U S Help Planned for Nationalists Against Red Threat
U S commander on Formosa says aid to Chinese Nationalists to defend offshore islands is being considered. Navy and Marine reinforcements move toward Formosa, with more jets and ships on the way as Communist artillery activity on Amoy and Tatang abates after a morning bombardment.
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Taipei
Formosa
U. S
Roland N. Smoot
Pescadores Islands
Congress United States
Eisenhower
Red
Tary
Essenhower
Smoot
U. S. Taiwan
Quemoy Islands
Quemoy
U.S
Mediterranean
United States
Formosa Strait
Okinawa
Tatan Islets
Amoy
Tatang Islands
Seberg Returns Home for Wedding to French Prince
Actress Jean Seberg, longtime star of Saint Jean, will wed Francois Moreuil in Marshalltown Iowa at Trinity Lutheran Church. Notables from New York and Paris attend as she embraces a simple ceremony with a tailored oyster white silk gown designed by Guy Larocque. The couple plans travel after the wedding possibly to Europe or America.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Jean Seberg
Joan of Arc
Prince Charming
Francois Moreuil
Paris
Trinity Lutheran Church
New York
Hollywood
Jean
Guy Larocche
Otto Preminger
Paul Louis Weiller
Rivi
Truman Warns Soviet War Readiness and U S Defense Urgency
Former President Truman told the American Legion in Chicago that the Soviet Union has prepared for war since 1945 and the United States now faces a real crisis in the missile age. He urged peak defense, economic resilience, and unity with allies, contrasting McElroy's claim of U S military superiority.
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Truman
Chicago
Harry S. Truman
Soviet Union
United States
The
American Legion
Defense
Neil McElroy
Legionnaires
St Albans Man Charged In Fatal Turnpike Crash
State Police charged Billy Lee Easter 8 St Albans with negligent homicide in a turnpike crash that killed Herbert Murray Jr 19 and Robert Lyles 20 of Chattanooga. Surviving passenger Stephen Thackett 19 San Diego learned of the deaths as he remained hospitalized. Easter and another passenger B H Jones 31 were hospitalized in Raleigh General.
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Turnpike Division
Billy Lee Easter
St.Albanis
Tennessee
West’ Virginia
Easter
Cotton White
Beckley
Stephen G. Thackett
San Diego
Calif
Beckley Veterans Administration
Y Police
Beckley Toll Plaza
Thackett
Herbert William Murray Jr
Robert Lyles
Chattanooga
Jury Hears Auto Collision Suits In Civil Action
An A twelve member jury was impaneled to hear competing suits between Eugene Rowe and Glenn Dale Tanner over damages from a November automobile crash on Skelton Road near Calacinos. The judge recessed for a jury view after a motion by attorney Kermit A. Locke.
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Eugene Rowe
Glenn Dale Tanner
Tanner
Rowe
Skelton Road
Calacinos
Norman Knapp
Teen-Age London Gang Robs Cash Truck in Broad Daylight
A teenage gang in two stolen cars carried out a 12,000 pound robbery in daylight. One car rammed a taxi with two bank messengers, four youths smashed the cab window, seized the cash bag, and fled in a second car.
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London
Iceland Labels Britain Armed Aggressor in fishing clash
Icelandic press condemns British naval action over contested fishing limits. Newspapers call for Britain to withdraw gunboats and trawlers, with Communist lines urging severed relations. Coast guard reports no overnight incidents as British trawlers fish inside Iceland’s new 12 mile zone.
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Iceland
Britain
Smirke
Thodvilijinn
Tceland
Ludwig Josephsson
Pippin
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Coast Guard
Nasser Hammarskjold in Cairo for peace mission talks
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo to meet Egyptian President Nasser as part of a Middle East peace mission. A two hour prep meeting with Foreign Minister Fawzi preceded the talks, with tensions over rapid British troop withdrawal from Jordan and U S forces from Lebanon and assurances against propaganda and interference.
