Beckley Post-Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 1

INSIDE TODAY ARRON following oxampb of William C. 4. Volume 59--No. 261 ADVOCATE of the LAND-O-HILLS and its PEOPLE POST-HERALD Prtts Beckley, W. Friday Morning, April 15,1960 Newt QUICK QUOTES HE PURIFICATION of it an iridescent drtam.

-John James Ingallt 2 Sections--5 Cents Talks Mainly Successful Clash With France Dulls West Accord WASHINGTON AP)--The Unit- presumrnit harmony conference, i eluding West Germany's Heinrich Pd States and Britain Thursday The dispute somewhat dulled von Brentano, pronounced them- sidetracked French pleas they their success in forging an other- selves well satisfied with the rejoin the Soviet Union in stepping wise solid front on the Berlin-Ger- suit of their three days of strategy up economic aid and cutting back man and disarmament problems talks. weapons shipments to underde- their chiefs will discuss with So- "Preoaratinns i veloped countries. Premier Nikita Khrushchev, va nced for the effective mesenH Foreign ministers of the Big at next month summit confer- ion of Wesprn Three Western Allies disagreed on ence in Paris. I he summif a issues as they wound up a The Allied foreign ministers, in- said statement Summit 'Skull Practice 9 of State Christian A. Herter teamed with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to block approval of the French proposal advanced at the la.si session by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville.

After some discussion, all three agreed to hand over the controversial proposition, favored by- French President Charles de Gaulle, to a committee of Allied diplomats for further study. Allied spokesmen said disagreement on what they called fringe issues was unimportant compared to their success in bridging differences on key issues the West wiLJ discuss with Khrushchev. In previous sessions the foreign ministers had unaminously agreed to recommend that their chiefs: 1. Press the Soviet Union to negotiate a single German peace treaty based on a free vote by 'he TO million Germans in the Western and the Communist sectors of the divided land. 2.

Search for a stopgap settle- jment of their Berlin dispute i 1 I the U.S.S.R. if. as seems likely, i It 1-J i Kremlin rejects a i ivenneav Returns the framcw rk Ge TM anl 3. Offer the Soviet Union MM i "quickie" partial disarmament I JL JL -I measures as a means of reducing I till Illlsi world tension viet Union continues to spurn their sweeping plan for controlling nuclear! UiARLLSTON AP) Sen. Wheeling to Beckley Tues- weapons, missiles and convention- John F.

Kennedy D-Mass will day night. Following is his Wed- al forces. S. State Department Chief of Protocol Wiley T. Buchanan 'left) greets British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd in Washington on the letter's arrival for a foreign ministers conference to set strategy for the upcoming summit talks.

Participating are the French and West German as well as the British and U.S. French Kidnapers Surrender Youth; Auto Empire Heir Gnashville An elderly man threatens a placard-carrying Negro with a shovel during a student demon- stration against lunch counter segregation in Nashville, Tenn. Boy, 4, Held For Ransom Freed Outside Paris Bar PARIS A 1 heir lo French nulnmohile milking empire ulian- doiied by his nlxluclors outside Paris Lite Thursday and restored to liis The Itoy was found weeping and bewildered. He appeared shocked and dazed but unharmed. His father, Roland Peugeot, murmured "I can't say anything" as he emerged from a police sta- TM ss people tion with the child clutched in his photographers' arms.

Tears streamed down the popped, face of the elder Peugeot. The father was called to the small Chaillot police station near the Peugeot apartment on the swank Avenue Foch to pick up the! l)oy. Police cleared a path for the father as he put the lxy in a (police car to drive home. Little Kric stared at the and blinked as t'Ue-h 1 Here And There The News Brief OVIE STAR Gary derwent prostate White Says Bell Began Fight Due Here Tuesday return to West Virginia next week nesdny schedule: for a three-day tour, including, his first campaigning in the! 4, Meet in Paris May 14 with northern part of the state and in southern more appearances counties. About 8 45 a.m..

street tour in ps Germany's Chancellor Kon-j ount Hope, 9:45 a.m.. news fad Adenauer for a final strategy' conference in Oak Hill; 10 f0 a before the summit confer-! public meeting at courthouse rnre begins. jn Fayetteville, 11-43 a P'lb- 1 Spokesmen for all Allied dele- His rival in the stair's May lOlhr meeting Gauley Bridge Cations re emphasized Thursday Amere Gas Purchasing Questioned presidential preference primary, Hubert H. Humphrey 'D- Minn), is not fc the Mate until the following week. IM I I I I I I I IJI I I I i High School; 1 p.m.

public meet- that the West has no intention of' 1 1 1 rt to huy '''u" ing at Montgomery High School. I buying off Soviet pressure against' 1 In service area was J'fl nver hefnrp tho Pilhlir Jail Discussing the matter Thursday. Capt. H. H.

