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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1960
Page
2
Two of seven Indian children seeking admission to all white Dunn High School entered the campus despite a court order. Juanita Chance, 15, and Ima Jean Chance, 13, joined white classmates for an 8 a.m. entry, with others planning to appeal before the county board. The group objects to a 72 mile daily trip to the Indian school near Clinton.
Final plans outline Beckley appearance of F J Callender head of Administration at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Green Bank. He will address the Friends of Raleigh County Public Library at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the Memorial Building. The meeting is open to the public with business postponed until November. Mayor Cecil L Miller and Mrs Miller will greet Callender at the Beckley Hotel.
Mitchells Lies was accused of misleading the public as the walkout began. Quill charged deliberate lies favored by a company and said they stalled negotiations by mobilizing government influence against the strikers. The railroad halted all trains at 12:01 a m cutting service across 13 states and DC, furloughing 52000 PRR workers and costing over 15 million dollars to date.
Four Kanawha Countians from Sissonville along with a juvenile were arraigned before U S Commissioner W A Rife and waived to the federal grand jury on charges of possession of moonshine whisky. Each posted a $500 bond. They were arrested near Arnett.
A relative, Jose Angel Gonzales, 27, admitted killing 10 year old Janie Zepeda to steal a $200 money box. He supposedly struck her with a shovel handle at the family home on August 29, buried the body in a flower bed, and later reenacted the crime for officers after recording his confession.
Mild weather drew millions to highways for the last weekend of summer. The council projected 73 million vehicles on the roads, signaling the heaviest travel of the holiday. If reached, highway fatalities would exceed nonholiday estimates by about 130. An Associated Press survey of the Aug 19 to Aug 22 weekend counted 389 traffic deaths plus 34 boating, 61 drownings, and 90 other deaths, totaling 574. In the first seven months of the year, 20,540 deaths occurred on roads and waterways combined.
Mrs. C. H. Meador of 102 Pine St. is in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital after Tuesday admission for treatment. A family member said she is expected to be released later this week and will recuperate at her daughter Mrs. E. W. Kinzer's home at Mariwood Farms 17 Willowood Road for several days.
Nine fishermen from Georgia endured 22 hours at sea after their chartered boat swamped in the Gulf of Mexico. They clung to a hatch cover and a life raft six miles east of Dog Island, faced sharks and cold, and were rescued by the Sandy near Carrabelle Florida. Two boys aged 10 and 11 were placed on the life raft while the men swam to stay warm.
Burns in eastern Kentucky store identified a counterfeit ten dollar bill passed by four suspects. He pursued the men after they fled, alerted state police, and held them at gunpoint until officers arrived. State Detective Sam King identified Ray Napier, Pershing Napier of Richmond, Ky, and George Swanson 39, and Burdete Copps 38 of Chicago, charged with possession of counterfeit money.
James Harvey, president of the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter at West Virginia Institute of Technology, attended the fraternity convention in Miami Beach, Florida. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Theo Harvey of Harper Road, he also spent three days at a Lakeland leadership school before the convention.
Khrushchev’s visit to the United Nations amplifies Cold War tensions as disarmament talks stall. Western and neutral governments view the UN as a potential arena for a broader battle, while Kennedy warns against outside interference during a US election year. De Gaulle and other leaders remain skeptical about any substantive progress.
West Virginia business activity lagged in July with nine of twenty indicators ahead of 1959, though seven-month totals of 1960 show 14 categories surpassing 1959. Gains included coal earnings rising 8.5 percent in July to 119.27 and 25.9 percent year to date.
Raleigh County 4H Club member Bill Craig joined six other WV youths at the 13th annual regional 4H Camp in Washington D C. Also attending from the area were Carl Wells and Audrey Gunn of Fayette County and Vera Ann Smoot of Boone County.
Mrs Alma Furrow 39 of Beckley died at Raleigh General Hospital at 7 25 am today after admission Thursday Her husband John Furro is named among survivors The body is at Melton Mortuary pending arrangements Funeral services incomplete for Mrs Lillian Sue Hardiman 74 Harper Heights who died Sunday night in a local hospital after a long illness Survivors include husband M C Hardiman and daughter Mrs Ildon Borrer The body is at Caffee Funeral Home
John Calvin Sarrett 90 of 304 Third Ave. Raleigh County, retired farmer and former sheriff deputy, will receive 2 p m Tuesday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Alvin J. Cook and Rev Anthony Garges officiating. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park. Survivors include Rosa Worley Sarrett wife daughter Dessie Jane Sarrett of Beckley Glida Leslie of St Petersburg Fla and Linda of Beckley.
