Virginia Expands Head Start Under Opportunity Act
Virginia officials report 13.24 million dollars in state and federal funds allocated under the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act. Projects include Neighborhood Youth Corps and Corps, with 3.6 million in approved programs. 24 community action groups funded at 3.8 million. 32 more groups in development. Project Head Start serves 15,000 children in 316 centers with 2.4 million cost. A Job Corps camp operates near Coeburn Wise County along with rural anti-poverty efforts and work-study programs.
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Robert H
Virginia
Council of Southern Mountains, Inc
Appalachian
United Planning Organization
Washington
Kirby
Harrison
Office of Economic Opportunity
Coeburn
Wise County
Rogers Legacy Guiding Viet Nam War Guerrillas
In PLEIKU South Viet Nam AP reports U S troops recall Captain Robert Rogers and his Rangers 18th century orders now printed for soldiers in Viet Nam. The commands cover readiness muskets ambush tactics discipline and finishing foes with decisiveness.
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Robert Rogers
Viet Nam
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Gemini 7 6 Debriefs Nears Cap Kennedy Return
After Gemini 7 and 6 missions, Borman and Lovell endure a 11 day debriefing with medical probes and family time planned. They expect to link with a satellite in Gemini 8 by spring while the US logs record space hours and launches Saturn 1B to close the rocket gap with Russia.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Schirra
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Tous
Manned Spacecraft Center
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L. Gordon Cooper Jr
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Russia
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Soviet Union
Fertilizer Plant Worker Dies In Tractor Accident
Chesapeake Virginia AP report says Robert Cross 31 of Gates North Carolina died after a tractor fell 25 feet from an overhead track at Smith-Douglass Money Point plant. He was dead on arrival at Norfolk General Hospital after the 5 30 p.m. mishap.
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Gates
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Jaycees Plan Christmas Shop Tour For Needy Children
Bluefield Jaycees will conduct an afternoon tour for needy children selected by the Bluefield Salvation Army through the Kresgee store. Club President David Shields announced the event set to start at 2 30 p m with Jaycee-ettes assisting in guiding children to choose items within a set amount.
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Senators Return With Word on Viet Nam Peace Talks
Senator Mansfield and a bipartisan group returned to Washington with a report for President Johnson. The 35 day trip to evaluate prospects for negotiations found little new leverage and scant evidence of changed Communist positions. The panel plans to brief the President and then the Senate with attitudes of world leaders on Southeast Asia.
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Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
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Viet Nam
Montana
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
J. Caleb Boggs
R-Del
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Mansfield
Hotel Luz collapse in Havana kills twenty
The Hotel Luz on Havana waterfront collapsed on Friday night. Radio Havana estimated 20 deaths and 50 injuries with 14 bodies recovered and a search under way. The Cuban Red Cross cares for survivors.
Trial Lawyers Oppose Virginia Wrongful Death Ceiling
Roanoke AP news: Virginia Board of Governors backs a resolution urging the Legislature to repeal the statutory cap on wrongful death damages. The current limit is 35 000, regardless of actual family damages. The vote was unanimous. Seminar plans set for Washington DC March 25 26 with participation from DC Maryland attorneys.
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Bristol
Henry E. Howell
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Bassett
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Charlottesville
World Hunger Cost Estimated in 1970 Study
The U S Department of Agriculture projects a 1970 world hunger deficit of about 6.8 billion dollars or 2 billion bushels of wheat. Two thirds of people live in nutritionally inadequate regions with diets roughly 900 calories below well fed nations. Rich nations must boost production and aid, while poorer countries must raise output.
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Washington News Roundup Highlights Plans and Personnel
In Washington reports describe plans to retain Historic Square features while updating walkways and fountains. Other items note Veterans of Foreign Wars chief Andy Beng urging higher overseas mail exemptions and more leave, plus top military leaders Johnson and Wheeler to visit South Vietnam over Christmas. Also cited are quotes on Viet Nam costs, Gemini 6 praise, Humphrey leading a Philippines inauguration delegation, a hospital update on former Rep. Miller, and India’s Subramaniam arriving for talks on a food crisis with Freeman.
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Parle G. Wheeler
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R-Neb
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India
Food and Agriculture
C. Subramaniam
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
Subramaniam
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Washington Senator Pushes Viet Step Up
Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington called for a substantial increase in U.S. ground forces to seal infiltration routes through Laos and Cambodia and for adjusted air strikes against North Vietnam after a nine day tour of combat areas in South Vietnam.