Shields, com- mandcr of Company I), said, "i 'don't want anyone to molest my and I don't want my men CHARLESTON 0 molest anyone else unless they Anicre Gas Utilities Co. is making forml 1(l tll( -TMt The kidnapers reported to be two men had asked SKKUKX) ransom for the boy's sate return. There was no immediate word on ransom had lieen paid. The police announcement that the boy had been found came within a half hour after word that a new note from the kidnapers had lieen delivered to the Peugeot family. The note said ''Your son is living and well.

Kverythmg will be jail right if you keep silent. We will make contact -gam during the night." There was tio immediate word from police on whether they had! found any trace of the kidnapers at the place where Knc was found State Trooper White con-'the trooper on top. Before I could The chubby little Uiy had U-cn tended Thursday he was justified get around the desk and break it found crying outside a cale and in the action he took in the so- up, the trooper was hitting him within a half mile of his par- called beating of a prisoner early i in the face with his fist. ents' home The bar is on the Hue Saturday at the Raleigh County "Bell's head might have hit i Raymond Pomcare in Paris' fash- Trooper Contends Assault On His Prisoner Justified concrete as the trooper hit him lonable Hith arrondissement. vv them to protect themselves." Kennedy's schedule calls for for a public meeting Wedncs- its to Clarksburg, Fairmont and i day evening at a location that will on Monday: Wheel-'be announced later.

He will fly From Montgomery, he will go wilh "ncpssions bigger to Charleston, then on to nan tho sc thri Soviets rejected at; ing day Tuesday, and Beckley, i back to Mount Hope, Oak Hill. Fayette-j night. ville, Gauley Bridge, Montgomery. Charleston and Huntington on Wednesday. He is scheduled to arrive in Clarksburg Sunday night and sjcnd the night there, but has no appearances scheduled until Monday morning.

Kennedy's headquarters here announced the following schedule: Washington Wednesday Geneva last June. They stressed also that they did to push the Berlin issue to a crisis at the summit. According to Trooper While, the ed over before the Public Service 'matter was self -protect ion. A Commission again Thtimday. in Katoigh Register Vice President C.

Workman -Thursday said White beat Glen of the company, appearing as a rnr BH1 2r of T'rincewick after arresting him for being drunk. Fink said Bell had Wood on him r(l when they got off the elevator land be supposed they had been fighting on the elevator too. Then, he separated the two men 'Fink said. Hell had "a lot of blood coming from his nose While took Bell to a hospital at 10 a Saturday where he was treated for the wounds. The prisoner executed a before Magistrate A Burke Saturday after waiving to Barman Jean Volphilhed told not believe Khrushchev intended rebutal witness in a rale il Im mr nemu nnmK.

firnnH ((n rrsistinc tiise. said he wanted to make i That story said Bell suffered a arrest charge. He also paid a "abundantly clear" that Amere is broken nose and that 20 stitches $10 mr cost.s for being drunk. "It was alniut five minutes a er 1 a. when a man came in holding a child by the hand ,1 thought immediately of line IVu- and looked al the picture in the newspaper.

man brought the boy in after finding i him on the sidewalk looked at the nlso and then all the cli- icnts around me began to ask the loy his name." "My Cooper gland surgery Thursday at a Boston hospital. A hospital spokesman said he "is doing well." Cooper is 58 Motor vehicle owners living in the state on Jan l. reminded again Thursday that they must produce personal property tax re- ccpits in order to net license plates for the year to begin July 1. The receipts show payment of the property a on their vehicles for the tax year Andre Porumbeanu, who married heiress Gamble Benedict in an elopement last week, landed a job Thursday 55 assistant manager of a Miami Beach, hotel. Porumbeanu, 35-year-old Romanian and ex-chauffeur, is to be in charqe of guest relations.

