Absentee ballot fraud case ensues in Lee County
A jury of three women and nine men was selected to hear nine Lee County residents charged with conspiring to commit absentee ballot fraud in the 1966 Ninth District elections. The defense contends absentee voting has a long tradition in Southwest Virginia and some defendants did not know each other prior to indictment. The trial could last up to a month with 10 days of expected testimony.
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Abingdon
Lee County
U.S
Thomas B. Mason
Roanoke
William P. Hopkins
Virginia
Robert R. Merhige Jr
Richmond
Don Weston
Father Coached By Children Becomes U.S. Citizen
Juan Gonzales, a native of Mexico living in Hutchinson since age 17, became a U.S. citizen after study aided by four sons, a daughter, and several months of history and government prep. He plans to vote, avoid annual alien registration, and visit relatives in Mexico with less red tape.
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Hutchinson, Kan
Juan Gonzales
United States
Gonzales
Mexico
Fernie
Armando
Gilbert
Rudolph
Frank Rays Jr
Church Attendance Rates From British Census Survey
The Parish Census Service survey shows 43 percent Mass attendance among British Roman Catholic men and 30 percent for Irish immigrants. Among working age professionals 60.5 percent attend, while 36 percent of unskilled workers do. The sample covered six parishes in eastern England focusing on men.
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London
England
Catholic Named to Northern Ireland Housing Trust
Belfast attorney James O Hara aged 47 with a family of six becomes the first Roman Catholic appointee to the Northern Ireland Housing Trust in 22 years. The body builds estates in the region linked to Great Britain. Catholics are about one third of the population.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Great Britain
James O'Hara
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Contact and Rates Notice
Bluefield Daily Telegraph advertises delivery by carrier to Bluefield West Virginia readers. Rates listed include daily and Sunday editions at six dollars per week and twenty six dollars per year for the state.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
Mar Io
West Virginia
Audit Bureau
Kats Agency, Inc
Extradition Fight Over Ray May
Ray May faces extradition proceedings on murder and robbery charges after escape from Missouri prison. He was moved to Wand sworth for 24 hour police watch as officials prepare legal steps and court hearings.
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Ray
Brixton
Wandsworth
Missouri State Penitentiary
Vinson
Missouri Penitentiary
Tennessee
Woman 84 Receives High School Diploma in D C
Mrs. Minnie E Woolridge, 84, earned her high school diploma in Washington D C after decades as a domestic to support siblings since 1900 She began evening adult classes five years ago and as an A student at Cardozo High School plans to attend college despite uncertain fees hoping to keep learning дальше.
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Washington D.C
Minnie E. Woolridge
Cardozo High School
High Court Rules CATV Foreseeable Limits on Regulation
The court in a 7-0 decision said Congress could not foresee CATV development under the 1934 Communications Act and that CATV rewires signals from stations for paying subscribers. It also held public employees may not be fired for refusing to waive self incrimination rights and upheld a federal wage law for state workers, while states challenged Congress over labor rules in schools and hospitals.
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M. Harlan
Congress
Abe Fortas
Maryland
Texas
Marian
France resumes campaign as strikes roil early voting
Paris AP report notes 2,298 candidates filed for 470 metro seats with 17 overseas, as de Gaulle’s dissolution of the National Assembly and widespread strikes hinder campaign prep. Rail, transit, and stores reopen. metalworking is a continueing flash point. first round set for June 23 with second on June 30.
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Paris
France
Charles de Gaulle
National Assembly
Radiotelevision
Orly
le Bourget
Gaullist Union For Defense of the Republic
UDR
Federation of Democratic and Socialist Left
FGDS
Socialist Party
PSU
Mexican American leaders threaten split from Poor People's Campaign
Rodolfo Gonzales urged dramatic action as Mexican American participants shrink from 450 to 150, with more likely to leave. Abernathy defended the movement while noting encampment declines and extensions are being sought before June 16. Ray arrest cited as justice may prevail in King assassination case.
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Washington
Rodolfo
Corky” Gonzales
Denver
Gonzales
New York
Bayard Rustin
Rustin
Sterling Tucker
Washington Urban League
Austin
Resurrection City
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Abernathy
Congress
Interior Department
England
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Memphis
Tenn
James Earl Ray
Ray
Viet Cong Storm Saigon Area Amid Peace Talks Pressure
A Viet Cong barrage hit Saigon injuring two near the palace and prompting frantic evacuations at the Rex billet. It marked the 23rd attack in 38 days as negotiators in Paris face renewed pressure in preliminary peace talks.
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Paris
Pope Paul VI to preside at mass in St Peter’s Square
Vatican City AP reports Pope Paul VI will concelebrate Mass in St Peter’s Square on June 30 to close the year of the faith honoring the 19th century martyrdoms of St Peter and St Paul and to mark the fifth anniversary of his coronation.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
St. Peter’s Square
St. Peter
St. Paul
Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Welch and Tazewell area
Funeral notices report deaths of Cora Bell Pauley 85 Freeman. James Arthur Rye 72 North Tazewell. Walter Lee Dillon 67 Coalwood. Josephine Cattaruza 83 Welch. Blain B. Richardson 56 Morgantown. infant son of Clarence and Brenda Lovell Brown. Estill Huey Cox 61 Ceres. Eugenia M. Tabor Bane 89 Bluefield. Ellen Hollar Cooper 62 Pocahontas. Services and burial details listed with locations, relatives, and funeral homes.
