43 USW Locals Pull Out Of State Labor Federation
USW District 23 Director Paul Rosen said 43 locals withdrew from the West Virginia Labor Federation due to long standing differences at national and state levels. He cited clashes between CIO type industrial unions and AFL craft unions and noted attempts to resolve issues were not successful. Federation president Miles Stanley regretted the incident and hoped for rapid resolution with reaffiliation possible once programs align with members’ needs.
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Wheeling
UPI
United Steel Workers Union
West Virginia Labor Federation
USW
District 23
Paul Rosen
CIO
AFL
Rosen
Clarksburg
Rusen
Charleston
Federation
Miles Stanley
Gromyko
United Press International
Stanley
Underwood Out As WVU Presidential Prospect
WVU Board search narrows to three candidates amid cost concerns among prospects. A source says most seek strong faculty salaries, noting WVU president salary is 30,000 after a rise from 22,000 in 1959. Former Governor Cecil Underwood is deemed out due to political clashes with the Legislature. The board aims to announce a president within a month with Clyde L. Colson declining the post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlos J. Salzano
Charleston
UPI
West Virginia University Board of Governors
WVU
Elvis J. Stahr
Morgantown
Underwood
Cecil H. Underwood
Stewart
Forrest H. Kirkpatrick
Law School
Clyde L. Colson
Girl 16 Draws Jail Term and Fine on Court Plea
A 16 year old Glen Morgan girl Juanita Young was sentenced to a year in jail and a $50 fine after pleading guilty to an attempt to commit a felony in Raleigh Criminal Court. Credit was given for time served awaiting trial. She was jailed Aug 11 and had been indicted by a grand jury on four forgery counts and two grand larceny charges. Two other youths Jessie Lambert 16 and Roger Titiheon 17 pled guilty to burglary in February 1961, tied to the home of Paul Radford in Shady Spring with items valued at $150. Judge McCreery set Nov 16 for judgment. They remain on current bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Morgan
Juanita Young
Raleigh Oo
Paul J. Fourney
Jessie Evestes Lambert
Roger Lee Titiheon
Shady Spring
Paul Radford
Harry L. McCreery
Accused Slayer Tries Breakout in Ohio County Jail
Accused slayer Robert Satterfield from Benwood attempted to escape the Ohio County jail over the weekend, discovered after hacksaw blades cut through two bars. Sheriff Padden said the incident prompted a lockup of other inmates and a demonstration by about 50 prisoners. Satterfield faces trial November 13 for the robbery slaying of Wheeling area supermarket co manager Robert Nelson last summer.
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Wheeling
UPI
Robert Satterfield
Benwood
Ohio County
Satterfield
Robert Nelson
Thomas Padden
Fifteen-State Alarm For Four Escaped Convicts
Enfield state prison farm escape triggers a 15 state alert for four dangerous felons. Howard Hough 51 Everson Pa Charles Timms 29 Waterbury Conn John Fisk 29 Hartford Conn Nicholas Moccio 26 Brooklyn NY. Hough, serving life for murder and related acts, was deemed highly dangerous by State's Attorney Fay.
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Enfield
Waterbury
Cackowski
Hough
Car Found Shrouded In Mystery At Station
Police probe a missing station worker Reed after a broken coffee jar used as a weapon and blood smears found at the station. A friend says Reed’s wife Mrs. Reed, distraught, took the news as best she could. Reed’s son was scheduled to relieve him at 6:30 am Sunday when he vanished.
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Kaye
Reed
Soviet warning prompts Finnish leaders to return home
After urgent cables and overseas calls, President Urho Kekkonen and Foreign Minister Ahti Karjalainen, vacationing in Hawaii, were ordered back. A government spokesman called the Soviet note a grave matter while Moscow observers saw Soviet bases in Finland as Russia's reply to Western bases in Norway.
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Urho Kekkonen
Ahti Karjalainen
Hawaii
Finland
Moscow
Russia
Norway
Sun Man Dies in House Fire Rescue Arrives Too Late
Fire departments broke through debris after a house fire in Sun Hollow. The blaze reached the structure too late to save Gunnee, whose body was recovered and transported to Tyree Funeral Home in Oak Hill. Authorities cooled ruins to recover the remains.
