Pinball Distributor Testifies in Weirton Official Payoffs
Wheeling AP report says pinball machine distributor Orenzuk testified paying $200 monthly to a Weirton official to unlock venues. He named Weirton city attorney Carl Frankovitch and listed five councilmen as recipients. He claimed payments started 1955 to 1956 to ease police pressure on exhibitors amid gambling charges.
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Wheeling
Aday
Peter Owene
Weirton
West Virginia Crime Commission
Carl Frankovitch
Orenzuk
W. W. Murphy
Commission
Aes
Frankovitch
George Rodak
Bernard Kelly
Max Sacks
Robert Leach
Edward Zagula
Rodak
Hancock County
Dick Wright
Samuel Kusic
Kusic
F. Dean Nichols
Underwood
Clayton Hobbs
James M. Raveira
Orenzak
Hobbs
Raveira
del. J. Horner Davis II
D. Kanawha
del. Ward Dawson
R. Morgan
Nichols
Benny Kang
New Amberland
Phillips
Houston Hedges On Integration In First US School Opening
Negro parents sought to enroll children in Houston’s two previously all white schools as the nation’s largest segregated system opened fall term under federal orders. Three pupils faced delays. the board ordered integration for first grade, with notification to Negro applicants deferred until Friday. No unusual crowds or guards observed. Other Southern states showed mixed progress as Florida integrated a junior high token fashion and openings in Little Rock and Pine Bluff occurred without trouble.
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Associated Press
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nabLu.t
Ben C. Connally
Stone Wells
Sth Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Texas
Will Wilson
Wilson
Richmond
Confederacy
Virginia
Roanoke
Pulaski
Florida
North Miami Beach
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Atlanta
Central and
Hall
Little Rock
Ark
Pine Bluff
Dollarway
Dolores Jean York
Mack Thompson
State Highway Patrol
Donna 600 Miles From Miami Hits Caribbean Islands
Hurricane Donna plowed toward the northwest with 125 mph winds leaving at least 116 dead and hundreds missing across Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. Puerto Rico reported 106 dead and 200 missing, while Haiti, Anguilla, Antigua, and the Leeward Islands also suffered fatalities as warnings extended to the Bahamas and U.S. southeast coast.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Caribbean
Bahamas
United States
Donna
Miami
Turks Island
Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Leeward Islands
Anguilla
Antigua Island
Humacao
West Virginia Weather Forecast and River Notes
West Virginia's weather stays fair and warm today tonight and tomorrow with highs near 80s in mountains and mid 80s to 90 elsewhere. Lows 65 to 70. Five day outlook shows temperatures 2 to 7 degrees above normals with rain about Sunday or Monday. Beckley high yesterday 86 Oak Hill 86 low last night 66. Greenbrier River normal and clear. New gauge reads 1.9 feet.
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W. Va
West Virginia
Oak Hill High
Shinee Dhaece
Crosby Brothers Tie Knot With Las Vegas Showgirl
Gary Crosby wed Las Vegas dancer Barbara Stuart in a civil ceremony at a resort hotel. Like his siblings, he joins Bing Crosby’s family tradition, with no other Crosby attendance at the Tuesday night ceremony.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Gary Crosby
Bing
Crosbys
Barbara Stuart
Oyster Sought For 2 Sheriff Candidates
Seven Mingo County taxpayers mounted Supreme Court action to remove Howard Chambers from the November 8 general election ballot as the Democratic nominee for sheriff. Chambers, serving as sheriff since January 1957 as an appointee after Thurman Chambers’ death, had won the May 10 primary. petitioners argue he is ineligible to serve the next term because he previously deputized under Thurman Chambers in January 1957. They seek the ballot commissioners to appear and justify why Chambers should not be removed from the ticket. The court recently ordered Upshur County ballot commissioners to remove a sheriff nominee who had served as a deputy. A parallel hearing concerned Asa Harpold of Ripley, the Jackson County Republican sheriff nominee, for the same reason.
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Charleston
Mingo County
Supreme Court
Howard Chambers
Chambers
Thurman Chambers
Oza Cline
Mingo
Supreme Court Today
Howard Chamber
Upshur County
Asa Harpold
Ripley
Jackson County
Carpenters Stand Firm on No Contract Rule in Beckley
Beckley Carpenters Union 1911 refuses to back down from its no contract no work stance. Only one project, the Johnstown Road recreation plant, is under contract while other jobs face potential stoppages. President Archie Smith says picketing targets Vip perman Construction Co for all projects and warns of expanded pickets if contracts are not signed.
