Hinton Daily News from Hinton, West Virginia • 1

I "7 1N' laic Barron Becomes Governor, easing JU alluded a full In vlL Underwood said ion's campaign manager. Wanted No fan lev Dripy In refusing the sales tax hike of a penny on the dollar for pur chases shove tl. Underwood said on th next to last day of his term Saturday that he felt there were day, on grounds that It was un-jb. clear, to sign the measure which! Barron then was handed four was enacted by the legislature last copies of the sales tax hill and Friday. It is designed to finance he signed each of them before an expanded state public works making Slip-word statement.

The program which will provide jobs 'statement dealt with his first of-fur 5.000 unemployed workers dur-ificlul act. iny the- next seven and ooe-halfl Sine this temporary tax raise he felt he that the must administer. He added that since is Barron's proposal, "he shuul have the privilege of sign examined the hill. Barron added that he Is "convinced that there will be no dlf Acuity In interpreting or administering the provisions of the bill. mon Dis.

Collection day. of the tax began to- some legal questions about the e- knew that he would lake the mid-gality of the bill's phrasing. night oath. Barron, Informed of this decl-l I nsure ef Breakpoint sxm by United Pres International! Underwood, who had bitterly St- raised, while attending a contractors tacked the outgoing Democratic Barron lssud a statement soon meeting in Charleston Saturday 'administration of Gov. William C.i afterward In which he said many night, then decided take the Marland, explained that he took1 competent legal authorities" had Ing his first pleasure into law.

If siah la his pleasure," after checking on questions Underwood will finance a crash program of public works to relieve the suffering of our unemployed people, I felt that I could not, in rood conscience. he took the oath was his wife, Opal, and Slate1 Democratic Chairman Hulett C. Smith of Berkley. Among those Present were Sen. Robert C.

Byrd. D-W. and his wife; Democratic National Committeeman John Amos and Rep. Ken Hechler, West Vlrgln-Ws 4th District Congressman. Four of the five stale officials who were to be given the oath of office during the formal ceremonies today also were present.

They included C. Donald Robertson, who will replace Barron as attorney general; Demil L. Gainer, the new auditor; John Kelly, the new treasurer, and Burdett. Agriculture Commissioner John T. Johnson wa not present Alto on hand were A.

S. Barksdale Biuefield. who managed the fall election campaign for the Democratic Party, and Clarence Elmore, newly appointed state U-iquoi commissioner, who waa Bar- midnight oath in order to sign the the oath at the earliest possible bill at the earliest possible time! time le prevent some possible round to prevent further delay ln tallstion at the Uth hour by Mer Tonre la Secretary of State Joe F. Bur-ditt gave Barron the oath of of fice. As soon as the new gover-i nor answered I do" to the Burdet quipped.

"You're In. Con-1 Tt la of prime Importance that gratulaUons. For the benefit of we create lobe foF our unfortu-pbotographers, the oath taking nate unemployed pittaena aa was repeated. At the end of the, speedily as we can. second round, Burdett said: I Later he promised, as governor, "You're in again.

Oongragula- to "give my all not only for the Burdett turned to thosepeople of West Virginia, but for present- and added, "Indies and the Democratic Party. gentlemen. If he is not pronerlvl Wife Near sworn in now, nobody ever will! Standing beside Barron when delay mv action and cause a loss in state revenue to be usd in our emergency pro- 1 BOV W. BARRON Weather Cloudy with some drtimle and low at S3 tonight. Tuesday, partly cloudy and warmer.

Price 5 Cents CHARLESTON, W. V. (UPD-Willlam Wallace Barron became Wert Virginia's Stub governor at a m. today and three minutes later ajpied into law a bill inking tb state's consumer sales i The short ceremony 11 hours before a mare colorful and tor-ruj inauguration at noon took place In the State Bard at Public WorU meeting room at the state capital with -about 123 relatives, dlgnatartr. friends and well wishers of Burn an hand.

Barron, a 49-year-old Elkins Democrat, had set up the cere riony because of what he termed the pressing necessity of signing Into law, at the earliest possible moment, the emergency and temporary Increase in consumers' sales tax. Outgoing Republican Gov. Cecil H. Underwood had refused Satur- Temperature Maximum Yesterday 45 Minimum Last Night At Noon Today 41 5Sth Year, No. 215 land.

