Just Like Christmas Shoppers Crowd Beckley Stores
Shoppers crowded Beckley stores amid a back to school shopping surge. J W Kern of G C Murphy reported the best Tuesday since Easter and strong Saturday traffic. Montgomery Ward and J C Penney managers likewise described brisk, holiday like business. Vogue and E M Payne Co also noted high activity with busy downtown conditions.
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Beckley
J. W. Kern
G. C. Murphy Co
Montgomery Ward Co
Tony DeMaiori
J. C. Penney Co
VOGUE
Sidney Fink
John Kushner
E. M. Payne Co
Blood Donors Sought for John Dellinger
Blood donors are needed for John Dellinger a Beckley traffic agent for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway now in grave condition at Ani Slp Hospital Charlottesville Any type blood is accepted and may be forwarded to a Virginia hospital The family says Dellinger will be charged 40 dollars for each pint not replaced He has been treated for a liver condition and recently returned home before a coma Friday morning and internal bleeding doctors say he will need more blood
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John ©. Dellinger
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Beckley
Anislp Hospital
Charlottesville
Virginia Hospital
Dellingers
Dellinger
Virginia Institution
Fair Denies Nounce Members After Unfavorable Testimony
Fair denies removing members after testimony critical of him and his administration. He argues investigations are politically motivated, centered on Clay and Greenbrier counties. The hearing, likely to extend to Saturday, follows IRS data showing the Northern Panhandle as West Virginia’s gambling hub. IRS records indicate over $100,000 paid in stamps by 410 Ohio, Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, and Wetzel county entities, with 421 stamps costing $250 annually. The same counties dominated bookie and liquor stamp activity. Witnesses may vote to exclude the public under the act that created the commission. The five legislators directing the panel are Democrats. they must file a final report by winter. They may propose changes to state law.
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IRS
Ohio
Brooke
Hancock
Marshall
Wetzel
Pasteeth Offers firmer false teeth and less worry
An improved non acid powder named PASTEETH is advertised to keep false teeth firmer and more comfortable. It claims to reduce embarrassment from loose plates and urges readers to buy at any drug counter.
Kennedy Attitude Sparks Crowd Rallies Across Michigan
In Muskegon Kennedy stood on a park platform under a harvest moon and voiced a blunt view of Eisenhower, saying he admires the president but rejects the current leadership. About 150000 attended rallies in Detroit Pontiac Flint and Muskegon as Nixon recovers. Johnson Lodge Rockefeller campaigned elsewhere while Truman assailed a Republican future.
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Muskegon
Mich
Eisenhower
United States
Detroit
Pontiac
Flint
Cadillac Square
Adlai E. Stevenson
Richard M. Nixon
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Nixon
Sen
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Austin
Boston
Hartford
Conn
New York City
Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Abington
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Lodge
Harry S. Truman
Marion
Ind
The
Saturday Evening Post
Post
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Worcester
Mass
Ezra Taft Benson
Chesterfield
News items from many places mix tragedy and policy
Short items note a fatal shooting, a truck crash with migrant workers and corn, veteran director Alfred E. Green’s death, a Ky boy found hanged, Indian school fears in North Carolina, a Bogota conference on Latin American aid, a Cass shooter tragedy, a Gazette office move, and liquor orders for Christmas decanters.
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Ashland
Earsel G. Davis
Harnett County
North Carolina
Bogota
Columbia
U. S
Douglas Dillon
U.S
Latin America
PRR Bids to Rally Striking Members for Arbitration
Pennsylvania Railroad proposes submitting to arbitration three issues. One defines job classifications to bar misassignment of workers. Two bans outsourcing repairs when cheaper in-house. Three allows union members to walk off for protest meetings if a worker disputes superiors.
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Bia
Wyoming ASC Board Makes Election Plans
The Wyoming County Agricultural Stabilization Conservation election board met to plan setting up community election and tabulation boards and the times and places for ballot return for community committeemen. A similar Raleigh County meeting was held last week with members Roscoe Plumley, Frank Patton, and Harry Headley listed.
