U.N. Assembly backs Hammarskjold Congo action
The General Assembly voted 70 to 0 with 11 abstentions to support Dag Hammarskjold’s Congo policies, rebuking Soviet opposition. The nine-nation Soviet bloc, France and South Africa abstained, as the vote followed a late-night emergency session and followed sharp Soviet criticism of U.N. handling of Lumumba.
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United Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
Dag Hammarskjold
Congo
Hammarskjold
France
South Africa
Nikita Khrushchev
U.N
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
East West Fight For Support In UN Spotlight
The 15th session of the General Assembly opens in New York as the East West struggle for uncommitted votes unfolds with Khrushchev ready to engage. World leaders converge amid Congo turmoil, disarmament search, and the upcoming role of nations joining the Assembly.
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United Nations
N.Y
Nikita Khrushchev
General Assembly
New York
Congo
Khrushchev
Khrushchev Attendance at UN Session Uncertain
In New York Khrushchev's presence at the United Nations General Assembly opening session remained unclear. A press aide refused to comment on the Soviet delegation or Khrushchev's plans, and U.S. officials said they had no knowledge of a Khrushchev arrival.
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New York
Nikita Khrushchev
United Nations General Assembly
Khrushchev
U. S. State Department
Khrushchev at UN Amid Drama as Anti Castro Protests Roar
At the United Nations opening session Khrushchev faced heated crowds outside as Fidel Castro supporters clashed with police. The day focused on admitting 15 new nations and previewed a power struggle between East and West over the Peru presidency. Boland emerges as a leading Western candidate.
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Africa
Cyprus
U.N
Khrushchev
Communist Bloc
East West
Victor Andres Belaunde
Peru
West
Frederick A. Boland
Khrushchev Visits Fidel in Harlem
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev abruptly left the Park Avenue residence to tour the Hotel Theresa in Harlem. A surprise motorcade required improvised security as Khrushchev, smiling, saluted photographers after meeting Cuban Premier Raul Roa. The visit signals possible follow up to his United Nations stay with a Cuban encounter.
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New York
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Theresa
Harlem
Park Avenue
Khrushchev
Raul Roa
United Nations
Cuba
West Virginia Weather Summary For Beckley And Oak Hill
Partly cloudy today with a high near 75 and cooler tonight down to 50s to 58. Tomorrow remains largely unchanged with fair conditions. Beckley records a high of 80 and a low around 62 last night while Oak Hill reports a high of 81 and a low near 55. River gauges show Greenbrier normal and muddy, Lake normal and clear with 2.4 ft gauge.
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Beckley High
Oak Hill
Greenbrier
Khrushchev's UN Visit Aims At Shifting Global Tensions
AP analyst William Ryan assesses Khrushchev's UN General Assembly trip as a potential Soviet political misstep. Khrushchev seeks to blame the U S for nuclear fears, isolate the U S from developing nations, and sow discord among allies while pushing for top level negotiations and a world summit.
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William Ryan
Associated Press
United Nations, N.Y
Nikita Khrushchev
United Nations
Eral
Big Glass House
East River
United States
America
Khrushchev
WVU to receive million dollar Swiger estate gift
West Virginia University will inherit a residuary trust valued at over 1 million dollars from Arlen G. Swiger of New York, a Harrison County native and WVU 1908 law graduate. The Louise and Arlen Swiger Scholarships fund will fund scholarships, fellowships or prizes for current or future WVU students.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
Arlen G. Swiger
New York
Harrison County
W. Va
University
Louise
Arlen Swiger
WVU
Elvis J. Stahr Jr
Swiger
Tyler County
Sistersville
House of Delegates
House
West Virginia
Nehru and Khan Aim to Extend River Accord
Indian Prime Minister Nehru and Pakistan President Ayub Khan began talks in Karachi aimed at extending the Indus River accord to other quarrels between their nations. Kashmir will be the main topic as they meet through Friday after signing the Indus waters treaty. The World Bank will administer a $1 billion irrigation fund, with the United States contributing $515 million.
