Boat Capsize Kills Four in Contentnea Creek NC
A wife watched in horror as her husband Ralph Brown and two teenage sons Jackie and Earl Carmor, along with a fourth man, drowned when a small outboard boat capsized in Contentnea Creek near Grifton. The flood-swollen six to seven foot deep water carried the victims downstream toward the Neuse River after the men moved to the back of the craft.
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Grifton
N. Co
Luther Lewis
Lewis
Ralph Brown
Thomas W. Carmor
Baltimore
Jackie
Earl
Carmor
North Carolina
Greenville
Carmer
Brown
Neuse River
Missing Car After Tryout From Evans Chevrolet
A 1963 Oldsmobile valued at 2195 was loaned for a tryout on Bland Street and not returned by evening. The driver used a fictitious name and claimed N W Railway employment. Police report the car did not belong to him and N W had no such employee. Also under investigation is a Park Street break in and several small losses including cash and papers at local homes and terminals.
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Evans Chevrolet
Bland Street
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western Railway Co
N&w
Park Street
Cortez Reece
Larry Phillips
Beaver Bond Avenue
Greyhound
Problems Solved As U S Prepares For Long Space Flight
The article reviews aims to extend manned spaceflight to 97 hours 50 minutes, nearing Russia’s five day record. It notes needs in maneuverability rendezvous and long duration life support before a moon mission and cites a water leak due to human error as a hurdle cleared.
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U.S
Russia
Alexei Leonov
Space Agency
Publication Rights Notice and Subscriptions Details
The notice states the paper holds exclusive publication rights for dispatches and local news. It outlines subscription rates by carrier, daily and Sunday editions, and mail options. rates apply to West Virginia and other regions.
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Badame
West Virginia
Deaths and funerals from Tazewell and surrounding towns
Obituaries list Virginia Harman Fields and Charlie L Walker among local deaths with funeral details. Other notices include Calvin Edward Perry and William Garland Snapp with service times and burial places. Additional listings name Bernard Scott, A A Sutherland, and Bernard Scott, along with James Martin of Crozier Bottom with arrangements pending.
Brewster Infant Daughter Dies in Welch Hospital
Londa Kathaleen Brewster infant daughter of Walter Alexander and Pearlie Lucille Brewster of Squire died Monday in a Welch hospital born March 31 1965 she is survived by three brothers Donald William and Walter Alexander Brewster Jr one sister Mary Brewster all at home funeral at Big Creek Cemetery at 1 PM Wednesday officiated by Rev Clarence Ballard and Rev Patton Brewster body will be moved from residence Tuesday afternoon also Katie Still widow of Frank Still of Elbert died Monday afternoon in a Bluefield Hospital funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Rt. 2
Tazewell
Richlands
Charlie P
Flora Graybear Harman
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Barnes-Beavers
Rowland D. Fields Sr
Jeanne Lee Fields
Gerald Monroe
Rowland D. Fields Jr
Frank Patterson
Tampa
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C. P. Harman Jr
Baltimore
Mount Pleasant Methodist Church
Maxwell, Va
Rev
W. E. Mustard
Greenhill Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
VFW
Jimmy St. Clair
Raymond Smith
Robert Mutter
Richard Harman
Doy Matney
Jack Lockhart
American Cancer Society
Peery and St. Clair Funeral
Calvin Edward Perry
Rt. 1
Grundy
Hager McClanahan Perry
Billy Ray Perry
U. S. Marines
Norfolk, Va
Edward R. Carberry
Frederick, Md
James Jones
Hillard Varney
McAndrews
Willard Darnell
Valley
William Garland Snapp
Gardner St
Bluefield
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Monroe Dodson
Hurricane Cemetery
Airport Road
Snapp
B M
Ella Bailey Snapp
Bluefield Sanitarium
Frank Snapp
Cleveland
Ohio
Daniel Snapp
Princeton
Clarence Snapp
Thomas
Tucker County
Maybeury
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
United Mine Workers of America
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Belinda Gail Scott
Bernard Scott Jr
L. H. McCloud
Clarence Scott
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Hawaii
R. L. Scott
Nathan Emanuel Church
Welch
Buchanan County
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Margaret Mullins
Evy Smith Church
Novella Boyd
Josephine Church
Red Ash
Mack W. Church
Saeger
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Jack
Mary Horn
Detroit
Mich
Douglas Mortuary
Horn Cemetery
Three Forks
Bradshaw
Richard Kennedy
Londa Kathaleen Brewster
Walter Alexander
Pearlie Lucille Charles Brewster
Squire
Donald
William
Walter Alexander Brewster Jr
Mary Brewster
Big Creek
Clarence Ballard
Patton Brewster
Katie Still
Frank Still
Elbert
Sin
Ford and Richardson Funeral Home
Keystone
Funeral Notices for McReynolds Crs Powers McDaramont and Mitchem
Funeral services are announced for Lawrence Marvin McReynolds 50 of Greensboro NC and Robert Franklin Cregger 16 of Elkhorn with services at Mercer Funeral Chapel Bluefield and Cravens Chapel Bluewell and Mack Macedonia Methodist Church Chilhowie VA. Burial follows at Monte Vista Park Cemetery McClure Cemetery Roselawn Cemetery and Woodlawn Cemetery. Shirley Franklin Powers Sr. of Bluefield to be laid to rest at First Baptist Church and Hawkins Funeral Home. Alex McDarmont 64 of Olustee Fla formerly English to be buried at Woodlawn Cemetery with calling hours at the union home. Henry Harrison Mitchem of Abbs Valley Va to be buried in Abbs Valley Church Cemetery Pocahontas VA Union Funeral Home in charge.