Underwood's first official bet wa, to free all state purchase. On of the reason cited by Underwood in refusing to sign the bill was he could not tell for sure whether it Is the intent to leave the tax rat at the present per dented aeoond consecutive time a cent on the first 9 or whether governor has been sworn In dur chase. cents of pur; the exclusion WATER CONDITIONS Elevstion of Lake Bluestono Is 1,405.0 feet with I gates open at the dam. New River, at the Hinton gauge, is SI feet The U.S. Engineers at the Blueatone Dam recorded .35 inch of precipitation.

inton Daily FIome of lake Bluestone MEMBER OF UNITED FSEBS INTERN ATION AL Hinton, W. Monday, January 16, 1961 the wee hours some It hour tit advance of the formal tnaugu- ratios ceremony. Underwood did the same tiling, In 1957 but his was a well-kept 'secret Only a small handful of his closest friends end advisors NBA FEATURM FOUR PLACES Three HlntoQ buslnes establishments and th high school were broken Into and entered dver the weekend, tt was disclosed today. Th four theft netted only about 110. This moans that approximately case, of breaking and entering have'oocurred in Hinton during the last tour or five weeks.

In addition to the high school, other places that were broken Into were the Hinton Dally News, Keaton's Cleaners and Laundry and NuWay Cleaner. The Hinton Dolily New apparently suffered the biggest tost, approximately 'including two one-dodar bills, a quarter, and the rst In dimes, 01 of which wer taken from a soft-drink vending machine. Entry apparently was FIRE CHIEFS1 Twenty-two attended a luncheon and bual-neaa meeting ef the Rtnta Firs Chief, AsancUtlon at the Steak House Saturday afternoon. Some of the officials ef the association and guests attending are pictured above. They right! Hinton Fire Chief, Sam Boland Roger window sometime betweeT Montgomery, secretary ef th association Cecil Lewis ef Malden, president ths association; John Sams'-U (behind Lewis), of Morgantown, assistant state fire marshal; Mayor Harold Eigle; and City Councllmea Cart Hinton and Everett L.

Corker. During the meeting the association went on record aa endorsing Carl Raper for appointment to position as State Fire Marshal under Governor-elect Barron. The secretary was Instructed to send Barron a wire requesting the appointment. Xapr la. a former state fire marshal (Daily New Phot)" Saturday and 10 a.

m. i Sunday morning. Approximately 90 cent and a key to the cash register were takes at NuWaya Th theft there occurred around :30 p. m. Saturday and was discovered at 10 p.

The key waa thought to have been discovered left by the guilty (PtoaB Tun) to Page "-I DIRECTORS MEET -Members at the TMCA Board of Reid. T. RJUsHlit nailing, -V. F. TJdkafooae, Oiarle I.

rectors pictured at Fridays meeting are left to seated. Briers, V. V. Vtar, A W. McOtiHster, Jr, Harnbf CaBehaea, Rev.

Stewart McTurray, A. E. Moses, F. G. Cobh, Btallo Harvey oldomitk nnd C.

M. Ken. (Daily Nows Photo) YMCA Board Of directors Hold Annual Meeting Friday 1 WASHINGTON (UPI) President Elsenhower willed Presidentelect John F. Kennedy a record peacetime spending budget of $80.1 btlUort" for fiscal 1962 today and strongly advised hi, successor against running the government by credit cards." In his final budget messag to Congress, the outgoing Chief Executive predicted $1.5 billion surplus oould be achieved In the fiscal year starting July 1 If postal rates are raised again, if the gasoline tax Is Increased, if bust-ness, expands smartly. H4 held out no hope of general tax cut in the foreeeae future.

And he called for increased private, state and local spending on activities which now "require a disproportionate or wasteful expenditure of federal funds. WiU Be Revised Elsenhowers budget will be revised by Kennedy after the new President take office Jan. 20. The extent of these revisions is not yet known, but Kennedy aide have been working In cooperation with the Elsenhower admlnlrtra-tions Budget Bureau since November. The new Eiaenhower spending program, $1.1 billion higher than th current years estimate, eon-templates: A $1.4 billion rise In defame spending, Increased emphan-U on.

mhisilea tqd against missile. TM would give defense a peacetime high total of $421 billion, Mgffeet Item la budget. A $250 million booet ter tor-etgn aid. raising the program to $3.6 billion, with greeter emphasis on efforts In Afrto and Latin America. Postal Rat hereaaa $195 million Increase for space projects, for a total of $965 million, more ttna double foe 1960 figure, with hope of rocketing th Brat Amariaan kilo orbtt this ye.

