Kissinger outlines phased Vietnam negotiation plan
Henry Kissinger proposes multilevel talks on Vietnam with U S withdrawal and neutral pacts for Laos and Cambodia. South Vietnam would determine its internal political structure while broader forums seek guarantees, avoiding U S involvement in Saigon’s internal future.
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Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Nixon
Vietnam
United States
South Vietnam
Kissinger
Harvard Scholar
Foreign Affairs
North Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Paris
NLF
Saigon
Look Magazine
U.S
Richmond Banks Raise Prime Rates to 6 Percent
Three Richmond banks including Richmond Central National Bank State First & Merchants National Bank and State Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts lifted the prime rate from 6% to 6% citing national movements. Banks expect the move may lead to higher rates for smaller borrowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Richmond Central National Bank
State First & Merchants National Bank
State Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts
Bank holdups and burglaries hit new peaks in 1967
The country registered 1,591 bank holdups and burglaries in 1967, causing losses of 8.7 million dollars. The prior year saw 1,088 crimes with 4.8 million dollars in losses.
Unclear OCR fragment from Virginia newspaper page
Fragmentary text from a Virginia newspaper page notes advertising and circulation staff with garbled names and numbers. The readable elements reference Bluefield area sources, the ABOCLA PRESS, and pupil or paper shop notes with a monetary figure 91.20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Daily Telegraphe
Moray
Bae Dot
Telearap
Pela Mihaban
Abocla
Mirriga Mies
Virginia
Couse
Ruait Bureau
Circula- Advert
The
Kats
Ee Eaestene
Deaths and Funerals in Mercer County Area
Obituary notices for Joseph Saundle 330 North Mercer Bluefield died Monday. Funeral Friday 2 p.m. Mount Zion Baptist Church burial Oak Grove Bluewell. Also Charles Gordon Dooley Locust Grove Bluewell died after long illness. services Friday 2:30 p.m. Mercer Funeral Home Chapel. Others: Flora Keaton Pipestem died. burial Keaton Cemetery Pipestem. Elzy Green Princeton died. services Friday 1 p.m. Bailey Funeral Home Chapel. Edith LaForce Carlo died. survivors listed. service complete at Lebanon Lebanon. John Buchanan North Tazewell died. Umberto Bellini Blufield died. services and burial details provided for each.
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Joseph S. Saundle
North Mercer St
Bluefield
Mount Zion Baptist Church
A. L. Polk
Carrolton Jackson
C. W. Tiffany
Oak Grove
Bluewell
Joseph H
Victoria F. Saundle
Lucille H. Saundle
Brenda S. Duncan
Guam
Elliece V. Smith
Richmond
Lucille C. Saundle
Joseph S. Saundle Jr
Waterbury
Henry Saundle
Sandusky
Ohio
W. C. Spencer
Lenius Harris
Sinkler Martin
Richard Brown
Nathaniel Baumgardner
Allen Connolly
George Watkins
Casper Briggs
Mary Coleman
Alma Moore
Nettie Baumgardner
Virginia Harvey
Ruth Marshall
Jesse Horton
Annie Younger
Enough Davis
Verona Polk
Drexel Brown
Clara DeCousin
Charles Gordon Dooley
Locust Grove
Blufield
David Reed
Naomi Kidd Dooley
Norfolk & Western Railway
Bailey Memorial Baptist Church
Concord Lodge No. 48
Af&am
Athens
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Dela Bailey Dooley
Leonard Dooley
Charles Dooley
Charles Beck
Helen Dooley
Carl Neel
Luther Riggens
Major Taylor
Thurman Rush
Bob Shelton
Florence
Ore
Hubert Craig
Rich Creek
Charlie Bailey
Huntington
Mercer Funeral Home
Brown Jarrett
Alton Jessee
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
Elzy Green
Lilly Grove Addition
Keystone
Thomas W
Mary Grose Green
Blanche Green
Herndon
Wyoming County
Silver Springs
Old Guards
Milburn Green
Robert Green
Arlington
Roselawn Memorial
Princeton Road
Bailey Funeral Home
Edith Laforce
Carlo
Mill Creek
Cecil Jackson
Cleveland, Va
Lebanon, Va
Death of Noah Blankenship 71 in Indianapolis
Noah Blankenship 71 of Indianapolis Indiana died Tuesday afternoon in an Indianapolis hospital from natural causes. Survived by wife Pearl four daughters Vivian Allen Gertrude Lester Naomi Collins Betty Collins four sons Andrew Raymond Ira Clyde and one brother Annon. Body moved from Virginia Funeral Home Grundy Virginia to Luther Collins Litwar then to Annon Blankenship in Hurley Virginia.