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Sun Hollow
Gunnee
Tyree
Oak Hill
York Mason Dies. Funeral Home to Complete Arrangements
Obituary notes the death of a York Mason who served as secretary and treasurer and held multiple lodge and fraternal memberships. He married Josephine Robinson in 1989 and is survived by six children, a brother, and several spouses. embalmment licensed. The body rests at Trent and Durgan Funeral Home pending arrangements.
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York Masons
Inez T. Anderson
Columbus
Ohio
Mary E. Abercrombie
Plain City
Irwin
Beckley
Trent and Durgan Funeral Home
Final rites at Springfield Baptist for Mrs Maggie Pankey
Mrs. Maggie Pankey 89 of Summerlee dies after long illness. Funeral set for 1 p m Thursday at Springfield Baptist Church Buckingham County with Rev J P Roles officiating. Burial in family cemetery. Body to be moved from Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor to Buckingham residence at 10 a m Wednesday. Survived by two sons Willie and Roosevelt Pankey both of Summerlee three daughters Esther Jones Buckingham County Ethel Carroll Brooklyn N Y Ruth Christian Baltimore Md 29 grandchildren 61 great grandchildren eight great great grandchildren. Born Danville July 9 1911 she was daughter of John and ??? Snead. Funeral services planned in Danville Thursday. Body at Wrenn Yates Funeral Home Danville.
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Maggie Pankey
Summerlee
Springfield Baptist Church
Buckingham County
J. P. Roles
Pankey
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Esther Jones
Ethel Carroll
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ruth Christian
Baltimore
Junious Jr
Oakland
Calif
John
Fred
Curtis
Bernard
Annie Griffin
Danville
Wrenn-Yates Funeral Home
Death of Winfield S. Aliff at 74 in Beckley VA Hospital
Winfield S. Aliff 74 of Skelton died at 1:35 a.m. today in Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital after a long illness. The body is at Tyree Funeral Home Mount Hope awaiting arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winfield S. Aliff
Skelton
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Tyree
Mount Hope
Luther F. Herold dies after two month illness
Luther F. Herold, 72, of Hookersville, died at 8 30 pm Monday in Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital after a two month illness. The body is at White Funeral Home, Summersville, pending completion of arrangements.
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Luther F. Herold
Hookersville
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
White Funeral Home
Summersville
Funeral services for Louis A Morris in East Beckley
Louis A Morris age 31 of 224 Ninth St East Beckley will be laid to rest at Greenwood Memorial Park after funeral services Thursday at Welcome Baptist Church East Park conducted by Rev Archie Johnson and Elder C B Miller He died Saturday night at Raleigh General Hospital from a stab wound on Washington Street Surviving are his parents a brother Ernest of Newark and grandmother Mrs Millie Whitehead The body will be moved from Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor to the aunt Mrs Alice Cooney home at 5 pm Wednesday
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Louis A. Morris
Ninth St
Welcome Baptist Church
East Park
Archie Johnson
C. B. Miller
Greenwood Memorial Park
Morris
Raleigh General Hospital
Washington Street
East Beckley
Raleigh County
Hayes Morris
Ernest
Newark
N. J
Millie Whitehead
Ritchie and Johnson
Alice Cooney
Scott Avenue
Death of Junious Snead follows wife’s death in tragedy
Junious Duncan Snead, 50, of 118 Orchard Ave., died Monday afternoon in Lewisburg at his brother-in-law Verner Anderson’s home. The death comes five days after his wife Viola Anderson Snead died in Clifton Forge Va. The Sneads were en route to Danville Va. to visit relatives when they stopped in Lewisburg to see the Anderson family. He suffered a stroke in front of relatives and died almost instantly after learning his wife had died. Snead had been on sick leave from the Southern Pacific Railroad and moved to Beckley 17 months ago. He previously suffered a stroke about four years ago in Oakland Calif. where he worked about 20 years.
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Junious Duncan Snead
Orchard Ave
Lewisburg
Verner Anderson
Snead
Viola Anderson Snead
Danville
Andersons
Beckley
Oakland
Calif
Eisenhower flies to Washington after San Antonio rally
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower left San Antonio at 8 55 a m EST to end his two day San Antonio visit for Goode. He flies to Washington International Airport then to York and Gettysburg Pennsylvania arriving at 1 26 p m EST. Goode opposes state Senator Henry Gonzalez who likened Eisenhower to sending a howitzer after a flea as he spoke at the Alamo rally in front of about 9000 attendees. The special election is set for Saturday with Gonzalez backed by top Democratic officials including Kennedy and a possible Johnson appearance in San Antonio.