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Wyoming County Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Election Board
Raleigh
Wyoming,election Board
Roscoe Plumley
Wyoming County
Frank Patton
Farmers Home Administration Area
Harry Headley
Raleigh-Wyoming Soil Conservation Service Unit
West Virginia weekend highway deaths tally beats record
A grim Labor Day weekend in West Virginia left eleven people dead in highway crashes and one drowning in the New River near Hinton. The fatalities spanned multiple counties including Hardy, Marshall, Wyoming, Randolph, Kanawha, Taylor, and Monongalia, with victims ranging from a four year old to adults in their thirties. A separate shooting near Clarksburg claimed John McIntyre, 28, as Sheriff Rex Bumgardner reported details remain unclear from the wounded nephew. The tabulation covers Friday through Monday and lists victims by day with ages and hometowns.
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Associated Press
Morgantown
Pineville
Moorefield
Ranvencliff
Wyoming County
Valley Head
Randolph County
Clear Fork
Rosemont
Taylor County
Kanawha
Marshall County
Michigan
New River
Hinton
West Virginia
John McIntyre
Clarksburg
Rex Bumgardner
William Carpenter
Robert Edward Lee
Romney
Prawney Cole
Hardy County
Thomas Eisner
Leon Champine
Utica
Mich
Jack Rogers Clark
Cameron
Dale Stewart
Ravencliff
Bobby T. Bailey
Glen Rogers
Benny Joe Stewart
Ken Maynor
Defectors from Cuba Spur NSA Personnel Probe
Congressional reaction followed the discovery that two former Cuban defectors are now in Moscow. The House Un American Activities Committee will subpoena the National Security Agency personnel director to obtain the two code clerks employment records. A Capitol Hill source indicated another group had begun a preliminary inquiry, likely to defer to House investigators. The informant said NSA should never have employed either man.
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Moscow
House Committee On UN- American Activities
National Security Agency
Capitol Hill
House Committee
House
NSA
Funeral services set for Jess Nick Burroughs 72
Funeral services for Jess Nick Burroughs 72 of MacArthur will be at 1 p m Wednesday at Crab Orchard Baptist Church with Rev Shirley Donnelly officiating Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Park He died Monday at 12 25 p m after a long illness He was born in Bedford County Virginia and lived in Raleigh County five years A retired coal miner he was a member of Crab Orchard Baptist Church Eagles Club Beckley Moose Lodge and United Mine Workers Local 6110 Survivors include his wife Ruby Holloway Burroughs three sons three daughters a sister and two step children Pallbearers listed.
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Burroughs
MacArthur
Crab Orchard Baptist Church
Shirley Donnelly
Sunset Memorial Park
Bedford County
William David
Marcella Morgan Burroughs
Raleigh County
The
Eagles Club
Beckley Moose Lodge
United Mine Workers of America
Ruby Holloway Burroughs
Linwood D. Burroughs
Bedford
John D. Burroughs
Roanoke
Samuel N. Burroughs
Hampton
Lucille Burroughs
W. G. Light
Norfolk
George Davis
Richmond
R. L. Kirkman
Robert Speir
Fresno
Calif
James Speir
Beckley
Fred Hill
Michael T. Waslo
Greenbank
Caffee
Frank Dowell
Earl Seigle
John Wilcox
R. Jennings
Ivan Wilcox
Ed Luckabill
D. C. Kester
Robert Kidd
Fred Nichols
Funeral notices for Kiser Smith Furrow and Furrow kin
Obituaries announce funeral arrangements for Mrs. Ubie Murphy Kiser 72 of Sophia who died after a two month illness. Services at First Baptist Church Sophia with burial Sunset Memorial Park. Also noted are services for Elvira Jane Smith 81 Leckie Boyds Chapel Church, and Ruth Alma Furrow 39 Raleigh County with burial in Valley Vista Memorial Gardens Tatwell. Additional incomplete notices list arrangements for Stacy Ezra Smith and early details on other relatives.