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Henry Viers
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Lawrence Marvin
Greensboro
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Mercer Funeral Chapel
Monte Vista Park
Joe Cassidy
J.C. Walters
James Laws
al Brooks
Orin K. Tabor
Alph Edgington
Jack Yost
Bernard R. Farmer
Cregger
Robert Franklin
Elkhorn
Cravens
Bluewell
Terrace Heights
Chilhowie
Macedonia Methodist Church
McClure Cemetery
Noah J. Jessee Succumbs At 70
Noah J. Jessee 70, former mayor of Glen Lyn Virginia, died Monday morning at Bluefield Sanitarium. He worked 37 years for Appalachian Power Co and held roles in Lions Club First Christian Church and Glen Lyn town government. Funeral service at Givens Funeral Home Chapel Pearlsburg with burial Birchlawn Burial Park. Pallbearers named Raymond Thompson Franklin Coburn J J McLaughlin Kellis McCalugherty Harry Woodson O Shell Knight.
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Glen Lyn
Bluefield Sanitarium
Appalachian Power Co
Rich Creek
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Smoda Breeding Jesse
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Glen Lynn
James Zell
Pembroke
Ira P. Jessee
Richlands
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Cleveland, O
Norma King
Castlewood
Walter Keith
Winston-Salem
N. C
James Jessee
Givens Funeral Home
Pearlsburg
Birchlawn
Raymond Thompson
Franklin Coburn
J. J. McLaughlin
Kellis McCalugherty
Harry Woodson
O. Shell Knight
Imbert says palace remains under junta control in Dominican crisis
General Antonio Imbert Barrera states the civilian military junta will not yield the presidential palace to the OAS. He denies any agreement to turn over the battered seat, while the OAS eyes a force and expanded security zone to cover the palace amid ongoing clashes near the rebel lines.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Antono Imbert Barrera
Organization of American States
OAS
Jose A. Mora
Newsmen
Junta
Imbert
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Iner
Imbert Junta
Elderly Couple Die in Kanawha Fire
State police investigate after a Sunday fire in eastern Kanawha County destroys the Watkins home and a neighboring house. Victims Sam Watkins about 81 and Ula Mae Watkins about 70 were found by neighbor Margaret Jackson who woke to the blaze. cause not yet determined.
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London
W.va
Kanawha
Sam Watkins
Ula Mae
Margaret Jackson
Watkins
McDowell Man Hangs Himself Suspected Suicide
A 41-year-old Kyle resident, Henry Webb, was found dead by hanging Sunday at about 9 30 p m in his kitchen by his 16-year-old son. State police and county coroner labeled the death a suicide with no other persons present. Webb, a miner unemployed since January, tied a miner lamp cord to a kitchen door and died en route to Welch hospital. He was born in Powhatan and survived by his wife Thelma and seven sons and siblings. Burial plans set for Mercy Seat Baptist Church Powhatan with services pending.
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McDowell County
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Henry Webb
Henry Webb Jr
A. J. Villani
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Northfork
Powhatan
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Pageton
Thelma Webb
Joe L., Mervin
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Charles E
Herman Webb
Bessie Davis
Maybeury
Mildred Turner
Hattie Webb
Bill Webb
New York
N. Y
Alice Yuill
Juanita Mathew
Jo Anna Harvey
Switchback
Chaskey Webb
Charleston
Louis Webb
Mercy Seat Baptist Church
Powatan
Raymond Harris
Oak Grove
Bluewell
Bennett Funeral Home
Firework Rocket Injures 25 at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park
A rocket firework at Gwynn Oak amusement park during Memorial Day celebrations landed in a crowd, injuring 25 to 35 people. Dennis Hill of WFBR reported ambulances to the scene and hospitals including Sinai, St. Agnes, and Baltimore County General treated burn injuries, some serious.