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U.N
Nasser
Dag Hammarskjold
United Arab Republic
Middle East
Hammarskjold
Gene 1
Toiya
U.A.R
Mahmoud Fawzi
Jordan
U.S
Lebanon
U.N. Assembly
Geneva
Former Navy Pilot Begins World Flight
George Preston Williams, a 34 year old former Navy pilot and father of five, took off from Idlewild aiming for a nonstop round-the-world flight in a four passenger executive craft built by Meconey Aircraft. He expects to reach Rome 4312 miles away in 26 to 27 hours and then proceed via Bombay Singapore San Francisco and Mexico City in an eight day circuit.
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George Preston Williams
Navy
Idlewild
Globe
Meconey Aircraft, Inc
Kerrville
Tex
Williams
Rome
Bombay
Singapore
San Francisco
Mexico City
Beckley Man Jailed For Concealed Weapon And Drunk Charge
Albert Lamar, 37, was sentenced to six months in the Raleigh County Jail and fined 100 dollars plus costs by Magistrate W A Burke for carrying a concealed weapon. He was jailed after police found a straight razor on him following an initial drunkenness arrest.
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Raleigh Counity
W. A. Burke
Albert Lamar
Lamar
Burke
Beckley
James Archer Scott
Herald Leo Murdock
Glen Daniel
Colton
Eight or Ten Seek Aviation Board Director's Job
State Aeronautics Commission chairman in Beckley said eight or ten applicants are vying for the executive director post. Hubert H. Stark, the agency's only longtime director, was dismissed Aug. 19 by unanimous vote. Governor Underwood asked for the annual report. Smith said it was mailed Saturday. Stark overspent the agency's legislative appropriation for aerial markers.
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State Aeronautics Commission
Beckley
Hulett C. Smith
Democratic
Inierview
Hubert H.stark
Commission
Col. Stark
Old State Board of Aeronautics
Underwood
Smith
Stark
One Substitute Among School Bus Drivers
One substitute driver Philip G White about 48 Beckley is among 62 Raleigh County regular bus drivers starting routine runs. Everett Shafer says White is driving in place of Garland Jackson jailed awaiting Grand Jury action for driving while drunk. Changes affect nearly a third of county runs with two new routes and new school transports to Crab Orchard Elementary and Fairview Elementary/Trap Hill High School.
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Philip G White
Beckley
Raleigh County
Everett Shafer
White
Garland
Jackson
Cedar Road
Cleveland
Crab Orchard
Saxon and
Bolt
Fairview
Trap Hill
Honaker files post primary finance report
Charles E. Honaker, who failed to win the Democratic nomination for a House of Delegates seat, filed a post primary financial statement in the Raleigh County clerk’s office. He reported $50 in contributions and $191 in expenses.
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Charles E. Honaker
House of Delegates
Raleigh
Honaker
Desegregation Efforts Quiet Across Southern States
In Kentucky Fulton High joined Nelson County and Sturgis High as racially mixed schools without trouble amid court-ordered desegregation. Van Buren Arkansas faced hostile signs as 13 Negro students entered class. In North Carolina Winston-Salem and Charlotte Greensboro prepared for more enrollments while Tennessee Clinton High resumed with 10 Negro students amid past violence.
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Associated Press
Kentucky
Fulton High
J. M. Martin
Nelson County
Sturgis High
Charlotte
Greensboro
N.C
Winston-Salem
Tennessee
Clinton High
Double Burial Planned for Drowned Teens Friends Forever
Two teenage girls and best friends who drowned Monday will be buried side by side on Thursday. The tragedy has stunned the local community and prompted calls for greater water safety.
Two local girls die after raft capsizes in flood pit
Janet Hicks 13 and Judy Haga 13 of Laurel Maryland were riding a raft with three others when it overturned in a floodfed gravel pit. James R. Hicks 37 swam to help but could not save Janet. Judy reached shore with a remaining companion. The sisters were set to enter Laurel Junior High and the ninth grade respectively with low temperatures reported overnight and river gauges normal. Janet leaves parents Manuel J. Hicks and four brothers. Judy leaves Ray Haga and Paul O’Neal among others.
