Local Fluoridation Authorized By Health Board
Fluoridation of Raleigh County water was approved by the Board of Health after lengthy discussion. Beclley Water Co. treasurer Co. C. Farmer said fluoridation would raise bills 7 to 10 cents per meter, while authorities touted dental health benefits. The action follows 1960 court and city resolutions and broad state endorsements.
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Raleigh County
Board of Health
Harper Road
Raleigh
Beckley
Co. C. Farmer
Beckley Water Co
Copany
Farmer
Fred Hart
A. J. Sparacino
W. F. Pomputius
Clay Crouse
State Department of Health
N. H. Dyer
American Public Health Association
The
American Dental Association
American Medical Society
State Board of Health
Dyer
Indian and Chinese forces clash on Tibet border
UPI reports from NCNA that Indian troops and Chinese border guards fought near Chedong in Tibet as of early today. Chinese casualties include one officer killed and one soldier wounded. India allegedly fired over 60 rounds and launched seven grenades in multiple incidents, escalating tensions around the McMahon Line.
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TOKYP
UPI
Peiping
New China News Agency
India
Tibet
China
Chedong
McMahon Line
NCNA
Himalayan
Argentina in crisis as rival forces clash near Buenos Aires
Argentina's military crisis flared anew with rival army groups deploying forces toward Buenos Aires. A cease-fire collapsed as three top government generals reneged on earlier terms, prompting evacuations of the War Ministry Building and tank movements toward the city. President Guido ordered troops back to barracks.
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Buenos Aires
API
Argentina
War Ministry
Rebe
Juan C. Ongania
Juan C. Lorio
Bernardino Labayru
Jose M. Guido
Guido
West Virginia Flag Flies With 50 States at Academy
West Virginia flag joins all 50 states at the Air Force Academy. Cadet John Summers of Charles Town received the flag from Col. Joseph T. Crane Jr. at Martinsburg during the National Guard Association annual conference. The event followed a week-long meeting starting Monday.
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Denver
UPI
West Virginia
Air Force Academy
John Summers
Charles Town
Joseph T. Crane Jr
West Virginia Air National Guard
Martinsburg
W. Va
National Guard Association
Frosty West Virginia weekend forecast and temps
West Virginia forecasters call for frosty mornings and clear nights with lows from 30 to 36 in the east and 34 to 40 in the west. Saturday warms to the mid 60s to mid 70s with a chance of scattered showers Sunday or Monday bringing minimal rainfall. River levels and gauges noted for Greenbrier Lake and Hinton. County notes include Beckley and Oak Hill temperature remnants and a New York weather bulletin.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Hearts Break Deep as Gretel Loses to Weatherly
United Press International quotes show Douglas Fairbanks Jr stating only our hearts remained when Gretel fell to Weatherly in the America’s Cup race. President Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration remark frames world tension as the engine idling. Adlai Stevenson warns West Berlin threats loom at the U.N. meeting. Joshua Nkomo vows Zimbabwean ban marks white rule’s end in Southern Rhodesia.
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United Press International
Newport
R.I
Douglas Fairfax
Gretel
United Nations
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.N. General Assembly
West Berlin
Berkeley Springs Sanitarium to get new superintendent
Gov. W. W. Barron announced A. C. Unger of Morgan County as the new superintendent of Berkeley Springs Sanitarium, succeeding Gracen B. Heare. Barron also named Mildred Mitchell-Bateman, state mental health director, to the Governor's Commission on the Handicapped.
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Charleston
UPI
W. W. Barron
A. C. Unger
Morgan County
Berkeley Springs
Unger
Gracen B. Heare
Barron
Mildred Mitchell-Bateman
U.S. Moves To Enforce Court Order
The federal government acted on two fronts to compel University of Mississippi admission for James Meredith. Deputy marshals faced opposition from Gov. Ross Barnett and 13 college board members as contempt citations were issued for officials and board members who resisted integration, with court dates set in federal court and appeals court.