COOPER Clarksburg Monday, fl 25 a.m., television appearance; a coffee hour and meeting al Stonewall Jackson Hotel; 10 30 a tour of glass plant; 11:15 a.m.. leave for Fairmont by automobile. Fairmont noon, public meeting in theater; street tour after meeting; 1:15 m. luncheon: 2 tour of Owens-Illinois glass plant; 2:30 leave for Mor- by automobile. Kennedy's headquarters said details of his Monday afternoon schedule in Morgantown have not leen completed.

He will fly to Wheeling Monday night and spend the night there. Also remaining to le worked nut is his all-day schedule in Wheeling Tuesday. He will fly Children Help Neely Test Orphan Needs CHARLKSTON Neely, former commissioner of public institutions and now a candidate for governor, disclosed Thursday that he once put his own children in an orphan's home to evaluate its facilities. After the test week last summer. N'eely recalled, "they asked me if they could, stay another week.

This satisfied any doubts I a have had as to the home's facilities." Neely said the incident involved some changes contemplated at the children's home in Klkms. under the supervision of his department. "I knew my own children's impressions would be more valuable than a truck load of reports," he said. Neely is now a candidate fnr the Republican nomination for governor in the May 10 primary, running against former Sen. Chapman Revercomb, Charleston at lorney.

Helen Holt Boosts Neely's Candidacy HINTON (API-Mrs Helen Holt Thursday publicly end.rsed Harold Nerlv for the Republican nomination for governor She d'd so in a speech here in hit town Mrs. Holt, widow of the late IT. I) Holt, has as- si'-tant commissioner of public in- Jnderwood Says Nixon Strongest NEW YORK (AP Gov. Cecil H. l'ndcrw(xd of West Virginia said Thursday that New York Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller or Vice President Richard M. Nixon would make "a very strong candidate" for the presidency, but that right now "Mr. is the ve have." were required to close wounds inflicted hy the po- pursuing such a policy. Rate analyst C.

Matthews on his of the PSC offered data to show. 1 on an atinua, volume basis, 1 Umle gavp the following I here is more native West Virgin( linl of lho nsf of RH1 He said the Iwiy replied: name is Kric Peugeot." Customers in the bar cheered. ac- The governor was asked at a news conference in the National Republican Club what the probabilities were for drafting Rockefeller for the GOP presidential nomination. He replied: "I do not foresee any change in the national picture." He said he would like to see Rockefeller as the party's candidate for vice president "hut at the same time I can understand why he does not want to be. 1 doubt that he would accept." While describing himself as a non-expert on IX'mocratic affairs in his state, he said that he felt the presidential primary contest there lietween Sen.

John F. Kennedy and Sen Huliert Humphrey, is "likelv to lie very close." Gov. t'nderwood. who is running for the C. Senate this vear Panley Hacks Harron CHARLESTON A Speaker Harry ft.

Pauley said Thursday that he was supporting W. W. Barron for the Democratic nomination tor governor. Faulty himself withdrew last week as a cand date, which left Barren, Hulett C. mith and Orel J.

Hit decision was announced after the McDowell Ounty Democratic Executive Committee came out for Barren. lives at laeger in McDowell and hat long been a member of the committee. against Democratic incumlx'nt Jennings Randolph, said Hum- jphrey has been "very well re- iceived" in West Virginia and that the May 10 primary contest may 'lie determined on the basis campaigning being done there by the Democratic opponents. The governor, whose state has a (xipulntion of two million, only i per cent of which is Roman Catholic, was asked if religion might be the decisive factor in the primary. Referring to the Domo- ieratic candidates, he said, "that's mostly what they have talked i aliout up to now." Polls Give Slight Edge To Kennedy la gas available to Amere than it sells to its customers.

