UAW Talks Stall As Sept Contract Deadlines Loom
Detroit AP report says United Auto Workers bargainers see no progress toward new three year contracts with General Motors Ford and Chrysler which expire September 6 three weeks away. Negotiations began July 10 with strike votes authorized at plants across the Big Three while no offers are expected before August 25.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Douglas Frasness
UAW
Chrysler Department
Beaver High Band Program Concludes August Session
Beaver High School director John W. Lilly announced the final summer band session will run August 21 to 25 in the high school band room with two daily sessions from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. No fee is charged for the final session. participants may bring lunch. A 100 percent turnout is expected as Beaver’s first four football games are home games and require preparation.
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Beaver High School
John W. Lilly
Beaver Band
Fairview Junior High
Lilly
Beaver
Police Catch Ohio Escapees in Hanover Goochland County
Police from Hanover and Goochland counties captured escapees James Arbaugh and Nelson McKinney in Hanover near the Goochland line after a prison pickup theft. Arbaugh, 36, faced 10 to 20 years for armed robbery and McKinney, 30, a 1 to 15 year term for burglary and entry.
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Hanover
Ohio
Goochland
James Arbaugh
Nelson E. McKinney
Camp Shawnee
Friendship
George Stevenson
Stuart Rada
Hanover County
Albaugh
McKinney
Smith To Speak On Research and Technology at Tech Conference
F B Smith NASA assistant administrator for university affairs will be main speaker at the Virginia Tech NASA Conference on Bioastronautics. He will address "Government, Industry and University Advanced Research and Technology" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Mountain Lake Hotel. The five day conference, directed by Dr. W J Fabrycky, covers manned space problems.
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Blacksburg
F. B. Smith
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Washington, D. C
Virginia Tech
Smith
Mountain Lake
W. J. Fabrycky
Song Festival Set For Sept 3 At Park
Officials announce a hymn singing event from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the park on September 3 with time allotted for visitors to explore the park’s attractions.
Mao Purge Faces Resistance Across China
Tokyo AP reports China watchers see Mao Zedong s cultural revolution stumbling as revolutionary committees exist in four provinces and major cities while army moves grip eight provinces. LIN supporters resist Maoist control, leaving seven provinces and three autonomous regions unsettled.
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Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
China
Heilungkiang
Shantung
Shansi
Kweichow
Peking
Shanghai
Liu
China Watchers
Richmond Bank Robbery Suspect Nabbed in Brooklyn
Richmond detectives say 37 year old Robert Smith robbed Siegel's Market of 11258 dollars on April 11. He is charged with robbery murder and 16 counts after connections to shooting three Brooklyn detectives and a separate Toledo arrest. Smith and a female companion stayed in a Richmond motel the week before the crime.
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Brooklyn
Nic
Richmond
J. W. Vann
Robert Smith
Siegel’s
Smith
New York
Toledo
Ohio
James E. Stewart
Stewart
Vann
More Soviet Plants Adopt Profit Oriented Planning
Deputy Premier Nikolai Baibakov announced in Pravda that 1,000 more Soviet factories have switched in seven weeks to a profit oriented planning system. The new method now covers about 30 percent of industrial output with 4,600 factories using it, and Baibakov predicted nearly all industry would operate under it within a year.
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Moscow
Nikolai K. Baibakov
State Planning Commission
Communist Party
Pravda
Education Week Highlighted by Johnson and Johnson Quotes
President Johnson proclaimed the week of Nov 5 as Education Week stressing that future American life hinges on classroom thought. General Harold K. Johnson dismissed talk of stalemate in Vietnam when questioned on the war’s course.
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Associated Press
Future of America
Johnson
Harold K. Johnson
Army
Vietnam
Bluefield Man Struck By Car On Bluefield Princeton Road
Richard Whittaker of 201 Ramsey Street Bluefield was seriously injured when a 1958 Ford driven west by Sterling Hutchens Jr. of Princeton struck him on Bluefield Princeton Road in front of the King Tut Drive In at about 7 40 Saturday night. Troopers C F Little and A P Stanley witnessed the crash and Whittaker remained hospitalized with head and chest injuries. No charges were filed.
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Bluefield
Richard Whittaker
Ramsey St
Princeton
King Tut
C. F. Little
A. P. Stanley
Whittaker
Sterling A. Hutchens Jr
Rich Valley Fair and Horse Show Slated Aug 16 19
The 1967 Rich Valley Fair and Horse Show runs August 16 to 19 at Rich Valley Elementary School Saltville Virginia. Sponsored by Rich Valley Agricultural and Fair Association Inc the event opens with a pony show August 16 at 8 p m Agriculture Day Thursday features livestock judging at 1 30 p m and inside entries. Notable events include a draft horse show team pulling contests junior livestock cattle and beef shows junior dairy show and open saddle horse show. J T Gardner serves as secretary.
