Clinton High Opens Amid Integration Tension
Clinton Tennessee faced a fraught opening as nine of twelve Negro students enrolled amid white opposition. National Guard troops patrolled, attendance ran about 50 percent, and an earlier riot in Oliver Springs prompted state action.
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Clinton, Tenn
Sion
Clinton High
National Guard
Oliver Springs
Adj
Oe Henry
Ronald Gust
Henry
Scholfficia
Here
Mansfield High Faces Race Tension Over Negro Registration
Texas Ranger Capt. Bob Crowder announced that Negroes attempting to register at the all white Mansfield high school would be transferred to another district for safety reasons after a Gov. Allan Shivers suggestion. Riot police and about 100 onlookers gathered as white and black students faced a tense standoff. no registrations occurred and an effigy at the flagpole was removed.
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Mansfield
Tex
Texas Ranger
Bob Crowder
R. L. Huffman
Crowder
Allan Shivers
Texas Rangers
Fort Worth
Alvarado
Here
Johnson County
U.S
Harlon Wright
Dalls County
Tarrant
Dallas
Wright
Wille Pigg
Stuents
School Budgets For Year Top Previous Totals
West Virginia county school budgets total 98,433,200 for the new year. State aid provides 56,334,047 or 37.4 percent. Local receipts amount to 32,117,698. Increases occur in instruction and fixed charges with state funds boosting teachers salaries by 6,319,665.
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Charleston
West Virginia
William K. Hamilton
Hamilton
Industrial Revolution on U S Doorstep
AFL-CIO President George Meany told the American Legion the United States stands at the threshold of a second industrial revolution driven by automation and atomic power. He said factories may run automatically but ample work will remain for people amid new schools homes roads and waterpower projects, and urged considering a shorter workweek to preserve full employment.
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Los Angeles
George Meany
Afl-Cio
American Legion
United States
University Fund To Aid Students At WVU Named
A trust fund of 9 108 293 dollars was set up to provide scholarships and loans to West Virginia University students in memory of O O Morrison Jr of Charleston. The gift was funded through Freda Morrison Smith who died in Coral Gables Florida, and Morrison's heirs are among five children of the late O J Morrison Jr founder of Morrison Department Stores.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
Irvin Stewart
O. O. Morrison Jr
Charleston
WVU
Freda Morrison Smith
Coral, Gables
Pla
Injured Beckley Man Admitted After Ladder Fall
Beckley resident Fall Ervin Edwards was admitted to Beckley Hospital near noon today for treatment of injuries sustained when he reportedly fell from a ladder.
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Ervin Edwards
Beckley
Beckley Hospital
Weather overview for West Virginia period including Beckley and Oak Bill
Weather summary reports fair and warmer conditions with a chance of scattered showers in parts of West Virginia. Beckley shows mild temperatures with highs yesterday and low last night, while Oak Bill records similar patterns and nearby rivers at Bellepoint run clear with Bluestone Reservoir noted as clear.
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Beckley High
Cnee
OAK Bill
Bellepoint
Bluestone
Jupiter in conjunction with Sun and unseen Moon rises
Beckley skies report a New Moon at 1 57 PM and a 6 57 AM sunrise. Jupiter lies in conjunction with the Sun today three hours before the Moon and will reappear as a morning star in a few weeks, dimmer than Venus.
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Jupiter
Venus
Holiday Wrecks Kill 422 Persons
The three day Labor Day weekend saw at least 422 traffic deaths, with the National Safety Council predicting up to 480. An AP tally adds 88 drownings and 7 other accidents, totaling 581 violent deaths.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Picket Lines Surge at West Virginia Glass Plants
Labor Day weekend proximity sees AFGWU strike actions at Owens-Illinois Kanawha City Charleston Fairmont Parkersburg Hazel Atlas Clarksburg with 35 members picketing large plants. State reports show one traffic death over holiday period amid ongoing contract talks with Federal Mediator Rose pushing Pittsburgh negotiations.
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Associated Press
Ofti
West Virginia
Urea
Glass Container Manufacturers Institute
National Assn
Fairmont
Parkersboro
Clarksburg
Charleston
Kanawha City
J Owenslinois Glass Co
AFGWU
Abe Silverman
Owens- Illinois Glass Co
Loren Collins Jr
Holden ‘Hin
Logan County
Guyandotte River
W.va
Ranger
Lincoln County
R. L. Bonar
Dewey Adkins
Harts
South Charleston
United Miner Workers Union
Marland
U.S. Senate
UMW
Mullens
Organized Labor Movement
Robert C. Byrd
D-Wv'n
Sophia
Whitesville
Robert Mollohan
D-Wv
Chapman Rovercomb
Bunner’s Ridge
William Rose
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Missouri Deaths Hit New Labor Day Record
Missouri records 22 traffic fatalities over the Labor Day weekend, surpassing the 21 set in 1931. Gov. Phil M. Donnelly called up 180 National Guardsmen to assist the Missouri Highway Patrol on highways statewide.
City Hall Repairs Begin in Beckley
City Hall in Beckley began repairs today with unidentified work crews on site and safety measures in place as construction proceeds.
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Beckley's City Hall
Police Belief Baby Will Be Found Alive in Seemingly Safe Kidnapping Case
In Hamden Connecticut investigators including State's Attorney Abraham Ullman and FBI agents said they expect Cynthia Ruotolo to be recovered alive after she was kidnapped from a Sears Roebuck store. A stocky dark woman matching a composite description was identified as a likely suspect. a former mental patient was questioned and released.
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Hamden
Conn
Cynthia Ruotolo
Abraham
Wth
FBI
Ullman
Cynthia
Sears Roebuck
Eleanor
Altman
Middletown
Here
Tabscott Joins Mullens Police Force
Robert L. Tabscott, a former West Virginia State Police sergeant, was hired as a night patrolman by Mullens police. He resigned from the State Police last year and began duty on September 1, according to Police Chief Wen Gall Ceak.