An knprovd economy, to provide added revenues to pay foe increased federal bills. A postal rate Increase of unspecified nature and a half-oent a gallon boost la gasoline taxes, to help balance foe budget. Recognition of the so-called dollar gap In planning for VA. expenditures overseas. Elsenhower hammered on foe need for sound fiscal poticiee and on his oonfidenoa kt America's economic position.

He said he was proposing a balanced budget because a surplus is needed In good time to make ap for Inevitable deficits hi receaaton years. Money Lett Over With congressional oooperatkm, he said there could be money left over In fiscal 1962 to make another modest payment on the huge national debt. budget, Hke each of the seven which I bkve prevtourty sent to the Congress, reflects foe conflction that military strength and domestic advancement mud be based on a sound economy, and that fiscal Integrity is essential to the responsible conduct of governmental affair, Elsenhower said. He sold his estimate reflected "expected galnq, in the national economy and provide tor carrying programs forward an of-(Please Turn to Page Eight) Former Resident Dies In Virginia Includes Projects Reports for the year were pfe i icini 1 nr A -t-ij sented at the annual meeting of iilGHWAY DbAlHiJthe Board of Directors of the YMCA held Friday at 4 p.m. at the Y.

H. R. Callaham, president, presided; C. S. Briers, vie president led the devotions; T.

E. a 1 1 recording secretary, read minutes of the last meeting; W. F. Zickafoose, treasurer, presented the financial report for December as well as for the year; J. YV.

McCallister reported on the youth program and plans for the YMCA week; F. G. Cobb, S. M. McMurray, S.

C. Reid, A. E. Moses, V. V.

Vlar, C. M. Kent and Harvey Goldsmith, general secretary presented annual report The treasurers report shows Funeral service were held to- that the ran in the red $1, day at 2 p. m. at the Ronald 0,18 am(mt Meadow Funeral Parlors for Mrs.

the equipment reserve Vana Acord, 74, who died Satur- to pay the running expens-day afternoon a Denmar hos-ie8- Income and expenses for the year were as follows; Income) The Rev'. W. M. Wills and Rev. J00 mY A.

H. Chapman conducted the ser- dl3 20.55, showers and lock-vice with burial in the family ers $282.75 i progiram $656.55, cemetery near Pluto. $3485 41. from Rail- Mrs. Acord had been in ill health "I company $2700: telephone for two years and a patient in the $9-29; total $19,745.66, for two months: es; -pay rolL.

$10,515.27. Bler" Born in Summers county near chandise rooms and Pluto September 5, 1887, she was bath, building program a daughter of the late Obie F. and utilities ad-Ruth Deeds Donohoe and had lived ministration inventory all her life in Summers and, Ral-decrease $102.20, total $20888.94. eigh counties. Goldsmith in his yearly report (Please Turn to Page 8) I (Please Turn to Page Eight) CHARLESTON, W.

Va. (UPI) Got. W. W. Barron today called for a aon-pdrUsmi effort in the solution to West Virginias econora to condition, and pledged Ms new stat administration weald aim tar heights unmatched in the state's history.

ka a address foilow-log formal inauguration ceremonies, hours after he had become West Virginias 26th governor, Barron promised to submit to the legislature Wednesday a widespread plan tor economic development and other needed kn-provements" in the state. Barron said bold steps had already been taken toward achieving unity of purpose from all segments of the states society in building a better state. More must follow, be said. No one person can provide the aohitions to our difficulties, he said. 1 shall enlist the aid of all our people, who must be honestly concerned with and interested kt the many problems we face.

Thaw to no time left foe petty is vitally necessary for to forget political difference. I ask the people of West Virginia to Join now with foe leadership of the states new ad-miniAratloa to pledge whatever sacrifice to necessary to assure equal opportunity sod dignity tor all West Virginians. Keenly Aware ef Problems (Please Turn to Page Eight) A ARMY JOB Elvis J. foahr, president ef Went Virginia Vat-versity, has been granted a leave of absence by the Board of Governors to accept a poi-tfoa in President-Elect John F. Kennedys cabinet ae Secretary of th Army.