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Court of Military Appeals
Eisenhower
San Antonio
Goode
Washington
International
York
Gettysburg
Henry Gonzalez
Alamo
Cradle of Texas Independence
Gonzalez
Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
San
Gonzales
Seven Arrested in Huntington Gambling Den Raid
Seven people were arrested in a city police raid on an alleged gambling den in Huntington. The owner faced liquor and gambling violations. Whisky charges were filed against two women and gambling charges against four men.
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Huntington
UPI
Fallout May By-Pass U.S. fallout nearing North America
UPI reports a U.S. Weather Bureau scientist says tiny amounts of radioactive debris from Russia's large nuclear test may reach North America late Wednesday and possibly bypass the United States. By next summer strontium-90 could rise to 2 to 2% above pre-test levels, staying below prudent radiation limits. Winds from the Arctic range would push fallout southeast across Russia and toward North America within 2 to 5 days after the blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Russia
North America
United States
Lester Machta
U.S. Weather Bureau
Arctic
Machta
Deaths across cities recall notable figures list
ROME Italy former president Luigi Einaudi 87 died in a Rome clinic. Margaret McGloin Ludden 43 wife of Allen Ludden TV moderator died after a brief illness in New York. William J Wilgus 63 author of Asa Wilgus novels died after a long illness. Alfred A Stein 86 early booster of Woodrow Wilson candidacy died at home in Elizabeth New Jersey. Marleen Beth McPherson La Rue 33 granddaughter of Aimee Semple McPherson died of pneumonia in Los Angeles.
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Rome
UPI
Luigi Einaudi
Italy
New York
Briarcliff
N.Y
Margaret McGloin Ludden
Allen Ludden
William J. Wilgus
Asa Wilgus
Elizabeth
N.J
Alfred A. Stein
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Los Angeles
Marleen Beth McPherson la Rue
Aimee Semple McPherson
Beckley Post Office Dedication Delayed to January 27
Dedication ceremonies for the new Beckley Post Office were postponed from December 2 to January 27. The change was decided at a meeting of arrangements committees held at the Elks Club at noon today. No other program details were available at presstime.
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New Beckley
Elks Club
Economist Calls for Abolition of Drug Patents
Washington API economist Colston Warne of Amherst College urged a Senate subcommittee to end drug patents entirely. He argued patents grant monopolistic control over medicines essential to health and likened a drug to air and water, criticizing Kefauver bill provisions as a partial fix. Warne, head of Consumers Union, cited price abuses from rebranding chemicals and urged complete patent abolition in the drug field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
API
Senate
Colston Warne
Amherst College
Mass
Warne
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Colston E. Warne
Shortening The News Transforms Plant Jobs to Hagerstown
Transmission plant in Plainfield New Jersey shuts hundreds of workers as operations move to a multi million dollar facility in Hagerstown Maryland. In Phoenix Arizona a coroner's inquest is set for sugar heir Adolph Spreckels II who died after a fall and brain hemorrhage following arrival in a motel. Khrushchev crowds support at the Soviet Congress as UN caution on nuclear blasts is noted by Dean Rusk in Honolulu. A brush fire near Sierra Madre California evacuates 350 families with borate bombing planes to fight the blaze. UN jets ordered to shoot down Katanga South Kasai bombers in Congo. State brief items note a War store fire, a Bluefield federal appointment, and an NSF equipment program for colleges.
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Plainfield
N. J
Hagerstown
Phoenix
Ariz
Adolph Spreckels II
Clark Gable
Soviet Communist Party
Nikita
Khrushchev
United Nations
Russia
U. N
Dean Rusk
Honolulu
Tokyo
Japan
Soviet Union
Sierra Madre
Calif
U. S. Forest Service
Congo
Kasai
Harry G. Camper Jr
Welch
Bluefield
United States
West Virginia
Duncan W. Davsherty
Huntington
National Science Foundation
W. W. Barron
Barron
Washington
Paul Crabtree
N Gram
Lincoln address drafts sold for 54000 in 1949
United Press International notes Abraham Lincoln prepared five copies of the Gettysburg Address including two drafts before delivery. One of the three later copies was auctioned for 54000 dollars in 1949, illustrating the value placed on his most famous speech.
