Steward asks Supreme Court to block mental examination petition
A murder indictment defendant seeks court relief to bar his Intermediate Court from ordering a mental health exam citing his right to remain silent. The case, linked to the Oct 1968 shooting of James Eaton, went to trial in March with insanity as a defense and ended in mistrial after juror issues.
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Charleston
State Supreme Court
Mercer County Intermediate Court
Leonard Andrew Steward
Steward
High Court
Mercer Intermediate Court
Princeton
Howard M. Jarrett
Supreme Court
Jarrett
Frank J. Holroyd
L. J. Pace
James Eaton
Bluefield
Hart Electric Co
Eaton
Huntington Man Found Innocent
Dan ny Duvall of Huntington was acquitted on involuntary manslaughter after a new trial ordered by the State Supreme Court. A Common Pleas Court jury found him not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the July 1966 street fight that left 23 year old Joseph J. Stender dead in Huntington Ohio.
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Huntington
Danny Duvall
State Supreme Court
Common Pleas Court
Duvall
South Point Ohio
Joseph J. Stender
Beaver Rehearsal Moved to Armory Today
Principal Lambert Arrington announced the Beaver graduation rehearsal will be at the National Guard Armory in Brush Fork today at noon instead of 9 am Students needing transportation should be at %w High School by 11 30 a.m.
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National Guard
Brushfork
Lambert Arrington
Deaths and Funerals In Davy Princeton and Bluefield Areas
Multiple obituaries from Davy Princeton and Bluefield areas note deaths of Paris Mitchell 69 of Davy a retired miner UMWA No 5997 and Anna Lou Shrewsberry 63 of Princeton plus David Thomas Akers 74 of Bluefield Isobel Stone 77 of Orlando and Olive Reed Lester 47 of Princeton. Funeral details incl. church services graves and arrangements by Fanning Hawkins Burns Wornal and other local homes.
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Paris Mitchell
Davy
Welch
UMWA
Sadie Sanders Mitchell
Paul
Johnny
Don Mitchell
James
Winfrey Mitchell
Princeton
Harold Mitchell
Greenville
Miss
Matt Mitchell
Mullens
Freda Goodson
Jean Lois Morgan
Waco
Tex
Geraldine Hollands
North Carolina
Raymond Worthington
Baltimore
Ruby Land
Dewey Mitchell
Brenton
Clarence
John Mitchell
Baileysville
First Methodist Church
E. E. Boyd
Saeger Memorial
Roderfield
Fanning
Anna Lou Shrewsberry
Middlesex Avenue
Bluefield
Raleigh County
Henderson
Margaret Lilly
James Shrewsberry
Clifford Monk
Thomas Clemson
Tiny Williams
Letha Blevins
Crab Orchard
Joseph Lilly
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ordie Bowling
Burns Wornal Chapel
Memorial
Kenneth Hilling
Brown Cemetery
David Thomas Akers
Pearl St
Pulaski
Grace Baptist Church
Bailey Lumber Co
Cloe Pinkard Ae
Ited
Aubrey
Betty Jane) Wolfe
Aberdeen
David W. Akers
Bastian
Olive Reed Lester
James and
Bertie Reed
Oakvale
Mercer County
Christian Church
Lacy Lester
Thelma Roland
Violet Roland
Ada
Mable Hylton
Kinston
N. C
Zella Peake
Ethel White
Fayetteville
Elizabeth Reed
Glen Lyn
Hazel Keatley
Bozee
Marie Dibert
Toledo
Bernice Wimmer
Vernon Reed
Thurman Reed
Christiansburg
Paul Reed
Ex-Mohegan Victim Funeral Details Given
The article notes the shooting of an Ex-Mohegan resident, survived by wife Brenda Bennett Willis and daughter Frances Devon Willis. The service is set for 11 a.m. at Antioch Baptist Church on the Welch-Pineville Road with Reverends Cantrell Lane officiating, burial in Ivan-Belcher Cemetery, and Douglas Mortuary handling arrangements.