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Janet Hicks
Judy Haga
Laurel
Janet
James R. Hicks
Hicks
Judy
Searlet
Laurel Eine
Cure Bos
Eee Neds
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone
Sky changes and a vanished star in Cassiopeia
Beckley skies note sun sets at 6 52 p m and rises 12 57 a m on Thursday The Moon rises at 9 42 p m with last quarter on September 6 Cassiopeia the prominent constellation shines high in the northeast at midnight The brightest nova of 1572 appeared in Cassiopeia and lasted briefly fading after 1574 never seen since
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Cassiopeia
Venus
Polio Cases in State Exceed 1957 Total
West Virginia polio reports for the year total 63 after 13 new cases last week. Fifty seven polio cases were recorded for all of 1957. Six Kanawha County cases, three Putnam, two McDowell, and one each in Logan and Wyoming. One death among the 24 year old Kanawha woman.
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Charleston
West Virginia
State Health Department
N. H. Dyer
Kanawha County
Putnam
McDowell
Logan
Wyoming
Kanawha
Argentine Chief Frondizi Plans U S Visit
President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina will visit the United States for mutual problem talks with President Eisenhower and top officials. He is slated to arrive January 20 for a 10 day stay, including meetings in Washington with Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. He will then tour other parts of the country.
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R.1
Arturo Frondizi
Argentina
United States
Eisenhower
U.S
Frondizi
Washington
State Dulles
Fisenhower
Suit Filed In Raleigh County Court Over 3500 Damages
A $3,500 damage suit was filed Monday in Raleigh County Circuit Court by Everette E. Kenny against Carlos Dean Bias and Sid Bias. Details on the suit were not available.
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Everette E. Kenny
Carlos Dean Bias
Sid Bias
Raleigh County
King Arrest Sets Tone in Montgomery Bus Protest
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr a leader in the Montgomery bus boycott was arrested outside City Hall on a charge of assault with intent to murder. He posted a $100 bond and awaits Friday City Court hearing as part of a protest crowd that blocked a sidewalk during Edward Davis arrest pursuit of the Negro leader Rev Ralph D Abernathy.
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Montgomery
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
King
G. J. Ruppenthal
Ralph D. Abernathy
Ruppenthal
Edward Davis
Abernathy
Davis
London Race Riots Calm. Police Break Up Notting Hill Mobs
London police squads kept violence in check for a fourth night as not yet calm Notting Hill saw hundreds stay home following Scotland Yard warnings. Fifty nine arrests marked the largest roundup since escalating clashes between whites and immigrants from the West Indies and other Commonwealth areas two weeks earlier.
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London
West Indies
Commonwealth
Scotland Yard
Notting Hill
Glen Daniel Parents Protest Enrollment Cuts
Glen Daniel Elementary parents protest what they call gradual enrollment cuts as pupils are bused to Fairdale Elementary about three miles away. PTA president Mrs. Dawson Lucas says boundary lines were ignored and fear a closing of their two room school. meetings and school-board appeals are planned.
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Glen Daniel
Dawson Lucas
Parent-Teacher Association
PTA
Board of Education
Fairdale
Lucas
Gth Daniel
Fairdale School
Sheldon Covey
Velma Shumate
Beckley Infant Daughter Dies. Funeral Thursday
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Long of Beckley died at 12 50 a.m. today in a local hospital. Survivors include a brother and sister at home, paternal and maternal grandparents, and other relatives. Graveside services are set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Burl Stover Cemetery near Clear Creek with Rev. Albert McGinnis officiating.
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James R. Long
Rt. 1
Beckley
Roger
Sauron
Roy Long
J. Beckley
G. E. Taylor
Clear Creek
Burl-Stover
Albert McGinnis
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