Stahr, 48, served ae special assistant to Secretary of the Army Frank Paco Jr. daring the Korean conflict. bsf! Dn Just A Rumor The plate glass window at Bowlings Dairy Bar wa broken Saturday when a floor-buffing machine got away" from the ripening boy and the handle crashed through the window. Rumors floated all over town that the Dairy Bar had been brok- A Thomas Funeral Set Wednesday Mrs. Busan Rachel Thomas, 62, of Alderaon, stepmother at Mrs.

Randolph G1U of this city, died today at 4:40 a. m. at her home following an lllnes, of pneumonia. Sh had been ill for foe past five weeks. Born in Alderson, a daughter ef ths late John H.

and Martha Alloa Harnest, foe-was a member of the Johnson Memorial Methodist church Surviving are her husband. T. L. Harnest; three etepeons, Benny, Freddie and Howard Thomas. Ml of one stepdaughter, Mrs.

GUI; and two brothers, Thomas E. Harnest and Cyrus Guy Harnest both of Alderson. Funeral sriNfos arf scheduled Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p- m. Wednesday at the ML View Methodist church on Muddy Creek Mountain with the Rev. E.

Groves in charge. Burial will follow In the Phillips cemetery. Nephew will serve a pallbearers. The body will taken to th home at 2 p. m.

Tuesday team th Lobban Funeral Home. Now Yoa Know Egyptian tomb inscriptions indicate that animals, other than domestic animals, were kept in captivity as early as C. DTiER iii auto i H. Frank Bugg Jr. at Hinton was injOi late Friday night In an auto accident on ronfe 30 four miles south of Hinton when Me ear crashed into a guard rati.

Bugg austained an injured no when Ms 1966 model car went out of control and smashed Into a guard rail, croased the highway over a -slight embankment and landed on Its top, Th injured driver crawled through th smashed windshield and was treated later at foe Elston HosgXtal. Budget Space Liisher Funeral To Be Tuesday. Funeral rites for Elmer E. Lusher, 69, of Green Sulphur Springe who died Sunday at 12:40 p. m.

in ths CAO Hospital at Clifton Forge, will be held at 2: SO p. m. Tuesday at th Green Sulphur Baptist church. Th Rev. C.

H. Martin and th Rev. Harold Flint wlU officiate. The body will be aent to Bloomington, HI. on train No.

1 Wednesday morning for burial. Mr. Lusher had been ill for the oast three year and had been a patient in th hospital since December A son of die late William A. and Mary Jane Surbaugh Lusher, he was bom August 30, 1891 at Green Sulphur Springs where he spent Jie early part of his life before moving to Blooomington, Illinois. He was employed by the GMAO Railway Company in Bloomington (or 42 years, retiring in 1956.

Since 1957 he had resided at Green Sul-(Piease Turn to Page 8) urday. tv and the other wa found not gulilty. Hinton James F. Jefferies of foun, recklew drivtng charges which were plac ij when Jeffries wrec)ej automobile the south end of the Hinton Bridge last Sunday. WASHINGTON (UP Prert dent Bfawnhcwar today proposed a budget of nearly a billion doi-lar tor spec projects including aa attempt to put a man in orbit this year and rocket probe of Mam and Vnu next year.

The President in his final Budget Message to Congress recommended expenditures of $965 million by the civilian National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) in the 1962 fiscal year starting next July This woqld be an increase of $195 million over estimated 1961 spending and $564 million more than was spent in fiscal I960. The Eisenhower budget, which may be revised by the Kennedy administration and Congress, also calls for commitment of $564 million to military astronautics; This would be an Increase mllUon. For Warning System Military space programs include missile warning, spy-in-the-sky, navigational, and communi (Please Turn to Page 8) HUWAY CLEANERS SOLD TO HOLBERT Announcement was made today that NuWay Cleaners owned by Walter E. Nye has been sold to J. W.