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Noah Blankenship
Indianapolis
Ind
Saeger and
Athens
Clyde Blankenship
Fairfax, Va
Annon Blankenship
Hurley
Virginia
Grundy
Luther Collins
Litwar
Died Mrs Elizabeth Fitzgerald in Welch Hospital
Mrs Elizabeth Fitzgerald of Jenkin Jones died Wednesday morning in a Welch hospital after a long illness. The body is at Lugo's Funeral Service in Bluefield pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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Soyga Todd
Laquetta Todd
Hartwell
George Slaughter
Newhall
Lugo
Bluefield
Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Jenkin Jones
Welch
Dearing, 44, Liberal native, dies en route to Bluefield
David Thomas Dearing an aeronautical engineer and World War II veteran died in Morriston Arkansas while en route to Bluefield. Born in Bluefield he was a Beech Aircraft Corp engineer and Presbyterian Church member. Survived by parents Sidney T and Mary W Dearing of Double Gates Virginia a brother Harold W Bearing of Rocky Mount North Carolina and a niece. Funeral at Fincastle Presbyterian Church with burial in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery Bluewell. Call Hawk ins Funeral Home in Bluefield after 4 30 pm.
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David Thomas Dearing
Liberal
Kansas
Bluefield
Morriston
Ark
Beech Aircraft Corporation
Presbyterian Church
Sidney T
Mary Wilson Dearing
Double Gates
Harold W. Bearing
Rocky Mount
N. C
Fincastle Presbyterian Church
Paul Gess
Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery
Bluewell
Hawkins Funeral Home
Cons Indicted In Rights Fuss
The Justice Department indicted eight Paterson New Jersey police officers for violating federally protected rights of Negro residents. The pre dawn July 3 incident involved assaults and damage to Negro owned businesses. Six officers named Bevacqua DeChellis Gorman Gsell Hemsey LeConte faced conspiracy charges.
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Washington
Justice Department
Paterson
N.J
Newark
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Philip Bevacqua
Angelo DeChellis
Carl Gorman
George Gsell
Abraham Hemsey
Peter LeConte
Vatican laments Christmas buying frenzy overshadows nativity
The Vatican daily L Osservatore Romano complains that Christmas has become a buying spree. It says the manger tradition is obscured by the publicized Christmas tree which it calls an ornament lacking the true meaning of Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
Vatican Daily
L’osservatore Romano
Masons Plan Christmas Party at Bluefield Hall
Bluefield lodge members of the F A and A Y Masons will hold their annual Christmas party at the Masonic Hall on Ellis Street. Festivities are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. with a communal gathering and celebration.
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Bluefield Lodge No. 3
F&aaym Masons
Masonic Hall
Ellis Street
Bluefield
Ky Blasts Kissinger's Peace Plan At Paris Meeting
Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam criticized Henry Kissinger's proposed two tier approach to Vietnam talks calling it junk. He said he fights both the enemy and his so called friends as Americans debate Paris developments. Ky hinted at returning to Saigon for Christmas with troops.
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Paris
Nguyen Cao Ko
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Henry A. Kissinger
Nixon
Foreign Affairs
Kissinger
Washington
Hanoi
Saigon
Congress
George McGovern
D. S.D
Defense
Clark M. Clifford
McGovern
Nguyen van Thieu
Funerals for Several Residents Held Across Bluefield Princeton Area
Notices list services for Charles Bradberry 63 of Princeton Rosa Marshall Wilson 74 of Bluefield G. C. McCloudy 83 of Lebanon Va Thomas E. Pruitt 53 of Bartley Dessie Mae Easter 50 of Bluefield and Lloyd English Shrader 68 with churches in Princeton Bluefield Bluewell and Lebannon. Services occur today with burial in Oakwood Woodlawn Yates Grandview and Roselawn cemeteries and pallbearers named.
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Pruitt
Thomas E
Bartley
Fanning Funeral Home Chapel
Jaeger
Elmer de Hart
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
Shrader
Lloyd English
Freeman
Cravens - Shires Funeral Home
Tony Spinella
Buria
Grandview Memorial Gardens
Bluefield
Bob Miles
Jack Miles
Fred
James
Grayson
Bruce Shrader
Plot Seen On Brazil President Plot Seen On Brazil President
President Arthur da Costa e Silva assumed extraordinary powers after a reported plot to overthrow the government. Government spokesman Fernando Galvao said the plot was undeniable, while Diario de Noticias claimed plotters aimed to seize power on January 20 led by ex governor Carlos Lacerda and former president Juscelino Kubitschek.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Arthur da Costa E Silva
Fernando Galvao
Diario de Noticias
Costa E Silva
Carlos Lacerda
Guanabard State
Juscelino Kubitschek
Miller repays overpayment to West Virginia Prison Industries
Former Prison Industries Director Delaine Miller sent a check for 81.39 to reimburse the state for expense overpayments. He issued a six page letter blaming honest mistakes and calling for tighter internal checks. A legislative audit cited questioned expenses. Miller resigned last April.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Prison Industries
Delaine Miller
Charleston Gazette
Gazette
Miller
Intelsat 3 Launch Marks Space Milestone
Intelsat 3, hailed as the most powerful communications payload yet, lifted off from Cape Kennedy on the Delta rocket to honor the 10th anniversary of the first satellite. Apollo 8 astronauts and other officials watched as Intelsat 3 reached a 165 to 22,700 mile orbit with plans for commercial operation by year’s end.