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Rich Valley
Rt. 3
Saltville
Rich Valley Agricultural and Fair Association, Inc
J. T. Gardner
First Rites After Ruling In Virginia Interracial Marriage
Leona Boyd and Romans Johnson were married at Kingdom Hall in Norfolk marking the first interracial marriage in Virginia since the 1924 anti miscegenation law was struck down by the U S Supreme Court in June. The couple, ages 24 and 29, listed birthplaces Cambridge Massachusetts and Courtland Virginia respectively. The ruling followed the Loving v Virginia decision and cited the 14th Amendment equal protection clause as central to overturning bans on mixed race marriage.
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Leona Eve Boyd
Romans Howard Johnson
Kingdom Hall
Virginia
U.S. Supreme Court
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Willie Joyner
Saneq Nosgork
Corporation Court Clerk
Boyd
Cambridge Mass
Johnson
Courtland, Va
Supreme Court
Richard
Mildred Loving
Caroline County
Loving
Washington, D.C
High Court
Earl Warren
Deaths and Funerals in Virginia and West Virginia
A. C. Cook 28 of Council Virginia dies after brief illness in Richlands hospital. Survivors include wife Lillian Whited Cook daughter Callie Evey Cook four sisters and two brothers. Funeral Monday 11 a.m. at Honaker with burial in Sutherland Cemetery. Nanie Ellen Barrett 84 of Yards dies after long illness in Bluefield sanitarium. Survived by four daughters four sons 12 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren two sisters. Funeral Monday 2:30 p.m. at Graham Funeral Chapel Bluefield. William E. Sabol 76 of Elbert dies in Welch hospital. Survived by wife Sophia Tankush Sabol one son one daughter and one granddaughter. Funeral Monday 2 p.m. at O. J. Douglas Funeral Home burial at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Council
Richlands
Buchanan County
Callie T. Cook
Abraham Cook
Lillian Whited Cook
Callie Evey Cook
Bone
Gary Walter Cook
Ruby Martin
Owenton
Stella Barton
Bee
Nora Ellen Hughes
Keen Mountain
Nancy Edwards
Grundy
Granville
Walter Cook
Honaker
Henry
Franklin Viers
Sutherland Cemetery
Haysi
Tom Whited
Little River
Nanie Ellen Barrett
Yards
Bluefield
Tip Top
George Edward Barrett
Elizabeth Cumby
Bluewell
Hoge McCall
Clarence Butt
Jess Belcher
Nemours
Emmett Barrett
E. O. Barrett
Chattanooga
Tenn
Paris
Howard Barrett
Lancaster
Ohio
Pansy Belk
Roanoke
Grat Snell
Graham Funeral
Chapel
Clifford Thompson
R. T. Newton
Ted Witt
Maple Hill Cemetery
Ellis Sarver
Earl Sarver
Preston Sarver
Estel Tabor
Arthur Edmunds Jr
Bruce Riley
Churchill Nuckles
James Snell
Willing Workers
Yards Methodist Church
William E. Sabol
Elbert
Welch Hospital
Sophia Tankush Sabol
Fred Sabol
U. S. Army
Fort Walters
Texas
Anna Marroni
Simsbury
Conn
John William Sabol
J. Douglas
Masood
Woodlawn Memoral Park
Joe Gregory
Carlo Colombo
Albert Marzi
Mike Skomie Yokosuk
Mike Hornick
Mike
Jim
John Spickek
Obituaries of Felty Turner and Bailey in Virginia and West Virginia
James Lawrence Felty 69 of Burkes Garden Va died suddenly at home on Saturday. Survived by wife Audrey Ratliff Felty son William Felty two daughters Kathy Tibbs and Frank Smith. siblings and eight grandchildren. Funeral plans at Greever Funeral Home Tazewell Va. Hattie Blankenship Turner 71 died Saturday afternoon in Narrows following a long illness. Survived by son Dalton Turner daughter Mrs Charlie Belcher brother Ernest Blankenship sister Pauline Kabool and three grandchildren. Funeral Monday at Riffe's Narrows. burial Rich Creek Cemetery. Carl Bailey 72 of Leckie died Friday in Huntington hospital after a long illness. Survived by two brothers and four sisters. Died at Boyd Chapel Methodist Church Leckie with burial in church cemetery. Pallbearers listed. church choir to serve as flowerbearers.