Funeral services set for Mrs Blanche Stone of Kilsyth
Funeral services for Mrs Blanche Lee Stone 57 Kilsyth will be at 2 p m Thursday at Kilsyth Freewill Baptist Church with Rev R H Dean Bradley and Rev W C Combs in charge Burial will be in High com Memorial Park Oak Hill She died Monday morning after a short illness She was born Jan 7 1903 at Oak Hill She was a church member and active in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Survivors include husband Clarence Stone four sons four daughters a sister and four brothers and 17 grandchildren The body is at Tyree Funeral Home Mount Hope Arrangements incomplete Friends may call after noon Wednesday
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Sophia
First Baptist Church
Dewey Wilson
Sunset Memorial Park
Elvira Jane Smith
Glen Fork
Everett Blevins
Leckie
John and
Mary Terry Bailey
Boyds Chapel Methodist Church
E. J. Smith
C. M. Moore
Lillie Metcalf
Beckley
George Larue
Kennis Cooke
Huntington
Sylvia Thompson
Falmouth
Stacy
Ezra
Harry
Baltimore
Elma Dukes
Kelso
Wash
Martha Sadler
Falls View
Princeton
Virginia Sadler
Fallis Virew
Delbert
Luther Bailey
George Anawalt
Carl
Fred Cook
Valley Vista Memorial Gardens
Tatwell
Rose and Quesenberry
Ezra Smith
Blanche Lee Stone
Kilsyth
Kilsyth Freewill Baptist Church
R. H. Dean
Bradley
W. C. Combs
Crab Orchard
Highcom Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Emma Burgess Farrish
Kilsyth Freewill
Benny Fullen Funeral Arrangements Reported
Benny Fullen, 69, of Mills Avenue died at his home after a long illness. Funeral arrangements are in progress with his body at Trent Funeral Home.
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Benny Fullen
Mills Avenue
Trent Funeral Home
Final rites for John Marshall Adkins in Pluto
John Marshall Adkins 65 died after a long illness at Beckley VA Hospital. Funeral services will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Log Church Pluto with Rev Samuel Meadows officiating. Burial in Meadows Cemetery Pluto. Survived by nieces and nephews in Pluto. Born December 6 1890 at Hamlin son of Britton and Jane Adkins. Veteran WWI retired farmer and timberman. Body to be moved from Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home one hour before services.
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Pluto
Log Church
Samuel Meadows
Meadows Cemetery
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Adkins
Hamlin
Britton
Jane Fry Adkins
Rose and Quesenberry
Funeral services for Leon Champine in Utica
Leon Champine, 24, of Utica Michigan, drowned while wading in New River Sunday. His body was recovered at 10 30 a m Monday by Summers County Rescue Squad. Fireman John Lively and James Wood, the victim's brother in law, located the body about 120 yards from the last sighting.
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Leon Champine
Utica
Mich
New River
Champine
Summers County
John Lively
James Wood
Asian Leaders Doubt USSR-Chinese Rift
Asian officials express skepticism about a Soviet Chinese split over relations with the non Communist world. South Korea, Indonesia, and Vietnam offer varied views while Western observers suspect dual strategies. Soviet Premier to visit Pyongyang and Hanoi amid ongoing guerrilla activity and border tensions.
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South Korea
Soviet Union
Red China
North Korea
Chung Yil Hyung
Khrushchev
Moscow
Indonesia
China
Funeral services for Mrs Lillian Hardiman
Mrs Lillian Hardiman 74 of Harper Heights died Sunday in a local hospital after a heart attack at her home. Funeral services are set for 2 p m Wednesday at Caffee Funeral Home Capel with Rev Everett R Shafer in charge. Survivors include husband M C Hardiman four daughters Mrs I E Borrer Mrs Dorothy McKroskey Mrs Margaret Jones Pittsburgh Pa and Mrs Louise Blankenship Huntington a son Roy Baltimore Md 11 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren Pallbearers named Theman Rorrer Charley Stanley James Bellamy Earl Allen Boyd Stanley Ralph Poole Howard Thompson and James Snuffer.