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Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
United States
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Jackson
Senate Armed Services Committee
Laos
Cambodia
Bell Choir To Sing At Kiwanis Meeting
The Bell Choir from Bland Street Methodist Church will present a Christmas program at a Bluefield Kiwanis luncheon at the West Virginian Hotel. Dr. Robert Gatherum is program chairman. The nature of the program was not disclosed.
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Bluefield
Deaths and Funerals in Anawalt and Surrounding Areas
Frank Edward Hiall Jr 4% of Anawalt died Saturday in a Gary hospital from natural causes. He was a miner, UMWA member, and husband of Geneva Sklepovich Hall. Funeral Monday at Pageton Methodist Church with burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens Princeton. Also listed are Mrs Minnie Wright 82 and Pearl B Joyce 73 with funeral details and survivors.
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Anawalt
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Colig Wisesman Hall
Pageton
Frank Edward Hall Sr
Geneva Sklepovich Hall
United Mine Workers of America
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Frank Edward Hall
Michael Chopluk
Betty Blankenship
Margaret Davis
Bluewell
Nancy Machineia
Otis Hall
Billy Joe Hall
Alexandria
Pageton Methodist Church
Johnson Wilson
Frank Vito
Minnie Wright
Rock
Lakeland
Fla
Pomeroy
Davis
James E. Wright
Riley Griffith
Princeton
Earl Belcher
Portsmouth
Edgar Little
Vance Jenkins
H. B. Or
A. E
Gus) Davis
Hollie O. Tabor Rites Set in Princeton
Hollie O. Tabor 72 of 309 Park Ave Princeton died Saturday at Princeton Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was a retired butcher and Modern Woodmen member with a wife daughter and two grandchildren. Funeral 3 p.m. Monday at George W Seaver Mortuary Chapel Princeton. Burial Oakwood Park Cemetery. Pallbearers listed and flowers to be carried by Elizabeth Earnest Circle.
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C. L. Blevins
Elizabeth Earnest Circle
Raymond Bailey dies in Welch after 20 days of treatment
Raymond Bailey of Hampton Roads in McDowell County died Saturday morning at 7 30 in a Welch hospital where he had been under treatment for 20 days. Death was attributed to natural causes. The body was taken to Fanning Funeral Home of Welch. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Hampton Roads
McDowell County
Welch Hospital
Fanning Funeral Home
Welch
Princeton Obituaries First Names and Funerals This Sunday
Multiple Princeton area obituaries list services Sunday including Keeese Guff 65 at George W Seaver Mortuary Chapel and Lucado Macie Lee 75 at Bailey Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Resthaven. Harmon Earl McConnis 51 in Rich lands. Logan Claude 73 in Yukon. Smith Noeh K 81 in Yukon. Browning Robert Walter Rt 2 North Tazewell Va buried Valley Vista. Pallbearers named for each service. Women of the Moose to carry flowers. Services set for 1:30 to 3 p.m. and 2 p.m. starts. Burial locations include Wood lawn Resthaven Grandview Memory Gardens and family Cemetery. Funeral homes: Seaver, Bailey, Dudley Memorial.
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Wilford
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Newton Reed
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Keesee
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Steve Kuffner
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William Mitchell
Robert Blevins
Women of the Moose
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Claude
Yukon
Church of the Living God
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
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Welch
Sailor Killed As Car Strikes School Bus
The Associated Press reports machinist's mate first class Robert C. Miller Jr. 27 of the USS Bonner died when his car hit the rear of a private school bus stopped to discharge pupils on U S 60 in Virginia Beach. Virginia highway toll rose to 1,002 for the year.
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Associated Press
Virginia Beach
Robert C. Miller Jr
U. S. 60
Bardot Draws 5000 As Crowd Surges For New York Premiere
French star Brigitte Bardot attracted about five thousand people at a New York movie premiere on Saturday night. The majority of onlookers were men, eager for a glimpse of the famed actress.
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Brigitte Bardot
Jones Wins Carolina Race
Walter Jones, a veteran state senator, captured 19,639 votes to 4,284 for Jackson and 4,171 for Mrs. Small in North Carolina’s 1st District race. Mrs. Small, 38, sought bloc support from 21,000 registered Black voters in the 15 county district, a farming and fishing area in the northeast.
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Small
North Carolina
Bradley's Winter Sale Highlights Coats Dresses and Furs
City and Coalfield shoppers are invited to Bradley's for a broad sale on winter coats suits dresses and furs with discounts and new arrivals. The shop features gowns robes lingerie evening wraps bags and extended selections from Eisenberg Napier and other lines with skirts sweaters and silk blouses in multiple styles.
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Eisenberg, Napier
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