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Karachi
Pakistan
India
Nehru
Mohammad Ayub Khan
Kashmir
Ayub
World Bank
United States
Train kills Woman near Pecks Mill in Ohio
AP reports Mrs. Jane H. Adams of Pecks Mill was killed while walking along railroad tracks as a Chesapeake and Ohio train approached. Trooper J. L. Tryall said she had her back to the train and apparently did not hear it.
You Need CD You Need CD Volunteers For Civil Defense
A total of 18 men have volunteered to Raleigh County's Civil Defense program to date, with hundreds more needed. To join, call Jim McDaniel at CL 2-6765.
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Raleigh County
Jim McDaniel
Mobutu Seizes Control as Congo Forms Technical Commission
In Leopoldville Col. Mobutu announced a technical commission led by Foreign Minister Bomboko will govern Congo to year end. Lumumba and Ileo administrations remain nominal. Lumumba refuses to step down. UN reports thwarted assassination attempts target Mobutu amid rising political chaos. Kasavubu offered Lumumba a cabinet post to soothe tensions, but Lumumba has not agreed.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Justin Bomboko
Bomboko
New York
Joseph Kasavubu
U.N. General Assembly
Mobutu
Leopoldville
Joseph
Tleo
Kasavubu
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
Ileo
U.N
Ant
Maj
Vital Pacasa
Castro and entourage move to Hotel Theresa in Harlem
Fidel Castro and about 90 aides leave a midtown hotel after clashing over rates and treatment. They check into Hotel Theresa in Negro Harlem, paying 700 dollars for the first day as crowds chant Cubani Yankee no. Castro attends the UN General Assembly and appeals to Dag Hammarskjold over alleged slights and police methods.
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New York
Fidel Castro
Harlem
Yankee No
Theresa
Castro
Love Woods
United Nations General Assembly
U.S
Dag Hammarskjold
Shelburne
Midtown Manhattan
Raul Castro Threatens Guantanamo Bay at Rally
Acting Prime Minister Raul Castro addressed about 50,000 in Havana calling for reclaiming Guantanamo Bay and denouncing the U S Embassy as a spy den. He and President Corticos urged Washington to end its alleged mistreatment of Fidel Castro and linked Harlem reception to Cuban revolutionary reach.
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Raul Castro
U.S
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Fidel Castro
U. S
Raul
Presidential Palace
Guantanamo
United States
Castro
Osvaldo Corticos
New York
Fidel
Harlem
Two Fayette Men Buried In Slate Fall In Mine
Two Fayette County men were trapped for 90 minutes by a slate fall in the Helen No. 10 mine of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates Monday night. Bynum Gilbert Jr. of Kincaid suffered a fractured dislocated hip and was deemed satisfactory. Vernon Radford of Page had a compound arm fracture and was released but told to return for X-rays. Mrs. Gilbert said the accident occurred about 7 p.m. and rescue took 90 minutes, with notification about 10 p.m.
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Fayette County
Helen No. 10
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Bynum Gilbert Jr
Kincaid
Oak Hill Hospital
Vernon Radford
Page
Gilbert
Sanner dies in shotgun shooting at Minden
Jimmy Sanner, 27, was killed in a midnight shooting described by the apparent shooter as a case of a wrong man being targeted. In the incident in Minden, Sanner’s car crashed after being struck by gunfire, a passenger John Rees was injured, and other facts include a Fayetteville resident being jailed and two additional men detained as witnesses.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Jimmy Sanner
Sanner
Minden
William “Wash” Cottle
Fayetteville
John ‘Rees
Cottle
Lanner
Specs
Berkley
Kees
Whitlock Livestock and Motors
Sprague
Emmett Green Sanner
Austie Sanner
Supreme Court Eyes Local Case
Charleston AP reports a Virginia 1959 act increasing the injury suit limit to two years is involved in a Beckley case. Raleigh County Circuit Court delayed Mrs. Virginia Shortt Seuss’s $10,000 personal injury suit filed Sept 28, 1959 for a June 5, 1958 accident, with defendants M E Harvit and Rita Louise Harvit asserting the act’s effect. The lower court upheld the one year limit and certified the case to the Supreme Court for possible further action.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Raleigh County
Virginia Shortt Seuss
Beckley
M.E
Rita Louise Harvit
Byrd-Prillerman High Game contingent after vandalism
Byrd-Prillerman football hopes to play Friday night as stated by Principal R L Harris. Vandals damaged over 500 dollars worth of football equipment at Byrd-Prillerman school, casting doubt on the game before Friday night.