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Burkes Garden
Audrey Ratliff Felty
William Felty
North Augusta
S. C
Harry Tibbs
Frank Smith
Bluefield
Steve Felty
Logan
Margaret Meredith
Annie Hennigar
Charleston
Mattie Short
Orren Beach, Fla
Ottie Wilson
Greensfork, Ind
Hattie Blankenship Turner
Perry Davis
Narrows
Giles County
Walter and
Etta Cooper Blankenship
Charles Henry Turner
Dalton Woodrow Turner
Keystone
Charlie K. Belcher
North Fork
Ernest D. Blankenship
Newhall
Pauline Kabool
Kingsport
Tenn
Riffe’s
Rich Creek
Carl Bailey
Leckie
Huntington
Mary Terry
John A. Bailey
D. P. Bailey
George Bailey
Anawalt
Pima Dukes
Kelso
Wash
Sara Sadler
Princeton
Mary Sadler
Falls Mills
Martha Sadler
Boyd Chapel
John Lafferty
Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Buck McGraw
Reech Jarvis
Ray Blevins
Marvin McCormick
Rex Sadler
Charles Cartwright
Death of Louise Fuller Owens in Grundy Hospital
Louise Fuller Owens aged 18 of Breaks Virginia died following a brief illness. Survived by husband Ernest Lee Owens and her parents Fred and (Mrs.) Fuller, plus three brothers Fred Joe Kemper, grandmother Mrs. Bessie Buggins of Bartlick. Funeral Monday at 11 a.m. at Bartlick home of grandmother with Rev. Howard Colley and Rev. Oscar Rings officiating. Burial Fuller Cemetery Bartlick. Body to be moved from Grundy Funeral Home to grandmother’s Bartlick residence Sunday at 10:37 a.m. for viewing.
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Louise Fuller Owens
Breaks
Grundy Hospital
Ernest Lee Owens
Fred Fuller
Fred
Joe
Kemper Fuller
Bessie Buggins
Bartlick
Howard Colley
Oscar
Obituaries for John Fulton Hager and C G Mason
John Fulton Hager 63 of 2615 Valley View Bluefield died. Service Sunday 3 p.m. Hawkins Funeral Chapel Bluefield with burial Walnut Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. C G Mason 84 of Montcalm to be buried at Woodlawn Cemetery after service today 2 30 p.m. at Pentecostal Holiness Church officiated by Rev Glennard Hancock.
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Mason
C. G
Montcalm
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Glennard Hancock
Woodlawn
Mrs Lida F Moses 73 Lavalette Bluefield native dies
Mrs Lida Fitz gerald Moses 73 of Lavalette near Huntington dies in a Huntington hospital after a heart attack. She was born in McDowell County daughter of H M Dickerson and the wife of A L Moses. Survived by three sons Jackson F Moses Huntington Thomas H Moses and William Price Moses of Hollywood Florida eight grandchildren two sisters Beatrice Richardson Bluefield and Margaret Lynch Montgomery. Funeral arrangements incomplete. Family reachable at 101 Tenth Ave Huntington.
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Hollywood
Fla
Beatrice Richardson
Bluefield
Margaret Lynch
Montgomery
Tenth Ave
Huntington
Obituary for Ross Stump in Newhall
Ross Jack Stump, 32, of Newhall, died Saturday in a Bluefield hospital. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Laura Barton Stump and five brothers: Claude Arnett of Cucumber, James Arnett of Jolo, Henry Stump of Sword Creek, Carl Stump of Richmond, and Claude Stump of Green Mountain, Va. The body will be taken to the home Sunday afternoon. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Monday at the home with Rev. Ellis Stanley officiating. Burial will follow in Hartwell Cemetery at Hartwell.
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Ross
Jack) Stump
Newhall
Bluefield
Laura Barton Stump
Claude Arnett
Cucumber
James Arnett
Jolo
Henry Stump
Sword Creek
Carl Stump
Richmond
Claude Stump
Green Mountain
Ellis Stanley
Hartwell Cemetery
Hartwell
Death notices for Mrs Mary L Smith and Mrs Gertrude Lockhart
Mrs Mary L Smith of South Hill Virginia formerly Gary died Saturday after a brief illness in a South Hill hospital. Survived by Willie Smith and two daughters Dorothy Steward and Vivian Smith. Daughters live in Gary and New Jersey. Burial in family cemetery. services at 2 p.m. Tuesday in South Hill. Mrs Gertrude Lockhart 58 of Long Pole near Saeger died Saturday at home after brief illness. Fanning Funeral Home of Saeger in charge of arrangements.
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Mary L. Smith
South Hill
Gary
Willie Smith
Dorothy Steward
Vivian Smith
New Jersey
West Main St
Gertrude
Gertie) Lockhart
Long Pole
Saeger
Willie Lockhart
McDowell County
Fanning Funeral Home
Peterstown Man Vernie Jervis 66 Dies at Home
Vernie C Jervis aged 66 of Peters town died at his home Saturday night Funeral arrangements handled by Broyles Funeral Home Peters town and incomplete
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Vernie C. Jervis
Peterstown
Broyles
Papadopoulos Sees Peaceful Solution for Cyprus
NICOSIA Cyprus AP Colonel George Papadopoulos a leading member of Greece ruling military junta said that union with Greece is the only just and acceptable solution to the Cyprus problem After three days of talks with Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios he returned to Athens and said Greece and Makarios would seek peaceful ways to reach the goal Talks between Greece and Turkey on Cyprus have been suspended since the Greek coup on April 21 Turkey seeks assurances that Turkish Cypriot minority rights will be protected
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Cyprus
George Papadopoulos
Greece
Athens
Makarios
Papadopoulos
Turkey
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