawson
Mary Walker
William Mawson
Santa Anna
Calif
Ann Jordan
Ameagle
Abigail Hanson
Emporia
Kan
Margaret Stephenson
Sylvester
Lilly Mawson
Emer
Nation backs nuclear test ban appeal amid veto fight
The United Nations shot down Soviet bloc objections as 75 members plus one abstention supported a solemn appeal to curb nuclear testing. Cuba backed the nine nation bloc while Mali abstained and Soviet envoy Tarapkin accused sponsors of hypocrisy. Canada Denmark Iceland Iran Japan Norway Pakistan and Sweden sponsored the appeal amid growing arms race fears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Shmegaton
Cuba
Britain
Holland
Norway
United States
Washington
Science ‘and Technology Agency
Mauritania
Mali
Semyon Tsarapkin
Canada
Denmark
Iceland
Iran
Japan
Pakistan
Sweden
Committee Schedules Nov 2 Meeting Here
Beckley committee to organize a community forum plans an open public meeting November 2 at the Raleigh County Courthouse. Members include O D Hail Miss Ethel Keyser and Miss Virginia McCormick with Alan Stone as chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Raleigh County
Alan Stone
O. D.hail
Ethel Keyser
Virginia McCormick
Fall Victim Opie Matherly in Critical Condition
Opie Matherly 51 is listed in good condition at Beckley Memorial Hospital after a fall from a garage at home Monday. Mrs Harold Sterling 1333 Harper Road was slated for surgery at Raleigh General Hospital today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opie Matherly
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Harold Sterling
Harper Rd
Raleigh General Hospital
AFL-CIO praises West Virginia 61 Legislature record
At the AFL CIO convention in Clarksburg about 350 delegates heard Miles C. Stanley of the West Virginia Labor Federation say the 1961 Legislature was a qualified success, despite a reactionary coalition. He urged tax reform and a state minimum wage while criticizing future constitutional limits on personal income tax. Governor Barron supported basic problem solving and examined industrial shifts and labor investment. Delegates prepared to vote on resolutions, including Teamsters reentry and liquor by the drink amendment support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
UPI
West Virginia
Labor’ Federation
Aflcio
Miles C. ‘Stanley
Stanley
W. W. Barron
Federation
State Bar
Afl-Cio
Barron
iState
West Virginia Teamsters
Postal Dept Warns Halloween Revelers
The Post Office Department warns Halloween revelers not to steal mailboxes or face a maximum $1,000 fine or up to three years in prison. Chief postal inspector H B Montague frames the warning in official terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
The
Post. Office Department
H. B. Montague
Post Office Department
Three judges ponder Eichmann verdict delay and world briefings
Judges in the Adolf Eichmann case indicate a verdict will be handed down after the August 14 adjournment. Nehru plans Los Angeles visit November 12 and Mexico City November 14 with a New York stop on November 5 en route to Hyannis Port. West Germany to elect a new chancellor. Pope John XXIII birthday plans set for November 4. France witnesses a 24 hour general strike crippling Paris subway. Local briefs note West Virginia clergy convention arrivals and a hospital unidentified death. Charleston transit talks resume. West Virginia nurses group meeting November 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jawaharlal Nehru
Los Angeles
Mexico City
State Department
Nehru
New York City
Hyaninis Port
Mass
Kennedy
John XXIII
France
Paris
West Virginia Minor Judicial’ Association
John D. Herron
New Cumberland
Charleston
Morgantown
West Virginia
John M. Shanklin
Jarch A. Moore Jr
Julius W. Singleton
House of Delegates
W. Va
Novamont Plans Ind State Plant Near Huntington
Novamont Corp announced plans for two multi million dollar plastics plants near Huntington, employing about 500 people. A $10 million polypropylene plant was dedicated at Neal in Wayne County, with work starting early 1962 on a second facility on the same 20 acre tract to produce plastic film from existing plastics. Lucini of Novamont cited high labor costs in West Virginia and discussed potential state tax incentives to attract Satellite industries, with Gov Barron and Commerce Director Smith present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
UPI
Novamont Corp
Neal
Wayne County
Lucio
Lucini
New York
Novamnont
Novamont
Lueini
W. W. Barron
Hulett C. Smith
West Virginia
Berlin border incident stirs U S Soviet protest
A U S official in civilian clothes carrying a Berlin command message was allowed into East Berlin only after changing to an Army uniform. Col Solovyev protested U S traffic controls as East German police imposed checks on civilians entering the East sector. Watson warned Washington of a potentially serious matter and a State Department spokesman said the issue would be raised with Moscow at once.