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Byrd-Prillerman High School
Stratton High
Byrd- Prillerman
R. L. Harris
Harris
Byrd-Prillerman
JFK Renews State Pledge in Charleston Speech
Kennedy spoke to about 6,000 at the Charleston Civic Center after a daylong Kennedy Conference on New Jobs and New Growth. He promised to carry West Virginia’s unemployment issue to Congress within 60 days if elected, highlighting his May primary victory and addressing Nixon without naming him.
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Charleston Civic Center
Kennedy
Charleston
John F. Kennedy
West
Nixon Warns Voters Not To Let Khrushchev Unbalance Them
Vice President Richard M. Nixon tours Michigan after Pennsylvania speech urging voters not to be knocked off balance by Khrushchev arrival. He tells Wilkes-Barre crowd he knows the Kremlin and stresses deterrence and aid for distressed coal regions in PA and WV. Continued on page 7.
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Scranton
Richard M. Nixon
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Nikita Khrushchev
Nixon
Wilkes-Barre
Kremlin
West Virginia
Kennedy To Outline Policy On K Tonight
Senator John F Kennedy will outline his approach to Nikita Khrushchev in a nationwide TV address tonight from Washington. The 30 minute program on ABC starts at 830 p.m. EDT and follows his coast to coast campaign schedule including Atlantic City and Charleston.
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John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
ABC
Kennedy
America
Khrushchev
Atlantic City
N.J
Charleston
W.va
Kennedy pledges West Virginia aid plan after election
Kennedy asserts he knows the path to Beckley and Mullens, receives applause, and pledges that sixty days after the November vote he will send Congress a program to assist West Virginia's progress, renewing an earlier pledge.
Shortening The News Shortening The News
The Voice of America will broadcast Eisenhower's United Nations speech in full while Khrushchev's speech gets routine treatment. Floods across two thirds of Italy claim 36 known dead as sandbags line rivers. Pravda hints moving United Nations headquarters from New York. Charrier and Frey clash after sighting Brigitte Bardot on Boulevard Saint Germain. William P Baxter, survivor of a Guam crash, reports engine trouble before takeoff. Leroy F Mast pleads guilty in Berlin court martial to selling military secrets.
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Voice of America
Eisenhower
United Nations
Nikita Khrushchev
U. S
U. N. General Assembly
Pravada
New York
Brigitte Bardot
Jacques Charrier
Samy Frey
Charrier
B B
Frey
Boulevard St. Germain
Paris
Today
William P. Baxter
Nashville
Tenn
World Airways
Guam
U. S. Army
Leroy F. Mast
Aberdeen
Berlin
Partial Eclipse Of Sun Today
The moon will partly eclipse the sun today starting at 4 09 p m EST with maximum coverage at 5 59 p m The peak obscuration will occur over Baffin Island Canada where 61 4 percent of the sun is covered In the United States observers may see the eclipse near sunset from a line from eastern Lake Erie to Mobile Bay The East Coast will see little while mountain and western states will observe it fully.
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New York
American Museum-Hayden Planetarium
Baffin Island
Canada
United States
Lake Erie
Mobile Bay
Central States
River Flood Drowns 67 Miners in Japanese Mine
A swollen river burst into a coal mine near Tagawa Japan drowning 67 miners while 151 escaped to safety. About 400 rescue workers toiled to drain and divert floodwaters but only slow progress was made as hopes faded.
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Tagawa
Japan
Tokyo
Hunter Slain In Ohio Groundhog Hunt Near Chandler
A hunting accident near Chandler, Ohio, killed Weirton resident James Talamenti, 64, when a .22 rifle shot struck him in the head. Deputy reports say Elmer Emerson, 52, of Brilliant stopped to hunt a groundhog, misidentified movement in bushes as a target, and fired.
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Ohio
Weirton
W. Va
Chandler
James Talamenti
Elmer Emerson
Brilliant
Talamonti
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