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Cape Kennedy
Fila
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
William A. Anders
Space Agency
Nixon Daughter Julie Nixon to Wed Eisenhower
Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower plan a private wedding with no news coverage. Reporters will wait outside the church while NBC transmits the ceremony via closed circuit to Eisenhower’s grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who is hospitalized in Maryland.
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New York
Julie Nixon
David Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nixon
National Broadcasting Company
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Maryland
Jury finds accused slayer innocent in Roanoke murder
A Hastings Court jury found George M. Gunther 21 Bedford not guilty of the Sept 16 shooting death of Robert Louis Mutt Brown 30 in Roanoke. After about two hours of deliberation 11 men and a woman returned an innocent verdict. Commonwealth’s Leroy Moran had sought first degree murder. The shooting occurred in front of an apartment building in the 700 block of Hunt Avenue where Brown and Gunther’s wife lived.
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Roanoke
Hastings Court
George M. Gunther
Bedford
Robert Louis ‘Mutt’ Brown
Commonwealth Atty
Leroy Moran
Hunt Avenue
Brown
Concert Set For Tonight By Tazewell Schools Choirs
A 7:30 p.m. concert at the Tazewell High School Auditorium features five groups: Tazewell Junior High School Choir, Tazewell High School Choir, a girls chorus, a boys chorus, and 35 Green Singers. Mrs. C. H. Leist directs with Mrs. E. E. Hanklin and Miss Carol Boothe accompanying. admission is free and open to the public.
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Tazewell High School
C. H. Leist
E. E. Hankln
Carol Boothe
Tazewell Junior High School
Multiple Virginias See Fatal Vehicle Crashes This Week
An Abingdon man Harold Lee Foran 25 died in a single car crash three miles south of Marion on Interstate 81. Other fatalities include Merrill McCrae Flood 26 of Virginia Beach in a crash with a tractor-trailer, William Erasm us Wiles 50 of Lynchburg in a U.S. 460 crash, Floyd R. Holmes 56 of Richmond in a two car crash on Virginia 5, Woodrow Franklin Deal 19 Sperryville in a single car crash on Virginia 231, and Craven Wilson 49 of James City County who died in a single car crash north of Toano.
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Associated Press
Abingdon
Marion
Smyth County
Harold Lee Foran
Virginia Beach
Merrill McCrae Flood
Elliston
William Erasmus Wiles
Lynchburg
Montgomery County
Richmond
Floyd R. Holmes
Virginia 5
Sperryville
Woodrow Franklin Deal
Sperryside
Virginia 231
Rappahannock
Toano — Craven Wilson
James City
Toano
Nude Man Arrested In Window Breaking Spree
A 23-year-old man was arrested after a window breaking spree in Minneapolis shopping district. Police say 39 windows were shattered in luxury stores during the early hours. A pile of clothing was found in a phone booth and the suspect is held in Hennepin County General Hospital psychiatric ward.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Hennepin County General Hospital
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Flora Burke Keaton
Pipestem
Hinton
Flora Keaton
Fred and
Mary Beckett Keaton
Church of Christ
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Korea
Oswald Neely
Frank Austin
Boyd Philipps
Speedway
Dewey Neely
Loraine
Lonnie Neely
Severna Park
Elmer Caperton
Crownsville
Howard Keaton
George Keaton
Claude Keaton
Serena
Trevor Keaton
Knob Primitive Baptist Church
Orville Neely
Owen Carver
Keaton
Simmie Charles
University of Virginia
Primitive Baptist Church
Huff and Cook Insurance Agency
Bristol
Ida Belle Charles
Burgie Yates Charles
Shela
Alice
Leatta Charles
Robert
Simmie Dean Charles
Robert Charles
Prater
Bonnie Woods
Birdie Viers
Joe Charles
Tollie
Delbert Charles
Grundy Funeral Home
Pat Honaker
West Main Street
Glenwood Park
Mercer County
Seaver Mortuary
Souga Todd
John Buchanan
North Tazewell
Barbara Buchanan
Charlie Buchanan
Lake Villa
Ill
Hubert Buchanan
War
James Buchanan
Kingsport
Tenn
Caroline Beavers
Lebanon
Ed Mays
Coeburn
Maggie Hill
Greever Funeral Home
Tazewell
Umberto Bellini
Pulaski St
Wilcoe
Guiditta M. Bellini
Donato Bellini
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Pete Bellini
John Oliver
Sacred Heart Church
William Carr
Memorial Cemetery
Thomas Medley
Thomas
Eddie) Medley
Hoggs Chapel
Ernestine Medley
Tommy Medley
Porter N. Medley
United States Air Force
Okinawa
Williams - Jamison Funeral Home
Pembroke
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Vatican
Thieu
Bradberry
Charles
Bluefield Avenue
Church of God
Cecil Watson
Oakwood Cemetery
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Joe Bragg
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