U S Combat Command Organized On Formosa
The United States reorganizes its advisory force on Formosa into a unified combat command under Pacific leadership. Adm. Smoot says the move ensures centralized control as Chinese actions loom. Nike Hercules missiles arrive with a 75 mile strike range and launch sites being built near Nationalist defenses.
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Taipei
Formosa
United States
U.S. Formosa
Roland N. Smoot
Quemoy
Defense Ministry
Pescadores Islands
Smoot
Navy
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S. Formosa Defense Command
Commander In Chief
Pacific
Smilot
Leander Dean
Military Assistance Advisory Group
Genera
Fred den
U.S. Air Task Force
Paul Blackburn
Formosa Strait
Smool
U.S
U.S. Taiwan
Faubus Bets on Segregationists in Arkansas Referendum
In Little Rock Governor Orval Faubus urged segregationists to stand firm as he framed a plan to lease public high schools to private segregationist groups funded by state money. He claimed no federal rulings allow contempt against school boards leasing to private schools. He warned that a pro integration vote could end public schools' use of facilities. The move followed a flurry of actions including private school group formation and federal marshal deployments.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Faubus
Central High School
Virgil Blossom
Women's Emergency Committee
Officials Seek State Relaxation of City Curbs
13 municipalities endorsed a seven point program to loosen state constraints on cities. The plan, though not backed by the West Virginia League of Municipalities, aims to permit capital improvements carryover, cap city liability in sidewalk falls, curb sewer charge authority, raise support for the league, exempt local governments from gas tax, expand fire service charges beyond city borders, and allow local sales taxes on telecoms. Delegates from Oak Hill Fayetteville Bluefield Parkersburg Ravenswood Morgantown Huntington Charleston Clarksburg Weirton Wheeling Logan and Moundsville will present the proposal at Blackwater Falls convention November 15-16.
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Huntington
West Virginia League of Municipalities
League
Blackwater Falls
Public Service Commission
Oak Hill
Fayetteville
Bluefield
Parkersburg
Ravenswood
Morgantown
Charleston
Clarksburg
Weirton
Wheeling
Logan
Moundsville
Jury weighs $20,000 suit in Waycaster v Surratt Hall
Raleigh County Circuit Court jurors deliberated on July 1957 death of a 17 year old in Arnett. Tom W Waycaster seeks $20,000 from Benton Surratt and George Hall over a car crash. Final arguments concluded and jury to reassemble for further deliberations.
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Raleigh ‘County
Tom W. Waycaster
Benton Paul Surratt
George Hall
Surratt
Hall
Waycaster
Arnett
Surrat
Norman Knapp
Walter Snyder
Harper Heights
George Willis
Willis Water Works
Snyder
Willis
L. L. Lederer
Knapp
Living Costs Dip After Two Year Rise
Washington AP reports the Labor Department says August living costs fell slightly after a two year climb, due to late summer food price drops. Government index stands at 123.7 percent of the average, up 2.2 percent from last August. Ewan Clague cautions no sustained decline and notes earnings rose slightly July to August with a three-dependent family averaging $75.90 weekly after taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Ewan Clague
Clague
Algerian Rebels Form Government in Exile
The Algerian National Liberation Front declared a government in exile with Ferhat Abbas as premier. The cabinet includes five leaders then prisoners of France. The provisional government began functioning at 1 p m in Cairo, with Algerian and UAR flags displayed. Abbas promised a policy declaration next week.
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Cairo
Algerian National Liberation Front
FLN
France
Ferhat Abbas
Southern Governors Gather For Conference
Governors from 14 southern states arrive in Lexington Kentucky for the annual conference amid tensions over school integration. The event centers on Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus whose Little Rock actions drew national attention. Attendees include Cecil H Underwood of West Virginia with sessions set for Monday through Wednesday.
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Lexington
Orvald.Faubus
Arkansas
Little Rock
Cecil H. Underwood
West Virginia
TV News Chief Barred From Formosa
The Chinese Nationalist government bars James Robinson an American NBC correspondent from returning to Formosa citing an unfriendly attitude toward the regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipe
Formosa
James ‘Robinson
The
National Broadcasting Co
Washington Man Freed Of Charge
William Mason of Washington D C was freed from Raleigh County Jail after a non support charge was withdrawn before Magistrate W A Burke. Also William Burgess of Beckley was released after serving time on hit and run and drunken driving charges jailed August 2 by City Police. A 37 year old Beckley juvenile released to return to school after arrest for fighting at a football game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Mason
Washington, D.C
Raleigh County
W. A. Burke
Beckley
Burke
William Burgess
Burgess
Raleigh
Okey Mills
Sheriff's
West Virginia Weather Forecast Update
Clear and cool tonight with valley fog and lows 42 to 52. Saturday brings sun and warmer afternoon. Beckley and Oak Hill show typical yesterday highs. river conditions at Bellepoint Greenbrier normal and clear. Bluestone Reservoir at normal stage with one gate open and gauge 1.6 ft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley High
Cseseeseee Law
Cseseseeeeren
OAK Hill High
Bellepoint Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Nation weighs 13 million working wives in economy
Washington AP reports the National Manpower Council cites 80 experts on a 220 page study noting married women’s employment sustains family income and overall economy. They warn society may be unready for shifts in child care and domestic roles even as women’s labor grows.
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Washington
National Manpower Council
Council
Womanpower
Ford Foundation
County Gains 292000 Under Pension Increase
Federal pension checks to Raleigh County residents will gain an additional 252000 a year starting February, due to a Social Security amendment. The boost lifts average county payments and expands spending power, affecting retailers and local businesses.