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Clarence
Brenda Lovell Brown
McGuire Air Force Base
N. J
R. D. Brown
North Tazewell
Mandell Hamm
Bluefield
Brown’s Chapel Cemetery
Leon Yost
Greever Funeral Home
Tazewell
Hazel Chambers Bishop 69 Bluefield Native Dies in Narrows
Mrs Hazel Chambers Bishop 69 of 1223 Whitethorn St Bluefield died Monday at Riverview Nursing Home Narrows Va after a long illness Born in Bluefield she was daughter of the late Charles E and Retta Leedy Chambers She was member of Grace Methodist Church Bluefield Survivors include husband John J Bishop two sons Lt Col Charles W Bishop of Los Angeles Calif and John J Bishop Jr of Columbus Miss one sister Mrs Earl E Carter and one brother Leonard M Chambers plus three grandchildren Funeral arrangements were at Hawkins Funeral Home Bluefield
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Cora Bell Peake Pauley
Freeman
Cravens - Shires
A. C. Turner
E. C. Farmer
Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery
Bluewell
Bland County
Anderson and
Sophia Kitts Peake
Wilmington
Del
Gray Lambert
Princeton
Newton Sizemore
William Foster
James Smith
Billy Cook
Ralph Cook, Jr
Woodrow Stivey
Kenneth Stivey
Walter Lee Dillon
Coalwood
Welch
Tazewell
Rush
Willitta Spence Dillon
United Mine Workers Local 6026
Masonic Lodge
Welch Commandery
Benet Kedhem Shrine Lodge
Mae Tracy Dillon
Walter Dillon Jr
Wint Dillon
Washington, D. C
Bill Dillon
Charleston
Herman
Ruth) Roberts
James
Maxine) Dotson
Williamson
James Edward Dillon
San Mateo
Calif
John B. Dillon
Covington
Rush Dillon Jr
Bluefield
Willie H. Dillon
Goldie Clark
San Francisco
Gladys Hunter
Columbus
Ohio
Lillian
Kathleen Dillon
Youla Morgan
Daytona Beach
Fla
Fanning Funeral Home
Elmer Wilson
Roselawn
Bluefield- Princeton Road
Masonic Lodge 112
Josephine Cattaruza
Victor Cattaruza
Felix
Catherine DeFillipo
Quinto
Justina) Bary
Dena Foy
Arlington, Va
Elio Cattaruza
Dayton
St. Peters Catholic Church
Raymond Radzieta
Woodlawn
Douglas Mortuary
Hazel Chambers Bishop
Whitethorn St
Riverview
Narrows
Charles E
Retta Leedy Chambers
Bishop
Grace Methodist Church
John J. Bishop
Charles W. Bishop
Los Angeles
John J. Bishop, Jr
Miss
Earl E. Carter
St. Charles
Leonard M. Chambers
Hawkins
Death notices for James Sigmon and Margaret Preston
James Henry Sigmon, 90, of Hickory N C died Sunday at home. He was the father of Rev Ed gar Sigmon of Matooka Baptist Church and brother of John Sigmon of Glenwood Park. Funeral and burial at Hickory church cemetery. Margaret Preston of 913 Hanover St Bluefield died Sunday. Widow of Sam Preston. Body to Lugo's Funeral Service with arrangements incomplete.
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James Henry Sigmon
Hickory
N. C
Edgar Sigmon
Matoaka Baptist Church
John Sigmon
Glenwood Park
Evangelical Reformed Church
Margaret Preston
Hanover St
Bluefield
Sam Preston
Lugo
Obituaries for Theresa Tiller Elmer Burton Elizabeth Lassak
The notices list Theresa Marie Tiller of Council Virginia with services at Russell Fork Church at 11 a.m. Burial at Tiller Cemetery. Elmer Jackson Burton of Bluefield Virginia with services at Dudley Memorial Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Burial at Maple Hill Cemetery. Elizabeth Lassak of Elbert Virginia with a Requiem Mass at Our Lady of Victory Church Gary and burial at Woodlawn Cemetery Bluewell. Rosary at 7 p.m. and calling hours 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Fanning Funeral Home Welch. Pallbearers named for each.
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Tiller
Theresa Marie
Council
Russell Fork
Elmer Church
Honaker Funeral Home
Honaker
Spock Outlines War Protests in Federal Trial
Boston AP Dr. Benjamin Spock the pediatrician author testified Monday in a federal court trial as one of five men charged with counseling youths to avoid military service. He argued his antiwar stance was justified by crimes against humanity and said the Vietnam War was illegal immoral unwinnable and harmful to the United States. He described U S actions including defoliation and bombing as destructive and misleading to Congress about Tonkin Gulf.
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Sneyd
Ray
Brussels
Africa
Ian Colvan
Ramon Sneyd
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Boston
Benjamin Speck
Spock
Humanity Crimes
Leonard Boudin
New York
United States
U.S
Francis J. W. Ford
United Nations
North Vietnam
Tonkin Gulf
Diem
South Vietnam
Congress
Soviet Union
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David Rye
James A. Rye Jr
Norfolk
William Rye
Mich
Edith Etter
Louise Little
Lansing
Mae Bircher
Walter L. Dillon
Blaine Richardson
Blain B. Richardson
Morgantown
West Virginia University Hospital
Sylvatus
William and
Aureli King Richardson
Masonic Lodge No. 4
Blaine D. Richardson
Viet Nam
Douglas Richardson
Ft. Hood
Tex
Norma Bower
Ft. Ritchie, Md
Shirley Mitchell
Virginia Faulkner
Shanon Hunt
Wichita
Kan
Howard Richardson
Hillsville
Hobart Richardson
Estill Huey Cox
Ceres
Tess Houdashell
Vert Cox
Ethel Foglesong
Pearl Cassell
Sherman Cox
Curtis Cox
Bethany Methodist Church
Dale Johnson
James Britton
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Newberry Funeral Home
Bland
Mrs. Eugenia Bane
Eugenia M. Tabor Bane
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
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Ellen Hollar Cooper
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