No-Strike Rule Comes To End
Washington AP reports railroads warned of discontinuing service nationwide if a threatened strike by four shop craft unions proceeds, timing aligned with Nixon’s 60 day federal no strike order expiration at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Union leaders say walkouts would target single lines to avoid federal emergency action.
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Washington
Nixon
John P. Hiltz Jr
National Railway Labor Conference
Hiltz
Association of Machinists
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Sheet Metal Workers
Boilermakers
Health Center Weekly Clinic Schedule
Dr. John J. Mahood announces Mercer County Health Center schedule for Dec 1 to Dec 5. Venereal disease clinic Monday at 11 a.m. immunizations Tuesday 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.. tuberculin testing Tuesday 2 to 4 p.m. Cardio vascular disease clinic Wednesday 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon by appointment. crippled children cardiac clinic Wednesday by appointment. well child conference Thursday by appointment. Next week includes Diabetes Class Monday 7 p.m., Kiwanis Club 6:30 p.m., Southern Cardiologist Association Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
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John J. Mahood
Mercer County Health Center
Mercer
Kiwanis Club
Southern Cosmetologist Association
Poverty Income Levels Raised for Families and Individuals
Government raises poverty-income thresholds effective immediately used by Labor Department and Office of Economic Opportunity to determine eligibility for federal manpower programs. Urban four person family up from 3300 to 3600 rural 2300 to 3000. urban family of 12 up 7400 to 8400 rural 5200 to 7000. single urban from 1600 to 1800 rural 1100 to 1500.
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Washington
Labor Department
Office of Economic Opportunity
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Local News Patch Summary
A fragment from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists subscription rates by carrier for daily and Sunday editions. It mentions West Virginia zones and annual costs, with a reference to a local representative and a phone contact.
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Te Yytetes Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W.ember
THE
Associated
West Virginia
Ruth Dusen
Cieslo
Deaths and Funerals Notice Highlights Local Losses
Charles L. Godsey 35 of Godsey Texas formerly Rich Creek Va died in Fort Worth after a long illness. He leaves his mother Mrs Lara Godsey and five brothers and four sisters. Funeral 2 p.m. at Broyles Chapel Peterstown with burial Rich Creek Cemetery. John Estes Hight 90 of Princeton dies in Glenwood Park Nursing Home after long illness. Survived by widow two daughters one brother nine grandchildren fifteen great grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday George W Seaver Chapel with burial Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Junior Hedrick Jr. 47 of Anawalt dies of apparent heart attack. Survived by three brothers. Funeral Chapel Bluewell. burial Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery. Synthia Dawn Caldwell two week old daughter of Roy Dean and Lidia Caldwell dies in Charlottesville. Graveside rites 11 a.m. Resthaven Park Cemetery. Bernice Vineyard Webster 77 of Wilcoe dies of apparent heart attack. Survives husband Frank and daughter Lillie Hairston and sons Albert and Theodore. 39 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements incomplete at Page Funeral Home Welch.
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Charles L. Godsey
Godsey
Texas
Rich Creek
Fort Worth
Narrows
Lara Godsey
William E. Godsey
Gerber Baby Foods
Oakland
Calif
Janice Vaughan
Godley
Dick Martin
Lawrence
Mass
Ronny Simpkins
Charlottesville
Loretta McCoy
Carl Godsey
Phoenix
Ariz
Melvin Godsey
St. Petersburg
Fla
Norman Godsey
Peterstown
Arvin
Bobby Godsey
Broyles Funeral Chapel
William Belcher
John Estes Hight
Princeton
Glenwood Park
Norfolk & Western Railway
Pearisburg
Gordon P
Amanda Harold Hight
Vivors Inc
Nannie Ratliff Hight
Junior) Hedrick Jr
Anawalt
Jenkin Jones
Ballard H
Mary India Slush Hedrick
Methodist Church
C. H
Buddy) Hedrick
Everett H. Hedrick
Webster
N. Y
Clyde W
Synthia Dawn Caldwell
Roy Dean
Lidia Elmore Caldwell
Christiansburg
University of Virginia Hospital
Francis Caldwell
G. R. Caldwell
Mullens
Howard Elmore
Bernice Vineyard Webster
Wilcoe
Frank Webster
Lillie M. Hairston
Albert Vineyard
Theodore Vineyard
Elbert
Page Funeral Home
Welch
Obituaries: John Tashe and William Bowman
John Tashe 88 of Hemphill near Welch died Sunday morning after a long illness. He was a retired coal miner and UMW Local 6023 member and Hungarian Reformed Federation of America member. Surviving are his son Steve, three daughters, a sister, 11 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Funeral at Welch with Rev. E. E. Boyd. interment Woodlawn Cemetery Bluewell. William Elgin Bowman 92 of Horsepen died early Sunday after a long illness. Survived by widow Onnie Rye Bowman, two daughters, one son and a brother. Funeral at Horsepen Christian Church with burial in church cemetery. Body at Shumate Newman Funeral Home Poca.