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Woodlawn
Gwynn Oak
Dennis Hill
WFBR
Hill
Sinai
St. Agnes
Baltimore County General
Life Sentence Declared Invalid in Federal Ruling
A three time offender case from West Virginia ends with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversing John Harry Hooker’s life term. He had faced a 1955 breaking and entering conviction and later admitted to other felonies, leading to a life sentence as a repeater. The ruling remands for determination of remaining time on the original sentence.
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Richmond
John Harry Hooker
West Virginia
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Hooker
Marshall County
State Supreme Court
Federal District Court of
Northern West Virginia
Thai Doctor Seeks Prostitution Curbs in Bangkok Bar Crackdown
Bangkok doctor Dr. Pierra Vejjabul appeals to the government to shut all bars and night clubs in Bangkok to wipe out prostitution in the capital. The move aims to reduce sex trade activity and improve public morals.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Pierra Vejjabul
Southern Baptists to Focus Mission Work on Cities
In Dallas, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention announce a shift from rural outreach to urban missions. They urge a crackdown on crime and social ills as metropolitan areas from Boston to Washington and beyond become key focal points for evangelism and reform.
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Southern Baptist
America
Southern Baptist Convention
Arthur B. Rutledge
Atlanta
Baptist Home Missionary Board
Woman’s Missionary Union
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Florida Gold Coast
Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast
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Moseley
Viet Cong battle heavy in Quang Ngai Province
Vietnamese forces report 350 killed in two battalions during a weekend offensive centered in Quang Ngai 65 miles southeast of Da Nang. US losses include 2 American deaths. total U.S. combat deaths since 1961 reach 393. Saigon cabinet crisis continues with key ministers resisting resignations while Maxwell Taylor mediates with Phan Huy Quat.
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Big
da Nang Air Base
51St Vietnamese Regiment
39Th Ranger
39Th Rangers
U.S
Quang Ngao
Saigon
Maxwell D. Taylor
Phan Huy Quat
Taylor
Washington
Johnson
Pentagon
Quat
Phan Khac Suu
Louise Cromwell Brooks Dies at 75 in Georgetown Hospital
Louise Cromwell Brooks, 75, former wife of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, died of heart disease at Georgetown University Hospital. She was daughter of Oliver E. Cromwell, a wealthy lawyer and yachtsman, and descendant of England's Lord Protector.
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Louise Cromwell Brooks
Douglas MacArthur
Georgetown U. Hospital
Brooks
Oliver E. Cromwell
England
Lord Protector
Edward T. Stotesbury
Philadelphia
Commerce Department
Washington
GOP
Melvin Laird
R-Wis
Westinghouse Broadcasting Co
Laird
House Republican Conference
Bluefield State Holds Commencement and Finals
Bluefield State College conducted its finals and commencement for 135 graduates on Monday. Dr. Kenneth I. Brown delivered the commencement address, with Dr. Samuel DeWit Proctor giving the baccalaureate sermon. Degrees awarded include 62 in secondary education and various engineering and education fields.
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Kenneth I. Brown
Danforth Foundation
St. Louis
Bluefield State College
Samuel DeWit Proctor
National Council of Churches
L. B. Allen
Joe Scrafford
James T. Browning
Trinity Methodist Church
Allen
Briton Yields Wife Rather Than Realism
Mrs. John J. Prewett, 36, was granted a divorce after telling the court she would not stay with a husband who remained communists. The crisis followed her husband's four mile snowy trek to a Communist meeting and his reply that she would have to go if anything must change.
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London
John J. Prewett
Italian Reds Seek Factory Worker Rally in Genoa
Italy's Communist party begins drive to recruit factory workers. Parliament member Emanuele Macaluso told a party convention that only about 6 percent of workers in factories of 500 or more employees are card carrying Communists and the share is falling.
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Genoa
Italy
Communist Party
Emanuele Macaluso
New Treatment Shrinks Piles Without Surgery
New healing substance Bio Dyne shown to shrink hemorrhoids ease itch and relieve pain without surgery. Observed improvements persisted for months with no narcotics or anesthetics, promoted as Preparation H suppositories or ointment from a world famous research institute.
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New York, N. Y
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