Matthews added, however, that he was not attempting to infer that Amere could operate on that basis, lie-cause of such other factors as peak day demands. The the subsequent fight 1 He was at State police headquarters when he received a call alioiil a.m. Saturday from a motorist that some men drunk and fighting in the way on Mabscott Hill. White answered the call arriving, he found Bell in of The and took him Negro Boycott Slated Monday The local supply question was, inlrrwini'd with one of the major vt ls issues in the past several Amere f()Il( nd takrn rate cases a centering aliout'- 1 1 were high- JOHANNESBCRG. South Africa jor demands as "our answer to I'pon A The outlawed African savage attack the government front jtional Cmgress called on Negnw-s has made on us and our leaders" into Thursday to Imycott work again in efforts to quell the racial tur- A TWIN-ENGINE Piper Apachp, newly factory reconditioned.

crashed on a Gilmer County farm shortly after noon Thursday carrying to death John H. Schurman. president of the Schurman 1 struct ion Schur(man. returning to Hunt- alone from Fairmont, where his firm n.n a million-dollar contract the expansion of the Fairmont Aluminum Co division of Ccrro Mr Pasro The London American Princess Marqaret has hinted she to part of her honeymoon in United The paper und the British Em- in Wellington hat relayed her informally to the State Department The pilot of ,1 Canadian anti-snbmarme uot the Thursday and in the si- crewmen were pickH after Uditiini! about in life raft for 10 hours up safelv rnbtwr the the next week in the fight against the moil government's racial policies. Trouble could come from reviv- jail.

Bi-ll repeat- al of the work lioycott. a powerful 'lhe nw that all N'egi(Ms CHARLKSTON (AP'-The close ness of the contest in West Virginia lietwecn Senators Hubert of Minnesota and Robert F. Kennedy of Massachusetts has been pointed up in two samp of voters. The two senators, both candidates for the Democratic nomination for president, have been in the state this week pushing their campaigns in the May 10 preferential primary contest. The Charleston Daily Mail said a doorbell-ringing poll taken in one of Huntington's largest wards showed Kennedv leading to i seven Democrats saying they were undecided and two answering they do not plan to vole sampling in a coal minim: community showed 30 for Ken nedy.

27 for Humphrey and 10 from suppliers. In the present case, the company and the PSC staff ended up apart on the amount to IK- allowed in the rate base for purchased gas costs, i the staff coming up i the lower figure. Amere has insisted that the difference came when (be staff applied a figure of 4( cents 1.000 cubic fevt to gas buys from Atlantic Seaboard while the company exhibit was based on higher actual The company has alxiut W.OOO customers in ginia. and the PSC staff also testi- Oti the way to edly cursed and threatened him. economic weapon in this land they were on the court-iwliorc 10 million Negroes provide house elevator gomr: to the fourth- moM of the Inlior for the farms Th i deman Alx.lish the passes, which jail.

Bell a fight. Ipon arriving at the jail floor. White walked off the elevator firsl. Bell followed him off the elevator, cursed him. and then at him.

blocked the man's and hit Rell in the face, him toward the jailer's desk at the same time Bell continued the fight there and the two fell to the floor White said be was kicked in the earn 2 face by Bel! and the prisoner p1l "r'J T5r of Whltp testi I tnm or lied last month that Amere 01 1 tim 7 tho no more than $280,000 additional Tho 1 annual revenue. Workman put new direct testimony into the record at theThurs- (iay hearing, scheduled to enable the utility to provide evidence on the available local supply tural gas. that before leaving the jail, be asked Jailer Mason Fink to call a doctor because there was blood on the prisoner's face The trooper said that after the fight he add-d a charge of resisting arrest against Bell. Capt Shields said. "We are in the business of protecting people and certainly have no desire lo harm them unless they force us John Johnson, Thrr( rmlWn navc )(Hn any of 'Cycle Rider Hurt of of a i day at Htx-kley i and Mrs.

raye.lev.llc 1 1 1 1 i on al s.tuat.on involved" hr factories and homes of three million Whites. The first phases of the stay-at- home movement, crushed by police raids on African settlements last week, showed the nation's vulnerability. Industry slowed meat supplies dwindled Housework suffered Pamphlets signed by the emer- committee of the African National Congress and circulated throughout the settlements of Johannesburg asked all Negroes to join in a one-week work lioy- cott starting next Monday. pamphlets made four ma. Spraijue Man Held On Knifing Kenneth Owen Armstrong nrv i -iTM- Sprague waived preliminary hear-!" 1 KI mg to the grand iur Thursday b'-! (r fore Magistrate A.