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Meridian
Miss
UPI
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
U.S
Air Force
Ross Barnett
Justice Department
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Hattiesburg
States College Board
U.S. District
Sidney Mize
John Davis Williams
Arthur B. Lewis
Robert Byron Ellis
Mize
New Orleans
Barnett
Oxford
Jackson
Washington
State College Board
Meredith
UN Plane Downing Rescue Reaches Wreckage
Rescue parties reached the burned UN C47 Dakota near Kamunza in Katanga. Nine of ten Swedish crew members were alive, with one dead and four injured. Swedish flight engineer War rant Officer Per-Olag Solvestad named by Stockholm. Jet fighters escorted helicopters as ground and air parties coordinated with UN bases.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
UPI
United Nations
U. N
Kamunza
Kabonga
Katanga-Kasai
Moise Tshombe
U.N
Saab
Congo
Elizabethville
Swedish Defense Ministry
Stockholm
Per-Olag Solvestad
Nine Megaton Nuclear Test Reported by USSR
The Soviet Union detonated a nine megaton atmospheric device today over Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic, confirmed by the Uppsala Seismographic Institute. The test marks a major strategic blast with global seismic implications and raises concerns about environmental and geopolitical effects.
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Uppsala
Sweden
UPI
Soviet Union
Novaya Zemlya
Arctic
Uppsala Seismographic Institute
Woman PSC pick promotes her long list of firsts
Virginia Mae Brown, West Virginia’s first and only woman Public Service Commissioner, urges women to pursue education and works to balance career with family. The 38 year old Putnam County native is a former state insurance commissioner and the first woman executive of the West Virginia Judicial Council. She credits her husband James for much of her success and says she would leave work if her family asked.
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Fanny J. Seiler
Charleston
UPI
Virginia Mae Brown
West Virginia
Mrs. Brown
West Virginia Judicial Council
United States
Brown
Eeeene
Barron
Putnam County
Winfield High School
West Virginia University
James
Kennedy to speak in Wheeling for West Virginia Democrats
President Kennedy will appear in Wheeling on Thursday to boost the November election of West Virginia Democrats to Congress. Announcement was made by Democratic State Chairman Robert McDonough and Democratic National Chairman John Bailey. The event follows Kennedy’s 1960 West Virginia primary victory, used to help his nomination run.
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Charleston
UPI
Kennedy
West Virginia
Wheeling
Congress
West Eee
Robert McDonough
John Bailey
Arch Moore
R-W. Va
Cleveland M. Bailey
D-W. Va
McDonough
Harrisburg
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Los Angeles
Presidents Kennedy Newport swing marks campaign push
President Kennedy resumes a leisure schedule at Newport after a Pennsylvania fundraising dinner urging a strong Democratic Congress this fall. East German border delays traffic as four US convoys pass through without incident. Southern Airways and striking pilots end a 28 month walkout with a New York contract. The Air Force suspends B58 Hustler supersonic training after a crash near Peru Indiana killing three. Eleanor Holm Rose 49 arrested in Miami for drunken driving after hitting a car. President Hoover collides with a Red Chinese junk in the Formosa Strait. 17 crew members rescued. Atomic Energy Commission conducts its 51st underground test at Nevada site. State briefs include a fatal bakery accident in Parkersburg, drought relief request for three counties, and a traffic fine in South Charleston.
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Kennedy
Newport
R. I
Pennsylvania
Berlin
United States
East Germany
Southern Airways Inc
New York
AIR Force
Peru
Ind
Eleanor Holm Rose
Billy Rose
Miami
Fla
Hoover
Formosa Strait
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada Test Site
Journalism seminar gathers over 150 students at WVU
Sherry Allen and Judy Fitzpatrick of Collins High School Oak Hill join more than 150 students in a WVU School of Journalism seminar led by Dean Quintus C. Wilson Dr. Guy Stewart and Professor W. R. Summers Jr. Participants and sponsors come from Kimball Stoco Woodrow Wilson Hinton Shady Spring Stratton Big Creek Collins Welch Oceana Mullens and North Fork-Elkhorn high schools.