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Frances Devon Willis
Steve
Maggie Elkins
Pack of
Chicago
Mohegan
Antioch Baptist Church
Welch - Pineville Road
A. C. Cantrell
Hersey Lane
Ivan - Belcher Cemetery
Indian Creek
Douglas Mortuary
Welch
Obituary notices for Nash Ellis Helvey Walker
Multiple obituaries list the deaths of India Jane Nash 98 Blythe Bluefield area Lula Frances Helvey and Everett Walker. Services are described with funeral times locations and pallbearers. Burial details and cemeteries include Maple Hill Walnut Grove Roselawn and Monte Vista Park.
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Lula Frances
Preston St
Bluefield
Hawkins Funeral
C. H. Patterson
Walnut Grove
Glen Nelson
George Fox
William Wassum
Frank Helvey Jr
Robert L. Helvey
Dan Lee Arnold
State Amateur to Be Held in Three Classes
The 15th West Virginia Golf Association amateur championship will run in three divisions with a new junior class alongside the championship and senior groups. President C M Eng land announced the event set for July 36 at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs.
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Huntington
West Virginia Golf Association
England
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Jockey Fulfills Promise To Church at Garden State Park
Jockey Mike Goan of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Berlin New Jersey promised a donation if he won a $100 000 race. He previously won the Gulfstream Park Handicap with Court Recess for C V Whitney and this spring presented the church with a six foot statue of Our Blessed Mother.
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Cherry Hill
N.J
Garden State Park
Mike Goan
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
Berlin
Micelli
C. V. Whitney
Seal Center Ted Hampson Wins Masterton Trophy
Montreal AP Ted Hampson 32 center from the Oakland Seals was named winner of the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy by the NHL Writers Association. The award honors perseverance sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.
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Montreal
Ted Hampson
Oakland Seals
Bill Masterton Memorial
National Hockey League
Writers’ Association
NHL
Teens Booked For Murders In West Virginia Case
Charles Bailey testified that heat hindered rescue as a mother was heard screaming inside a burning house with a child. Deputies described the mother moving about the flames. The court ordered psychiatric exams and kept the 12 children in custody for their protection rather than placing them with a cousin. The family will hold a Wednesday funeral here while burial may be limited to Elizabeth, Wirt County. Judy Fury of Peoria arrived to attend the service.
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Charles Bailey
Bechtold
Elizabeth
Wirt County
Ohio River Valley
West Virginia
Donald F. Black
Helen Enoch
Belleview
Judy Fury
Peoria
Viet Air War Intensifies Across South Vietnam
The air war escalated as U S B52 bombers hit base camps and enemy positions in the central highlands and near Tay Ninh and Saigon. Reports say 137 enemy dead in Monday clashes while U S losses reached 12 killed and 57 wounded.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Central Highlands
U.S
Tay Nin
Cambodia
25Th Infantey Division
Tay Ninh
1St Air Cavalry Division
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
U. S
South V'e'am
Three Pennsylvanians Charged in Kidnapping Case
A federal grand jury indicted James Edward Williams Jr Raymond Pratt and Joseph Blewer all of Pittsburgh on kidnapping charges for abducting Larry Caldwell 20 of Wheeling at gunpoint after a May 1969 service station robbery Caldwell said the men drove him to Pennsylvania threatening to kill him if he talked They released him near Claysville Route 40 FBI later arrested them in Pittsburgh where armed robbery charges were filed in a related case A separate indictment charged Ellsworth Roberts a life term prisoner from Huntington with two counts of perjury in a 1967 habeas corpus proceeding.
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Elkins
Pennsylvania
James Edward Williams, Jr
Raymond Pratt
Joseph Blewer
Pittsburgh
Larry Stevphen Caldwell
Wheeling
Caldwell
Claysville
FBI
Grand
Moundsville
Ellsworth Roberts
Huntington
Drunken Jockey Arrest Shuts Highway in Thornton
A 32 year old man was arrested in Thornton Colorado for riding a horse while intoxicated. Police said his erratic maneuvers on the bewildered horse caused a traffic jam on a busy highway.