Burke on a felonious assault (barge He a vr TOP remanded to the Raleigh County no 1 Jail at IMS a in lieu of a ViOO our leaders. the stale of emer- 3 "Km! gency "Lift the ban on our organization This defiance of the government of Pi ime Minister llendnk Verwoerd. came amid other developments. The Weathei unnv Howfirrm but svunn i A FORMER Boy Scmit sentenced to day to life in Western Pennsylvania Thursday on nffpnsei Judqe David told Charle Gal'mar, 47, of Greenv burq the length of hit sentence nn whether he could cured of Gollmar pleaded quilty in Westmoreland County Court to of domy and eorrunttoq the morali of minors The St. Lawrence will be opened for tho shippui" nt 8 a Mondav HiriT fivm The Na- Coal Thursday estt- bituminous 1 production tor April 9 at about tons xnainst 8,117,000 tons for the co-responding period year.

Production for the week rndvd April WAS 7,500,000 tons. iii 7'lit l-i 'Tiour't H'Vft' shovi'T i i i irnl rrn- i i i COM- 'h hv i The Mail said "it is the unle cided vote, accompanied by the strong anti-Cat hoi support for Humphiey." that has the Kennedy people worried. Brewing, Says UM Head continued, explaining that White pr ftond condition late Thurs- (1 nrvor Mvn Re Mnfr Armstrong was (barged Thins- Hospital. jj nr tnr HITOvJ morning by State Police i He is being treated for a head Uo hav(l anv(hmc fo inflicting knife wound on the injury received when he ran the njfjc nn(nrr fk) wr nt 0 neck of Wayne Adkms also of tMcycle he was riding against a or nv thing." the capt.im sn.d Police said the fight parked wrecker truck His are unpred-ct- 'H In the injury came as cr. IH-wey Lmwood J.ihnson.

11, lhlr nd lnm fon are d.ffu ult lh of a drunken mrf a passenger on the bicycle hin 1( jp nM; nrr The outs.de Arm was released from the hospital a Tho fl strong Ivime Adkms releav injury. to use as much ed after being trratinl at Berkley force a is neeessarv. to the point Memorial Hospital of taking a mans life, to appre-1 hem! anv law violator who resists him Raleigh County Sheriff Okey A Mills, apparently rHiKlant to pav A njf m( fiu1 IT I 1v i-n i H'i i VI mnt HST Not Interested YORK Harry Truman ikwsn't have any personal dark horse notions at the Dem K-ralK convent Kin Askel by a rejxirler if he might lrir I Thomas Kennedy said Thursday donlrfed re-ent prlilishrd the 1'nited Mine Workers union is that former I M'A President John not taking part either officially Kennedy sm-cer) unofficially in anv "brat Kennedy" ed CMW president drive in V(rgmia. months ago, quietly K- available in event a lo over previdential nomi- in old woman who following me name is Anno Domini. to count "if on this M-iv "If shr only turn IS years'" for Poll's hosnitali- Mtion fo not givr his stand on the However, be Mid "if SIM a thing oftep.

I worild itake a stand ag.nnsi it -II am against the plan to hv appoint i tkm primary crwil- of MMt hrss unti' for TV nVfrat In ft pmrlatmmRJ "I VW noiitrality in Vir i gmia primary. Ker.nedv that anrl Virfima of hflvr fhr rotr (if arwl ta thHrt hv A favr thr following of and MHU'nl -WtrW "TV fV-ll a man Mnrh off day TV op im of fr I "TVy 'IHI While TV jwr Vlmrhwl in front tV to tV A CLKMP.MT. ISLAND its f'abf A Navy Thursday burm-d tor five seconds as a Polaris from an und'Twa-' red. driving the missile to .1 height ter laumh in a officers of 1 8UO After a flight of said brought the submarine mis- the yellow bird then fell rlovr lo comtiat realiness fvi( into the oifnn and dismfe the firM time ,1 Polftns ated on feet fired stieressfully nn lflnn An Mtemfvt to officers said the drm do this )HS( 77 rnulfuoft on of external TV 2ft of at nf kmg up iftrr I nnd jhouer made plans Thursday f.r a familv of Kapler IM the rni'Ut of a lanqind low the Fiisenhower put .1 of hours bis i House office at Viiguvta. a sipmng bills and i i care of and en(ts of routine John XXIII wAthtd 13 4 ritual hiqhliqht Holy in and City.

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