Pair Sentenced For Russ Spying in Newark
AN American engineer John W Butenko from Orange received 30 years for espionage with two concurrent five year terms on lesser charges. Russian chauffeur Igor A Ivanov got 20 years for conspiracy and a concurrent five year term. Both proclaimed innocence as Judge Anthony T Augelli handed down the sentences in the eight week trial ending Dec 2.
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Newark
N. J
Soviet Union
John W.butenko
Orange
Butenko
Igor A. Ivanov
Ivanov
United States
Samuel A. Larner
Federal
Raymond Brown
U.S. Dist
Anthony T. Augelli
Bluefield Christmas Tree Fund Exceeds Goal
The Bluefield Community Christmas Tree fund drive surpasses the $4,000 target with Friday’s $450.50 contribution pushing total to $4,233.83. Proceeds will fund a Dec 24 Christmas party at Ramsey Auditorium for 1,500 to 2,000 underprivileged youngsters, with donations from individuals and organizations nationwide.
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Bluefield
Ramsey Auditorium
Flames In Ohio Nursing Home Kill 20 In Fire
A nursing home in Fountaintown Indiana suffered a deadly blaze killing 20 elderly patients. Fourteen residents and three nurses survived the fire. State police confirmed the death toll at 20, with concerns pneumonia may raise the numbers. The building had been deemed safe by inspectors six months earlier.
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Safe Nursing Home
Ohio
Fountaintown
Ind
Howard Boegaholtz
Frances Miles
Myrtle Donahue
Death Claims Perry L. Dye
Perry L. Dye 75 well known building contractor and Mercer County Democrat leader died Friday at his Green Valley home. He served as sheriff 1944-1948 and 1952-1956 and was a former county Democratic chairman. He was critically injured in a 1962 two car crash on Bluefield Princeton Road and never fully recovered. He was born in Honaker Virginia and survived by his wife, daughter and three sons, with funeral set at Greenview Methodist Church.
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Perry L. Dye
Mercer County
Dye
Green Valley
G. H. Crumpecker
West Virginia Sheriff's Association
Bluefield
Princeton Road
Honaker
A. B
Lucinda Hunt Dye
Greenview
Fannie Hurt Dye
Thelma Driscoll
Carl H
Harry L. Dye
Arthur Dye
Newman, Ga
E. W. Dye
Keystone
A. W. Dye
Akron
Clarence Dye
Hinton
John Dye
Anawalt
Rose Wilson
Sam Plaster
Lebanon
Mayme Barger
Greenview Methodist Church
Don Jackson
Monte Vista
Hawkinson
Tony
Arctic cold grips 18 states as disasters strike
Bitter subzero weather from Michigan to Nevada leaves livestock starving in Montana and Oregon. Hibbing Minnesota reports 30 below zero while Missoula Montana hits minus ten. Nursing home fire in Indiana kills twenty elders. Illinois convalescent home cottage fire claims four workers. Texas car crash on icy roads. two governors survey conditions. Montana cattlemen plan airlift. Air Force to drop hay using four C119s.
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Hibbing
Minn. I. N. Montana
Missoula
North Atlantic
Florida
Fountaintown
Ind
Winfield
Ill
Texas
John Love
Colorado
William Guy
North Dakota
Love
Montana
U.S. Air Force
Johnson proposes a sea level canal to replace Panama
President Johnson announced plans to replace the Panama Canal with a sea level link between the Atlantic and Pacific. He suggested possible routes in Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, and perhaps Costa Rica and said details on cost would come later. The move could end American control of the Canal Zone once a new canal operates.
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Washington
Johnson
United States
Panama Canal
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Panama Canal Zone
White House
Panama
Canal Zone
Canal
Colombia
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Independent Coal Unit Seeks ICC Probe of New Rates
The National Independent Coal Operators Association asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend and investigate proposed bituminous coal tariffs from multiple railroads to Virginia communities. The group argues the tariff would destroy the regional rate structure and worsen the already difficult market for small producers in the Appalachian area. The rates would take effect January 1 and affect shipments to Amoco, Bremo, Norfolk, Possum Point, Richmond, and Wheelwright, Virginia.