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Raleigh County
Social Security Fund
Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
United States
South Atlantic States
Princeton Area Boy Killed By School Bus
Six year old Roger Wayne Harmon was struck and killed by a Mercer County school bus near Glenwood Park at about 7 30 a m He darted from behind a truck into the buses path. Driver Howard Elmore swerved to avoid him, first accident in about 15 years of bus service No charges yet. He was a Glenwood Park Elementary first grader Survivors include parents Allen and Frances Harmon four brothers and three sisters The body lies at Bailey Funeral Home Princeton arrangements incomplete
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Princeton
RNS
Roger Wayne Harmon
Allen and
Frances Byrd Harmon
New Hope Road
Glenwood Park
Howard Thompson
State Police
Howard Elmore
Mercer County Board of Education
Elmore
Marlinton
Ray
Robert
Stephen
Duncan
Hene Leese
Barbara Doolittle
Alaska
Frances
Bailey Funeral Home
Crash Victims Being Moved From Beckley Hospital
Two Air Force men seriously injured in the T-34 trainer crash near Redden's Ridge on Sept. 11 were to be moved by ambulance from Beckley Veterans Hospital around noon. Captain Carl E. Mate er and S. Sgt. William Marshall, aiding the search for the missing C-45, likely will be taken to a Bakalar AFB hospital in Columbus, Indiana, where they are stationed.
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Air Force
Beckley Veterans Hospital
Carl E. Mateer
William Marshall
Redden’s Ridge
Table Rock
Bakalar Air Force Base
Columbus
Ind
Polio Victim 15 Dies in Huntington Hospital
Phyllis Mayo, 15, without vaccine, died of polio in a Huntington hospital two days after onset. Dr. Bruce Pollock said she was among three Cabell County children stricken within two days, one of seven children affected in the county that year.
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Huntington (Ap
Phyllis Mayo
Huntington
Bruce Pollock
Leslie Mayo
Harveytown
Cabell County
Phyllis
Teen Town Launches New Season Tonight
Beckley Teen Town opens its 1958-39 season with a dance after the Beckley Charleston football game. The center will be open to all teenagers all season following a summer closure. Police officer Charles McCormick serves as director of the youth center.
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Beckley
Charles McCormick
Underwood backs statewide credit authority for WV
Gov. Underwood urged a statewide credit authority to aid West Virginia financing. He cited cooperative study by the WV Industrial and Publicity Commission, Bankers Assn and Chamber of Commerce. He cited plants and federal projects boosting jobs and industry with hundreds of millions in new investment.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Underwood
West Virginia
Apple Grove
Parsons
Green Bank
Sugar Grove
Tiny Atomic Test Opens Nevada Nuclear Series
A tiny yet powerful atomic device exploded over Yucca Flat at 7 a.m. marking the seventh and possibly final test in a 10 shot series called Operation Deadline. Detonated from a balloon at 500 feet, the 20 kiloton device produced a small cloud and was heard only faintly 100 miles away as the moratorium looms.
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Nev
Nevada Proving ' Ground
Yucca Flat
News Nob
Eisenhower
AEC
Eisenhower To Limit Campaign Speeches This Fall
President Eisenhower plans to limit his congressional campaign appearances to fewer than a half dozen in the final three weeks before the November election. Vice President Nixon may expand a schedule, with four California speeches already lined up and possible East Midwest and Pacific Coast appearances.
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Washington
Presi
Dent
Eisenhower
Nixon
Midwest
Pacific Coast
California
William F. Knowland
Senate
Goodwin J. Knight
Knowland
House
Beckley Driver Faces Auto Crash Hearing
A Beckley woman Reva B Mahoney 3 307 Temple St was charged with cutting across the highway after an automobile accident on the 1921 By-Pass at 7 38 am today. She collided with John Hager 19 Lanark and struck Geraldine IL Dale 213 Clyde St parked car. Damages estimated at 300.
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Beckley
Reva B.mahoney
Temple St
John Hager
Lanark
Geraldine IL. Dale
Clyde St
Moon and Sun Times Align With Equinox Phase
Beckley reports sun set at 6 27 p m and rise at 6 10 a m Saturday while the moon sets at 11 08 p m and reaches first quarter at 10 27 p m The note links first quarter moons to autumnal and vernal equinox timings and tidal lows in typical pattern.
United States seeks delay on Red China seat at U.N. session
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge proposed delaying action on seating Red China for at least a year in the U.N. General Assembly Steering Committee. Indian Defense Minister Krishna Menon urged full debate as Nationalist China and the Peiping regime clash over representation. Tsiang condemned Peiping as Soviet influenced and not representing the Chinese people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations, N.Y
United States
U.N
Red China
Henry Cabot Lodge
General Assembly
Lodge
K. Krishna Menon
Assembly
China
Peiping
U.S
Formosa
Far East
T. F. Tsiang
Woodrow Wilson High Principal Becomes Grandfather
Woodrow Wilson High School principal C. G. Peregoy and his wife, of 308 Park Ave., became grandparents when their daughter Martha Nickels gave birth to a six and a half pound daughter at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Cabell-Huntington Hospital. The parents reside in Huntington. the baby's name was not known at noon.
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Grandfather Peregoy
Woodrow Wilson
C. G. Peregoy
Park Ave
Martha
T. B. Nickels
Cabell-Huntington Hospital
H Huntington
iPrincipal Peregoy
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