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Mullens
RNS
Robert L. Tabscott
West Virginia Department of Public Safety
Wen- Gell Céak
Fire Claims Widow in White Sulphur Springs Blaze
An early morning fire on Trail Lane in White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, killed 79 year old widow Mrs Nannie Hunter. Firemen say the cause is undetermined and the victim appeared to have suffocated while trying to escape the four room home. The blaze was found at about 1 12 a m and the house was destroyed.
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White Sulphur Springs
Nannie
Hunter
Trail Lane
Fire Destroys National Forest in Wyoming
A major fire in Medicine Bow National Forest burned 1200 acres since Sunday, about 28 miles south of a southeast city. Firefighters had the blaze temporarily under control near Estercrook, with flames within three quarters of a mile of the village. Officials suspect arson. no serious injuries reported, though wildlife perished.
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Douglas
Wyo
Wyoming
Medicine Bow National Forest
U. S
Ed Holler
Estercrook
Holler
Integration Returns Face Mixed Enrollments in Beckley Area
In Raleigh County schools today, three Negro students were admitted at Beckley’s Beckley Beckley Junior High yet many others were turned away. Sylvia Elementary enrolled 16 Black students while Woodrow Wilson High saw four enrollments. Sophia High reported seven enrollments. Shady Spring High enrolled none, and Mabscott Elementary recorded a re enrollment. A boundary discussion meeting is set for 2 p.m. at Central Elementary as enrollment unfolds amid ongoing desegregation. Donations for the Carl Dale Bucklard Memorial Fund reached 1368.55 to aid the late Patrolman Bucklard’s daughter’s education.
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Raleigh
Beckley
Central
RMI
A. A. Lilly
Lilly
Piney Oaks
Sylvia
Cecil Miller
Woodrow Wilson High School
C. G. Peregov
Central Elementary School
H. E. Ash
Sophia High School
John Saunders
Shady Spring High School
Mabscott
Carl Dale Bucklard
Beckley Gideons
Beckley National Bank
Bucktard
Bucklard
Cabell Suit Set For Pre-Trial Conference
Federal Judge Harry E. Watkins will hold a pre trial conference on a NAACP suit seeking full integration of Cabell County schools. The state NAACP conference asks two steps by the school board including waiving transfer fees and reassignment of Negro teachers to non Negro schools, says T G Nutter of Charleston.
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Huntington
Harry E. Watkins
National Assn. of Colored People
Cabell County
NAACP
T. G. Nutter
Charleston
College Girl Falls from Plane in Alleged Self Destructive Act
Flora Lizabeth Anderson a 22 year old University of California graduate plunged 1000 feet from a rented plane near Stinson Beach after an argument on Mt Tamalpais. Pilot Stanley Gordon 28 was questioned and released. Authorities say it appears to be death by own action with fog hindering the search for her body.
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San Rafael
Calif
Marin County
Flora Lizabeth Anderson
University of California
Stinson Beach
Stanley Gordon
Belvedere
Roger Garety
Sixty Jurors Report for Raleigh County Court Duty
Sixty of the 125 petit jurors summoned to serve appeared for duty today in Raleigh County Circuit Court. In actions, one case was dismissed and another continued to the next term. Mitchell versus Mullins was dismissed on motion of the plaintiff. Lambert versus Gilbert Griffin was continued to the next term.
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Raleigh County Circuit Court
Monroe Mitchell
W. C. Mullins
Arlie R. Lambert
Quarles Gilbert Griffin
Cars Collide in City Near President Hotel
Beckley police estimated property damage at 500 after a two car wreck at 1040 hours on Neville Street near the President Hotel. Drivers identified as J M Buckland Price Hit and Earnest Daily Beckley.
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Beckley
Neville St
President Hotel
J. M. Buckland
Price Hit
Earnest Daily
Youthagecharged with hazardous driving in Beckley court
Douglas Walters, 17, of Beckley has been ordered to appear at the Thursday night session of City Police Court to answer a charge of hazardous driving. He was arrested at 10 30 p m Monday.
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Clinton
Oliver Springs
Anderson County
Adj
Joe Henry
Woodward
Dayton
Garland Pew
Lafe Creek
Tenn
Pew
Nashville
Frank Clement
Soddy
Douglas Walters
Beckley
City Police Court
Violence resurges in Cyprus amid bombings and shootings
In Nicosia and Lamaca a British soldier was shot in a crowded market as a Greek Cypriot youth fled. A bomb shattered the Acropole hotel annex injuring no one, while an interrogation officer slept beside the device under his bed. EOKA gunmen escalate attacks as British and French forces reinforce.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Suez Canal
Lamaca
Famagusta
Acropole
George Pereira
Cyprus Po Rce
West Virginia Rabies Control Progress Cited in Washington
John C. Jones of the Fish and Wildlife Service outlined plans to copy West Virginia’s rabies control program into a federal state campaign. The state saw dramatic drops in rabid dogs from 237 to 8 in the year ending June 30, with fewer rabid foxes and other animals. No human deaths were reported in the region.
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West Virginia
Washington
John C. Jones
Fish and Wildlife Service
Jones
West Dogs
Virginia
Illusibar
Mid- Atlantic
Falso Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
District of Coundia
Let’s Get Our Schools Ready Now booklet offer
Community planning and effort can solve rising enrollments with shortages of teachers and classrooms. To learn how other communities tackle the issue request the free booklet Let’s Get Our Schools Ready Now from Better Schools, 9 East 40th Street New York 16, published as a public service with The Advertising Council.
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East 40Th Street
New York 16
New York
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