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U.S
Berlin
East Berlin
United States
East Beriin
Neues Deutschland
A.V. Solovyev
Albert Watson I
U.S. Berlin
Watson
Solovyev
Washington
State Department
Russia
East Germany
Property to be deeded with streets and alleys per 1944 map
A deed conveys the property with the rights of common use of streets and alleys shown on the 1944 engineering map by H. E. Wilson Engineering Co. The warranty covers title and ownership as described in the map notes and property boundaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Wilson Engineering Co
Train Hits Truck Kill Five Troop Train Crew
A troop train carrying 385 Wisconsin Guard members collided with a loaded gravel truck at an unguarded crossing near Miles City Montana. Five Pullman porters and a conductor died, three other guardsmen were briefly treated. The wreck derailed 22 cars and trapped victims in adjoining rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles City
Mont
UPI
Here
Milwaukee
National Guardsmen
Wisconsin
32Nd “Red Arrow” Division
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Louis R. Everling
Terry
W. G. Davis
E. A. Sims
K. P. Richie
Charles Thomas
Chicago
Pullman Co
Howard Henry
Milwaukee Road
Andric Wins Nobel Prize Making Yugoslavia’s First Recipient
The article notes Ivo Andric, born in 1892 in Visegrad, was the first Yugoslav to win the Nobel Prize, honored for his epic portrayal of Yugoslav history. His career spans revolutionary youth, imprisonment, and service in the Yugoslav foreign ministry, with later roles in parliament and writings diverse across poetry and essays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drina
Balkan Peninsula
Yugoslavia
Yugoslvia
Andric
Visegrad
Jin
Bosnia
Serbia
Princip
Franz Ferdinand
Foreign Service
Young
Gustav Adolf
Atoms For Peace: New Mexico Nuclear Test Aims Peace Use
Foreign observers may attend briefings in New Mexico but cannot inspect the device. AEC official John S. Kelly describes the test as a stockpile weapon replica aimed at peaceful uses of nuclear explosives and seismology. The Nevada program has long staged underground tests, but this shot marks a first by any nation for peaceful purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
John S. Kelly
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Nevada
Red Rift Deepens in Communist Bloc Analysis
Washington analysts see Khrushchev denouncing Albania and China backing Tirana as a possible prelude to Albania’s expulsion from the Warsaw Pact. A far left faction including Albania and China could emerge, reshaping Soviet and Chinese ties and global Communist alignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Khrushchev
Albania
Red China
Warsaw Pact
NATO
China
Russia
Two B and E Reports Probed In Mullens
Mullens police investigate two breakings and enterings on Wednesday night. At Rebel Rec a thief smashed a window to enter and stole a juke box’s contents worth about 7 to 8 dollars. At Tibb's Service Station intruders damaged a door to enter and took a flashlight, 20 cartons of cigarettes, flashlight batteries, and several cigars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mullens
RNS
Rec
Tibb’s
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Ransom
MET
Beaver, W. VA
Beaver Sunoco
Piet Muntendam
Geneva
Austin M. Brues
Argonne
National Laboratory
United States Public Health Service
Patricia Bolen
Hugh E. Reynolds
Mrs. Prudie Shelby
Hallmark Rtp
Weyine
Murphy’s and
Lyric Theatre
WVLF
Postal
Dept
Corners
Oakwood
Central Avenue
Ward-Evans Motor
Hunter
U.S.A
Adolf Eichmann
Ind
Atoms For Peace
B&e
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