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Lillian Hardiman
Harper Heights
Caffee
Capel
Everett R. Shafer
Sunset Memorial Park
James Bellamy
Earl Allen
Boyd Stanley
Ralph Poole
Howard Thompson
James Snuffer
Cross Suits On Accident Open Today In Raleigh Court
In Beckley on wintry streets last Jan 19 two civil suits moved in Raleigh County Circuit Court. John William Jackson Smith seeks 127.91 for auto damages while Dr Mary Louise Soentgen asks 233.79. Soentgen testified Smith gave contradicting stories about turning from Central Avenue onto South Oakwood Avenue. Smith denied the inconsistency as attorney Don Hodson for Soentgen wrapped up the case after the doctor testified.
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Raleigh County
John William Jackson Smith
Mary Louise Soentgen
Smith
Central Avenue
South Oakwood Avenue
Beckley Hospital
South Oakwood
Soentgen
Ward - Evans Motor Co
Jack, Mann
Don Hodson
Jurors Excused Till Wednesday In Raleigh County Court
Jurors for the August term of Raleigh County Circuit Court were dismissed until 9 a.m. Wednesday except for those on the Soentgen Smith cases. Only 33 of 74 jurors on the list reported for the first session. Judge Norman Knapp said 32 is the minimum number needed to operate, so he could not excuse others with urgent needs.
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Raleigh County
Soentgen - Smith
Norman Knapp
Congo Crisis Deepens as Kasavubu Claims Chief Role
Kasavubu clapped and cheered as he declared he is no longer chief of state while asserting leadership of the national army. The Congo faces a civil war with Lumumba forces, Soviet and Russian involvement alleged, and a political divide over centralization versus autonomy amid casualties and secessionist clashes in the southeast.
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Ers
Lumumba
Kasavubu
Central Africa
U.N
Selo
Louie Gall Discharged After Gunshot Wounds at Beckley Memorial
Louie Gall, Glen Daniel, was discharged from Beckley Memorial Hospital Saturday after several weeks of treatment for self and safety related gunshot wounds to his head.
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Louie Gall
Glen Daniel
Beckley Memorial Hospital
New Hampshire GOP Rift Fuels Democratic Hopes In 1958
In New Hampshire the GOP split behind rival candidates for renomination to a second term, while a third GOP hopeful warns the split could aid Democrats. Governor Wesley Powell faces former Gov. Hugh Gregg and State Rep. Wayne Crosby amid a party feud over machine politics and county government. Democrats, led by Bernard Boutin and Rochester pair John Shaw and Robert Watson, face a fractured field as they seek their first governorship since 192?
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Jungry Eancer
New Hampshire
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wesley Powell
Hugh Gregg
Powell
Wayne Crosby
Crosby
Gregg
GOP
Concord Gang
Nashua
New England Council
Hampton Falls
Concord
Hillsboro
Bernard L. Boutin
Laconia
John Shaw
Robert W. Watson
Rochester
Shaw
Boutin
Labor Leaders Cite WV Hardship On Labor Day
George J. Titler of United Mine Workers District 29 denounced the Taft Hartley Act as a slave law in Beckley while noting 44 million unemployed. Miles Stanley of the West Virginia Labor Federation highlighted West Virginia’s economic distress with 185000 under 2000 dollars, 50000 on aid, 27000 on jobless benefits, 30000 to 35000 exhausted benefits, and 250000 on surplus commodities during a Mason Jackson AFL CIO program.
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Labor
George J. Titler
United Mine Workers District 29
Beckley
Titler
Miles Stanley
West Virginia Labor Federation
West Virginia
Mason-Jackson Labor Council
Afl-Cio
Police Patrol Lease From Jail Ends in Shooting
Dotson was shot twice by Estepp with a .38 caliber pistol between 6 and 9 p m Saturday. He was rushed to a hospital where surgeons worked four hours and 20 minutes. Estepp surrendered to Pike County authorities, was arraigned on felonious wounding charges before Magistrate John P Young, waived preliminary hearing and posted 5,000 bond for the grand jury’s next meeting.
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Dotson
Estepp
Pike County
John P. Young
Pike County Grand Jury
Soviet journalists refuse residence details and spy questions
Soviet journalists declined to reveal their place of residence and said visits by relatives or friends would have to be arranged through the Soviet government. They parried questions about their feelings on alleged Soviet spy operations and did not directly answer if secret Soviet messages were among those deciphered by the United States.
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United States
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