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United Press International
Abraham Lincoln
Newport Rackets Face Grand Jury Probe
A federal grand jury in Cincinnati is set to probe Newport Kentucky numbers rackets this week. U S attorney Thomas Luken would not confirm reports but said the grand jury meets Tuesday and will address routine matters before possibly taking up the case. Grand jury aides from the Justice Department assisted Lexington indictments against Newport police officials.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
UPI
Newport
Thomas Luken
U. S
Luken
Ronald Goldfarb
William Lynch
End of Justice
Goldfarb
Lynch
Robert Kennedy
Lexington
Ohio River
Kentucky
Reward Division Hassle In Court
In Charleston the dispute over the $34,540 reward for a $350,000 motor vehicle theft continued in U S District Court. State Beer Commissioner Grover T. Davis seeks $19,540 while Mrs Opal Keiffer claims the full amount. A citizens committee had recommended Davis receive 19 540 and others 10000 and 5000. The case also involves Maryland Casualty Co and questions whether Davis should be paid as an investigator for Kanawha County Prosecutor’s office.
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Charleston
UPI
U. S. District Court
Grover T. Davis
John F. Field
Davis
Opal Keiffer
Maryland Casualty Co
Mary K. McIntyre
Earl Mathews
Mathews
Kanawha County
Court To Rule On Girl's Trial
The West Virginia Supreme Court will decide if Carol Ann Smith can be tried for murder without life imprisonment or death penalty. The Cabell County case began March 20 in Common Pleas Court and was sent to the high court after Judge Hereford and Judge Winter rulings. Carol Ann said her father beat her family, prompting the shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
UPI
West Virginia Supreme Court
Carol Ann Smith
Cabell County
High Court
John W. Hereford
Cabell County Juvenile Court
Common Pleas
Ernest Winter
Hereford
Carol Ann
Nixon calls for immediate atmospheric test resumption
In Syracuse Nixon urges quick return to atmospheric nuclear tests and dismisses neutral polls. Warne of Amherst recommends abolishing drug patents, arguing a drug can matter as air and water. Eisenhower defends being a public figure, Jackson criticizes ending B52 bomber production as unreliable missiles loom.
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U.S. Pat
United Press International
Syracuse
N.Y
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Ohio R Bridge Site Approved In Huntington
West Virginia and Ohio highway officials announced an $8 million four lane bridge across the Ohio River at West Huntington, about 10 blocks from the current span. About $6 million will go to repairing the existing bridge, with Ohio extending Rt. 23 to Portsmouth and toledo, and Interstate 64 to pass near the new crossing while WV funds most costs. A second Ohio River bridge near Proctorville is also planned.
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Ohio
Preston
Columbus
Portsmouth
Chesapeake
Toledo
West Virginia
Kentucky
Huntington
East Huntington
Proctorville
Ohio River
Ohio Shore
Berlin Border Quiet Amid Cold War Tensions
West Berlin police said Friedrichstrasse border crossing was very quiet as U S and Soviet tanks remained blocks apart. Russians and East German crews worked on border areas while Western observers noted a possible shift to diplomatic cooling, with unconfirmed reports of Vopo replacements and language barriers among East German guards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
Friedrichstrasse
U.S
Unter den Linden
Die Neuer Zeit
The
New Times
Vopos
East Berlin
World Reacts to Soviet Nuclear Test Fallout
Reports from Amsterdam Paris and Washington describe global condemnation of the Soviet blast. Officials warned of radioactive fallout potentially reaching North America with fallout estimates of strontium-90 rising to 2 to 2.5 times pre-test levels by next summer. Diplomats debated censuring Russia at the United Nations as leaders urged restraint and unity among NATO allies.
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Paris Jour
U. S
North America
United States
United Nations
Russia
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Sun Man
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Francis N. Sycaroose
House of Delegates
West
Fairmont
Phillips Petroleum Co
Coast Guard
Grand Jury
Tex
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Defense Department
Ohio R
Amsterdam
de Volkskrant
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