(Dutch) HolberL Hol-bert took charge of the plant today. Nye has operated the concern since August 1947. He told the News that he did not have any Immediate plans for the future but had several propositions un der consideration and tt they did not materialize he Would leave Hinton next June. DRAWBRIDGE STICKS MIAMI (UPI) A drawbridge connecting Miami, Kay Hscayne to the mainland stuck in the raised position about 5 p.m. Sun were tryi to get home.

There uSthour wait RAINS KILL FIVE S1NGAPORE (UPI) Steady monsoon rains during th past past week have claimed the lives thontles reported today. All the death were by frowning In swol len drains and canals In various part of the Island. Plafeci. West Virginians To Indure 'Sacrifice' Asked MOTORISTS hi second! a I nn I inijrn UCDC to endure AlinAlUilLLI nUIL necessity toi for all Two jnotorwti were arraigned before Magistrate Jack Holt Sat- a 2,000 One entered a plea of gull- By GERALD L. ATONE United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) A giant Air Force radar platform vanished in the gale-whipped Atlantic off New Jersey Sunday night By early today a massive air-sea search had turned up wreckage, but no sign of the 27 military and civilian technicians aboard.

The Air Force said ths off-stwt-e BUCKET BRIGADE COLLECTS $110.24 A total of $lin 24 was collected for the New March of Dimes fnd drive by a bucket brigade manned by Hmlon Kiwaniang Sat-uiilav on the two bank corners. Harvey Goldsmith president for the ceremony that ural address following oath-taking In 12 hours, asked West Virginians whatever sacrifice is assure equal opportunity citizens. Barron promised persons Jammed on the floor of the state capital Hunter M. McOeery, of Ivy, Virginia ami a former Hinton resident died in University Hospital at- Charlottesville early Sunday morning as a resiit of a heart ailment. He had only been a patient at the hospital for a few days.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in th St. Paul's Church at Ivy, and burial will follow In the church cemetery. The body will remain at the Hill Irving Funeral Home. s-The family ha requested that flowers be omitted, and friends wishing may donate to th heart fund.

He waa a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James T. McCheeiy, pioneer Hinton residents, and left Jtn ton 40 years ago for Virginia to engage in farming. Besides his widow the former May White he 1 survived by one daughter Mrs.

Wllllsm C. Oook, of Charleston and four nd v'dren Two sisters and a broth also survive who are as follows- Mrs. W. H. Sawyers 7lnton: Mrs.

Maude Perkins WaMilngton. I). and B. F. McOeery, of Memphis, Tenn.

F. W. Sawyers, and Richer I Baylor, of thla city will leave for Ivy Tuesday morning tb attend the service tor tboir uncle. second building economta conditions (rf the Mate 'tration Ihe hit four-year administration, He said the Democratic Party was "obligated to carry out the mandate of the people and it of the club whuh combated the bngi.de during the horns of 9 -4 p. m.

l-'imvledged the campaign fi.un IV mpa School and FT Da- I'-ve Unvnes. teacher, MfilKK AflAIVST AIRliVES MEXICO CITY (UPI) The Uonal Maintenance Workers Union went on strike Sunday lu. one of three guarding ap-en Into but the rumors proved to to the heavily-populated $toe. Eastern Seaboard. presumably collapsed in 180 feet of water.

Atr Force. Navy and Chest Guard searchers, led bv th ear-rier Wasp. reported finding an empty life raft and a mattreo amid other debris at th platform site, 65 mile east of Bamegat, N.J., and about 94 mile eoulh-eant of New York. YYtlhliold Official (onflrmatlua (Pleas Turn to Pag 8J DRIVER ARRESTED Dennis D. Sheppard, of Hlx, was arrested by city police Saturday morning and charged with falling to stop at a red light at the Intersection of Second Avenue and Ral-lengee 8treet.

Sheppard was summoned to appear la police court Thursday on.of four cliildren and a woman, au- would strive to atta'n height unmatched In the state's history. lie said unemployment is the stale's foremost problem one 'hut summons the attention. CMWe h(; been revoked. Belcher against Eastern Airlines in sup-our bpst brams and maX' entered a guilty pi. to the port of demands foe higher wages.) (Please Turn to Page Eight) loharge.

William Clyde Belcher of Anlean wa fined $25 and costs and sen- tencd to a two-day jail term I V-- i i.