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Beckley Carpenter's Union 1911
Carpenters
Johnstown Road
Archie Smith
Beaver
Methodist
Smith
Vipperman Construction Co
Vipperman
Wipperman
News Briefs Cover Labor, Diplomacy and Incidents
Michael J. Quill signals willingness to re enter talks on the Pennsylvania Railroad strike but rejects compulsory arbitration. The Soviet Union proposes adding Red China admission to the UN agenda. Meany urges Machinists to back the Democratic ticket. Venezuela’s Arcaya ousted after refusing to sign a condemnation of Cuba. A gunman in women’s clothes robs a bus near Wendover Nev and flees with cash checks and shoes. De Gaulle begins a five day Brittany tour. Welk daughter Donna Lee and James Mack obtain a marriage license planning a Santa Monica wedding. Labor Day traffic toll hits 415, lowest since 1954. Hokkaido polio outbreak kills 66 and sickens 1002 since June. Funeral set for Judge Robert Marx. Miss America 1921 Cahill leads parade in Atlantic City. Alcatraz inmates largely ignore work call. reasons sought.
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Transport Workers Union
Pennsylvania
Soviet Union
United Nations
General Assembly
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Machinists’ Union
St. Louis
Organized Labor
America
Meany
Ignacio Luis Arcaya
Venezuela
OAS
Cuba
Hemisphere
Romulo Betancourt
U.S. 50
Wendover
Nev
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Brittany
France
Lawrence Welk
Donna Lee
James F. Mack
St. Louis University Medical School
Santa Monica
Calif
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Japan
Cincinnati
Robert S. Marx
The
Disabled American Veterans
Mild-mannered optical worker confessed serial killings
Hollywood police say Henry Adolph Busch 29 led officers to two bodies and admitted strangling a third woman last May. He described an urge to kill and claimed a body in his apartment and another at his foster mother's building. Busch, once an Army draftee, worked as a lens polisher and was described as quiet by his landlady.
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Henry Adolph Busch
Busch
Shirley Payne
Elmyra Miller
Witness Tales Diverge on Main Street Dogfire Accounts
Sherwood Glutz notes three observers report three different versions of a dogfire on Main Street. He argues history is often disputed, likening it to political disagreement and the idea that history is written by someone not present.
Eisenhower Deplores Soviet Actions In Congo Crisis
President Eisenhower condemned unilateral Soviet aid to the Congo as aggravating a civil war with Africans killing Africans. He said Soviet planes may operate with crews yet stressed there is no confirmation of arms or crews from Moscow. The UN remains the sole legitimate body to ease tensions and Congo's future must be decided peacefully by the Congolese.
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Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Union
Congo
United Nations
Patrice Lumumba
U. N
Virginian Held For Kidnapping Daughter
Glen Stone of Alexandria Virginia was held for Grand Jury action on kidnapping charges after a preliminary hearing before Magistrate W P Wilson. Stone’s ex wife Raelene obtained the warrant and stated the 4 year old daughter Vicki was taken from Alexandria. Stone was released on bond of 2500 dollars.
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Pineville
Rns
Glen Stone
Alexandria
W. P. Wilson
Stone
Raelene Stone
Wilson
Ohio
Vicki
City Gets A Shampoo
NewCastle on Tyne England AP soap powder snowed from the sky during a rainstorm washing streets and gardens in foam. A dust explosion at a local factory released soap dust for 15 minutes causing children to shield eyes and dogs to go wild. Streets were ankle deep in foam after the rain.
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Newcastle ON Tyne
England
East Germany's President Dies
Wilhelm Pieck, 84, longtime Communist leader and figurehead president of East Germany, died this morning after a heart weakness and lung inflammation. He had been sidelined since July 1958 with Walter Ulbricht as the real power. Pieck's term would have ended in October 1961. he had spent years in exile before returning in 1945 and helping establish the Soviet-backed democratic republic.
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Pieck
Germany
Moscow
Grandma Moses Reaches 100 Amid Warm Birthday Tributes
AP reports Grandma Moses, the famed Eagle Bridge NY painter, celebrated her 100th birthday with 125 visitors. She quips she will live to 200, vows to stay busy, laugh and keep company to remain young, having celebrated a belated party last Sunday for workers and family.
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Eagle Bridge
N.Y
Grandma Moses
Grandma
Congo Assembly voids Kasavubu Lumumba firing clash
In Leopoldville the National Assembly invalidated President Kasavubu's firing of Premier Lumumba and Lumumba's order ousting Kasavubu. In Rome the U S team swept the discus with Al Oerter defending his Olympic title and setting an Olympic record as the U S earned its seventh track and field gold in Rome.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
The
National Assembly
Joseph Kasavubu
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
Kasavubu
Rome
United States
al Oerter
Oerter
Barnard Girls Win Battle Of Bermudas
New York AP reports Barnard College lifts ban on Bermuda shorts with limits two inches above the knee for class and library wear. Columbia University will require long coats over shorts due to male student reaction. The move ends months of campus debate over attire and personal choice.
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New York
Barnard College
Columbia University
Barnard
Columbia
Street Scene Prankster Signs at City Police Headquarters
A street prankster posted a sign outside the police headquarters that reads I am an alcoholic. In case of accident, get me a beer. Police reported the incident but took no immediate action. The sign drew attention from passersby and local residents.
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City Police
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