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Washington
National Independent Coal Operators Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Virginia
Chesapeake & Ohio
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Interstate
Kanawha Central Railroad
Kelley's Creek & Northwestern
Winifrede
Amoco
Bremo
Norfolk
Posseum Point
Richmond
Wheelwright
Appalachia
ICC
IRS claims against Scranton estate exceed six figures
Gov. William W. Scranton fights an IRS claim of more than $600,000 against his mother's estate while contending the government owes $265,000. The dispute stems from gifts to family from Marion Margery Scranton in the final years of her life and credits for death taxes paid to Pennsylvania.
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William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Internal Revenue Service
Marion Margery Scranton
U.S. Tax Court
Scranton
IRS
Tax
Mrs. Scranton
GOP Battles for House Leadership and Party Chair
GOP leaders faced a fierce post election dispute over House leadership and the party chairmanship. Rep. Gerald R. Ford announced a Saturday news conference amid signals he will challenge Rep. Charles Halleck for minority leader. Dean Burch vowed to resist calls to resign as national chairman, aiming to withstand liberal and moderate efforts to oust him, as discussions swirl about a possible Nixon linked leadership plan.
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Washington
House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Rep
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Dean Burch
Barry Goldwater
Burch
National Committee
Chicago
GOP National Committee
GOP Executive Finance Committee
Ford
Halleck
Capitol Hill
GOP
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Florida
Tive Committee
The
Washington Evening Star
Richard M. Nixon
Robert H. Finch
Nixon
Judges from Fifth Circuit weigh contempt clash in civil rights case
Seven active Fifth Circuit judges heard arguments Friday on whether U.S. Attorney Robert E. Hauberg violated a Mississippi district court order by refusing to sign grand jury indictments of two Black defendants. The panel weighed the judge prosecutor boundary and the Justice Department role in prosecutions.
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Atlanta, Ga
Mississippi
U.S
Judicial Executive
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
W. Harold Cox
Robert E. Hauberg
Jackson
Miss
Cox
Hauberg
Justice Department
Griffin Bell
Atlanta
John W. Douglas
FBI
Abby Add Years Churches Classified Comics Crosswords
The entry lists sections including Abby .12, Churches .14, Classified .10, Comics .18, Crosswords .12, Editorials .4, plus Goren .12 and Little People 8 Movies . Princeton . of Words Weather.
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Abby
Goren
Princeton
Society of Words
Urban Renewal Gets 586794 Grant for Bluefield Project
The Housing and Home Finance Agency approves a 586 794 grant increasing total federal aid for Bluefield Avenue Urban Renewal to 1 724 292. Bluefield UK director George McCulloch says funds cover amended plans including more property acquisitions and underground power lines. A public hearing and board approval are required before forwarding the grant. Demolition and road widening are slated to begin next spring and next year for phase two.
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Bluefield Avenue
Housing and Home Finance Agency
George McCulloch
Bluefield UK
McCulloch
Rogers Street
Bluefield Board of Directors
Bluefield
Princeton Avenue
State Road Commission
North Side
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Twin Cedar Lake
Crawford County
Georgia
Jake Stancile
Stancile
Marion Gooch Wall
Louise W. Troup
Future Teachers of America
Bluefield High School
Bernard A. Wilkinson
Fairview Junior High
Lori Lyn Venable
Carolyn Corte
Cynthia
Leslie Dalton
Zeta Phi Beta Amicae
Pam
Jim
John
Bill
Patrick
Ricky
Joe Wilds
Lucian A. Arata
Shelby County
Bob Reed
Harry Dennemann
McGraw Nursing Home
Indianapolis
William L. McGraw
C. N. Jeffries
Dawn
Associated Press
Western Ranges
Missouri
Nevada
Oregon
Independent Coal Unit
Gov
Senate
the Star
Finch
New York
Los Angeles
L. A. Pyle
Elbert P. Tuttle
U. S
Bobby Baker
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