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Thornton
Colo
Denver
Five Coal Miners Burned In Keystone Mine Blast
Five coal miners were burned when a methane ignition sparked an explosion at Keystone No 3B mine near Herndon Eastern Associated Coal Co. Officials said the blast occurred at 5 25 p.m. in a small coal face area about 4500 feet underground. Twenty five men worked at the time and all were accounted for. The injured miners Harlan Rees Thomas Gambrell Virlon Milan Robert Lee Thorn Virgil Sergeant were listed in satisfactory condition. Gambrell told Dr James Gardner they crawled ten feet to safety.
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Eastern Associated Coal Co
Herndon
Charles Cook
Cook
Harlan Rees
Crab Orchard
Thomas Gambrell
Glen White
Virlon Milan
Robert Lee Thorn
Matoaka
Virgil Sergeant
James Gardner
Gambrell
Beckley Hospital
Gardner
Bobby Burnett Signs 1969 Denver Broncos Contract
Denver coach Lou Saban announced that Bobby Burnett, the 1966 AFL Rookie of the Year with Buffalo, has signed a 1969 contract with the Denver Broncos. The move confirms Burnett as a new member of the Broncos roster.
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Denver
Bobby Burnett
American Football League
Buffalo
Denver Broncos
Lou Saban
Red Sox replace bullpen coach with scout in Carolinas
The Boston Red Sox retire bullpen coach Al Lakeman who will continue as a scout in the Carolinas. George Thomas is named his replacement and will remain on the player roster.
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Boston Red Sox
al Lakeman
Carolinas
George Thomas
Mayor Clyde Ratcliff Wins Third Term in Grundy Va
Grundy voters turnout for town council elections with Mayor Clyde Ratcliff re elected to a third term by 293 votes over John Fleenor who had 102. Other candidates F B Wood 113 and Max McCoy 102. Three councilmen chosen Percy Dennis Jr 313 H B Griffith 216 Harold Ratliff 276. Opening delayed to 9 am due to voting machine trouble. polls closed at 7 pm.
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Grundy
Clyde Ratcliff
John Fleenor
F. B. Wood
Max McCoy
Percy B. Dennis Jr
H. B. Griffith
Harold Ratliff
Legion Elects New Officers for 1969 70 Term
The Riley West Post No 9 American Legion will elect officers for 1969 70 on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Legion Hall with a buffet dinner for the Ladies Auxiliary. Nominations include Kent Sykes as post commander and Jack Munsey and Robert Hensley in key roles. Delegates to the Parkersburg State Legion Convention July 14 17 will be appointed, and a vote on club room operations will be decided. Glacier National Park is noted as the second largest in the United States at 1597 square miles in Northwestern Montana.
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Riley West Post No. 9
American Legion
Legion Hall
Ladies Auxiliary
Kent Sykes
Jack Munsey
Robert Hensley
M. M. Woodyard
Richard Rice
C. H. Patterson
Harry Gibson
Atarms
Courtney Tanner
Patsy Malamisura
Parkersburg
United States
Glacier National Park
Montana
West German Sex Atlas aims to modernize school education
The Health Ministry unveiled Sex Atlas, a 48 page child friendly book for 13 year olds, featuring diagrams of birth, menstruation and venereal disease. Health Minister Kaete Strobel called it the most advanced officially sponsored sex text in Europe, stressing facts to foster dialogue with instructors and parents.
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Bonn
Germany
Hans
Health Ministry
West Germany
Kaete Strobel
Europe
VC Move Paris Announces Independent NLF Structure
In Paris the United States and South Vietnam report the NLF as a creature of North Vietnam rather than a separate political entity. A revolutionary government was said to have an administrative ruling unit with an advisers council, formed by 88 South Vietnamese representatives. Nguyen Huu Tho and Trinh Dinh Thao are cochairmen of the founding session, with Tran Buu Kiem heading foreign affairs and potential top posts in a future government.
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Paris
United States
South Vietnam
NLF
Council of Advisers
Nguyen Huu Tho
Trinh Dinh Thao
Alliance
Tran Buu Kiem
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