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Hemphill
Welch
UMW
Caples
Hungarian Reformed Federation of America
Steve
Tashe
Mary Fazio
Chicago
Ill
Joe
Dora) Oris
Gate City
Fred
Elizabeth) Llano
Detroit
Mich
Julia Youngvitch
Passaic
N. J
E. E. Boyd
Woodlawn
Bluewell
William Elgin Bowman
Horsepen
Bluefield
Onnie Rye Bowman
Clint
Hiawatha
Earl Breedlove
Salem
Wayne Owens
Pineville
Jack Bowman
Horsepen Christian Church
Charlie Sublette
Shumate- Newman Funeral Home
Poca
Funeral notices recap for multiple local residents
Obituaries list several services in Bluefield and Princeton regions. Otis Carl Mask 82 of New Hope Road Princeton had funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at Burns- Wornell Chapel with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park Mausoleum. Viola Lewis 66 of Rt 2 Bluefield Va, funeral 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at home with two ministers. burial Grandview Memory Gardens. Charlie Lee Lowder 77 of Union Street Bluefield, funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mercer Funeral Home Chapel. burial Walnut Grove Cemetery. Oscar Lee Gallimore of South Street Bluefield, funeral today 1 p.m. Mercer Funeral Home Chapel. burial Monte Vista Park Cemetery. Jackie Forby Walden 4 of Bluefield Va, funeral today 1:30 p.m. Dudley Memorial Chapel. burial Maple Hills Cemetery. Pallbearers named for Mask and Gallimore include local residents. multiple survivors listed for Mask family.
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Mask
Otis Carl
New Hope Road
Princeton
Brady Biffle
Resthaven Memorial Park
Andy Faulkner
Kermit Morgan
Hollis Sikes
Wade Taylor
John Cleary
Elwood Simmons
Ralph Mask
Canton
Ohio
Bill
Jim Mask
Portsmouth
Dan Mask
Auburn
Wash
Gallimore
Oscar Lee
South Street
Bluefield
Mercer Funeral Home
Paul Houston
Frank Schawal
Monte Vista Park
Robert Walk
A. R. MclIntosh
Lacy Croy
McKinley Stacy
George Fox
J. H. Doyle
L. H. Ball
Joe Caldwell
Labor dept findings touch Boyle and UMW leadership
The Labor Department questioned expense spending by Boyle and other UMW leaders. Yablonski’s 1968 expenses were cited as 441 a day, three times the average. Titler charged a biased release aimed at influencing the union election, calling the department corruptible and the release harmful to the Boyle Titler campaign.
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Labor Department
Boyle
UMW
Titler
Yablonski
Department
Office of Labor Management and Welfare
Boyle-Titler
Jaeger Native Killed In Crash On Ohio Turnpike
Clifford A. Hawkins of Bensenville Illinois was killed when his single vehicle wrecked on the Ohio Turnpike near Perrysburg Friday afternoon. His wife was hospitalized in serious condition. Hawkins, born in Sveger, had lived in Manassas Virginia before moving to Illinois, survived by two sons one brother and a grandson. Funeral services were held at Crystal Block Church of God with burial in Ward Cemetery Pilgrims Knob Virginia.