Funeral services for Gilbert W. Haynes aged 71 will be held Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in Charleston with Rev. Moses Newsome presiding. Survivors include two sisters Mrs. Cleo Blakey of 225 Church Street and Mrs. Edina Howard of 259 S Heber Street.
John Marshall Adkins, 70, of Pla s to, died at 6:40 a.m. today at Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital after a three month illness. Funeral arrangements are not complete. Final rites for Thomas W. Hess, 56, of Calloway Heights, will be conducted.
A Michigan river search resumed after midnight as divers tackle a large river section about 900 feet wide where a man reportedly drowned. Authorities pursue safety and recovery efforts amid ongoing rescue operations.
Kennedy censures world and endorses status quo while in Anchorage. He forecasts a minimum 10 million vote rise over 62,027,040 in 1956 with reports of up to 20 million new voters. He flies 2850 miles non-stop to Detroit before departing.
Registration for full time students is set for Friday 1 to 4 p m in the College Library. Freshmen register Thursday 1 to 4 p m and Friday 8 to 12 noon. Part time and evening students may register Friday 7 to 9 p m. Classes begin Monday September 12 at 8 a m.
AFL-CIO leaders warn against poor leadership as they call for joint labor management citizen effort to pass legislation. They urge loans for industry, grants for public facilities, retraining, and urban renewal. The piece notes multiple holiday observances including a Camp Fairchance picnic where 147 prisoners welcomed families for a day.
Labor praised the Democratic nominee as stressing the strength of unions and free bargaining. Kennedy urged a clean sweep to restore America’s ideals and criticized the Eisenhower administration for politicizing economic issues and key legislation like minimum wage health care school construction and housing aid.
Navy crew prepared to return to Norfolk base with a four engine Neptune bomber after enlisted man Robert Swain 34 flew the aircraft from North Island San Diego to Shreveport where authorities arrested him. Swain had never flown before but managed to refuel and take off before running out of fuel. The incident involved a chained sequence of transfers from Norfolk to Burbank to San Diego and back to Louisiana amid classified material on board. Local guards at Barksdale AFB held Swain while naval officials prepared administrative action.
Charleston AP report outlines the West Virginia Supreme Court term starting next Wednesday. It centers on whether municipal sewer systems fall under Public Service Commission jurisdiction, a question Wheeling has pressed while the court also hears cases on a junkyard law tax stamp disputes and ballot validity. The docket includes 28 cases with many more anticipated after the November election.
A summary of multiple brief items notes Marilyn Monroe flying from Reno after hospital rest, Bing Crosby’s son Lindsay giving out cigars after Barbara Crosby’s birth of a son named David Lindsay, Miss America contestants arriving in Atlantic City to register two days before the pageant, Vyacheslav Molotov arriving in Vienna to assume his post with the IAEA, a spate of New England fires claiming seven lives including six children, and a California superintendent William Evatt shooting his children and himself.
The article lists 1961 62 budget requests for nine state colleges with figures for personal services current expenses repairs and alterations and equipment. It also details buildings and land requests including Concord Fairmont Glenville Marshall Shepherd West Liberty West Virginia Tech and West Virginia State and related state education agency projects.
Former Louisiana governor failed in bid for reelection, sought lieutenant governor role, then faced a national mental health crisis last summer. He was hospitaled in Galveston after a fractious session, flew to New Orleans, and was later confined at Mandeville on his wife's orders before court actions granted releases and new hearings.
James W. Shelton, 35, of Beckley, is in a Elkins hospital after a tractor trailer wreck near Valley Head Saturn. He was riding with Orville B. Wilson, 134 Union, on a livestock trip when the truck crashed into a bridge. the driver was killed. Shelton, son of Mr and Mrs N C Shelton, lives with his Beckley parents and works out of Union. He suffered a deep head cut and heavy blood loss but is expected to be released in a few days.
Sidon Borrer, Beckley postmaster assistant, remained in fairly good condition at Beckley Hospital after injuries from a two car accident Thursday near his home. Police and investigators said the incident involved multiple vehicles and is under review. Borrer was listed as stable with no life threatening injuries.
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