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Sherry Allen
Judy Fitzpatrick
Collins High School
Oak Hill
Quintus C. Wilson
Guy Stewart
W. R. Summers Jr
West Virginia University School of Journalism
Kimball
Stoco
Woodrow Wilson
Hinton
Shady Spring
Stratton
Big Creek of War
Collins of Oak Hill
Welch
Oceana
Mullens
Northfork-Elkhorn
West Virginia
Raleigh Register
Stoco High School
Sandra Wallen
Linda Bays
Family trio faces grand jury in B and E forays near Peace Springs
Three members of a Raleigh County family Anester Franklin Hunt Jr James Lee Flint and Harold Earl Morrison all 19 or 20 were charged with nine counts of breaking and entering lodges and summer camps on State Route 3 near Peace Springs. They were remanded to Summers County Jail after a Hinton Magistrate hearing unable to post 9000 bonds. Juvenile sisters ages 16 and 14 also charged will be sent to Raleigh County Juvenile authorities. Summers County sheriffs and Hinton State Police have investigated since July 13 detailing window screen damage disturbed lodges and missing items. Morrison was found in bed with a stepsister at a camp owned by Dewey Hedrick and R. D. Amick in McRoss Greenbrier County. He claimed the trio broke into the lodge of M. L. See B and E Forays Page 2.
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Anester Franklin Hunt Jr
James Lee Flint
Harold Earl Morrison
Summers County
Hinton
Morrison
Chester Franklin Flint
Raleigh County
Summers County Sheriffs and
Dewey Hedrick
R. D. Amick
McRoss
Greenbrier County
M. L
Nkrumah Birthday Fete Cancelled After Bomb Attacks
In Accra two bombs exploded injuring about 100 people, two seriously, during President Kwame Nkrumah's 53rd birthday celebrations. The government canceled all state events as terrorists struck crowds in the streets. It marks the third bombing in Ghana in two months.
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Accra
Ghana
UPI
Kwame Nkrumah
State Functions Secretariat
College Aid Bill Dead As Dodo In Congress
Washington UPI reports the compromise college aid bill is dead after a 214 to 186 House defeat. Senate conferees face doubt about resuming talks and eliminating a $600 million student loan program as Congress moves toward adjournment. Senator Pat McNamara warned against renewed Senate House conference, signaling potential deadlock.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Kennedy
House
Senate House
Congress
Pat McNamara
D-Mich
West Virginia Economy Records Second Best Year in 1961
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce reports 1961 economy recovered from recession and surpassed 1960 as the second best year in state history. Personal income, property valuations, government receipts, bank deposits, life insurance sales, electric power output and other measures all rose, with the composite index at 411 on a 1935-39 basis.
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Charleston
UPI
State Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia
Chamber
Earle L. Elmore
Rusk Attacks Aid Slash as False Costly Policy
Washington secretary of state Dean Rusk labeled House cuts in Kennedy foreign aid as false and costly economics. He warned a Cuba trading ban amendment would be a straitjacket harming relations with allies and urged restoration of the 1.1 billion reduction in the 4.7 billion aid bill amid a key security program.
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Washington
UPI
Dean Rusk
House
Kennedy
U.S
Rusk
Cuba
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
Kefauver Faces Roadblock in Steel Data Push
Washington UPI Senator Estes Kefauver failed to gain Justice Department support for forcing four steel companies to disclose confidential production cost figures. Assistant Atty. Gen. Loevinger said official consideration of legislation to dissolve big steel firms on monopolistic grounds was not being pursued. The antitrust subcommittee had urged contempt citations against Bethlehem, National Republic and Armco after the firms refused cost data.
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Washington
UPI
Estes Kefauver
Justice Department
Lee Loevinger
Antitrust Division
Loevinger
Senate Judiciary Committee
Bethlehem
National Republic
Armco Steel Corporations
Kefauver
Itmann Mine Strikes After Workforce Walkout
The Pocahontas Fuel Co Itmann mine in Itmann faces a 400 plus worker strike after they walked out at midnight Thursday. Union officials will meet the strikers at 10 a.m. Saturday to discuss grievances. no official statement was available.
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Itmann
RNS
Pocahontas Fuel Co
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Frosty, Man
Southern Rhodesia
Ole Miss
Mississippi
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JFK
Paul E. Romine
Parkersburg
Greiner
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Wetzel
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Dodo
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