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Jaeger
McDowell County
Perryburg
Ohio
Clifford A. Hawkins
Bensenville
Ill
Perrysburg
Hawkins
Sveger
Ora Lee
Augusta Morgan Hawkins
Manassas
Brothers International Company
Charles
L. Hawkins
Robert L. Hawkins
U.S. Army
Grafenwahr
Germany
Harold
Contests Highlight 1966 Senate and Governor Stakes
GOP figures eye a three way race with Lukens and a split field as November fate hangs. Illinois senator seat battles loom with Stevenson challenging Smith. Goodell pressed by GOP rivals in New York while Goldberg emerges as top Dem hopeful for Senate or governor. Murthy and Tunney eye California race. Yarborough faces a conservative Dem plus Bush in Texas. Williams seeks re election in New Jersey as Cahill gains power. Byrd uncertain if he stays Dem or shifts to Republican or independent in Virginia.
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New York
Charles E. Goodell
Arthur J. Goldberg
Labor
Supreme Court
United Nations
Senate
Goldberg
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Good
New Jersey
William T. Cahill
Nelson Gross
Virginia
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Byrd
GOP
Flair Opens But Lawmen Don’t Act
Flair Discount of Bluefield opened for business Sunday and remained unmolested by Mercer County law authorities despite efforts by Prosecutor David W. Knight to enforce the state Sunday closing law. Knight said state police would not arrest for Sunday closing violations and Bluefield officers observed without arrests. He urged complaints to local police. Flair had been tried twice in Mercer Intermediate Court with one verdict hung and another guilty. after a July indictment the firm reopened on Sundays and faced a $100 fine after a guilty plea.
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Flair Discount
Bluefield
Mercer County
David W. Knight
Knight
The
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield City
Flair
Mercer Intermediate Court
Haeb erle captures Vietnam atrocity images for Life and others
The photographer Haeberle and reporter Roberts documented a girl stripped by soldiers in Vietnam. Life published the images after copyright details with the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Stern and the Sunday Times later bought rights for undisclosed sums.
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Roberts
Haeberle
Ceveland Plain Dealer
Plain Dealer
Eszterhas
New York
Deadly chlorine gas forces Start town evacuation
A derailed Illinois Central freight train near Start Louisiana released chlorine gas, prompting a one mile evacuation. No injuries were reported as authorities said residents would not return until the cars were replaced, with 23 cars derailed in the incident.
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Rayville
Start
Richland Parish
Louisiana
Here
Illinois Central
Earl Hill
Two Hurt In Car Train Crash At Skygusty Crossing
Creatha Shrader five and Ray seven of Skygusty were injured when a car driven by Rufus Shrader 31 pulled onto Route 15 at a railroad crossing in McDowell County. The N and W train struck the vehicle injuring the two children. they were treated at Stevens Clinic Hospital in Welch. Rod ney Shrader nine was not hurt.
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Skygusty
McDowell County
Welch
Creatha Shrader
Ray
Rufus
N&w
Shrader
Rodney
Stevens Clinic
A. W. Maddy
23 Point Deer Killed Near Roane Calhoun Line
A 23 point deer weighing 270 pounds was killed Friday near the Roane Calhoun county line. Ronald Mace of Pup Run east of Spencer used a 30.06 rifle. Conservation Officer William Suter said it was the biggest buck he had ever seen.
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Parkersburg
Roane-Calhoun County
Ronald Mace
Pup Run
Spencer
William Suter
Roane County
Fog and Ice Trigger massive Seattle Tacoma freeway crashes
In dense fog on Interstate 5 from south of Tacoma to the Canadian border, hundreds of vehicles including cars trucks and buses collided causing major airport closures through the night. A group leapt a railing to escape a skidding bus falling 60 feet. four injured none seriously.
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Seattle
Seattle- Tacoma
Tacoma
Hijacked Varig Jet Returns After Havana Hold
A Varig Airlines Boeing 707 hijacked Friday from Paris to Rio de Janeiro via San Juan and Havana returned to Rio de Janeiro Sunday. The 80 passengers and 15 crew were detained for questioning at Galeno Airport after landing. The hijacker, a 32 year old French Algerian, used a knife and pistol to seize control.
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Varig Airlines
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Havana
Rio de Janeiro
Galeno International Airport
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